This year's classes at the Garden of Hope have all ended, and a graduation ceremony must be held to bid farewell to this year's graduates before allowing them to return to their hometowns for the Chinese New Year with their report cards.

There is no doubt that graduation ceremonies are held in the Great Hall, and this time of year is no exception.

After being led by Chrissy and taking her seat in the back, Alicia couldn't help but stand up and look at the front row and sighed to herself: "Before we know it, our seats at the graduation ceremony have changed from the front row to the back row, next year will be the last row, and the year after next there will be no seats for us...... Woo, it's scary to think about. ”

"You're enough. Sophia, who was sitting next to Lori, gently tugged at her friend's skirt and motioned for her to sit down before being noticed by Chrissy, "It's too early to worry about graduation, you better prepare a lot of preparations to deal with the troubles that will arise in the remaining two summer and winter vacations!"

"Don't talk about the enemy as a mosquito in the summer and a rat in the winter, the feeling of not being able to kill them can be a headache. Hearing this, Alicia sat down obediently and said, "I don't know what kind of development will develop in the future, but it is true that a large-scale naval battle is about to break out. After attending the graduation ceremony today, I will leave for Wailing Bay tomorrow. Those guys in the Dark Empire are really patient, Francis reported that the other party has gathered hundreds of warships in three directions nearby, but they are stunned in the dark and cold water. It seems that if I don't show up, the other party will not take the initiative to act. ”

Sophia opened her fan and half-covered her mouth and whispered, "Because our supply fleet is composed of surface ships. While sailing, they will be affected by hurricanes and cause various losses while sailing, but the other side does not have this concern, and if they have other bases nearby, they can stay for a long time. The longer it drags on, the worse it will be for our logistics. And if there is a logistical problem at the beginning of the battle, it will be absolutely fatal, so the enemy is not in a hurry. But Alicia, doesn't it really matter if Yura lets the Deep Sea Dragon go into battle at that time......?

"Sure enough, you found out. Alicia raised her hand and pressed it twice to stop the pink princess from continuing, "It's okay, there's absolutely nothing wrong with Jura herself, I can guarantee it." And don't you think it's going to be a great opportunity if you take advantage of it?"

"If you are too blindly confident in your own plans, you will be in bad luck. Sophia closed the fan and patted the little Lori on the head, "It's better to be careful and safe." ”

Alicia casually touched the non-existent lump on her head and smiled, "Of course. I've already left the back hand in advance. ”

While the two were talking in a whisper, Howard, who was wearing a solemn classical black magic robe, dragged his long beard to the rostrum, lightly tapped the microphone twice to test the volume, and then said leisurely: "Ahem." Looks like everyone has already gathered. Let's get started. First of all, congratulations to all of you who have successfully passed the year-end exams, and you can go home with your transcripts in peace. Of course, it would be better if some beautiful girl took pity on me, a lonely old man, and volunteered to stay with me......"

"Ahh Dear great-grandfather. Let your great-granddaughter be in her prime, and be by your side this winter vacation, and do your filial piety. ”

Countless cold sweats immediately slid down Howard's head like a stream, and his entire forehead instantly turned iron blue, and he turned his head stiffly like a rusty mechanical puppet to look behind him: "Uh, Chrissy, my dear little sweetheart." Aren't you supposed to be offstage?"

"Because I guessed that you were a perverted old man who would play such a game!"

Under the strong onlookers of the whole school, Chrissy, who did not give any face, resolutely stepped forward unceremoniously and strangled Howard's neck, which looked like tree bark, with her arms - Alysia, who was sensitive to five senses, even faintly heard a faint clicking sound - so that the dean desperately stretched out his hands and broke his great-granddaughter's arms, rolled his eyes up, foamed at the mouth, and struggled with an extremely painful appearance: "Woo oh! Boobs, little sweetheart, are your boobs getting bigger again?Ah, just think that in the future, if you get married, these proud boobs will be rubbed by the great-grandson-in-law who still doesn't know which pimple to play soy sauce in every night. I can't stop cramping in my heart...... Woohoo!"

Under the horrified gaze of everyone, Chrissy, who gritted her teeth and her hair stood on end, viciously twisted Howard's neck viciously, turning his head into an extremely curious angle. He threw the limp Dean on the ground and picked up the microphone on the podium.

Just when Alicia thought that this bad teacher would clench her fists and raise her fists high and shout out similar lines such as "From now on, the Garden of Hope is the old lady's thing", but she saw Chrissy take a deep breath, and before little Lori had time to cover her ears, she shouted in a huge volume that could almost tear down the ceiling of the entire auditorium: "Howard, you old immortal soul, hurry up and let the old lady come out and die——!!"

With Chrissy's roar, the "corpse" that had fallen at her feet also turned into soft mud and shattered to the ground.

