Description Destroyer of Ice and Fire

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      As the era of dragons gradually came to an end, as arcane masters left countless riches and legends under the starry sky, one awakened youngster after another began to set foot on their journey. Translator Notes: A lighthearted shounen-style story in a western fantasy setting filled with a group of friends, magic academies, chuckles, hot-blooded youth, and no harem. Let their adventure begin. DIF 冰火破坏神

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     Chapter 1: An awakened youth! Arcane masters, the power of bloodlines!

      Chapter 1: An awakened youth! Arcane masters, the power of bloodlines!

     Southern region of the kingdom of Eiche, Cororin Town’s mining site, copper mine number three.

     “Damnit… There should be enough after this piece…”

     Ayrin tightly gripped the iron drill in his hands inside the depths of the mine, his body soaked from head to toe from sweat. He grasped for breath, barely keeping his body upright.

     This weak and slender young man had filth smeared on his somewhat tender face, yet his eyes appeared exceptionally bright under eyebrows thick as ink. Even now, they glittered a sunny optimistic luster, even when he ground his teeth and stared at the ores in front of his face.

     “Bastard! There’s really no other way, I can only do it like this!”

     A resolute expression suddenly flashed across his eyes.

     “Ha!” He gathered his entire focus on his hands, together with his rough and heavy shout. He borrowed seemingly many invisible particles in the air, gathering them into his hands. He, who was utterly exhausted, suddenly brandished the iron drill once more at this moment, then fiercely smashed it down!

     “Dang!”

     A cloud of sparks splashed upwards.

     The ore tottering on the wall finally fell.

     “Look at my awakened power, I finally dug out enough ore, hah…”

     First, Ayrin’s cheer broke through the silence, filling the black mining tunnel with his pride.

     Then his miserable shriek immediately followed after. “Ah! My feet! So painful!”

     Faint hoots of laughter swiftly came from other distant mining tunnels. “That little Ayrin, he was careless again and smashed his own feet with the ore he just pried off.”

     “Haha, it must be the third time this month, right? Another two times and he’ll break last month’s record.”

     “Can’t he be a bit more careful, he actually smashed his feet again.”

     …

     A slim and frail figure appeared at the exit of the mining site when dusk descended. He was covered in smelly sweat, exhausted to such a degree he couldn’t even stand up straight. Ayrin hobbled out of the mine, his two arms drooped on the ground like soft noodles. He returned to a seemingly somewhat dilapidated Cororin Town and went into the one and only clinic in town, Auntie Emma’s clinic.

     “Auntie Emma, I’m coming in.”

     “Little Ayrin, is the old liar still his old self? Hasn’t he kicked the bucket yet.” People from the town usually greeted him like this when they saw him, and auntie Emma’s greeting wasn’t any exception either today.

     “I also want him to die, but he’s still alive and kicking no matter what.”

     “He’d have died years ago already if not for you buying him medicine and food.”

     “But you can’t ask me to watch him die either, right?”

     “So why are you saying you want him to die… Eh, what happened to your feet, weren’t they healed yesterday already or am I remembering wrong? Don’t tell me you smashed your feet again?”

     “Cough…cough… Of course not, the old wounds reopened…the old wounds reopened…”

     A crestfallen Ayrin walked out of the clinic carrying a bag full of medicine, his face filled with shame. He went back home amidst concerned voices of “Still the same old with the old liar? Little Arin you were careless and smashed your feet again, remember to be careful next time.” all along the way.

     His house was located on the southern side of the little town, at the foot of an earthen slope. It had a courtyard surrounded by a bamboo fence.

     Ayrin pushed open the yard’s creaking door. An old man with a head full of white hair sat beside a crude stone table inside the yard.

     The old man had a tall figure, but looked rather sickly. His skin was covered by myriads of vestiges left behind by the passing years, giving him a decrepit look. His clothes were similar to Ayrin’s, both repaired with mining cloth whose original color could no longer be seen. The difference was that the old man still appeared relatively clean.

     “Haha…” The old man stared when he saw Ayrin limp inside, then immediately laughed, clutching his belly until his body crooked. “I guess it was unavoidable…”

     “Where did you run out from, time for your medicine!”

     Ayrin threw the medicine bag into the gloating old man’s arms, then he sat his ass down. He didn’t even care whether his hands were dirty, he just grabbed a piece of hard bread from the stone table and began to gnaw on it. He mumbled at the same time, crestfallen, “There’s fewer and fewer ore inside the mines, so it becomes more and more difficult to dig for them.”

     “I’ve already awakened though. So there shouldn’t be any problem providing for the two of us, even if it’s becoming increasingly harder to dig the ores.” Ayrin’s crestfallen face brightened again after two mouthfuls of bread. It was filled with with a sense of pride instead.

     “Truly a marvel. Worthy of a guy I found after spending so many years, he can be so happy and optimistic even in such an environment.”

     The old man squinted his eyes, smiling. He glanced at Ayrin’s flabby hands that he almost couldn’t lift anymore and said, “Looks like you couldn’t resist using arcane power today, once again. But I do remember telling you many times that forcibly using arcane power when your spirit and stamina are depleted will bring a heavy burden upon your body. In serious cases, you can even die.”

     “Isn’t it all for the sake of feeding myself and an old liar like you…” Ayrin took exception with a humph and said, “Anyway I’m only using it sparingly.”

     “Alright, reckless and special young man. Since you’ve already awakened and even made it this far,” the old man faintly smiled, “it’s also time to tell you the truth.”

     Ayrin looked at the old man, “What truth? You’re finally going to bite the dust?”

     “Bastard… Are you seriously praying so hard for me to croak?”

     “Actually no, I’d worry about money for the grave.”

     “You idiot, listen quietly to me now. The tests and trials I’ve set for you are already over. You can get ready to go to school to Holy Dawn Academy tomorrow.”

     “Tests and trials? Cough cough…” Ayrin choked on the dry bread and burst into a coughing fit. “Old liar, what damned nonsense are you spouting now.”

     The old man looked at Ayrin. “Fine, let’s begin with this “old liar” title. You tell me, why do you call me an old liar?”

     “Because starting from the day I picked you up seven years ago, you kept saying you’d pass onto me the way to become a powerful arcane master, but for seven years straight, you happily ate my food but did nothing, you didn’t teach me any training method. That’s why everyone got used to calling you an old liar.” Ayrin threw a glance at the old man and gloomily said, “Looks like there’s a lot of problems with your brain today, asking me these questions.”

     The old man smiled faintly. “Since you say I’m an old liar who happily eats your food and does nothing in return, why don’t you throw me out?”

     “No one will feed you if I threw you out. Even if I picked out any random cat or dog I still couldn’t just throw them out and let them starve to death, right?”

     “You idiot, you actually compared me to a random cat or dog.” The old man shook his head, helpless. “Have you ever thought about Cororin Town’s nickname in the southern region? The deserted town! There’s only some barren copper ores left here in Cororin, ever since the end of the mining operations. This is a territory even the lousiest lord wouldn’t pick if they had the choice. Only a few old miners and some old townsfolk who can’t make a living elsewhere chose to stay here. Even an old homeless wandering beggar wouldn’t cross the overgrown abandoned mining area to come here, don’t you think so? Even more so in the coldest, cruelest winter night.”

     …

     Starlights glittered on the curtains of the night.

     One-half of a bread fell from Ayrin’s mouth.

     “Ah, what you said makes sense.” Ayrin looked blankly at the old man; he did seem different right now compared to usual. “Old Ginns, you’re serious?”

     “You can tell I’m serious, otherwise you wouldn’t call me old Ginns, you’d only call me old liar.”

     “Are you really an arcane master?” Ayrin said to himself in disbelief. He then shook his head, “Impossible! Conspiracy, it’s definitely a conspiracy. If you really wanted to let me become a strong arcane master of Doraster, why didn’t you teach me any body training or martial skill these past seven years?”

     “Because from the very beginning, there’s something else that’s fundamental in determining an arcane master’s power.”

     “This most fundamental thing, it’s precisely the power of bloodlines!”

     A proud expression floated on old Ginns’ face, his tone turning subconsciously feverish. “Pure giant bloodlines have astonishing innate physical power and extraordinary strength. Pure beastmen bloodlines are born with the power of wild changes and inconceivable explosiveness. Pure elven bloodlines are extremely nimble, moving like the wind, while also possessing a high degree of focus from birth. Their ability to manipulate arcane power far surpasses ordinary people’s. As for the various dragon bloodlines, the strength of their bodies and the arcane power they can manipulate are even greater!”

     “You’ve told me the same thing at least twenty times these past two months.” Ayrin’s dispirited voice came out, “Plus what does it have to do with me, I only have ordinary human blood. Looks like you’re sick and confused, it’s time to eat your medicine.”

     “You idiot!”

     Ginns clearly understood that Ayrin was a special young man who couldn’t be measured with common sense, but he still couldn’t help but feel the urge to spit out blood after having his passionate speech interrupted by such swords. “I’ve also told you many times, every bloodline has its own innate talents. Pure human bloodlines have no unique powers, but they’re the best at merging with other bloodlines! Many mighty pure bloodlines are growing increasingly rarer ever since the War of the Dragons. Many bloodlines mixed repeated with others and reproduced to this day, even to the degree the powers of their bloodlines are no longer prominent. We’re in a situation where the vast majority of arcane masters don’t have any great bloodline at all. So for arcane masters with a strong bloodline from the get-go, it’s very easy for them to stand out in this era!”

     Ayrin’s weakly protested once again, “But this really has nothing to do with me…”

     Old Gins couldn’t rein in his wrath anymore, angrily saying, “Can’t you use your brain a little. Think about it! You still don’t understand after I said so much. These seven years, these seven years, the tempering of a hard life I made you go through, all the stories I told you, the knowledge, all of it was the training I gave you. Every minute particle of your body is already in a state of extreme hunger and thirst, in a situation where they’re being exhausted for an extended period of time yet can’t obtain sufficient nourishment. That’s why you’re thinner and weaker than people the same age, why you even look two years younger than them. It’s also why you only awakened at such a late age. But precisely because of this, the results from absorbing another bloodline’s powers will be that much greater for you, compared to ordinary people!”

     Ayrin seemed to have a flash of enlightenment: “I finally understand.”

     Old Ginns heaved a sigh, thinking that Ayrin would finally say the words he wanted him to say.

     “I understand!” Unfortunately, Ayrin’s next words nearly caused him to faint to death: “Old Ginns you pervert! Not only you toy with the feelings of little children, the only thing you’ve done these past seven years is to ravage children’s bodies!”

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     Chapter 2: Onward! Holy Dawn Academy!

      Chapter 2: Onward! Holy Dawn Academy!

     “Can’t you be bloody serious for once!”

     An angry roar burst from Ayrin’s little yard, almost flipping over all the fences.

     “Fine.”

     Ayrin waved his hands when he saw old Ginns on the verge of exploding, as if in surrender. He said, “You put so much emphasis on foundations and bloodlines, what are you really trying to say? Are you going to give me some bloodline?”

     “You’re finally talking about the important issue. Why do you still have this I-don’t-care expression though! Bastard, I know full well this guy is very special, but I still can’t help but become angry.”

     Old Ginns panted in rough heaves and slowly calmed himself down.

     Ayrin flopped his body on the stone table, face down, looking like he was deflating.

     “So tired…” He groaned and put his chin on the table. He looked at old Ginns and said without spirit nor strength, “Since that’s the case, then come, give me whatever bloodline you’ve got.”

     Old Ginns couldn’t help but laugh.

     This temperament was baffling. A guy who didn’t know fear, who constantly brimmed with optimism, who didn’t even know the meaning of difficulty. Someone else in his shoes would definitely have even more of a headache, or just be driven into insanity, right?

     “Blood pact! Mark of seal awakening!”

     His right hand stretched out and caught Ayrin’s right hand while he quickly recited a chant in a low voice.

     The instant his fingers came into contact with Ayrin’s skin, five groups of silver lights transformed into five ancient draconic runes even the most ancient draconic scholars wouldn’t recognize. Then they seeped inside Ayrin’s body.

     Five dots of silver light remained for a moment on the back of Ayrin’s hand before gradually fading away.

     “So this is the fusion of bloodlines?” Ayrin looked at his own hand in a slight daze. He didn’t feel anything unusual inside his body, only a little numbness in his fingertips.

     “There are two ways to transmit the power of bloodlines. One is to breed an offspring, the other is to pass it on through certain holy items with unique powers.” Old Ginns shook his head and looked at Ayrin. It’d taken a lot of efforts, but this guy was finally serious. “These pact marks are merely keys. The holy item that’ll fuse the bloodlines is inside Holy Dawn Academy’s library. That’s why the thing you need to do is to go to school in Holy Dawn Academy, then fuse with the bloodline I left for you there as soon as possible.”

     Still flopped on the stone table, Ayrin slanted his face and asked old Ginns, “Wait wait wait. An old liar suddenly became an arcane master, I’m a bit dizzy now. Let me think… Why is it so complicated, you’re not lying to me right?”

     Old Gins laughed as if he’d known long ago Ayrin would say this. He simply fished out a purse and put it in front of Ayrin’s face. “This is the school tuition I’ve prepared for you.”

     Ayrin immediately jumped down from the table with a renewed vigor that came out of who knew here.

     “I’m rich…”

     As soon as he opened the purse and took a peek inside, he immediately became dumbfounded.

     “Your saliva’s going to hit the ground.” Old Gins threw Ayrin a glance. “Now you believe me right?”

     Ayrin immediate gathered the purse into his clothes and nodded repeatedly. “I believe you.”

     He couldn’t refrain from immediately asking though, “If you’re a very powerful arcane master, why did you choose me? Is it because I was only nine when I picked you up, so I was pretty dumb, a little easier to scam?”

     “You’re indeed the dumbest dumb-ass.” Old Gins nodded with a very serious look. “I went to so many places. You’re the only one who fed me for so many years and passed my tests and trials.”

     A suddenly spirited Ayrin immediately thought of other issues. “Then what are you planning on having me do after I go to the academy? Do you want to turn me into a strong arcane master and help you accomplish some mission, to protect some clan, or fight for some family?”

     “No.” Old Ginns shook his head with a smile. He lifted his head and looked at the starry skies, then slowly said, “There are countless dreams under the starry skies for every awakened youngster. I’m merely responsible for setting your sails and seeing you off on your journey, as repayment for what you’ve done for me these years. You’re free to choose your own dreams inside life’s journeys.”

     “Ayrin, you have to understand something. When a man’s abilities reach a certain level, his fate is bound to be out of the ordinary, he’s bound to glitter like the most precious gems. The most miserable environment carved out your kindness, optimism, and staunch character that knows no fear and never concedes defeat. That’s why I’m not worried about your future. That’s why starting from today, Ayrin, you can pursue your dreams and accomplish them to your heart’s content.”

     “Sounds like awesome!” Ayrin propped his chin in his hands and looked at old Ginns. “You forgot an important issue, what kind of bloodline did you hide inside Holy Dawn Academy?”

     “Any arcane master will try to find ways to hide a few tricks of theirs. They won’t expose all their secrets and powers in front of everybody. The hidden powers are often trump cards to save their lives or turn the tide and seize victory. So with something like bloodline, there’s nothing to be done if others can discover it at first glance, but it’s better if you can hide it.” Old Ginns narrowed his eyes in a smile and said, “You usually don’t listen to my advice and just do whatever you please, that’s why I’ve decided not to tell you. I won’t tell you why I had to put the thing inside Holy Dawn Academy, and I simply won’t tell you what bloodline it actually is. This way even you will be in the dark, so others will naturally not be able to find out from you either.”

     “Ah…” Ayrin immediately shouted, crestfallen, “It’s inhuman to wet someone’s appetite like you’re doing! Old Ginns! Hurry up and tell me!”

     “Stop dreaming, I’ll never tell you.”

     “Out of the question, hurry up and tell me!”

     “Impossible. You save some strength and properly finish eating, then go wash.”

     “…If you don’t tell me, I won’t go to the academy!”

     “This kind of clumsy threat is useless. Even in your dreams, you think of going to the academy, your eyes already betrayed you.”

     “Ah… Ah… Are you going to tell me or not.”

     “Cer! Tain! Ly! Not!”

     “Conspiracy! There’s definitely a conspiracy!”

     “Idiot, have you ever seen someone spend so much time to craft a conspiracy just to harm a little kid like you!”

     “If you don’t tell me that means there’s a conspiracy!”

     “Haha, don’t go to Holy Dawn Academy then.”

     …

     Late at night.

     Starlight softly enveloped Ayrin’s small courtyard.

     The exhausted Ayrin was already asleep, snoring in rhythmic bursts.

     Now and then there were a few words mixed alongside the snoring:

     “Hurry up and tell me what the hell the bloodline is, bastard…”

     “He actually scammed me for so long, I thought it was a homeless old guy, but he actually had so much silver hidden on him. I’m not going to let you get away with it…”

     “Don’t tell me if you don’t want to tell, I’m going to find out sooner or later anyway.”

     “Ooohh… Holy Dawn Academy… Holy Dawn Academy…”

     Old Ginns stood in front of the bed Ayrin soundly slept on. He couldn’t hold back a faint smile inside the darkness when he heard the academy’s name repeated time and again in Ayrin’s sleep. He softly mumbled to himself, “Usually you never ever mention the matter of entering an academy and studying there, but your inner self is in fact just as hungry and thirsty as your body when you think of all the other youngsters going to school in search of their own dreams… You’ve worked far harder than others to obtain what’s yours, so presumably you’ll cherish it more than others as well. Ayrin, I’m very much looking forward to your future performance.”

     “Don’t tell me then if you’re not going to tell me. That mysterious air like it’s something amazing, no matter how amazing it can’t be dragon bloodline right…”

     The fast asleep Ayrin flipped his body over at this time, and once again spoke in his sleep.

     “Little guy, could you please not look down on me so much. You go slowly search for the answer by yourself.”

     Old Ginns looked at the small and thin figure inside the blankets, and couldn’t help but become somewhat depressed and annoyed once again.

     …

     “What! Ayrin is going to study at Holy Dawn Academy?”

     Cororin Town boiled with activity in the morning.

     Ayrin stood at the town’s entrance with a travel bag on his back. Both sides of the road were filled with people who came to say their farewells.

     “Old liar, where did Ayrin get the money for Holy Dawn Academy? Although they say you can go study there as long as you’ve awakened, tuition money and living expenses are still essential…”

     “Cough cough, I already said I used to be an arcane master, I have some savings…”

     “I can still believe you if you say you’ve saved up some money, but just look at yourself, who’s going to believe an old thing like you’s an arcane master!”

     “Anyway, he can take out the money to let Ayrin go to school right now, at least he’s found a conscience.”

     “Old liar, you’re not going with Ayrin?”

     “I already said I’m an arcane master who came to guide Ayrin. I can retire and do my own thing now that he’s gone.”

     “He still wants to sound tough…”

     The farewell crowd made a stir to no end. Ayrin and old Ginns finally embraced each other and said their goodbyes, ready for his formal departure.

     Ayrin asked against old Ginns’ ear, “You’re really not leaving this place with me?”

     “My mission was to search for you and guide you. Now it’s done, I should retire and rest for a while.” Old Ginns said, “I’m too old to chase after dreams.”

     Ayrin made a very contemptuous hand gesture and muttered, “Conspiracy… There’s definitely a conspiracy…”

     “Then you can not go to St. Dawn Academy.” Old Ginns laughed out loud and looked at Ayrin with a gaze that completely saw through him. He added softly, “There’s no need to worry about me. You should understand already, someone like me who can casually give you a pile of silver coins can live pretty well even without you.”

     “I won’t care about you then.” Ayrin humphed, turned around and left. Another sentence drifted out in a quiet voice nevertheless: “Old Ginns, I’ll miss you.”

     Old Ginns looked dotingly at his back. He also said in a soft, serious voice, “I’ll miss you too.”

     “I’m going!”

     Ayrin stretched out both his hands, then made an onward gesture. Filled with grand aspirations, he yelled at the top of his lungs, “Onward! Holy Dawn Academy!”

     “Wrong! Come back!”

     “Ah?”

     “Moron, is that the direction of Holy Dawn Academy? You’re going the other way!”

     “Haha, worthy of little Ayrin, he can smash his own feet five times a month, now he gets the direction wrong even when going onward.”

     “…!”

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     Chapter 3: Giant bloodline and elven bloodline, going on stage!

      Chapter 3: Giant bloodline and elven bloodline, going on stage!

     “Name!”

     “Ayrin.”

     “Age!”

     “Sixteen years old!”

     “Address!”

     “Cororin Town.”

     “Hrm? The deserted town?”

     Carter was bent over the registration desk, in the middle of scribbling something. He lifted his head, a little surprised.

     In his impression, there weren’t many youngsters left in Cororin, that small town with a declining mining area. He’d also heard the residents there were barely subsisting on some barren copper ore.

     His brows scrunched up when he took a good look at Ayrin. His hair was a dry yellow, he wore clothes made from fabrics Carter couldn’t recognize, and his height was more befitting a boy no older than fourteen. “You’re called Ayrin, from Cororin Town? You’re really sixteen years old?”

     “That’s right, what’s wrong?”

     Ayrin examined the young teacher in turn at the same time the latter observed him, on this Holy Spring Tone Street the registration was taking place on.

     Holy Spring Tone Street was one of the four main avenues in St. Lauren City. The street had a twelve-tone fountain on it, sitting in the plaza in the middle of the street. Many shops stood on both sides, a rich diversity of decorative patterns made from multicolored glossed stones laid on the ground in front of the shops… From the colorful store signs to the eye-catching blue academy clothes on Carter, embroidered with the words “Holy Dawn Academy,” everything was a novel experience for the young Ayrin. He’d never been in such a big city before.

     “Cororin? Isn’t it that deserted town? Didn’t they say there’s no youngster left there anymore? Haha, little shorty from Cororin, aren’t you too short for a sixteen years old?”

     A red-haired young man lining up behind Ayrin suddenly burst out with great laughter before Carter could speak.

     This red-haired young man was half a head taller than Ayrin, with a round face, faint freckles, and an arrogant expression.

     “Hm? This is?” Carter’s gaze fell on the red-haired young man and the meadow viper symbol on his clothes. His pupils subconsciously shrank.

     “You are?” Ayrin was used to being made fun of by the miners, and didn’t actually get angry. He turned around and looked at the red-haired young man. “Am I really too short?”

     “Listen carefully! I am Moss, from the Quinn clan!”

     The red-haired youth looked just like he’d been waiting for an opportunity to show off. He laughed loudly in a very arrogant manner, even while assuming a very puerile posture.

     “As I thought!” Carter’s eyes flashed. He looked all smiles at the red-haired youngster and Ayrin, not interrupting them for the moment.

     “Haha, little shorty, of course you’re too short.” Moss laughed out loud and gesticulated toward Ayrin. “Look, I’m only fourteen years old, but I’m still half a head taller than you.”

     Ayrin scratched his head, a little depressed. “So that means I’m really a little too short.”

     Moss blinked, then he immediately laughed rambunctiously in an even louder voice. “Are you an idiot? You don’t even know if you’re a shorty or not?”

     “That’s because I’m the only one around my age in Cororin, there’s no one else to compare to.” Ayrin answered in a natural tone on the surface, and cursed old Ginns on the inside, “You’ve really done well ravaging little children…”

     “This guy is truly silly enough, he won’t get angry even like this?” Carter heaved a gentle sigh when he saw that Ayrin didn’t seem the least bit angry at being called a little shorty. He said, “Alright, Ayrin from Cororin, next you need to pay a hundred silver coins and we’ll sort out the academy entrance procedures.”

     Ayrin’s disbelieving voice rose abruptly, “What! One hundred silver coins! You actually need a hundred silver coins, this is a little too much right?”

     Carter rubbed his ears gone numb from the tremors and looked at Ayrin’s big reaction. He explained, “These hundred silver coins include not only tuition and lodging for one year, they also include expenses for the academy clothing as well as some school trips.”

     “You already need so much for a single year…” Ayrin pulled Carter’s sleeve. “Can’t you make it a bit cheaper?”

     “Haha, little shorty, don’t tell you can’t even pay the tuition? Don’t tell me you directly ran here without knowing how much the tuition for one year at Holy Dawn Academy costs?” The red-haired Moss suddenly laughed rambunctiously once again. “There’s actually someone who bargains even for tuition fees.”

     “Saving up silver shouldn’t have been easy actually, looking at you. You awakened at only sixteen and you’re also so thin and weak, it doesn’t look like you’re someone with any special bloodline either.” The wild laughter vanished and Moss’ face became all seriousness. “It shouldn’t be very useful even if you were to enter Holy Dawn Academy and study here. My advice to you, better not waste the silver coins that took you a lot efforts to save.”

     “Take a good look at those landbearers. Even if they have some beastman bloodline and have leg strength ordinary people can’t match, they still can only be mere landbearers inside this city of St. Lauren!”

     “Landbearer?”

     Ayrin followed Moss’ line of sight and saw several brawny fellows clad in only leather shorts and thick ropes wrapped around their bodies.

     These brawny fellows were all nearly two meters tall, unusually sturdy, especially their two legs that were as thick as water buckets. Every muscle of theirs bulged and looked hard as rocks.

     Ayrin couldn’t help but ask, “What’s a landbearer?”

     “You don’t even know what a landbearer is? Landbearers are porters specialized in helping people drag heavy items!” Moss looked at Ayrin and said in a loud voice, “You shouldn’t force yourself the way I see it. Might as well save up some silver coins and use them elsewhere.”

     A cold voice came from the side. “So you can casually determine someone else’s life just because of a little giant blood?”

     Moss froze a second. He turned his head around and saw that the one who spoke was a beautiful girl with long hair and a handkerchief in her hand, standing to one side. Her hair was an exotic silver color and appeared unusually clean, untainted by even the smallest speck of dirt. Her height seemed about the same as Moss’, her face cold and antisocial.

     “You’ve got the gall to talk to me like this? Who are you again?” Moss immediately became slightly angry. He said with a cold humph, “Can’t you see I’m doing it for his own good?”

     “So you can act mighty and casually find fault with other people just because it’s for their own good?”

     The white-clothed girl didn’t even spare a glance for Moss. She looked at Carter and said in an icy voice, “Arrange the school entry for him, I’ll help him pay the one hundred silver coins.”

     “Oh?”

     Carter sent a glance at the white-clothed girl and smiled faintly. “You want to help Ayrin pay up one hundred silver coins?”

     Ayrin was a little dazed. One hundred silver coins were enough for an ordinary family to live off of for two years. It was no small sum, and he was absolutely certain he’d never even met this white-clothed girl before.

     “His expenses plus mine.” The white-clothed girl seemed unwilling to say even a single word more than necessary. She took out two gold coins and indifferently threw them to Carter.

     On Doraster, one gold coin was equal to a hundred silver coins.

     Carter caught the gold coins and asked with much interest, “You’re also a new student coming to register at Holy Dawn Academy?”

     In his impression, this white-clothed girl had been in Holy Spring Tone Street for quite a while already, but she’d never lined up so far. Now he vaguely came to a small realization in retrospect. This white-clothed girl wasn’t willing to line up with other people, so she’d been waiting for everyone else to leave before handling the school entrance procedures.

     She wanted to pay one year of expenses for Ayrin just because of a single sentence from Moss… There was also the handkerchief she held onto at all times. She looked like she had an innate fear of even the slightest bit of dirt falling on her body. This youngster was probably not merely noble and aloof, but it was likely she also had a certain degree of obsessive compulsiveness when it came to cleanliness.

     “Bastard!”

     An angry shout burst out. Moss looked at the white-clothed girl, his face flushed bright red, and yelled, “Is it a matter of money? Do you think I can’t afford to help him!”

     “No one can arbitrarily decide someone else’s life. Everyone has the right to pursue their own dreams.” The white-clothed girl coldly interrupted Moss’s angry shout. “Just pay for him since you can afford to help him, why do you spout so much nonsense.”

     She never spared a single glance for Moss and looked only at Carter, saying with cold indifference, “Teacher, since I’ve already paid for his school entrance fees, then would you please help him sort out the following admission procedures.”

     “You!” Moss was so angry even his nose became crooked. He fished out a purse and gave it to Carter. “Teacher, I’ll pay for him!”

     “No morals at all,” the white-clothed girl said in a soft contemptuous tone, her face turned away to the corner of the street.

     “What did you say!” The red hair on Moss’ head seemed to stand erect. He clenched his fists: “If it weren’t for you being a girl, I’d definitely make you suffer today!”

     “This…” Ayrin weak voice suddenly came out, “Everyone could you please not quarrel, I can just pay for my own school expenses, it’s fine.”

     “What? You can afford the tuition fees?” Moss turned his head around and looked at Ayrin in disbelief.

     Ayrin energetically nodded his head nonstop. He cautiously untied the purse he’d been holding in his hand.

     “Since you have so much money, why did you still squawk and holler, still trying to barter!” Moss was even angrier when he took a look, nearly fainting. There were at least twenty gold coins inside Ayrin’s purse, and hundreds of silver coins. All put together it was even more than what he had in his own purse.

     “Because the school fees are really too expensive, of course it’s better if it can be a bit cheaper.” Ayrin smiled awkwardly. “But I still have to thank you and thank this elder sister, you’re both good people.”

     Moss was rendered speechless. Ayrin also suddenly stopped in the middle of his words, feeling a chilly sensation striking him.

     The white-clothed girl who’d turned her head away before so she wouldn’t see them immediately turned her head back, black lines all over her face, her appearance that of someone on the verge of exploding.

     “What?”

     Moss and Carter exchanged a glance, uncertain what was happening.

     “I get it.”

     Ayrin said with an apologetic expression, “Oh I must have spoken wrong. I should be thanking you, little sister, not elder sister.”

     There were some female students who were indeed very concerned about matters of age.

     Moss and Carter had a sudden epiphany.

     But the “young girl” with a face full of black lines grew even angrier, yelling out loud in a fit of rage instead, “You idiot, I’m a boy, not a girl!”

     “Ah?”

     Everyone instantly became dumbfounded.

     “You…you’re male?” The gaze of a dumbfounded Ayrin fell on the “young girl’s” flat chest. He came to a small realization. He mumbled to himself, “A little too beautiful though, really looks a little too much like a girl…”

     Moss and Carter couldn’t refrain from nodding.

     To say the truth, even Carter previously thought he was a beautiful flat-chested young lady.

     “You… are…still…talking…!”

     The white-clothed “girl” glared at Ayrin and spat out four words one by one, each filled with murderous intent. Even her loose hair started flying up in disarray.

     “Fox ears?” Ayrin’s voice rose again, filled with astonishment, because he’d seen two pointy ears on the “girl,” looking very pretty and delicate.

     “Idiot!”

     Moss knocked on Ayrin’s head. “What fox ears, this is elven bloodline!”

     “Elven bloodline?”

     “Why did even you come to school if you don’t know this!”

     “What’s the problem with that? Right, you’re really not a girl?”

     “I”m going to kill you!”

     …

     Carter finally managed to rein in the conflagration after much struggle, then completed the admission procedures a few minutes later. He looked at the backs of Ayrin and the others and couldn’t resist smiling, speaking to himself.

     “These little guys are really troublesome.”

     A cold light suddenly flashed in his eyes. He quickly turned around.

     A young man clothed in the same Holy Dawn Academy attire walked out from the shadows at the corner of the street, the instant he turned around.

     Carter immediately sighed in relief.

     “So it’s you, Liszt! Why are you here?”

     “I was just walking by.” This young man whom Carter called Liszt was very handsome. He had a lazy expression, yellow rays of light occasionally flashing and spinning inside his jet-black eyes. This was something that would give a weird feeling to someone staring into his eyes. He cast a glance at the backs of Ayrin and the others, then asked with indifference, “What’s this guy called, the one with at least one-half elven bloodline, where does he come from?”

     Carter threw another look at the registration forms and answered, “Rinloran, from Emmy Forest Townlet.”

     Liszt said, shaking his head, “I never heard about any clan with high-level elven blood there. However, no matter where he comes from, it remains a very high-level elven bloodline… There’s also the little guy from the Quinn clan with some giant blood, plus that little guy called Ayrin from Cororin’s mining area. The new students this year are much more interesting than in previous years.” He then smiled lazily. “Carter, you’re called a good-tempered teacher in our Holy Dawn Academy, but that little guy Ayrin has an even better temperament from what I see. It looks nearly impossible to make him angry.”

     “Ayrin?” Carter heard the meaning behind Liszt’s words and said doubtfully, “He awakened so late… Do you actually feel there’s something special about him?”

     “You haven’t gone to the ‘deserted town,’ but I have.”

     Liszt said smiling, “The people who stayed there actually all have a very tough temper, just like stone. On top of that, there’s an unspeakable self-confidence and courage coming from this little guy. To me, this is genuine talent. As for the power of bloodlines, it’s far from being the most critical issue in my opinion. Don’t forget, I’m also from an ordinary human bloodline.”

     “Are you…?” Carter became surprised all of a sudden.

     Liszt said very frankly, “Indeed, I’m even more interested in him than in Rinloran. Especially since he somehow has so much money on his person even though he comes from the deserted town, it makes me curious. I will take note of him… If he turns out to be indeed decent, I’ll personally guide his training.”

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     Chapter 4: Fusion! The power of bloodlines!

      Chapter 4: Fusion! The power of bloodlines!

     “Where did that little shorty go?”

     The red-haired Moss peeked left and glanced right at the bustling entrance of Holy Dawn Academy, looking very astonished.

     There were quite a lot of senior students under the Holy Dawn Academy’s great arched stone gates. These senior students had volunteered to come help, offering new students a little introduction, then guiding them to their dormitories.

     As one of the academies with the longest traditions in Holy Lauren, Holy Dawn Academy’s architecture was ancient, and its campus was very vast. It took at least forty minutes on foot from the main entrance to the “Ivy” residences and the “Redbud” residences where the new students lived. For new students unfamiliar with the area, it was very easy to get lost inside.

     The way Moss saw it, a guy like Ayrin who came from a small-time place would certainly stir a fuss about nothing and make a fool of himself after seeing what Holy Dawn Academy really looked like.

     That was why Moss intentionally kept some distance away from Ayrin, ready to make fun of him. But he didn’t expect Ayrin to disappear in the blink of an eye.

     “School sister, what’s your name? I’ll help you carry your things ok?”

     “School sister, I’ll take you to the dorm ok?”

     At the same time, a Rinloran who looked even prettier than the vast majority of girls found himself in the middle of a siege from several older schoolmates whose eyes shone bright. His face was already full of black lines, once again reaching the edge of an explosion.

     “This is the Thinker’s Forest!”

     “Sleeping Mermaid Stone Statues!”

     “I’ve reached the Beast Training Field!”

     Ayrin was holding a thick booklet at this moment, shouting out a name or two from time to time as he walked on the roads inside Holy Dawn Academy, attracting sidelong glances from one passerby after another.

     Old Ginns was the one who gave him the small booklet he held. Its name was “Guidebook to Holy Dawn Academy.” Not only was there a map of Holy Dawn Academy inside, it also contained introductions about many edifices and many academy teachers.

     “Cattail Library, so called because the growth of cattails filling the shores of the lakes beside it. The floors, stairs, and windows all groan since it comes from too ancient an era, so it is also customarily called the ‘Groaning Library.’ Finally here!”

     Half an hour later, with the guidance of the map, Ayrin finally came in front of the library old Ginns said he needed to visit first thing.

     This was an ancient wooden building set over a protruding mound, surrounded on three sides by lakes. Green vines climbed all over the surface of the wooden building. There was only an unremarkable name board standing in the vicinity of the entrance.

     The instant Ayrin crossed inside this ancient library entirely made from wood, an expressionless old man with a short stature blocked his way, wearing a black robe and thick long-sighted glasses.

     “You’re a freshman who’s just been admitted to the academy?”

     Shooting a glance to the freshman card hanging on Ayrin’s chest, the black-robed old man said in a severe tone, “This is the library, you’re not allowed to enter as you wish.”

     Ayrin nodded, “I want to get a reading card and go read inside.”

     The black-robed old man cast a glance at Ayrin, “New students only have the right to read the books inside, you can’t borrow them out.”

     “Got it.”

