Chapter 369: Battle At Northgate Platform (1/2)

They were the best of the Great Yu Empire’s younger generation. Losing to Lu Yin was an entirely different scenario since they had never really treated Lu Yin as one of their own, but being defeated by Schutz this easily made all of them feel disappointed.

Even further away, there were other elites of Yu Academy watching on, including Gerlaine, Jeraldine, as well as the recent arrivals from Earth: Zhao Yu, Huan Sha, Fu Xiaoshu, Zhen Tong, Song Shi, and many others. They had personally just witnessed Schutz crushing the Hall Masters and were just as startled as the other students. This was the power of someone who had once been hailed as the strongest of the Great Yu Empire’s younger generation.

“This is the power of a student from the Astral Combat Academy. The difference is too extreme.” Tianming was apparently more casual about their loss and was the first to speak up, although his tone still betrayed his bitterness at their defeat.

Schutz replied, “There’s a huge difference between the Innerverse and Outerverse in terms of star energy control, battle experience, battle techniques, and even the power that various individuals have. I’m only considered average within the Astral Combat Academy.”

Gerbach and the others’ eyes went wide. “You’re only average there?!”

Schutz nodded as he looked over all the gathered students. After seeing Gerlaine and Jeraldine, he spoke a bit louder. “The reason why I’m back is because I promised Lu Yin to handle matters in Yu Academy and to increase the strength of the empire’s younger generation. I’ll also choose some of the best students from here to go to Astral-10 to be mentored.”

Everyone was delighted. The Astral Combat Academy was a dream for numerous people in the Outerverse. After seeing what Schutz was capable of, many people became even more excited at the possibility of joining the academy.

“How strong is the most powerful person in the Astral Combat Academy?” somebody asked.

Right after the question was asked, quite a few people looked at the speaker like he was a moron. That person had a confused expression as they asked, “Did I say something wrong?”

Song Shi snickered. “The most powerful person is naturally the Empire’s Royal Regent, Lu Yin. What, did you not watch the Tournament of the Strongest?”

The person was astounded. “The Tournament of the Strongest? No, I only watched the Astral Combat Tournament.”

Song Shi and the rest looked incredibly proud. Exactly! The Royal Regent had been born on Earth, so they had managed to see the power of the strongest student in the Astral Combat Academy even though they actually couldn’t understand his strength.

Schutz had a cold look in his eyes as he said, “Seeing it one thing but understanding it is an entirely different matter. Even Explorers and above can’t comprehend how powerful the Royal Regent is, much less someone like you. What you need to do right now is increase your strength as much as possible so that you can enter Astral-10. When the time comes, you can even ask the Royal Regent to take you into the Innerverse.”

“The Innerverse? Isn’t Astral-10 in the Frostwave Weave?” Gerbach asked.

Schutz shook his head. “The Royal Regent was the champion of the tournament, which means that Astral-10 is now ranked above the other academies. It will officially reenter the Innerverse.”

Everyone went quiet. Just the influence of the Royal Regent, Lu Yin, alone was enough to allow Astral-10 to reenter the Innerverse. He truly was an existence beyond their comprehension.

A few days later, Darkstar Gorge and the Nine Allied Nations officially made contact. It was no surprise to Lu Yin that, while the two forces tried to restrain themselves, they both still deployed a substantial amount of their forces. The Nine Allied Nations were fearful of that powerful being whose power level was over 200,000 from Darkstar Gorge while Darkstar Gorge also feared the powerhouse from the Darkmist Weave.

However, Darkstar Gorge had grown accustomed to being the strongest, so they felt like they had the right to act as they wished. In their minds, their opponents wouldn’t be able to hold on for long, and they would definitely gain control of Shuta Planet in the end. Puyu would also make a move as well, since this matter affected his reputation.

Lu Yin observed the situation for a few days until he confirmed that the war was irreversible. The only way for the conflict to be resolved at this point was for one of the two sides to give up on Shuta Planet. Otherwise, the conflict would continue on for a long time. He wondered if he should add some more fuel to the fire, but after thinking things through, he decided not to. He could not take actions that were too conspicuous, or else someone might discover that he was the one responsible for the entire situation.

What he needed to focus on at this point was the Northline Flowzone.

A few days ago, the Ten Arbiters Council had ordered him to arbitrate a contest at Northline Gate.

Northline Gate was a landmark in the Northline Flowzone. The Northline Flowzone held seventeen families, which had banded together due to a rule that had been passed down for generations: whichever family won the contest at Northline Gate would rule the flowzone. and the other families would not be allowed to voice any objections. Their solid unity had helped them develop to where even the Eight Great Flowzones did not dare to underestimate the Northline Flowzone.

Back when the Northline Flowzone had first been assigned to Lu Yin, Feng Shang had reacted very strangely. This was because Northline Flowzone was very united against outsiders, so it would be difficult for Lu Yin to intervene.

While looking over information pertaining to the Northline Flowzone, Lu Yin pondered over this matter.

There wasn’t much to his orders. All he had to do was supervise a battle. Then what? The Ten Arbiters were all trying to gain more territory. Since the Northline Flowzone had been assigned to Lu Yin, he would lose respect and opportunities to advance if he wasn’t able to intervene in matters even within his assigned territory.

In addition, the Northline Flowzone was situated between the Blazing Mist and Beast Tamer Flowzone. Representatives from the powerful organizations of these two flowzones would definitely spectate the competition as well. Since Lu Yin did not have a good relationship with any of the organizations from the Blazing Mist Flowzone, he could not afford to have anything go wrong during the event. At the very least, he could not bring shame to the Ten Arbiters’ name.

Lu Yin stared at the ceiling with a troubled expression. The region’s unity against outsiders was the biggest issue on his mind.

At that moment, he received a video call from Old Cai from Astral-10.

Lu Yin was rather surprised. He had not been doing much for Astral-10 recently, and the academy hadn’t assigned him any missions either, so why was the mentor suddenly contacting him?