my practice game

Chapter 122 Undercurrents surging
The square was dead silent.

Everyone stared at the flaming figure on the ring in a daze, and fell into a dream for a while, unable to speak for a long time.

The teacher who was the referee was the first to react. He glanced at Cheng Yue who looked dull, shook his head inwardly, and immediately raised his voice:
"Lin Ze wins!"

This sentence was like a thunderbolt, and it woke everyone up at once. In an instant, countless exclamations gathered into rolling waves, sweeping across the square of Nuoda in a blink of an eye.

"Won?"

"how is this possible!?"

"You can't even match a fourth-level spiritualist!"

"It's incredible!"

Discussions continued one after another, even in the arena could be heard clearly, but Lin Ze didn't seem to notice, slowly put down the soul knife, lifted the sun and red lotus armor, turned and left the arena.

"Really won!"

Until Lin Ze returned to his seat, Chen Muzhen still couldn't believe that Lin Ze actually defeated Cheng Yue, who was a fourth-level spiritualist.

"There is one last game." Lin Ze shrugged.

That's what he said, but the result was already doomed, even Cheng Yue was defeated by him, how could Cui Jianping, a third-level spiritualist, be his opponent.

As expected, the referee announced that Cui Jianping had abstained after a while, and Lin Ze won the final victory of the game and won the first place.

There were scattered cheers in the square.

Most of the students present belonged to either the traditional faction or the innovative faction. I thought that the chief would eventually be born between the two factions, but I didn't expect that Lin Ze would be born in Hengdi and defeated Cheng Yuehe, who had been expected by everyone. Cui Jianping got the position of chief, and more importantly, the position of commander of the city guards represented by the position of chief.

What was thought to be in the bag ended up in his family, and anyone would be in a bad mood at the moment.

Especially the traditionalists are the most unwilling, and the reasons are self-evident.

In the corner of the square, Cui Jianping sighed, his face full of sadness. He had already made up his mind to practice in seclusion after returning. He must break through to the fourth-order level as soon as possible, so that he would be able to resist Cheng Yue in the future.

As for Lin Ze, he has no heart to fight. This kind of genius is destined to be unattainable.

Fortunately, Lin Ze has always remained neutral and does not participate in any faction, so he is not afraid of conflicts with him.

Not long after the game ended, Su Xi found Lin Ze, praised and encouraged him with a smile, and then left under the guard of the crowd.

"Dangtang academy grand competition, the chief doesn't even have a reward, only a few compliments."

Lin Ze shook his head and secretly slandered.

However, in the next second, a message popped up in front of him.

[Congratulations to the player 'Crow' for achieving the achievement 'College Chief' and earning 20 points]

He was slightly taken aback, and then a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

That's more or less.

When he came back to his senses, Lin Ze found that many people around him were looking at him and whispering, so he simply took Chen Muzhen and turned around to leave.

Along the way, Chen Muzhen was excitedly talking about Lin Ze's performance in the battle, as if he had turned into a little fan girl, while Lin Ze seemed much calmer, occasionally responding with a light smile.

After parting from Chen Muzhen at Menfang, Lin Ze went straight back to the Shu's mansion, and as soon as he arrived at the bedroom, he saw Yin Qing and Ming Xi waiting at the door.

Seeing Lin Ze's arrival, the two women rushed up to greet them, bowed and saluted, and smiled sweetly in unison: "Congratulations, Your Highness!"

Lin Ze was slightly taken aback: "Do you know the result of the competition?"

"The head of the family sent people to the academy to wait, and he rushed back to report as soon as the result of the big competition came out. Now this good news has spread throughout the mansion." Yin Qing explained, with a look of admiration in his eyes, "Everyone knows that His Highness has won the chief position of the academy."

Lin Ze was stunned.

Ming Xi continued: "Master Patriarch ordered the two of us to wait here, and when His Highness returns, I will inform you to meet in the study."

"I see." Lin Ze nodded slightly, and instead of going into the bedroom, he simply turned around and walked towards the study.

Tens of meters away from the study room, he smelled bursts of mouth-watering fragrance.

When I came to the study, I saw Shu Song playing with pastries again.

It is strange to say that as the head of the family, and also the head of a superior noble family, but every time Lin Ze sees Shu Song, the latter is either reading a book or playing with food, like a lady with nothing to do. The head of the family has hardly seen her dealing with affairs, but Nuo Da's Shu family is well managed by her. It can't be said that it is becoming more and more prosperous, but at least there is no trend of decline, which makes Lin Ze puzzled.

But he has no intention of delving into it.

No matter what, Shu Song still loves him very much and almost responds to every request.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Shu Song turned his head, saw that it was Lin Ze, immediately burst into a bright smile on his face, and waved to him.

"It's just in time, Ozawa. This is a pastry I cooked myself. Congratulations on winning the first place in the college competition. How do you taste it?"