     “You’re not allowed to take inside any sharp device that could possibly scratch the books. You have to trim your nails first before going in.”

     “Got it.”

     “Any book-damaging behavior is forbidden, otherwise there will be severe punishments. In serious cases, you can even be directly dismissed from the academy.”

     “Got it.”

     “It’s forbidden to read in a loud voice and make a fuss inside the library, otherwise you’ll be expelled. If you violate the rules too many times, you’ll permanently lose the right to enter the library.”

     “Got it.”

     “…”

     After more than a full hour, after a full three repetitions of the library’s rules and regulations, the old black-robed man who’d already talked about many information that had nothing to do with books finally let go of Ayrin. He seemed satisfied; Ayrin looked blank from listening. After that, he handled a reading card and let Ayrin come inside his ancient library.

     “That was indeed the super chatty librarian, Professor Plum.”

     Ayrin rubbed his face when he reached the groaning stairs leading to the second floor of the library, rubbing away his blank and dumbfounded expression.

     “Hateful old Ginns, acting so mysterious. It’s one thing if you don’t tell me what bloodline power it actually is, why did you also have to put it inside an obsolete library with some nagging librarian.”

     Ayrin muttered to himself, but immediately gasped as soon as he climbed up the creaky wooden stairs to the second floor, thoroughly astounded.

     “Really awesome!”

     Rows upon rows of bookshelves filled the entirety of the second floor, all the way to a roof you simply couldn’t reach without wooden ladders. Books with covers in every color were neatly and tidily laid out on the thick bookshelves of a deep brown color. It was simply a sea of books.

     All the bookshelves and most of the books were obviously very ancient. The covers on some books were even entirely worn out, but they were all very clean, not even a speck of dust on them.

     The atmosphere was inexplicably a little graver.

     Ayrin went back and forth between the rows of shelves. The entire library had four floors. He didn’t continue upward but slowly searched his way through, reaching a corner of the library, close to the stairs leading to the third floor.

     A book with a purple leather cover titled “Views on architectural styles during the War of the Dragons era” quietly reclined on the second layer of the bookshelf in this corner, counting from the bottom.

     The moment Ayrin pulled it out, shiny silver stars, incomparably tiny, curiously emerged one after another without any warning from the double-layered board under the book. They converged at top speed on the five fingertips on Ayrin’s right hand.

     Those bright, dust-like silver stars quickly shaped into five tiny diamond-like crystals on Ayrin’s fingertips

     Five tiny marks also emerged separately on Ayrin’s five fingertips at the same time.

     With a flash, the five tiny crystals pierced inside Ayrin’s fingertips. The five tiny marks of light vanished at the same time.

     Not even one second had gone by from beginning to end.

     “Bang!”

     Before he could react, it seemed like a giant invisible hammer was fiercely striking Ayrin’s heart, to the point of making his body jump up involuntarily.

     “So this is the fusion of bloodline powers?”

     Ayrin came to his senses the moment his two hands unconsciously pressed on his own heart. His heart thumped once again at the same time.

     “Boom! Boom! …”

     He saw his skin shake in waves along with the violent beats of his heart. The blood inside his body seemed to become suddenly much heavier, pressing down on him until his body almost started to bend down.

     His heart was going to jump out and crack at this rate… He was going to die right?

     Ayrin felt unspeakable discomfort.

     The next second, his face once again brimmed with a confident expression that never admitted defeat. His hands left his chest and clenched into tight fists.

     “Come then! No matter what bloodline power, you’re just going to fuse obediently!”

     Ayrin’s body kept shaking, but he began to straighten up bit by bit.

     There was no telling how much time went by. The violent heartbeats stopped. It was only that the blood inside him still seemed extremely heavy. An inexplicable intuition started to grip him, that he could make the blood flow a little faster and his body a little more relaxed if he moved a bit.

     “What, you’re still not done fusing obediently!”

     Ayrin put the book back, his face filled with warlike determination. He tried walking a few steps and found out it indeed made him feel a little better, so he simply walked in quick steps without ever stopping, walking straight out of the library, with its creaking floors and stairs. Then he started running along the avenue.

     “So you’re fusing obediently now? There’s no fight in you.”

     After running continuously for several minutes, big drops of sweat fell from Ayrin, but all the feelings of discomfort had thoroughly disappeared. His heartbeat was also back to normal.

     He slowly walked on for a while and recovered his breath. He waved his fists a few times. He couldn’t feel any obvious difference in his body compared to before.

     “Is the bloodline really too bad, or is it that it can only display its effects after I become an arcane master?”

     Ayrin mumbled a few words to himself. He then saw shops standing everywhere in front of him. There were many clerks wearing bright-colored clothes doing their best to attract business.

     Behind a full hundred stores arranged in charming disorder, there also lay a quiet park. One couldn’t see its end of with a quick glimpse.

     “It’s the commercial street!”

     Ayrin immediately realized he’d run all the way to the only commercial street inside Holy Dawn Academy.

     The entire city of St. Lauren was built on a mountain. Holy Dawn Academy was built on a mild slope mid-mountain, on the northern side of St. Lauren. The commercial street was located in Holy Dawn Academy’s central area, adjacent to the biggest park inside the academy: the “Goddess Park.”

     The “Goddess Park” had gained its name from a white tulip named “Goddess” growing in great numbers inside the park.

     “Why are there so many people?”

     As he subconsciously surveyed the academy’s commercial street, a street that seemed almost bigger than Cororin’s entire surface area. Ayrin saw on it a shop with a big crowd in front of its door, encircling it so tightly not even water would leak through. His curiosity was immediately piqued. He couldn’t resist finding his way there.

     He squeezed through the great turbulent crowd of people with great difficulty. And then he almost fell face down on the ground at the first sight of the scene in front of him.

     This was a store with a “Super Mega Giant Fried Pork Chops” signboard hanging on it. Inside the doorway, there were several fatties who’d eaten until they were clearly about to puke, but they were all still grabbing the golden fried pork chops and gobbling them ferociously.

     Ayrin couldn’t understand no matter how he tried, so he couldn’t resist shouting out, “Are the pork chops that good? They still want to eat them even when they already look like this?”

     Some students beside him started to speak all at once when they heard him, explaining, “It’s this store’s opening day. The boss said you can eat for free as long as you eat ten chops in one go.”

     “I see.” Suddenly enlightened, Ayrin was immediately eager to give it a try. “Can anyone participate?”

     “Do you actually also want to participate?”

     “Stop dreaming, even a single chop is bigger than your face, it’s simply impossible to eat ten in one go. Until now, the most they’ve eaten is seven. If you can’t manage it you still have to pay the money for the pork chops you eat.”

     “That’s right, don’t be fooled, it’s simply impossible to succeed. The boss is clearly scamming ignorant youngsters.”

     Among such voices, Ayrin stretched his hand out and tried to measure the chops. He thought these pork chops were indeed really big.

     At this time, someone carried out several pork chops.

     “Tasty super mega giant pork chops! Whether you stroll by or shop by, don’t pass it by!”

     “Ultra quantity, genuine super mega giant golden fried pork chops! As long as someone can eat ten, everything’s free!”

     The fat boss immediately shouted vigorously, his face flushed red, a white chef uniform worn on his body. He attracted even more Holy Dawn students over.

     “Uh…”

     Choked by the heavy smell of grease, those challengers who were already about to puke blanched immediately. They retreated in defeat one by one. There were two of them who even immediately shoved their way out of the crowd and ran to the side of the street, retching loudly.

     Ayrin was somewhat making fun of someone else’s misfortune, but the instant the thick aroma surged into his nose, a burst of completely spontaneous shudders spread out from the depths of his body. He even felt that every muscle inside his body seemed to have transformed into extremely tiny particles, all of them vibrating, rubbing against each other.

     A feeling occupied his entire consciousness, as if he’d been hungry for several days and several nights, so hungry his heart beat in extreme flurry.

     His body started to ache from head to toe the next moment, his pair of feet shaking nonstop.

     “Gulp.” An audible clear and loud sound of swallowed saliva.

     “Can I try?”

     Ayrin’s eyes stared fixedly at the pieces of golden fried pork chops, unable to shift away.

     “No problem.” The thoroughly red-faced boss immediately beamed like a blossoming flower when he saw a challenger come up, still not resigned. Moreover, it was even a thin and small young man. “Anyone can try, you only need to eat ten and everything will be free. But you have to eat ten chops in one go ok? My super mega giant fried pork chops are really tasty and crispy and juicy…”

     The boss was in the middle of his excited speech, but then he heard a collective intake of breath.

     “Nine chops… already nine…”

     “Really amazing, does this guy have pure giant blood to be so good at eating?”

     The boss turned his head to have a look and also became a little crazy. Ayrin had already swept clean these pork chops around him in the mere blink of an eye. Moreover, his belly bulged high, but his face still didn’t seem satisfied.

     “This comrade has a truly great appetite.” The store’s boss came back to his senses and gave Ayrin’s shoulder a deeply meaningful pat, saying laughingly, “Really promising, you ate nine pieces in one go. In that case, then just eat the tenth chop. When you’re done you can have it all free!”

     Then he bent down and took the tenth pork chop from behind.

     “This…?”

     “That’s a pork chop! That’s also a pork chop?!”

     “You’re shameless!”

     “Dishonest business!”

     The surroundings stayed quiet for a mere second, then burst in curses overflowing the sky.

     What the boss had taken out was an ultra giant pork chop several times bigger than even all the other nine chops added together. It was simply one half of a pig.

     “Haha, it’s not like I ever said the ten pork chops were all the same size, how’s that shameless.” The boss was exceptionally proud of himself. “Plus I run a small business, it’s really not easy, everyone needs to be indulgent.”

     “What, he can even eat that?!”

     However, his incredulous voice rang inside the commercial street not even one minute later.

     Under the stare of countless disbelieving eyes, Ayrin finished eating that super giant fried pork chop, then rubbed his swollen belly. He said thanks to the dumbfounded boss, then he said another sentence that made everyone around almost faint to the ground, “Eh, where are my feet, why can’t I see my feet.”

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     Chapter 5: A not so simple roommate

      Chapter 5: A not so simple roommate

     “Classmate, you’re a freshman?”

     “Do you actually have giants’ blood?”

     Many Holy Dawn Academy students quickly encircled Ayrin, incomparably admirative.

     For young people, someone who could do things they couldn’t do would always garner their respect and curiosity.

     But at that moment, after finally eating his fill, Ayrin felt the surrounding sounds become a little vague and indistinct. His eyelids also became heavier and heavier.

     “Bastard! What the hell is this bloodline, isn’t it over yet?!”

     “You can’t just simply sleep here!”

     Ayrin forcibly kept his eyes open as he shouted in his mind, but his resistance wore off before he could even clench his fists like he usually did. He flabbily fell on the ground and slept tight, snoring.

     “He fell asleep?”

     “He actually fell asleep straight away? Who the hell is this guy?”

     “He ate so much he looks like a ball, and he actually fell asleep just like this?”

     “What’s this really about! Who sent you to mess with me?” The boss was on the verge of tears when, just like other people, he saw Ayrin fast asleep.

     “Just give him to me.”

     At this moment, a young handsome academy teacher squeezed his way inside, his lazy voice drifting together with him. He straight away lifted the fast asleep Ayrin on his shoulder.

     “This is?!”

     The fat boss and some senior students had an immediate change of expression the moment they had a clear look at the young teacher’s face. Chills ran through them from head to toe. They waited for this young handsome teacher to carry Ayrin out of the crowd, none of them daring to make any loud noise.

     “What’s the matter?” A junior student not in the know couldn’t resist asking a pale-faced senior student beside him.

     The senior student struggled to resist his fear, and said in a quiet shaky voice. “This is teacher Liszt…”

     “Teacher Liszt!” Shock and respect immediately filled the eyes of all the junior students. “The only one who comprehended the academy’s secret skill “Holy Gate of Life”… The strongest elite teacher in the academy, Liszt?!”

     “That’s him.” Cold sweat was dripping from the fat boss like rain. “Legend says this guy was raised by dark night wolves…. The most cold-blooded, the most blood-thirsty, the strongest teacher in the academy… Liszt!”

     “It seems you’re not so popular inside the school, these little guys didn’t even dare make a single sound after they saw you.” As soon as Liszt stepped out of the commercial street, a black-robed old man suddenly appeared in front of him. It was none other than the super-talkative librarian, Professor Plum.

     “They’re just being misled by a bunch of rumors. Isn’t being feared something to be proud of, anyway?” Liszt casually shrugged his shoulders. His eyes actually shrunk, however. “You actually, a senior generation with a hobby for books and training, the genuinely strongest teacher in the academy, you actually also left your library for the sake of this little guy?”

     Professor Plum didn’t react to Liszt’s words, merely glanced at the fast-asleep and snoring Ayrin. “His body’s in a very strange condition, what do you think?”

     Liszt said, “His present state is the same as ours when we exceed the limits of our body after hard training. I’ve seen this little guy at the registration place, so I’m very curious about what happened to him inside the library. How did he turn this way?”

     “I don’t know.” Professor Plum shook his head. “He stayed a very short while in the library, but there was already something a little wrong with him by the time he went out.”

     “There’s no one in St. Lauren who can do any mischief inside your library.” Liszt smiled lazily. “So there were probably quite a few secrets hidden on this little guy from the beginning.”

     Professor Plum stayed silent for several seconds. He said, “What are you going to do?”

     “I don’t have the hobby of prying someone else’s secrets. Holy Dawn Academy also allows every student to conceal their secrets. If this little guy can make me satisfied, I will personally take charge of his teaching.” Liszt rubbed his chin and said, “Now I’m planning on sending him to the dorm.”

     Professor Plum seemed to have become even more uncommunicative than ordinary people once outside the library. He nodded when he heard Liszt, then turned around and left straight away.

     “Senior,” Liszt suddenly called.

     Professor Plum looked back, unsure what Liszt wanted.

     “There will definitely come a day when I surpass you.” Liszt put his lazy expression away and spoke in all seriousness.

     “Still early.” Professor Plum shook his head and merely spit out two words with an expressionless face, then he turned around and walked far away.

     Liszt didn’t seem to have taken it to heart either. He talked to himself while walking in the direction of the “Ivy district” in the distance. “A good roommate is also very important, looks like I’ll have to spend some efforts again.”

     …

     Early morning.

     Snore… Snore…

     Snoring full of rhythm rose and fell.

     Ayrin lay on a wooden bed covered in dark green bedding.

     The dancing tree shadows sprinkled through the window lattices and fell on his body. He’d slept himself into a torpor, felt a little thirsty. As soon as his drowsy eyes pried open, as soon as blurred images started to flash by, his eyelids once again fell closed.

     He had no idea what happened.

     He only felt that he’d slept for a long time, slept very contentedly, very comfortably.

     “Classmate, wake up…”

     Such a sound suddenly rang in his ears.

     Ayrin did his best to open his eyes. He suddenly saw an unfamiliar figure standing in front of him. He shuddered, woke up with a start from his dreams.

     What was this?

     What happened?

     He subconsciously sat up, blinking blankly.

     “You’re really good at sleeping.”

     A refined and gentle male student wearing glasses stood in front of his bed. He looked around the same age as Ayrin. “You slept from yesterday afternoon all the way til now. Right, I’m your roommate, I’m called Belo.”

     Ayrin subconsciously said, “Hello, I’m Ayrin. Where’s this place though?”

     “This is our dorm, Ivy residence district’s seventh residence, room 233.” Belo pushed his glasses and looked at Ayrin, the latter still looking thoroughly confused. “It seems you don’t even know how you came here. You know the ‘Wolf of Bloody Nights,’ teacher Liszt?”

     “I’m already in the dorm, I slept from yesterday afternoon all the way until now?” Ayrin had a fully blank face. “Wolf of Bloody Nights, Liszt? Who’s that?”

     “Our Holy Dawn Academy’s strongest teacher, an existence legends say is extremely callous and blood-thirsty. Anyone who becomes an enemy of his will be cruelly beaten until they’re more dead than alive. ‘Wolf of Bloody Nights’ is his nick.” Belo pushed his glasses by habit. “They say he’s the one who took you here.”

     “The strongest teacher in the academy… So powerful?” Ayrin shook his head, full of doubts. “I really don’t know him though.”

     “No matter what, teacher Liszt let you and I stay in the same room. Starting from today we’re friends.” Belo pointed at Ayrin’s bedside. “You first change your clothes, wash your face, rinse your mouth in the water room at the end of the hallway outside. The toilets are next door to the water room. I’ll go first and buy some stuff to eat, I’ll wait for you below.”

     Ayrin saw blue clothes resting beside the bed, the same as the ones Belo wore. They looked very soft. He subconsciously asked, “Wait for me to do what?”

     “It’s soon time for class, you have to hurry a bit.” Belo said while walking out, “It’s teacher Huston’s class, there will be very grave consequences if we’re late.”

     “Class?”

     Ayrin took the blue uniform beside the bed, unable to make any sense out of the current situation.

     This was a set of clothes was separated in two, an inner layer and an outer layer. The inner layer consisted of close-fitting sportswear while the outer layer consisted of slightly loose robe-like clothes. The words “Holy Dawn Academy” were embroidered on both the inner and outer layers. The inner layer’s fabric seemed even tighter and more durable than the outer layer’s. It looked like you were supposed to take off the outerwear during strenuous exercise and only wear the inner half.

     “Huh…?”

     The instant Ayrin grabbed the academy’s uniform, his body suddenly felt very different compared to usual.

     There seemed to be an inexhaustible strength in every parcel of his body. There also seemed to be a mass of bright light on top of his head, as if a door was open.

     The most important thing was was, he was currently still wearing the clothes he usually wore, but they now felt especially tight on him.

     He stood up, looked at his own arms and legs.

     It wasn’t an illusion. It was as if his clothes shrank after wash. He’d not only become a bit sturdier, he even grew taller by quite a bit.

     He couldn’t resist waving his fist.

     There came a “whoosh.”

     This punch of his actually made a piercing sound through the air.

     The thing that made him even more startled was, the many tiny particles in the air had converged on his fist on their own the moment he’d casually thrown this punch out.

     This was the “arcane power” only awakened people could feel!

     However, he had to concentrate the entire focus of his spirit to be able to sense and use “arcane power” before. Now he seemed to be able to use arcane power at will!

     Without a doubt, this was a change brought by the fusion of bloodlines.

     It seemed old Ginns’ bloodline wasn’t as bad as he’d imagined.

     What bloodline was it though?

     Ayrin was a little excited when he felt he’d become quite a bit more powerful, but then he turned depressed again when he remembered that he didn’t even know what kind of bloodline he’d actually fused with.

     …

     The Ivy residence district where boys of Holy Dawn Academy lived came from the same era as the Cattail Library. They were the oldest buildings inside Holy Dawn Academy. The difference was that the Ivy residence district was entirely built from stone, three floors on each building, tall trees planted between every residential building. Ivies climbed all over those trees even more ancient than the district, blotting the sky and covering the sun, making it seem as if each and every building were sitting inside a gigantic forest.

     Because it was ancient, Holy Dawn Academy’s lodging conditions seemed a little simple and crude compared to academies built later on. Each floor of every dormitory had a single public water room, without a separate bathroom.

     The whole dormitory was already well empty by the time Ayrin put his clothes on, washed, and walked out of the seventh residence’s main doors. There was only Belo waiting for him, carrying a bag of things to eat.

     “Let’s go.”

     Belo took the lead as soon as he saw Ayrin come downstairs, rushing toward the “Thinker’s Stone Forest.” He introduced the “Thinker’s Stone Forest” to Ayrin and told him it had been renovated from the old Holy Dawn Academy’s arena originally there. Maybe it was because many arcane masters had used mighty arcane powers in there, but it seemed easier to focus and sense arcane power inside. That was why freshmen would all go to class together in it. The first-grade freshmen all had the same foundation course. They would have different courses only from the second year on, depending on their preferences and grades.

     Running after Belo, gnawing on the ham bread Belo bought, Ayrin thought this roommate he just met was truly a good person.

     “Why does it seem like they’re looking at us a little strange?”

     The Thinker’s Stone Forest was located midway between the Ivy residence district and the Redbud residence district, a dozen minutes from both areas on foot. Ayrin also saw quite a few boys and girls in twos and threes coming a little late when they came closer to the Thinker’s Stone Forest. Only, these freshmen seemed to avoid looking at them after seeing them, and they also seemed to deliberately keep a certain distance away from them.

     “Maybe it’s because we’re somewhat handsome,” said Belo with no concern.

     Ayrin nodded when he heard Belo’s answer, because Ayrin thought he’d become quite a bit more handsome after putting on the brand new academy uniform.

     But he didn’t know why, the closer they neared the Thinker’s Stone Forest, the more he felt the gazes of these new students gather on Belo, from time to time. This made him turn his head and look at Belo with his glasses and gentle appearance. He thought, maybe there was more to him than met the eye.

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     Chapter 6: Impetuous Freshman, Notebook Teacher

      Chapter 6: Impetuous Freshman, Notebook Teacher

     Holy Dawn Academy’s Thinker’s Stone Forest’s, formerly Holy Dawn Academy’s old arena. They saud alterations, but in fact, they merely cleared out some superfluous gravel. The damaged circular grandstand had naturally shaped into a perimeter wall. The huge rocks inside had been erected up, naturally dividing the inside into several fields, each hidden from view of the others. Former battles left their vestiges behind, turning the training ground into a complex topography.

     No particularly meticulous cleaning had befallen the natural grown weeds and trees inside the fields. The whole stone forest brimmed with a verdant atmosphere.

     Moss and his red hair appeared very eye-catching even among the more than a hundred freshmen already gathered inside the Thinker Stone Forest.

     “He ate that much? That should be impossible. Even I can’t eat that much.”

     He looked at the three or four persons around him, seeming extremely skeptical. Now the people around were all spreading a matter: apparently, there was a new student whose appetite surpassed even that of wild beasts from the jungle. He’d eaten ten pork chops in succession, and among those, there was even one chop simply as extra big as half a pig.

     Moss questioned the truth when he heard. A thin and tall student beside him immediately said with certainty, “It’s absolutely true, I even saw it with my own eyes. On top of that it even ended up disturbing teacher Liszt. Teacher Liszt personally took him away.”

     Moss frowned and said, still a little disbelieving, “All the freshmen in our grade come to foundation class all together. Plus it’s teacher Huston’s class, the one most concerned about face, the one who most dislikes latecomers. No one would dare not come. If what you said is true, shouldn’t that guy be here too?”

     Right at this moment, Ayrin’s and Belo’s figures appeared beside a few giant-like white boulders, making their way inside.

     “It’s him!”

     The thin and tall student beside Moss couldn’t hold back a low cry of surprise when he saw Ayrin’s face. A clamor likewise ran through the whole field. There were obviously quite a few people who recognized Ayrin.

     “Little shorty, it’s you?!”

     Moss join them in shouting as soon as he saw, incredulous.

     Ayrin stood beside Belo. He was in the middle of observing the Thinker’s Stone Forest’s environment, the people inside the field. He also immediately recognized Moss when he suddenly heard his great shout, and said, a little puzzled, “What’s me?”

     “Little shorty, are you the great belly king from the rumors?” Moss pushed through the crowd of people and walked in front of Ayrin. “You ate ten pieces of giant fried pork chops?”

     “Ah? Even you know about it.” Ayrin scratched his head and laughed, a little embarrassed.

     “Impossible!” Moss immediately shouted. He stretched out his finger and pointed it at Ayrin. “Even I can’t eat so much, how can a little shorty like you eat it?”

     All the freshmen inside the field looked at Ayrin’s thin and small appearance. All had the same expression of disbelief.

     Ayrin merely felt a little awkward. At his side, Belo pushed his glasses and whipped his head around, asking, “This red-haired kid is your friend?”

     “Who are you kidding!” Moss had already shouted before Ayrin could even answer.

     “It’s easier if it’s not your friend.” The very refined and gentle Belo immediately laughed out loud. He abruptly leaped in front of Moss, looking at Moss with a feverish expression brimming with excitement, “Dude, little shorty this little shorty that, you’re so rude. Also, my great lordly self is standing here but you actually didn’t even spare a glance for me, as if this great lord doesn’t exist. Hurry up and kneel down, lick this great lord’s feet! Or else I’ll beat you up until no one recognizes you!”

     Everyone was dumbstruck.

     Ayrin thought back to the gazes from these people on their way here. He immediately felt as if there was something terrible about to happen.

     Moss was also frozen blank.

     “Hurry up and kneel down, lick this great lord’s feet…”

     He could also be said to an arrogant person in ordinary times, but he’d never seen someone have the guts to act so rampant to his face. Someone who could speak these kinds of words, speak them so smoothly and naturally at that.

     “It’s Belo!”

     “Is he the “Impulsive Freshman” Belo?”

     Amidst the clamor, Moss also realized the other party was that “Impulsive Freshman” Belo who was rumored to be entirely different from what he looked like.

     They said this Belo looked very delicate, gentle, and refined, but he was in fact arrogant and fanatical, acting rashly at the drop of a hat. Plus, he would become very excited as soon as he thought of something he felt was interesting, and then not only would he act spiritedly without any care for consequences, he would even incite others to act together with him. Rumors said he used to be a second-grade student, but he’d been retrograded a grade because he did something out of bounds that ended up wounding both himself and a teacher.

     It was very easy for new students to injure themselves, but Holy Dawn Academy’s teachers were all powerful arcane masters, so a freshman like this who could injure even a teacher could only be described with the word “dangerous.”

     Moss finally realized why the gazes of some freshmen were strange when they looked at Belo.

     “You actually dare to talk to me like that, you want to die!” He realized the opposite party was a supposedly dangerous character, but Moss still couldn’t help shout out loud and make a racket, after a moment of astonishment.

     Belo didn’t even pay attention to this Moss character that was so angry he’d shouted like a child. He looked at Ayrin at his side instead, excitedly inciting him, “How about we hit this guy together?”

     “No need for that, alright?” Ayrin shook his head, sweating a little, very flabbergasted already by Belo’s sudden change. “Everyone’s a classmate…”

     Moss’ nose was about to crook in anger. He wildly shouted out loud, “Great, you come try it, you two come together.”

     “If you don’t then I’ll go first,” Belo said to Ayrin, then he bunched his fists, his two eyes already sparkling with the light of feverish excitement, looking as if he could wait no longer.

     Someone’s voice suddenly came at this precise moment, “Stop fighting, teacher Huston’s coming.”

     Ayrin turned around and saw a young teacher coming their way, wearing a set of pale blue school clothes. This young male teacher had an average height, a round face, skin very white, and the thing that most attracted the eye was the excessive grease rubbed on his short hair, making tuft and tuft of hair stand erect in shiny black hardened glory.

     “Hmph.” Belo snorted when he saw this teacher appear. He pushed his glasses on his nose and transformed back into his usual gentle and refined self.

     Moss seethed in anger, but he could also only forcibly hold it in with teacher Houston’s appearance.

     “There’s a lot of energy.”

     Houston wiped a handful of hair and glanced at Belo and Moss. He flung his head back and laughed. “I like it best when there are energetic young people.”

     Most freshmen immediately felt a burst of evil chill run through them, because before coming here, they’d all heard that the teacher Huston in charge of the foundation course was extremely dangerous even if he couldn’t be considered especially powerful. He very much cared about face, and if you’re the slightest bit careless and provoked him, you’d be recorded in his small notebook, and then miserable days awaited you. The most critical was, he was also extremely petty. The vast majority of people simply had no idea how they actually offended him before finding their names already jotted down in the small notebook.

     Houston flung his head back when he saw everyone looking very adorable. He thought the freshmen were pretty cute this time, so he cleared his throat, let everyone find a place to sit in front of him. Then he began the lesson.

     “There are countless dreams under Doraster’s starry skies. Our Holy Dawn Academy happens to be a place that empowers you in chasing after your dreams.”

     After speaking signboard-like opening words he himself found very classic and very stimulating, Houston’s eyes first stopped on Belo. “Classmate, what is your dream?”

     “As expected, he’s already been noted down.”

     Almost everyone’s gaze immediately fell on Belo.

     “Everyone under the starry skies knows of famous arcane masters,” Belo said, his eyes flashing under his glasses.

     “That’s only possible by beating many powerful arcane masters, you’re ambitious.” Houston laughed. He turned his head in Moss’ direction. “Classmate, what about you?”

     “I’ll be happy as long as I become an arcane master a bit more powerful than him,” Moss said fiercely after throwing a glance Belo’s way.

     “I very much admire this kind of emulating enthusiasm.” Houston wiped a handful of shiny bright erect hair and laughed out loud. Then he looked at Ayrin, “What about your dream?”

     “What’s my dream?”

     In fact, Ayrin had been thinking on and off about this very question from the moment he saw Holy Dawn Academy’s great gates.

     Back in Cororin, what he thought of every day was to dig a lot of ores, feed himself and old Ginns. Now he could suddenly go to school without worrying about food, but that actually made him confused. What did he want to do in the future?

     The so-called dream should be something he very much wanted to do, but also something very difficult to achieve, right?

     Ayrin thought nothing like this had popped into his mind for now.

     So he shook his head when faced this question from Huston and said awkwardly, “I don’t know.”

     “You don’t know? You don’t even know your own dream?” The corner of Huston’s mouth tilted up in a sinister curve.

     “Yeah.” Ayrin scratched his head. “I haven’t thought of any dream yet.”

     A clamor.

     “Then wait until you think of one before telling me.” Huston glanced at Ayrin and spoke kind words, but inside his mind, what he thought was that Ayrin was trying to embarrass him on purpose. He already decided he definitely had to record Ayrin in his little notebook.

     “No matter what your dreams end up being, in every academy, including our Holy Dawn Academy, the premise of the main program is to guide the students into becoming arcane masters. In the legendary era of the War of the Dragons, it was precisely the mightiest arcane masters of each race who defeated the evil dragons and spared Doraster from their tyranny. In the peaceful present, the amount of arcane masters remains the embodiment of a kingdom’s national strength. It’s absolutely no exaggeration to say that the power of arcane masters from various countries preserves the balance. An arcane master’s power comes from…”

     Huston liked his teaching job very much. He became more and more excited along with the unceasing torrent of his words. He started to gesticulate in a flurry of hands and feet, demonstrating the exercises himself.

     “This is our Holy Dawn Academy’s famous “Explosive Blazing Fist.” It’s only an arcanist martial skill, but the power is quite a lot stronger than ordinary arcanist martial skills…”

     With a “Boom,” together with a deep shout from Huston, they saw three successive afterimages trailing out behind his figure. His entire right arm ignited with a red flame, and he struck out with a lightning punch. The red flame flowed and exploded out in every direction, forming a fierce blazing cloud of fire around his fist.

     Huston maintained the pose, then took his fist back. He looked at the freshmen, astonishment, and veneration engraved on the face of many students. He said, looking as if he hadn’t had enough of that feeling yet, “Did you get a good look…”

     At this moment, a snore neither loud nor light interrupted him.

     Everyone looked toward the source of the sound, full of disbelief. They saw Ayrin with his head lowered, a trail of saliva even flowing down along the corner of his mouth. His shoulders continuously shrugged up and down along with the rhythmic snores.

     Huston’s face immediately filled with black lines!

     “He’s actually got the guts to sleep in the Notebook Teacher’s class?”

     It seemed to all the freshmen that bursts of a chilly breeze were suddenly blowing all around them.

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     Chapter 7: Punishing a band of three

      Chapter 7: Punishing a band of three

     “Pa!”

     Huston kicked up a patch of grass and struck it on Ayrin’s face with deadly accuracy.

     What made people even more petrified was, Ayrin still didn’t show any sign of waking up. He still snored rhythmically, even after the patch of grass fell from his face.

     “Wake him up right now!”

     Huston almost couldn’t bother maintaining his own image anymore. It was nasty enough already when he said he didn’t know what his own dream was just now. This time he actually had the gall to fall asleep. Did he really think he was only for show?

     “Sleeping even here even now, interesting!”

     Belo became immediately excited again. He grabbed Ayrin and shook him shook fiercely, he even happily gave Ayrin a kick.

     Ayrin finally woke up with great difficulty, his eyes droopy.

     Huston controlled his temper that was on the verge of exploding. He wiped a handful of shiny, greasy hair and asked with a fake smile, “Classmate, do you think my level is too low, what I’m saying is too boring?”

     Looking at Huston’s insidious appearance, every freshman knew Ayrin was going to be very miserable. But what made them even closer to fainting was, Ayrin wasn’t completely awake yet at this moment asked with a confused, “What?”

     “You just fell asleep.” Huston looked very coolly at Ayrin and said, “That’s why I asked you if my level was too low and what I’m talking about too boring.”

     Ayrin immediately shook his head.

     In truth, he was certain it was the bloodline acting up again. On the way here he’d eaten breakfast to his fill, and as a result, that inexplicable drowsiness had suddenly struck once again. He’d fallen asleep before he even had time to put up a resistance.

     Huston smiled coldly, seeing Ayrin’s headshake. “If it’s not because the quality of my lecture is too low, then it must surely be because your learning is sufficient already and you don’t need to study? If that’s the case, then repeat the content I talked about just now. Start from the power of arcane masters. From which two parts does the arcane master’s power comes from? Hurry up and tell us!”

     Ayrin weakly answered, “Physical strength and arcane power…”

     “Go into more details. There’s also the difference between arcanists and arcane masters I talked about!”

     “Physical strength is divided into two parts. One part is the power stored inside all the tiny particles of our bodies, called physical power. The other part is the power of the spirit’s will. As to arcane power, it’s the power from the external elements we can sense after our Awakening. People who can only use body movements to make physical strength and arcane power achieve a certain degree of integration are called arcanists. Only those who can refine physical strength and arcane power into “primordial arcane particles” and store them inside the body can be called arcane masters. There are in total seven “arcane gates” that can store “primordial arcane particles” inside an arcane master’s body. We can open these “arcane gates” after going through training, tempering, and even fighting. The more “arcane gates” we can open, the more “primordial arcane particles” we can store, and the more powerful the arcane master.”

     “There’s something even more fundamental for an arcane master, what is it?”

     “It’s the power of bloodline. Pure giant bloodlines have astonishing innate physical power and extraordinary strength. Pure beastmen bloodlines are born with the power of wild changes and inconceivable explosiveness…”

     “Very good.”

     Huston couldn’t have imagined that Ayrin already remembered these things from the inside out when he was still in Cororin. But he merely smiled when he saw Ayrin being able to repeat them so clearly and so completely. “Since your learning’s truly good, then the “Explosive Blazing Punch” is also very easy for you. Come out and demonstrate for us.”

     “The little shorty is screwed.”

     Moss started to take delight in Ayrin’s misery as soon as he heard Huston.

     Every Holy Dawn Academy teacher trained in different martial skills. Only a small fraction of them studied the “Explosive Blazing Punch,” Huston among them. The parents of many freshmen present at the scene were arcane masters, some of them even former students from Holy Dawn Academy, but the teachers they’d met were different and the martial skills they’d learned were also different. On top of that, they were sent to Holy Dawn Academy as soon as they Awakened, to learn the basics. That was why Moss was certain there might not even be a single person there who’d learned this “Explosive Blazing Punch” in advance, to say nothing about this shorty who came from Cororin.

     Ayrin helplessly stood up and walked in front of all the freshmen, his lack of confidence written on his face.

     He only heard the first part of Huston’s explanation. He didn’t even see the complete scene of Huston firing his punch out afterward, he was already asleep.

     “Charge swiftly with quick steps and stamp down… bring up a flow of wind as much as possible… When you feel the brush of the raging winds, match it with the chant and focus your spirit very fast, then use arcane power…”

     There was no way out now, Ayrin could only bite the bullet. Under Huston’s proud eyes, he tried to remember Huston’s explanations about the “Explosive Blazing Punch” as fast as he could, then he charged out forward.

     “Explosive Blazing Punch!”

     After Ayrin’s swift and loud chant, everyone saw Ayrin’s entire right arm ignite with red blaze the moment his fist flowed out, a blaze that quickly wrapped around his fist then assembled into a fiery cloud that exploded with a rumble.

     “Success?!”

     “He actually really blasted out a blaze, he used the Explosive Blazing Punch?!”

