"Hoo, hoo, hoo…" Levi Warren ran in, panting and pushing through the crowd. He saw Zachary Chase: "Old Zach, I thought you came in from Entrance A. I waited for you a long time there. Let me tell you, these people from Tianyao Noble Starship Military Academy are too much—each one so arrogant…"
Levi was speaking when he noticed the two vice deans present. He quickly coughed a few times, pretending to look away, and stopped talking, silently moving closer to Zachary.
"Where's your sister? I just saw your sister's starship situation…"
"She went to prepare for the next duel," Zachary said.
"Next duel?" Levi was surprised.
Lily Xue said from the side: "You didn't see how amazing Wendy's brother was just now, directly confronting that bitch and beating up her escort. And now Wendy's brother is letting Wendy pilot his starship for another fight. Wendy's brother, is that the Blizzard Zero from before? Can I see your big cannon again!"
Lily blinked her eyes expectantly at Zachary.
"It's not the Blizzard Zero," Zachary said.
"It's not the Blizzard Zero? Then what starship is it?" Lily was a bit disappointed, but still asked curiously.
"You'll know when you see it later," Zachary said, then asked: "Where's Senior Suzanne Lane? Wasn't she with you all? And it looks like the other party deliberately came for you. Is there some conflict?"
"Senior Suzanne is participating in an exchange meeting between North Star Academy and Tianyao Academy. She is currently the sixth-grade student representative, and teachers always take her to such events." Lily explained, then indignantly began to recount Wendy Chase's story.
"That bitch completely brought it upon herself—couldn't control her man, so she took it out on us!"
Afterward, Lily explained the whole incident in detail.
It turned out that Tianyao Academy had visited North Star Academy a week ago for a half-month academic discussion and academy exchange. During this time, outstanding students from various grades would also communicate with each other. Academy beauties like Wendy and Lily naturally became targets.
During this period, a noble student from Tianyao Academy would come to find Wendy every other day; his intentions were obvious to everyone! Wendy refused him every time, directly telling him not to harass her anymore. But every day, this Tianyao male student would still arrange for people to send exquisite natural food meals and various gifts, even promising to give Wendy a T3 starship if she agreed to be his girlfriend.
"A T3 starship? That's quite a lavish way to woo a girl," Zachary said, a bit surprised. The cost of a T3 starship is around ten million star coins, while its market price is hundreds of millions of star coins. Using such a big temptation to woo a girl, ordinary girls probably couldn't resist such an allure.
"I think he's just a playboy, first using this sugar-coated bullet to win you over, then kicking you aside once he's had enough. I even had my sisters investigate this person from Tianyao Academy, and it's exactly like that! He's played with countless girls! It's even rumored that during his time at our academy, he already had ambiguous relationships with several girls. Scumbag! Bah. It's a good thing that bitch named Min Zhou is so infatuated with this man—they truly are a match." Lily said with contempt and disgust.
Levi added from the side: "However, so many girls fell for it also because of that boy's identity. Xiaowei Feng, the second young master of Hurricane Conglomerate! Hurricane Conglomerate is a rising new conglomerate in the Star Glory Empire, with a large commercial presence in grain trade, galaxy transportation trade, and especially in starship technology trade. The best-selling T2 Hyena-class Medium Interstellar Destroyer in the past decade or so was launched by their conglomerate, with over a hundred thousand units cumulatively produced and sold since its release! It is rumored that this single starship alone has earned Hurricane Conglomerate hundreds of billions of star coins in wealth over the past few decades. It was also because of this T2 Hyena that Hurricane Conglomerate transformed from an obscure interstellar conglomerate into a newly established major imperial conglomerate! The young master of such a large conglomerate, saying he'd give you a T3 starship—those little fangirls would naturally be willing to believe and try it. What if they really did get a T3 starship…"
Levi stopped there; everyone understood.
Levi's expression was a bit uncomfortable when he mentioned the T2 Hyena because he had previously purchased a T2 Hyena.
"That man didn't come?" Zachary glanced around; if that young master were present, he would likely be the center of attention.
Lily crossed her arms and snorted: "That scion is best at looking out for himself; he never gets involved in women fighting over him."
It would still take some time for the two starships to be ready and enter the arena.
"Lily, Levi. Let me ask you something—do you know how to skip grades in a short amount of time?" Zachary took this opportunity to inquire about skipping grades first.
"Skip grades?" Lily looked at Zachary in surprise, not knowing why Zachary was asking about this, but because of the Blizzard Zero's big cannon, her impression of Zachary was still good. She said, "I'm not too sure."
"In our academy's grading system, as long as you accumulate enough assessment credits in each grade, it's equivalent to completing that grade's assessment, and you can advance to the next grade in the next semester. If you can accumulate three times the assessment credits for that grade within the academic year, then you can directly skip to the next grade. However, if in the subsequent studies, you do not meet the credit standard for the assessment of the grade after skipping, you will be held back." A voice sounded from the side.
Zachary looked over; it was Vice Dean Hong, who had appeared earlier.
"Within one academic year, is there a limit to the number of times one can skip grades? For example, continuously skipping from first grade to third grade," Zachary asked.
Vice Dean Hong was stunned for a moment, then said: "Theoretically, there is no such limit, but the original grade assessment itself is quite difficult, and you also need to accumulate three times the grade assessment credits, and skip two grades in the same academic year, while also ensuring you won't be held back… This has never happened in the history of our North Star Academy's founding. Most only skip one grade, and then successfully meet the assessment credit standard for that grade after skipping, ensuring they won't be held back and can smoothly advance to the next grade in the next semester."
Zachary had a rough idea in his mind.