Lin Ze couldn't resist his aunt's kindness, so he had no choice but to pick up a small and delicate pastry and taste it, and it tasted really good.

While watching Lin Ze taste the cakes, Shu Song smiled and said: "You have now won the position of chief of the academy, and it will not be long before the palace will issue an appointment order to let you succeed as the commander of the city guards. But it's busy."

"Talk about it."

After swallowing the pastry, Lin Ze picked up the second piece and asked at the same time, "Can Aunt Shu introduce some experienced officers to me?"

Shu Song raised his eyebrows and immediately understood: "You want to put your confidant into the army?"

"That's right." Lin Ze nodded.

According to the establishment of the city guard army, there are 4000 people under the command of the first army. The scale is not small. Lin Ze didn't want to waste time on coordinating and integrating the army, so he made up his mind from the beginning and asked Shu Song to transfer a few mid-level officers from other armies to help him.

The Shu family has a close relationship with him, and everyone is prosperous, and everyone is hurt. With their help, Lin Ze doesn't have to worry about being deceived or ostracized by the people below.

"It's not a problem." Shu Song nodded in agreement.

After all, the Shu family is a big aristocratic family with a lot of talents, and they are quite powerful in the army. It is not difficult to recruit a few officers with outstanding abilities.

"Thank you, Aunt Shu!"

"Why are you being polite?" Shu Song cast a reproachful look at him, and then his face became slightly serious, "After the army is integrated, you plan to apply to go out and kill the Horn Clan?"

In addition to guarding the outer court, the city guards also shouldered the responsibility of killing and cleaning up the horn tribes within a few miles of the royal court. Every once in a while, the city guards would send a leading army out to carry out the cleanup mission.

"That's right." Lin Ze nodded.

Since he found out that there is an achievement series for killing the Horn Clan, he went to the arena to apply for actual combat almost every few days and killed the Horn Clan. After a period of time, the number of kills of the Horn Clan has reached more than 800, which is far from the goal of a thousand Only a fraction.

However, for the subsequent achievements of "Horn Clan Slayer IV", the achievement conditions will increase to 1 Horn Clans. If you only kill the Horn Clans imprisoned in the arena, it will be far away to achieve the achievement. The best way is to go to the king Suppress and kill the Horn tribe outside the court.

"Although I don't know why you are so obsessed with killing the Horn Clan, there are many dangers outside Wang's Court, and the Horn Clan is not the only threat. You must not rush forward in a hurry. You must be fully prepared before going outside." Shu Song asked.

"Don't worry, Aunt Shu, I know." Lin Ze smiled and nodded.

Inner courtyard, inside a luxurious mansion.

The engraved and carved vermilion door was open, Cheng Yue lowered his head, carefully stepped over the threshold, and his steps involuntarily eased a little.

There was a slight sound from behind, and the beautiful maid waiting outside the door had closed the wooden door.

The atmosphere of silence fell to the entire study room, and after a long time, a deep and majestic voice broke the silence.

"you lose."

The words were flat and unwavering, but Cheng Yue's body trembled suddenly, his head lowered further, and he said with difficulty: "Damn this subordinate, you have failed His Highness's expectations!"

"I didn't expect my ignorant brother to have such strength and talent, but I underestimated him." The voice ignored Cheng Yue, but murmured to himself, "Obviously, in the past 20 years I have always adopted the attitude of being wise and protecting my life, why I suddenly changed now, it is really hard to understand."

Hearing this, Cheng Yue plucked up his courage and said in a respectful voice: "Your Highness, I asked the Second Highness about this matter before, and the Second Highness said at the time that he planned to join the army only to kill the Horn Clan."

"Do you believe this reason?"

Cheng Yue's expression was suffocated. In all honesty, he didn't believe such a poor excuse.

But other than that, he really couldn't figure out why Lin Ze suddenly changed his way of doing things by staying out of the way, and began to practice spiritual skills and get involved in the army.

If it is said that Lin Ze intends to take the throne, that is unlikely. After all, the power behind him is only the Shu family, and the difference between him and His Royal Highness and the eldest princess is not a star and a half. The development gap of more than 20 years cannot be caught up overnight.

As for exceptional talent?
The battle for the throne can never be controlled by personal force!
"It seems that my younger brother's thoughts are very deep, and people can't guess." The voice paused, and continued, "The commander of the city guards is not a small official. After he becomes the commander of the city guards, try to win him over. For a while, it's best to succeed, and if you fail, you must not let him fall to Lin Yan's side!"

"Yes, Your Highness!" Cheng Yue replied emphatically.

In the same inner courtyard, another luxurious mansion had a similar conversation.

The big competition is over, but the turmoil caused by it has not stopped.

The fact that Lin Ze won the chief position not only caused an uproar in the academy, but also caused a lot of influence outside the academy.

It's just that these influences are like the undercurrent in the dark river, covered by the calm surface, and are not easily noticed by people.

(End of this chapter)