Confessing to someone who thinks I'm a fat otaku, and then crying when monsters descend?

"The academy is summoning all fifth-tier students, regardless of whether they are new or returning students, to assemble in the auditorium!"

"Looks like it's finally time to choose the personnel for the mission?"

"Hurry, hurry, let's see who it is!"

On a sunny afternoon, the academy issued a call to action, gathering all fifth-level students in the auditorium.

Of course, Chen Nian is included as well.

At a glance, there were about two hundred people in the auditorium.

Most of them were freshmen in the same year as Chen Nian, and a small number were upperclassmen from An Qingluo's year.

Chen Nian and Hao Jin sat together.

Hao Jin: "The personnel will be selected today and the mission will be launched tomorrow. There's no way they can escape it. I just don't know who will be the unlucky one."

Chen Nian was puzzled: "Isn't being chosen lucky? How come I'm the unlucky one in your eyes?"

Hao Jin shrugged: "There are definitely benefits, provided you come back alive. You know the mortality rate on missions is as high as 50%!"

"That's alright. You always have to take some risks to become stronger."

Hao Jin clasped his hands in a fist and said, "Sir, you are very righteous! However, although your performance was quite good, the real competitors for the spots are those with peak fifth-tier strength. You should wait a bit longer."

Soon, a bald man in a suit walked onto the stage. He was slightly overweight and had a natural comedic presence, but no one in the audience dared to laugh.

"Hello everyone, I believe many students do not know me. Let me introduce myself. My surname is Ma, and you all call me Director Ma."

That's right, he is the director.

"The main reason I've gathered everyone here today is to announce the members who will be on the next mission. Before that, please allow me to make a few explanations."

As Director Ma spoke, a blue screen appeared behind him.

"The first question is, why is it limited to level five?"

"Because, to teleport across multiple planes to a world without an anchor point, the teleportation array needs to consume a lot of energy. And the amount of energy consumed is related to the strength of the person being teleported; the stronger the person, the more energy is consumed."

Similarly, calamities cannot send overly powerful enemies to invade the upper world all at once; they can only invade gradually from the bottom up.

"Second question: details of the new world, and mission objectives?"

"World designation F-12, main species: vampires and humans. According to the reviewer's report, this world has been eroded by calamity, but has not yet completely fallen, so the mission objective is to eliminate the source of the calamity."

"The third question: How do I get back after completing the mission? What do I get in return?"

"After completing this task, please set a new anchor point in this world. The next time the train departs, it will stop in this world to pick you up or send you back to your own world for a vacation."

"The performance credits you earn can be used to gain power from the World Tree consciousness and become stronger."

"Now, if anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask them," Director Ma said, looking at the trainees.

"Excuse me, Director, the train is scheduled to depart in twenty days. If we can't complete the task within twenty days, won't we have to wait another month?"

"That's right."

"Sir, what should we do if we are unable to complete the task?"

"Mission cannot be completed. Please wait at this location. The academy will send support later. However, this is the worst-case scenario, which means that a large amount of teleportation energy will be wasted."

After everyone had asked a bunch of questions, the director coughed and cleared his throat.

"Now that everyone has finished asking questions, I will begin my announcement."

"After comprehensive evaluation, the trainees selected for this F-12 World Championship are..."

At the same time, names appeared on the big screen, almost filling the entire screen.

Aged.

"It's him, that freshman Chen Nian?!"

"Wow, is this the first time we've directly used freshmen who enrolled within the last year?"

"Not just within a year, but how long has that aged stuff been here? Half a month?"

"This is outrageous! They must have gotten in through connections. How can the academy trust such an inexperienced freshman?"

"Yeah, and there are even senior students who have been with us for over a year and whose strength is at the peak of the fifth rank who weren't selected. That's illogical..."

As expected, after the name was announced, there was a cacophony of discontent among the crowd.

Even his roommate Hao Jin was shocked: "You actually got selected? Holy crap, the college really pulled strings for you! It couldn't have been selected according to the rules, could it?"

Chen Nian smiled but didn't say anything.

Of course, the candidates are not irrevocable once the college has made their selections.

Historically, there are many examples of elections that were subsequently overthrown.

"I disagree!"

Ji Yang was the first to stand up and protest: "Chen Nian has only been at the academy for a short time, and his performance is far from meeting the requirements."

I disagree.

Count me in!

"The selection process must be fair and impartial. We hope the college will not make exceptions for any one person."

There are about twenty people standing up to oppose this now.

They were either people who had a grudge against Chen Nian, or they were people whose strength was at the peak of the fifth rank and who thought they were better than Chen Nian.

Director Ma nodded: "Since you disagree, we will now open the challenge channel. If any one of you defeats Chen Nian, the academy will reassess the case."

"Of course, you only get one chance to take on the challenge."

Ji Yang smirked and chuckled.

It's gotten to this point already. If anyone's going to challenge someone, it's not him; it's those peak fifth-tier experts above who should make the move.

He wanted to thoroughly humiliate Chen Nian, make him look foolish, and then force the academy to reassess his case.

"I'll do it!"

A man stood up.

"It's Senior Zhou Lang, a peak fifth-tier cultivator. If I remember correctly, he's in the Diamond rank in the arena!"

"He was indeed one of the most qualified to be selected, and I'm also curious why he wasn't chosen."

"He broke a Tier 5 PvE record in the training ground just two days ago, so he can't possibly be worse than Chen Nian..."

The others who had objections also expressed their agreement when they saw Zhou Lang stepping forward.

Zhou Lang is indeed the strongest among them.

He is the most convincing candidate to fight Chen Nian!

"You want to challenge the aged?"

"good."

"Does anyone still have objections to Zhou Lang's challenge? One last reminder: you only have one chance to challenge."

"No objection! Unless Senior Zhou Lang goes easy on him, there's no way he can lose to Chen Nian."

"good!"

The director announced loudly, "Chen Nian, Zhou Lang, get ready. We will meet at the arena in two hours."

......

The upcoming battle between Chen Nian and Zhou Lang is highly anticipated!

Zhou Lang is at the peak of the fifth rank and is also a senior student who has been enrolled for more than a year. He is quite outstanding in all aspects.

Chen Nian is a freshman who has just enrolled and his abilities have not been truly tested.

This match between the two is going to be quite a show.

"Come and see what's going on! I heard this arena duel between the two is open to the public, so everyone can witness this fair and just battle!"

"A public fight? We'll have to go see that, hahaha, I'm also curious about Chen Nian's skill level."

"Come on, Qingluo, let's watch a show at the arena! Chen Nian vs. Zhou Lang, interested?" Sun Qian greeted with a smile at the door.

Zhou Lang was in the same year as An Qingluo, but An Qingluo was at the sixth level while he was at the fifth level.

"I am somewhat interested."