Chapter 1: The Awakening of the Young Man! Thaumaturge...

  "What are those three guys standing there doing?"

  "What else can be done? Just looking at them, they're three newbies. They must have offended Houston and are being punished to stand there."

  "Really admirable courage, this is still the first lesson of a newborn, actually dare to offend Xiao Benben teacher..."

  Thinker Shi Lin stood outside, and students from Saint Luminous Academy came and went, pointing at Ailin, Bero, and Moss who were standing by the roadside.

  "What's wrong with your brain, Dwarf?! Everyone knows what kind of person Mr. Houston is, and you still dare to sleep during his class!" Moss felt extremely humiliated and was grinding his teeth in anger.

  Bailu glanced at him disdainfully, "It's just standing punishment, what's the big deal."

  "Isn't it just standing in detention?" Moss couldn't help but exclaim, "Do you think it's that simple? Do you know how sinister the legendary Little Notebook Teacher is? We're stuck here in detention and can't hear what he says next, then tomorrow we'll fall behind again, and he'll easily find an excuse to continue punishing us."

  "That's not very interesting?" Berro said with great interest: "I want to see how many tricks he has."

  “…..”

  Moss was already completely speechless, and when he turned his head and saw Ailing, he almost fainted directly.

  Ailing's eyelids were already drooping as she fell asleep, looking like she was about to start snoring at any moment.

  "You're really a pig? You can even fall asleep standing up!"

  Morse could no longer bear it and pounced on Elin, grasping her neck, as if he wanted to strangle her to death.

  "Cough...cough..." Ailin was pinched awake, and let out a fit of coughs.

  Bailu calmly looked at Mo Si: "Don't be impulsive, if you bring out Teacher Houston and find that he didn't punish him properly, it will be even more miserable."

  "Am I impulsive?" Moss looked at Bero in disbelief: "You're an impulsive newcomer, and you tell me not to be impulsive. Are you saying I'm more impulsive than you?"

  Ailin nodded vigorously and said honestly: "Yes, you look very impulsive now."

  “…...”

  Morse felt that if he continued to talk to abnormal people like Bello and Ailin, he would be so angry that he would vomit blood. So he suppressed the urge to vomit blood, turned around, and forced himself not to look at Ailin and Bello.

  After being choked awake by Moss, Ailing seemed less sleepy, but as time passed, he felt hungrier and hungrier.

  "Hmm..."

  As it approached noon, his stomach growled loudly, and he began to feel so hungry that he had no energy left. He looked towards the Thinker's Stone Forest and said, "Why hasn't Professor Houston come out yet? I'm starving."

  Bailu looked at Ailin and saw that her face had turned white, and she was starting to sweat on her forehead. He couldn't help but ask in a somewhat strange tone: "Didn't you eat a lot this morning? How can you be so hungry already?"

  Ailing weakly opened her mouth, but before she could say anything, her stomach had already started growling loudly and continuously.

  "I...". Moss originally thought it was okay, but after hearing Ailing's stomach growling nonstop, he felt hungrier too. Since he was afraid of being late in the morning and didn't have time to eat much, when he turned his head to look at Ailing, who seemed like she might not be able to stand up at any moment, he became even more tense. He immediately shouted: "Shorty, don't harm people anymore! Now is already the time when Mr. Houston may come out at any moment. If you can't stand properly, once he comes out and sees you, we'll definitely get penalized for standing again."

  Bailu pushed his glasses and looked at Mo Si, but he didn't speak, instead looking towards the Thinker's Stone Forest.

  His movement made Moss think that Houston was coming out at this time, but in his tense turn, he saw a girl wearing a blue uniform like them walking out from among the white boulders standing like giants.

  The sunlight at this time made Ailin's eyes particularly dazzling, which made him see a strange light flashing on the girl's green uniform when he first saw her walking out from between the giant stones. He blinked hard to clear his vision and saw that it was a girl with black long hair, her beautiful face covered with a layer of sparkling sweat, her uniform also soaked with sweat, even the ends of her hair were constantly dripping water.

  While Ailin was staring at the girl in a daze, the girl had already noticed their presence and walked towards them.

  "How come you're being kept after school by Teacher Houston?"

  Just by looking at the three of them, the girl seemed to have already understood why, and she waved her hand at the three of them and said this sentence.

  The first one to respond to the girl was a loud growl from Ailin's stomach.

  Ailin felt a bit embarrassed, but the girl who looked very elegant smiled and said: "Hungry? Didn't you eat much this morning? But even if Professor Huston comes over later, he'll still make you continue standing as punishment. When he makes people stand as punishment, it's actually on purpose to starve them for a meal, this is one of his most commonly used tactics against new students."

  Moss had already felt hungrier and hungrier, but when he heard the girl say this, his face turned white in an instant. At this time, Ailin saw that the girl's left hand was wrapped with thick bandages, so he kindly asked: "What's wrong with your hand? Are you injured?"

  "It's okay, just be careful not to get hurt during training." The girl smoothed out her wet hair and smiled at Ailin, "You're really not bad, you're starving yourself like this but still care about whether I'm hurt or not. You two can just stand here and wait for me."

  "Waiting for you?"

  Ailing still didn't understand what it meant, and the girl had already turned around and walked out for a long time.

  The girl's back disappeared from their sight soon after, and then quickly reappeared in their sight again.

  "Boom"

  After throwing a big pile of food in front of Ailin and others, the girl directly sat down on the grass beside them with a careless attitude, picked up some food to eat, and directed the three people who were still stunned: "I'm treating you, let's eat together."

  "Houston teacher intentionally wants to starve us for a meal, you send us food, aren't you afraid of being seen by Houston teacher and being disciplined?" The three people were a bit stunned.