     “Where does he come from, how can he comprehend this arcane skill in one try?”

     Freshmen immediately exploded in disarray. There was even an expression of adoration to be found now in the eyes of many girls when they looked at Ayrin.

     Moss was still delighting in Ayrin’s misery a few seconds ago. Now he was thoroughly frozen.

     The proud expression on Huston’s face also instantly stiffened.

     How was that possible!

     The “Explosive Blazing Punch” looked simple and sounded simple when explained, but many key points, even the most basic speed at which arcane power circulated, were impossible for beginners to achieve without going through repeated practice. Back in the days, even he himself could barely display the “Explosive Blazing Fist” after a full ten days of practice. Moreover, he couldn’t even guarantee success every time.

     Ayrin was a little dumbfounded himself. Only, he vaguely felt this move didn’t seem very difficult for him.

     This wasn’t a coincidence!

     True freshmen couldn’t possibly achieve such speed in their manipulation of arcane power!

     Huston came back to his senses and thought there was one possibility. That was, Ayrin had already learned the “Explosive Blazing Fist” beforehand.

     “You actually provoke me on purpose, you’re dead for sure!”

     Gnashing his teeth in his mind, he decided to record Ayrin’s name a hundred times in the small notebook. He actually put on an expression of praise on his face however. “Classmate, since you’ve learned the “Explosive Blazing Punch,” then I might as well teach you the ‘Ardent Whirlwinds’ next.”

     “The secret of this ‘Ardent Whirlwinds’ is to very quickly compact arcane power in both your hands, then coordinate the actions of the ten fingers, swing your two hands and instantly burst out ten spinning wind whips. This is an arcane skill that snatches victory in close range thanks to its speed and the scope of its area. An opponent of the same level will usually be injured even if they barely manage to block it. This arcane skill is actually much more powerful than the Explosive Blazing Fist.”

     “Watch carefully!”

     Huston had already completed his explanation before Ayrin had time to say anything. His two hands stretched forward like lightning.

     His upper body and shoulders seemed entirely still, but his arms were like whips that vibrated and crisscrossed.

     Woo!

     Everyone felt their scalp tighten at the deep explosive sound.

     Ten vortexes visible to the naked eye appeared in front of him, intersecting and pulling away, sounding like genuine whips.

     “Amazing, this is even more powerful than the Explosive Blazing Punch!”

     “What a cool secret skill!”

     “It seems like there’s suddenly ten transparent fox tails in front of you. How can someone escape when they face that, they’d be whipped for sure!”

     A chorus of astonished voices immediately rose.

     The voices made Huston once again proud of himself.

     He looked at Ayrin, all smiles, and said, “Did you see it clearly? This time it’s your turn.”

     Everyone’s gaze immediately gathered on Ayrin.

     “Amazing, let me try!”

     Ayrin glanced at Huston in wonder. He simulated the way Huston did it, stretched his hands out.

     Ayrin had an inexplicable feeling the moment he stretched his hands out. He felt that no matter what movement he made or what thing he learned, it shouldn’t go so smoothly for him. But now he seemed to be naturally imitating Huston’s motions from the moment his hands went out.

     This feeling, that he was different than usual, made him slightly distracted.

     “Ardent Whirlwinds!”

     “Woo!”

     The sound of the wind rose between his fingers the moment he became slightly distracted.

     The arcane power gathering at high speed on his hands spread out along his fingers, then suddenly rushed out and produced streams of air. However these streams of air weren’t like the ten spinning ones Huston had created, but several scattered gusts instead. Two of them that collided together in front of him. The fierce, raging winds rushed to his face.

     There came an “Ah.” Ayrin cried in pain. He covered his eyes and almost fell down butt-first on the ground.

     Stillness descended on the field.

     “Haha!” Moss stared blankly, then he couldn’t hold back a loud laughter. “Little shorty, this is actually the first time I see someone get his face slapped by his own secret skill and almost fall. Please, can you be a little more hilarious?”

     “Impossible!”

     Huston originally stood there proudly, his hands behind his back. Now he watched Moss’ great laughter mock Ayrin’s sorry figure. His sleeveless undershirt was soaked with cold sweat.

     He could clearly tell that Ayrin only met with a problem in the interval of his fingers and the speed he flicked them toward the end.

     The hardest part of this “Ardent Whirlwinds” was to gather arcane power as fast as possible and compress it to a certain degree during the extremely short time the five fingers were clenched into a fist.

     Don’t mention a new student who’d only just had his Awakening, even those who already studied for half a year in Holy Dawn Academy wouldn’t necessarily be able to achieve this point. And the most important thing was, this “Ardent Whirlwinds” was a secret skill pass down in his own family. It’d never been taught in Holy Dawn Academy before.

     Could this guy be a real genius?

     Even if you’re a genius, you still slept during my class!

     “You can get your own face slapped by such a simple martial skill, yet you still have the gall to sleep in my classroom?” The corner of Huston’s mouth trembled a little on its own even as he tried his best to stay cool and collected. He said, “Go stand on the road outside the stone forest. It’s your punishment, properly reflect on your actions!”

     “Teacher, this ‘Ardent Whirlwinds’ is no simple martial skill at all. I think it should be impossible for anyone here to use it the first time they try?” Belo’s voice suddenly came.

     “Is it now?”

     Huston looked at Belo and his face full of challenge and impetuousness. Then he smiled an ominous smile as he watched all the freshmen. “Who else thinks this isn’t a simple martial skill? Please come forward.”

     Every freshman could tell this “Notebook Teacher” was trying to make trouble for Ayrin on purpose. Now Huston’s gaze gave them the willies straight away as it swept by them. Who would still be brave enough to stand out?

     “Look at that, it seems there’s no one else who thinks the same as you do. Also, who allowed you to talk as you please?” Huston stretched out a finger and pointed at Belo, then pointed it again outside the stone forest. “You can go stand together with him. Let the students outside have a look at the result of not complying with my class’ discipline.”

     Moss took immediate pleasure in their misfortune, thinking, you be impetuous again, shout again about making me lick your feet… But he only had a few seconds of happiness before Huston’s finger pointed his way. “You also, red-haired kid. Who allowed you to laugh so loudly earlier, you also go out and stand there!”

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     Chapter 8: The Amazing Girl

      Chapter 8: The Amazing Girl

     “What are these three guys doing there, standing there and not moving at all?”

     “What else could they be doing, you can tell at a glance they’re three freshmen, they’ve surely offended Huston so he punished them to stand here.”

     “Their courage is really worthy of praise. This must even be the freshmen’s first class right, they actually had to guts to offend the Notebook Teacher…”

     Outside Thinker’s Stone Forest, Holy Dawn Academy students going back and forth on the road pointed their fingers at the three of Ayrin, Belo, and Moss standing beside the road.

     “Little shorty, is there anything inside your head! Anyone knows what kind of person teacher Huston is, you actually fell asleep in his class.” Moss’ teeth itching in anger. He felt like he was losing an exceptional amount of face.

     Belo shot a glance at him, exceptionally contemptuous. “Isn’t it just standing, what’s the big deal.”

     “Isn’t it just standing?” Moss couldn’t hold back his yell as soon as he heard. “You think it’s as simple as standing here? Do you know how sinister the Notebook Teacher is rumored to be? We can’t listen to the rest of the content from his lecture standing here. Tomorrow we won’t be able to follow, so he’ll easily find another pretext to continue punishing us.”

     “Isn’t it very interesting like this?” Belo said full of zest, “I want to see how many tricks he’s actually got.”

     “…”

     Moss was thoroughly speechless already, but then he almost fainted in anger when he turned his head around and saw Ayrin.

     Ayrin’s eyelids dangled asleep, and he looked like he was soon going to snore.

     “You’re a real pig! You can fall asleep even standing!”

     Moss really couldn’t hold it back anymore. He pounced and clutched Ayrin’s neck, wishing nothing better than to choke him dead.

     “Cough cough…” Choked awake, Ayrin burst in a series of coughs.

     Belo looked calmly at Moss. “Don’t be impulsive. We’d be out of luck if it attracted Teacher Notebook out here and he found out we haven’t been properly standing.”

     “I’m impulsive?” Moss looked in disbelief at Belo. “You’re the Impulsive Freshman, you still call me impulsive, don’t tell me I’m more impulsive than you?”

     Ayrin nodded firmly and said very honestly, “That’s right, right now you look very impulsive.”

     “…”

     Moss felt he’d die from anger if he were to continue talking with abnormal people like Ayrin and Belo. Hence he forcibly resisted the urge to puke out blood and turned around, forcing himself not to even look at them.

     Ayrin seemed not so drowsy anymore after being woken up. But then he felt himself become hungrier and hungrier as time went on.

     “Gurgle…”

     A noise came from his belly near noon. He was starting to become so hungry he didn’t have any strength left anymore, so he glanced inside the Thinker’s Stone Forest and said, “Why isn’t teacher Huston coming out yet, I’m hungry.”

     Belo noticed that Ayrin’s face had gone entirely white, his forehead dripping with abnormal sweat. He couldn’t resist asking with some curiosity, “Didn’t you eat a lot of stuff this morning, how can you be so hungry already?”

     Ayrin feebly opened his mouth. Sounds came nonstop from his stomach before he had time to say anything.

     “I…” Moss felt alright at first, but he also became hungrier and hungrier when he heard the gurgling noises coming continuously from Ayrin’s belly, because he hadn’t had time to eat too much in the morning, for fear of arriving late. Then he turned his head and saw Ayrin looking like he could drop down any second. He became immediately anxious and started to yell, “Little shorty, just stop harming people now. Teacher Huston could be coming out at any time right now, if you don’t stand properly and he finds out when he comes out, you’ll definitely involve all of us. He’ll make us keep standing here.”

     Belo pushed his glasses on his nose and threw Moss a glance. He didn’t say anything however, just looked in the direction of Thinker’s Stone Forest.

     At first, his attitude led Moss to believe that Huston was walking out just at this time. But when he anxiously turned his head around, he saw that it wasn’t Huston coming out from between these great white boulders standing tall like giants, but a female student wearing a set of blue school uniform, the same as theirs.

     The sunlight seemed especially dazzling in Ayrin’s eyes at this moment. This caused the girl’s blue school uniform to seemingly sparkle with a peculiar radiance the very moment he first caught sight of her, walking out from between the giant stones. He blinked his eyes firmly. He could clearly see, this was a female student with long black hair, a sheen of shiny perspiration covering her exquisitely beautiful face. Her school uniform was also drenched in sweat; water continuously dripped down even from the tip of her hair.

     Just as Ayrin observed this girl, a little dazed, this girl also actually noticed their existence. She walked toward them.

     This female student seemed to already have realized what happened by merely casting a look at the three’s appearances. She waved her hand in their direction and said, “What, you’ve been punished by teacher Huston?”

     What answered this girl first thing was a series of noises coming from Ayrin’s stomach.

     Ayrin was a little embarrassed, but this seemingly very imposing girl actually smiled at Ayrin and said, “Hungry? You haven’t eaten much this morning? Even if teacher Huston were to come here soon though, he’d still tell you to continue your stand. He’s in fact deliberately making people starve through a meal when he punishes them like this. That’s the method he uses the most often when handling you freshmen.”

     Moss was feeling hungrier by the minute to begin with. Now even his face blanched immediately when he heard this girl say this. Right then, Ayrin saw thick bandages completely wrapping around this girl’s left hand, and he immediately asked, full of sympathy, “What’s up with your hand, you’re wounded?”

     “No big deal, merely an injury I got when I tried to block with it during training.” The girl gathered her damp hair and looked at Ayrin, all smiles. “You’re truly a good person, you’re already hungry like this but you still worry whether I’m wounded or not. You guys continue to properly stand here, wait for me.”

     “Wait for you?”

     Ayrin didn’t understand what she meant, but this girl had already turned around and walked a great distance away.

     The back of this girl vanished from their sights, but she again very quickly appeared once more in their visions.

     “Bang.”

     This girl tossed a big pile of things to eat in front of Ayrin and the others. She then immediately sat on the grassy ground beside them, easy and carefree. She casually grabbed some foodstuff and started to eat. At the same time she directed the three still dazed boys, “My treat, let’s eat together.”

     “Teacher Huston is deliberately starving us, but now you give us things to eat, aren’t you afraid teacher Huston will see that and give you a hard time?” The three of them were all a little stunned.

     “He’s not teaching me now anyway, plus he can’t beat me either.” The girl made a very careless face and brandished her fist. “Why would I be afraid of him?”

     “He can’t beat you?” Moss actually sucked in cold air, watched this girl with disbelief. Teacher Huston indeed couldn’t be considered very powerful among all the teachers in the academy, but that was merely comparing them between themselves. Even the worst teacher in Holy Dawn Academy could probably handle at least two or three ordinary arcane masters by himself.

     “You guys take your time with the food, I have to go back inside Thinker’s Stone Forest, I still have to practice. I can also help you stall Huston in passing if he’s coming out.” This girl actually didn’t care in the slightest about Moss’s astonishment. She casually grabbed some stuff to eat, then stood up and went in the direction of the Thinker’s Stone Forest.

     “Thank you.” Ayrin subconsciously said a couple words.

     The girl didn’t say anything and didn’t turn around either. She merely lifted her hand and waved it.

     Sunlight shone on her body and made the figure of her back appear very pretty. Ayrin then remembered he hadn’t asked her name yet.

     Belo actually forestalled him. He pushed his glasses and yelled to the girl, “Eh, what’s your name?”

     Ayrin and Moss didn’t notice the odd solemness that appeared inside his eyes from the moment this girl said Huston couldn’t beat her.

     “Chris.” The girl’s voice came to them from far away.

     “It’s indeed her, the Amazing Girl.” Belo’s eyebrows shot up, muttering to himself.

     “The Amazing Girl?” Ayrin and Moss both stared blankly. “What does it mean?”

     “It means her.” Belo looked at Chris’ back and nodded. “I heard she trains harder than anybody, that’s why even if it’s only her third year, she’s already the most powerful among all the students in Holy Dawn Academy. Even some teachers aren’t her match. Only, she’s got severe facial blindness, and even more peculiarly she keeps yapping her slogan of dominating the national school tournament at all times, that’s why she’s got the title of the Amazingly Crazily Girl in our Holy Dawn Academy, or Amazing Girl in short.”

     “The Amazing Girl is the Amazingly Crazy Girl?” Ayrin sweated. He watched Chris’ back with great curiosity. “What does facial blindness mean then?”

     Belo said, “That means she very easily forgets what someone looks like. For example, just now even if we told her our names, next time she sees us she’d only remember our names but wouldn’t distinguish who’s who between us. Maybe she’ll call you Belo, and maybe she’ll call me Ayrin.”

     “Really?” An astonished Ayrin continued with another question, “What’s the national school tournament then?”

     “You don’t even know this?” Moss immediately whipped his head around. He felt himself once again on the verge of fainting to death. “Little shorty, you’re really a pig! We only talked for a few sentences, how much stuff have you eaten already?”

     Ayrin hadn’t been still during these mere few sentences. The meat pies in front of him had all been cleanly swept away already.

     Moss remembered the rumors about Ayrin’s endless stomach. With no time and focus to spare for insults, he immediately sat down and started to gorge himself on food instead.

     “The national school competition’s full name is Hegemonical Cup of Starry Skies Academy Braves.” Belo tore a piece of ham and ate it, neither slow nor hurried as he calmly explained, “All the academies in our kingdom of Eiche will participate in the tussle of this competition.”

     “Since all the academies participate in this competition, there’s nothing strange about her wanting to snatch the title of champion right? Why would they call her the Amazingly Crazy Girl because of that?”

     “That’s because there are really too many powerful opponents out there. Our Holy Dawn Academy hasn’t been able to step out of St. Lauren for four years running. We can’t even defeat the few other academies in St. Lauren, but she actually keeps cycling her slogan of defeating opponents from every academy, that’s why they say she’s an amazingly crazy.”

     Ayrin suddenly understood somewhat. He thought about it for a bit. “So that means our Holy Dawn Academy can’t be considered a strong academy?”

     “The strength of an academy and a tournament like this are two entirely different things. Our Holy Dawn Academy is one of the academies with the longest traditions in the kingdom. It can definitely be ranked in the front if we’re talking about the entire strength of the academy. Only, in this interschool competition, the most important thing to consider is whether there are powerful students.” Belo looked at Ayrin and continued to say, “Because this is a competition between teams of five. You can say that the strong students in our Holy Dawn Academy have precisely been few in number, that’s why our achievements have been so bad.”

     “A competition between teams of five?”

     “Right.” Belo pushed his glasses and glanced at Ayrin. “There will be a preliminary match in three days if I haven’t gotten my math wrong. Our Holy Dawn Academy’s opponent is the Southern Monsoon Academy. Our Holy Dawn Academy will only be able to participate in the main qualifiers and fight for a quota from St. Lauren if we win this match. If you’re interested, I can take you there to watch. I’ll talk about it by then, it’s very easy to understand the rules, you’ll see.”

     Ayrin said without thinking at all, “Ok.”

     …

     Huston took the other freshmen out of Thinker’s Stone Forest from another exit, then went back inside the stone forest after the meal, and then lectured a lesson about foundation training. Only after that did he leisurely stroll through the forest of stones and appear in front of Ayrin, Belo, and Moss.

     “How is it, are you guys hungry?” Huston felt his mood brighten a little when he saw the three of them looking withered under the sun.

     “Gurgle…” Ayrin’s stomach made noises again.

     “Remember to respect my class’ discipline next time. This time though, it’s better if you keep standing here until the end of class today. Remember to practice the Explosive Blazing Fist when you go back. You also have to do a full hundred squats, a hundred backward leapfrogs, and one hundred full-speed sprints… Of course, it doesn’t matter if you don’t practice, or if you don’t do it fully. There will be tests sooner or later during class anyway. If you can’t pass them, you should know the consequences already eh.”

     Huston was even more satisfied when he heard the gurgling sounds from Ayrin’s belly. He turned around and went away after saying his piece, all high and mighty.

     “Shorty, I couldn’t tell before, you have a talent for scamming people.” Moss sighed in relief when Huston’s figure disappeared for good. He turned his head and told Ayrin, “You can actually even fake the sound of a hungry stomach, now he definitely thinks we’ve really been starving all this time.”

     “I wasn’t deliberately faking it.” Ayrin said, a little distressed, “I’m really a little hungry.”

     “I…” Moss almost fainted straight away. “You’re really a pig right! You ate even more than both of us combined. How much time has it been since, now you say you’re hungry again?!”

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     Chapter 9: Under the starry skies

      Chapter 9: Under the starry skies

     Nightfall. Resplendent starlight sprinkled down on every corner of Holy Dawn Academy.

     The kingdom of Eiche was located at the southern end of Doraster, inside the Dragon Gasp Mountains. The Dragon Gasp Mountains themselves constituted the region in Doraster with the highest elevation. Added to the fact that the towns and cities of the kingdom were mostly built on mountains, it was why the kingdom of Eiche had had the title of the kingdom closest to the sky every since its very beginning.

     The closest to the sky, the brighter the starlight at night.

     The stars in the night skies seemed particularly big in most part of the kingdom’s territory, particularly bright, as if you could pluck one down by just stretching your hand over.

     Such “starry skies” were unique to Eiche, that’s why Eiche gained the name of “the kingdom under the starry skies” later on, a name lasting until today.

     And for many people of Eiche, the dazzling bright stars in these skies, seemingly so close to the touch yet unattainable in truth, also seemed like the dreams of each and every person.

     In a quiet nook of the Thinker’s Stone Forest, Chris rested her two hands on her knees and gasped nonstop for breath.

     Sweat dripped down her fair pointed chin, drip by drip, to the soil at her feet.

     Anyone would be able to see that she’d reached the utter limit of her body, but after a quick rest, she actually spit out two words through her clenched teeth in a light voice, “Once more!”

     She began to sprint again, to leap up high. When her body reached the highest point, soon about to drop down, she suddenly twisted around and exerted her strength, stiffly made several extremely quick dodging motions in the air. Then she landed steadily, crouched down, and stamped her way forward like an arrow.

     When her figure halted once more, she was finally unable to endure any longer, and fell backward on the ground face up, utterly exhausted.

     Bitter and astringent sweat flowed into her eyes and her mouth, but lying there on the ground, she actually waved her fist toward the starry skies and whispered to herself, “I have to win.”

     …

     The woody area around the Ivy district was the best training ground for the freshmen.

     Huge trees reaching the sky created a natural divide between many isolated, quiet spaces. Quite a consequent amount of grassy ground in the forest had already been stepped into solid clay grounds where not even a blade of grass grew.

     For freshmen, Notebook Teacher Huston could only be described by the word “freak.” On top of that, the vast majority of freshmen were already unwilling to fall behind to begin with, unwilling to be worse than others. That was why light echoes of “Explosive Blazing Punch”… “Explosive Blazing Punch” came nonstop from the empty spaces inside the forest, shrouded by starlight.

     Ayrin also stood inside one of these spaces.

     Sometimes, when there were truly too many things someone was ignorant of, they wouldn’t be in too great a hurry to understand these things. Instead, they would be more devoted to the matters right in front of them.

     He was already certain by now that the bloodline old Ginns made him fuse with was definitely no shoddy stuff at all.

     He’d already completed all the foundation exercises arranged by Huston. He probably wouldn’t have been able to complete even half of it before, he would already be flopped on the ground by now.

     Now he was also very tired, soaked with sweat from head to toe, but he could clearly sense his own progress. Under the tempering of such foundation training, apart from the soreness, he could even feel many extremely fine threads of heat moving inside him, penetrating inside every corner of his body.

     From old Ginns’ repeated explanations back in Cororin Town, he understood very clearly that an arcane master’s power originated from physical strength and arcane power. Physical power also consisted of two parts, one part being the energy stored inside every minute particle of the body, the other part being the power of spiritual will.

     He also knew very clearly that the power saved inside all the tiny particles inside the body would increase through diet and training, but he was even more certain that without the fusion of the weird bloodline, it would have been impossible for him to progress so fast.

     “The strongest student inside the whole Holy Dawn Academy is also the one who trains the hardest huh… Let’s try the Ardent Whirlwinds again.”

     Most the other freshmen couldn’t master the “Explosive Blazing Punch,” but he’d exhibited it in one try back in the classroom. Now he was already very proficient when he practiced it. For some reason however, any idea about resting went away on their own when he thought about that “Amazing Girl.” So he started practicing the “Ardent Whirlwinds” instead.

     “Ardent Whirlwinds!”

     In the wake of an extremely quiet chant, his two hands suddenly stretched forward like lightning, dragging countless afterimages after them.

     With a whoosh, two gusts of wind swept across his face. They tore several leaves dropping by to pieces.

     “The power is greater than the Explosive Blazing Punch, the speed is also higher. It’s just harder!”

     Ayrin already knew he failed as soon as his hands shot out. Compared to back in class, it seemed he’d gathered arcane power too violently. Not even mentioning the ten whirling whips of wind he couldn’t shape, the shock from the two uncontrollable gusts of wind almost cracked his bones when they exploded out of his hands. It was especially painful.

     “Again!”

     He didn’t stop. He waved his hands and continued to train, very unwilling to admit defeat.

     Once, twice, three times, four times… He had no idea how many times he practiced it. His sweat had even turned sticky from head to toe. The ten fingers on his hands seemed about to crack and split.

     His body had reached its limit and his consciousness was becoming faint. He could even hear the urgent beats of his heart, hear his heavy and rough breathing.

     He really wanted to just lie down like this and go to sleep… But it looked like he was soon going to succeed.

     “Can’t stop! Fight on!”

     “Ardent Whirlwinds!”

     One moment he fought for breath, seemingly unable to get back up any longer, the next moment he suddenly stood up straight. His hands shot out without warning.

     Tsh!

     Ten spinning wind whips suddenly appeared in front of him, making piercing sounds entirely different from before.

     “Haha, success! I’m the best!”

     After seeing the ten spinning wind whips, the utterly exhausted Ayrin could no longer keep himself up. He stretched out his hands, a great proud laugh coming out of him as he softly flopped back on the ground. His hands were stretched toward the starry skies, even twitched a couple times now and then. It seemed completely ridiculous.

     …

     A bat flew out from the forest of huge trees around the Ivy district. It flew into the shadows behind a certain school building.

     The young teacher Carter Ayrin met back at the registration suddenly followed behind that bat. He dove down from the top of a tree with no noise nor traces, and fell on this building’s roof covered in withered leaves.

     The moment his feet came into contact with the roof, a wind blew, rolled up countless dried yellow leaves. Liszt’s figure emerged out of nowhere inside the fluttering leaves.

     Carter didn’t show any surprise when he saw Liszt’s sudden appearance. He said in a soft voice, all smiles, “I thought it was you just now inside the forest, otherwise I wouldn’t have had that creepy feeling of being stared at.”

     “Are you praising me or criticizing me?” Liszt scratched his hair. He plopped down on the roof covered in yellowed leaves and sat, stretched his back with a lazy air. “But let’s talk about you, why did you also come to look at the training of these freshmen, especially Ayrin’s?”

     Carter coughed softly. “Two reasons. One’s because the headmaster let me look after the team for this season’s tournament, the other is because you’re paying special attention to Ayrin, so of course I also have to keep an eye on him.”

     “So you’re the one in charge of the team this time. This means you being at the registration had something to do with selecting the best freshmen.” Liszt rubbed his chin. “Looks like you guys can’t sit still any longer. That’s also normal though, our performance these few years has been truly bad. Not only the others all feel there’s no powerful character anymore in our Holy Dawn Academy, even our own students are almost going to forget what’s real valor and glory. Soon they’re going to feel as if there’s no difference between ordinary arcane masters and those who have the genuine courage to do battle.”

     “Your judgment has always been very good.” Carter sat down beside Liszt and said earnestly, “There’s absolutely no way for ordinary students to learn Huston’s Ardent Whirlwinds, to say nothing of mastering it within a single day. Moreover, Huston’s Ardent Whirlwinds has never been taught in public. There’s no way Aryin could have been exposed to it before.”

     “No need to make it sound so complicated. I understand your meaning.” Liszt threw Carter a glance and directly said, “Even his body’s grown a bit taller since he’s come to the academy. So it’s either some hidden bloodline or some sudden mutation in his bloodline.”

     “His bloodline doesn’t show any obvious sign. I heard he’s got an especially great capacity for food, but it doesn’t look like pure giant blood either.” Carter held Liszt’s eyes. “Did you find out anything?”

     Liszt shook his head with a smile. “Even if it’s not some mysterious bloodline, at least it’ a very interesting one. And looking at his behavior, he seems to understand very clearly the advantages of not exposing the power of his bloodline. This way I don’t even need to explain it to him.”

     “You’ve also seen his training earlier. He indeed possesses the courage to put his life on the line. Since you’re in charge of the team this season, I can only tell you not to make me disappointed.”After shaking his head, Liszt once again looked at the sea of giant trees all around them. He said, “Your luck is really pretty good, there are actually two others there who managed to master the Explosive Blazing Punch within a day or two. Three such figures emerging inside a group of students, the guys in the other schools would be so happy their mouth would crook from laughing if that happened to them.”

     Liszt still had a very lazy and indifferent appearance, but Carter was actually shocked. He shouted in disbelief, “Three of them?”

     “That high-level elven blood, and that kid who wears glasses.” Liszt smiled faintly. “Looks like you have to be a bit more industrious, old chap.”

     “Rinloran? Belo?” Carter stared, his eyes open wide. He thought it wasn’t much of a surprise for Rinloran to possess stunning comprehension ability. After all, even a little elven blood brought greater abilities in many areas, compared to ordinary people, not to mention one could tell at a single glance Rinloran had very high-level elven blood. He truly didn’t expect it from this Belo though. So he couldn’t help stare at Liszt and say, “That freshman who gets easily excited and makes troubles? He also turns out to be a rarely seen genius? Even stronger than the red-haired kid from the Quinn Clan?”

     “You really underestimate him.” Liszt started laughing. “Good or bad he’s the only freshman who’s managed to secretly break into the Giant Beasts Enclosure. There’s no telling what he’s thinking of in this brain of his, but it’s obvious his ambition isn’t small.”

     “He’s the one who secretly broke inside the Giant Beasts Enclosure? So it turns out his injuries were due to..” Carter’s eyes suddenly lit up.

     Liszt stood up and stretched his body. “As long as you’re aware of it. There are so many interesting little guys. Don’t let me down too much at the tournament this time.”

     “What does it have to do with this time, they’re all still freshmen.” Carter blinked in confusion.

     “What’s the big deal even if they’re freshmen?” Liszt looked at him. “What’s the relation between being a freshman and their strength?”

     Carter was thoroughly stumped for words.

     “If you don’t have the guts to act free and don’t have the guts to hold hope, then there is no hope.”

     Liszt lazily waved his hand as he turned around and left. “Things can only get more interesting if freshmen can really participate in the tournament.”

     “I have one last question.” Carter suddenly thought of something when Liszt’s figure vanished from the roof. He shouted, “Since you already knew Belo’s an extremely excitable person who easily stirs up trouble, why did you put him together with Ayrin in the same room?”

     Liszt’s shadow was suddenly gone, but his lazy voice still came out. “From past experience, reckless students prone to stirring up troubles are often a bit stronger than usual.”

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     Chapter 10: Belo’s starter ambition

      Chapter 10: Belo’s starter ambition

     Ayrin was completely unaware there were two pairs of eyes secretly peeping on his training.

     His world had been too small previously. Now the world seemed too big for him. Strangers were everywhere, fresh things he didn’t understand were everywhere. The things he had to think about and assimilate were truly too many. After he struggled to climb up from the ground, he returned to the dorm and rinsed himself in the washroom. Belo wasn’t back yet, and he was of a mind to wait a little for him, but he passed out immediately as soon as he lay down on the bed. He fell asleep.

     He suddenly woke up the next morning, awakened by strange sounds.

     He sat up on the bed, dizzy and confused. He slowly came to realize it sounded like intake of alarmed breaths and miserable screams. Just when he couldn’t make head or tail of the situation, he saw Belo push the door and come in, his hair damp as if he’d just washed himself. Ayrin jumped off from the bed and wore his clothes, unable to refrain from asking at the same time, “When did you come back yesterday, what’s with these voices outside?”

     Belo wiped the white steam off his glasses. He merely grumbled a “Mm” and didn’t answer. He merely threw a glance at Ayrin and said, “Your arms and legs aren’t sore? Last night you didn’t complete the foundation exercises that Huston guy arranged for us?”

     “Oh right…”

     Ayrin thought a little vacantly that before, his body would definitely have felt dead uncomfortable all over for several days if he’d been as exhausted as he was yesterday. But even with so many foundation exercises yesterday, it seemed he actually didn’t feel much discomfort today.

     This was definitely because of his fusion with the unknown bloodline, unknown even to himself.

     Aryin didn’t answer immediately, so Belo thought he indeed didn’t complete the exercises. First he said, “It’s all the same even if you didn’t complete the foundation exercises. Huston will certainly not let us off easy today anyway.” But then he immediately became excited for seemingly no reason. “Since you’ve woken up early today, then come eat breakfast with me right now?”

     Ayrin answered very happily, “Ok.” He finished washing himself real quick, then followed Belo out of the dorm.

     Holy Dawn Academy had a total of five canteens in addition to a commercial street. All of those places served breakfast. The closest ones to the Ivy district was canteen number three.

     Canteen number three was located west of the Ivy district. It was one of these buildings that mimicked the dwellings of the giants during the era of the War of the Dragons.

     Every part of it was built with huge wooden beams. It had particularly gigantic doors and windows. Seen from outside it even looked like a training field, not at all like a canteen.

     The feeling was completely different once you walked inside. Walls surrounded them all around, partitioning store-like booths filled with every kind of food in various styles: roast beef, roast chicken, pork chops, lamb chops, sausages, jam pastries, meat pies, fried ring donuts…

     In the middle of the canteen sat rows upon rows of dining tables, seats directly carved out from logs, enough to accommodate several hundred people eating at the same time. Crystal lamps of every color hung from the tall ceiling. A tempting aroma flooded the entire space.

     There were already quite a few people buying, or already sitting down and eating, by the time he entered inside the canteen behind Belo.

     It was the first time Ayrin saw such a canteen, and he drooled with envy as he looked at the many things he’d never tasted before. At this time he heard Belo’s soft voice shout in extreme excitement, “They’re really here. Let’s go, we’ll go beat them up!”

     “What?”

     Ayrin had absolutely no idea what was going on when he saw Belo laugh out loud at three people sitting together. “Sneijer, why aren’t you guys obediently licking my great lordly feet yet!”

     The entire canteen quieted at once, everyone’s eyes gathering on Belo and these three people, as well as a clueless Ayrin.

     The three people stood up very quickly and walked toward Belo and Aryin, sneering.

     Ayrin had simply no idea which one was the Sneijer guy Belo talked about. What he was certain of though, was that the school uniforms on the three of them were a little outmoded, and he didn’t have any impression of these faces either, so these three were certainly not freshmen.

     The three of them stopped in front of Belo and Ayrin. The tallest and burliest of them, a yellow-haired boy a full head taller than Ayrin, said to Belo with a grin etched wide on his whole face, “Belo, looks like you really want to die.”

     “Teacher Huston?” Belo looked with some dismay behind the three people.

     The three subconsciously turned their heads around.

     “Die! Gale Sting!”

     Belo burst out laughing the same moment Ayrin subconsciously lifted his head to have a look as well. With a loud bang, he blasted a fierce punch on that yellow-haired boy.

     “Ah!”

     That yellow-haired boy shrieked miserably. He stumbled backward, then crashed on the dining table and chairs behind him.

     “So fast!”

     Ayrin felt this punch of Belo’s had been so fast it seemed his fist had vanished.

     “You actually used a shameless sneak attack!”

     The other two people thoroughly came back to their senses and subconsciously hopped two steps away, shouting in both alarm and anger.

     “He actually fights whenever he wants to. On top of that, he’s even a freshman, fighting senior students!”

     “Aren’t they afraid of being punished?”

     “It seems it’s the Impulsive Freshman Belo. That’s a dangerous man, don’t go provoke him…”

     A commotion immediately went through the entire canteen.

     Belo didn’t pay any attention at all to the surrounding noises. He said to Ayrin with a face brimming with excitement. “I’ll handle the beating of this big-headed fat melon, you go beat up that no-eyebrow.”

     “Belo, you’re too arrogant! Flame Slash!”

     Out of the remaining two, the one facing Belo right at this moment was a boy relatively short and fat, especially his face looking loaded with excess flesh. His head appeared particularly big, flushed bright red with anger. He immediately leaped up.

     His entire right arm seemed like a sickle that slashed at Belo, tearing through the air with a piercing sound.

     It ignited with a layer of raging flames the moment it came close to Belo.

     Ah!

     Some students on the sidelines retreated backward, and some girls even cried out in alarm.

     Such a strike was very ferocious. Belo’s wounds wouldn’t be light if he were to be struck.

     “Humph!”

     A punch suddenly smashed out and intercepted it in mid-air. It likewise sent out a bunch of raging flames, clashing together with that short fatty’s arm.

     Flames splashed to all sides in a loud rumble.

     The short fatty did a nimble backflip and steadied himself on the ground, far away. Looking at Belo calmly taking his fist back, his eyes brimmed with disbelief.

     “What, you think I can’t beat you just because I was injured for a few months and missed a few months of training?” Belo excitedly licked his lips. “I only need this one hand plus the Explosive Blazing Punch I just learned yesterday to beat you.”

     “…”

     Ayrin had entirely no idea what was what. They clearly agreed to come here in order to eat, how’d it turn straight away into a brawl. But hearing Belo inciting him to go beat up that bald brows, he couldn’t help but look at the other guy’s eyebrows.

     “What are you looking at!”

     This was a tall and slim boy. His eyebrows weren’t entirely bald actually, they were merely very faint, and seemed a little strange when you looked at them. He shouted in anger as soon as he saw Ayrin watch him.

     “Gale Sting!”

     His entire body suddenly moved. A punch flew in Ayrin’s direction.

     His fist was so fast that, with a swish, it seemed to vanish from the air.

