Don't mess with that necromancer; his summoned creatures level up on their own!

The aircraft flew smoothly at an altitude of 10,000 meters.

Lu Zhixing was enjoying the military-supplied afternoon tea with great pleasure.

The small table in front of them was lowered down, and a small white tablecloth was laid on it.

The corners of the tablecloth were carefully pressed down by the flight attendants.

A pot of black tea steamed, its liquor a bright red color, and several plates of delicate pastries were placed beside it.

Four macarons, two slices of cake, a small plate of fruit, and a plate of cookies arranged in a flower shape.

The little zombie's voice came from the skill bar, carrying a hint of disdain.

"What kind of garbage is this? There's not a single trace of wind element in it. I fought so hard outside for so long, and this is what you give me?"

"There's not even a decent supply of spiritual energy; it's all sugar and carbohydrates."

The little vampire was also muttering to himself.

"I want to eat Mao Xue Wang... the kind that's numbing and spicy, with a thick broth, and it has duck blood, tripe, and slices of luncheon meat in it... or some grilled skewers would be fine too, with cumin and chili powder..."

Lu Zhixing rolled his eyes and took a bite of the cookie in his hand.

"Where are you going to find something good to eat on a plane at 20,000 meters altitude? Spicy blood curd? Grilled skewers?"

"You'll get plenty of treats at school; you'll be able to eat your fill."

No sooner had he finished speaking than a shadow darted out from the edge of his field of vision.

Su Lin appeared out of nowhere, precisely in front of his small table.

Her eyes were fixed on the plate of macarons, shining like two stars.

Wow! There are even mini cakes! Military afternoon tea offers this kind of treatment?!

Without any hesitation, she reached out and picked up a piece of cake, stuffing it directly into her mouth, her cheeks bulging out.

"Mmm...delicious! This tastes even better than the one I had at the hotel last time!"

Lu Zhixing didn't mind and waved his hand, indicating that she could take whatever she wanted.

The afternoon tea provided by the military was incredibly generous; one pot of black tea was enough to fill seven or eight cups.

There were two full plates of snacks; even if he ate them all by himself, he wouldn't be able to finish them by tomorrow morning.

Su Youran followed behind, looking at her younger sister's starving appearance, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Su Lin, are you a pig? You ate the whole way in the car—three bags of potato chips, two bags of nuts, and a box of chocolate cookies. I watched you eat them with my own eyes."

"You just ate two bags of potato chips in the break room, and now that you're awake, you want to eat more? Is your stomach a bottomless pit?"

Su Lin didn't take it seriously at all. She stuffed the macaron in her hand into her mouth with a "whoosh".

"Mind your own business... I'm still growing! How can I grow taller if I don't eat more? I don't eat much of your food, so don't be so stingy."

She defiantly licked the cream off her lips, ran her tongue around her lips, and then plopped down on the sofa opposite Lu Zhixing.

Then, I spotted the pink macaron on the plate, picked it up, examined it for a second, and took a bite.

Su Lin chewed on her cake while scrolling through her phone.

She swiped her finger across the screen twice, her brow furrowing slightly.

She tried searching again with different keywords, and refreshed the page, but still got nothing.

She held her phone up to her eyes and looked at it closely, then switched to another search platform and entered the same few keywords.

Her brows furrowed even deeper.

"That's strange... What's going on? Why can't I find anything?"

Lu Zhixing casually asked, "What are you searching for?"

Su Lin continued scrolling through her phone, her fingers flying across the keyboard, her legs dangling over the edge of the sofa.

"It's the video of our battle against the beast horde on the train just now!"

"I clearly saw a lot of passengers recording videos on the bus just now. The uncle in the front row was holding up his phone and filming for at least ten minutes, right?"

"Several other people are livestreaming, saying they want to ride the wave of popularity and boost their traffic, and the chat is flooded with comments. I also want to relive your heroic moments."

"Just imagining that scene of you unleashing a massive area-of-effect skill from the sky and wiping out a whole horde of monsters is incredibly cool!"

"I searched the entire internet—short video platforms, live stream replays, forum posts—and couldn't find a single thing! It was as if that battle had never happened."

Lu Zhixing was taken aback.

He didn't really care whether his video was leaked or not; it wasn't anything shameful.

But it's a bit strange that you can't find anything at all.

He subconsciously glanced at Su Youran, who was sitting diagonally opposite him.

She was using a fork to pick up a piece of mango, her movements unhurried and her expression calm.