Chassi, who was sweating profusely, leaned over across Varkis and Denise and tried to reach out and tap Sophia's shoulder: "That, as the class leader, don't you go up and stop our mentor?"

Sophia immediately shook her head vigorously like a rattle and said, "If you don't go, you will definitely die!"

Seeing that Chrissy was splashing vigorously on the rostrum, but no one dared to go up to stop it, in desperation, Lawrence, the tutor of Class B of the third year of the Department of Magic, had no choice but to walk up - I hope for the sake of my sister and brother, the old sister will not kick herself off on the spot.

"Well, that, sister, can you calm down a little?" Despite the cold sweat on his back and the constant trembling of his calves, Lawrence still secretly gritted his teeth and raised his hands with a smile on his face and cautiously approached Chrissy who was on a rampage. "And lo and behold, the students are still waiting to get back to their belongings and get ready to go home. You don't want to waste everyone's time, do you?"

Chrissy gasped deeply twice to calm the anger that was visible to the naked eye around her: "Well, you're right. Going home for the New Year, going on a blind date, getting engaged or something during the winter vacation is the development that young people dream of. You can't waste time because of some bad old man. Lawrence, you preside. ”

"Huh, huh, let me preside over it?"

"Of course. Or do you think that bad old man would have the guts to appear in front of me again before I lose my temper?"

After a long silence, Lawrence, who had his hand on his forehead, wiped off the fine sweat and walked a few steps to take the microphone from the hand of his sturdy old lady: "What, everyone should do a favor and don't see anything." I won't talk much nonsense in the future, and I invite this year's graduates of the Garden of Hope to enter!"

The embarrassed members of the academy band came back to their senses and began to play music, and the door to the entrance to the auditorium was opened at the same time. Led by Anqi, who is the representative of the graduates, the group slowly walked into the hall in a neat formation amid the applause of the juniors.

After standing on both sides of the podium, the expressions on the faces of these graduates looked very complicated and excited.

Since the third grade. The Garden of Hope has a very strict withdrawal policy for students – that is, if an unlucky person fails to pass either of the final exams and subsequent make-up exams, they will be expelled from the school. It's a bit ruthless, but it's also for the sake of the students themselves. After all, most of the people in the Garden of Hope are civilian students, and it is absolutely impossible for them to easily waste the opportunity to study and run around fooling around. Will definitely work hard to try to change his life.

Those who are still unable to pass the final exam under such circumstances. Either they are problem students in Class B, or some students who have good strength in the early stage but have very low growth potential. The former doesn't matter, and if the latter is reluctantly allowed to advance, there is a high chance that he will die in the dangerous spring trial due to his own strength. Even if he repeats a grade, he will not have much growth potential and will not improve much if he studies for another year, just a waste of time and tuition.

Therefore, in the fifth grade, those who were unfortunately killed in the trial and those who were dropped out of school in the middle of the trial, after deducting these people, the total number of students in the twelve classes of the two departments often did not exceed 200, and the attrition rate was more than half.

As a matter of fact. In Alicia's class alone, four people had already left the academy after receiving a notice of withdrawal not long ago. Everyone is very sorry though. But this is also something that cannot be helped, so I can only bid farewell to them with a heavy heart.

But if Joey's guy were to be dropped out of school, Alysia would definitely set off firecrackers all over the house to celebrate - it's a pity that this guy barely passed every exam, which made people hate it.

Therefore, the fifth-grade students who were able to stand at the graduation ceremony of the Garden of Hope at the end were all elite talents in the true sense of the word.

Since there was no script, Lawrence casually summarized and praised a few sentences, and then handed the microphone to the student representative, Angel, to let her speak. Angel didn't shirk either, walked straight to the podium, took a deep breath, and said loudly, "Although I should have a lot of nonsense to talk about according to convention, to hell with all this! I just want to thank one person for successfully graduating from the Garden of Hope, and that is Alicia Harris, my Majesty." It is precisely because of your hard work that the Western Continent has maintained relative stability for three full years, thus giving us time to study with peace of mind. But rest assured, from today onwards, we, the graduates, will take on the responsibility of protecting you, and will never allow anyone with evil intentions to destroy the rare peace on the mainland! And I believe that under the guidance of Your Majesty's glory, we will eventually expel the demons from Drowlivan completely! I, Angel Bursik, hereby swear that after graduation, I will volunteer to join the front line of the alliance and dedicate everything I have to defeat the demons!"

Everyone present could not help but be stunned by this seriously unexpected statement, and there was no reaction for a long time. Fortunately, the poisonous island in the team stepped forward in time and answered loudly with a smile: "What a coincidence, Anqi, I also planned to do so." After all, everyone is a young man with strong hands and feet, and as a senior, you can't always rely on a certain blonde Lori to fight because you are afraid of trouble, danger, and responsibility, right?

