It's Not Easy To Be a Man 210+

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The days passed by amidst the hard work everyone invested in their studies, and three months were over. In these three months, it had not all been smooth sailing. The newly established Lingtian Mecha Clan which also managed a reversal to become the number one faction had constantly been the centre of attention for all the cadets. Unsurprisingly, the Lingtian Mecha Clan received two more challenges during this time from other factions in the academy. These challenges were respectively from the number four faction, the Dwotong Mecha Clan, and the number two faction, the Tianji Mecha Clan.
The Dwotong Mecha Clan was the first to step out and challenge Lingtian after Lingtian's defeat of Leiting. The moment this challenge fight was initiated, there was a great upheaval within Dwotong. It should be known that, in the Dwotong Mecha Clan, there was a portion of members who were students of the Doha Central Scout Academy. Also, the Lingtian Mecha Clan just so happened to be a mecha clan which consisted primarily of students from the Doha Central Scout Academy, while the four main regiment commanders were all from the Central Scout Academy. In contrast with Dwotong which gathered students from all scout academies on planet Doha, the 'purer' Lingtian Mecha Clan gave these Central Scout Academy students a greater sense of relatability.
Thus, when Dwotong issued its letter of challenge this time, the seniors in the faction who had graduated from the Doha Central Scout Academy were infuriated. They rose up in indignation and demanded that the regiment commander of Dwotong would take the initiative to give up on this challenge. Unfortunately, the current regiment commander of Dwotong, Gu Jinxing, who had succeeded Zhang Jing-an, was not from the Central Scout Academy. He rejected the demand without any hesitation — this move thoroughly enraged the members who had graduated from the Central Scout Academy, and the conflict among the members began to intensify. Dwotong began to break apart from within.

When the challenge against Lingtian was just about to start, the seniors who had graduated from the Central Scout Academy made a move which flabbergasted all the cadets — they collectively withdrew from the faction. This move reduced Dwotong's numbers by almost one-fifth, also causing Dwotong to fall to the dusty depths from their position in the top four. Both in terms of numbers and strength, Dwotong was now pretty much equivalent with the other middling factions.

Meanwhile, those Central Scout Academy students who had left Dwotong unsurprisingly all joined the Lingtian Mecha Clan. This boosted the strength of the Lingtian Mecha Clan greatly, and those other factions which had still considered Lingtian's success a consequence of sheer dumb luck at the start now no longer dared to underestimate them.

"Gu Jinxing ... Jinxing, cautious-action, caution in acting — Gu Jinxing really does not live up to his name." Zhang Jing-an, who was currently devoting all his attention into his enlistment applications, broke out into a cold smile when he heard the news from a member of his battle clan. He said, "Ling Lan's group is not so easy to deal with. He is really quite stupid, actually completely oblivious to the other side's tactic."

Zhang Jing-an's words confused his clan member. Seeing this, Zhang Jing-an could not help but shake his head, sigh, and say, "Our Dwotong is lacking a good strategist. It's likely that even Wuji, Tianji, and Leiting have seen and understood what Lingtian was doing. Timely provocation combined with emotional investment, and then by pushing things to a head, under this entire series of calculation, Dwotong can be considered done for. That fellow Ling Lan ... his methods are as vicious as ever. Either he does nothing, or else once he acts, it's like a thunder strike. This kind of person is very scary as an opponent ..."

His team members were rather disgruntled. "Even so, our Dwotong is overall still stronger than Lingtian. Our Dwotong has over two thousand members, while Lingtian won't have even a full thousand even if they add in those members of ours who quit to join them ... our Dwotong still has the better chance of winning in the challenge fight."