The days of military training that followed were nothing like those of previous years.
It wasn't just Magic City Academy. Academies around the world were overhauling military training, giving students more opportunities to learn and more instruction in actual combat.
Magic City Academy's proposed reform of the Freshman Competition—the upcoming world tournament for academy Freshmen—had won the support of academies everywhere.
Going with the tide put a heavier burden on students, but for the sake of the world,
there was no other choice.
The truth was, in any world, when it came to education, there was no excuse for negligence!
It had to be taken seriously!
The Student Union would be tired, but it was for their prospects, the world, and their own futures.
A little hardship would do them good.
Soldiers sweated in training so they wouldn't bleed on the battlefield, didn't they?
The same principle applied here. If students didn't work hard now, what would they accomplish later?
On the Sports Field, Xu Mu watched Cynthia and Magic City Academy's Freshmen drill in earnest, studying battle formations and the basics of fighting on a battlefield.
He nodded in satisfaction.
A nation's strength lay in its youth, and its wisdom in their minds.
This generation of Freshmen was roughly Xu Mu's age. With the new education reforms and the world's resources poured into their development, they would need only a few years to grow strong.
Xu Feng should be able to hold the line in the Borderlands for those few years.
Even if he couldn't, Xu Mu could hold off Team Rocket and the other evil organizations on his own in the short term.
But what about after that? If the world as a whole wasn't strong enough, if its people lacked resolve, how could they drive Team Rocket