     Ayrin never experienced a fight like this. He didn’t even want to fight with that tall and slender boy. “So fast! So fierce!” He could clearly feel this time that there was absolutely no way to dodge it even if he tried to. He couldn’t match the speed of this opponent already in motion.

     “Let’s just take a chance! I can only try if it works or not this way!”

     “Ardent Whirlwinds!”

     His two hands suddenly stretched out, as if on their own, as he uttered a low shout.

     Swoosh!

     Ten spinning wind whips suddenly appeared between the tall slender boy and Ayrin.

     The ten wind whips were almost shoved right in the tall boy’s face. He had simply no time to manifest any reaction.

     “Pa!”

     His entire person flew backward from the blow and stumbled out, fiercely crashing on the dining table behind him. He then glided on it and ended falling on the floor.

     “What!”

     The face of the short fat boy immediately blanched. This tall slim boy beside him was already ko’d by a single move before he even had time for a second exchange of blow with Belo.

     “Hm?”

     Belo pushed his glasses and glanced at Ayrin, as if he were seeing Ayrin for the first time.

     “Ardent Whirlwinds?”

     “This freshman can actually use teacher Huston’s Ardent Whirlwinds?”

     “Wasn’t yesterday the first day they officially started their classes?”

     “How’s that possible, could he be a student teacher Huston’s already taught for a long time in secret?”

     The light of disbelief shone in the eyes of many students in the canteen, especially in the eyes of many senior students.

     “Let’s stop fighting now ok?” Ayrin suddenly said at this time.

     “…” Many people around them already thought he was very abnormal, now they almost toppled down and passed out dead when they heard him. The vast majority of students had absolutely no way of grasping a powerful technique like Ardent Whirlwinds, which was a little stronger than ordinary techniques. Now that his opponent was beaten up so ruggedly, he simply couldn’t even crawl up for the moment. He simply couldn’t fight him even if he wanted to.

     “Whatever, if I also beat you up, then there’ll be no one left to carry them out.” Belo turned his head around and looked at the pale-faced short fatty. “However, next time you see my great lordly self, remember to pay your protection fee.”

     “Protection fee?”

     Looking at the short fatty clenching his teeth and carrying away two wounded guys that couldn’t even crawl up, Aryin couldn’t help but steal a look at the exhilarated and extremely proud Belo. He asked him, “What the hell was all this about?”

     “Nothing much.” Belo’s mouth twitched in disdain. “This yellow-haired Sneijer was a class tyrant in a class I used to go to. He’s always pushing the other classmates around just because he has a little strength. My goal is to beat up all the class tyrants like him everywhere, then ask them for a protection fee.”

     Ayrin’s brow immediately filled with sweat. “Then won’t you become the greatest class tyrant instead?”

     “You can say that. There should be some seniors I can’t beat though.” Belo patted Ayrin’s shoulder with great satisfaction. “You surprised me very much though, you actually managed to beat that bald eyebrows.”

     Ayrin thought something was a little wrong. “What, you didn’t think I’d win? But you told me to beat him up?”

     “Teacher Liszt brought you.” Belo snorted in a low voice and said, “If that guy had beaten you up, maybe teacher Liszt would have taught him a lesson.”

     “I already said I have absolutely nothing to do with teacher Liszt.” Ayrin was thoroughly speechless when he finally understood the treacherous Belo wanted to take advantage of him. There were still some things he didn’t understand about the fight earlier, and the reactions from the people around them, so he couldn’t refrain from asking, “Will you be considered very fierce inside the academy as long as you learn Ardent Whirlwinds?”

     “Except if you’re a genius like teacher Liszt, otherwise there are extremely few people who can compact ‘primordial arcane particles’ and become an arcane master in the genuine sense of the word before second grade.”

     Belo glanced at Ayrin and said, “Ardent Whirlwinds can be said to be very difficult and very powerful among techniques below the arcane master level. But good techniques also depend on who’s using them. To know a technique and to know how to fight are two entirely different concepts. For example, just now with you and that bald brows. In a real struggle with your lives on the line, if that bald brows had some understanding about you, then he could definitely defeat you just by using hit and run and avoiding a frontal fight. Because they’ve already spent a very long time on foundation training, and their stamina is much higher than yours. Just by delaying they can delay you to death.”

     “That’s why simply knowing a strong technique doesn’t make you strong. Moreover, for the powerful elite senior students who’ve already learned to compact ‘primordial arcane particles,’ a technique of this level doesn’t amount to much if anything.”

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     Chapter 11: Giant Food Monster

      Chapter 11: Giant Food Monster

     “Those two people we defeated won’t have any problem right?”

     “We can’t even break bones with strength like ours, at most they’ll have some bone cracks. Our medicine teachers in the academy are very powerful, they can cure your injuries very quickly no matter how severe it is. What problem can there be?”

     “…The academy doesn’t allow fighting in this kind of place, aren’t you worried about being punished?”

     “What’s there to be worried about? Fights like this are common. On top of that, they lost a lot of face as seniors beaten up by juniors, so they won’t spread it out. There’s no genuine teacher in that canteen either, those were merely ordinary employees. Besides, even I don’t have the guts to fall asleep during teacher Huston’s class… You’re not even afraid of teacher Huston, why are you worried about this?”

     “…”

     Eating stuff while talking with Belo, Ayrin felt more and more that Belo was a dangerous character who didn’t look at all like his outer appearance.

     Then thinking that they were soon going to see the sinister Notebook Teacher again, Ayrin shivered all over, and not from the cold. Compared to yesterday, he didn’t feel any drowsiness anymore, but his body still seemed to need energy replenishment from a great amount of food. That sensation of being hungry to the point of panic was even more unpleasant than being drained to exhaustion.

     In order to avoid being starved through another meal by Huston, Ayrin immediately stood up and went again to buy food.

     Belo first thought Ayrin hadn’t eaten his fill yet even after eating several times more than an ordinary person. But then he saw Ayrin stuff everything he bought inside his school uniform, so he immediately became impulsive again and said. “Ayrin, what are you doing?”

     “Prepare things to eat of course.” Ayrin said truthfully, “This way at least I’ll be guaranteed to have something to eat when hungry.”

     “That’s actually true.”

     Belo also bought some food and stuffed them inside his own school uniform.

     …

     “He’s here!”

     His back against a huge white boulder, the Huston who felt he was very chic saw Ayrin and Belo appear in the far distance. A shady smile immediately appeared on his face.

     He couldn’t be said to have taught too many freshmen, but during all these years, as long as they were in his class, there was no student that wasn’t respectful and deferential. They didn’t even dare breath out loud. If he didn’t properly educate them for sleeping in his own class, wouldn’t all the students lose their respect for him?

     Ayrin and Belo walked very slow and leisurely inside the Thinker’s Stone Forest, looking as if they were having a lot of trouble. The way Huston saw it, Ayrin and Belo were surely sore all over like the vast majority of freshmen because of the foundation training he arranged for them yesterday. But no matter how, he couldn’t imagine that the two of them had just fought a brawl right now, full of vigor and energy. The reason they walked slowly was because their clothes had been overstuffed with too many things to eat.

     In order to show everyone he was a magnanimous and totally not vengeful man, Huston avoided looking too much at Ayrin and Belo on purpose. He waited until all the freshmen gathered in the empty space in front of him, then he cleared his throat and said, “It looks like everyone is full of energy. I like the liveliness of youth. Since everyone is so full of energy, then do a hundred squats just where you’re standing to warm up your body a bit.”

     Many freshmen almost blacked out when they heard him say that, because out of fear they couldn’t pass Huston’s future tests, they all had completed the drills arranged by Huston to the letter. Now they wished nothing better than to scream miserably even when they walked. How were these hundred squats a warming up, it was simply trying to kill them.

     But facing Huston and his expression filled with treacherousness, they absolutely didn’t dare express the slightest protest. They one and all clenched their teeth and started doing it.

     The majority of freshmen had faces twisted by suffering, but Huston actually laughed out loud. He said, “Indeed very lively, looks like you’re enjoying it very much. You’re good students of this Huston.”

     After all the freshmen completed the foundation drill of a hundred squats with great difficulty, Huston’s voice rose out once again: “You, practice the Explosive Blazing Fist. Yesterday I remember telling you guys to practice it. If someone dared to slack off, I won’t let him off easy eh.”

     Most freshmen had faces that became even paler. They felt all the more that the couldn’t offend this freakish and sinister Teacher Notebook, because the one Huston’s finger was pointing at right now was precisely Ayrin.

     The Explosive Blazing Punch didn’t only consist of blowing up a fire with the last punch, there were also the three charging steps made at full strength before that. In such circumstances where even moving toes was incredibly painful, where it was almost impossible to stand up straight, there was probably no way you could display the skill at this moment no matter how well you mastered it in usual times.

     Ayrin himself actually wasn’t thinking about too many things. His legs were a little sore, but it still didn’t impede his movements.

     Hence under Huston’s expectant gaze, he very straight-forwardly went three steps forward in succession, and made his strength explode in the space of an instant, then his fist fired out with a quiet shout. A cloud of eye-dazzling flames exploded as he easily displayed the Explosive Blazing Punch.

     But after this punch, he felt a little dazed himself, because he could tell that when he’d burst out all his strength and stamped every step violently on the ground, many things had seemed to fly out.

     He wasn’t completely aware yet what happened when everyone else almost went half-crazy.

     They clearly saw that when Ayrin ferociously charged his first step forward, several things had flown out from his body.

     Bread, meat pie, fried doughnut, roasted beef…

     Things had flown out and fallen from his clothes with every step Ayrin had taken. Especially the several turkey legs that flew out from his clothes when he’d struck his punch in the end. One of the turkey legs landed right into Huston’s arms by happenstance, and Huston subconsciously grabbed it!

     “Ah?”

     When he saw an ashen-faced Huston grab the turkey leg, the somewhat flabbergasted Arin finally understood that it was because he’d overstuffed too many things inside his clothes, that was why a lot of it had flown out when he’d used intense force.

     The field became still and silent. When they saw Huston with a turkey leg clutched in his hand, the freshmen couldn’t laugh out loud even if they wanted to.

     After staying still for several seconds, Huston said to Ayrin, his face distorted, pausing after every word, “Are you deliberately making fun of me?”

     “…” Ayrin never thought things would turn out this way. He said awkwardly, “I didn’t do it on purpose. Maybe I should just go and stand outside?”

     “Stand? Did I tell you to go to stand?”

     Huston exposed an insincere smile that made many freshmen scared inside. He walked up to Ayrin and stuffed the turkey leg he held back into Ayrin’s hands. “You took so many things with you because you were afraid I’d let you starve through another meal? I only punished you yesterday because you didn’t respect the class discipline. Today your Explosive Blazing Punch was pretty good, why would I punish you? You three have a pretty good attitude. Today I not only won’t punish you, I’ll even invite you to a proper meal as compensation. Come, don’t waste this turkey leg, you first put it away.”

     “Is this guy deliberately provoking teacher Huston, what’s his brain actually made of?” Moss was keeping a low profile today and hid behind a tall student all along. He was still silently scolding Ayrin when he heard the first half of what Huston said, but when he heard the latter half he couldn’t resist shouting after a blank second, almost blacking out, “Three? Teacher, you can’t be talking about me right? I’m not their friend!”

     “What?”

     Huston turned his head around and glanced at Moss. He chuckled coldly. “I seem to remember I especially mentioned yesterday it’s forbidden to casually make a racket in class?”

     “I…” Moss almost directly spit out a mouthful of blood.

     …

     “Come, weren’t you guys fond of eating poultry legs. No need to be polite and no need to be wasteful, finish eating these.”

     The freshmen spent the entire morning split between their sizzling fear of inviting trouble for themselves, and passing the time guessing at what miserable experience was waiting for the three of Ayrin, Belo, and Moss. The vast majority of freshmen found that their guesses came true when Huston put a full dining car’s worth of chicken legs in front of Ayring, Belo, and Moss.

     “He must have bought every chicken leg from every canteen inside the academy right?”

     Moss’ eyes went red when he saw at least two to three hundred chicken legs inside the dining car. He couldn’t hold back his shout once again, “Teacher Huston, I really don’t have anything to do with them…”

     With his hands clasped behind his back, Huston said without even looking at him, “What? I didn’t hear clearly, are you thinking there’s not enough to eat here?”

     Moss even started to imagine fighting to the death with Huston. At such a moment, a cold voice actually came out from the group of freshmen. “Teacher Huston, don’t you think you’re being a little excessive?”

     “Oh?”

     The corner of Huston’s eyes twitched. He turned his head and looked in the direction of the voice.

     “Rinloran?”

     “It’s him? He actually dares to talk straight to teacher Huston’s face?”

     Many freshmen turned their gazes around. Rinloran stood by himself at the edge of the crowd, looking straight at Huston without the slightest dread.

     Rinloran’s cold gaze made Huston’s eyelids twitch a few times. A treacherous smile curled at the corner of his lips. “Rinloran, you want to eat together with them?”

     “Why would I do such a senseless thing?” Rinloran said like freezing ice.

     “Why?”

     A chilly light flashed inside Huston’s eyes. In a flash, his body vanished from where he stood.

     “Puff!”

     Raging winds burst out in front of Rinloran.

     Huston’s figure emerged from inside the gale, taking his hand back, a sneer on his face.

     Rinloran’s figure retreated inside the gale, retreating a full five to six steps before finally stilling.

     Every freshman could see with halted breath. Rinloran’s arms were still crossed in front of him, maintaining his protective posture. His arms were shaking nonstop however, and his face had also become a little pale.

     “Not that I was serious at all, but you’ve already done pretty well blocking a strike from me.”

     Huston glanced at Rinloran and his shaking arms, then looked at the freshmen around Rinloran who hadn’t even clearly seen his movements. “As to why… I think you already understand now. Because you’re too weak for me, because I’m your teacher, because you can’t possibly resist even if I were to force you to do these things.”

     Rinloran didn’t make a sound. He took his hands back, but most freshmen became even tenser instead, because they could all feel Rinloran had no intention of lowering his head still.

     “It’s alright.”

     Ayrin nodded gratefully at Rinloran at this time and said, “My appetite is very big, there should be no problem eating these even by myself.”

     “Is that so? Since you say so, then don’t be wasteful, first finish eating the things you brought, then also eat these chicken legs after that.” Huston laughed out loud. “Haha, if you can finish eating all these chicken legs, then the rest naturally don’t need to eat them anymore. And as a special favor, I can allow you to carry a lot of food to class in the future.”

     A collective intake of breath rose in the forest.

     Because Ayrin really started to eat without saying another word.

     The things he’d taken seemed fully sufficient for several persons, but he cleanly wolfed them down in only a moment, then he started to eat the chicken legs one by one.

     “What’s this about?”

     Huston hadn’t heard about Ayrin’s glorious eating achievements before. He became more and more dumbfounded.

     “Does this guy carries the blood of the giants? But he couldn’t eat like that even he had a complete giant bloodline. Also, he couldn’t be this thin and small either!”

     Ayrin had eaten over a hundred chicken legs nonstop, and still wasn’t showing the slightest sign of slowing down, despite his belly swelling high. Huston’s eyes stared so hard even his eyeballs were about to fall out.

     This was something that completely exceeded the scope of his knowledge, something that was totally unreasonable when he thought of it.

     Moss and the other freshmen had all more or less heard about Ayrin’s glorious battle achievements on the commercial street, but witnessing the way Ayrin was eating now with their own eyes, they were still all shocked, all sucking in cold mouthfuls of air.

     “What’s this guy’s stomach actually made of?”

     “Don’t tell me he’s really going to eat all of this stuff?”

     Moss looked blankly at Ayrin, these thoughts popping through his brain, but then he saw Ayrin’s actions becoming slower and slower.

     “Is he going to explode and die if this goes on?”

     He watched Ayrin, his mood more and more conflicted, but amidst increasing louder sounds of cold air being sucked in, Ayrin actually finished eating all the chicken legs.

     Seeing Ayrin down the last chicken leg, seeing his belly bulge to a degree difficult to image, remembering this little shorty only did this so that Rinloran and himself could avoid the punishment, Moss couldn’t hold it back anymore, once again. He rushed beside Ayrin: “How are you feeling, are you feeling any discomfort?”

     Ayrin watched the empty dining car with disappointment and frustration, as if he missed it, “Oh, there’s nothing left already… Tastes really good, I almost couldn’t bear to eat them in the end… A little more would have been even better.”

     “What?!”

     Moss almost went crazy on the spot as soon as he heard Ayrin. He shouted out loud, “Someone else would have exploded and died long ago if they ate that much, but the only reason you slowed down was because you couldn’t bear to eat it?!”

     Huston was already speechless, but he finally became mad with anger when he heard Ayrin’s words. He shouted, hysterical:

     “Are you trying to oppose me on purpose? You can eat even that much? Don’t tell me you’re a Giant Food Monster?”

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     Chapter 12: Terrifying team of five

      Chapter 12: Terrifying team of five

     “Did you hear, there’s a freshman who’s from a Giant Food Monster bloodline.”

     “You must be joking, I’ve never heard of anyone with a Giant Food Monster bloodline.”

     “It’s true, I heard the Notebook Teacher Huston said it himself. I heard that freshman was really amazing. Yesterday teacher Huston deliberately made trouble for him during class and gave him a few thousand chicken legs to eat, but it turns out that freshmen really ate them all. Teacher Huston lost a lot of face, now even teacher Huston doesn’t dare casually make trouble for him…”

     …

     Moss walked with incomparable gloominess on the road toward the Beast Training Field. He had the urge to spit out blood every time he heard a discussion like this by the wayside.

     In just a day’s time, the matter about Huston losing his poise and becoming hysterical after Ayrin ate an entire dining car’s worth of chicken had already spread out abuzz across every corner of Holy Dawn Academy, but the more it spread around the more outrageous this thing became. Now the hundreds of chicken legs had already become several thousands of chicken legs by word of mouth.

     The Giant Food Monster was only a low-level monster inside the southern forests, with a particularly great appetite. It was definitely impossible for any bloodline inheritance or bloodline power to come from it, but because Ayrin drove Huston half-nuts, and made him say a “Don’t tell me you’re a Giant Food Monster,” now there were many people in the academy who spread the word Ayrin came from a Giant Food Monster bloodline.

     There was no telling how it was going to end up like if it kept being spread on and on.

     The most critical thing was, he had absolutely nothing to do with Ayrin, or that Impulsive Freshman Belo that became excited at the drop of a hat, but Huston unfortunately thought he was in the same clique as them and deliberately acted the comedians in class. He just had no idea what kind of logic really went inside Huston’s head. But what he could be sure of was, for a sinister man like him who had the nickname of the Notebook Teacher, the more he heard people talk about how he lost such an amount of face in class, the more twisted his retaliation would be in class.

     There was no class at all today originally. The reason he went to the Beast Training Field was that he heard today was the third years’ “Monster Battling Exam.” Like the vast majority of academies, Holy Dawn Academy caught and raised some vicious monsters and rare animals. Starting from the third year, some students in the arcane battlemaster branch had to train with these monsters and beasts.

     This kind of training was necessary, because a great many monsters and beasts existed in the forests, barren lands, and above all the inaccessible fringe areas of every kingdom. The arcane masters carrying their missions in these areas could encounter and do battle with these beasts and monsters at any time.

     Fighting with beasts and monsters inside the academy could foster the students’ courage for battle. Of course, the “Monster Battling Exam” was a very important exam for the students in the battlemaster section. Students who put on too bad of a show and couldn’t pass this exam would be phased out to other branches. In the future, they would probably never have the opportunity to become a figure like those braves from the legends.

     Junior students were allowed to watch the “Monster Battling Exam.” In fact, junior students were allowed to watch many senior student exams, so that they could accumulate some experience in advance. Among those, there were some exams that the junior students would never see in ordinary times. Especially an important exam like the “Monster Battling Exam” which was really new and exciting for freshmen who’d never seen monsters and rare beasts before. That was why, over time, it’d become a sort of festival inside Holy Dawn Academy. Holy Dawn students even labeled it the “Festival of Beasts and Monsters.”

     Rumor was, they used a monster called “Ximos” this time for the third year battlemasters’ exam. This monster was a monster newly discovered in the border region between Eiche and the Winter kingdom. Not mentioning new students like them, there were probably only a handful of arcane masters in the entirety of St. Lauren City to have seen what this monster really looked like.

     Moss’ dream was to become the kind of powerful arcane master who could go anywhere, a brave whose fame resounded through the entire continent. He was usually filled with curiosity for every kind of monster, but his mood was becoming more and more frustrated hearing the discussions on the way, to the point he was almost losing interest in the “Monster Battling Exam.”

     “Classmate, may I ask you how to go to the Ironbox residence area?”

     Just as Moss was hanging his head in dejection and thinking of his future miseries, a voice suddenly came to his ears.

     “Hm?”

     Moss subconsciously lifted his head. Five people were coming his way from the opposite direction.

     None of the five worer the blue school uniform of Holy Dawn Academy. They were all looking left and peeking right, observing as they walked along. The one who’d asked the question was a boy with long golden hair tied in a ponytail behind his head. He looked about the same age as Moss and was very handsome. A captivating smile hung on his face.

     Extremely intense, inexplicable pressure and fear suddenly flooded Moss’ body the moment his eyes met the eyes of this handsome golden-haired boy.

     Moss’ body stiffened all of a sudden. Layer upon layer of cold sweat emerged on his back despite himself. Even breathing became very difficult.

     It was as if the one standing in front of him wasn’t a boy, but a monster who could easily tear him to pieces!

     “Where does such a feeling comes from?”

     “What’s the matter!”

     Moss’ hands and feet had become freezing cold in the space of a moment. Even his body would probably be shaking uncontrollably if not for him doing his utmost to keep it under reins.

     “Classmate, do you know how to go to the “Ironbox district” or not?”

     The golden-haired boy asked once again when Moss didn’t answer.

     Moss lifted a finger with great difficulty, pointed in a direction, said, “Just go straight in that direction.”

     “Thank you then.” That golden-haired boy smiled toward Moss. He walked past Moss with the other fours, not saying anything else, going toward the direction Moss pointed to.

     Moss recovered from his stiffness only long time after the five walked past him. He panted in big mouthfuls, turned around, watched the backs of these five with disbelief, cold sweat soaking his entire body.

     “Which school do they actually come from?!”

     “Who the hell was that guy?”

     These five persons didn’t wear Holy Dawn Academy’s clothes. They didn’t know where the “Ironbox district” was either. On top of that, the academy’s “Ironbox residence district” housed guests and students from other schools to begin with. Added to their ages, Moss was certain these five came from another Academy.

     Among the five, the pressure he’d gotten from the golden-haired boy who’d questioned him was too great, to the point he couldn’t breathe; even his heartbeat almost halted. So he didn’t pay any attention at all to what the other four looked like.

     Such pressure… It could only mean that this person’s strength surpassed his own by too great a margin.

     This person was definitely not only successful in compacting “primordial arcane particles,” becoming an arcane master in the true sense. He was also, certainly, a very powerful existence even among arcane masters. It was even possible he’d learned some formidable secret skills.

     Where did such a terrifying student suddenly come out from?

     Five persons! The Hegemonical Cup of the Starry Skies School Braves!

     “Could these five be the team from Southern Monsoon Academy?!”

     This idea suddenly flashed inside Moss’s brain. His body became even more ice-cold. He also trembled, uncontrollably.

     The match between Holy Dawn Academy and Southern Monsoon Academy was tomorrow already. Holy Dawn Academy could only have the right to participate in the main qualifiers if they beat Southern Monsoon Academy. Southern Monsoon Academy was merely a second-rate academy without much fame, situated in the southern part of St. Lauren. It didn’t have any remarkable accomplishment before either, otherwise, it wouldn’t need to participate in a preliminary qualifier with Holy Dawn Academy.

     Moss clearly knew the senior students of Holy Dawn Academy were definitely much stronger than himself, especially those who could become members of the academy’s team. Some of them were even strong enough to knock down ordinary teachers. But Moss also met already with the “Amazing Girl” Chris.

     He hadn’t sensed such fear and pressure even when faced with Chris.

     Looking at these five figures gradually disappearing from his sight, Moss was drenched in cold sweat. The only thought he had was that there was no way team Holy Dawn could vanquish such a team.

     …

     “Holy Dawn Academy has a very good environment, and it’s also bigger than our academy.”

     The five persons who’d made Moss scared into cold sweat were leisurely walking on a small path covered with cobbles, on their way toward the “Ironbox district” at the rear side of Holy Dawn Academy. The golden-haired took out a lip balm and smeared it on his mouth, looking very bored. “It’s just, we haven’t even met a single guy who’s a little strong and interesting, it’s really too meaningless.”

     “Stingham, don’t look down too much on Holy Dawn Academy,” one of the other four said beside him. It was a boy with a tall and sturdy body, eyebrows abnormally thick, and hair faintly red. “The likes of Amazing Girl Chris or Gerrin are still very strong.”

     The golden-haired boy tidied his hair and said with a captivating smile, “Strong? That’s compared to ordinary people like you, captain Hansen. For a genius like me, it’s simply nothing, haha.”

     The tall thick-browed boy and the three others seemed to be long used to the golden-haired boy’s way of talking. They merely gave him a glare when they heard and muttered, “Can’t you show a little modesty?”

     They couldn’t help having a face full of black lines however when they heard the golden-haired boy’s following words.

     “These beautiful academy girls will definitely scream for me after they see my performance, they’ll thoroughly fall in love with me.”

     They all itched to toss him into the gutters on the roadside.

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     Chapter 13: Three great elites

      Chapter 13: Three great elites

     At the same time, Moss was covered in sweat watching the five walk toward the “Ironbox residence district,” Ayrin and Bello were already standing outside the walls behind the Beast Training Field.

     The front half of the Beast Training Field was a small hill inside Holy Dawn Academy, with spectator stands carved out from this small hill. The construction on the rear half faced these stands, then a pit had been dug out in the middle, shaping the whole thing into an outdoor arena. The foremost row of the spectator’s grandstands on the hill was more than a dozen meters above the field. During this kind of exam, there would be teachers from the academy at the foremost rows keeping watch, so that the spectator in the stands wouldn’t need to worry about monsters and beasts becoming a danger to them.

     Ayrin watched Belo’s sparkling eyes. Remembering the other day when he said he was bringing him to breakfast but actually went for the sake of pushing class tyrants around, an ominous feeling immediately crept inside his heart.

     “Why would we watch the Beast Battling Exam if we don’t come first to the rear. You help me keep watch. If there’s a teacher coming, immediately alert me, or else we’re finished.”

     Before Ayrin could say anything, Belo left his instructions behind and already jumped on the wall in front of them, exceptionally excited.

     “…”

     Ayrin watched on speechless as Belo took out a very thin iron bar and drilled it into the wall.

     The walls of this Beast Training Field were entirely made from unusually hard cyan granite. Ayrin knew clearly after spending many years in a mining area that even if you used all your strength and smashed it with an iron drill, you could only poke out a small white dot. But now many stone debris fluttered down, and Belo didn’t even look as if he’d used a lot of strength.

     There was only one possibility there. That was, Belo had already drilled out a hole in the wall some time in advance already, then he’d sealed it with powdered talc and hidden it from sight.

     Ayrin’s sense of danger became ever strong and he couldn’t resist saying, “What are you trying to do?” But Belo had already pulled the iron bar back.

     “Puff!”

     The moment he pulled the iron bar back, Ayrin felt a gust of hot air spray out from the tiny hole. He immediately felt as if there was a monster with an enormous body thundering inside the walls.

     His small face paled.

     The impulsiveness on Belo’s face only thickened harder.

     “Quickly!”

     He fished out something with even more excitement, faced the tiny hole, and forcibly shot it inside with his finger

     “Roar…”

     This seemed to have stirred the monster inside into restlessness.

     Belo very quickly grabbed some gravel from the ground and mixed it with some hardened soil, then once again filled back the tiny hole.

     “Done!”

     Belo waved his hand at Ayrin after finishing these. He left quietly and softly, even signaling Ayrin to imitate him, so they wouldn’t leave any footprints behind on the wild grasses.

     Ayrin felt he’d once again become an accomplice despite himself, after going back to the main road leading to the Beast Training Field in front of the hill. He couldn’t refrain from asking dejectedly, “You’re the one who made the hole in that wall? What the hell are you trying to do, what did you stuff inside?

     “Relax.” Belo pushed his glasses and said excitedly, “I sneaked around a full two months to complete that hole in the wall in all secrecy. I’ve been recuperating inside the academy’s infirmary during those two months, and I sneaked out only at night, so absolutely no one will suspect me. As to you, a freshman who just joined the academy for a short while, no one will focus their suspicions on you either.”

     Ayrin felt even less reassured when he heard this. He watched Belo, very much at a loss for words. “I’m not worried about being found out, what I want to know is what you’re trying to do.”

     “Nothing, I just want to make this Beast Battling Exam a little more realistic, help the monster put on a display closer to its level.” Belo snorted. “Beast Battling Exams can only be considered genuine and entertaining Beast Battling Exams when this Belo is present in the academy.”

     “Help the monster better display its level?”

     “Exactly, I already told you everything, you’ll understand everything in just a little bit.”

     Ayrin had the nagging feeling things weren’t as simple as Belo made them out to be. He followed behind Belo toward the stands in the hill, bitterness across his face.

     As soon as they reached the stands, Belo said to several students in the front who’d sent a few glances his and Ayrin’s way, “What are you looking at, is there anything interesting? If you keep looking at my great lordly self, be careful of getting kicked down to the training field after the Beast Battling Exam begins.”

     These few seemingly very obedient students immediately shivered and ran elsewhere, their heads lowered.

     Initially, the seats in the stands seemed all more or less filled already, but some spots freed themselves after these students went away. Belo sat on them with great swagger.

     Ayrin wanted to cry a little but had no tears to shed. He felt as if he already looked like an evil tyrant just by hanging out with Belo.

     …

     “What kind of monster is the Ximos?”

     “I don’t now, the only thing I heard is they discovered this monster only very recently during an investigation led by arcane masters about the disappearance of a small team inside some especially barren drainage basin. It seems it’d never formally shown its face before that.”

     Holy Dawn Academy was very big. Students of the four different grades were split into a total of thirteen school districts. There were usually very little opportunity for most students to meet face to face, hence even if the Impulsive Freshman and the Ayrin who was the hottest news these two days already had a little fame in the academy, the majority of students gathered there had at most heard of their names and never seen them. That was why Ayrin’s and Belo’s arrival didn’t attract any attention from most people. The greater part of the students gathered their focus on the field below them.

     This sunken field was shaped like a rectangle. The total surface area was roughly five hundred square meters. It hadn’t been renovated, and short weeds had naturally grown on it in sparse patches.

     Two academy teachers stood at the foremost edge of the grandstands. One was a male teacher around thirty that only wore the tight inner suit, as if deliberately trying to highlight the muscles on his body. He had a tall stature, and the outlines of his muscles were indeed very outstanding. They looked like hard rocks when looking from behind. The other one was a female teacher. Her brown hair was parted in the middle, hanging down like a waterfall to the exact level of her shoulders. A red scarf wrapped around her. She stood with her back to the stands so her face wasn’t visible, but to borrow Notebook Teacher’s words, one very much had a feeling of youthful liveliness merely looking at her back.

     A male teacher also stood in the center of the field below, holding a small black flag.

     This teacher didn’t have a very tall stature. His short gray hair was faintly curly, looking like small flabby swirls pasted to his skull. His face looked very young. Only, his skin was a little dark, and his face never went through any great change, so he naturally gave off an extremely stern feeling.

     Four students wearing their inner school uniform stood in front of this teacher with short curly hair.

     Ayrin sat down beside Belo just now. He already knew without asking that the once a year “Beast Battling Exam” was soon to begin, seeing the ready appearance of the teacher and students.

     “It’s teacher Minlur, teacher Ciaran, and teacher Rui.”

     Belo swept a glance up and down the field, his voice chilly. He said in a muffled tone, “Now that’s something. These three are all elite teachers of our academy just like Liszt, they’re merely just a little worse compared to teacher Liszt.”

     “That Hawthorne guy is indeed in the first batch of people to come out.”

     “What’s the difference between elite teachers and normal teachers?” Ayrin still didn’t know which teacher was which among the three Belo talked about, but he couldn’t resist turning his head and ask nevertheless, “Who’s Hawthorne now?”

     “Elite teachers are all arcane battlemasters with unusual fighting experience, who can carry out difficult missions. The greatest difference is that even two ordinary teachers like teacher Huston joining hands together aren’t a match for one elite teacher.” Belo snorted and once again glanced at the center of the field below. He added, “Out of the four students who came out first, Hawthorne is that guy with a little silver in his hair and who looks the most self-conceited. This guy probably has only a tiny of elven blood, far worse compared to Rinloran. But he’s ordinarily incredibly rampant. He’s the boss of a gang and also someone I have to beat up, then ask a protection fee from.”

     “He’s at it again…”

     Ayrin looked on speechless. He indeed saw a tall male student with white silvery hair. Only, this boy’s hair seemed a little gray compared to Rinloran’s, not as bright or shiny. Moreover, this boy’s hair was tied with a headband, so Ayrin could clearly see that his ears were very ordinary, when Rinloran’s ears were a little like “fox ears.”

     Belo’s mutter once again came to his ears at this time. “Word is, the strongest one among these three elite teachers is that teacher Rui.”

     Ayrin couldn’t resist asking, “Which one is teacher Rui?”

     “That’s the one below, I heard he already comprehended a secret arcane skill none of the other teachers could comprehend. Rumors have it he’s the one leading the teams who caught all the monsters and rare beasts inside the Giant Beasts Enclosure.” Belo pointed at the teacher below with the short curly hair, then once again threw a glance at the two teachers standing at the foremost front of the stands. “That female teacher is teacher Ciaran. I heard she has a little dragon blood. I heard that that other teacher Minlur has very pure barbarian blood. These two teachers are probably about the same strength.”

     “Dragon bloodline, that powerful?!”

     “That also depends on how much power she inherited from the bloodline. Like that guy Rinloran, his elven blood accounts for at least half. Either he’s from a clan with a pure elven blood inheritance, or else he obtained an inheritance from a holy item. On the other side of the spectrum, this Hawthorne only has a little bit of elven blood. Teacher Ciaran’s dragon bloodline can’t be very pure either. Someone in her family must have obtained some dragon blood a very long time ago, then transmitted it down to later generations afterward.”

     “Then that teacher Minlur has very pure barbarian blood? He doesn’t look very wild no matter how I look at him.”

     “Idiot, who told you barbarians looked wild. This isn’t the age of the War of the Dragons. Back then the barbarians used to wear grass skirts and live inside the forests, or they’d rub some mud on their bodies when they had nothing better to do and throw themselves on some rocks, draw some stone painting. But that’s only back then.”

     “Look, it’s about to begin!” A burst of cheers suddenly rose in the stands just when Ayrin was making Belo a little speechless. They saw that below, teacher Rui was lifting his small black flag, signaling the imminent start of Holy Dawn Academy’s once a year “Beast Battling Exam.”

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     Chapter 14: Beast Battling Exam in chaos

      Chapter 14: Beast Battling Exam in chaos

     “This time the ‘Ximos’ is still an ‘unknown monster’ for you guys, that’s why the rules of the Beast Battling Exam are a little different this time. You don’t need to knock down this monster, you just need to protect each other and resist for three minutes.”

     After lifting the small black flag, teacher Rui started to explain the rules of the exam in the middle of the field. His voice was very unique, just like two pieces of iron grinding together. It was a little harsh on the ears.

     Not a single sound could be heard from the stands when his voice rose.

     After saying his piece, this curly-haired teacher who, according to Belo, belonged to the mysterious type and was the strongest out of the three elite teachers present left the four students, only silently stopping several dozen meters away from them.

     “We only need to resist for three minutes?”

     Standing with the other students in the center of the field, that tall boy Hawthorne with a somewhat silvery hair smiled very arrogantly. He turned his head around and told the three others, “This shouldn’t be very difficult. You people just stay careful and don’t be a drag.”

     After clearly hearing Hawthorne’s words, Ayrin couldn’t resist telling Belo, “This guy looks like he’s got a very fierce tongue.”

