Worldwide Class Change: Minimal Effort, Maximum Reward!

Chapter 107, Dares to Provoke Lin Yi? How Big is Your Jealousy!

"Your now in a sect?" Lin Yi asked, as he remembered Han Yue was marked as a solo participant.

"Yes," Han Yue confirmed. "Saw it as a more effective move than participating solo."

Lin Yi looked at him. The warmth in Han Yue’s expression was genuine, Lin Yi assessed, which made it worth understanding.

"I’ve been thinking about the regional examination since we got back," Han Yue said. "You and I were in the same assessment hall for the written component. We cleared the tower on the same two-day window."

"I came fourth. You broke the record." He said both facts with the same tone, neither minimizing his own result nor inflating Lin Yi’s. "I’ve been running the Mountain Range expedition data since the results posted. Your clearance interval was two minutes per kill in the upper plateau sectors."

"Wasn’t it?"

"That’s correct," Lin Yi said.

"Mine was fifteen minutes in comparable terrain," Han Yue said. He looked at Lin Yi directly. "The gap between fifteen and two is a gap I close by working harder at what I’m already doing. It requires a structural difference in how I’m approaching the problem." He paused. "I came out here and waited because I wanted to tell you that directly. Before the ranking update tomorrow changes the atmosphere."

Lin Yi looked at him. "Why does it matter to tell me directly?"

"Because you dominated the regional examination that I was supposed to dominate," Han Yue said. Not with bitterness. With the clarity of someone who had processed something over time and arrived at an honest position.

"I spent six months preparing for that examination. I was the most prepared student from Red Lotus City in a decade. And you’re an E-Rank Laborer from a frontier city of six million who broke a six-year record on a torn arm." He paused. "I needed to say that out loud to someone who would understand what it meant."

Wang Hao was very still.

Shen Rou was looking at her datapad in a way that communicated she was giving the conversation space.

"I understand," Lin Yi said.

"I know you do," Han Yue said. Something in his expression shifted slightly. The warmth settled into something more specific. "That’s actually why I—"

He moved.

The motion was not telegraphed in the way that most attacks were telegraphed. Han Yue’s combat training was real and it was serious, and the reaching motion toward his bow was fast enough that the casual observer would have registered it as a continuation of his arm gesture from the conversation. The golden energy that began condensing around his hand as his fingers contacted the bow grip was Mythical-grade output, the same class ability that had generated the arrows capable of one-shotting monsters through the Dragon God Tower’s lower floors.

Lin Yi stepped back one step, completely unhurried.

The condensed golden arrow released.

SWOOSH!

And the three figures that had been positioned in a wide arc behind and to the sides of the conversation, positioned during the approach while Han Yue occupied Lin Yi’s attention, moved simultaneously. Three members of Han Yue’s sect team, coming from different angles, each one carrying the specific intent of someone executing a coordinated encirclement that had been planned before the approach began.

The arrow struck empty air where Lin Yi had been standing.

Lin Yi looked at Han Yue. His expression had not changed in any significant way. "Planned," he said.

Han Yue lowered his bow. His expression was different now. The warmth was gone, replaced by something that was not angry but was determined in a way that had no room for softening.

"The conversation was real," he said. "Everything I said was true." He paused. "This is also necessary."

Wang Hao had his blade out. The three surrounding sect members had stopped, positioned but not advancing, watching to see how the situation developed.

"What exactly," Lin Yi said, looking at Han Yue with complete calm, "do you think this accomplishes?"

"Score transfer," Han Yue said. "Between sects. It’s permitted under academy rules as a method of settling disputes between registered collectives.

Celestial Legion transfers its dungeon raid score to my sect. In exchange, we stand down." He paused. "You dominated the regional examination. You broke my ceiling in six hours. And now you’re going to dominate this academy’s rankings at my expense using a sect you founded three days ago." His voice remained level throughout. "I’m not going to let that happen without doing something about it."

The surrounding participants who had been dispersing toward the transit vehicles had begun stopping. The crowd that had been moving was becoming a crowd that was watching.

Lin Yi looked at Han Yue for a long moment.

The three sect members around him held their positions.

Wang Hao stood to his right, blade ready, expression carrying the look of someone who was calculating how the next sixty seconds were going to go and had arrived at a conclusion he was comfortable with.

"Transfer the score," Han Yue said. "Or we do this the hard way."

The extraction zone was quiet in the way that space becomes quiet when everyone in it has decided to pay attention.

Lin Yi looked at the golden bow. Then at the three positioned members. Then at Han Yue.

"You have two problems," Lin Yi said.

Han Yue’s eyes narrowed slightly. "Say them." 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

"The first," Lin Yi said, "is that score transfer under academy rules requires both sects to agree. I don’t agree." He paused. "The second is that you just attacked the first-ranked student in Heavenly Phoenix Academy on academy-adjacent grounds in front of approximately forty witnesses." He looked at Han Yue steadily. "Whatever you think this accomplishes, those are the two problems."

Han Yue held his gaze. Behind him, one of the three positioned members shifted. The crowd at the perimeter continued to watch.

The next move was Han Yue’s.