The morning preparation time passed quickly.
It was afternoon, and people started to walk into the Norton Hall one after another, and then found a seat to sit down.
In order to prepare for this succession ceremony, Fendi directly transformed the hall of Norton Hall into a huge venue that can accommodate hundreds of people to watch the ceremony - there are only so many students in Kassel, and not everyone will come to watch the ceremony. , this scale is enough.
In fact, in Fendi's opinion, this was not grand enough. He had always insisted on hanging a banner "Celebrating Dragon Slayer Chu Zihang's inauguration as president of the Lion Heart Society" on the wall in front of the hall.
In his opinion, this is a ceremony from Chu Zihang's parents, and Chu Zihang will definitely like it - Gu Bei Tangtang's S-level advice will not lie to him, right?
In addition, Susie was always making noises beside her, so Fundy always believed that this was the "right" thing to do.
However, Chu Zihang's face was really unbearable. Under his fierce opposition, the matter was finally settled.
This makes Fendi always feel that something is missing.
But Chu Zihang thought this was good.
The wind in early spring still carries a bit of the coolness of winter, but this cannot stop the enthusiasm of the students to watch the dragon slayer. More and more people come to watch the ceremony, and before they know it, the seats in the hall are almost full.
The air also became a little thicker with the influx of people.
But fortunately, they just sat and didn't make any noise.
Everyone was sitting or standing, staying in their places, quietly waiting for the ceremony to begin.
A bare ash tree stands outside the large window. This tree is the prototype of the "World Tree" in Nordic mythology and is deeply loved by Kassel College, because the school emblem of Kassel College is the half-dead World Tree. The main greenery in Kassel College is basically ash trees.
The tree next to Norton Hall is probably the oldest and largest tree in the entire college.
The characteristic of ash trees is that they have lush branches and leaves, and they grow like a dense green cloud. However, you probably can’t see this scene this season because ash is a deciduous tree. In the cold season, except for the bare branches, Nothing else can be seen.
At this time, the branches of the tree seemed to want to reach into the window to join in the fun.
The ancient clock hanging on the wall swings regularly, and Fendi stands in the most conspicuous position on the second floor.
Kassel has always advocated freedom of dressing, so few people wear school uniforms in school. You can see skirts, cheongsams, tights and Crocs on Kassel's campus, and you can even see them wearing combat uniforms. Performance artists wearing uniforms and mushroom suits are strutting around campus, but it’s probably hard to see anyone choosing to wear school uniforms.
Fendi doesn't like to wear school uniforms either. He prefers to wear his own jacket and jeans, but today, he willingly changed into the Kassel College uniform.
There are bright red buttons on the dark green collar, and the golden lion on the button is faintly roaring.
The people who came to watch the ceremony all changed into dark green school uniforms, while professors who did not have school uniforms put on professor's uniforms.
There is a long brown-red table on the table behind Fendi. There are three things on the long table.
A flag of the Lion Heart Society, with a scarlet background embroidered with a lion woven with gold thread. Although it is just a flag, the embroidery on it is vivid and lifelike.
There is nothing special about a simple wooden box. At most, it has a sense of history and traces of time.
Finally, there is a chain of pure gold.
Time ticked by, the bell struck at one o'clock, and the scorching sun hung in the middle of the sky, casting the shadow of Norton Hall on the green lawn.
Chu Zihang stood in front of the Norton Hall and heard the low sound of musical instruments coming from inside.
It was the sound of a horn, powerful but not dull, tactful and simple.
Alpine horn, once the national musical instrument of Germany.
Many people should know that the founder of the Lionheart Club was a German count. When he established the Lionheart Club, the same trumpet sounded.
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Just like tradition, these horns have been passed down from generation to generation. Whenever a new lion steps into the Norton Hall, the trombone will play. What awaits the person who steps in will be a responsibility as solemn as the music. .
Chu Zihang stepped forward and walked into the door of Norton Hall.
As he entered, the originally low horn sound changed and smoothly connected to the passionate symphony, which lifted people's spirits.
Germany is a famous home of world music, with countless musicians born here, including Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms...their symphonies will appear alternately in every succession ceremony.
Everyone in the venue stood up to the music.
