The original story had mentioned that selecting class officers was about far more than testing individual strength.
There were no weaklings among those who could get into Shrek Academy.
To stand out from the rest, strength alone would never be enough.
Beyond strength, intelligence would play an even more important role.
But Mu Han's superintelligence told him that it was time to use his overwhelming strength to solve everything.
He had teammates, of course. Besides Gu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan, he had also won Zheng Yiran over.
But in the end, he had carried the fight on his own.
The other three had merely been the icing on the cake.
Just then, the world twisted, and beams of light shone down on the four of them.
The light warped around them. Darkness swallowed their vision, and a powerful mental shock left them momentarily blank.
When their consciousness returned, everything before them was clear again.
As the four of them stepped out of their respective pods, nearly a hundred pairs of eyes fixed on them.
Many of those gazes were complicated.
Especially those of the two Four-Ring Soul Ancestors.
The Undying Xu Yucheng and the Hellish Wu Siduo.
Xu Yucheng, whose face was already pale, looked even worse. This time, it could only be called a disgrace.
He was a Four-Ring Soul Ancestor, after all, yet he had been reduced to a speed bump.
He had not even managed to serve as a speed bump. He had been taken out by the shock waves of the relentless bombardment.
The Dark Demon Scythe wasn't a top-tier Martial Soul. It was simply so powerful that it backlashed against its Soul Master.
That left Xu Yucheng's body extremely fragile. Even at the Four-Ring level, he didn't dare fuse with a thousand-year Soul Ring.
And yet the shock waves from Gu Yue's relentless bombardment had taken him out.
Wu Siduo looked at Mu Han differently now, with keen interest.
In truth, Mu Han's options had already been limited. The Bloodthirsty Hundred-Ton King that had blown up Shrek City earlier had been banned by the academy.
But Mu Han could still use his Bloodthirsty Water Blade.
Wu Siduo had already unleashed her Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill, the Hell White Tiger.
Yet the Bloodthirsty Water Blade had still split her in two from the front.
Just as the Dragon God had been split in two.
Wu Siduo had no idea what it had felt like when the Asura God cleaved the Dragon God apart.
But she had experienced it herself, tasting that unique feeling of being "split in two" that belonged to the Dragon God.
After being cleaved apart, the Dragon God had become the Golden Dragon King and the Silver Dragon King.
But Wu Siduo wasn't the Dragon God. Being split apart had killed her.
Still, getting split apart in the virtual world hadn't killed her. She had even gained some insight from it.
That insight was still vague, though. She wanted to try it a few more times.
"You four were originally one group. Now you can decide who will be class monitor and who will be vice class monitor."
Gu Yue didn't wait for anyone else to react. She stepped back without hesitation, making her position clear.
Nearly all the elders of the Sea God Pavilion, Shrek's highest governing body, had once served as class monitor or vice class monitor.
But Gu Yue planned to make her future in the Spirit Pagoda.
Her teacher Leng Yaozhu's betrayal had already caused her plenty of trouble.
If she became class monitor or vice class monitor of Shrek Academy as well, things would only get more troublesome later.
A faint smile appeared on Shen Yi's face. "Class monitor, Mu Han. Vice class monitors, Xu Xiaoyan and Zheng Yiran."
That was actually the arrangement she considered ideal, too.
Although Gu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan were strong, they still lacked a little in terms of reputation.
At the end of the day, neither had ever competed in the All-Federation Tournament.
A freak like Mu Han was another matter.
The All-Federation Tournament was just some competition that Shrek Academy looked down on.
Mu Han, on the other hand, had blown up Shrek itself.
If not for the three powerful members of the Fatui and the deterrent effect of Mu Han himself,
he figured Mu Han would have become the Federation's most wanted criminal by now.
But Gu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan had no feats like his, nor were they on the Youth Genius Ranking.
If all five people on the Youth Genius Ranking were eliminated in this class monitor contest, it would be easy for the entire class to lose faith.
Choosing Zheng Yiran as vice class monitor would serve as a clear warning. At the very least, it would greatly quiet the dissenting voices.
After all, Zheng Yiran might not be the strongest of those five.
But she was unquestionably the most intimidating.
What could you expect when she was a poison Soul Master?
And she was a descendant of Poison Douluo, Dugu Bo!
Dugu Bo from twenty thousand years ago was still fresh in everyone's memory.
Before Mu Han, this new era's "ultimate weapon" had begun to take shape, Dugu Bo had always been synonymous with "terror."
Next came the selection of the other four class officers.
Any student whose secondary profession was at Level 2 or higher could sign up to compete.
But there was no need for all that.
Aside from Gu Yue, who became the design committee member just as she had in the original story, Mu Han took all three of the other committee positions.
Mecha manufacturing and mecha repair were both, at their core, processes of working metal.
Mu Han had an innate gift for forging, so naturally he had a gift for those other two professions as well.
So Mu Han became the forging committee member, manufacturing committee member, and repair committee member!
In truth, Mu Han also knew a little about mecha design.
A repair specialist had to be skilled not only in manufacturing but also in design.
In a sense, repair was a combination of the two, though it didn't pursue either to quite the same extreme.
Still, a repair specialist had to deeply understand how the two were connected in order to fix a damaged mecha.
But Mu Han wasn't particularly proficient in it.
And since Gu Yue had withdrawn from the vice class monitor selection, giving her a committee position was no big deal.
That left Class One with four of the seven class officer positions, just as in the original story.
Mu Han was class monitor and also the forging, repair, and manufacturing committee member.
Xu Xiaoyan and Wu Siduo were the vice class monitors, and Gu Yue was the design committee member.
Those four made up the class officer group.
The original story had mentioned that things were similar in the other grades.
Class monitors and vice class monitors were generally outstanding in their secondary professions, so it wasn't unusual for them to hold multiple positions.
There had even been someone who excelled at all three professions—mecha design, manufacturing, and repair—
and, as vice class monitor, held four positions at once.
But Mu Han's record was even more impressive.
That person had only held three committee positions and the vice class monitor position.
Mu Han had three committee positions on top of being class monitor.
After that came the group assignments, which weren't difficult either.
There were the fewest blacksmiths, so every group was assigned one.
The other secondary professions were assigned according to level.
Those with higher-level secondary professions could join the team with the most skilled blacksmith.
Mu Han and Gu Yue had taken all four committee positions, so they should originally have been put in the same group.
But the mecha manufacturing group wouldn't just be making mechas.
They would also need to work in teams for many of the battles coming up.
So the two vice class monitors, Xu Xiaoyan and Zheng Yiran, stayed as well.
Everyone had a task for the semester: to build a mecha of their own.
That was just like in the original story.
And, just as in the original story, Gu Yue put forward a different opinion. "Let's make Battle Armor. We don't need mechas."
The reason the first-year project was mechas was that most people couldn't make Battle Armor.
One-Word Battle Armor required Thousand Refinement.
How many Level 3 blacksmiths could there possibly be in the entire first year?
But Mu Han was a Level 6 Blacksmith. He could build even Two-Word Battle Armor.
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