Inside Principal Song Liyuan's office.
"What did you say? You're not going to be team captain?"
Song Liyuan looked taken aback.
He knew that because of her great-grandfather, Jiang Xuanran had stayed at Shencheng Supernatural University because she still wanted to lead the team to victory in the National Supernatural University Competition.
Otherwise, she already qualified as an outstanding graduate.
But now, what had he just heard?!
Jiang Xuanran had said, loud and clear, that she wasn't going to be team captain.
"If you're not the captain, who else could be?"
Song Liyuan asked.
To be captain, you needed both solid leadership skills and formidable strength!
There was no one at Shencheng Supernatural University better suited for the role than her.
In answer to Song Liyuan's question, Jiang Xuanran shook her head, then calmly said two words: "Lu Yuan."
"Lu Yuan..."
"His leadership skills are decent, but his strength..."
"Cough, cough, cough..."
Hearing Jiang Xuanran's answer, Song Liyuan nearly choked.
If he hadn't known what kind of person Jiang Xuanran was, he might have thought she'd lost her head over a man.
Seeing Song Liyuan's strange expression, Jiang Xuanran told him two things: in the No. 7 Lost Ruin, Lu Yuan had taken on the five-man team from Sakura Country all by himself, and among the spoils he'd received was the crystal core of a Fifth Order Middle Rank Blazing Salamander.
Even Song Liyuan, a well-traveled Great Grandmaster at the eighth-order Middle Rank, couldn't help being utterly astonished.
A first-year student—and one in the first semester, no less—had actually managed something like that. Who could believe it?!
But he also knew that Jiang Xuanran would never lie to him about something like this.
He had no choice but to believe it!
This gave him an even clearer understanding of Lu