     “This is arrogance, not fierceness. Your brain is indeed different from normal people.” Belo said with a cold snort, “This guy is only playing it cool talking like this at such a time. There’s many girls in the stands right now, he merely wants to attract more attention.”

     “Wow…”

     Sounds of iron ropes dragging on the ground suddenly rose from inside a tunnel facing the stands.

     “The Ximos is going to come out!”

     Ayrin subconsciously looked down, following the burst of surprised cries. Other than the dragging sounds of iron ropes, deep roars could also be heard from the pitch-black tunnel. These two sounds came increasingly closer; ashen dirt sprayed from the passage in the wake of hot gusts.

     A giant head with deep green hair slowly emerged from the shadows of the tunnel.

     Teacher Rui coldly spat out some words while holding the small black flag, “Be careful, the exam’s begun!”

     The spectators’ breathing halted, up in the stands.

     “So this is the Ximos?”

     “Clang!” With the sound of heavy metal dropping on the ground, Ayrin saw, his breathing also stopped despite himself for the space of an instant, a giant monster whose height definitely exceed two meters come out of the tunnel.

     The “Ximos” who hadn’t yet been officially noted in the academy’s records finally made his debut in front of Holy Dawn Academy’s students!

     A collective gasp came from the stands.

     Because this “Ximos” was very different from what everyone had previously imagined!

     This “Ximos” actually turned out to be a humanoid monster. It stood erect on his two feet just like a two-meters tall giant, but its belly bulged up high. A short horn grew on his forehead, while his facial traits weren’t all that much different from a human. It merely lacked a nose, only had two long narrow nostrils. His eyes were also deep green, an ominous glint overflowing in every direction from its muddy eyes.

     Apart from its forehead, dark green scales covered the rest of his body, just like heavy armor covering a warrior.

     The most important thing was, it had four arms!

     Someone shouted out two words in alarm, “Giant monster!”

     According to established standards, things that stood erect or belonged to the category of giant humanoids usually weren’t classified as beasts, but belonged to the category of giant monsters. Moreover, this kind of giant monster with four arms looked harder to handle than normal two-armed monsters, no matter how one looked at it.

     Rumble, rumble…

     This giant monster stepped inside the field in quick strides after discarding all its restrictive iron bindings.

     Dust and grasses flew up. The earth shook with every step its thick and powerful legs stamped on the ground.

     “Can they beat it?”

     Ayrin pulled Belo’s sleeve, his face a little pallid, “It seems so strong just looking at it, won’t it slap you into a flat round cake and paste you on the walls below as long as its palms connect?”

     Belo stared fixedly at the four-armed huge monster, its eyes slowly shrinking into slits, radiating even thicker ominous light. He excitedly answered in a soft voice, “Don’t worry, the good part is yet to begin.”

     Seeing the “Ximos” coming out of the passage was actually such a monster, the four students in the center of the field subconsciously retreated several steps backward in succession, despite themselves. Even the Hawthorne who previously looked like he had more than one card up his sleeves was so nervous his mouth started to twist.

     The Ximos actually didn’t pay attention to the four of them at first. It lifted its head instead and issued a raging roar as it looked at teacher Rui standing to one side, holding his little flag.

     A white stream of air visible to the naked eye sprayed out from its mouth. Even those in the stands could feel a gust of wind blowing by.

     “What a fearsome monster…” Several girls even sounded as if they were soon about to weep.

     “Whoosh!”

     Teacher Rui suddenly disappeared, vanished from the field.

     He retreated into the shadows at the edge of the field before many people could even clearly distinguish his movements.

     The Ximos’ gaze finally fell on the four students standing in the center.

     Its knees faintly bent down all of a sudden.

     “Boom!”

     A muffled sound abruptly came from the ground. Its heavy body suddenly created a series of afterimages before vanishing.

     “Ah!”

     Many students in the stands jumped up involuntarily. Hawthorne and the other three students in the field also cried out in alarm at the same time. Countless amount of tiny particles resembling stardust appeared on their hands and feet, glittering bright magenta under the sunlight.

     “What’s that?”

     “How can they be suddenly so fast!”

     Ayrin stared. He noticed that the movements of Hawthorne and the other three students had become multiple times faster the moment these bright particles had appeared. Their silhouettes were fast like the wind, dodging to the four sides, so fast he had a little trouble clearly distinguishing them.

     “Those are the “primordial arcane particles” they condensed.”

     Belo squeezed his own fingers, making cracking sounds. He said, “I told you before there’s nothing exceptional about using a little arcane power. You can only be considered strong if you can compact primordial arcane particles.”

     Belo added, “But someone who can compact primordial arcane particles is a waste if he only knows how to act cool.”

     Ayrin suddenly sensed a dangerous aura, because Belo’s first few sentences started calm, but Ayrin could feel that Belo had once again become feverish and excited with his last sentence.

     Roar!

     A tremendous roar suddenly came from the sprinting Ximos.

     Hawthorne and the others were a little faster than it at first, but a strength even mightier and more tyrannical seemed to surge from its body along with this angry roar. Its huge body seemed to smash down beside Hawthorne and the others in a single flash.

     “Ah!”

     Hawthorne just happened to be the one closest to the Ximos. He screeched in terror, forced his body to turn around in the middle of his retreat, sent a kick at the Ximos’ arm that was sweeping over his way.

     The magenta arcane particles frantically billowed on his feet. A cloud of arcane power gathered at top speed, shaping into a flaming lotus flower below him, with his feet as the center.

     “It’s Blazing Lotus!”

     “Pa!”

     Some people started shouting in the stands, but this flaming lotus much bigger than Hawthorne’s body was instantly broken to pieces by a single slap from the Ximos.

     Hawthorne screamed miserably, his body sent flying out by the slap. He truly became pasted on the walls surrounding the field.

     The whole field was startled!

     Teacher Rui was previously calmly standing on the edge of the field, but now his expression suddenly changed. His body immediately vanished, blowing up a gust of raging wind. He then reappeared in the air on top of the Ximos’ head within a single breath or two, a whirlwind blowing in his wake.

     The two teachers standing at the forefront of the stands also both shouted in disbelief. The female teacher Ciaran wrapped in a red scarf immediately transformed into a flame in the air and dropped beside where Hawthorne had fallen.

     The minds of these three elite teachers were all filled with shock and incomprehension.

     The Ximos’ strength was indeed extremely astonishing, but medical masters had already done all they could to reduce its strength before the start of the Beast Battling Exam. It could pose a sufficient threat for these senior students, but it couldn’t have exploded with such an overwhelming strength to directly send Hawthorn flying with a single slap of its palm.

     “Haha!”

     There was only Belo who roared with excited laughter when he saw Hawthorne slapped on the wall. “So fun! Trash!”

     Ayrin couldn’t resist refrain from asking in a quiet voice, “What damned thing did you do?”

     “Boom!”

     Teacher Rui fired out a punch downward at this moment, his body still in the air.

     His entire arm was wrapped in glaring magenta arcane particles. Countless blue streams of air actually shaped into a huge whirlwind wheel in front of him the moment he struck his punch down.

     With an explosive sound, the four arms of the Ximos that were smashing his way were all struck away. There were even many broken scales splashing away from its arms.

     “Tap!”

     After beating away the Ximos’ four arms with a punch, teacher Rui’s left palm pressed down ferociously atop the Ximos’s head.

     The Ximos seemed to be struck dead by lightning. Pa! Its body directly staggered backward and tumbled away.

     “Huh huh huh huh!”

     However, the Ximos made a series of roars the moment it landed on the ground. Its body swelled outward like a balloon. The strength in every particle inside its body exploded out at the same time!

     Its four still-trembling arms frantically dug the ground. It didn’t dare face teacher Rui any longer, charging instead toward the stands with a speed difficult to imagine!

     Pa Pa Pa Pa!

     Several broken craters appeared on the hard stone walls of the stands. Inside a chorus of horrified cries and shrill screams, this Ximos actually forced its way out of the field, and flipped toward the stands!

     The silhouette of teacher Minlur stood still at the forefront of the stands, not moving the slightest bit amidst all the panic and confusion.

     This teacher whose face Ayrin hadn’t clearly seen yet suddenly erupted with a great shout when the Ximos’ huge body appeared in the middle of the air, above his head. Strength flowed out of his body; he pushed on his legs, bounced up from the ground!

     The two figures flashed in the air and crashed together with a bang!

     Boom!

     Ayrin was dumbstruck.

     He even started to have thoughts like “Truly a barbarian” or “Truly an idiot” in his head.

     Because he noticed this teacher didn’t use any “primordial arcane particle” and didn’t seem to have used any arcane skill either. He was entirely relying on his own body to collide together with the Ximos, just like a brainless raging bull.

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     Chapter 15: Body training

      Chapter 15: Body training

     The most direct confrontation of body against body!

     Wearing the blue close-fitting inner uniform, teacher Rui unexpectedly laughed out loud inside the tremendous bang, his voice filled with vigor. He flew backward several meters, and steadily landed in the stands.

     Ayrin finally gained a vague glimpse of this teacher’s face. It was a middle-aged burly man with a full beard on a square face.

     “Crash!”

     The Ximos heavily fell on the periphery of the stands. The scales on its chest were surprisingly almost all broken.

     It propped its four arms on the ground, its body trembling nonstop, looking as if it couldn’t climb up for the moment.

     “Haha!”

     The students on this half of the stands had already fled to the rear at this time, but Belo was actually laughing out loud in excitement instead. He charged toward the Ximos.

     “Belo, what are you doing!”

     Ayrin subconsciously stood up and followed tightly behind Belo. He wanted to pull Belo back, but before his hand could touch Belo, an utterly stimulated Belo had already reached the front of the Ximos. He gave the Ximos a punch, gifted him with a kick.

     Teacher Minlur also stared blankly.

     “Huh!”

     The Ximos was still unable to stand up, but with a wrathful roar, its four arms once again swung wildly.

     Ayrin felt the sky become suddenly darker as soon as he caught Belo’s clothes.

     In the periphery of his vision, four arms brought terrifying winds with them as they slapped down.

     “Ah!”

     What made Ayrin crazy was that Belo wasn’t even trying to run at this time. He actually even jumped up eagerly and launched a kick at the Ximos’ legs.

     “Ardent Whirlwinds!”

     Ayrin almost subconsciously took his hands back, then he lifted them back and up, then stretched them forward like a flash of lightning.

     Ten transparent wind whips intertwined upwards and trashed out. However, “Pa…” The Ximos’ arms smashing down crushed them all to pieces in the space of an instant.

     “Amazing!”

     “It’s a disaster this time!”

     Ayrin only thought that he and Belo were going to be pounded for sure into flat cakes on the stands. But a whirlwind suddenly blew up in front of him, and a silhouette that couldn’t be said to be tall appeared in front of him, warded him.

     Boom!

     At the edges of the stands, the Ximos crashed through the railings behind it, sent flying out. It heavily fell on the field below, together with countless amount of gravel.

     Only after hearing the sound of the fall did Ayrin clearly see, the one standing in front of him was teacher Rui. He looked very ordinary, but was so fast he seemed to be teleporting.

     Teacher Rui turned slightly around, his back still facing Ayrin, and said to teacher Minlur standing at his side, “Better cancel today’s Beast Battling Exam for now. Someone gave this Ximos some drugs.”

     “…” Ayrin whipped his head around and gave Belo a stare, even more speechless.

     The full-bearded Minlur nodded. “Alright.”

     Ayrin only saw a blur in front of him. Teacher Rui had already dropped down to the field below, beside the Ximos, and was examining it. As to that Ximos, it wasn’t moving in the slightest. There was no telling whether it was dead or alive.

     “You two have pretty big guts, but you’re not strong enough yet, you have to pay attention to security, don’t be impulsive.” Teacher Minlur looked very rough and wild with his full beard, but he left such a kind sentence behind after a glance at Ayrin and Belo. Then his body flashed and he jumped down to the field.

     It was obvious he didn’t use any arcane power when he jumped down. He landed on the ground like a heavy boulder. Ayrin’s mouth couldn’t help but twitch despite himself.

     “Let’s go!”

     Still full of zest a few seconds ago, Belo now calmly pushed his glasses and left the stands, Ayrin in tow.

     Ayrin turned around and glanced at the three teachers, then asked in a muffled voice the three teachers couldn’t possibly hear, “The thing you shot inside was a drug to make the Ximos crazy?”

     “What crazy, it’s merely something to help the Ximos recover some of its original strength.”

     “You disturbed the entire Beast Battling Exam.”

     “What’s so interesting about that stupid Beast Battling Exam. These monsters get messed with until they can’t pose any threat to the students, and they can only play the part of being beaten up by the students each their turn. Don’t you feel it’s a bit more stimulating this way?”

     “Aren’t you worried though the ones participating in the exam could get killed? I don’t know if that guy who got beaten into a flat cake and pasted on the wall is still alive or not.” After going out of the stands, Ayrin finally couldn’t resist yelling at a Belo. Belo looked like he still hadn’t had enough of the show yet.

     “Don’t be impulsive.”

     Belo glanced at Ayrin, “The medical masters in our Holy Dawn Academy have very powerful healing abilities. On top of that, that guy is an arcane master who can already condense primordial arcane particles. Even if he gets pasted on the wall and sticks on it, at most he’ll have some broken bones. How would he possibly die? It’s just too bad, these three elite teachers are too strong, they actually handled this monster with ease without getting any injury.”

     Ayrin was even more speechless. “Did you actually want to injure even the teachers…”

     “Don’t you have any interest in seeing just how strong the genuinely elite teachers are in the academy? No one would have seen these elite teachers in action without my great efforts.” Belo curled his lips and said, “Too bad, the difference in level is still so far. These teachers didn’t reveal any secret skill at all, the scene was simply not stimulating enough.”

     “The Ximos jumped in the stands already, is that still not stimulating enough?” Ayrin’s teeth itched with resentment. “Even senior students were afraid to go, why did you charge up and hit it?”

     “It’s not like we can die with the teachers there. The Ximos is a rarely seen monster, don’t you think it’s very fun and fulfilling to give it a punch or two?”

     “…”

     “Ah, we can’t watch the Beast Battling Exam now. Maybe we can go beat up a few people and collect protection fees?”

     “I’m not going!”

     …

     He was very interested in that Gale Sting move Belo had used during the brawl inside the canteen, but after experiencing the incident inside the Beast Training Field, Ayrin had the feeling he’d be slapped into a flat cake on the ground sooner or later if he followed Belo to do whatever it was. So after buying a great pile of food, he went straight back to the Ivy district. He was ready to make his way to the forest of huge trees outside, obediently start practicing the foundation drills arranged by teacher Huston.

     Teacher Huston couldn’t be said to be an elite teacher in the academy in any way, and he was also the treacherous Notebook Teacher who loved face to death, but Ayrin had come to a realization from many aspects. Whether it was because teacher Huston really had his own tricks for teaching students, or because students didn’t dare not listen to him since he was quite a deviant, anyway in teacher Huston’s classes, the results the students ultimately obtained in the exams were quite a lot better compared to other classes.

     Last time at the brawl inside the canteen, the leaps and nimble backflips of those senior students had left a deep impression on Ayrin. Today, the formidable physical strength of that fully bearded teacher Minlur even made his scalp tingle.

     With such a formidable body, ordinary arcane masters wouldn’t be a match at all even if he didn’t use any arcane power.

     Such formidable body strength and nimbleness were all tempered out from foundation training in ordinary times.

     “Did you hear, something unexpected happened in today’s Beast Battling Exam. They lost control of the Ximos, the three elite teachers even had to go into action.”

     “An accident happened? I forgot to go there and take a look today, hurry up, tell me what the hell happened.”

     “Apparently someone deliberately gave some recovery medicine to the monster. The result was, it sent an examinee flying out in one slap. In the end, it even charged up on the stands. But nothing bad happened apart from that student getting injured. I heard that teacher Minlur is really strong. He didn’t even use arcane particle, he clashed with the monster with just his own body, but knocked the monster so hard he sent it sprawled on the stands, it couldn’t crawl back up.”

     “Teacher Minlur is the one with the sturdiest body among the teachers to begin with. It’s not only because of the power of his bloodline. They say he’s more passionate about foundation training than arcane training. I heard senior students say before, this teacher used to hit trees and bump into trees like a raging bull when he had nothing better to do.”

     Ayrin heard the discussions of some senior students on his way to the forest of giant trees.

     “Hit trees, bump into trees… It sounds useful.”

     In an instant, these great trees stretching to the sky in the forest outside the Ivy district suddenly all turned into enemies in Ayrin’s eyes.

     …

     “Pa!”

     In an empty spot inside the forest of giant trees, Ayrin used all his strength and smashed his fist on the huge tree in front of him.

     “That hurts!”

     His arm and body shook abruptly, and his face immediately became distorted.

     Prior to that, he’d already completed the set of foundation training Huston had planned. His body was already soaked in sweat.

     His fist was a little swollen red after he hit the tree with his full strength. He didn’t stop there however. Instead, he suddenly leaped up and crashed his entire body against the tree in front of him.

     “Ah!”

     Another miserable scream rose inside the empty forest.

     Ayrin was like a flat dough as he slid down along the tree’s trunk, flopping on the ground.

     “Ah!”

     “Ah!” …

     Miserable screams rang nonstop in the forest, one after another.

     The forest welcomed the possibly funniest training scene in recent years.

     An immature figure jumped and jumped in front of a huge tree. First he punched and kicked it a few times. When his hands and feet were all hurting til he didn’t even know where to put them, his body would bounce up and crash against the tree, then became paste on it with an “Ah!” before sliding down.

     “This guy…”

     A young teacher stood on a branch at the top of a tree not too far behind Ayrin. This young teacher was the one Ayrin met before at the registration, teacher Carter.

     Carter wanted to laugh when he saw Ayrin looking so laughably funny, but his laughter had a little trouble coming out in the open at the same time.

     His figure finally moved a few minutes later when he discovered that Ayrin still didn’t intend to stop. He drew dots on the tree trunks with extreme nimbleness, catapulted himself down at flying speed from the treetop several dozen meters high.

     “Ah!”

     Another miserable scream. This time, however, Ayrin noticed one more person in the clearing after sliding down from the tree.

     “Cartman…Teacher Cartman?” Ayrin said, a little uncertain. He looked at Carter even as he rubbed his fists and feet.

     “…” Carter shook his head, a little speechless, then said, “I’m teacher Carter, not teacher Cartman.”

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     Chapter 16: You’re a monster

      Chater 16: You’re a monster

     “I remember, you’re that teacher back at the registration.” Ayrin scratched his head in embarrassment and asked, “Why are you here?”

     “I just happened by and saw you training.”Carter looked at Ayrin and asked, “Is it teacher Huston who asked you guys to train like this?”

     Ayrin shook his head. “I only gave it a try because I heard teacher Minlur trains like this.”

     “This guy…”

     Carter stared, his brows bunching together. He pondered for a while then nodded at Ayrin. “In that case, you might as well link it all together and treat it as a practical skill, it’ll be more beneficial this way.”

     Ayrin stared blankly. “Practical skill?”

     “A move that can be used in battle.” Carter said in all seriousness, “Physical strength and arcane power are both an arcane master’s weapons. To put it as simply as possible, you have to use means fair and foul, take advantage of everything that can be used in order to defeat your opponent. An arcane master who only knows to use arcane skills is definitely not one expert in fighting.”

     Ayrin seemed to understand something from his words. His head nodded firmly up and down on its own.

     “If you want to use the power of your body to bring the greatest damage to your opponent, the best way is to avoid getting hit by the opponent before you hit them yourself.” Carter continued in a gentle tone, “Speed can increase the force of the impact, an abrupt change of direction can dodge the opponent’s attacks. Moreover, you can rush in front of your opponent and catch them off-guard with an unexpected strike.”

     “Watch carefully.”

     After gesturing to Ayrin to make him pay attention, Carter suddenly launched himself, sprinted at lightning speed, then suddenly threw himself forward once near that giant tree Ayrin had been hitting earlier, rolled on the ground, then bounced up with alarming speed before smashing his fist on the tree trunk.

     “Pop.”

     The hard brown bark split into pieces, countless dense cracks appearing on the shining white wood exposed below.

     This wasn’t the end of it yet. Carter crashed against it without the slightest pause. A burst of violent shakes went through the entire giant tree, together with a tremendous bang. Innumerable tree leaves fluttered down like rain.

     Ayrin stood there, thoroughly dumbfounded.

     Carter’s entire movement smoothly blended into one whole, fast like a bolt of lighting.

     There was previously almost no trace on the tree trunk, but now there were two depressions on it, one big and one small. Looking at the tree bark split open explosively, and the strips of wood sticking out, Ayrin was certain that if he were to be hit like this, his fate wouldn’t be that much different from that guy the Ximos had sent flying.

     “Sprinting at full speed is so you can increase the force of impact, the roll on the ground can dodge your opponent’s attack and also catch him unprepared.” Carter quietly explained when he saw Ayrin stand in a daze. “This set of movements can train your body and also be used during actual combat. The most critical point is to make the roll and the bounce into one coherent movement. You have to use your entire strength and you can’t slow down. You also have to be careful when handling the timing of your punch. You need to use a punch to seize the initiative and shorten the distance between you and your opponent, prevent your opponent’s next action, but you can’t let this punch slow your ramming either.”

     “I got it! Let me try.”

     Ayrin nodded excitedly. He shouted, then once again charged toward that giant tree, swelling with bravery.

     “Hiss…”

     Carter’s eyes shrank. He couldn’t help but suck a deep breath in.

     “Pa!” “Pa!” With two explosive sounds, Ayrin bounced up and landed a ferocious punch on the tree trunk, then his whole body crashed against it without the slightest pause.

     “Ah!”

     Another exaggerated miserable scream rose all of a sudden, but Carter was now frozen, and an expression full of disbelief flooded his eyes.

     Of course Ayrin couldn’t possibly compare to him in speed and strength, but Ayrin’s entire movement had been extremely smooth and cohesive.

     There was simply no need for repeated practice. Ayrin fully grasped this set of movements in a single try. The difficulties he’d talked about seemed simply inexistent for him.

     There was simply no need at all for him to explain things any further.

     Ayrin’s movements would certainly become faster and more explosive as long as he continued this exercise.

     Carter had personally taught quite a few students before, and he’d also seen some figures that could be described as geniuses, but almost none of them could compare to Ayrin when it came to learning speed and comprehension ability.

     “What kind of monster is he, is it a coincidence or is that his nature?… What kind of mysterious bloodline does he actually have?” A fine layer of cold sweat emerged in Carter’s palms; his heart started to bang with uncontrollable violence.

     Ayrin sat on the ground in pain. He asked, full of expectation, “Teacher Carter, is it like this?”

     “Just like this.” Carter composed himself. “If you’re interested, properly keep practicing by yourself.”

     “Thank you, teacher Carter.”

     “No need to be polite, you continue your training.”

     Carter’s silhouette flashed and shot upwards, becoming a blue shadow streaking among the giant treetops.

     “Really awesome. Teacher Carter, you’re definitely an elite teacher in the academy too. But I’m guessing you still can’t beat teacher Minlur or that teacher Rui.”

     “…” Carter was in the middle of considering whether he ought to try and teach Ayrin a few more things in the future while he skimmed among the clusters of trees. He almost stepped on empty air and fell down head first from the sky when he heard Ayrin’s words.

     “Ah!” “Ah!” …

     Scream after miserable scream rose continuously inside the forest of giant trees.

     …

     …

     The curtain of the night once again enveloped Holy Dawn Academy. The forest recovered its serenity under the silvery starlight.

     Ayrin was still drowsy from sleep when a dark cloud suddenly appeared in front of him.

     Ayrin opened his eyes. He saw Belo standing immobile in front of his bed, looking at him with a very solemn look. He muttered, his brain still mushy, “When did you come back yesterday? I waited for you until really late but you didn’t come back, so I went to bed first… Why are you standing there looking at me, that’s really creepy. I’m not a monster, what’s so interesting about me.”

     “You’re much more interesting than even the monsters inside the academy’s Beasts Enclosure. I really can’t see through you.” Belo gave Ayrin a serious once-over. The lenses of his glasses flashed under the sunlight filtering through the windows, as if a layer of ice had formed on them.

     “What’s interesting about me?” Ayrin wiped the drool flowing from his mouth and sat up in a daze.

     “I thought I came to the wrong room when I returned yesterday.” Belo gave him a glance and said, “Then I found out it was you after I had a good look, you were beaten up all swollen. I think teacher Huston wouldn’t have recognized you back then.”

     Ayrin smiled in embarrassment when he heard Belo. He said, “I didn’t get beaten up by anyone, I became like that training on my own.”

     Belo pushed his glasses and said, “Then, you take a look at the mirror now.”

     Ayrin stood up, looking drowsy and confused. He looked at the mirror beside the bed and immediately thought there was a problem with his eyes.

     His hands and cheeks were clear and white. There was simply no visible bruise.

     He couldn’t resist shouting, “What’s going on?”

     “Why’re you asking me what’s going on?”

     Belo snorted coldly. “You were beaten black and blue when I came back last night, even teacher Huston wouldn’t have recognized you, but you’re like brand new after a little sleep. Also, don’t you feel your clothes have gotten smaller?”

     Ayrin looked at the mirror and immediately shouted, “What, our Holy Dawn Academy uniforms cost so much, yet the quality is still so shoddy, they actually shrink after wash.”

     “Shrink after wash?”

     Belo stood up in front of Ayrin. “You carefully look again and see if they shrank? You were half a head shorter than me when you came here, now you look again.”

     Ayrin examined Belo up and down, then he examined himself. He became petrified on the spot.

     He realized he seemed about the same height as Belo now.

     He finally came to his senses. His sleeves were clearly shorter, his clothes were clearly tighter, not because they shrank but because he’d grown much taller.

     “You already grew from half a head shorter than me to around the same height in a matter of days.” Belo smiled at Ayrin, very interested. “Don’t you think you’re much more intriguing compared to the creatures inside the Beast Enclosure?”

     “I…”

     Ayrin was at a complete loss for words.

     He was certain this was the effect of old Ginns’ mysterious bloodline.

     He was entirely awake now. In the places that were as painful as needle pricks whenever he touched them after his training yesterday, he could only feel a numb soreness now. That feeling of utter exhaustion was also thoroughly gone, replaced instead by thin strands of warmth.

     He seemed once again brimming with energy from head to toe. On top of that, his physical power seemed to be quite a bit stronger than yesterday!

     “Alright, stop staring blankly. Anyway you’re not arrogant at all, so I won’t ask protection fees from you even if you’re a bit weird.” Belo casually waved his hand when he saw the stunned Ayrin. “Hurry up and get dressed, get ready to leave.”

     Ayrin subconsciously said, “Leave? Go where, what bad things are you planning this time?”

     Belo only showed contempt for Ayrin’s conditioned reflex-like reaction. “Did sleep make you stupid? You forgot that today’s the match between our Holy Dawn Academy and Southern Monsoon Academy?”

     “The Amazing Girl? You’re right, today’s the preliminary between our Holy Dawn Academy and Southern Monsoon Academy!”

     Ayrin reacted immediately. He dressed up in a flurry of hands and feet; he very quickly discovered that the outer uniform didn’t have much elasticity, and now it was so tight he couldn’t even wear it anymore.

     He asked Belo, a little anxious, “What should I do?”

     “You can wear my clothes for now.” Belo casually threw two pieces of clothing to Ayrin. “You can just go find the dorms’ teacher and get your clothes changed.”

     Ayrin firmly nodded with exceptional gratitude.

     After washing himself at supersonic speed, he followed Belo out like a gust of wind. They casually bought some things to eat at the nearest canteen, then they dashed even while eating to where the match took place, the Holy Dawn Arena.

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     Chapter 17: Team Southern Monsoon

      Chapter 17: Team Southern Monsoon

     “Something’s wrong.”

     The closer they neared the Holy Dawn Arena, the more suspicious Ayrin’s expression became. He couldn’t help but mutter to himself, a little apprehensive.

     “What’s wrong?” Belo turned his head around and looked at Ayrin. “Ayrin, can’t you eat your sausage first before talking. Don’t you feel very ridiculous talking with a roasted sausage hanging on your mouth?”

     “Fine.”

     In two or three bites, Ayrin finished the sausage he’d already gnawed halfway. Then he looked at the Holy Dawn Arena’s vast and lofty dome that was already emerging in front of them. He said, “Belo, did you remember the date of the match wrong? A confrontation like this between the strongest students of the two academies involves the honor between the two academies, it should be much more spectacular than the Beast Battling Exam, so there should be many spectators coming. Why are there so few people on the way?”

     “The reason is very simple.”

     Belo looked at the sparse flow of people on the street ahead and said, “It’s because the battle record of our Holy Dawn Academy is really too lame. Every time, what you want to see is your own academy giving a painful beating to the guys from the other academy, and then get qualified, but what you see every time is people from your academy get painfully beaten up by other people. When something’s too disappointing and feels too much of like a loss of face, of course there will be much fewer people coming to watch. For the vast majority of students, this competition happening only once a year is the greatest affair in Eiche. Countless students and even those who’ve already graduated will come in great flocks to watch their academies’ matches, but our Holy Dawn Academy is instead almost going to completely forget about this popular competition that’s all the rage in the entire kingdom.”

     “The worse the battle record and the worse the strength, the more you should go to the arena and cheer for them.” Ayrin said, “This way the atmosphere is more imposing, and maybe their display will be a bit better too.”

     “That’s your way of thinking. There aren’t many people like you who don’t know what shame is.”

     “But the more shamed you feel, the more you ignore this competition, the less passionately you throw yourself into this contest, then the less likely your team will defeat the other academies, isn’t it?”

     “What you say is smart, you’re talking about the important point.” Belo squinted his eyes. “Right now there are many guys inside Holy Dawn Academy that have a little talent like Hawthorne and managed to compact primordial arcane particles very early, becoming arcane masters. They’re all garbage who only know how to hide inside the school, acting cool and strong. What I think is, these wastes have now long forgotten the meaning of courage. I wouldn’t have come to this shameful academy if it wasn’t for Holy Dawn Academy having many formidable arcane skills you can’t find elsewhere, and its many fierce elite teachers.”

     “Hey, isn’t that Moss? He came to watch the match too.”

     Ayrin suddenly pointed his finger in front of them. Inside the sparsely populated crowd, the red-haired Moss was coming close to an entrance of the arena.

     “Newer students will be more curious about the novelty of this competition, and they’re prone to be more hopeful about it. That’s why there are more first years and second years coming to watch. Isn’t it very normal for this guy to come have a look?”

     “Let’s go and sit together with him?”

     “Alright, we’ll sit together and beat him up!”

     “…That won’t be necessary.”

     …

     “Courage is the gateway to every dream.”

     At the entrance, Ayrin saw these words on every direction board in the blue Holy Dawn Arena, an arena that dwarfed him.

     Looking pensive, his head lowered, he followed inside after Belo.

     The sight suddenly widened in front of their eyes when they went through the tunnel. Ayrin shivered the moment daylight sprinkled down from the sky and shrouded him in it; his eyes suddenly spread wide open.

     The blue stands that could accommodate several dozen thousand people seemed like a circle of waves revolving around the field below.

     The circular form of this field wasn’t as smooth as the one inside the Beast Training Field though.

     Scattered weeds looked lonely in it, shuddering in the slight breeze. The vast majority of the field was however covered in cracks and pits big and small!

     Vestiges from the burn of flames, the crush of heavy objects, or the sharpness of cutting weapons were left everywhere behind.

     Even if it was his first time coming here, Ayrin was certain these were all scars left behind by previous battles.

     Perhaps the names of those who fought here were long forgotten, but the vestiges of their fights still lived on.

     At this very moment, Ayrin really couldn’t understand why the Holy Dawn students could ignore his competition after witnessing the scars of these battles.

     Indeed, there weren’t many Holy Dawn Academy students who came to watch.

     Students of the other academies each also had their own temperaments and their own various hobbies, but the competition venues in the vast majority of academies would be bursting full when the matches were underway. However, merely half the seats were occupied in this arena.

     The venue seemed a little cold and empty, but a clamor suddenly rose inside.

     Ayrin looked toward the source of the noise. A big crowd of people clad in yellow came their way, and very quickly occupied a portion of the stands.

     These people wore identical yellow uniforms and even carried small drums, pounding them in dong dong dong dongs. The venue previously seemed very quiet, now it instantly became exceptionally raucous.

     Ayrin thought of something and turned his head around, asking Belo, “These are students of Southern Monsoon Academy? Their school uniforms are yellow with a parasol tree leaf emblem on them?”

     “That’s not a parasol tree leaf, it’s a maple leaf emblem. The strongest arcane master in the history of the Southern Monsoon Academy had a secret skill called ‘Maple of Life.’ The maple leaf emblem is in remembrance of the legend and glory of this powerful arcane master.” Belo pushed his glasses and said, sounding as if he were a big shot. “Look carefully at that group of students, see which ones among them are the most arrogant and the most enthusiastic.”

     “Why?”

     “After the match ends, we’ll go beat up the noisiest and most arrogant ones.”

     “…”

     …

     Amidst all the racket suddenly brought by the big group of Southern Monsoon students, the red-haired Moss sat alone in a certain corner of the stands.

     An inexplicable disquiet had gotten hold of him after chancing upon the team of five on the road. Someone like him who came from a great clan with a formidable blood lineage would naturally not have the same ambitions as those ordinary students. They’d find a steady job after graduation, drifting along and waiting for death, while his goal was to become a mighty arcane master under the starry skies that would inspire awe and reverence. So for a freshman as proud as him, the academy’s glory was something essential. He’d always thought before meeting that team of five that no matter how disastrous the academy’s past results, everything would be better once he was eligible to go to battle as a representative of Holy Dawn Academy.

     However, the emergence of that team of five actually made him feel uncertain about everything.

     That feeling of pressure that made him almost unable to breathe, it made him feel like he’d have no way to compete even if given a year or two.

     “What?”

     An extremely conflicted and somewhat confused Moss stood up all of a sudden, breathing heavily.

     At this time, the teams from Holy Dawn Academy and Southern Monsoon Academy as well as the teachers in charge of them began to come inside the field. He could see with a single glance that the golden-haired boy was definitely not among the five from Southern Monsoon Academy.

     “So they weren’t the student team for Southern Monsoon?”

     “Then who the hell are they?!”

     Moss stared blankly at Southern Monsoon’s team. Other than the golden-haired boy, he didn’t have much an impression of the other four, but he was certain right now the five from Southern Monsoon Academy were different from the five he met beforehand.

     …

     “Its the Amazing Girl!”

     At the other end of the stands, Ayrin immediately shouted with excitement when he saw Chris among the representatives for Holy Dawn Academy.

     Chris had her air bunched up today. She looked especially spirited.

     Belo muttered, “What are you yelling for.” His gaze full of evil intent lock onto tightly on the team of five from Southern Monsoon Academy.

     “Hmm?” Very quickly, he made a strange sound.

     Ayrin immediately asked, “What?”

     “There’s a new guy who joined their team, looks very dangerous,” Belo solemnly said.

     “Which one? You know the rest of them?” Ayrin stared blankly. Everyone in the Southern Monsoon team was a boy. One of them had an especially tall figure, looking close to two meters tall, with very short hair. He didn’t wear Southern Monsoon’s outer uniform like the others, but only a yellow tank top. Thick body hair grew on his exposed skin, looking as hard as steel needles.

     Among the four others, one was short fatty with a very bloated figure. He looked like a ball seen from afar. It even looked like he was chewing something in his mouth. There was a small and thin person with hair of a peculiar green color. Another one had his collar pulled up, his hands shrunken inside his sleeves, his head always lowered, his pale white hair tied in a braid. There was also one with pale yellow hair, his build and facial features both very ordinary.

     “I watched the Southern Monsoon team’s matches before.” Belo rubbed his chin, looking as if plotting something. “That very tall guy who looks especially fierce is their team captain, Ferdinand. That fatball is Apia, the white-haired kid shrinking inside his clothes is from Clan Ryswell, the pale yellow hair kid seems to be called Crewe. That green-haired kid came out from thin air.”

     “What’s special about Clan Ryswell?”Ayrin looked at Belo with some resentment, “You still haven’t told me what the rules of the competition are like.”

     “Clan Ryswell is a clan with hybrid mutated blood.”