They collectively paid attention to the boy who entered the territory, like a welcome, and like a pride of lions examining the new leader.
Every new president of the Lion Heart Club has to go through this. After all, the lions need a lion king with sufficient ability, not a soft-footed shrimp who will shrink under everyone's gaze.
The battle Chu Zihang went through was particularly huge, because the previous President Lionheart only had to meet the gazes from the congregation, while Chu Zihang faced the gazes of nearly the entire Cassel College students.
This kind of pressure is completely different.
There is respect, adoration, friendliness, curiosity, scrutiny, envy, jealousy in these eyes...
Countless gazes, both kind and malicious, turned into a heavy hammer and struck Chu Zihang down.
How did past Lionheart presidents deal with this situation?
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Let’s leave aside the first-generation Meineke. He founded the Lionheart Club with his friends and became the president surrounded by everyone. At this time, he didn’t need to do anything but smile.
The other successors either chose to smile, or looked at everyone with the same scrutiny, and some chose to say hello to the people around them.
Fendi was probably the most inconspicuous of them all. He just scratched his hair and walked up with an indifferent expression.
Chu Zihang, on the other hand, glanced around lightly.
He didn't wear contact lenses, and his lava-like eyes contained no emotion. No one he glanced at dared to look at them, even for just a second.
Then Chu Zihang withdrew his gaze.
He didn't care about other people's doubts about him. In fact, he could do nothing and choose to ignore it, but the malice among the crowd was so obvious that he couldn't help but look at where those eyes were coming from.
Those people were not members of the Lion Heart Club, nor anyone Chu Zihang had ever seen. They were not wearing college uniforms or professor uniforms, but suits of similar colors, as if they were mixed in pearls. of fish.
These people...are not from the academy?
So how did they get in here? Why didn't Norma have an alarm?
Calm down and think carefully. Noma has no alarm, which means that even if the other person is not from the college, he has obtained permission to enter. The person who can do this is either someone else who has been granted entry, or a relevant person within the college, and The other party knows that today's succession ceremony must not be anyone else, but a related party.
Is it someone from the school board?
The people from the school board came to watch the succession ceremony. It would be fair to say that they were just joining in the fun, but the look in their eyes just now...could it be said that the target this time is themselves?
Chu Zihang's thoughts were racing, but his movements did not pause. He slowly climbed up the stairs step by step.
The moment he stepped onto the stairs, the style of the symphony changed again. The dull horns and drums disappeared, and the sounds of cellos and violins filled the entire space, accompanied by accordions and some light instruments.
As Chu Zihang climbed up the stairs, the music became more and more brisk. It was not until he walked up to the second floor and came to Fendi's side that the music gradually faded away.
"Don't be nervous, this is how everyone comes here." Fendi sat behind the long table, "Of course, it's not as exaggerated as you."
Okay, that's quite an exaggeration.
When the other Lionheart presidents took over, at most the internal members of the Lionheart Club watched the ceremony, but when it came to Chu Zihang, it was directly held as an event close to the campus level.
This is of course also because Chu Zihang completed the great cause of slaying the dragon before he officially took over as the president of the Lion Heart Club. Because of this incident, there are even rumors in Kassel that Chu Zihang will be the first in Kassel's history. Two legendary presidents of the Lionheart Club - the first is Principal Angers.
This rumor is quite widespread, but Chu Zihang himself doesn't care much about it.
Fendi opened the wooden box on the table, and out of it came out a sheepskin scroll, a strange-looking white quill, and a bronze vessel.
Fendi spread out the parchment scroll, and there were names one after another on it. There were many names. Chu Zihang saw the name of Meineke Cassel at the first place, followed by Hilbert. Jean Angers, and finally Fundy Frances.
"You are better than the successor I imagined, Chu." Fendi said with a smile, "To be honest, I should have resigned from last year, but there is no successor in the Lion Heart Club who satisfies me. If today Without your presence, I will be forced to resign, and then the entire Lionheart Club will elect an acting president on its own - yes, acting, that is meaningless and will bring the development of the Lionheart Club to a standstill, but fortunately you coming."
Fendi happily pushed the sheepskin scroll towards Chu Zihang, handed the white quill into Chu Zihang's hand, and opened the sealed bronze vessel.
