CHAPTER 431: CHAPTER 431: RESCUE

"So it turns out, Major General Fu Xing had planned this so early."

"Are you even listening to me?"

"I don’t know," Xia Huangyu struggled to say, "Each Military Academy operates independently. We didn’t act together with Elbert."

"How could you not have joined forces?" Horace said incredulously.

A shadow flickered through Xia Huangyu’s eyes, "There is no longer a foundation of trust between us, for fear of being calculated and stabbed in the back." As he spoke, he touched the broken ribs on his body. "As it turns out, everyone’s concerns were justified. I was the one who got stabbed, and by the closest of classmates at that."

"The Royal Starship Academy is Joseph V’s stronghold, and this incident clearly originated from him. It’s quite normal for the Royal Starship Academy to act this way." Horace now seemed to take pleasure in Xia’s misfortune.

"Your identity and stance have destined that they will not trust you, but because you are from the Royal Starship Academy, others will not trust you of their own accord. You’re in a terrible predicament, despised on all sides."

This situation was truly awkward.

"When I was besieged, not a single Military Academy came to support me."

"Serves you right."

Horace had no sympathy for him at all. "When you applied to the Military Academy, why did you choose the Royal Starship Academy? Weren’t you just asking for trouble? Don’t your Nobles always say that choosing the right Military Academy is more important than a proper marriage? Given your situation, you should have chosen either Elbert or the First Military Command College, even a Feudal Star System Military Academy would have been better!"

Xia Huangyu said nothing, but Horace continued to kick him while he was down.

"Haven’t you noticed that the reason Elbert stood out in the freshmen competition this year was that a large number of students who should have been at the Royal Starship Academy went to Elbert instead? Apart from you, not a single direct descendant of the Seven Guardian Families enrolled in the Royal Starship Academy this year."

The signs were evident in the details.

According to Imperial tradition, children of Nobles all attend the Royal Starship Academy.

Yet, at some unknown point, this tradition had changed.

"I realized this after I enrolled." At the time he finished his application and went to look up Mervin and Celia’s information, he couldn’t find them. After some investigation, he discovered both had gone to Elbert, a fact he couldn’t overlook.

So, he delved into a deeper investigation, and the more he dug, the more astonished he became.

It wasn’t just this class; Lance from the last class and many from the class before hadn’t gone to the Royal Starship Academy, either. This obvious large-scale trend had started ten years ago.

He had no choice but to go home and ask his grandfather, who simply said with deep meaning, "I warned you."

His grandfather had suggested that he go to Elbert. However, his father and mother rejected the idea, using Elbert’s decline and the potential loss of its name as an excuse. He himself didn’t really care which Military Academy he went to, so he didn’t bother to inquire further.

Who knew it would turn out like this!

Truly, he had been utterly scammed.

Finally, Horace, seeing that Xia Huangyu was on the verge of tears, didn’t pile on any further and squatted down to give him an Emergency Injection. These things were originally unavailable on Helheim Star—the prisoners didn’t deserve to use them, left instead to wait for death.

The prisoners had acquired it from the packages of Military Academy Students.

The effect of the Emergency Injection was immediate. Xia Huangyu’s complexion no longer wore the ghostly pale of fright, and he could even stand up with support, a testament to his extraordinary constitution.

His 3S-grade Physique Repair Ability was dozens of times that of an ordinary person.

Just a moment ago, he laid there looking near death, which aside from severe injuries, was also due to the excessive use of the Divine-level Mecha and drained spiritual power.