     “Hybrid mutated blood?”

     “Their bloodline is especially mixed. The successive generations of the clan have a history of intermarriage with elves, giants, and beastmen bloodlines. They have a little bit of every bloodline, that’s why you can’t even tell what’s their real bloodline nowadays. The only thing that’s certain is that people from their clan have move especially nimbly, and also, their clan have secret skills exclusive to those with their clan’s blood.”

     Belo’s sight locked on tight on that seemingly low-key green-haired shorty, while he carried on with his explanation to Ayrin, “Now you can see the teams from both sides, both sides have five people, the rules are very simple. Both sides each send out one person, the winner can stay on the field and continue fighting. The game ends when the five on one side are all defeated.”

     “One versus one duel, when you win you can even keep fighting on?”

     “Right, that’s why usually even if you can’t win you still have to struggle to the utmost, so you can consume the other side’s strength and create an opportunity for the teammate coming after you.” Belo nodded. “That’s why many matches stop only when one side collapses entirely, unable to stand back up.”

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     Chapter 18: A dangerous newcomer

      Chapter 18: A dangerous newcomer

     “It’s teacher Carter!” Ayrin suddenly saw a familiar face.

     “He’s actually the teacher in charge of our Holy Dawn team?”

     “Don’t look down on him.” Belo glanced at Carter who was in the middle of saying something to the Holy Dawn five. He said with a snort, “They call him a nice teacher, but he’s also an elite teacher of the academy. They say he’s the one with the best control over “arcane particles” among all the teachers in the school. I didn’t think he’d be the one in charge of the competition this time, this is getting interesting.”

     “Teacher Carter is so strong?” Remembering he said right to teacher Carter’s face that he was surely not as strong as teacher Minlur, Ayrin couldn’t help but sweat a bit.

     Belo lifted his head and looked at the stands occupied by the Southern Monsoon people. He ground his teeth and said, “This bunch is as annoying as crows.”

     Students from Holy Dawn Academy still outnumbered those from Southern Monsoon Academy in this arena, but their momentum had already been entirely overwhelmed by the noisy students from Southern Monsoon.

     At this moment, Ayrin’s sight was also attracted to that green-haired shorty from Southern Monsoon.

     Although this shorty seemed very low-key and stood there without saying much, the other four still seemed to gravitate around him and always say something to him. As to the teacher in charge of the Southern Monsoon team, a middle-aged man with a seemingly very gloomy square face, the first one he spoke to was also the green-haired shorty.

     Soon after, that shorty left his teammates and walked alone toward the center of the field.

     “He’s the first contestant to come out for Southern Monsoon Academy?”

     Ayrin only realized this when the stands occupied by the Southern Monsoon students erupted in even louder cheers and encouragement. The match was about to formally begin, and the first contestant representing Southern Monsoon Academy was precisely that newcomer Belo had never seen before.

     On Holy Dawn Academy’s side, a tall male student stepped out.

     This student had a very ordinary face, but his stature attracted almost everyone’s attention. He couldn’t be said to be sturdy, but the feeling he gave off was that of a body without an ounce of excess fat, the feeling that every line of his muscles was filled with strange explosiveness.

     “The first one is Gerrin.” Belo’s glasses seemed to once again flash with cold light.

     “Holy Dawn Academy versus Southern Monsoon Academy, first round, Gerrin against Zola.”

     Before Ayrin could say anything, a teacher acting as referee loudly proclaimed the start of the match.

     The atmosphere became suddenly solemn.

     “It’s indeed Gerrin, looks like Holy Dawn Academy wants to take the first round and get momentum going.” Five persons whispering among themselves in an unremarkable corner of the stands, without the slightest trace of nervousness.

     Those five persons were precisely the team of five that had scared Moss witless!

     “They’re all the same old faces as last time. Gerrin is the strongest one in the Holy Dawn team apart from Chris. The one called Zola from Southern Monsoon Academy looks very dangerous though.” Sitting in this unremarkable corner, his hair slightly red, the tall boy called Hansen frowned. “Stingham, what do you think?”

     “Ah?”

     The boy was looking at a small mirror, in the middle of brushing his golden hair. He casually said, “That one from Southern Monsoon? He’s nothing, he can’t beat me.”

     “You!” Hansen and the others had faces immediately filled with black lines. “Can’t you take it seriously! I asked you how he compares to Gerrin, not to you!”

     The golden boy called Stingham grudgingly put the mirror away and cast a glance at the center of the field. His eyes had somehow become an astonishing green, as if they were extremely pure green gems. “The levels of their arcane particles seem about the same. It doesn’t matter whether I watch or not though, there’s absolutely no way they can beat my brilliantly handsome self, haha!”

     “…”

     …

     On the field covered with remembrances of past fighting, inside an arena filling Ayrin with a peculiar feeling, Gerrin and Zola stood face to face.

     Gerrin was the oldest one in Holy Dawn Academy’s team, also the one who’d participated in the most matches, the team member with the greatest experience.

     Facing this mysterious team member from Southern Monsoon, one who’d never made an official appearance, the omen of danger suddenly rose in his heart.

     “I’m very happy to fight with you.”

     This match had already begun, but Zola actually said a few very polite words to Gerrin first.

     “I’m also very happy to fight with you,” Gerrin answered with equal courtesy.

     “Go go Gerrin!”

     “Gerrin, you have to win!”

     Holy Dawn Academy had had very disappointing results in the past few years, but of course, the vast majority of Holy Dawn students present in the arena hoped Gerrin could take this one. That was why the stands still erupted with clamorous cheers when they heard Gerrin’s voice.

     Amidst such cheers, the seemingly very polite, very low-key Zola faced Gerrin and said, “I’m starting.”

     “Ok.” Gerrin nodded.

     Hiss! A sudden piercing sound.

     Zola stood where he was, seemingly not having moved at all. In front of him, Gerrin actually toppled backward all of a sudden, one hand bracing on the ground, bright magenta arcane particles glittering on that hand. His body tumbled backward with alarming speed.

     The stands burst into an uproar.

     “What happened?”

     Gerrin’s figure settled down after toppling ten meters backward. Ayrin saw a cut appear on Gerrin’s face, fresh blood flowing out continuously from the wound.

     Ayrin remembered seeing the vague flash of a blade just now, and couldn’t restrain his loud shout, “Cheating! He used a hidden weapon!”

     “Don’t shout randomly and embarrass yourself.” Belo pushed his glasses, his eyes staring tight at Zola’s hands. “It was a wind blade, this is a skill using arcane particles.”

     “Wind blade? He’s wounded, the blood won’t stop flowing, hurry up and staunch the bleeding!”

     “Idiot, no one will heal him.” Belo looked at Ayrin with contempt. “It’s precisely because you have to keep fighting even if wounded… It’s precisely because you’ll be wounded in such matches, and even pay with your life in serious cases, that many talents dare not participate in the competition, that such a competition is called the Cup of Academy Braves. This is a competition that only braves can participate in.”

     Ayrin was stunned. “Pay the price with your life… Won’t teachers stop the match?”

     Belo let out a cold snort. “The teachers can’t stop it in time every single time. There are some guys so strong even teachers are shocked, and there are also some people who, in order to obtain victory, will use some arcane skills that bring great harm to themselves. If you’re afraid of injuries, if you don’t have the courage to throw caution to the wind, there’s simply no way you can become a powerful battlemaster.”

     …

     “It was a Shapeless Spinning Sword, it’s been a long time since someone from Southern Monsoon last learned this secret skill. I never imagined you actually grasped it.” Fresh blood fell down from Gerrin’s face drip by drip; his expression became increasingly solemn.

     “That’s right, this is indeed our Southern Monsoon Academy’s Shapeless Sword.” Zola nodded, but he didn’t say anything further.

     Gerrin lowered his waist, suddenly pushed explosively on his legs.

     Magenta particles billowed ragingly on his feet. His body immediately became a series of blurs that were simply impossible to distinguish clearly.

     At the same time, bright magenta particles suddenly gushed from Zola’s feet. He’d kept still until now, but now his body likewise became a series of blurs.

     His speed seemed at first glance even a little faster than Gerrin’s. Gerrin frantically pursued behind, but he simply couldn’t reduce the distance between them.

     Sss!

     Another piercing sound.

     Ayrin saw it clearly this time. Zola’s right palm seemed to catch fire in an instant even while he dashed forward, many magenta particles wrapping around it. It was only an instant, then these particles compressed inside his palm and disappeared, and a thin, almost transparent blade spun in his hand then flew out, chopping toward Gerrin’s figure in close pursuit behind!

     “Boom!”

     Gerrin’s fist punched out, his right arm crackling with eye-dazzling lightning bolts. The slender blade broke to pieces with a single strike.

     Blades almost indiscernible flew out nonstop from Zola’s hands, slashing their ways toward Gerrin.

     Gerrin’s threw out his punches nonstop with astounding frequency, the blurs of his fist forming a lightning shield in front of him.

     Raging gusts spilled to the four sides. Each and every blade that came his way was broken.

     “This is Thunder Crushing Punch.”

     “Gerrin actually managed to train this skill to such a level.”

     “He can’t go on like this. The Thunder Crushing Fist definitely consumes many more arcane particles compared to his opponent, and senior Gerrin can’t reduce the distance between them. He’ll end up dead from attrition if he goes on like this!”

     Comments and surprised cries came to Ayrin’s ears one after another.

     He could see that Gerrin’s and Zola’s blurs dashed all over the field, maintaining a certain distance between them all along, hence he turned around and asked Belo, “What can we do? Can we find a way to warn Gerrin?”

     “What could we possibly do?” Belo said in derision, “Do you think what they say makes sense? That green-hair kid learned a powerful secret skill from Southern Monsoon Academy, but I can’t believe Gerrin’s only at this level, I won’t believe he’ll lose so easily to that kid.”

     Almost at the same moment Belo said these words, Gerrin suddenly shouted deeply, “You fell for it!”

     His quiet shout contained unspeakable steadfastness. His feet trampled ferociously on the ground at the same time.

     Two yellow streams of energy fiercely broke into the ground like two pythons.

     The ground at Zola’s feet suddenly swelled up, cracking and splitting. His figure that was forging forward like a demon suddenly staggered.

     At this instant, Gerrin leaped up like a bullet.

     The power of all the arcane particles he was able to call upon had clearly been gathered on that trample right now.

     The lightning around his hands had vanished. Two spinning blades sliced past his body, slashing open two wounds on his chest and rib cage. His body seemed to stretch taut like a bow in the middle of the air, and, with a hum, his fist smashed down toward the top of the unsteady Zola’s head.

     “What a powerful physical strength!”

     Ayrin couldn’t help but utter a cry in surprise. Ayrin could tell he simply had no time to gather any arcane particle with this strike. It relied entirely on his tyrannical physical strength.

     “I see now.” Belo’s hand pushed his glasses while he mumbled to himself.

     In Belo’s opinion, this fight was about to reach its end, Gerrin its inevitable victor.

     At this very moment, Zola’s gentle face suddenly turned sinister. He also acted with extreme simplicity, firing a punch like an arrow, ruthlessly striking at Gerrin.

     “Pa!” An ear-splitting sound of flesh hitting flesh.

     The two fists collided firmly together. This sound gave all the spectators a very unpleasant feeling.

     Gerrin’s face suddenly stiffened.

     His arm had gone entirely numb!

     He felt as if his entire body had been hit by a raging bull. He had no way to resist.

     “Bang!”

     Another fist appeared in front of him, striking his chest.

     His body flew backward straight away.

     The whole arena became deathly still.

     Ayrin stared in stunned silence. Belo was also petrified. His hand fell on his glasses out of habit, but he stood immobile, frozen.

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     Chapter 19 – Beastman bloodline

      Chapter 19 – Beastman bloodline

     Gerrin fell heavily on the ground, and the hearts of all the Holy Dawn Academy students present in the arena also seemed to fall and shatter with him. Many people leaped up from their seats.

     Some female Holy Dawn students even cried out, their voices filled with tears, “How could that be?”

     One person suffered such heavy damage, while the opponent didn’t sustain the slightest trace of harm at all. Everyone was certain this fight was already over.

     Gerrin was still trying to prop himself up after his heavy fall, but Zola appeared behind him the very next moment.

     “Sorry.”

     Zola told Gerrin such a thing, then, Bang! His fist landed heavily on Gerrin’s back without the slightest hesitation.

     Gerrin once again flew out. Dropped heavily.

     “He actually lost.”

     Belo’s hand finally pushed his glasses. “His physical strength surprisingly exceeds Gerrin’s. It looks like this kid has some beastman blood as well.”

     “Lost?”

     Ayrin’s mind was a little blank while he watched Gerrin on the ground, unable to rise any longer. “Beastman blood?”

     “Gerrin has some giant blood. Moreover, Gerrin isn’t a trash like Hawthorne, he hasn’t been wasting his time in Holy Dawn Academy.” Belo’s eyes locked tight onto Zola below, his eyes flashing with cold light. “This guy’s strength and speed are both so good, and the harmony between arcane particles and the circulation of arcane power’s pretty good too. He must have beastman blood in part, rather than barbarian blood.”

     “Boom!”

     A teacher acting as a referee had already announced Zola’s victory by now, and a team came into the field to carry Gerrin off. The stands occupied by the Southern Monsoon students suddenly erupted like a boiler. “Zola! Zola! Zola!” Earth-shaking cheers and drums followed each other, battering the entire venue like tsunami waves, battering the Holy Dawn students until most of them turned pallid.

     “No wonder Southern Monsoon Academy is so overbearing this year and looks so ambitious, it turns out they were hiding such a secret weapon.” Belo looked at that part of the stands and said, a little blandly, “I thought we could go past the preliminaries at the very least, I didn’t expect them to trounce us, it’s really too uninteresting.”

     Ayrin looked blankly at the heavily wounded Gerrin being carried out the field. He said subconsciously, “It’s just one fight, we still have four persons left, why are you saying Southern Monsoon beat us already?”

     “Apart from Chris, there’s no one who’s a match for Zola, but Southern Monsoon still has Ferdinand and that white-haired kid from clan Ryswell.” Belo squeezed his fingers and said, “Originally, Gerrin should have been able to take out one of the two, or at least exhaust one of them almost entirely. Then Chris could have had the opportunity to wreck all of them, but now that’s impossible.”

     Ayrin looked at Chris down in the field and said, very much not admitting defeat, “Maybe it’s still possible.”

     “Things don’t become possible just because you say they are.” Belo snorted coldly. “I’ll eat my seat if it really happens.”

     Ayrin’s seethed in anger, but then he suddenly felt something was wrong. “Belo, earlier you said Zola had beastman blood as well, what does that ‘as well’ mean?”

     “I just said a couple words too many alright? You just carefully watch the game.” Belo waved his hand off, not even sparing Ayrin a glance.

     Ayrin had no choice but to turn his sight back to the center of the field. At this moment the second contestant for Holy Dawn Academy was already coming up.

     The second team member to appear on stage for Holy Dawn Academy was Ender, a thin and tall male student with short brown hair.

     “This guy’s Blazing Lotus used to be many times stronger than Hawthorne’s, but now he looks so pale already. If a guy like this can block one move from Zola, I’ll eat your seat too.” Belo took a single glance at Ender’s expression before coming up with his contemptuous words.

     “How can you snub someone from your own academy,” Ayrin shouted worriedly, as soon as he heard. “Come on senior Ender, make Belo eat a seat!”

     Ayrin’s yell was very loud, but Ender didn’t hear him at all in the center of the field.

     Facing him, though Zola was much shorter than him, he seemed to have transformed into a giant monster in his eyes. During the short walk from the edge of the field to the center, his top was already drenched in sweat.

     Zola suddenly opened his mouth and told Ender, “I’m sorry.”

     “What?!”

     The scene in front of Ender’s eyes seemed to blur as soon as his voice fell. Zola’s figure vanished from his sight, and at the same time, a punch already drilled its way out from his left, together with the sound of whistling wind.

     Back when he was watching the duel between Zola and Gerrin on the sidelines, Ender could still barely see their every movement, but now that he was faced Zola himself, Ender discovered, his body chilled from head to toe, that he couldn’t distinguish Zola’s motions!

     “Blazing Lotus!”

     He could simply no longer think of any other way. He kicked, the arcane particles inside his body gushing out madly from the bottom of his foot. The arcane power merged and condensed there shaped itself into a fire lotus flower burning ablaze at the bottom of his foot.

     A resounding “bang!” shook the arena.

     Ender only felt an acute burst of pain at the bottom of his foot.

     “Ah!”

     He cried in pain. A foot ruthlessly kicked his belly before he could react.

     “Boom!”

     There came a sound that made the scalp tingle, like the pounding of a heavy drum.

     “Ah…”

     An even more heart-wrenching cry came from Ender. His entire person flew out backward, then he still rolled and rolled on the ground even after landing.

     “What happened?”

     Ayrin’s cheers suddenly cut off short, shock filling his face.

     He only saw Ender’s Blazing Lotus seemingly about to drown Zola in flames, but it suddenly collapsed, then Zola sent Ender flying out with a kick.

     “I bet this kick almost broke his intestines,” Belo said, gleeful with someone else’s disaster. He saw Ayrin beside him flushed bright red with anger, then he remembered Liszt. Only then did he spread his hands out of fear for consequences, saying, “Nothing we can do, this is the difference of strength. That guy seems to have attacked with a strong punch, but in fact, he shot out Shapeless Spinning Blades. The skills from the two were about equally matched, but the other side was planning to sort him out with physical strength from the beginning. This kick was his real killer move.”

     “Killer move my ass, I won’t believe he can’t be beaten.”

     “Well, you do it then.” Belo provoked him, fully excited.

     “There’s no way for me to go on stage.”

     “Haha, just jump down and give him a beating.”

     …

     At this time, an Ender lying unconscious on the ground was already being carried out of the field by a medical team. Zola had been keeping a low-profile so far, even after defeating two Holy Dawn team members in a row, but his eyes suddenly flashed with faint red light, leaking out a blood-thirsty glint.

     “Hmm?”

     Belo suddenly made a soft sound in surprise.

     At this time, the third contestant for Holy Dawn Academy was already going on stage. This was a boy called Skol. He immediately dashed towards the edge of the field as soon as the fight officially began.

     “Not fighting his opponent face to face, only making him spend his stamina and arcane reserves, that’s actually a pretty good tactic.” Belo mumbled to himself, “I just don’t know how useful it’ll turn out to be.”

     “Not fighting, only running?” Ayrin saw Zola’s figure immediately become a series of blurs as he chased behind, but purple arcane particles shone bright under the feet of this third Holy Dawn contestant, constantly spraying gusts of energy, pushing his body nonstop in ever-changing directions. Zola seemed unable to catch up to him even if his speed seemed higher.

     “Little coward, you only know how to run!”

     “People from Holy Dawn Academy don’t even dare fight face to face? Only running and not fighting, Zola might as well stop chasing after him and save up his strength.”

     “That’s right, everyone might as well stand there immobile and fight a war of attrition until the end of time!”

     Rowdy curses and insults immediately rose from the stands occupied by Southern Monsoon Academy.

     Zola’s figure suddenly halted.

     The moment he stopped, his hands ferociously stuck inside the soil under his feet.

     Everyone stared blankly, having no idea what he was trying to do, but at this very moment, two pieces of hard clay whistled through the air, pounding towards Skol.

     Skol twisted his body, dodging the two exceptionally hard pieces of clay Zola had grabbed, but just then “Pa! Pa!” Another two pieces of hard clay smashed his body.

     “Ah!”

     He cried in pain. His body staggered.

     Zola was at this moment crouched on the ground like a wild beast, his arms and legs pounding together on the ground, approaching him at terrifying speed.

     Every time Zola’s hands landed on the ground, two pieces of hard clay would fly out and smash their way toward Skol with incomparable accuracy.

     “So accurate!”

     “This guy actually even had such a skill!”

     Many Holy Dawn students felt their scalps go numb when they saw.

     Anyone could use arcane power to send the soil flying, but the key thing was that Zola could stay so precise even while sprinting at top speed on his four limbs. This was certainly the result of long and arduous training!

     “This kid, he looks just like a wild dog running like this.” Belo became impetuous again when he saw this scene. He ground his teeth: “I really want to give him a bite.”

     “You say he looks like a dog, but now you want to bite him, what does that make you?”

     Ayrin wanted to laugh, but no laughter would come out.

     Skol couldn’t maintain his previous speed any longer after being hit by a deluge of hard clay. Zola rushed in front of him, under Ayrin’s helpless eyes.

     “Bang!” A punch hit Skol’s belly. He flew up.

     Zola’s figure sprang up even as Skol screamed miserably. A foot kicked down and landed once more on his chest.

     Skol pounded the ground heavily, just like a rock.

     Many Holy Dawn Academy students were sweating cold sweat all over, up there in the stands.

     They might have accepted this three – nil result a little better if he’d been hit to the ground after a struggle where both went back and forth, but other than Gerrin at the beginning, the rest had been suppressed so hard they couldn’t even use the skills they usually practiced in. They’d looked just like freshmen who didn’t know any technique.

     How could they still fight such a match?

     “The outcome’s decided.”

     At this moment, Southern Monsoon’s captain Ferdinand, the tall boy Belo had described as ferocious-looking, let out a long sigh. He told his teammates around him, “This time around, St. Lauren will be our time in the limelight.”

     “Just drop it.”

     Chris had been standing without moving all that while. She shook her head at this time, and said to the only teammate left beside her, “You can’t make him consume all that many arcane particles even if you go, better if I just go myself.”

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     Chapter 20: The Amazing Girl, going on stage!

      Chapter 20: The Amazing Girl, going on stage!

     There were still a few fine details Belo hadn’t told Ayrin about yet.

     In the hottest thing in the entire kingdom, this Cup of Academy Braves that made countless students go crazy, the order of appearance was decided before the game started and handed to the referee. It couldn’t be changed midway.

     Chris was originally meant to be the last one to go out. The teammate listed before her could only throw in the towel if he wanted to abstain.

     This way, the score would become four – nil, and she would be the last team member left for Holy Dawn Academy.

     The teammate beside her lowered his head. He didn’t express any objection.

     He’d already lost his entire confidence after seeing Zola’s previous performances, and he knew Chris spoke the truth. Even if he had the courage to put his life on the line, he still wouldn’t be able to force Zola to dig too deep into his reserves with his current level.

     “Forfeit?”

     Everyone was waiting for the fourth Holy Dawn Academy contestant to come out, but they saw Chris step up instead. Many people realized what happened, after a moment of surprise. A clamor once again shook through the whole stands.

     “Four-nil!”

     “There’s only Chris left!”

     “Don’t tell me she’ll handle the five on our side just by herself!”

     Zola’s three quick and decisive victories in succession had already sent the Southern Monsoon students into a craze of excitement. Now seeing the score directly become four – nil, they became even more frenzied. Some people even yelled at the top of their lungs, “Four-nil already! Clean sweep! Clean sweep!” “Five-nil!”

     “Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! …”

     Ayrin was so angry he also yelled, desperately shouting his encouragement for Chris when he saw her step forward, but his voice was thoroughly drowned in Southern Monsoon’s cacophony. He thought that the Southern Monsoon students were really too arrogant.

     At this moment, Ferdinand, the captain for team Southern Monsoon, gestured toward the stands.

     The extraordinarily noisy stands suddenly quieted down.

     “Chris, just give up. There’s no way you can defeat all five of us in succession.”

     Ferdinand cleared his throat as Chris walked to the center of the field, then earnestly told her such a caring sentence.

     Then, before anyone could come back to their senses, before Chris could say anything, he suddenly pulled out a red rose from behind his clothes, just like a magic trick. He said to Chris in a loud voice, “Chris, I’ve admired you for a long time already. Whether it’s your beauty or your strength, they both make me infatuated. Transfer to our Southern Monsoon Academy, and come fight at my side!”

     “…!”

     Countless people in the stands almost fell down face first.

     “Is this guy a moron?” Ayrin stared dumbstruck at Ferdinand’s face filled with deep love. The thing that made him most speechless was, Ferdinand even posed and showed off his muscles at his time, flexed his pecs a couple times.

     Belo offered this pertinent evaluation: “He’s about at the same level as you.”

     “…” Chris never thought Ferdinand would say such a thing. She was thoroughly speechless.

     “It’s forbidden to declare your flame in public once the competition is underway, otherwise your right to participation will be revoked.” A referee appeared in front of Ferdinand.

     “Ah? There’s even a rule for this?” Ferdinand was very depressed.

     Chris threw a ferocious stare at Ferdinand, walked in front of Zola, made a beckoning gesture with her hand. “Come.”

     Her action was very casual, but Zola felt an inexplicable pressure.

     The whole stands quieted down once again, because even people from Southern Monsoon academy knew very clearly in their inner selves that the Amazingly Crazy Girl’s reputation wasn’t for show. In a one versus one, Ferdinand and the others probably weren’t her match.

     Zola nodded. He didn’t make a sound.

     His body suddenly leaned down, his hands pressing on the ground. It seemed he was about to grab hard clay like earlier and send them flying at Chris, then use his four-limbed run to approach her.

     But the moment his hands were about to touch the ground, they became enveloped in dazzling purple arcane particles. Two transparent spinning blades suddenly fired out, piercing toward Chris from both the left and the right.

     “So treacherous!” Ayrin couldn’t help but shout out.

     Many Holy Dawn students couldn’t help utter a cry of alarm either, up in the stands.

     Chris made a strange movement at this time.

     She merely turned around, stood still, pulling herself as if she were a door. From her posture facing Zola, she became a line facing Zola from the side.

     This movement seemed simple and stiff, but just by happy chance, the two Formless Spinning Blades grazed past her, not touching her body.

     “Worthy of the Amazingly Crazy Girl, such a keen judgment,” Belo mumbled to himself.

     “An opportunity!” Zola silently screamed inside his mind at this moment. His originally faintly red eyes became crimson.

     “Rip!” Along with the sound of tearing, his pair of shoes tore open, and his body leaped from the formidable propulsion of his legs. He threw a punch in Chris’ direction.

     His body flew in the air, parallel to the ground, painting a weird picture together with Chris who stood with her side facing to him.

     “What?”

     It seemed Chris had no time to dodge at all. What thoroughly choked the breath of many people was, Chris simply didn’t use any arcane particle. At this juncture, she merely twisted her body, shouted out loud, and likewise threw a punch out.

     “Bang!”

     An explosive sound!

     Two fists firmly clashed against each other.

     Zola’s body that was flying like the wind through the air seemed to freeze all of a sudden, stopping in the middle of the air.

     Impossible…

     Such a though suddenly emerged in his mind.

     Suddenly, a fist wrapped in thick bandages appeared below him without the slightest warning, boring towards his face.

     He only had time to lower his left arm and block.

     Bang!

     The punch smashed his arm away, jolting it into numbness.

     Another punch came pounding, he blocked again!

     Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!…

     The rapid concussive sounds made everyone’s heartbeat speed up something fierce.

     Zola felt as if the fists appeared endlessly in front of him. He could only block them desperately. In the eyes of the spectators in the stands, Chris was so fast she seemed to have grown additional arms. She dashed forward even as she jabbed her fists and battered Zola with them. Zola’s body twisted into weird postures in the middle of the air, dropping downward.

     “Chris’ physical strength is actually even higher than Zola’s?”

     “Wasn’t she from an ordinary human bloodline, did she actually train her physical strength to such a tyrannical degree?”

     Collective gasps rose in waves inside the stands.

     Everyone could see that Chris wasn’t using arcane particles at all. She was purely relying on her physical strength to attack.

     Zola had been thinking of overwhelming her with physical strength. He didn’t expect her to strike back at him instead, to punch him so fast he didn’t even have the time to mobilize the arcane particles inside him.

     “Boom!”

     Just when Zola landed on the ground in an extremely awkward pose, simply unable to gain a firm footing, Chris sent her foot flying and struck Zola’s stomach.

     Zola shot out backward like a cannonball.

     Chris’s figure was even faster than him, however. She jumped once more and pounded her feet on his chest.

     Zola’s body flew out a full dozen meters before finally dropping fiercely on the ground in a heavy crash.

     Chris stopped steadily, stood there.

     In an instant, her charming, delicate figure became incomparably domineering!

     “She became even stronger. I like!” Captain Ferdinand stared blankly at her, mumbling to himself. His voice was very loud.

     A few black lines appeared on Chris’ forehead. “Who’s next!” she said, fuming with a little anger between gritted teeth.

     “You think you can beat me just like this!” A voice rang from her side at this moment.

     “You… you underestimate me…”

     He’d been laying without moving a single finger after his heavy crash, but then he’d managed to slowly stand up at some point. He wiped the blood off his mouth, his body bent.

     “Is this guy even human! He can stand up even after this?”

     “Can he still fight?”

     The stands went into an uproar. Even the team of medical arcane masters had entered into the field already. They also froze all of a sudden when they saw Zola stand up again.

     A little stupefaction flashed in Chris’ eyes that brimmed with a desire for battle.

     “You think this is all I can do?”

     Zola slowly lifted his head. His eyes were blood-red.

     His body once again trailed into a bewildering blur, charging toward Chris.

     Chris stood there quietly.

     For her, the opponent was the entire Southern Monsoon team, not only Zola, even if his strength had already far exceeded her expectations.

     The stronger Zola was, the more careful she needed to be. She had to preserve her stamina and the arcane particle reserve inside her body as much as possible.

     “Swoosh!”

     Zola’s figure accelerated all of a sudden, circling behind her. A punch thrust in her direction.

     Chris’ body suddenly disappeared. Reappeared on Zola’s right.

     Resplendent and eye-dazzling purple arcane particles gushed out of her right arm. The sparkling particles dotted closely together seemed to be catch fire, transforming into a bright red python of flames twining around her arm.

     “Wild Blazing Python!” someone cried out in surprise.

     Zola seemed about to be swallowed by a fire python, but at this moment, countless black particles suddenly flew out from the shadows at his feet.

     Zola’s body shot out at frightening speed, like a bullet, jumping over a dozen meters in the air.

     Meanwhile, those black particles pounded Chris’ body. Countless tiny drops of blood sprinkled out from her, along with a stuffy groan.

     “Shadow Dust!”

     Belo stood up abruptly, his expression suddenly turning gloomy and unsightly.

     “Chris is wounded?”

     Ayrin also bounced up from his seat all of a sudden. He grabbed Belo and shouted his question. “What’s Shadow Dust!”

     “A secret skill from Southern Monsoon Academy very few people are able to learn.” Belo’s glasses seemed to flash continuously with a cold light. “This skill can allow you to hide your own power in advance inside your shadow. In other words, even after he uses the arcane skill, the particles are all black and hide inside the shadows, so it’s very difficult to notice them. It’s even very hard to tell when he even started using it.”

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     Chapter 21: True bravery

      Chapter 21: True bravery

     “Shadow Dust, that’s the secret skill of lord Black Shadow from Southern Monsoon Academy. A sinister assassination skill that can be used in advance, whose arcane power can be hidden inside the shadows for a very long time.”

     “I actually looked down on that Southern Monsoon guy. He grasped not only Formless Spinning Blade, but also Shadow Dust. Now it looks like you guys aren’t necessarily his match, captain Hansen. My handsome and wargod-like self is still stronger though. I’d see through even Shadow Dust, he can’t beat me.”

     “What should I do now, I was hoping to fight against Amazing Girl Chris. I like beautiful girls, I don’t like this green-haired beast kid or that blockhead with the yellow tank top and exposed muscles…”

     In an unremarkable corner of the stands, the golden-haired Stingham chattered on, very surprised. He totally didn’t notice the four pairs of eyes beside him, filled with biting cold murderous aura.

     Somewhere else in the stands, Ayrin had caught Belo’s hand and was asking nonstop, “How’s the power of this skill, is Chris heavily wounded?”

     “The power’s much lower than Chris’ Wild Blazing Python, but every granule stabbing the body is still comparable to a steel needle piercing inside. Chris’ injury’s probably about the same as taking five or six punches from Zola,” Belo said very casually, as if he didn’t care.

     “What!”

     Ayrin sighed in relief when he heard the first part of Belo’s answer, but hearing the latter part, he almost spat out a mouthful of blood.

     Ferdinand shouted at this time, “Chris, just give up, even if you can beat him, there’s still the rest of us. You can’t possibly win.”

     “Bastard! Are they allowed to kick up a fuss and harass her, why isn’t the referee doing anything!” Ayrin shouted loudly, depressed.

     “You’re the one kicking up a fuss right now.” Belo threw him a scornful glance. “Arcane masters ought not to care about the commotion of the outside world to begin with. If they have to interfere even in something like this, wouldn’t the spectators in the stands also have to stay silent?”

     “…”

     …

     “True bravery is to keep plowing on, to keep fighting, even if your whole body trembles in pain.”

     Chris’ voice suddenly came inside this chaos, her blue school uniform tainted by quite a few bloodstains. Her body trembled slightly, but she still lifted her head, grave and solemn.

     The entire Holy Dawn Arena quieted, all of a sudden.

     Above her in the sky, Zola was dropping downward.

     “Sky Hammer!”

     With Zola’s muffled yet feverish chant, arcane particles and white streams of air gathered increasingly faster around his feet. His entire body seemed to become a giant hammer slamming its way down toward the top of Chris’ head.

     Yet, at the same moment, many people saw Chris suddenly vanish.

     “Hiss…” A collective intake of cold air.

     Everyone saw, along with the rise of a sudden tornado, Chris appear in the air on top of Zola.

     Zola’s blood-red eyes shrank all of a sudden.

     “Pa!”

     Chris’ foot chopped madly down like a battle axe, crushing past his blocking arms and ferociously hacking his chest.

     Zola heard the sound of his arm bones cracking.

     An intense, heart-wrenching pain rushed into his mind.

     “Ah!”

     Even as he howled out loud however, he actually fired his intact fist at Chris’ body.

     This punch of his struck the air.

     Chris’ body twisted and turned in midair, dodging his punch. A kick once again ruthlessly stamped down on his body.

     “Ah!”

     Zola’s body snapped back. His feet whirled up, kicking and kicking toward Chris.

     But everyone saw Chris’ body sway again and again in the air, turning and twisting. Zola’s attacks all struck empty air one by one.

     “Pa!” “Pa!” Pa!”

     Explosive sounds rang in succession, all of them the sound of Chris’ fist and feet landing on Zola!

     Zola’s body fell heavily on the ground.

     Christ landed amidst the howling wind waves, her two hands resting on the ground, fiercely grasping for air.

     The place she’d landed was only a short half-meter away from Zola, but Zola was already passed out when he crashed on the ground. He could no longer lift a single finger.

     Ayrin’s heart sank along with Chris’ landing. But looking at the fighting spirit still brimming on Chris’ face, an unspeakable flame ignited inside his chest.

     …

     The medical team that was already waiting to the side hurriedly came into the field. They lifted an unconscious Zola on the stretcher and carried him out.

     Chris stood up, still panting. She faced the remaining four people from the Southern Monsoon team. “Who’s next?”

     The fatball Apia took a deep breath. He faced Ferdinand and Riley, the one Belo called the kid from clan Ryswell, and said, “We’ll follow the original plan.” Then he slowly made his way toward Chris.

     “Chris versus Apia, begin!”

     Apia was walking towards the center of the field, but as soon as the voice of the referee fell, he immediately retreated, fleeing towards the edges of the field.

     “Really shameless and despicable!”

     Ayrin’s shouted gloomily. He didn’t need to ask Belo this time, he could already tell Apia only wanted to run and make Chris spend her stamina and arcane particles.

     But what exceeded everyone’s expectation was, Chris didn’t pursue him.

     She merely rested her hands on her knees, gasped a few rough mouthfuls of air.

     Then she stretched her right hand out.

     Dazzling magenta arcane particle emerged from her five fingers. Shining bright blue rays of light spread out from the front of her hand.

     “Holy Dawn Healing!”

     “She even learned secret medical skills?”

     Ferdinand’s and Riley’s expressions made a sudden turn as soon as they saw the tip of her fingers suffused with light blue rays of light. They both yelled at the same time, “Apia, hurry up and stop her! You can’t let her heal herself!”

