My starting summon is a small skeleton-Chapter 295 - 292 The match starts

Chapter 295: 292 The match starts

Chapter 295: 292 The match starts

Lu Wu stepped down from the stage after putting on his show.

He was pleased, but many were on the verge of tears.

The Education Bureau hadn’t expected Lu Wu to pull such a stunt.

The person who had suggested Lu Wu give a speech now wished they could find a hole to hide in.

But that person was one of the lucky ones.

The ones who truly felt like crying were the members of Lu Wu’s team.

To be precise, it was the Hengheng Monster Wu Wei and Su Lan.

From the moment Lu Wu declared everyone present as trash,

they had distinctly felt the change in how all the competitors looked at them.

Like they were all eagerly preparing to beat them up.

After all, Lu Wu was a seeded player, and he wouldn’t have to worry about anything until the top 32.

Many people were bound to never get the chance to take on Lu Wu, but their chances of beating up his team were quite high.

Under this atmosphere, Su Lan was the first to crumble.

“What do we do now? Is it too late to distance ourselves from Lu Wu?”

While Su Lan and his teammates were bewildered and worried,

Zhao Li from the Jiangnan School Team stood up immediately.

Seeing Zhao Li stand, Su Lan and Wu Wei were momentarily stunned, then joy appeared on their faces.

They thought that the mature and steady senior, Zhao Li, was about to step forward and clarify that they had nothing to do with Lu Wu’s grandstanding.

They completely missed the extreme flush of excitement on Zhao Li’s face.

This adolescent who thrived on such antics stood up and roared.

“Our captain is right, everyone seated here is trash.

If anyone disagrees, come on over, the Jiangnan University School Team will take you all on!”

As he spoke, Zhao Li even pulled up Su Lan and Wu Wei beside him.

The two young men were nearly in tears.

They frantically signalled Zhao Li with their eyes: ‘Big brother, are you sure we won’t get beaten to death with you acting so tough?’

Unfortunately, the excited Zhao Li had no time to notice their pleading looks.

To make matters worse for Wu Wei and Su Lan, the Hengheng Monster also stood up, patting her twin peaks and challenging the competitors to bring it on.

Who knows what was going on in that woman’s head.

She went from fear to excitement in an instant.

Dudu, seeing everyone standing up, also foolishly rose to her feet.

And so, the atmosphere in the entire arena was pushed to its peak.

All the competitors’ eyes were practically shooting fire at the Jiangnan University School Team.

Looking at those glares, Wu Wei and Su Lan were certain they were doomed, probably not even able to leave the wall they were leaning on for support.

On the other side, Lu Wu was quite pleased with the effect.

Even though this pose was somewhat forced and contradicted the modest, low-key, and polite nature of Lu Wu, he felt it was necessary for the development of Jiangnan University.

The power of the Hengheng Monster and the others was a bit lacking.

Without some special measures, they would struggle to get noticed.

Since they were meant to be showcased as a recruiting advertisement, they certainly needed exposure, and now, all eyes were on them.

Explosive attention!

As long as they could perform even slightly outstandingly, Jiangnan University’s enrollment for the year would be set!

“From now on, it’s up to you!

Do well!”

With Lu Wu’s expectations, the college competition preliminaries soon began. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom

A total of 66 universities were participating in the college competition.

This meant there were 66 teams and 396 contestants.

Minus Lu Wu, the sole seed player who could directly enter the top 32, there were 395 contestants left.

So, the preliminaries were about these 395 contestants vying for 127 spots.

With a near two-thirds elimination rate, this preliminary round is quite brutal.

Of course, whether it’s brutal or not is a matter for the contestants.

As for the audience, they only care whether the match is exciting or not.

And in this edition of the university league, they had an additional point of interest.

That was to see how far the all-showing-off Jiangnan University could get after their opening ceremony performance?

Soon after, the official website announced the match information.

Jiangnan University’s information was dug up and made public immediately.

First was Lu Wu, who got a bye directly into the top 32 to wait for battle.

Then came Dudu and Zhao Li, who also got byes in the first round.

This wasn’t some underhanded machination by the organizers.

In the first round of the preliminaries, all Senior Summoners had byes.

After all, there is a vast gap between Senior Summoners and ordinary Summoners; having them compete would simply be a steamrolling.

So the strategy was to weed out the strong first, let the “chickens” fight it out, and then have the “chickens” take on the stronger contestants.

There were about 112 students with a Senior Summoner-level (at least one Summoned Beast Boss) or higher.

The remaining 284 non-Senior Summoner-level contestants were drawn to compete.

Therefore, in the first round of the preliminaries, the most attention was on the matches of Wu Wei, Su Lan, and the Hengheng Monster.

The first to fight was the Hengheng Monster.

He was up against a university student whom Lu Wu wasn’t very familiar with.

Lu Wu didn’t remember his name, but he did glance at his power.

The opponent’s Boss was 3 Star power, which was one star higher than the Hengheng Monster.

Lu Wu watched their match, a typical scrap between weaklings.

After more than 100 rounds, the Hengheng Monster narrowly came out on top.

Wu Wei was next.

He provided Lu Wu with some surprises, securing victory in just five rounds, easily winning his match.

Finally, it was Su Lan.

He got lucky, his opponent was a Boss 2 Star.

On the same level as Su Lan, but the opponent had one less Summoned Beast, and Su Lan solved it with a two-against-one strategy using his bird and dog.

Jiangnan University, in the first round of matches, managed to advance in full.

But the audience was not satisfied with Jiangnan University’s performance.

Especially with the matches of the Hengheng Monster and Su Lan.

One with a tough win and the other with a numerical advantage, neither fought very cleanly.

With such strength, they couldn’t possibly live up to their own hype.

So after the first round of matches, there was much chirping and chattering.

Some even bluntly stated that the Hengheng Monster and Su Lan wouldn’t survive the second match.

And it was at this exact moment that the information for the second round of Jiangnan University’s match was released.

Seeing that match information, both the audience and the contestants pretty much wrote off the trio including the Hengheng Monster.

All three of them were unlucky.

Their opponents were all Senior Summoner-level.

Professionals vs Senior Summoners, defeat was certain.

While the outside audience and contestants saw the daunting matchup for the trio, Lu Wu’s side clearly realized that the real challenge had begun.

The next three matches were crucial for Jiangnan University.

What the university’s recruitment results would look like this year largely depended on how well these three matches went.

If these three matches were won well, this year’s recruitment for Jiangnan University would basically be settled.

If not… well, if not, it seemed there wouldn’t be much of an issue; they still had Lu Wu to show off.

But of course, it would be best if they did well!

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I’ve been having some serious writer’s block recently, and I’ll burst update once I get the storyline sorted out, aiming to get into the top ten of the power rankings next week.