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Chapter 778 - 439: A Bunch of Newbies Have Emerged (6K)_3

Chapter 778: Chapter 439: A Bunch of Newbies Have Emerged (6K)_3

Fang You pondered.

Recruiting old hands wasn’t without its benefits; they could be turned into highly efficient workers straight away, especially the "senior technicians."

But the downside was that the old hands were not pure enough at heart. Even if a few of them were to join the guild and ascend to the mythic level in the future, they would most likely be "peripheral mythics."

The academy needed more people with firmer convictions to become "core mythics."

"Have you spotted any good prospects yet?"

"emmmm Xiao Huan isn’t quite sure."

Her silhouette of light and shadow appeared, biting her lip, watching thousands of flashing screens before her as if facing a formidable enemy.

Fang You: "...You don’t really need to be so serious; the real assessment hasn’t even begun yet."

At that moment, another light and shadow materialized, revealing a figure taller and more valiant than Xiao Huan.

It was the Miss Trial Officer.

She was looking down, then she lifted her head, lowered it slightly again, and then continued looking up... She seemed hesitant to speak.

"I..."

"I’m going to be the officer for the retest! As a trial officer, I was born to assess and cultivate talent. I absolutely must take charge of this recruitment assessment—this is only logical, right?"

The more she spoke, the more she felt she was making sense, her momentum growing with her conviction.

She stared directly at Fang You, her hands propped on the desk, leaning forward so dramatically that it seemed as though her entire body might come crashing down.

...There was really no need for such exaggeration.

"No problem, of course there’s no problem."

"Well then... I’ll go and get ready!"

She suppressed the excitement in her voice and straightened the white brim of her hat, then turned and walked towards the door, her footsteps perhaps a little hasty.

Fang You stroked his chin.

In fact, even if Miss Trial Officer hadn’t come to him, he would have wanted her to be the retest officer—the lady was after all a spirit of the Secret Realm, capable of observing the entire test site with unfaltering detail, and possessed vast experience and a broad outlook. As an officer, she had advantages over anyone else.

And today, he had discovered Miss Trial Officer’s third advantage—there was no need to pay her a salary.

The academy had obtained the perfect officer, and Miss Trial Officer had found joy and self-fulfillment. It was a win-win.

Dean Fang considered that there seemed to be nothing left for him to do.

...

Tutors and students at recruitment venues everywhere were bustling about, feet barely touching the ground.

The newcomers who had just passed the preliminary test also harbored feelings of joy, excitement, eagerness, and nervousness, as they awaited the retest.

On the third day,

Over two hundred newcomers who had passed the preliminaries at the Torrent Port venue were led by academy tutors and senior students to the port of Torrent Port.

Here, they were to board an airship bound for the academy’s base in the Luofeng Great Domain.

Young men and women of noble birth already had some understanding of the academy, but those of humble origins were a bit tremulous at this point.

It wasn’t that they had a weak psychological constitution, rather that many of them had never left Torrent Port before, and now they were traveling to a distant foreign domain... they began to feel nervous, worried, and unsettled about the future.

Was it a dog-eat-dog world just beyond the city?

Was the foreign domain much more dangerous than their home?

Could the Torchfire Academy really be as wonderful as it was described?

What they feared most was failing the retest while being in a foreign domain far from home, and then, when the time came...

"Don’t worry,"

Xu Yun, who didn’t seem much older than many of the newcomers but was already an academy teaching assistant, said, "After the retest, the academy will arrange for airships to send those who weren’t selected back to their cities. Moreover, even if you can’t enter the academy, those who pass the preliminary test can work at our academy’s external institutions, and the pay isn’t bad either."

This arrangement was aimed at ordinary people with common backgrounds and modest abilities.

Many of them, by virtue of having passed the preliminary test, had become the targets of envy and hostility from some powerful and privileged individuals... If they were admitted to the academy, there would naturally be no danger; however, if they were not selected and returned home, the covert jealousy and hostility could turn into tangible harm.

The academy’s arrangement was for protection.

It was also a small benefit for the innocent civilians who had passed the preliminary test.

"The academy’s airship is here!"

"It’s so white! So big! Is that the legendary White Shark class airship?"

Like a great white shark crashing into a small pond, a colossal structure slowly emerged through the clouds, unveiling its majestic form. Compared to the White Shark class airship, every flying vehicle rising and falling in the port of Torrent Port seemed minuscule.

When the Torrent Port newcomers boarded the airship, there were already a thousand newcomers from other first-tier cities present.

The young men and women chattered noisily, creating a lively scene.

Qian Xiaocao was a bit jittery.

She was one of the more than two hundred newcomers passing the preliminary test at Torrent Port. Like her name suggested, she was like the common grass seen on the roadside, ordinary yet resilient.

But she was also ’special’ in a way.

What made Qian Xiaocao special was that she wasn’t an Awakener; she was a completely ordinary person, not having experienced an Awakening. She sneaked a glance left and right, surrounded by great Awakeners she had to look up to, and felt like a lamb that had strayed into a pack of wolves, only able to shiver in the corner.

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"Don’t worry, I’ve got your back,"

A massive shadow loomed overhead, and as Qian Xiaocao looked up, she saw a ’giant’ with arms thicker than her waist and muscles like granite sitting down beside her.

She moved inwards a bit more. Already thin and frail, her figure seemed even more insignificant compared to the giant, like a clump of insignificant grass.