Chapter 640: Tournant Groups
The learning of the four elental swordsmanship styles went very smoothly. Xiao Lin was already very familiar with all of them after just half a month. Other than his talent, the elental compression he had learned before helped a lot as well. Ever since he entered the academy, the things Xiao Lin had learned were rather scattered, but it felt like he had managed to piece all of it together.
After that, Xiao Lin then spent a week trying to learn Starburst. Starburst was a fusion of all four swordsmanship styles, and used a combination of the four elents. It gained its na because the sword aura it produced glead like the stars.
At the last monts, Xiao Lin also learned a few other basic skills, but most of them were just Black Iron-ranked skills. Those skills might not be that strong, but Xiao Lin still noticed that skills were not just limited to how destructive they were. There were many skills with utility that could not be replaced.
For instance, the Black Iron-ranked slow fall spell, delay spell and stealth detection spells — those spells all did not have high requirents to learn them, and were quite easy. Even if they did not learn them, after they entered the second year and everyone’s Basic ditation was at a solid level, the academy would teach it to all of them. So, Xiao Lin had rely fast-forwarded his schedule by over half a year.
Of course, Chen Dao and the other monitors that focused on magic had also looked for books in the library. It was not just Xiao Lin who thought this way, but in terms of the number of spells learned, they would not be able to compete with Xiao Lin. Even when it ca to low-level utility spells, there were hundreds or even thousands of them.
Xiao Lin had initially just picked up a few at random to learn, but he quickly realized that most of the spells were very useful, such as healing spells and lumination spells. Those spells might just be low-level incantations, but because it required combining elents, they were second- or third-year subjects.
However, to Xiao Lin, they were not difficult at all. Combining elents was sothing he had already grasped when he started compressing the elents.
Combining elents could be called difficult, but could be called simple as well. Planet Norma was filled with the four basic elents, and the basic elents were the cradle of birth in the world. However, with the constant developnt of the world, even more elents were born, and those elents were all born from the basic elents.
For instance, once the density of water elents reached a certain level, they would turn into the ice elent, and when water and wind elents reached a certain level of integration, it turned into the thunder elent.
Combining elents required a very high degree of control of the elents, and was quite similar to compressing elents, which also needed a very high sense and mastery of the elents.
Academic Genius’s passive skill was slowly becoming more and more important. Each skill he mastered saved Xiao Lin no short amount of ti. Accumulating it all together revealed a very shocking amount of ti. So of the subjects Xiao Lin approached were those that only third years would touch. Now, he not only far exceeded the first years, he was even beginning to catch up or exceed the second-year students.
The month felt a bit too short to Xiao Lin. After he cald down and threw himself into his studies, he could not stop himself from feeling a sense of regret when he received the notification from Yu i that the tournant was about to start. If he had even more ti, he could definitely master even more.
Xiao Lin could not help but admit that he had wasted too much ti on things unrelated to his studies before, such as being sent to the New World for tasks a few tis. No wonder the old dean, the president, and even Song Junlang had reminded him before that he should not be ddling in too many affairs at his stage. The tournant was a reason, but more importantly was the new dean’s restrictions on Xiao Lin, causing him to be unable to head to the New World anyway, which actually led to him being able to focus on his studies.
No matter what, the Inter-academy Tournant was finally about to start.
Based on the tournant regulations, the final stage of the tournant would feature eight academies, and Dawn Academy, Judge Academy, Sainte Académie, and Voyna Akademiya had all been seeded into it as mbers of the Supre Council. The other academies would go through a series of matches to determine the last three spots.
The fights had already been concluded during that month. Yu i told the monitors that the final three spots had been won by the Japanese, German, and Turkish academies. They would join the five big academies in this Inter-academy Tournant.
“The eight academies will be split into two groups, and then will compete in ho and away matches, using the number of wins to determine the standing in the groups. The top two in the standings will advance, while the other two will be eliminated. The elimination matches will no longer use ho and away matches, so in the interest of fairness, the matches will be held on the New World.
“The group stage draws have already concluded yesterday. Our president was in charge of drawing, so he is not here today. The ones in our group are Japan, Turkey, and Arica.”
After gathering everyone in the training hall, Yu i announced it to everyone. At the sa ti, she sent the general tournant schedule to everyone. Xiao Lin quickly browsed through it. Based on the schedule, their first opponents would be Judge Academy. After that, they would face the Turkish academy, followed by the Japanese academy. In the first round, other than the match against Judge Academy being an away match, they would host the other two, and the second round was the reverse.
They would host two of the matches in the first round, which was quite a big advantage. It was obvious that it was a special treatnt toward the main academies because they would need to go through Earth from the spatial corridor back to their own countries before flying to the other country and heading to the opponent’s academy. Putting aside how tiring the journey was, the tournant maps would be decided by the other party, which was definitely a huge advantage. So, the group stages were done in two rounds to protect the weaker academies.
The monitors looked at the schedule, and each of them had their own opinions. Cheng Ming said first, “According to power levels, Judge Academy should be our strongest opponents.”
“Japan is actually in the sa group as us. Yes, we’ll need to trounce them!” The young Chen Dao had so impulsive thoughts.
“The Turkish academy should be the weakest. I rember they were the latest academy to colonize the New World along with Argentina, so their foundations can’t compare to ours.”
“So our only worthy rival is basically the Aricans?”
“The first two in the standing will advance anyway, so it should be fine, even if we lose to Judge Academy.”
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