Su Youran said calmly.

"If you could find it, that would be a miracle. What do you think the government is supporting all those technical departments for?"

"Since the end of the battle, all those videos and live stream data have been completely deleted—cloud backups, local caches, and forwarding links—not a single one remains."

"So if you search now, of course you won't find anything."

Lu Zhixing asked in confusion, "Identity? A student in the Azure Dragon Class?"

Su Youran nodded, her expression turning serious. She put down her fork, leaned forward slightly, and spoke with a much more earnest tone.

"That's right. The files of students in the Azure Dragon Class are all top-level state secrets, especially those of freshmen."

"Before we officially enter the battlefield, our abilities, skills, and fighting style must not be revealed."

"You used a powerful move in a regular guard mission today, and tomorrow someone might take a screenshot and analyze it."

"Once you're on the battlefield and your cards are out in the open, it's like handing over your life."

Lu Zhixing keenly grasped that key word.

His ears twitched slightly, and he straightened up a little from his languid, reclining position.

"battlefield?"

It's not that he didn't know.

Throughout these years since he transmigrated, all he's thought about is how to spend money and how to enjoy life.

I always let these things go in one ear and out the other.

Even if my father occasionally mentioned "national policy" or "strategy" at the dinner table.

He ignored it all and forgot about it as soon as he heard it.

These three words came out of Su Youran's mouth at this moment.

He then realized that he might have missed a lot of important information.

Su Youran looked at him, but seeing the genuine confusion on Lu Zhixing's face, she sighed and patiently explained.

"That's right, the battlefield. Do you really think the country established the Azure Dragon Squad, with only twenty members, just to cultivate the future's top combat force?"

"If the goal is simply to cultivate top talents, regular elite or top-performing classes would suffice. Why create a class with so few spots and invest so many resources?"

Su Lin, with a spoon in her mouth, looked at her sister blankly, a small piece of cake crumb still clinging to the spoon.

"Huh? Isn't that right? Aren't we supposed to be high-ranking officials somewhere in the future, guarding against beast tides?"

"Like that kind of job where you stand guard on the city wall, occasionally go out to fight monsters, and then collect a salary and subsidies?"

Su Youran took a deep breath, and the urge to "freeze her sister into an ice sculpture" surged in her chest.

She pressed her temples and rubbed them twice with her fingers.

"How many times has Mom said this at the dinner table? She always talks about serious matters during meals, and what have you done?"

"You're either shoveling rice into your mouth or picking at food with your chopsticks, saying 'uh-huh, okay, I got it,' but actually you have cotton stuffed in your ears and cake stuffed in your head."

"You always get sleepy when we get down to business, and you're completely clueless when it comes to crucial moments!"

Su Lin shrank back guiltily, sinking several inches into the sofa.

He used the half-eaten cake to cover his face, leaving only his eyes visible.

"Well... the food at home is just so delicious, who has the mind to listen to nagging... and Mom's voice is so soothing... it makes me sleepy..."

Su Youran ignored her foodie sister and turned to look at Lu Zhixing, her tone becoming serious.

"Of course not. In addition to being trained as the future highest combat force of the Dragon Kingdom, the new students of the Azure Dragon Class are also..."

"There is another extremely important and special responsibility—the battlefield of all nations."

She paused for a moment.

"The Battlefield of Nations opens every once in a while, and the level restrictions are different each time it opens. Sometimes it's level 50, sometimes it's level 80, and the time and location of each opening are not fixed."

"Each country is limited to no more than twenty professionals, who are selected and dispatched by each country itself."

"Soon, the level 30 Battlefield of All Nations will be opened. At that time, we will represent our country and compete for resources with top professionals of the same level from other countries."

Lu Zhixing raised an eyebrow: "Resources?"

Su Youran nodded, her voice softening.

"The Battlefield of Nations will produce an extremely important strategic resource: class-specific weapons."

"That thing is called a 'special weapon'. It's not ordinary equipment. Each special weapon is tailor-made for a specific class and a specific style."

"At the same level and with the same strength, the side with a unique weapon can easily crush the side without a unique weapon."

"A specialized weapon falling into the hands of a nation is equivalent to gaining the combat power of an elite squad. If it falls into the hands of a top expert, it becomes the final weight that tipes the scales."

Lu Zhixing suddenly realized.

So that's how it is. No wonder they kept the information about the new students in the Azure Dragon Class so secret, even going so far as to use state power to delete videos and block the news.

