Chapter 167
Participation in the "Challenge Cup" is a foregone conclusion.
Once a person has a new goal, time seems to pass by very quickly.
It seemed like only yesterday that Jiang Yunu registered as a freshman at Golden Uriel College. In the blink of an eye, the midterm of the first semester of his first academic year had arrived.
The registration time for the "Challenge Cup" has also arrived.
Just like the information she had read before and the information provided by Pei Ya, the period from mid-term to the following two weeks was the time left for students to consider their registration.
While Jiang Yunu confirmed the specific registration opening date, he also corrected a previous misunderstanding.
In the four rounds of promotion and elimination in the campus challenge cup, players can indeed choose their opponents in the second and third rounds. However, instead of choosing one opponent in each round, they can choose three opponents in each round.
Freely choose three opponents and win at least two of them to advance to the next round of challenges.
Players who fail to achieve two wins will be eliminated.
"I thought that with one round of Miss Nagu and one round of Song Yang, my two rounds of independent selection were already 'full'." Jiang Yunu muttered to himself after he understood the rules again.
From this perspective, her previous confident thought that "the opponent quota is full" was obviously wrong.
Now there are four new blank opponent positions, and each one is unknown, so you have to wonder who you will encounter at that time.
However, the unknown has always been full of expectations for people like Jiang Yunu.
These days, Jiang Yunu has been using the school's public holographic practice field to diligently study her copying skills. Teacher Trista had previously helped her sort out the theory, allowing her to understand it more systematically. However, while breaking down and sorting out the theory of "copying," Trista also discovered something—
That is Jiang Yunu's "Copy", which seems to be different from the regular copy skill.
"Other people's exploration of another's energy circuits relies on technical experience and a wealth of accumulated basic knowledge," Teacher Trista said. "As for your exploration, it seems more like intuition."
Intuition is something too elusive and unpredictable.
It was a flash of inspiration, a fighting instinct.
"Of course, intuition can be accumulated, but it requires a lot of practical practice and years of experience."
Teacher Trista pointed out several examples of others who had developed intuition through years of experience, and then looked at Jiang Yunu who was standing in front of her at the time.
The white-haired girl still looks very young no matter how you look at her, and is still at the starting point of accumulating experience.
However, her starting point may be the end point of some people's years of struggle.
"Your intuition seems to come only from actual combat. You need to participate more in actual combat and actually apply it." This is the most effective advice that Teacher Cuishita gave to Jiang Yunu.
So, right now, is there any better way to practice than to participate in the "Challenge Cup"? Of course not.
The Challenge Cup is open to all advanced supernatural schools in the upper three districts, and anyone who is currently a student can sign up.
On the day when the registration channel for the competition was officially launched, Jiang Yunu found a time between the two classes and logged into the system to register on time.
The contestant's number is automatically generated according to the registration time. Jiang Yunu glanced at her generated number and found that it was "0027".
There were quite a few students like her who registered on time, but she was so fast that in the blink of an eye she was already 20th out of the top.
However, when meeting Peiya for a regular lunch date, her friend and dining companion told her, "Actually, the number of people who signed up this year is quite low."
"Ah?" Jiang Yunu showed the number he got when he signed up at the designated location. "Isn't that enough?"
Her personal terminal only displayed a small screen that was just big enough for two people to watch together. The screen page was stopped at the competition registration homepage. In addition to checking her player number, she could also see the total number of registrants updated in real time.
The total number of real-time registrations has exceeded three digits, and the first digit at the beginning has already exceeded the "1" mark.
Pei Ya is clearly a freshman who just enrolled this year, but she seems to have the experience of a veteran.
"It's already been a morning, and we haven't even broken 200 yet. That's not a lot," Pei Ya said with experience. "If it were any other high-level supernatural school in the upper three districts, the number of applicants might exceed 300 in a single morning. And if it's a school that actively participates in the league and takes pride in achieving combat rankings—like Duma Academy we talked about earlier—they've even reached a record of over 85% of the student body signing up in a single day."
Jiang Yunu didn't know how many students there were in Duma College, but judging from its unshakable position in the first district, it seemed that there were at least thousands of them.
The registration rate exceeded 85% in one day, which means that nearly 900 people rushed into the system to compete with their classmates in the "Challenge Cup" school competition.
"What a school full of martial virtues!" The white-haired girl exclaimed with her eyes wide open.
Pei Ya knew more about the "inside story." She said, "At a school like Duma College, where strength is paramount, students are proud to be on the school team. Their representative teams for the college league are renewed every year, and all members of previous teams must compete again in this year's Challenge Cup and achieve a new ranking to secure their spot on this year's team."
Jiang Yunu said, "What about our school?"
The girl with thick glasses paused subtly.
"Our school's enrollment situation has been deteriorating year by year, and the number of new students has been declining. Most of the seniors are independent-minded and don't really like to participate in the regular annual activities. So..." Pei Ya tapped Jiang Yunu's screen with her finger. "The number you see now is almost half of the participants in this year's Challenge Cup."
