Chapter 1672: Keep It in Your Mouth. Don't Talk.
After Elder Zhan Meng of the former Nine Provinces Xuan Association, Wu Weimin, led the defectors who had followed him to Brazil in South America, his next moves were clearly far too idealistic.
A turtle that pulled its head into its shell might keep a low profile and avoid attracting attention, but once someone had their eye on it and tracked it back to its nest, it would immediately be put on the defensive. If you tried to adapt to every change by staying the same without having the strength to back it up, all you'd get in the end was a thorough beating in every conceivable way.
Besides, Institute 507 had never let up. How could they possibly let the tiger return to the mountains and allow this band of defectors, who had no legitimate standing, to establish themselves overseas and live in peace, setting up some ridiculous Academy Under Heaven? It was obviously a shady organization. Were they aiming to get into Project 985, Project 211, or the Ivy League or something?! What a load of nonsense!
Though South America, North America, and Europe all had official wizard academies, those places had powerful, influential, wealthy Big Shots backing them—or were funded outright by their governments.
An outsider like Academy Under Heaven, sheltering under someone else's roof like a rootless duckweed, had no business feeling so confident.
They had been fighting tooth and nail against the mercenaries hired by the Senkai Association one moment, only to have government troops confiscate their weapons and turn them into prisoners the next. The outcome they faced today had been all but inevitable.
"You come here to laugh at me?" asked the leader of Academy Under Heaven, Elder Zhan Meng of the former Nine