Teacher Ai'erlun’s office.
"Master Buze, even if you put it that way, it's very difficult for me to handle."
Teacher Ai'erlun looked troubled.
Buze slammed the table hard with his fleshy palm and said fiercely, "I don't care! You must let Grinya enroll today, or the Kritov family will not let this matter rest!"
"...I'm sorry, I'm just an ordinary teacher. I have no authority to open a back door for a student."
Teacher Ai'erlun withdrew his gentle expression, his voice turning cold.
"Only the principal has that kind of authority. Even if the head of the Kritov family were present today, my answer would not change."
"The principal, is it? I'll find him right now."
Acting aggressively, Buze pulled a very square, flat box from his pocket. It was engraved with incredibly intricate patterns and had an even more complex internal structure.
A "communication screen box"!
A landmark item from the industrial revolution of the previous generation, it featured real-time video calling and information transmission functions.
It was hailed as the most important technological invention of the new era.
Although the value of a single communication screen box was enough to match an entire year's income for a resident of the Yiertaya Second Ring, it had truly transformed the world's mode of communication.
Perhaps it wouldn't be long before the communication screen box became universal across all the towns and cities of the kingdom.
A screen of light projected from the top of the box. After a moment, a young man appeared sitting in a chair, propping his head up with both hands, his golden eyes staring at Buze.
"Buze, is there something you need from me?"
"Why the hell is it you? Where's Grandpa?" Buze flew into a rage; clearly, he was not at all pleased to see the young man before him.
"Buze, mind your noble conduct. Nobles do not use such foul language," the young man said indifferently. "Grandpa is occupied with a myriad of affairs; he doesn't have time for your trivial matters."
He paused, the corners of his mouth curling slightly.
"I heard that in yesterday's practical test, you were miserably defeated by a girl from the countryside. You've truly brought shame to our family, Buze."
"Shut up, Kaiya!" Buze's face turned red with agitation.
"Fine. Let's get down to business. Do you have something to ask me?" Kaiya wiped away his cynical smile, his tone becoming somewhat cold.
"Help me get that commoner named Grinya enrolled," Buze said.
A commoner...
Teacher Ai'erlun's mouth twitched beside him.
Even if the Loran family was currently down on its luck, the family still held a hereditary peerage.
No matter how you looked at it, Grinya could not be called a commoner.
Perhaps in the eyes of the Kritov family, impoverished nobles and commoners were one and the same.
"Buze, this goes against the rules. Family power isn't meant to be abused like this by you." Kaiya frowned.
"She insulted my name and my honor! Everything I lost, I must reclaim from her personally!" Buze said decisively.
"She's the country girl who defeated you?" Kaiya was somewhat surprised. "She didn't pass the academy's exam? How is that possible!
Even if someone sprinkled a handful of rice on the paper and then coated a chicken's beak with ink, they should have been able to score 20 points on the theory test. How did she actually manage that?"
Even the usually calm Kaiya showed unprecedented shock in the face of this bizarre situation.
"Perhaps there was an issue with the academy's mana net system, but I'm too lazy to check all that." Buze's gaze was incredibly firm. "That girl must be enrolled today!
I, Buze, have spoken. Even if the principal comes, he won't stop me!"
Teacher Ai'erlun: "..."
"Fine, I've entered the information on my end. You're with Teacher Ai'erlun right now, aren't you? Have him check it." Upon hearing that the person Buze insisted on enrolling was the very same country girl who had defeated him in the training hall yesterday, Kaiya completed the enrollment procedures for the girl named Grinya almost without a second thought.
It wasn't that he was doing it for his brother's sake, nor was it to help Buze reclaim his dignity; he simply felt that if he helped this girl enroll, he would be able to witness even more of his brother's jokes.
Moreover, merely modifying someone's enrollment information was hardly a drop in the bucket for the Kritov family.
Besides, he was truly curious. Just what kind of genius could fail to even get a score of 20 on the theory test?
After getting Kaiya's reply, Buze breathed a sigh of relief.
He looked back at Ai'erlun.
Teacher Ai'erlun shrugged. "Don't look at me. I'm just a teacher. Since the academy is run by your Kritov family anyway, just don't pin the responsibility on me."
If you had just called your family from the start, wouldn't that have been the end of it?
Why did you have to keep pestering a simple worker like him?
Teacher Ai'erlun sighed.
...
【You have completed the Main Quest: The Radiance of Yiertaya, Part 1.】
【Obtained 300 Source Crystals, 300 Prestige.】
Looking at the two messages that suddenly popped up on the game screen before him, Lu Xun was stunned.
What?
The quest is complete?
When did he progress the main story?
Lu Xun was dazed, clearly not having processed it yet.
Forget it, whatever.
This 300 Prestige came at just the right time. With this, Lu Xun's Prestige had exactly reached 1000.
Just enough for a ten-pull!
Lu Xun immediately clicked on the gacha page.
Without hesitation, he clicked to pull!
"Gold! Gold! Gold!"
Lu Xun watched the cards appear on the interface one by one, his heart incredibly nervous.
The first nine cards were still white, without surprise.
The last card was also purple, as expected.
"It's fine, as long as it gives me another pretty lady."
Lu Xun pressed his hands together and prayed constantly.
Ding!
【Congratulations! You have obtained the Purple-tier character, Peerless Fencer!】
"Fuck!!!"
Within the vast grey mist space, only a certain person's desperate cry remained.
Lu Xun stood frozen in place, at a loss for quite a while before slowly accepting reality.
He looked at the purple card on the screen, which showed a shy, white-haired beauty in a green school uniform, and he gnashed his teeth.
"Why the hell is it you again!"
【You already own "Peerless Fencer." Converted into "Peerless Fencer's Life Star*1."】
"Life Star?"
Lu Xun quickly noticed this item. He vaguely remembered that on the character's profile list, there seemed to be something called a Life Star.
Obtaining a duplicate character converts it into a Life Star...
So this is the damn Constellation system!
Lu Xun understood, so he immediately opened the character's attribute panel and clicked on the Life Star tab.
The background of the screen was a dark silhouette. The figure's entire body was shrouded in greyish-white mist, making it impossible to see the face, but Lu Xun felt a strange sense of familiarity from it.
"..."
He must be crazy, feeling familiarity toward a black silhouette used as a game background!
It had to be an illusion.
There were many stars on the black silhouette, but they were all dim and lacked light.
In the upper right corner of each dim star, there was a very conspicuous red dot.
"These... seem to be skills." With just one glance, Lu Xun could tell what they were.
Each star corresponded to a different skill.
For example, one of the stars had its name marked at the top.
【Air-Piercing Sword Dance】!
Lu Xun wanted to see what kind of effect this skill had, so he clicked on it.
Subsequently, the red dots in the upper right corners of the other stars all disappeared, leaving only the star Lu Xun had clicked on to gradually bloom with light.
Lu Xun: "!!!"
He only wanted to read the skill description. Why the hell did it activate!
Fuck!!!
Rate on N.U.