     Apia also understood very clearly that if he were to let Chris recover from her injuries, she would cause him a huge amount of trouble with her physical strength alone. Just earlier, Chris’ movements in the air when she was hitting Zola seemed as easy and casual as if she were standing on flat ground. This made them clearly realize that Chris had gone through who knew how much abnormal training since the last time, and now the control she exerted over the strength of each and every muscle had simply reached the pinnacle.

     “Sandstorm Burst!”

     He was so fat he didn’t look all that different from a ball, but Apia burst out with an agility entirely belying his figure. He reached Chris in only a few bounces. Countless arcane particles gushed out of his hands the moment his last bounce landed, instantly transforming into frightening, raging winds that rolled up gravel and sand from the ground, rushing in Chris’ direction.

     “Blue-Eyed Backlash!”

     The sand and gravel had acquired an extremely astonishing penetrating strength inside the raging winds. They seemed about to hit Chris, but what exceeded everyone’s expectations was, a gigantic blue eye suddenly appeared in front of her.

     “Puff Puff Puff Puff!…”

     All the sand ricocheted back and struck Apia’s body instead.

     “Ah!”

     Apia yelled miserably, countless bloodstains blooming on his clothes. The sandstorm rolled his fat body up and flung him flying.

     “What, it’s not Holy Dawn Healing!”

     “We’ve been duped!”

     Almost all the students from Southern Monsoon Academy shouted out in alarm.

     “Ah! Ah! Ah!” Ayrin originally didn’t have the heart to watch anymore, but now he was overjoyed at the turn of the events. He pulled Belo’s arm and kept exclaiming in excitement, “Belo, what’s this secret skill?”

     “Our Holy Dawn Academy’s Blue-Eyed Backlash. It can only bounce back powers from arcane masters weaker than yourself, it’s not too useful usually,” Belo said, as if he disdained to do so, but he actually humphed coldly in his mind in defiance. “She’s indeed Holy Dawn Academy’s ace, her fighting experience isn’t something an average Joe can measure up to.”

     Chris’ actions didn’t stop after mangling Apia with one move and sending him flying out. She followed almost right behind the sandstorm, chasing after Apia’s figure.

     Seeing her fist about to land on himself, realizing his resistance couldn’t play any role any longer, Apia shouted miserably, “I surrender!”

     “This is truly a spectacular win.”

     “In the current era, arcane masters possessing the inheritance of various bloodlines seem to be especially blessed by the starry skies and stand more easily above the crowd, but oftentimes only those who train painstakingly hard and continuously surpass their limits can become genuinely powerful arcane masters. Liszt, seeing such a student in our Holy Dawn Academy, don’t you feel extremely gratified?”

     No one had realized that, on the highest dome of this arena, stood a row of Holy Dawn Academy teachers.

     This row was entirely composed of Holy Dawn elites!

     Ciaran’s voice closely followed Apia’s miserable shout conceding defeat. Liszt was for once devoid of his lazy appearance. He didn’t answer Ciaran’s words, he only said, calm and cool-headed, “I’ve now more or less understood the plan of these little guys from Southern Monsoon Academy. Too bad, these little Southern Monsoon guys are indeed pretty good, there’s still not much hope for her to achieve the final victory.”

     …

     “I know now Southern Monsoon Academy’s plan.”

     Seeing Apia being carried away, and Riley from clan Ryswell being the next to step up instead of Ferdinand or Crewe, Belo immediately said these cold words with a frown.

     Ayrin asked at once, “What plan?”

     “This white-hair kid from clan Ryswell is said to be about equal with Ferdinand, but he’s got more unique arcane skills. When it comes to a real fight he might be even a bit stronger than Ferdinand. Now, since he’s the one to go up instead of Crewe who’s much weaker than him, they must be trying to more or less deplete Chris’ entire strength in this fight.” Belo threw Ayrin a glance and said, “Even if Chris manages to go through this fight, she’ll be in a very poor condition, and then even Crew will become a threat to her despite his strength being a bit worse. That way, even if she flukes her way to the last fight, it’ll be a piece of cake for Ferdinand.”

     “No way, we have to think of a way to help her!” Ayrin became even more anxious as soon as he heard.

     “I thought of a good way. Later, if that white-hair kid from clan Ryswell comes around here, you can pretend a careless fall from the stands. Then you can let him have it.” Belo became immediately excited and tried to instigate him, full of malicious intent.

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     Chapter 22: A teacher’s ardent shout

      Chapter 22: A teacher’s ardent shout

     “You think I don’t know that’s against the rules and that it won’t work?”

     “So what, anyway we’ll end up losing, might as well take the chance to give this Southern Monsoon kid a beating. Right, when the time comes I’ll jump down together with you.”

     “…”

     …

     “You’re very strong indeed.”

     Riley had already reached the center of the field and was facing Chris at this time.

     His face looked young and tender because of the peculiar white hair, but he nevertheless radiated an especially cool and mature atmosphere.

     In addition, he also had the naturally proud and noble aura of one born in a great clan.

     “You’re so strong none of us can defeat you in a one versus one battle, but this match isn’t a one versus one.”

     He watched Chris rest her hands on her knees, gasping for breath because of her injuries and fatigue. He earnestly told her, “You’re very strong, but your teammates are too weak, they can’t give you enough support. We from Southern Monsoon Academy are different, we have powerful enough teammates. You may completely disregard the words of a stupid bull like Ferdinand, but we’re truly very hopeful you can transfer and join our Southern Monsoon Academy. This way, you and us, we’ll certainly be able to make every team sit up and take notice. Otherwise, staying by yourself in Holy Dawn Academy, you can only be called The Amazingly Crazy Girl, but if you come to Southern Monsoon Academy and have our support, you’ll truly become the Amazing Girl.”

     “Poaching in public?”

     Ayrin was dumbfounded. “Belo, is a transfer possible? Can you join another academy’s team and fight in the tournament?”

     “As long as the student is willing and the academy welcomes them, no one can stop the transfer. As for the competition, a person can only represent a single team a season in the competition. As long as you represent a team and take part in a fight in the competition, then you can no longer transfer to another team and keep fighting.” An undetectable cold light flashed in the depths of Belo’s eyes. “What this white-hair kid is talking about is next year. They think that if Chris joins them and trains painstakingly for a year, then their team can dominate St. Lauren next year.”

     “Chris won’t agree right?” Ayrin said, suddenly worried.

     “Stop your nonsense.”

     Just at this moment, the panting Chris straightened up once again. “You have to win this match first before saying something like that!”

     “All the more reason for me to show a good performance, make you see our strength.”

     Riley didn’t get angry, he didn’t do anything superfluous either, merely stretched his arms towards Chris, calm and unperturbed.

     Dazzling arcane particles pervaded around his hands in an instant.

     “Why’s the color of his arcane particles different?” Ayrin couldn’t help but shout out in surprise once again.

     Riley’s arcane particles weren’t magenta, but white, just like his hair!

     Belo rubbed his ears gone a little numb and itchy from Ayrin’s fuss. “Idiot. The arcane particles condensed by some unique bloodlines have different colors compared to ordinary arcane particles. Or you could also say that arcane particles of different colors are the manifestation of strong unique bloodlines!”

     “Water Snake Bullets!”

     A water snake appeared in front of Riley just as Belo spoke, its size about the same as Riley’s body. Its mouth continuously spat out water balls as big as fists, whistling through the air as they pounded nonstop in Chris’ direction.

     Chris’ figure vanished time and again from the ground, her movements just like teleportation in the eyes of most people.

     But no matter where she skimmed to, the water bullets would immediately pursue her there.

     Every time a water bullet smashed on the ground, it not only exploded in great waves of water, it would also puncture a deep water hole in the hard ground there.

     “…”

     Ayrin was rendered speechless by the sight. He was certain that if he were to be hit by such a water ball, he would probably become flat cake pasted to the wall.

     And what made him even more speechless was, it seemed that this water snake spitting out water bullets nonstop wouldn’t disappear as long as Riley supported it with enough arcane particles.

     “Great Waterfall!”

     It seemed Chris had no way to break through the continuous bombardment when a gigantic column of water welled up out of nowhere and charged towards Riley. Chris followed closely behind this water column. The water balls crashed on it one after another in geysers of water, but they couldn’t pierce through it.

     “So powerful!”

     Although the three elite teachers back in the Beast Training Field were certainly stronger than Chris and all the Southern Monsoon Team members, a match like this where arcane skills came out in close succession was more spectacular instead for Ayrin, broadening his horizons even further. He had no idea previously there was so much variety and so many fancy tricks to arcane skills!

     “A water technique?”

     Seeing Chris approaching at flying speed, Riley actually stood right where he was, not moving an iota. “Our clan Ryswell is called the water stream clan. Since you used such an arcane skill, I’ll let you witness clan Ryswell’s true secret skill!”

     “Absolute Water Aegis!”

     Countless white arcane particles surged from his hand. The giant water snake in front of him collapsed with a loud rumble; instead, countless water bubbles as big as fists appeared in the air, assembling in no time into a sparkling and translucent globe of water around his body.

     Boom!

     The huge column of water collided with the crystalline water globe. The sparkling water globe actually possessed unbelievable elasticity and bounced backward.

     “Swish!”

     A figure overtook the water globe in an instant, like a flash of lightning, and struck it with a ferocious punch.

     A waterhole appeared on the surface of the globe, and water splattered everywhere, but that crystalline water globe once again bounced backward from the impact, and that waterhole resumed its former appearance the moment it broke away from the fist.

     “Boom!”

     A gigantic fire python caught up to the water globe, but amidst the splashes of water, the globe bounced backward even faster, restoring itself at lightning speed at the same time. Riley still stood unperturbed in the middle of this crystalline globe. Chris had consumed a large amount of arcane particles with this move, but it simply couldn’t crack open this crystalline globe of water.

     “It actually looks just like a rubber ball! Strength doesn’t affect it at all!”

     “Worthy of someone from clan Ryswell, such a defensive skill, other than arcane particles being entirely exhausted, there’s no way to break it otherwise!”

     “There’s actually such a terrifying defensive skill!”

     “Even an opponent twice stronger might not be able to break through this defense!”

     “No wonder he had the guts to boast so tremendously right in Chris’ face!”

     In the space of an instant, students from Holy Dawn Academy and Southern Monsoon Academy all became deeply shocked.

     Ayrin swallowed a mouthful of saliva amidst the brouhaha. “He’s staying wrapped in a water bubble like this, don’t tell me he doesn’t need to breathe, won’t he drown to death?”

     “Idiot!”

     Belo was in an extremely bad mood and seemed unwilling to respond to Ayrin. If a secret skill could drown you to death, could it still be called a secret skill?

     What could Chris do?

     Everyone’s vision gathered on Chris.

     Her face was clearly even paler now after mobilizing large amounts of arcane particles in quick succession.

     “Just give up, don’t worsen your injuries and waste your training time.”

     Riley watched her with sympathy, his voice coming out clearly from the water globe. “There’s absolutely no way you can break the Absolute Water…”

     Chris had previously stopped to catch her breath, but now she went again on the move before he could finish his sentence!

     “Dancing Leaves!”

     Chris suddenly circled around the water globe, leaving countless afterimages behind her in a split second.

     Countless palms carrying spinning winds smacked again and again on the crystalline bubble.

     “What!”

     Riley’s face stiffened all of a sudden.

     He could feel the ball instantly shrinking under the attacks coming from all directions, pressing down on him until he had almost no way to move.

     “Hurricane Crash!”

     Just at this moment, Chris’ palms pushed forward, her two feet frantically tramping nonstop on the ground.

     Huge craters appeared on the surface of ground one after another. Hurricanes blew from her hands as she pushed the compressed bubble of water, crashing it straight into the nearest stand at alarming speed.

     “Ah!” Students on that stand shrieked and dodged away, one and all.

     One could clearly see the silhouettes of over a dozen teachers transforming into rivers of light and flying there, carrying away a few students who stood blankly, paralyzed by fright.

     “Ah!”

     Riley completely understood what Chris was trying to do now, but Chris pushed him so fast he had no time to do anything at all.

     “Boom!”

     Under Chris’ push, the globe of water crashed viciously into the wall under the stands. This small area of the stands collapsed immediately, but Chris never stopped her stamping and battering. Her hands still pressed against the sparkling bubble of water, squeezing it against the cracked wall.

     “Puff!”

     The translucent globe of water embedded itself into a hole in the wall. Under the double opposite pressures, there was suddenly no way for its power to drain to, hence it exploded completely, dispersing away.

     Chris’ palms ruthlessly struck Riley’s chest. Around her, countless streams of water shot backward like arrows.

     “Crack!”

     Riley’s body shook violently. He fainted straight away.

     The stands were in a mess. Almost everyone watched the waves of water gush out in shock, unable to clearly see what happened there.

     “Victory!”

     Ayrin’s stare was locked onto Chris’ figure from beginning to end.

     The waves of water exploded out with a bang and fell on the ground, becoming strip after strip of froths floating on streams of water. He saw Chris’ propping her hands on her knees, panting violently.

     In front of her, the unconscious Riley was thoroughly embedded inside a crack in the wall.

     “Victory!”

     He froze a moment, then couldn’t hold back an earthshaking yell!

     “Idiot!”

     Belo broke the mood and kicked him. “What victory, they still have two people left, let’s see first if she can stand up again.”

     …

     “They actually even messed the stands into such a state.”

     Liszt shook his head atop the dome at the summit of the arena. “It’s actually the first time a battle between students damages the stands to such a degree.”

     “Can she still stand up?”

     The fully bearded Minlur watched Chris’ bent figure, her hands propped on her knees. His face was full of worry.

     The next moment, this elite teacher brandish his fists determinedly just like a hot-blooded young man, and shouted out loud:

     “She has to stand up!”

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     Chapter 23: Dream and Determination!

      Chapter 23: Dream and Determination!

     Huff… Huff…

     The Holy Dawn students close to the collapsed stands could even hear the sound of Chris’s heavy breathing.

     Trails of sweat mixed with blood gathered under Chris’ chin and fingertips, then dripped down, falling on the ground.

     This year’s Southern Monsoon’s team’s level was indeed far above the average team in the preliminaries. No matter Zola or Riley, they would both be a striking figure even put in the national tournament.

     Even if Chris hadn’t been previously sneak-attacked and wounded by Shadow Dust, she would still have had to exert all her efforts to fight such an opponent, and the consumption of her stamina would certainly also have been very alarming.

     The moods of many Holy Dawn students were extremely conflicted and contradictory as they watched Chris resting, hands on her knees. Of course, they hoped Chris could straighten once again and handle the remaining two members of team Southern Monsoon, could bring a heart-stirring victory to Holy Dawn Academy. At the same time, they didn’t have the heart to watch Chris keep fighting in such a condition.

     “Still two left…” Chris suddenly said.

     The voices in the stands stilled once again.

     They saw her hands dripping with sweat clench gradually, her body slowly straighten up.

     “Come on! Beat up those two!”

     The silence in the stands was even more deafening when she straightened up, but here was a yelling voice, full of excitement, seemingly a little out of place.

     “Hey!”

     Belo rubbed his ears jarred numb. He turned his head around and watched Ayrin brandishing his fists and making a racket. “Look around, no one’s shouting in the whole stands, you’re the only one shouting here, don’t you have a little empathy?”

     “Empathy?” Ayrin looked weirdly at Belo, not sure why Belo was talking about this.

     Belo pushed his glasses and asked Ayrin, “She’s already in such a state, aren’t you afraid she’ll die if she goes on?”

     Ayrin blinked blankly. “How would she die so easily.”

     Belo stared at Ayrin, feeling there was really no way he could understand this guy. So he didn’t say much and merely grunted, turning his sight back to the field below.

     Chris walked slowly to the center of the field. The Southern Monsoon team clearly didn’t want to give her too much time to regain her breath. Crewe was already standing in the center of the field with his faintly blond hair and very ordinary stature and face. He waited calmly for her to come.

     “You’ve always wanted to dominate the whole kingdom. It’s probably that dream that’s keeping your back straight and allowing you to stand and fight, even now.”

     Looking at the approaching Chris, the seemingly very ordinary Crewe said very calmly, “Every member of our Southern Monsoon team is the same as you, filled with the same dream. That’s why a school like ours that seems entirely unfashionable is able to fight our way to the preliminary play-off, to stand in this place. You and us are the same sort of people, that’s why we hope you can join our Southern Monsoon Academy.”

     “That’s right! Chris, just give up! Nothing good will come out of staying in Holy Dawn Academy!” Ferdinand immediately patted his chest as soon as he heard, and said, “Join our Southern Monsoon Academy. Not only can we fight our way to the national tournament, we can also reap a perfect romance!”

     “This guy has four well-developed limbs and one atrophied brain, he’s too annoying,” Ayrin cursed gloomily. Curses also fell down from all over the stands.

     “Idiot.”

     Chris lifted her head and wiped the sweat from her face. She didn’t even spare a glance for Ferdinand, instead facing a Crewe looking back at her in all seriousness. She merely spit out two words, “Come then!”

     Crewe nodded and didn’t say anything further.

     Dazzling arcane particles gushed out from his hands, circled around his body, started to spin.

     Chris’ figure vanished at this moment and reappeared behind his back, along with a swirling gale.

     The swirling gale suddenly compressed in Chris’ hand, becoming a sword over two meters long!

     “Swish!”

     At this moment, when Crewe hadn’t had time to display any skill yet, this long sword was already pierced inside his back. Blood sprayed out!

     “Sudden Whirlwind Strike plus Gale Blade!”

     “She can unexpectedly use those two arcane skills in such a short time, combining these two skills into one!”

     Belo’s hand once again stiffened on his glasses as he let out two quiet exclamations in an ice-cold yet fanatical voice.

     “Victory?”

     Ayrin was instantly caught in a surprised delight. At the same time, his body shook when he saw fresh blood pour out from Crewe’s back. He could imagine he would certainly be in extreme pain if he were to be struck by such an attack.

     “Hm?”

     What made everyone’s eyes widen, what sent a chill to their hearts was, after being struck by such an attack from Chris, Crewe turned around as if he didn’t feel anything.

     His eyes were ashen gray, his face surprisingly calm, as if he were simply unable to feel any fear or pain.

     The arcane particles flying around him hadn’t been interrupted by Chris’ strike either. “Boom!” Many yellow pillars of wind blended with dust and dirt suddenly appeared between Chris and him. They struck Chris ruthlessly.

     Amidst the collective intake of breath, his body and Chris’ body both flew out backward like two meteors!

     “Pa!”

     Crew stood up steadily after flying out for a full dozen meters. Blood gushed madly from his back.

     His face was still strangely calm. No fear nor pain could be seen on it.

     Only a few seconds later did he slowly topple backward.

     On the other side, Chris couldn’t stand up anymore. Her two hand pushed on the ground, fresh blood starting to leak from the corner of her mouth, trailing down drip by drip.

     “What the hell happened?”

     “After being struck by such a blow and suffering such a heavy injury, how was he still able to counter like this?”

     “Impossible! When your body’s pierced by such power, it’s impossible to keep perfect control of your arcane particles even if you’re a powerful battlemaster!”

     The medical team ran at top speed to Crewe when he toppled on the ground. Incredulous shouts rose one after another from the stands.

     “I…”

     Ayrin didn’t even know anymore what the hell he was shouting at this moment. He subconsciously turned his head toward Belo, but he actually saw Belo shake his head at him with a frown. “No need to look at me, I have no idea either what secret skill this guy used.”

     “It’s the Sensation Seal from Southern Monsoon Academy.”

     At the same moment, on top of the arena, Liszt stood at the edge of the high dome and lightly said to the other elite teachers, “A skill that can temporarily seal your pain, and even your fear. I didn’t expect this little ordinary-looking Southern Monsoon guy to also possess the bravery to give up his life… He was going for a double ko from the beginning. It turns out he was the most critical link in team Southern Monsoon’s overall plan.”

     The red-scarfed Ciaran rearranged her hair the wind had blown in a mess. She nodded, then looked below and quietly asked, “Do we stop the match?”

     “She has the courage to put her life on the line, why should we stop her?” Liszt shook his head and smiled, “Ciaran, is old age creeping on you? You’re actually worrying about something like this.”

     “Liszt, you wanna die!”

     …

     The stands were deathly quiet.

     Hands propped on the ground, Chris once again slowly stood up.

     Her entire body trembled. Anyone could see she was close to her very limit. Almost any freshmen could casually push her over, but she actually still stood up and faced captain Ferdinand of team Southern Monsoon and his body entirely disproportional with hers.

     “You better give up.”

     Ferdinand couldn’t help but shake his head. “Maybe you could beat me in ordinary times, but now there’s no way you’re my match. Better for you to prepare and transfer to our Southern Monsoon Academy. You’ve already seen that there’s no useless teammate in our group…”

     “It’s finally coming to end.”

     Chris’ voice suddenly interrupted his words, however.

     “What do you mean?” Ferdinand stared blankly at her. The entire plan had processed with incomparable smoothness from the moment Zola defeated Gerrin. But for some reason, looking at Chris and her body about to topple at any moment, there was a feeling of extreme danger subconsciously welling inside him.

     “Pa!”

     The instant Ferdinand closed his mouth in amazement, a bad premonition rising in his heart, the swaying Chris suddenly fell heavily on the ground.

     The heart of every person in the stands banged fiercely.

     A referee ran to Chris at lightning speed. Everyone saw Chris shake her head at the referee, then prop herself on her hands and try to get up, but having some momentary trouble doing so.

     “Huff…”

     Ferdinand and the teachers from Southern Monsoon Academy all let out a sigh of relief. They thought, she was a normal human after all, she couldn’t just keep fighting on and on like an amazing miracle.

     “Chris, don’t fight anymore! You’ll die if you go on!” The cry of a Holy Dawn girl suddenly came from the stands.

     The vast majority of Holy Dawn students felt their chests stuffed by a great boulder, an unspeakable sadness.

     From Zola at the beginning to Crewe just then, every battle had been extremely arduous for Chris. Her display was already perfect, but she was only a small little girl when all was said and done. In such a big Holy Dawn Academy, there was actually no one who could give her strong support, forcing a girl like her to fight her way to such a state. In this match, the honor and hope of the entire academy actually pressed down entirely upon her shoulders alone.

     Don’t fight anymore!

     Along with that Holy Dawn girl’s tearful shout, the vast majority of Holy Dawn students seemed to shout such a shout inside themselves, wanting Chris to give up.

     However, what cut off everyone’s breath was, they could see Chris slowly, slowly, in the center of the field, stand up tenaciously.

     Belo was unusually quiet. His glasses seemed to flash with a layer of light.

     The moment Chris swayed left and right, standing up once again, Ayrin remembered many scenes.

     “You are free to pursue your own dreams…”

     “What’s your dream?”

     “Courage is the gateway to every dream.”

     “Belo, I know what my dream is now.” Ayrin suddenly whispered to Belo besides him. “My dream, it’s to help her defeat every opponent, become the national champions.”

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     Chapter 24: Holy Dawn Academy’s greatest secret skill!

      Chapter 24: Holy Dawn Academy’s greatest secret skill!

     “Is that even a dream?” Belo threw a glance Ayrin’s way, a little speechless.

     Ayrin’s expression was very serious. “Why wouldn’t it be?”

     “She’s the one who keeps saying she wants to dominate the entire kingdom. Your dream is to help her, how can your own dream be built on someone else’s foundations?”

     “Well anyway, this dream thing, isn’t it something that you most want to do right now, that you can see in front of you but is very difficult to achieve? What I want to do now is precisely to help her beat teams from other schools, why not?”

     “Then you might as well say you want to beat all the other teams and become this great tournament’s champion yourself.”

     “Same result, it’s more or less the same thing.”

     “Idiot, this dream thing, how can you be so casual about it, it’s fine as long as it’s more or less the same?”

     “…”

     Ayrin was about to say firmly that he wasn’t being casual about it, that he’d decided his dream in all seriousness. But just at this moment, Chris started to advance toward Ferdinand with great difficulty.

     Ferdinand helplessly watched Chris, considering in his mind which arcane skill to use to take her out of the fight without causing her any lethal injury.

     “Sand Armor!”

     He made up his mind when Chris was still over twenty meters away from him. First he shouted loudly, then clasped his hands together and fiercely struck them on the ground in front of him.

     Dazzling magenta arcane particles closed packed together gushed out from his joined palms and rushed to the surface of the ground. A deep pit suddenly appeared on the ground, while his body sucked toward it streams of air mixed with large amounts of yellow sand and stone, becoming a thick armor of sand and stone.

     His body seemed even bulkier now!

     “You want to help her dominate the kingdom with your level? Just the current Ferdinand can crush you to death.” Belo couldn’t help but taunt Ayrin when he saw Ferdinand suddenly transform into a stone giant.

     Ayrin didn’t hear Belo’s mockery at all, however. His entire attention was gathered on Chris and Ferdinand.

     Chris came increasingly closer to Ferdinand. Her body wouldn’t stop swaying, yet she suddenly told Ferdinand in a firm tone, “Your Southern Monsoon team is indeed really strong this year, but I’m still going to beat you. The ones to enter the main qualifiers will be our Holy Dawn Academy.”

     “Mm?”

     The blond Stingham wasn’t seriously watching the match anymore in his corner of the stands, instead sticking his head left and right, seeing if there were pretty girls around him, when a shout suddenly escaped from him. His gaze locked tight on Chris.

     “What?”

     The four teammates beside him tensed up immediately.

     “It looks like there’s a crack on Chris’ clothes.” Stingham shook his head in disappointment. “Too bad the crack’s not in a good place, you can’t see anything.”

     “…” The four teammates around him almost puked out blood right on the spot.

     …

     “Unexpectedly…” At the same moment, on top of the arena, Liszt’s eyes flashed with the genuine shock of matters exceeding his expectations.

     Just at this time, the clothes on Chris’ left hand cracked open entirely.

     The sleeves of her outer uniform around her left hand, the sleeve of her inner uniform, they all suddenly tore open under a frightening aura.

     And what halted the breath of everyone in the stands was, the exposed hand and arm were entirely covered in thick bandages.

     “How could there be such a frightening aura?”

     Ferdinand’s expression changed immediately.

     Even if Chris weren’t injured, her reserve of arcane particles couldn’t be that much greater than his, but at this very moment, the aura gushing from Chris’ left hand made his heart flutter in panic, gave him a sense of hopelessness.

     “Sand Giant!”

     With a great shout shaking with inexplicable shock, countless dazzling arcane particles squirted out at top speed from his arms and legs without the slightest reserve.

     Dense yellow grains of sand emerged from the ground, continuously gathering around his arms and legs.

     His body grew upward nonstop, his arms and legs grew incomparably huge, especially his hands that looked like two giant hammers.

     Anyone could tell this was an arcane skill combining arcane power and physical strength, could imagine how frightening the power would be when such a fist hammered down.

     Within this short moment however, the aura gushing from Chris’ left hand seemed to have ignited the air several meters around her on her left side; even the thick bandages wrapped tightly around her left arm were charred pitch-black by the fiery aura seeping from her hand.

     “What arcane skill is that?”

     Ferdinand shouted out loud, incredulous.

     Countless rays of black light radiated from Chris’ left hand, bringing with them a fiery aura devoid of warmth. He could hear scalp-numbing fracturing noises come Chris’ arm and the bandage around it.

     “Ah!”

     Almost everyone in the stands, no matter students from Holy Dawn Academy or Southern Monsoon Academy, everyone stood up and cried in alarm.

     It seemed as if a monster with a body several dozen times bigger than Chris’ own drilled its way out of her left arm. In the space of a short instant, in the air on Chris’ left side, fire and blackness transformed into an unimaginable, malevolent, fiendish, terrible black flame dragon!

     “Ah!”

     Seeing the dragon whose mouth was about the same size as himself after he’d transformed into a giant, Ferdinand became so frightened he could no longer form words. He brandished his fists and smacked them toward the black dragon that flew through the air in his direction.

     “Boom!”

     Black streams of fire surrounded him in an instant.

     His strength was very astonishing at this moment, but the arcane particles coming out of his body immediately vanished from sight as soon as they came into contact with the black flames, swallowed within, as if their powers merged into the fiery black trails.

     Without the support of his arcane particles, the thick armor of sand around him collapsed, the grains of sand flowing away like water, then blown backward and dispersed by a formidable force.

     His body flew back together with the scattered streams of sand.

     A sandstorm rose, enveloping the greater half of the stands. Many students suffered incomparable pain from the beating of sand and gravel. Added to the shock inside their hearts, they trembled from head to toe for a long while.

     Ayrin and Belo had the same exact expression on their faces, a rare scene. Both had their mouth open wide, unable to close them at this moment.

     “Dark Destruction Dragon!”

     At the top of the arena, standing at the edge of the dome just like Liszt, Minlur almost lost his footing and fell from the sky at this moment. His expression was just the same as if someone had stepped on his face. “Plum… Senior Plum actually taught her this secret… secret skill on the sly?!”

     Ciaran also lost the air of a prim lady, her hair in disarray. “She actually learned it!”

     “Even you couldn’t learn it, but she actually learned it, don’t you feel mad?”

     Liszt’s lazy expression returned to his face with a smile. “I was wondering what she was doing with her arm always wrapped in so many bandages, it turns out it’s to protect her arm as much as possible when she trains and uses this move. However, with her previous level, she would have had to force herself too much to use this secret skill, so even this way she’d still have suffered severe injuries.”

     “What’s that?”

     In a corner of the stands, the boys who were ready to tie Stingham up and give him a thrashing froze up, fear written all over their faces.

     Stingham pushed a fist away and stuck his head out. “Why does it feel like the aura of a dragon!”

     “Dragon aura? Arcane particle swallowing!”

     The one called captain Hansen suddenly turned pale. “Dark Destruction Dragon! The strongest secret skill of Holy Dawn Academy, a skill that can swallow the opponent’s arcane particles, Dark Destruction Dragon!”

     “Impossible! Isn’t Dark Destruction Dragon the skill that stands side by side with Holy Gates of Life? It was lost long ago! Didn’t they say it’s been a long long while since anyone in the entire Holy Dawn Academy learned this skill!”

     …

     On the edge of the arena, several Southern Monsoon teachers in charge of the team likewise shouted in a daze, “How could this be! How could they even have Dark Destruction Dragon!”

     The entire Holy Dawn Arena was in chaos.

     The sandy wind vanished bit by bit.

     The crowd’s sight slowly cleared up. They saw the half of the field where Ferdinand previously stood entirely covered in yellow sand.

     Two figures, one big and one small, stood above the sand.

     Chris and Ferdinand. They were both still standing!

     Chris stood not far away in front of Ferdinand. Tiny grains of sand covered her body and hair. Blood oozed from the bandages on her left hand. Ferdinand’s body was also severely wounded, especially his face; it looked as if someone had stepped over and over on it; probably even people from Southern Monsoon wouldn’t recognize him anymore.

     “I didn’t expect… didn’t expect you actually managed to train such a terrifying arcane skill.”

     Ferdinand said out all of a sudden, his voice a little blurry, as if his tongue had been beaten swollen.

     “Worthy of the girl I admire. It’s unfortunate, you’re all by yourself in the end. You don’t have powerful teammates like me, all of them ready to bravely fight at the cost of their lives!”

     His voice became feverish and confident all of a sudden. “It’s unfortunate this arcane skill is too powerful, you can’t endure this kind of power either. Right now you’re certainly unable to lift even a finger, you’re about to pass out, right? That’s why the final victors are still us from Southern Monsoon Academy. Chris, just obediently transfer to our school, come make history with us, come create a miracle!”

     “What!”

     Ayrin had just closed his mouth shut, but he almost jumped up when he heard Ferdinand make that kind of noise.

     Could it be Chris still couldn’t beat this guy after fighting her way this far, after using such power? Were they still going to lose this match?

     “There’s no need to force yourself.”

     Chris’ voice rose at this moment, weak yet brimming with resolution, making Ayrin’s blood almost boil.

     “You still want to sound tough, you still want to scare me. Just quietly fall down.”

     Chris struggled to lift her head. She stretched out her right hand, stretched out a finger.

     She looked like she wanted to use this finger to push Ferdinand’s forehead, but she was much shorter than him and couldn’t reach it.

     This finger then fell on Ferdinand’s chest.

     “You even saw through that…” Ferdinand said, helpless, before her finger even landed on him. Then with a “boom,” his huge body fell back straight, like a rock. And then he didn’t move any longer.

     “Chris wins, Holy Dawn Academy wins.”

     A referee ascertained Ferdinand’s unconsciousness with a single glance. He signaled the medical team to enter the field at the same time he announced the end of the match.

     “Ah!” Ayrin exclaimed with incomparable excitement when he heard that. The screams of almost every Holy Dawn student followed his shortly after.

     “We finally won!”

     Chris let out the trace of a smile at this moment, then her body also fell softly on the ground.

     Sound disappeared all of a sudden.

     The medical team lifted her, as anxious as if they were facing an army, and carried her away. Everyone in the field understood what truly happened.

     A burst of drums and applause rose from the stands occupied by the Southern Monsoon students.

     Everyone understood that at the very end of the fight, she’d stood on the edge of unconsciousness just like Ferdinand, but she only fell down after hearing the announcement of her victory.

     What kind of determination was that? What kind of victory was this?

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     Chapter 25: Night infirmary visit

      Chapter 25: Night infirmary visit

     The great battle between Holy Dawn Academy and Southern Monsoon Academy ended with Chris’ desperate, lonely fight against the tide.

     The match had already ended, but Ayrin stood outside the Holy Dawn Arena, unwilling to go away for a long while.

     “What, are you planning to ambush the most arrogant Southern Monsoon guy in the stands just now?” Belo looked at Ayrin’s appearance and immediately became excited. He cracked his knuckles. “Did you clearly see which one it was?”

     “They all clapped for Chris at the end. Stop always thinking about this kind of stuff, alright?” Ayrin became dizzy on the spot. He said, “I just feel very happy when I think of the overbearing way they came and the way they’re leaving all crestfallen now.”

     Belo rolled his eyes at Ayrin. “Stop being so boring.”

     “We won this match in such a spectacular way, such a moving way, so why does it seem like the other people in our school don’t seem as happy as me?” Ayrin looked at the crowd of people around him, then his gaze fell on Belo once again. “Could it be that most of the students in our academy are freaks like you?”

     “Everything would be better if they were like me. We’d have beaten other academies into submission a long time ago, then their students would have to pay protection fees when they come to our school.” Belo snorted coldly, looking at Ayrin as if he were looking at an idiot. “They’re not as excited as you because they’re not as foolish as you. They all know victory in a preliminary match doesn’t mean anything. They’re all normal people, they’re all going to think that, in a mere preliminary match, a trivial unknown third-rate school that’s never even appeared in the main qualifiers before already has such a strong team, they already made Chris injured so heavily. Then in the future when we fight against these teams that enter the national tournament year in and year out, how would it turn out?”

     “How can you know what the result will be if you haven’t fought yet.” Ayrin looked at Belo and asked, “Belo, her injuries won’t be too severe right?”

     “You’ve asked this question five times already since we came out.”

     Belo turned away in irritation, but he suddenly thought of something and his eyes immediately brightened with craftiness and excitement. “Since you’re so worried, why don’t you simply go visit her at the infirmary?”

     “Can I?”

     Ayrin became immediately spirited. “Can I go see her?”

     “Have you ever heard about patients being denied visits?” Belo said with a cold snort.

     “Then let’s go right now!” Impatience was written all over Ayrin’s face.

     “If you go right now, aren’t you afraid you’ll hinder her treatments?”

     “Then when are we going?”

     “We can go tonight before bedtime.”

     “Before bedtime?” Ayrin thought something was a little out of place. He couldn’t help staring at Belo. “Will the infirmary let us in if we go there so late? Aren’t you worried about disturbing the wounded team members during their rest?”

     “Don’t you need to complete the foundation training teacher Huston arranged? Didn’t you claim you were going to help Chris dominate the country? If you don’t train hard, you won’t even be a match for the guys in the current Holy Dawn team. They’d send you flying with a casual slap.” Belo turned his head away and didn’t even look at Ayrin. “I stayed a long time inside the academy’s infirmary, I’m very familiar with that place. Plus I have very good relationships with the medical masters inside. The fewer people there are, the easier it’ll be to go in.”

