"Also, the various academies have a batch of newcomers to send over to us."
"By rights, they should be assigned randomly, but I saw that your alma mater, Captain Ling, was also sending newcomers over. So I took it upon myself to apply to have Tianyan Academy's newcomers assigned to our Ninth Squad."
"Captain Ling, that shouldn't be a problem, right?"
As she spoke, Zhou Xue'er looked at Ling Zhan cautiously.
"No."
Ling Zhan's reply was brief and to the point.
These so-called newcomers were actually Zhu Yaoguang's batch of first-year students.
In fact, this year's freshmen from the major prestigious schools had all performed remarkably well, especially in terms of talent. It was truly astonishing.
So naturally, some newcomers would be assigned to the frontline battlefield to gain experience.
As long as your strength and talent were sufficient, the earlier you went to the battlefield, the better.
As far as Ling Zhan was concerned, even if Zhou Xue'er had not applied on her own initiative, his Ninth Squad would still have received a batch of newcomers.
Rather than welcome newcomers from other prestigious schools, it was better to have newcomers from his own alma mater join them.
Besides...
He had spent some time with Zhu Yaoguang and the others before, so they were fairly familiar with each other.
Thus, not only did Ling Zhan have no objections, he was actually quite happy to see it happen.
It would save him a great deal of trouble as well.
Very soon...
At noon the next day.
Ling Zhan and Zhou Xue'er headed to the A District harbor of Hundred Ghost Fortress.
Back then, the magic airship Ling Zhan had taken to Hundred Ghost Fortress had landed here.
Naturally, that batch of newcomers would also have to arrive by magic airship.
When