This is to prevent other countries from knowing our skills and trump cards in advance, and then we would suffer losses in the battlefield of all nations.

If he were a high-ranking official from another country, and saw what skills a new student from China used during the beast tide...

They had prepared targeted defenses and countermeasures in advance, knowing exactly what tactics and trump cards they had up their sleeves.

Then they arrived on the battlefield.

That freshman might be the first to fall.

No wonder the country created the Azure Dragon Class; it turns out it's to gather the nation's top elite freshmen to fight for specialized weapons on the battlefield.

Lu Zhixing frowned and sat up straight in his chair.

He asked a question he had always wanted to ask.

"But...aren't monsters the common enemy of all mankind? Since everyone is facing the threat of monsters, why don't all countries unite?"

"Why not allocate specialized weapons and fight the monsters together? Instead, we have to fight each other on the battlefield? Isn't that just internal strife?"

Su Lin nodded in agreement, swirling the spoon in her mouth before pulling it out.

"Yes, yes! Just like when we play cards, if we're going to work together to take down the landlord, then the peasants definitely need to unite."

"What kind of logic is it for peasants to throw bombs at each other? That's not fighting the landlords, that's helping the landlords win."

Su Youran sighed and shook her head.

She raised her hand to tuck a stray hair behind her ear.

"Peasants and landlords? My dear, your analogy is quite adorable. But if this hand goes to the end, the winner takes all, and the loser not only loses everything."

"You're willing to risk your life? Would you still trust your teammate sitting across from you?"

Su Youran looked at Lu Zhixing, her tone softening slightly.

"You're right, this is indeed internal friction, but this kind of internal friction is the inevitable result of human greed."

"Long ago, when the first All Nations War began, humanity did indeed, as you might imagine, sign a pact with the five strongest nations at the time."

"It is agreed that once we enter the battlefield, we will allocate the resources produced as needed."

"Everyone takes what they need, and no one competes with each other; it seems harmonious."

"And what happened? When the first forbidden-level exclusive weapon appeared, the convention became a worthless piece of paper, and that exclusive weapon fell into the hands of a certain country."

"That country's strength increased dramatically, by more than one level."

"Other countries couldn't sit still anymore. They first tried to buy it in private, but the deal fell through. Then they resorted to sneak attacks, interceptions, and robberies."

"Back then, the battlefields of all nations were no different from slaughterhouses."

Su Lin blinked her big eyes and asked innocently.

"Then... then why not surrender? It might not look good, but at least I'll have a powerful backer to cling to, and I might survive. It's better than being eaten by a monster, right?"

Su Youran turned her head to look at her silly and sweet younger sister.

"You think you can live a good life by submitting? The people of the annexed country became second-class citizens, or even slaves."

"Their resources were completely plundered, and those young people who had awakened to their profession were forcibly conscripted and assigned to so-called suicide squads."

"Charge to the front and shield the nation that conquered them from the first wave of monster attacks."

"Our Dragon Kingdom also suffered greatly during that period."

"Countless ancestors died on the battlefield during that period in order to defend a city, and their bodies were never found. Some cities still retain the shell craters and traces of spiritual magic they fought there."

"Until one of the battles of all nations, we obtained our first forbidden-level exclusive weapon belonging to our Dragon Kingdom."

"【Dragon Barrier】"

"That's when the stalemate was broken. Later, more and more forbidden-level exclusive weapons appeared, and humanity finally had the means to stand on equal footing with monsters."

She looked at Lu Zhixing.

"All countries understand one thing: openly, we can fight against the monsters together, supporting and cooperating with each other."

"But in a battlefield of nations, it's all about skill, and life and death are irrelevant. We must acquire as many of these powerful weapons as possible."

"If there truly exists a gun in this world capable of completely eradicating monsters and ending the apocalypse... then the finger gripping the trigger must belong to our Dragon Kingdom."

Lu Zhixing spoke slowly.

"When will this All-Nation Battleground begin?"

Su Youran replied:

"We should be close to that when we reach level 30."

"The level restrictions in the Battlefield of Nations are fluctuating, and are generally capped at the average level cap of the mainstream elite newcomers in each country."

"Based on past patterns, it should open around the end of this year's freshman year."

Lu Zhixing nodded.

He took the scroll of the Wind and Thunder God Temple out of his backpack and weighed it in his hand.

"Then this reel... needs to be used as soon as possible."