  "He's not teaching me now, and he can't even beat me." The girl shrugged indifferently, flicked her mouth, and swung her fist. "Why should I be afraid of him?"

  "Can't he beat you?" Moss took a cold breath, looking at the girl in disbelief. Professor Houston was not considered to be one of the stronger teachers in the academy, but that was only relative; even the worst teacher at Saint Lumina Academy could probably handle two or three ordinary mages.

  "You guys eat slowly, I'm going to practice inside the Thinker's Stone Forest, and if Houston comes out, I can also help you stall him." The girl didn't care about Moss' shock at all, grabbed some food with her hands, and then stood up again, walking towards the Thinker's Stone Forest.

  "Thanks." Ailin said subconsciously.

  The girl didn't say anything and didn't turn around, she just raised her hand and waved it slightly.

  The sunlight shone on her body, and her back looked very good. Then Ailin suddenly remembered that she hadn't asked her name yet.

  "Hey, what's your name?" Berro shouted at the girl while pushing his glasses up.

  Ailin and Moss didn't notice that from the moment the girl said Houston couldn't beat her, there was a strange seriousness in his eyes.

  "Kurisu", a woman's voice echoed from afar.

  "It's really her, a goddess-like girl." Bero raised an eyebrow and muttered to himself.

  "A girl like a god?" Ailin and Moss were both stunned, "What does that mean?"

  "It's her." Beru looked at Chris' back and nodded: "It is said that she practices more diligently than anyone else, so although she is only in her third year of school, she is already the strongest among all students in Sheng Li Ming College, even some teachers are not her match. However, she has severe face blindness, especially since she keeps shouting slogans about conquering the national college tournament, so she has the nickname 'Girl with a nervous disorder' in our Sheng Li Ming College, abbreviated as 'God-like Girl'."

  "Is a girl like God a girl with nerve disease?" Ailin wiped the sweat, curiously looking at Chris's back, "What does face blindness mean?"

  "Even if we just told her what our names are, she'll only remember the name but not who's who. She might call you Beiro and me Ailin."

  "Really?" Ailin asked in surprise, "Then what is the National Academy Competition?"

  "You don't even know this?!" Moss turned his head and almost fainted again, "You little dwarf, you're really a pig! You've already eaten so much after just saying a few words?!"

  Just in these few lines of dialogue, Ailin didn't idle around either. The several pastries in front of him had all been eaten by him.

  Thinking of Ailin's astonishing appetite in rumors, Moss couldn't bear to scold anymore and immediately sat down to eat vigorously.

  "The full name of the National Academy Competition is the Starry Sky Brave Cup Academy Championship." Beru, however, was calmly tearing apart a piece of ham and eating it, explaining in a calm tone: "All academies in our Aichi Kingdom will participate in this competition."

  "Since all academies will be participating in this competition, she wants to win the championship, what's wrong with that? Why is she being called a crazy girl just for that?"

  "That's because there are too many formidable opponents outside. Our Seirin Academy has not been able to advance from St. Lauren City for four consecutive years, and we can't even beat the other academies in St. Lauren City, yet we still have to keep shouting slogans about defeating all academy opponents, that's why she is said to be a girl like a nervous breakdown."

  Ailing finally understood a bit and thought for a moment, "So you're saying that our Sheng Li Ming College isn't considered a particularly powerful college?"

  "The strength of the college and this competition are two completely different things. Our Saint Luminous College is one of the oldest colleges in the Aichi Kingdom, and in terms of overall strength, it can definitely be ranked among the top, but the key to this inter-college competition lies in whether or not there are any outstanding students." Berro glanced at Elin and continued: "Because this is a five-man team competition, you could say that we Saint Luminous College have had relatively few outstanding students in recent years, which is why our record has been so poor."

  "Five-a-side match?"

  "Yes." Bero pushed his glasses and looked at Ailin: "If I'm not mistaken, in three days there will be a playoff match for the preliminary round. Our opponent from Saint Luminous Academy is South Season Wind Academy. Only by winning this match can our Saint Luminous Academy qualify to participate in the official preliminary round and compete for the qualification of Saint Lauren City's quota. If you're interested, I'll take you to watch at that time, and then tell you, it will be easy for you to understand what rules this game is all about."

  Ailin nodded without hesitation: "Good."

  ……

  With the rest of the new students, Houston left from the other end of Thinker's Stone Forest, had lunch and then returned to Thinker's Stone Forest, gave another lesson on basic training, before slowly making his way through the forest, appearing in front of Ailin, Bero and Moss.

  "How about it, are you hungry?" Looking at the three people who were a bit sunburned, Houston felt his mood improved a lot.

  "Rumble..." Elin's stomach growled a few more times.

  "Next time, remember to follow classroom discipline. However, for now, you'll continue standing until the end of today's class. On your way back, don't forget to practice the Fire Splitting Fist, and do 100 deep squats, 100 backward frog jumps, and 100 full-speed dashes... Of course, it's fine if you don't practice or can't finish them all, because we'll be testing these in class eventually. If you fail, you know what will happen."

  Hearing Ailin's stomach growl, Houston was even more satisfied and only then did he turn around with his head held high and leave.

  "Little dwarf, I didn't think you were quite good at deceiving people." After Houston's figure completely disappeared, Moss let out a sigh of relief and turned to Ailin, saying: "He even deliberately made his stomach growl with hunger, now he must think we've been starving all along."

  "I didn't mean to pretend." Elin said somewhat uncomfortably: "I'm really a bit hungry."

  "I...!" Mo Si was about to faint: "You're really a pig! You eat more than the two of us combined, and it's only been a short while since we ate. How can you be hungry again?!"