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"Junior Su Luoheng, are you here to check the class assignment list?" Zhen greeted warmly.
"Yeah."
Su Luoheng smiled and greeted back, then asked curiously, "Senior, why are you here too?"
"Just like you, I'm also here to check the class assignment list. Except for the sixth-grade students, all grades in our academy have a unified assessment."
Zhen pointed ahead to a spot not far away, where a crowd had already gathered.
Su Luoheng frowned slightly.
It seemed that all the academy's students were here. The assessment teacher had only told them to check the notice board for class assignments, without specifying which notice board to look at.
With so many people gathered now, it wouldn't be easy to find his class list.
"Come on, Junior Luoheng."
Zhen noticed Su Luoheng's difficulty, walked over, and patted him on the shoulder. "The first-grade class assignments are right up ahead. I'll take you there."
"Thank you, Senior."
Su Luoheng, who was having trouble, naturally wouldn't refuse someone offering to show the way.
Zhen, who had been at the academy for four years, was indeed a veteran senior. He was familiar with most places, and he quickly led Su Luoheng to the first-grade notice board, where the information on the new student class assignments was posted.
If he had come to look for it alone, who knows how long it would have taken.
"Here it is."
Zhen glanced at the list and asked, "Junior Luoheng, how did you do in the assessment?"
"Pretty well."
"Then let's start by looking at Class One."
Su Luoheng suddenly stopped Zhen, who was about to start searching, and asked, "Senior Zhen, where is the list for the promotion assessment?"
"Promotion assessment?"
Zhen was momentarily stunned but quickly reacted, his expression showing great surprise.
"You participated in the promotion assessment?"
"Yes."
"I didn't see that coming, Junior Luoheng. You really kept it hidden…"
Zhen's expression changed slightly, and he pointed to the right side of the notice board. "The notice board for the new student promotion assessment is over here."
"Ah, so it's over there."
As they spoke, the two walked over to the notice board.
The first name on the list was Su Luoheng, with the class listed as Year Two, Class One.
"Hey, congratulations, Junior Luoheng! You're the first on the list!" Zhen glanced at the list and said with surprise.
"Senior Zhen, why are our classes different?" Su Luoheng noticed that the new students listed after him were assigned to different classes, with few having the same class, so he asked out of curiosity.
"The classes are divided according to the assessment results. The higher the score, the better the class placement."
After a brief pause, Zhen looked Su Luoheng up and down and said with admiration, "To be able to enter Year Two, Class One, that's no small feat, Junior."
"I performed quite well during the assessment."
Su Luoheng smiled humbly.
"…"
After chatting for a bit, Zhen went off to find his class assignment list.
Meanwhile, Su Luoheng headed towards the second-year teaching building.
In the lobby on the first floor of the teaching building, there was a detailed map of the class distribution. Year Two, Class One was the first classroom on the right side of the building's first floor.
So, he didn't have much trouble finding his class.
Su Luoheng arrived fairly early, and when he entered the classroom, there weren't many students inside. Plenty of seats were still empty in both the front and back rows.
He casually glanced around and chose a seat near the window in the back row, which, according to Earth's standards, should be considered a VIP spot.
After sitting down, Su Luoheng began to observe the classroom.
The second-year classroom was quite large. Based on a rough count of the seats, there were over sixty students in Class One. Earlier, when he glanced at the class assignments in the lobby, he noticed that there were a total of ten classes in the second year. Assuming each class had sixty students, there should be over six hundred students in total.
Six hundred students might not sound like much.
But don't forget that they had another identity: they were all Level 1 Soul Engineers.
Across the Three Empires of Douluo, how many Level 1 Soul Engineers aged thirteen to fifteen could there be each year? Could they even amount to half of those at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy?
Even if you add Shrek Academy into the mix, it still falls far short in this regard.
And this was just one academy within the Sun Moon Empire.
There was no denying that, whether in soul engineering technology or talent reserves, the Sun Moon Empire had far surpassed the stagnant Three Empires of Douluo.
Su Luoheng thought about the not-too-distant future.
In fact, the Sun Moon Empire was indeed close to achieving it. If it weren't for a certain God King meddling, they would have already unified the Douluo Continent. Although the unification process could not avoid bloodshed and war, it was the only nation capable of completely ending the nearly ten-thousand-year-old war and bringing about a truly peaceful future for the continent.
However, due to Tang Shenwang's (God King Tang San) interference, the unification of the continent had been indefinitely postponed…
(Shen TL is God, Wang TL is King)
To be honest, Su Luoheng couldn't see the point of Tang Shenwang's divine intervention.
Especially since he intervened when the war was almost over and the Sun Moon Empire had practically occupied the entire Douluo Continent, claiming to be maintaining peace on the continent. Such a baffling move could only be made with either a decade-long brain blockage or ulterior motives.
He decided to act only after the war was over.
He chose to swerve only after the car hit the wall.
He decided to wipe only after the snot reached his mouth.
If he truly cared for the Douluo Continent, why didn't he step in earlier?
Could it be that he just wanted to be praised as the savior?
Still, criticism aside...
You could call Tang San a refined egoist, a show-off, a scoundrel, and more, but he was definitely not a fool!
There was likely a deeper reason behind his attempt to prevent the unification of the Douluo Continent.
Could it be that he…
Su Luoheng's eyes narrowed slightly, and he suddenly had a thought: What if Tang San really had ulterior motives for the Douluo Continent? Then all these seemingly brain-dead moves could make sense.
Let's be bold and hypothesize that what Tang San wants is the power of faith.
After resolving the trouble of the Sun Moon Empire, he would certainly continue to be praised under the guidance of the continent's high-level leaders.
The people of the Douluo Continent would surely provide a substantial amount of the power of faith.
Considering his character, this was not impossible…
Tsk tsk… What a brilliant move~
The people of Douluo Continent see him as their savior, and he treats them like crops to be harvested season after season.
As expected of you, Tang Shenwang, pure and flawless!
(She Wang means God King)
When it comes to sustainable resource utilization, he truly knows how to play the game.
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The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy started classes at 9.
Su Luoheng had gotten up quite early today, so there was still half an hour to go.
During this time, the students of Class One, Year Two, were gradually arriving, and the classroom started to buzz with activity.
New students who, like Su Luoheng, had passed the promotion assessment upon entry, were a minority. Most were students who had moved up from Year One to Year Two and had already spent over a year together. Naturally, they were familiar with each other and gathered in groups, energetically discussing various topics.
The remaining seats in the classroom were quickly filling up, and before long, someone sat down next to him.