Insufficient balance

  "Older brother, older brother." Just as I was about to go to class, Mark came looking for me.

  "What's wrong?"

  "Boss, I found out who beat me up yesterday," Mark said, panting.

  "Who's there?" Mark's words piqued my interest.

  "Boss, it seems I still have a chance! The man from yesterday is that girl's older brother, haha, looks like I still have a chance." Mark said excitedly.

  "Oh! Is that so? That's good then, you're not going to take revenge?"

  "Of course I won't report it, how can I hit my future big uncle, haha!!"

  "What's going on! The eight characters haven't even been written yet! What grade are these students in?"

  When I asked this, Mark seemed a bit disappointed.

  "That girl is okay, she's a third-year student who's two years older than us and majors in the Water Department. Her brother is one of the top figures in the school, a fourth-year student and the head of the Fire Department, I heard he's one of the top ten masters in the school!"

  "Wow, you still dare to flirt with someone's sister, I really admire your courage." I said with schadenfreude.

  "The power of love is great, I must persist, persistence is victory."

  Looking at Mark's enthusiastic face. I smiled and said: "Then you go for it, don't get yourself killed by others. Hehe!"

  "Ugh, don't be so discouraging, hurry up and go to class."

  While listening to the teacher's lecture, I noticed Mark seemed to be planning something, frowning one moment and grinning foolishly the next. It was quite amusing. I crumpled up a piece of paper and threw it at him. He suddenly came to life, nodded his head at me, and just as I was taken aback, the teacher said: "Chang Gong, you come answer this question."

  "Ah! Oh, yes."

  "What is long-distance instant transfer magic?" The teacher looked at me and intentionally made it difficult for me because I didn't listen to the lesson carefully.

  Haha, I actually asked this. I calmed down a bit.

  "Long-distance instant transfer magic is based on spatial magic, increasing the distance of transfer through a magical array, opening a virtual channel in space to transfer people within the magical array to another location. The hit rate of this magic is very low, and it's not a magic that magicians with extremely high control over magic would normally use." I answered the question neatly and turned back to glance at Mark with a sense of pride.

  "Alright, sit down, Zhang Gong classmate answered very well, but next time pay attention to listen to the lecture."

  "Yes, teacher."

  Having been warned by the teacher, I didn't dare to be distracted again. With a concentrated mind, I listened through a whole morning of classes and was so tired that I wanted to go to sleep immediately.

  It's finally noon, and Mark just finished eating. This kid is going to carry out his plan to pick up girls. He's really precocious. I'd better go back and take a nap, or I'll have dark circles under my eyes and ruin my heroic image.

  I slept for a while, and I felt my whole body was filled with light elements. Although it couldn't grow anymore, the feeling of being full of energy was still pretty good. I pulled open the curtains to take a look outside, wow, it's already evening! I slept for quite a long time. Not good, I'd better hurry up and go eat dinner, or there won't be any left.

  I rushed to the cafeteria, which wasn't bad. Although the trainees' dinner had already entered the final stage, there were still some left, and I quickly ordered three portions of dinner like a storm sweeping away fallen leaves.

  "Wow, which one is the glutton of the light system? Look at him, he can eat so much."

  "Right, just like pigs."

  A burst of laughter and whispers came from behind me. Well, who cares about how much someone eats? How annoying. I won't bother with them. Who made me have a good temper anyway? I quickened my sweeping pace, planning to finish up and run to where I met the old man in the white magic robe last time. I summoned Xiao Jin.

  "This little guy doesn't eat less than me, I'm eating rice, but it's eating the light elements that I've worked hard to gather! (Is it very tiring? It seems like it was slept out!) "

  Wow, it's grown so fast, not in vain, "You little rice bucket, you can eat too much!" Little Jin rubbed against my hand, its body is now three times the size of when it was just born, over two feet long, as thick as a small water cup.

  "Let me see if you've made any progress recently!"

  As I spoke, I began to mentally command Xiao Jin, and it was quite good. It hadn't wasted all the light elements it had eaten. Now, Xiao Jin could use all the primary light magic that I could use, but it seemed like it still couldn't absorb light elements from the air on its own. (Note: Growth-type fantasy beasts grow very quickly in their early stages and can learn any magic that their master knows. Ranked fantasy beasts can only learn magic of their rank or lower within their system. Fantasy beasts that have grown to a certain extent can also perform physical attacks.)

  I happily put Xiao Jin back inside me, "Xiao Jin, let's go back to sleep, you must grow up well!"

  My figure gradually faded, and the old magician from last time appeared from behind a tall tree. "This kid's phantom beast doesn't seem to be an ordinary growing-type phantom beast, it's growing too fast, I don't know what special function it has, this kid will definitely have a great future, I must make him my disciple, heh heh!" How unbecoming for an old man.

  I returned to the dormitory without knowing that I was being calculated by others, and Green Hair was also there.

  "Longbow, it was my fault last time, don't be angry!" Green Hair said tentatively to me.

  "It's nothing, just don't come looking for me again and bother me, I'm going to sleep."

  "Chang Gong, I heard your friend Mark got beaten up today and it seems like he's in pretty bad shape!"

  "Ah!, is it? Thanks Green Hair, I'll go take a look." Throwing off my drowsiness, I quickly came to the next room.

  Wow, it's even more miserable than yesterday, isn't it?

  "Mark, why don't you go find a school counselor to help you out?"

  "Boss, you've finally arrived, I didn't dare, I'm afraid of being expelled, private fights in school will get you expelled (public duels are okay)."

  "What can I say, you're great! Oh mighty element of light, as your friend, I beg of you to save the creature before us!" Although I looked down on Mark's persistence, he is my brother after all, how could I just stand by and do nothing? This time this kid will surely remember. But as soon as Mark was okay, his first words immediately shattered my thoughts.

  "Boss, boss, thank you so much! Today she finally told me her name."

  I glared at him with a look of utter disgust.

  "Big brother, why are you looking at me like that?"

  "She told you her name, why did you still hit her."

  "Haha, I found out from her brother. Ah, he said if I'm looking for her, he'll break my legs. Looks like I have to wait a bit, no legs wouldn't be good, big bro, do you have any treatment methods for broken legs????" Mark gave me a silly look. Luckily the others in their dorm hadn't returned yet, or else with this silly little brother of mine, I'd lose face."

  A miserable cry came from Mark's dormitory.

  "Big brother, stop hitting me, I was wrong, spare me..."