"Well, of course. ”

There was a slight hint of provocation in her words. It's well hidden, though. Originally, those students who were still thinking about what they planned to do after graduation were immediately stimulated, and they stepped forward and echoed loudly, and the whole scene looked like a blood boil that people couldn't help but be excited.

[Sister Anqi. However, if we can really form an atmosphere in which graduates of various colleges on the mainland take the initiative to join the alliance forces, the development and construction of the army will be raised to a higher level. Here is still silently choosing to enjoy the performance of the two of them. 】

The atmosphere in the auditorium was very enthusiastic, and many junior students were also infected and stood up and joined the declaration of the people on the rostrum who were determined to join the alliance and denounce the demons. However, this scene did not last long, and Lawrence soon returned to the stage to take back control of the microphone: "Ahem. Very well, your determination is not only mine, but Her Majesty the Queen must have felt it very deeply. However, this is not the Coalition Recruitment Office, but the scene of the graduation ceremony. Before sending blessings to you girls and young men who are determined to go into battle to kill the enemy and regain the lost land. I think it's better to send you your graduation certificate first. ”

Lawrence's half-joking remark drew good-natured laughter from the crowd. The graduates lined up again and stood up, and then the instructors of each class came forward from the backstage with a stack of large books wrapped in exquisite hard leather and handed them out to their students one by one in the warm applause of the students.

Up to now. All of them were normal, and there were no surprises, but just when Alicia thought that this year's graduation ceremony would end like this, the heavy pine door of the Great Hall was slammed open from the outside with great brute force.

"Hurry up guys, someone's coming to smash the field!" said Alicia first to jump up from her chair and say with a serious face.

Sophia next to her immediately picked up the fan in her hand and asked her to hold her head and squat.

Although in the academy, the person who could easily turn this door into a splinter was enough to line up from the back hill to the main entrance. But there are really those who dare to do it at the solemn and solemn graduation ceremony of the Garden of Hope. Searching the entire Western Continent, except for a blonde Lori who has already sat down, there is only the three-free angel Icarus next to her who doesn't talk much.

Sure enough, what emerged from the billowing smoke was none other than the Queen of the Sky with a pair of pink wings. I saw her stride up to Alicia's side, and said in an expressionless but anxious tone, "Master, please go to Wailing Bay as soon as possible." ”

Alicia couldn't help but chuckle in her heart, and looked up with a little shock and asked, "What's the matter, could it be that the Dark Empire launched an attack in advance!?"

"Yes. The Internal Liaison Office had just sent an urgent message saying that 10 minutes earlier Francis had led his troops into an engagement with the enemy fleet that had taken the initiative. The status of the battle is currently unknown. ”

The other side does have a plan to kill me, but if I guess that the enemy will not attack before the winter break. Naturally, the other side did not mind that he would play a drama with me to gather troops but not prepare to attack, and then tomorrow I would go to Wailing Bay, so the officers and men in the front line base were the most relaxed today and suddenly launched a surprise attack, thus catching them by surprise. Even if I rush there in person in the end, I won't be able to turn the tide of the battle after losing most of the fleet or even the Deep Sea Dragon...... Hell, I can't help but be careless when playing against that guy. 】

"Alicia!" Sophia also knew very well what the consequences of the enemy's surprise attack would be, and she was so shocked that she hurriedly stood up.

"Don't be nervous. Elysia took two deep breaths and muttered as she bit her thumbnails, "They didn't know we had the technology to communicate over long distances, so they wanted to make a surprise attack while I wasn't there." But in fact, I can still contact Francis's fleet here, and I can still give instructions in time, but in any case, I must be on the scene to observe the movements of the other side. To be honest, the fact that the entire fleet is currently in a state of engagement, not rout, is enough to give Francis a great credit. ”

"I see, you go as soon as possible, and I'll take care of the rest. Sophia, who calmed down, nodded and shook the folding fan in her hand and said, "Also, be careful." ”

"Husband, so many strange uncles tried to push me down before, but all of them failed, and this time will definitely be no exception. Alicia smiled and waved her hand and said nonchalantly, then looked at Angel who was rushing to her side and raised her hand, "You don't need to come over, Sister Angel." When the time comes to defeat the Dark Empire's fleet and set foot on the continent of Teranmere, I will naturally send you to the frontline. But for now, let's enjoy your last day as a student. ”

Anqi, who knew that she couldn't play a role in the naval battle, couldn't help but hesitate and stopped: "You're right. But Your Majesty, how do you plan to get there in time?"

Alicia didn't answer directly, but turned to look at the Queen of the Sky and reminded awkwardly, "Now, Icarus. Remember to hold up Aegis before taking off with me. ”

"Yes, master. (To be continued.) )