Chapter 918: Chapter 918

Other members from the student council came out to support Du You, and the students’ emotions were finally suppressed. As for the guy who was talking nonsense just now, who knows what position he will be assigned to when he goes back.

People who are oblivious to the situation and don’t act sensibly will definitely be dealt with by others within the student council.

Seeing that many people were trying to get close to him, Du You quickly gestured with both hands. "Thank you all for your support, but I still have a lot of things to deal with right now, please let me through."

There was no helping it, with these people surrounding the place, he couldn’t leave. Normally, if he were outside, Du You would just use Instantaneous Movement to leave, but it’s just not possible here.

"If only moving in and out of here was as easy as within the Magic Network Space," Du You felt somewhat helpless.

In this trading marketplace, you inevitably appear on the Entrance Array when entering. And to leave, you must also depart through an Exit Array; it’s impossible to leave just anywhere. It’s different in the arena which has that function, allowing free entry and exit without being restricted by arrays. Even through the world market, one could move in and out easily.

After finally appeasing everyone, Du You hurriedly left the place. "Seems like I can’t go to the market for a short while," Du You felt a bit helpless, as the students were too enthusiastic.

Being surrounded by such a crowd, even if Du You wanted to purchase something, it would probably be very troublesome. Because in such a situation, he had no way to negotiate prices and could only buy at the marked price directly.

And many of these marked prices were excessively inflated, with the real value often being at most half.

With Du You winning the challenge this time, the public opinion front wouldn’t be able to calm down anytime soon. Clashes between two universities weren’t something that could be soothed over easily.

As the ace that the Alliance Comprehensive Academy had been hiding and only recently unveiled, Jiang Hao was a power player. His performance in previous battles had proven this point, but he suffered a major setback as soon as he hit the field. The rıghtful source is 𝕟𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝✶𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖✶𝕟𝕖𝕥

Jiang Hao was not only defeated outright, but the loss was also very appalling and decisive.

This not only cast a shadow over Jiang Hao’s face but also affected the image of the Alliance Academy. As a result, students and upper class from both academies started hurling insults at each other, and this mud-slinging wasn’t confined to just their world but had also spread to the outside.

After all, there are people who leave this world from time to time. Some go out to fetch things, while others do not wish to continue staying here any longer. Among them are also reporters, those student reporters who would regularly go out to deliver news.

Capital Academy was touting its student’s strong capabilities and high-quality education, saying that Alliance Comprehensive Academy was unruly, arrogant without any real strength.

On the other hand, the Alliance Comprehensive Academy accused Capital University of being low and despicable, winning by devious means. They also claimed that Du You had never attended classes and couldn’t be considered a product of the academy’s upbringing, and the war of words once started seemed endless.

But nobody was surprised, the two academies often badmouthed each other. It was just that in the past couple of years, things had subdued a bit; in earlier times, it was already considered face-saving if the academies didn’t actually fight.

The verbal sparring between the academies didn’t affect Du You much. He checked his territory’s upgrade experience and saw that it was already over halfway; the benefits this challenger brought to him were not insignificant.

Were it not for the fact that the audience of the challenge had been limited to Professionals, without natives of this Other World, Du You might even believe his territory could have already met the upgrade experience requirements. Now, all he needed was to go through a few battles, make his name known, and try to upgrade his territory to tier four.

By then, he would be able to firmly establish himself in this world. Having a tier four territory made everything much more convenient. As for a tier-five territory, Du You wasn’t daring to think about it just yet, though he believed he would soon meet the requirements if his plans succeeded.

What Du You hadn’t expected was that, due to the previous events, the upper class of the academy ultimately made certain adjustments to the world market. Previously, in order to promote interaction among students, hiding one’s identity was not allowed within it.

However, following the incident, not only did the academies grow more hostile towards each other, but also the conflicts among the lower-ranking students escalated day by day. As a result, standoffs frequently occurred within the marketplace.

In order to mitigate this issue and to encourage students to focus on expanding their territories in the Other World, the academy had to compromise by allowing identity concealment within the world market, after which the conflicts gradually decreased.

But this was good too, at least when he entered the world market in the future, no one would recognize him.

Wandering the market when there’s nothing else to do, then heading to the surrounding area to clear out Giants and Magical Beasts. By frequently rescuing others, Du You had never concealed his identity, so his territory upgrade experience gradually increased.

Even sometimes, Li Mengyao and Xi Qianxue would actively seek him out to form a team, and Du You didn’t refuse. Although the two of them didn’t understand why Lin Yucha and Lin Yushi, the sisters, were nowhere to be seen, Du You didn’t explain, and they didn’t ask. In the Other World, everyone’s plans were their own secrets; asking about such matters was taboo in itself.

"These Giants, they’ve learned their lesson," Du You thought one day as another conflict erupted.

What Du You didn’t expect was that this time the Giants didn’t send their tribe members to charge; instead, they somehow herded a large number of Magical Beasts to do it. Although Magical Beasts lacked formation and were generally weaker, there were many of them.

Moreover, the herded Magical Beasts, driven to desperation, were all reckless, not fearing death—or one could say these Magical Beasts had gone mad.

With no other choice, the academy had to organize the students to deal with these Magical Beasts. With Giants disrupting from behind, Du You couldn’t use Destruction Flames to clear them in one fell swoop, but he had other methods that could impact the battlefield.

Resentful Souls Domain was activated, followed by Hellfire Thunder combined with a widespread attack from the Dark Flame Arrow Array. With the support of bubbles all over the battleground, Du You indeed contributed significantly. Gradually, Du You’s territory experience value continued to climb towards full, inching closer to advancing to tier four.

What frustrated Du You was that he still hadn’t obtained any good blueprints. Since the Giants had wised up, tier-four Giants rarely took part in battles. Without defeating tier-four Giants, the drop rates could not be too high.

He had reached tier four, and the drop rates for hunting tier-three Giants were truly too low. As for tier-two Giants, the drop rates were close to zero. The reason it wasn’t zero was due to the interference of Earth’s will in this world, which directly increased the drop rate. Otherwise, with a two-tier difference, there would have been no chance for drops.