"This is the room for you work-study students. Find yourselves a bed. This will be your home for the next few years."
A teacher from the academy led Xu Wenlong to the work-study students' room and spoke to him.
Xu Wenlong looked inside. It was a fairly large room, with beds crammed together. At the very least, it was about the same as the dorms he had lived in during high school and college.
Xu Wenlong picked a bed against the wall. He was used to sleeping against a wall; otherwise, he could not fall asleep.
Xu Wenlong began unpacking his luggage. Though it was called luggage, he did not actually have much.
Having learned from past experience, Xu Wenlong had brought bedding and all his own daily necessities.
So he did not need to worry about lacking anything. He had practically emptied out his entire home, though his home had been bare walls and nothing else anyway.
Wind Sand Town was not very large. To be honest, not many people enrolled in Wind Sand Town Junior Soul Master Academy each year.
After all, every city in the Heaven Dou Empire was basically responsible for the qualified students from all the lands under its jurisdiction.
Since Spirit Hall had essentially monopolized Martial Soul awakenings across the Two Great Empires, those with the best talent each year were generally sent to Spirit Hall. Even those with middling talent needed to follow Spirit Hall to have a better future.
Those with Innate Soul Power between ten and seven were considered highly talented and were directly guaranteed admission, while those between six and four were the middle tier and still needed to follow Spirit Hall to have prospects.
Those below level three Innate Soul Power could only find a junior academy to attend on their own.
As for whether the Heaven Dou Empire worried about this? What a joke. This was not modern society; the nobility of bloodlines truly existed.
The Heaven Dou Empire only needed to keep the major sects and great clans under control.
As for commoners? What a joke. Even talents like Shrek in the original story were looked down upon and directly driven out of Heaven Dou Royal Academy because of their status.
It was like those old Beijing locals. Their fathers had already suffered through everything in this life when they entered the pass alongside the Heaven Dou Empire, so what the hell were you filthy outsiders?
That was the greatest difference between Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empire. One played survival of the fittest, while the other was full of old Beijing locals. How could someone digging tunnels compete with someone raising venomous insects?
In truth, this was also the root sickness of all Douluo Continent. After all, ninety-nine percent of people did not have good Martial Souls. They could only hope for mutation, and after a mutation, they still had to see whether it was a good one or a bad one.
Even with a good Martial Soul, Innate Soul Power might not be high. Then, if their family background was poor, they would be looked down on at school. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Life was not easy.
Just look at Heaven Dou Royal Academy's team.
Their captain, Tian Yuheng—setting everything else aside, he came from the Upper Three Sects' Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon lineage.
Their vice-captain, Dugu Yan—setting everything else aside, her grandfather was Dugu Bo, a Titled Douluo.
Their team member, Ye Lingling—even Ning Rongrong had said that if her Martial Soul could be mass-produced, it could utterly crush the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. It could be called the number-one support Martial Soul.
The first three all had inherited Martial Souls and were famous. The remaining four were truly just trash.
The two Black Tortoise Turtles were suspected to come from a Heaven Dou Empire clan, but there were no detailed settings for them, and their poor performance meant no one cared.
Osler and Yu Feng were both agility-attack types. Xu Wenlong's assessment was that they only scratched the itch.
Then look at the lineup: two tanks, two scouts, one warrior, one support, and one controller.
The support could only heal, the scouts had no damage, and the tanks protected the controller and support.
So when it came to team fights, it was all up to their warrior, Tian Yuheng?
Of course, that was somewhat unfair, but Heaven Dou Royal Academy really was inferior to the other teams in the original story.
They did not dare provoke Spirit Hall, could not beat the four Element Academies, and would struggle to contend with the Star Luo Empire team that was their equal in fame. On top of that, they got beaten up early on by Shrek before Shrek had even consumed Immortal Herbs, which made them seem so weak.
Though they really were pretty weak.
Thinking about it, Xu Wenlong began forming a plan. He did not dare provoke Spirit Hall, and the original story had not written much about Star Luo Empire, so he did not know what it was like. The four major Element Academies only recruited people with their own attributes.
The Upper Three Sects and Lower Four Sects also only recruited members of their own factions, aside from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
That only left the Heaven Dou Empire. When the time came, Xu Wenlong could summon more people, enroll in Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and kick out those four freeloaders.
Then, during the tournament, he could stun everyone by announcing that he belonged to Great Shocker. Great Shocker points would soar!
Xu Wenlong gradually began laughing out loud.
But he quickly shut up. Laughing for no reason would make him look like an idiot.
Xu Wenlong looked around. There were not many people, since Wind Sand Town was small and sparsely populated.
Population was the key to measuring strength. With more people, even if the proportion was low, the number of geniuses would steadily rise.
Xu Wenlong lay on the bed. He appeared to be resting with his eyes closed, but he was actually opening the Great Shocker System to see whom he could deploy.
Xu Wenlong first opened Kamen Rider Black's page.
As for Black, Xu Wenlong felt calm. Although Black's protagonist, Minami Kotaro, possessed looks, temperament, and a physique comparable to Xu Wenlong's, there was not much difference between them aside from Xu Wenlong being unable to Henshin.
As for Black Sun, when it came to people saying Black Sun was good or bad and that its plot was incomplete, Xu Wenlong could only say that the director had guts.
The fact that Black Sun showed Japanese Server Male Gun brutally killing that person during filming, then still dared to air it afterward, was impressive enough.
And at the end, when the cop pinned the monster down with his knee while the monster said he could not breathe, Xu Wenlong laughed himself to death.
As for the character to summon, Xu Wenlong had already decided. Black's Minami Kotaro was definitely necessary. No other reason—"Suddenly, something miraculous happened" was truly a law of causality.
As for Shadow Moon, Shadow Moon's characterization and suit design in Black were truly excellent, but Xu Wenlong did not have much impression of his human form.
On the other hand, Xu Wenlong did not have much impression of Minami Kotaro in Black Sun, but he really liked the actor who played Shadow Moon in Black Sun.
Although his motives and actions were utterly bizarre, Xu Wenlong genuinely liked the actor's acting, movements, looks, and transformation pose.
"Then that's settled!"
Xu Wenlong pressed and held Shadow Moon's data from Kamen Rider Black, dragging it into Shadow Moon's folder from Kamen Rider Black Sun.
"Merge successful!"
Miss Izu's voice sounded again. Xu Wenlong's configuration had succeeded.
According to Xu Wenlong's plan, Minami Kotaro would remain unchanged, keeping his original appearance and personality as Kamen Rider Black—Eclipse.
But Shadow Moon would use Kamen Rider Black's Shadow Moon's experiences: the mechanical-style Shadow Moon who had to duel Minami Kotaro to become the Creation King. However, his appearance and personality would use the Shadow Moon template from Kamen Rider Black Sun.
As for Kamen Rider Black's Shadow Moon, Xu Wenlong truly did not remember much about him, because he barely had any screen time. The actor appeared for less than half the time the suit did.
As for Minami Kotaro from Kamen Rider Black Sun, Xu Wenlong could only say, "Captain, hurry up and call your teammate over to use the invincible Neo-Ou Power!"