NOVEL WEB Chapter 122 - The Competition 25
The finals of this year’s interclass competition ended in a rather unusual way. As a result, while students from other grades discussed the exciting championship recap on the gossip forum, the first-year students were busy talking about their champion’s impressive sound therapy skills.
Although Mai Dongzi had treated several teammates from the Phantom Team multiple times, this was the first time she helped someone with sound therapy in the eyes of the public after her training.
Not only did she assist Lin Qingzhou in overcoming his mental demons, enabling him to advance smoothly, but two other students in the audience also experienced similar situations. They successfully advanced during Mai Dongzi’s half-hour of guiding sound therapy.
While other students in meditation did not advance, they still benefited to some extent.
Because mental-type ability users excel in any field they choose, there are very few mental-type practitioners who opt to become sound therapists.
Due to their rarity, the fees for hiring sound therapists are naturally quite high.
While many people know that sound therapists can heal mental injuries and guide emotional burdens, the expensive treatment costs mean that most people won’t seek their help unless the situation is particularly severe.
As a result, not many practitioners have experienced treatment from a sound therapist, especially among the students present, who have hardly felt the benefits of sound therapy for calming and guiding their mental energy.
Thus, after the first-year championship finals concluded, the discussions on the first-year gossip forum focused not on how intense the competition was, but rather on what their class flower had learned in the arts department, marveling that a sound therapist could actually help others advance.
Mai Dongzi glanced at the gossip news but lost interest in checking the official announcement of the champion and runner-up lists for all four grades.
The eight names on the list would compete in the quarter-finals of the inter-school individual competition tomorrow.
The first-year individual champion was Mai Dongzi, with Lin Qingzhou as the runner-up.
The second-year champion was a mid-fifth-level combat student, while the runner-up was a mid-fifth-level practitioner from the ability department.
In the third year, it was no surprise that Ren Guang was the champion, with the runner-up also being a fifth-level practitioner from the ability department.
The fourth-year champion was Ye Zhengyan, with the runner-up being his equal, Booker.
Just by looking at the cultivation levels of the eight competitors, everyone could tell that the two from the second year were just there to make up the numbers.
In past inter-school competitions, whether in individual or team events, higher-grade students typically dominated the lower grades.
However, this year, both first-year competitors were exceptionally strong, to the point where even third-year students might struggle to defeat them.
Mai Dongzi wasn’t too concerned with analyses of each competitor’s strength. Before her recent advancement, she was already confident she could defeat all her opponents, and now her cultivation level had increased.
What she focused on were the newly announced competition rules. In previous school-level individual competitions, cold weapons were allowed, but this year, just like the grade-level individual competitions, no weapons would be permitted.
Upon learning that weapons would not be allowed in this year’s grade-level individual competition, Mai Dongzi felt a bit puzzled.
After seeing that weapons were also prohibited in the school-level individual competition, Mai Dongzi specifically asked Mira and Milan about their school. She discovered that they, too, had begun banning weapons in various training and competitions starting this year.
This confirmed to Mai Dongzi that the rule was not a sudden decision made by the school leadership but rather an order issued by the higher-ups of the Blue-Black Empire.
Then she recalled the special talent training center, where Ye Zhengyan had told her that two days before she entered the center, they received a message from their instructor instructing them to focus on close-quarters unarmed combat in their future training.
This raised some questions. Even if King Gujia and Prince Arthur had learned from intelligence reports that the Goya people might invade the Dracula star system, they couldn’t possibly know right now that the Dracula civilization would be defeated and that a higher-level interstellar civilization would intervene. They also wouldn’t know the methods of that intervention.
Unless they were reincarnated or something like her, it would be impossible to know that during the first round of the great cleansing, both the Dracula humans and the Goya people would have to rely solely on their individual abilities to survive.
Although Zhao Fenni was likely a reincarnated person, she had only been captured a few days ago. From a timing perspective, the future information about the apocalyptic cleansing shouldn’t have come from her.
Thus, Mai Dongzi suspected that either Prince Arthur or King Gujia had a reincarnated person around them. From her intuition, she felt it was likely Prince Arthur who had such a person by his side.
If that were the case, Mai Dongzi could only feel happy about it.
She had changed significantly from Lucy due to her reincarnation. Although she initially didn’t plan to do much to protect her secrets, feeling unfamiliar with this world, after spending half a year interacting with so many students and instructors at the Imperial Capital University, she still found it hard to fully integrate into this environment.
But her initial intention to remain a cold observer gradually began to shift.
She was thinking about how to reveal information about the apocalyptic cleansing to Prince Arthur without exposing her own situation.
As a mental-type ability user, if she could elevate her mental powers to level seven, she would have enough credibility to make Prince Arthur believe in her “precognitive dreams.”
However, if there was already a reincarnated person by Prince Arthur’s side, along with Zhao Fenni, who was also suspected to be a reincarnated individual, she wouldn’t need to take that risk.
After discovering the school’s new rule prohibiting weapons, she reached out to Mira and the others to confirm that a reincarnated person was likely near Prince Arthur. She then turned her attention back to the competition roster for tomorrow.
In the half hour that Mai Dongzi was distracted, two hot posts analyzing the strengths of the eight competitors appeared on the school forum. Seeing the enticing titles, she clicked to read.
The posts first analyzed Ren Guang, Ye Zhengyan, and Booker, three level six fighters, concluding that Ren Guang was only at the early stage of level six, while Ye Zhengyan was already at the late stage, and Booker was also at the mid-level stage of six. Ren Guang was definitely not a match for either of them.
Regarding Mai Dongzi’s overall strength, the poster mentioned he couldn’t estimate it precisely, as her martial arts level was already very high for someone her age, placing her third overall in the school.
However, most people at the Imperial Capital University knew that her mental-type ability was even higher in rank.
Moreover, Mai Dongzi had never publicly showcased her mental abilities apart from sound therapy, as her martial arts prowess was already strong enough that she didn’t need to rely on her mental powers.
The poster couldn’t find any videos of Mai Dongzi using her mental powers in combat, so he was unable to gauge her overall strength.