Free Web NovelChapter 622: Chapter 356: The Terrifying Power of Canaan Academy, Something’s Not Right (2)
"Whoosh!"
A flash of white light passed by, and his figure once again appeared in that white, misty world.
Compared to yesterday.
The number of people in today’s space was undoubtedly much less.
At the moment of stepping in, a surge of information emerged in Thor’s mind.
It informed Thor of the number of people who passed the assessment yesterday.
In this Canaan Academy ranking event, a total of 820,000 students participated. Yesterday, 410,000 were eliminated; today, these 410,000 are undergoing the second round.
Thor, as a special admission student, could skip the first round yesterday, but must participate in this second round.
Under the rules of the academy ranking competition.
By the end of the second round, the number of participants must not exceed 1,000.
Meaning this second round needs to eliminate 410,000 people.
It’s no doubt a terrifying number, which also indicates that this competition will be more intense than imagined.
Indeed, it was just like that.
The pace of the competition was very fast.
Over a thousand arenas quickly started.
In almost every match, it seemed that it had just started before it had ended.
Only a few matches could last a bit longer.
They were generally evenly matched.
However, such probabilities are quite low.
Obviously, the positioning of the participants was well thought out.
Thor soon faced his opponent.
The opponent was not strong, merely a Sky Knight; Thor, even without using full force, won with a simple domain suppression.
Then, the second, third, and fourth opponents were the same, mostly just Sky Knights.
The day’s matches soon came to an end.
By the end of the day.
Out of the 410,000, 350,000 were eliminated.
Leaving only 60,000.
These 60,000 will, in the next day and the day after, be reduced to 1,000.
Compared to today’s matches, tomorrow’s are expected to be several times more intense.
Indeed, that’s how it was.
As the second day arrived.
Thor faced his first opponent, which made him raise his brow slightly.
Because the opponent turned out to be at the Holy Sanctuary level.
With still 60,000 people remaining.
Yet it was just a slight raise of the brow.
The Holy Sanctuary realm was nothing; whether he had already broken through to the Divine Domain or not, his power was more than enough to handle the Holy Sanctuary.
Previously, he had the misconception that all Holy Sanctuaries were as strong as the shadow during the assessment.
Now he knows, there are not many Holy Sanctuaries as strong as that shadow.
Even the early stage of the Holy Sanctuary struggles to compare, let alone the Peak.
"Boom!"
Energy erupted, a figure fell, and Thor won another match.
No significant change from before.
Across over a thousand arenas, some people were like Thor, while others began to face fierce battles.
After all, those who passed the first round, and stayed after yesterday, were all skilled individuals, nearly all reaching the Holy Domain level.
Sixty thousand Holy Domain-level experts—a number that made even Thor feel jittery.
But this is the Empire.
Compared to the Kingdom, the Empire’s resources and power are incomparable.
Even with most of its power drawn away, the Empire still remains terrifyingly strong.
In fact, even the Canaan Academy alone is terrifyingly powerful.
Time slowly moved forward.
The second day’s matches quickly ended.
This time, from 60,000, only 20,000 remained.
And the third day marks the last day of the second round.
Expected to be the most intense day.
Because out of these 20,000, only half are destined to make it to the final round.
Those who have held on until now are at least late-stage Holy Domain, even reaching the Peak of the Holy Domain.
Not just the Peak.
As night gradually passed.
The third day arrived again.
As expected.
As soon as the third day’s matches began, over a thousand arenas instantly fell into fierce battles.
Thor, in his match, did not have it as easy as yesterday.
The Peak of the Holy Domain realm, although not yet condensed with divinity, is indeed not weak.
It took Thor several breaths to defeat the opponent.
Other arenas were even more intense.
Battles continued erupting.
Thor unexpectedly noticed Reine.
Reine was on the 225th arena.
His opponent was of the Holy Domain Peak.
In contrast, Reine was only at the early stage of the Holy Domain.
Yet even so, his opponent was instead suppressed.
The terrifying Thunder Domain covered the entire arena, with the opponent in the Sea of Thunder, stumbling about.
This elicited a series of gasps from the audience below.
Eventually, Reine, pale-faced, directly defeated his opponent.
Accompanied by the sound of a mechanical female voice, Reine jumped off the arena.
He naturally noticed Thor and came directly over.
"Sir!"
Reine murmured excitedly, his face with a hint of pride.
"Not bad, keep trying; you should only need to defeat two more opponents to advance to the third round tomorrow."
Thor said with a smile.
"I will try my best."
Reine nodded heavily, facing Canaan Academy’s strong individuals, with great excitement.
Thor smiled and nodded.
Then began observing the other arenas.
And this look made his brow raise.
He had felt something unusual earlier.
At that moment, upon watching, his brow raised again.
Currently, the strong contenders in the entire Canaan Academy competition seem to exceed his expectations.
Across a thousand arenas, Thor even identified over a hundred Divine Domain participants.
And it was apparent that in the Canaan Academy, in this ranking event, there could only be more than these hundred Divine Domains.
In this event, although there were many participants, Thor expected not many strong individuals.
After all, Neil Morton had mentioned before that the Empire’s strength was heading to the Yulan Continent, even several deans of the Canaan Academy.
Otherwise, the Church of Gods wouldn’t have run rampant to such an extent.
But the current situation seemed a bit off.
Such a large number of Divine Domains.
This definitely represents an extremely formidable force.
And it is only Canaan Academy, not the Empire, excluding another Empire and Imperial Academy.
If combined, it would be even more incredible.
This is undeniably peculiar.
Doubt lingers in his heart.
This point became more intense as the competition began.
Because when he encountered his opponent again, it turned out to be a Divine Domain.
Keep in mind, this wasn’t yet the final round.
This and one more opponent still needed to be defeated.
But this illustrates that Canaan Academy currently can dispatch at least thousands of Divine Domains.
This is just the minimum.
Among these thousands, not speaking of how many are Lower-Rank Gods, but high-tier Divine Domains are indeed considerable.
Such force is not enough to quell this turmoil, at least alleviate a large part.
Yet it had not.
Even with his report, the entire Canaan Academy seemed only Ryze took action.
This outcome seems bizarre from any perspective.
Doubt crawled within his heart.
Apparently, no one could answer him at this time either, and Thor could only continue in the competition.
Soon, the third day’s time passed.
And he successfully advanced to the rank of the first 1,000.
However, clearly, Reine was less fortunate.
In the end, unable to defeat the following opponents, thus eliminated.
This moment made Thor understand the difficulty of obtaining Imperial Merit Points. Keep in mind, only a thousand, even for special admission students, were worth merely 500 merit points a year, requiring at least Divine Domain to earn them.
The Divine Domain, even the early stage in the Kingdom was already considered supreme—some weaker Kingdom’s kings might only be at this level.
Yet in the Empire, such power may only be the first step into the upper echelon.