There is bright red blood there.
"This is……"
"Dragon blood contract." Fendi introduced, "Do you still remember the Abraham blood contract you signed when you entered school? It is a dragon blood contract that prevents the signer from violating the mandatory terms of the contract."
"Of course, they do not have the effect of compulsory restraint. They can only provide a certain degree of warning when the contractor violates the contract, which can be regarded as a supervision method." Fendi shrugged, "The Dragon Blood Contract of the President of the Lion Heart Society. There are no mandatory terms, so you can sign with confidence, but you need to understand one thing."
Fendi's voice suddenly became serious: "Writing your name here means... eh, eh, I haven't finished speaking yet!"
Halfway through Fendi's words, he saw Chu Zihang pick up a quill, dip it in the dragon's blood, and finally write his name on the parchment.
The three words "Chu Zihang" flashed with a golden light, and then became inconspicuous again.
Chu Zihang turned to look at Fendi: "Is there anything else you need to say?"
Fendi: "...it was there just now, but it's gone now."
He sighed, picked up the gold ribbon on the table, hung it on Chu Zihang's collar with his own hands, and finally handed the lion flag to Chu Zihang.
"After the succession ceremony is over, someone will come to you the next day to hand over some of my previous affairs. The authority of the entire Lion Heart Society will be completely transferred to your hands. The seven club secret rooms will be opened to you. One thousand five hundred The secret volumes of the remaining sects are at your disposal, and the eighteen departments are at your disposal. All one hundred and twenty-eight warriors of the Lion Heart Society will follow your footsteps. I hope you can do better than me during your tenure - Actual You are far better than me, which is why I chose you."
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Chu Zihang took the flag: "I will try my best."
In the end, the two stood together and raised their hands to greet everyone on the first floor. There was thunderous applause downstairs, so enthusiastic that the roof of the entire Norton Hall was almost torn off. The birds flew away outside the window, the sun was shining brightly, and the ash trees also took out their new leaves. The branches and buds reflect the emerald green color in the sunlight.
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"What a perfect succession ceremony."
In a conference room at Kassel College, a man in formal attire clapped slowly. He leaned on the wide leather chair behind him, calm and composed, with an elegant smile.
Like Al Pacino in The Godfather.
Handsome, calm and with a smile.
He looked away from the huge projector in front of him and then turned
He turned his head and looked at the other people around him. Most of the people sitting in this conference room were familiar faces.
Elizabeth Laurent, Beowulf, the little girl and the housekeeper, the old man twisting his rosary beads...
It’s the Kassel School Board.
There were a few people missing.
Hilbert Jean Angers, Frost Gattuso, and the school director, who from the beginning was only responsible for providing funds and never showed up, are also absent now.
If there is a shortage, there will naturally be an abundance.
It was the handsome man sitting in the middle of the round table with a relaxed smile.
But under the gaze of so many people, the man didn't say anything at all. He just applauded quietly. It wasn't until the applause in the video slowly disappeared that he stopped what he was doing.
"Let's get down to business, Pompeii." Beowulf called out his name. "You haven't shown up for so long, and as soon as you showed up, you called an emergency school board meeting. Don't tell me that you just want to take us to watch a group of children. Playing house, and..."
Beowulf looked around: "... Angers is not here, it must be your fault."
Pompeii spread his hands and looked innocent: "You have wronged me. The head of the Beowulf family, Angers, is going to the Vatican to perform a mission. This is his own choice. It has nothing to do with me."
Laurent raised his beautiful eyebrows: "So you are saying that the space-based satellite above the Vatican has nothing to do with your Gattuso family."
"It's just a coincidence, a coincidence." Pompeii laughed.
Is it really a coincidence?
Everyone present knows this.
"Stop being so secretive, Pompeii." The rosary in the old man's hand stopped spinning, and he opened one eye and looked at Pompeii, "If you have something to say, just say it. Everyone is listening."
"Okay, okay, now that you said so."
Pompeo smiled like Al Pacino again.
"I came back this time for the position of Principal Cassell."
Al Pacino is the emperor of the dark world. Even when he is sitting in the sunshine, his smile is cold.
