CHAPTER 75: CHAPTER 75: WE’RE FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES!!!

Why do they labor so hard to plant magic plants?

Is it to obtain a diploma from Awakener University and work at the Magic Plant Research Institute as a researcher with a monthly salary of three thousand?

Or is it to learn to cultivate valuable magic plants and become wealthy magic plant vendors?

Or perhaps it’s just to find a safe place and peacefully spend these four years of their lives?

Most of the students entering the Magic Plant Academy are those who can only live near the instance, from impoverished families. They don’t have the money to study at regular universities, nor to live in residential districts away from the instance located in the city center. Some even have lost both parents, leaving them alone, so they are compelled by various reasons to choose the Magic Plant Department College as their haven.

It’s safe and low-cost here. As long as they study well and complete their assignments, they can securely reside in the school for four years. Even though magic plants are dangerous, they are nothing compared to poverty.

Poverty is what is truly terrifying.

"It’s for money," someone answered.

"To survive," another said.

"Right, it’s for money and for survival," Zhang Feng seemed to understand something and concluded, "But if they’re cutting off our path to survival, we should indeed retaliate, so they don’t think we’re easily bullied."

Qian Qi took two steps on the podium, gazing at her fellow students, shaking her head, and said plainly, "Wrong."

"We are not doing it for money, nor just to survive."

"Then what is it?" A student couldn’t help but ask in confusion.

"And what else could it be?" Qian Qi looked at the asking student, and on her slightly severe and heavy face, gradually rose a sense of responsibility that was heavy and long, as well as a selfless sacrifice, she set down the stool in her hands, took a deep breath, and with a voice full of infectiousness, suddenly declared:

"We——are doing it for their lives!"

Students: ???

What? Whose lives?

"Everyone should be familiar with Blood Stopping Magic Potion!" Qian Qi shouted, "Blood Stopping Magic Potion is made from magic plants, as you should know!"

Upon hearing this, the students of Magic Plant Class 101 couldn’t help but nod. Of course, they knew this; it was all the rage on the campus forum, and there were indeed rumors saying it was concocted from magic plant formulas.

"Then, Defense Fruit is a type of magic plant fruit, you all know that as well!" Qian Qi continued to ask.

Students again nodded fiercely.

Qian Qi slapped the table, exasperated at the failure to meet expectation, "Then aren’t we painstakingly researching and planting magic plants to produce magic potions beneficial to humanity like Blood Stopping Magic Potions? Isn’t it to find magic plants that can enhance the physical prowess of Awakeners?"

"Students, on the battlefield, how many awakened warriors die from excessive blood loss without timely treatment? When magic beasts ravage, how many innocent and weak civilians lose their lives to this? And in those instances awaiting conquest, how many awakeners die unjustly because they are not strong enough?"

"Do we want to watch our university peers tread the same path after graduation?"

"Once a student of Awakener University, one must worry for the safety of one’s university alumni throughout life, whether they belong to the Skill Department, Beast Taming Department, or Magic Beast Department. We uphold broad minds, compassionate goodwill, selflessly standing as the robust backing behind them!"

"So we bear mockery and misunderstanding, researching magic plants that have been criticized for hundreds of years! So we disregard own safety, confronting the magic plants that brandish their fangs at us!"

"Our such dedication and anonymity aim to seek a way to protect their lives on this perilous and arduous path!!!"

Qian Qi’s speech of grand righteousness stunned the students of Magic Plant Class 101; they themselves hadn’t realized that their cultivation of magic plants was so generous, profound, and meaningful.

"So I ask again: students, why are we laboring so hard to plant magic plants?!"

Qian Qi raised her arm, asking loudly.

"It’s for their lives!" Influenced by her powerful speech, the students of Magic Plant Class 101 couldn’t help but shout along.

"That’s right, we are doing it for their lives! To ensure they have an extra layer of life protection during instance battles! To free them of worries in the battlefield!"

"But them!" Qian Qi roared furiously, "They actually destroy their own way back! How can we condone such foolishness?!"

"Right! We cannot condone it!" Class 101 students shouted furiously along!

"Great! So right after this class, let’s grab our gear and find them; severely reprimand them for not cherishing their lives! Demand they apologize to themselves and to our kind and selfless fellow students!"

"That’s right! Qian Qi, we are with you!"

"We won’t condone their disregard for life!"

"Our Magic Plant Department can’t endure this injustice!!!"

The students of Magic Plant Class 101 were boiling with passion, seizing the chance before class to contact friends from other classes, asking them to join in taking on those students from the Skill Department.

Other classes, upon hearing the incident, were instantly filled with anger too, expressing that they must go since this had happened to them before. But because the opposing students were from the Skill department, they could only swallow their anger!

Now with Qian Qi, such a fierce person leading, how could they not join in!

Sophomores, juniors, and seniors, upon hearing the news, couldn’t help but express their desire to seek justice, as the Magic Plant Department has always been at the bottom of Awakener University’s professional disdain chain, often bullied because of poverty.

They had consented to endure previously, but now, even Qian Qi, who used to smash magic plants, couldn’t stand it anymore, so naturally, they should seize Qian Qi’s momentum to reclaim the tranquility belonging to Magic Plant Department!

Thus, the teacher for this class didn’t know why but felt that the students were particularly excited today.

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Skill Department.

Xu Jing was ridiculing the few girls from Magic Plant Department for crying so hard today with his friends when the dormitory door suddenly was kicked open with force.

"Who the hell is Xu Jing?"

Qian Qi roared viciously, her face scowling fiercely, her sharp, cold eyes sweeping across the dormitory.

Sitting in the middle and laughing maliciously, Xu Jing frowned and turned around upon hearing it, slightly stunned to see Qian Qi, clearly surprised at how someone like Qian Qi would be looking for him.

"It’s me, what’s the matter?" Xu Jing just spoke, and Qian Qi grabbed his hair.

"Come outside; it’s too cramped here." Qian Qi sinisterly pulled Xu Jing towards the outside of the dormitory building.

"What?" Xu Jing was dumbfounded, desperately trying to pry Qian Qi’s hand away, but for some reason, Qian Qi’s strength seemed terrifyingly massive. As soon as he tried to pry her hand, the pain of hair pulling from the scalp was so severe he didn’t dare to move recklessly anymore.