     “That’s right, I have to train hard. Then we’ll go tonight after we complete our training.” Ayrin didn’t doubt Belo’s words. He said excitedly, “Then let’s first go to the commercial street right now.”

     Belo frowned. “Go to the commercial district, why?”

     “To buy a few gifts of course.” Ayrin said as a matter of course, “Don’t tell me you can visit a patient empty-handed?”

     Belo felt that Ayrin was truly an idiot, truly troublesome, but then thinking that he managed to cheat him into visiting the infirmary at night, he merely humphed quietly and no longer complained. He followed Ayrin to the commercial street.

     “Ayrin!”

     Ayrin heard someone call him as soon as they reached the commercial street. He turned his head, curious, and saw it was a fatty in white chef clothes, his face flushed red.

     “It’s you?”

     Ayrin stared blankly, and only remembered when he saw the shop behind this fat boss. He scratched his head. “So it’s you, boss, how come your Super Giant Fried Pork Ribs store hasn’t closed shop yet?”

     “How can you say that.” The fat boss scolded him with a smile and cheerfully said, “My business is booming, why would I close shop.”

     Ayrin glanced around. It seemed business was indeed flourishing, so he became a little curious. “Didn’t everyone curse you back then and call you an unscrupulous profiteer, many people said they’ll never buy your pork chops again, how did your business become so good now?”

     “It’s all thanks to you, haha. Everyone heard you ate a super big piece of fried pork chops, so they all came have a look. There were even people who requested fried pork chops as big as the one you ate that day.” The fat boss said proudly, “Oh yeah, you’re called Ayrin right? You must be the student rumored to have Giant Food Monster blood, the one who’s especially good at eating. I thought of a good idea, please be our shop’s spokesperson. Come here for a little while every few days and perform some eating, then everything you eat here will be free. I can also give you some reward, what do you say?”

     “Alright then.” Ayrin nodded happily as soon as he heard he could eat for free again. At the same time he turned his head around and asked Belo, “How about we simply buy a few pork chops as a gift?”

     Several black lines appeared on Belo’s forehead. “Have you ever seen someone bring fried pork chops to a sick patient?”

     “Then what should we bring?” Ayrin asked, full of zest.

     “When visiting a girl, a few candies will do,” Belo said, looking at Ayrin. He even began to admire himself for being so patient and good-natured. He thought it was surely because of teacher Liszt. This guy Ayrin never admitted his relationship with teacher Liszt, but he felt there must be an unspeakable secret between those two. The way he saw it, Liszt was the big boss standing on top of Holy Dawn Academy, and a big boss he believed he’d have no way of beating within a few years, so he could definitely not offend him.

     “Candies?” Ayrin was entirely unaware of the many twists and turns in Belo’s mind. He immediately asked the fat red-faced boss, “Boss, what kind of candies do girls like the most usually?”

     “Girls? I know there’s a shop down the road, their green-wrapped chocolate-stuffed candy and little bear gummies are particularly tasty, girls will definitely like them. There aren’t many people who know how good these two candies are, I usually don’t tell anyone.”

     “Thank you boss.”

     Ayrin hurried like a gust of wind that candy shop’s direction in the distance.

     Entering this candy shop with a roof made from green iron sheets, he asked the fifty-years old boss inside, “Do you have that candy with green wrapping and chocolate stuffing, give me a pack of it.”

     “I have it. Surprising, you look like a freshman, but you have very good taste. It’s on top of the shelf though, I have to go look for a ladder.” The boss found a ladder after praising Ayrin, then climbed up. He took a pack of green-wrapped candies with chocolate stuffing, then he put the ladder away and asked, panting a little, “What else do you need?”

     Ayrin thought a bit and said, “I want another pack.”

     The boss said, depressed, “You could have said that earlier.” He helplessly took the ladder once again to grab a pack, then he cautiously asked, “You’re sure you only want two pack of this chocolate-stuffed candy?”

     Ayrin nodded, saying yes.

     The boss finally became reassured. He took the ladder away. As a result, Ayrin said, “Boss, I also want the little bear gummies, the ones just beside the chocolate-stuffed candies, it looks like they’re also on top of the shelves.”

     The boss: “…”

     …

     After laboring from the morning match all the way to the sun falling in the west, the most elite medical team in Holy Dawn Academy finally finished their treatment of Chris and the several people from Southern Monsoon Academy.

     Teacher Namin was the strongest medical master in the team and also the one with the most authority, the one in charge of the medical district. He did another round of checking then walked outside the ward Chris was currently in. After listening to the calm and smooth breathing of her sleep, this grave man looking over thirty with a scar on his forehead once again told the several medical masters on duty, “None of these injuries are light, you have to make sure to keep an attentive watch. Just as usual, don’t let anyone come inside in order to avoid accidents. Especially since the match is at our academy this time. The medical treatment is at our place here, and these few from team Southern Monsoon are the apples in Southern Monsoon Academy’s eyes. We can absolute not let any mishap happen!”

     “Yes!”

     Several medical masters immediately answered with due solemnity. Then their figures flashed, and vanished from the outside of the ward.

     The depths of the night, in a woody patch behind the infirmary. A wisp of black cloud floated past the top of the infirmary. Ayrin rubbed his arms and legs nonstop. He couldn’t resist asking Belo, “Belo, you’re really very familiar with the medical masters inside? Are you really taking me to see Chris?”

     The walls of the infirmary towered not far in front of them.

     Right now, besides Belo, there was a simple and crude tunnel, visible after Belo cleared away the place.

     “Don’t be so annoying, you just finished the foundation exercises, aren’t you dead tired yet?” Belo exposed his shining white teeth and said in a light voice, “The infirmary’s front gates are locked already, where else should we enter from if not from here? Also, after we go inside you have to follow tightly behind me, don’t make any noise, I can’t guarantee everyone inside will give me face. If you don’t listen to me, you can’t blame me if you don’t end up seeing Chris.”

     “Alright then.”

     Filled with a bad premonition, Ayrin bit the bullet and nodded. Belo pushed aside the covering roots and wines. They went inside the pitch-black tunnel.

     A dozen minutes later, inside a passage outside Chris’s ward, there was a small sudden noise.

     At the foot of the stairs, the lid covering a trash hole lifted up. Two messy, dirty silhouettes drilled out from it.

     One of the silhouettes made a hand gesture, pointed to Chris’ ward and several other wards nearby.

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     Chapter 26: Sweet candy and midnight screech

      Chapter 26: Sweet candy and midnight screech

     “What was it about you being very familiar with the medical masters inside?”

     “We didn’t meet anyone, what does it have to do with being familiar or not?”

     He’d gone through a tunnel following after Belo, gone through a sewer, gone through a ventilation shaft, gone through a room filled with skeletons, where weird, frightening organs were soaked, gone through several outside stairs no one used, then finally climbed through a trash tunnel before reaching this passage. Ayrin was about to collapse.

     “What kind of conspiracy are you plotting?” Ayrin couldn’t help but ask, looking at Belo’s glasses glittering with starlight inside the darkness.

     “Eh? I’m helping you meet Chris, no matter what I already successfully brought you here, she should be in there.” Belo pushed his glasses and said in a whisper, “Just go and see for yourself if you don’t believe me, but I advise you not to make any sound, otherwise it’d be a waste my efforts.”

     “I…”

     Ayrin walked to that ward, holding onto one last glimmer of hope. However, his gloominess and frustration disappeared into nothingness all of a sudden when he pushed the door to the first ward Belo had pointed to.

     “Didn’t I say she would be in this room.”

     Belo said softly beside his ear, just like the whisper of a fox inside a dark night. “The Holy Dawn teachers will of course also have selfish motives, they’ll naturally leave the room with the best conditions and the tightest security to a student of their own academy.”

     In front of Ayrin was a very big room.

     The room was suffused with a herbal fragrance, covered in a blue carpet, with a single bed. The curtains in a magenta velvet were slightly parted; a fresh wind and faint starlight flowed inside from half the window opened slightly ajar.

     Chris slept peacefully in the middle of the white sickbed. Her face and hair seemed to glitter under the starlight.

     “Where did that guy run off to?”

     Ayrin wanted to say something to Belo, but he found out as soon as he turned his head around that, even though he was still whispering against his ear moments ago, Belo had already vanished like a ghost or a devil.

     Just when Ayrin was thinking he better not wake up Chris after all, and just softly leave his gifts behind before leaving, her long eyelashes suddenly fluttered a couple times. She opened her eyes.

     She blinked a few times, a little confused. She stayed very calm when she ascertained her surroundings along with Ayrin standing in the doorway. “Are you the teacher on duty? Why do you look so young?”

     “I’m not the teacher on duty, I came to see how you were doing.”

     Ayrin said, a little embarrassed, “Don’t you recognize me? You invited us to eat many things inside the Thinker’s Stone Forest, back when we were punished to stand.”

     “A freshman punished by Huston?”

     Chris blinked her eyes in astonishment. “I remember you guys, but how did you come in?”

     “One of the friends who were standing with me took me in here earlier, I don’t know if you still remember him. He wears glasses.” Ayrin said, vexed, “I have no idea where he ran off now though.”

     “He can actually sneak inside with you, he’s that good?”

     The trace of an admiring smile rippled on the corner of Chris’ mouth. “I don’t remember how he looks like anymore, I remember there were three of you back then though.”

     “Yeah, there’s a red-hair called Moss, the glasses is called Belo, I’m Ayrin.” Ayrin said full of spirits, “I watched your match today. I thought we were going to lose for sure, are you feeling better now? …Oh right, I brought you a gift. Green-wrapped candy with chocolate stuffing, a shopkeeper said it tastes great. I also have little bear gummies.”

     “Ah?”

     Chris’ mouth was open wide in a somewhat exaggerated fashion. “Is that chocolate-stuffed candy from the little shop with the green iron roof? That’s my favorite, it’s just been a long while since I went there to buy some.”

     “That’s right.” A giant happiness descended upon Ayrin. He kept nodding. “You want to eat it now?”

     “I very much want to,” Chris said in all honesty, but then she became a little bashful. “But right now I can’t move, can you unwrap it for me?”

     “Ok.”

     Ayrin went inside the ward, sat on the edge of Chris’ bed. He carefully unwrapped one and put it in Chris’ mouth.

     “That’s the spot…” Chris’ eyes immediately filled with little stars in satisfaction.

     “You must have been training too assiduously, that’s why you even forgot to buy your favorite.” Ayrin looked at her long eyelashes, the corner of her mouth, small and delicate. “I heard Belo say that someone from an ordinary human bloodline has to spend at least several times the effort if they want to train their strength, agility, and coordination to an even stronger level than those with beastmen blood.”

     “I want another one.”

     Chris seemed far removed from her incomparably domineering self during the match. She pursed her lips and confidently said, “Nothing to be done about it, it’s the only way to beat those powerful guys.”

     “You can’t move at all?” Ayrin unwrapped a candy, worriedly watching her at the same time. “How are your injuries, can you make it to the next match?”

     “The next match’s in three months. I asked teacher Namin, there’s absolutely no problem, I’ll just be missing a lot of training time.”

     “Three months? There’s such a long interval between a match and the next one?”

     “A competition like this leaves a certain amount of time to allow for treatment of injuries, since injuries are unavoidable.” Chris sucked on the chocolate-stuffed candy and slowly said, “Today’s match was a preliminary qualifier though, that’s why there’s an especially long time until the main qualifying round. There’s only half a month between matches when the main qualifiers begin.”

     “Half a month? Then in case of serious injuries, you can’t participate in the next match?”

     “Yes, that’s why the tournament is harder the further you go.”

     “So it’s easier to become champions for teams with five very powerful people, or academies with very powerful figures outside the five?”

     “That’s right. That’s why you have to pay attention to tactics sometimes and have a plan in place to counter your next opponents, see which members you can’t afford to lose because of injuries.” Chris said seriously, “If it weren’t so hard, there wouldn’t be so many people risking their all to become the tournament’s ultimate champions.”

     “I’ll train very hard too, I think this tournament’s very interesting. I want to help you grab the victory in this tournament,” Ayrin said, with equal seriousness.

     Chris smiled.

     “Alright then.” She watched Ayrin with a smile. “You have to find a way to beat the other members of our team first. We’ll see after you’re strong enough to join the academy’s team. Give me a small bear gummi, I’ve never eaten these before, I want to try what they taste like.”

     “Mm. I’ll definitely beat them and join the academy’s team!”

     Ayrin made an earnest promise, then he poured out a gummy from a glass bottle and put it in Chris’ mouth.

     “What are you doing, stop!”

     “Who the hell are you, how did you come in!”

     An exceptionally astonished and angry scream echoed at this time. A black shadow rushed inside the ward with a shrill windy sound, just like a bat. This black shadow pushed him against the wall. Ayrin couldn’t oppose the slightest resistance.

     “Teacher, he’s my friend, no need to worry.”

     Ayrin only noticed after hearing Chris’ voice that the one clutching his neck and pressing him against the wall was a thirty-something short-haired female arcane master with a face white as snow.

     This female arcane master’s body trembled nonstop.

     She still couldn’t believe at all what she saw with her own eyes. This was a sickbay area heavily protected by arcane masters of the medical branch, and there were also battlemasters helping with the site’s security with their patrols outside. Everyone here was on high alert because of Namin’s special order. What no one could imagine was, someone actually found their way inside and was even feeding something to Chris!

     After rushing inside, she’d already decided it was an ordinary candy from the smell, that was why she wasn’t heavy-handed when dealing with Ayrin. Still, cold sweat covered her from head to toe.

     Chris was the most elite student in the academy, she was the academy’s most treasured asset. She just couldn’t imagine the result if the one who’d sneaked in had been an enemy feeding Chris something harmful instead.

     She couldn’t even speak for a short while.

     “Swish!”

     “Swish!”

     “Swish!”…

     A dozen shadows arrived in this room in an instant, whistling through the air, dashing in from the windows or the door.

     The big empty spacious room became congested with people in an instant.

     “How did you come in!”

     “You actually secretly sneaked in here?”

     All the arcane masters inside the room were thoroughly shocked, their expressions all unsightly to the extreme.

     “I came in from the rear wall.” Seeing those arcane masters’ expressions, Ayrin realized severe punishment would probably be oncoming, so he gave Chris a wink. He didn’t want to expose Belo, he didn’t mind shouldering the punishments by himself.

     An arcane master with hair wrapped in blue cloth shouted in a stern voice, veins popping on his forehead, “Details, speak up!”

     “There’s a tunnel in the small woods behind, it connects to a sewer…”

     “Go check immediately, see if his first sentence is true or not!” This arcane master immediately issued a command.

     A silhouette immediately turned into a blurry shadow and shot out. It skimmed back from the windows not even one minute later. “It’s indeed there.”

     “How did you know there’s such a tunnel! What did you do after you came in?”

     Just as Ayrin was considering how to answer, an urgent warning cry suddenly rang in the night. This warning cry very much resembled the piercing call of a bird.

     “What happened?” All the arcane masters inside the room shook, their expressions becoming even more unsightly.

     “The members of team Southern Monsoon all disappeared!”

     Another arcane master rushed in, dazed and beside himself. “There’s a side door open. Someone must have infiltrated in while you all hurried here and taken all those wounded people away.”

     “What!”

     The leading arcane master with his hair wrapped in blue cloth was sweating cold sweat. It dripped down from his face as if it were flowing water. “Why didn’t you chase behind if you saw the side door open!”

     “I already did, haven’t found them yet!”

     “Who the hell are you!” Several arcane masters closed in on Ayrin who stood there dumbfounded.

     “Don’t be anxious, just let us handle it.” A crisp female voice came at this moment.

     “It’s Ciaran!” The arcane masters inside the room all looked at each other, all heaving a sigh of relief.

     …

     Ferdinand woke up from his dreams.

     At first he thought the bed felt really hard, totally different from how soft it was before.

     Then he suddenly discovered myriads of stars hanging above his head. He wasn’t inside the room, but in a wide open space!

     Following that, he noticed he was simply in the desolate countryside!

     “Ah!”

     He shrieked the next second. He had no idea what was happening. He and Riley and the others should have been comfortably lying inside Holy Dawn Academy’s infirmary. But now he could see that he and his teammates had all been rolled up, together with their bedding, and thrown onto a wild grassland. In addition, the surroundings were filled with burial mounds brimming with ghastly, ghostly auras. It was a cemetery!

     “Impossible! Why are we here?”

     Crewe was awake now, wakened by the loudness of his yell. And then he also became totally confused by the situation and let out a loud frightened yell.

     “Hmph, you actually dare poach someone from my Holy Dawn Academy in broad daylight, you totally disregard me. I’ll let you see some ghosts!”

     “Acting so arrogant to my face…”

     The back of a seeming gentle figure traveled in the desolate forest near this cemetery, whispering arrogantly to himself. Not far away, shrieks rose one by one from the Southern Monsoon team members.

     “This guy, he spent so much effort just to do something like that and blow off some steam. Really worthy of the Impulsive Freshman who had the guts to break into the Beasts Enclosure.”

     A soft lazy voice rose very quickly on the edges of the wild forest. “He’s actually able to lure so many people away and take these people here. I didn’t even have that kind of talent back then.”

     “Liszt, how should we deal with that little guy?” Minlur’s coarse voice also rose very quickly.

     “It’s just a kid’s mischief, no need to bother.” Liszt smiled. “I’m guessing it won’t be long before you get the opportunity to teach them and sort them out.”

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     Chapter 27: A clear way forward!

      Chapter 27: A clear way forward!

     After being taken away from the sickbay, Ayrin was locked inside a metallic room with a window only as big as his head.

     He wasn’t worried about whatever punishment he was going to face, however. On the contrary, his heart was filled with boundless determination now he successfully met with Chris!

     After gaining a clear-cut dream and a goal for his struggles, he seemed to have gained focus and spirit all of a sudden, gained a meaning to his life.

     Ayrin saw the way forward become clear all of a sudden. Even the starlight filtering through the small windows seemed much more beautiful than ordinary moonlight.

     “You have to find a way to beat the other members of our team. You have to have enough strength to join the academy’s team first…”

     Ayrin had been previously extremely tired because of his foundation exercises, even before going to the infirmary, but he stood up as soon as he thought of this sentence. He did squats in this narrow space, leaps, runs and stops, punches. He continued to train nonstop.

     Time passed by. Ayrin’s looked as he’d been fished out from a river. Muscles all over his body and even his bones were scorching hot, painful as if they’d cracked, to the point he’d shout in pain every time he moved.

     “What are you doing?”

     The heavy iron door suddenly opened. A great rush of fresh air gushed inside. Wrapped in a red scarf, elite teacher Ciaran and her pretty brown shoulder-length hair stood in the doorway. She became surprised as soon as she saw Ayrin’s distorted face, dripping from head to toe.

     “I’m training.” Ayrin panted in rough breaths. After recognizing teacher Ciaran, he said, filled with fighting spirit, “Because I want to join the academy’s team and participate in the Cup of Academy Braves.”

     “A freshman wants to go straight to the academy’s team and participate in the tournament?”

     Thinking back to what Ayrin and Belo had done, and seeing Ayrin still up to so many tricks even locked inside this place, Ciaran felt a headache rising, but also some surprise. “You watched the match today? Then did you see that every participant in the competition can suffer very heavy injuries and even put their lives in danger. Aren’t you afraid?”

     “Not afraid. I want to fight against these powerful guys, defeat them!”

     “Surprising, he doesn’t have any fear at all, no wonder Liszt…” Ciaran looked at Ayrin’s spirited expression. She couldn’t see any dread or hesitation inside Ayrin’s eyes. She couldn’t help silently shake her head, and didn’t speak much further. She merely said, “You can go back and rest.”

     “I can go back and rest?”

     “Yes, things have been clearly investigated, it has nothing to do with you guys. However, next time you want to come to the infirmary, you have come go through me and obtain my permission, otherwise if you rashly go in like this, it’s very possible it’d affect Chris’ recovery and cause harm to her body.”

     “I understand, next time I want to go I’ll make sure to come find teacher Ciaran!”

     Ciara took Ayrin to a great avenue inside the academy. They said their farewells and walked a few steps away, but he suddenly turned around and charged back toward teacher Ciaran who’d also walked a few steps away. He asked loudly, “Teacher Ciaran, many powerful arcane skills can only be used condensing arcane particles, right?”

     “Hm?”

     Ciaran turned around, a little curious. Seeing Ayrin looking full of zest despite his extreme exhaustion, she nodded and said, “Of course, the real power of arcane skills comes from the might of arcane particles superposed with accumulated arcane power. As to the tricks gathering a little arcane power with mere body movements, they can only be called arcanist techniques. They can’t be compared to genuine mighty arcane skills.”

     “Teacher Ciaran, how can I condense arcane particles then?” Ayrin asked immediately, hope and expectation written all over his face.

     Ciaran stared blankly.

     She’d almost never been asked such a question, because few freshmen were so hurried for instant results, because almost every student clearly knew they would slowly understand more about training and arcane particles in the course of their program. Moreover, almost every student very clearly knew there was simply no use considering this question during their freshman year, no matter how great their talents.

     Perhaps in ordinary times, she would never have gone in details in answer to such a question from a freshman who’d joined the academy not long ago, but remembering some words from Liszt, and thinking again about this young man’s eyes filled with hot blood and devoid of any fear right now, her heart suddenly thumped inside her chest.

     “You must already understand that physical strength is split into two parts. One part is the power stored inside all the tiny particles inside our body during ordinary times, and the other part is the power of our spiritual will. As to arcane power, it’s the power of external energy. Condensing arcane particles is about focusing our spirit and sucking the power of external energy inside our bodies, combining and compressing it together with the power accumulated inside every minute particles in the body.”

     Ciaran took a deep breath and looked at Ayrin, saying, “If you want to condense arcane particles, you have to fulfill two conditions. One, you have to have strong enough a mental power, and two, the power stored inside the minute particles inside your body must also be sufficiently high. To put it simply, a strong enough spiritual strength and physical strength… Only by continuously challenging your own limits and surpassing yourself can you continuously increase your own spiritual strength and physical strength, break through to a new level. It’s the only way to reach the level you want to reach in the shortest time.”

     Ayrin understood at once, saying with a fervent expression in his eyes, “So there’s no special method, the only way to becoming an arcane master is to train and exercise nonstop?”

     “There’s no shortcut.” Ciaran nodded. “Ordinary foundation training can continuously increase your physical strength, training in some ordinary arcanist techniques can increase your perception of the vital energy in the air. For new freshmen like you guys, you can only sense and mobilize the power of external energy when you combine chants and unique movements. You can only condense arcane particles then, otherwise you can’t even sense external energy. What you’re sensing is something invisible, how could you touch it and make it enter your body?”

     “Of course, when your spiritual strength and physical strength become strong enough and reach the point of being able to condense arcane particles, the school has a few unique meditations and movements that’ll help you with sensing or using external energy.” After a faint pause, Ciara looked at the incomparably earnest Ayrin and added, “When that time comes however, the most important thing is how to make your mind reach a high degree of concentration.”

     “I understand now, that’s something to think about when the time comes, what I can do now is to continuously challenge myself, train hard and surpass myself. Am I right or not, teacher!”

     “It’s better to think like this.” Ciara watched him and suddenly seemed to think of something. She said, “Teacher Huston who’s teaching you guys now can’t be said to be one with a strong battle power inside the academy, but he’s very knowledgeable when it comes to condensing arcane particles. Among all the teachers, he was one of the fastest ones to condense arcane particles.”

     “Really?” Ayrin was a little doubtful. “Everyone says he can’t even be called an elite teacher though. Someone who’s able to condense arcane particles very quickly, shouldn’t he have trained the most assiduously, be among the most outstanding ones?”

     Ciaran shook her head. “Assiduous training is only one facet. If you talk simply about fighting, what determines whether an arcane master is strong or not depends on his natural talent in comprehending arcane skills, as well as his fighting talents. Huston’s merely a little lacking when it comes to his natural talent for comprehending arcane skills, so he couldn’t grasp the most powerful skills of the academy. That’s all.”

     “Is that so. Since teacher Huston’s so amazing, then I’ll surely progress a bit faster.” Ayrin felt the road in front of him became a little clearer still. He looked at Ciaran, filled with excitement and enthusiasm. “Teacher, is it possible within three months?”

     “Three months?”

     Ciaran froze a second, her shoulder-length brown hair drifting like a waterfall in the night wind. “I have to say… the possibility isn’t too great.”

     “Not a single person can achieve that?” Ayrin kept asking, without losing hope.

     “In the entire Doraster continent, only a very few legendary arcane masters can do it.” Ciara told Ayrin, “In the history of our Holy Dawn Academy, there’s only one person who managed to condense arcane particles a few months after Awakening. On top of that, that predecessor had very pure dragon blood.”

     “So there are people who succeeded!” Ayrin immediately shouted in happiness. “Then I have to strive hard and succeed as well.”

     “…” Ciaran was immediately speechless.

     …

     Under the dancing shadows of the trees, the figure of Ayrin’s back seemed also a little flurried.

     Ciaran wordlessly watched the silhouette of his back, tired yet seemingly brimming with energy.

     Truth to tell, Ayrin previously seemed very ordinary no matter how you looked at him, no different whatsoever from those students with ordinary human blood.

     But really coming into contact with him, Ciaran had a very strange sensation the moment she started talking with him.

     This sensation didn’t come only from the total lack of fear and worry in Ayrin’s eyes, didn’t come only from the apparent feeling there was nothing under the starry skies he feared.

     No, there was something else.

     She couldn’t tell what it truly was until now. Only when Ayrin’s back almost vanished from her sight, thinking about Ayrin’s spirited smile just then, she finally understood.

     No matter how brave and how lacking in fear, when thinking about the constant bitter training paving the road to arcane mastery, thinking about the bitterness of those exercises exceeding their own limits, everyone would be a little scared right?

     Even her, thinking of those extreme hardships, those moments even more painful than death, she would feel very uncomfortable.

     But when this guy thought of what he was certain to go through, the constant pain he was very soon to going to meet with, he was instead extremely happy, as if he was going to experience many extreme joys. What kind of sicko was that?

     “I have to progress faster!”

     “I have to condense arcane particles!”

     “I have to beat the other members of the team and become a representative for the academy!”

     “I have to become stronger!”

     Walking toward the Ivy district, Ayrin waved his fist nonstop under the starry skies, soaring spirits written all over his face.

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     Chapter 28: He really has a notebook

      Chapter 28: He really has a notebook

     Early Morning. Ayrin, looking like he still wasn’t fully awake yet, and Belo, looking abnormally awake, walked on the road leading to the Thinker’s Stone Forest.

     Huston had arranged for a test today.

     “Where the hell did you go last night after we went into the infirmary?”

     “Nowhere, I just strolled around a bit.”

     “You’re really not the one who took away those people from team Southern Monsoon? The teachers who caught me said that someone took advantage of them being led my way to take the Southern Monsoon members away. I think you took me on purpose to Chris’ place, and then used me as bait for those teachers so you can do your thing.”

     “Of course it wasn’t me, do I look like someone who’d make use of a friend like this?”

     “You look very much like that!”

     “…If it were me, would I still be standing here and talk to you safe and sound like nothing happened?”

     “There could be some reason, anyway your behavior is too suspicious.”

     They talked and walked, when Ayrin suddenly saw a touch of red at a fork in the road in front of them. It was Moss. Ayrin happily greeted him. “Moss!”

     Moss’s head hung down, thinking whether he was going to meet with yet another miserable disaster in the Notebook Teacher’s class today. He turned his head around when he heard Ayrin’s sudden voice. He saw Ayrin coming excitedly his way; he immediately felt the urge to die. “Little shorty, stay far away from me! Could it be you think you haven’t harmed me enough yet, you still want teacher Huston to think we’re a band?”

     “Eh?”

     Ayrin wasn’t too far behind Moss now. He said to Moss, astonished, “How come you seem even shorter than me?”

     “What!”

     Moss’ eyeballs almost fell to the ground as soon as he had a look at Ayrin. He was astounded to find Ayrin truly a little taller than even himself, all of a sudden.

     How did the little shorty become even taller than himself!

     “Impossible! You must be wearing something! Are you using fake feet!”

     Under the shock of this severe psychological blow, Moss immediately pounced on Ayrin’s feet. He squeezed Ayrin’s feet, incredulous, even took off Ayrin’s shoes to see if there was something inside that’d make Ayrin become taller.

     What made him crazy was, everything was normal on Ayrin’s feet, there wasn’t anything there.

     “Not bad not bad.”

     Just at that moment, a sinister voice floated in from not too distant a place.

     “Teacher Huston?”

     Moss froze, still kneeling in front of Ayrin.

     That man standing under the shade of a tree not far away, watching them with an insincere smile, his greasy hair shining, who else could it be if not Notebook Teacher Huston.

     “That’s very good, you’ve reached such a level of intimacy already, your feelings are pretty good, even to the point you’ll help each other check the shoes and wear the shoes. I very much admire students with such mutual friendly love, who help and assist each other.”

     Huston wiped his greasy hair shining under the daylight and laughed maliciously, saying this sentence with a deeply meaningful tone. Then he leisurely turned around and walked inside the Thinker’s Stone Forest.

     “Ah!”

     After staring blankly for a moment, Moss shouted, “Teacher Huston! Teacher Huston, it’s not what you think!”

     “I really have nothing to do with these two guys, we’re really not a clique!”

     “I was only checking his feet! We’re truly not good friends.”

     “You think I’m a moron?” A soft cold sneer drifted out from the Thinker’s Stone Forest. “Even feet lovers don’t have the hobby of checking a male’s feet.”

     “…” Moss really wanted to die.

     …

     The vast majority of freshmen arrived before Ayrin and the others, all of them very apprehensive.

     Countless legends certified that Teacher Notebook’s tests were as frightening as the monsters inside the Giant Beasts Enclosure. On top of that, no one in previous classes had the guts to offend teacher Huston, but there was an existence like Ayrin in their class who made Huston hysterical. Hence, when Huston’s tall and slender figure emerged among the huge white stones, many freshmen felt their legs shake uncontrollably.

     Moss, with a face ashen like death, Ayrin, with a face full of excitement, and Belo, without any expression whatsoever on his face, appeared one after another.

     “These three guys are up to no good again.”

     “You just have to look at their expressions to know nothing good’s gonna happen.”

     “Who knows what method teacher Huston’s going to use this time to sort them out.”

     “The Notebook Teacher Huston is the teacher who cares the most about face, in the entire academy. Last time they caused him to lose control of his emotions, and he ended up with no face at all, plus the whole academy’s talking about his matter. There’s no way he’ll let go of it.”

     “…”

     Imperceptibly, the great majority of students grouped Ayrin, Belo, and Moss together into the same band.

     “Alright, here’s to the start of another delightful day.”

     Huston cleared his throat after seeing every student in attendance, and showed off a posture that he himself believed to be grim yet stylish. He said, “I said it repeatedly in the past couple days, today’s the day we test the result of your training. Everyone must surely be extremely excited about it.”

     “Excited… More like feels like crying.” This was what many freshmen were silently thinking, their heads lowered.

     “The motivation and impetus for training come from seeing your own progress. I, Huston, am the teacher who’s the most expert in the entire academy at teaching students. With my wise and efficient guidance, as long as you don’t slack off, you’ll definitely become a great deal stronger than students from other classes. But the key is you can’t slack off, if you dare not to complete the exercises I talked to you about, humph humph, you already know what’s the outcome.” Huston blew his own trumpet for a few sentences, overflowing with spirit, as if he’d entirely shed off last time’s shadows, when Ayrin made him lose his cool.

     “Of course I’m also very excited when I think I’m about to check on the results of your training, but there’s a guy among you who’s a bit special, who gets hungry too easily, so I have to take care of him a little bit before we start the test…”

     Almost every freshman’s heart thumped as soon as they heard those words, all thinking, chilled to their core, “Here it comes again, it’s finally starting.”

     “This a specialty from the northern territories I saved for many years, the army jerky. It’s made from the plumpest meat of the snow bears in the snow plains of the north, it’s a good thing that can only be obtained by powerful battlemasters guarding the north or those who go on a mission there. Not only is it extremely rich in nutrition, what’s most important is, it’s also extremely filling. Usually, battlemasters can go several days without going hungry when they eat a piece of it.”

     Huston smiled lightly, his gaze falling wholly on Ayrin. “Ayrin, don’t you get easily hungry, we’ll wait for you to eat this before we start the test.”

     “Army jerky, he’s got so many tricks…” The gentler Huston’s voice and smile, the more scared many freshmen became inside.

     Huston fished out something out from his chest while he spoke.

     “This?” All the freshmen felt a little dazed.

     Because what Huston had taken out wasn’t an army jerky at all, but a small notebook with a black leather cover that looked like it’d gone through many uses, many places worn very smooth on it.

     Huston lowered his head when he felt something a little wrong in the students’ gazes, and immediately said, as if nothing had happened, “Oh, I got the wrong thing.” Then he stuffed the little notebook back inside his clothes at lightning speed, pulling out a great piece of jerky instead.

     The students stayed blank for a second all at the same time, then they went crazy.

     “Did you see that, he really has a notebook!”

     “The Notebook Teacher indeed has a little notebook…Ah!”

     Huston acted calm and nonchalant. He handed over the great piece of red-brown northern army jerky to Ayrin.

     “Do I really have to eat it?” Ayrin looked at the jerky. It seemed very taste, very appetizing, but he was a little hesitant looking at Huston’s honest and upright appearance.

     “Of course, it’s my kindly regard.” Huston said, exceptionally amiable, “Don’t worry and just eat it, I guarantee on my dignity that it tastes pretty good, there’s absolutely no laxative or poison or anything in it. Otherwise I’d have to take full responsibility if something were to happen to you.”

     Ayrin looked impatiently at him and said, “Teacher, how about you eat a bit too?”

     “You’re too careful. I appreciate a little cautiousness and vigilance however, especially when arcane masters are out on a mission. The more cautious they are the less likely they are to be killed by the enemy,” Huston said. He tore a strip from the jerky and ate it, saying while eating, “Everyone should take example on Ayrin’s careful and vigilant attitude.”

     “Such a hypocrite, he probably means the opposite of every word he says…” A great many freshmen felt a chill run through them.

     “It doesn’t taste bad.” Ayrin chewed on the jerky and discovered it tasted very good, and it wasn’t as hard as he’d imagined. It had a thick greasy taste, but not the kind so greasy it made you want to retch either.

     “I’m so full!” After eating the entire piece of jerky, Ayrin suddenly felt something a little out of place. The jerky seemed to be swelling inside his belly, then he really saw his belly slowly bulge to an alarming size. It looked even more exaggerated than last time when he ate several hundred chicken legs. His stomach also became heavy.

     “Alright, now let’s begin the test. Ayrin, you’re first,” Huston said as if there was nothing out of the ordinary.

     “Hiss…” A collective gasp.

     Every freshman immediately saw through Huston’s plot.

     After eating so full and looking like his body was one time heavier than usual, he’d certainly be greatly impeded when taking his test!

     This was definitely no ordinary army jerky.

     What was that thing. Such a tiny piece actually made a great stomach king like Ayrin bulge into such a state.

     “This is simply no army jerky at all. Only the legendary “Giants’ Snack” can produce such an effect. Teacher Huston, you really went overboard.” An angry voice rose, a voice many people could recognize without turning their heads as belonging to Rinloran, the one who had the guts to challenge Huston last time.

     “Oh? Is that so?”

     Huston looked at Rinloran, looking fully apologetic. “It looks like I accidentally took the wrong thing. No matter though, since you know about the “Giant’s Snack,” you should know this legendary food from the Giants’ Kingdom back then is extremely nutritious. Eating it is very beneficial.”

     “Can he still take the test in this state?” Rinloran looked at Huston, his pretty silver hair floating up.

     Cold light flashed in Huston’s eyes.

     “No matter, I’m alright.” Ayrin patted his belly with indifference at this time, looking both a little satisfied and a little worried. “I won’t transform into a giant after eating this giants’ snack right?”

     “Of course you won’t, it’ll only make you more muscular, your food taste better. That’s something I saved up for many years, I couldn’t even bear to eat it myself.” Huston once again said in a tone that sent an evil chill running through most freshmen, “Now let’s immediately start the test.”

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