"Dragon City Military Academy, first in the previous recruit competition. Participant: Jiang Yaoyue (Middle Rank Apprentice [Holy Judgment Knight])..."

"Celestial City Military Academy, second in the previous recruit competition. Participant: ..."

"Mountain City Military Academy, third in the previous recruit competition. Participant: ..."

"Tiger City Military Academy, fourth in the previous recruit competition. Participant: ..."

"Sea City Military Academy, fifth in the previous recruit competition. Participant: Fang Zhou (Upper Rank Apprentice [Undead Mage])..."

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After seeing the detailed data of the one hundred participants on these ten golden lists, all the observing students were stunned.

Overall, information between the various military academies in the Longxia Federation was still rather insular. Taking Sea City Military Academy as an example, while there were internal forums and educational channels for students to communicate and exchange information, its students had few avenues to learn about cadets from other academies beyond the basic details on the public network. The situation was similar at the other military academies.

Therefore, when the golden list for Sea City Military Academy revealed that its top-ranked participant was Fang Zhou, an Upper Rank Apprentice Undead Mage, every observing student outside of Sea City was dumbfounded. They had never expected Sea City Military Academy to harbor such an extraordinarily powerful student.

"Oh my God, Fang Zhou is actually an Upper Rank Apprentice Undead Mage!"

"How is that possible? The strongest student in our academy is only a Middle Rank Apprentice."

"Looks like this competition is going to be interesting. I didn't expect Sea City Military Academy to be hiding such an expert."

In contrast, the participants from the other military academies who were already inside the Simulation Battlefield remained relatively calm. After all, during their preliminary preparations, their instructors had already given them a general idea of the strength of the opponents they were about to face.

Given the intelligence-gathering capabilities of the other academies' instructors, they had naturally learned long ago that a genius who had undergone their Awakening into the rare Undead Mage Profession had appeared among Sea City Military Academy's new recruits this year.

"Fang Zhou, an Upper Rank Apprentice Undead Mage. Looks like we'll have to be careful," one participant murmured.

"Yeah, our instructor told us before that this guy is a tough nut to crack," another agreed.

This monstrous genius named Fang Zhou didn't just have an astonishingly fast cultivation speed—he had broken through to Middle Rank Apprentice just a month after his Awakening and reached Upper Rank Apprentice within three to four months. More crucially, he possessed unparalleled creativity and comprehension when it came to Undead Attribute magic and Skills. In less than half a year, Fang Zhou had single-handedly pioneered a whole series of new Undead Mage Skills, epitomized by the Skeleton Series Skill Tree. These skills had dramatically enhanced the Profession's combat power, redeeming the Undead Mage from its former disgrace.

All the participants from the other military academies who had seen the battle recordings of Fang Zhou single-handedly forming an army by summoning hundreds of skeletons to sweep away everything had unknowingly developed a deep-seated fear of him.

To both the instructors and participants of the other academies, Fang Zhou, an Upper Rank Apprentice Undead Mage, was an enemy whose combat power was ridiculously off the charts. He was considered a paramount threat who had to be eliminated as quickly as possible.

However, to prevent their morale from wavering, the detailed intelligence on Fang Zhou was restricted to only these participants.

To the hundreds of thousands of observing students from the other nine military academies, Fang Zhou was like a monstrous talent who had appeared out of nowhere, completely redefining their concept of a genius.

If not for the fact that the dazzling characters on Sea City Military Academy's golden list were undeniably authentic, no one would have believed that a first-year student could advance to Upper Rank Apprentice in less than three months after their Awakening. Even more unbelievably, the Undead Mage Profession, renowned for its feeble combat power, had managed to fight its way through the rigorous selection process on the strength of its own Combat Ability to claim the top spot.

Dragon City, Celestial City, Mountain City…

In an instant, observing students throughout the major military academies of the Longxia Federation began whispering to each other, exchanging information about Fang Zhou.

"Who is Fang Zhou? Does anyone have intel on him?"

"The Undead Mage is a dead-end Profession. How could one even be selected as a participant? What is Sea City Military Academy thinking?"

"Forget him being an Undead Mage. How could he, a student in our year, have already broken through to Upper Rank Apprentice? That cultivation speed is just absurd."

"I've made up my mind. I'm going to watch Fang Zhou's first-person perspective and see what this so-called Upper Rank Apprentice Undead Mage is really made of."

The observing students flooded the discussion forums with messages, expressing their curiosity and bewilderment regarding Fang Zhou.

However, as students of the Longxia Federation's top ten military academies, they had all passed stringent screening and assessments to enroll. None of them were fools. In an event as significant as the recruit competition, which involved the vital interests of all the military academies, there had to be a reason for Fang Zhou's top ranking on the Sea City Military Academy list.

Besides, Sea City Military Academy was one of the nation's top five, a long-established powerhouse. Its principal and instructors were surely not foolish enough to let someone with more style than substance lead the team in such a competition.

Based on this deduction, although everyone was intensely curious about and focused on Fang Zhou, no one was reckless enough to make wild claims questioning his Combat Ability. After all, the upcoming recruit competition was going to be broadcast live in its entirety.

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