Then perhaps other students will suddenly have a sudden idea and become interested in participating in the competition.
However, according to the rules of previous years, the number of players will not continue to increase by more than 30% of the current number.
Compared with the crazy and unrestrained King of Duma Academy, the students of Golden Uriel Academy can be described as indifferent to the "Challenge Cup".
The registration period for the competition lasts for two weeks. During these two weeks, if any student regrets registering for the competition and does not want to waste the entire academic year on playing competitions, as long as the registration has not yet closed, the student player's competition status can be operated in the background and the registration can be revoked at any time.
Jiang Yunu is naturally the kind of person who will not regret signing up.
She also learned that the Advanced Schools of Supernatural Power League was different from the Elementary Schools of Supernatural Power League. Considering that the universities had the "Challenge Cup" as a preview tournament, which lasted a long time and was needed to screen a new group of seeded players suitable for the league, the inter-university competition was only held every two years.
We will be holding the "Challenge Cup" this year, so naturally there will be no league games this year.
On the day when registration for the competition closed, Jiang Yunu carefully observed the total number of registrants from the school.
The final number of participants in the school competition was 257.
It’s less than one-third of the peak on the first day of Duma Academy.
But it is already a normal level for Golden Uriel Academy.
The opponents in the preliminary rounds are completely random, but for freshmen who have just enrolled, the system seems to have some kind of intelligent protection mechanism that will not put freshmen together with seeded players who have performed extremely well in previous Challenge Cups.
Jiang Yunu spent a weekend sitting in the school auditorium listening to the schedule explanation. She felt vaguely like she was sitting in Enge's auditorium at the time. It was quite similar to what she was doing in Golden Uriel Academy and Enge Elementary School, except that the levels ahead were upgraded and more difficult.
As they walked out of the auditorium, a prompt popped up on all the contestants' personal terminals:
Dear contestants, your opponent for the "Challenge Cup" campus preliminary round has been matched.
Jiang Yunu clicked on the opponent's information. The player's information was directly linked to the opponent's enrollment registration information, and the profile picture was a face that was completely unfamiliar to her.
However, the grade was indicated on the information - the other person was two grades higher than her and was a third-year student.
When they were in the junior school for supernatural powers, Zhou Jinxue was only two grades higher than Jiang Yunu, but the senior still looked like a younger girl.
The two grades in a senior school sometimes make the seniors seem like a generation apart from the freshmen.
This third-year student was already seventeen or eighteen years old, and he looked rather anxious, with a face that looked like an adult. He also saw the matching message on his personal terminal, and accurately found Jiang Yunu among the crowd that had not yet dispersed in the passage in front of the auditorium door.
Just find the one with white hair, who is a female, and the one whose height in the crowd suddenly drops below her.
"Hey." The third-year student took the initiative to greet Jiang Yunu.
Jiang Yunu was about to respond politely, but she saw the other person's expression was playful. The next second, he stared at her and asked with ill intentions: "Don't the Seventh District give the children enough food?"
——Oh, it turns out that not all those who take the initiative are friendly.
This may be an active bad embryo.
"Why have you only grown so little?" The third-year student noticed that his words attracted the attention of the people around him, and he became even more proud. He put his arm around his friend's shoulder, used his free hand to gesture the height of the white-haired girl, and then smiled even more.
He said loudly to Jiang Yunu, "Since you look so pitiful, I will take better care of you and won't embarrass you on stage."
The bad friends burst into laughter at the right time.
The disputes among the first-year students may not have reached the ears of the third-year students, or perhaps they don’t care even if they know about it.
After all, Lynette Nagu is also a freshman. There may be many reasons why the young lady lost to the country bumpkin from the seventh district. In addition to being careless and underestimating the opponent, maybe the young lady herself is just a show-off, and the reputation of the junior school was gained through "backroom dealings"?
But he is a third-year student!
"What a coincidence." Jiang Yunu put away her prepared politeness. She looked at the third-year student calmly from across the crowd of onlookers. "I especially enjoy embarrassing seniors who can't speak human language."
The third-year student's face suddenly turned gloomy.
"I was speaking to you out of consideration for my junior," the other person said gloomily. "I didn't expect you to be so ungrateful and disrespectful to me."
Jiang Yunu pushed a strand of hair that had fallen on her cheek behind her ear. She said calmly, "My way of respecting seniors is to help them drain excess water from their brains during the battle."
Jiang Yunu always does what he says.
This verbal battle took place at the door of the auditorium. At that time, everyone else present was just watching the fun, and secretly felt that the strength of the new student from the seventh district was questionable, but his ability to verbally attack others was quite good.
A few days later, the preliminaries began.
It took less than fifteen minutes for Jiang Yunu to win the battle between her and the third-year student.
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