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

  As Moss watched the five figures moving towards "Iron Box District" with a chill running down his spine, Ailin and Bero were already outside a wall behind the Beast Training Hall.

  The front half of the Beast Training Grounds is a small hill of Saint Lumin Academy, with half of its surface excavated into tiered stands. The building in the back half faces these stands, and then digs down in the middle to form a sunken outdoor arena.

  The front row of the viewing platform on the hillside also has a vertical drop of more than ten meters from the ground of the training field, and during this assessment, the teachers of the college will guard the forefront of the viewing platform, so the students watching on the viewing platform don't have to worry about the monsters released in the training field posing any threat to them.

  "Aren't you the one who said you'd bring me to watch the war beast assessment? Why are you sneaking around and bringing me to this place instead?"

  Ailin couldn't help but look at Beru from amidst the weeds in the shadow of the fierce beast training hall's wall.

  It was Bailu who told him that there was a "War Beast Assessment" at the academy today, and he brought him to see it. He followed Bailu over, but by this time all the other students who had rushed over were already occupying positions on the viewing platform in front of the Fierce Beast Training Pavilion. However, Bailu instead led him along a small path, circling around to a remote area at the back where there was hardly anyone.

  When she thought about that day, saying to take herself out for breakfast, it turned out to be taking herself to bully the class tyrant, Ailin looked at Berro's sparkling eyes and suddenly felt a bad premonition in her heart.

  "Don't come from behind first, what's the point of having a beast test? You help me keep an eye on my back, if any teacher comes over, remind me immediately, or I'm done for."

  Bailu said this sentence to Ailin, and before Ailin could say anything, Bailu had already excitedly leaned against the wall in front of them.

  “……”

  Ailin was speechless as she saw Bero holding a very thin iron bar and drilling into the wall.

  The walls of this beast training hall were all extremely hard bluish-green granite. Ailin, who had been in the mining area for many years, was very clear that even if he used an iron pick to hit it with force, he could only hit out a small white spot at a time. However, Belo didn't seem to use much strength now, but there were already many stone chips falling down.

  There is only one possibility, that is, Berro did not know from what time, has been drilling a hole in this wall, and then just sealed with stone powder, so as not to be discovered.

  "What exactly are you doing?"

  Just as Ailin felt increasingly dangerous and couldn't help but say another sentence, Bero had already withdrawn the iron bar.

  "Gasp!"

  Just as he pulled back the iron bar, Ailin felt a hot air suddenly sprayed out from the small hole, and he suddenly felt that inside this wall, there seemed to be a huge monster roaring.

  His little face suddenly turned pale.

  Bailu's face showed a more intense expression of excitement.

  "Quick!"

  He excitedly pulled out something and then forcefully flicked it into a small hole with his finger.

  "Hmm..."

  The monster inside seemed to stir suddenly.

  Bailu quickly picked up some gravel from the ground, mixed with some dry soil, and filled in the small holes again.

  "Alright!"

  Berro, having done all this, waved his hand at Eilin and quietly left, gesturing to Eilin to do the same, not leaving any footprints in the thick grass.

  After circling back to the big road in front of the Beast Training Hall's observation deck on the hill, Ailin, who had unknowingly become an accomplice again, couldn't help but ask with a gloomy face: "Was that hole in the wall made by you? What do you want to do, what did you put inside?"

  "Don't worry." Berro pushed his glasses and said excitedly: "The hole on the wall took me two whole months to complete in secret. I spent those two months recovering from injuries at the academy's infirmary, sneaking out at night, so no one would suspect me. As for you, you're a new student who just arrived at the academy, no one will suspect you either."

  Ailin felt even more uneasy upon hearing this and looked at Berro speechlessly, "I'm not worried about being discovered, I want to know what you're trying to do."

  "There's nothing, just to make the war beast assessment more realistic, so that the monsters can play better." Bero hummed a sound, "With me, Bero, in the college's war beast assessment, it's truly a good-looking war beast assessment."

  "Help monsters play better?"

  "Yes, it's said that you'll know soon enough if you just wait a bit."

  Ailin, who felt that things were not as simple as what Vero said, followed Vero into the mountain lookout with a bitter face.

  "What are you looking at? What's so good to look at? If you keep staring, be careful that when the beast assessment starts, I'll kick all of you down to the lower arena."

  As soon as he stepped onto the stage, Bairo glared fiercely at several students in the front row of the auditorium who had glanced at him and Ailin.

  These students who looked like good babies suddenly felt a chill and ran away with their heads down.

  The positions in front of the stage had almost all been taken, but when these students left, a space suddenly opened up and Beromia immediately sat down with a flourish.

  Ailin was a little tearful and walked with Bailu, he himself felt like a villain.

  ……

  "What kind of monster is Shimosa?"

  "I don't know, I've only heard that it was in some particularly desolate river basins. It was recently discovered when a team of investigators were looking into the disappearance of a small group of mages. Apparently, it hadn't made any official appearances before."

  The Saint Luminous Academy is very large, with students from four grades divided into thirteen school districts. Most of the time, most students rarely have the opportunity to meet each other, so although the impulsive newcomer Belo and the hottest Ailin in the past two days have some fame in the academy, most of the students gathered here only know their names but haven't seen them before. Therefore, Ailin and Belo's arrival did not attract much attention from most people, and the gaze of most students on the stands was focused on the venue below.

  This sunken plot of land is rectangular, with a total area of approximately 500 square meters. The ground is hard earth, unadorned and naturally overgrown with sparse, low-growing weeds.

  At this time, two college teachers were standing at the front edge of the stage. One was a man in his thirties who wore only a tight-fitting inner garment, seemingly to accentuate his muscular physique. He had a tall and robust build, with muscle lines that were indeed excellent, even from behind he looked like a rock. The other was a female teacher with brown hair parted in the middle, cascading down like a waterfall, just reaching her shoulders, wrapped around a red scarf. Although she also had her back to the audience, unable to see her face, but just looking at her silhouette, as Principal Houston would say, it gave off a very youthful and lively feeling.

  In the center of the venue below, a male teacher from the academy was also standing with a small black flag.

  The college teacher was not tall, with short gray hair that was slightly curly and soft, like small whirlpools stuck to his forehead. His face looked very young, except for the dark skin, and his expression seemed to be always unchanged, giving people a very stern feeling.

  In front of this short-haired teacher, four students wearing light blue shirts were already standing.

  As soon as she saw the teachers and students all ready, Ailin, who had just sat down beside Veiro, knew without asking that this year's "War Beast Assessment" was about to begin.

  "It's Minglu teacher, Jialan teacher and Rui teacher."

  Just a glance, Berro's voice calmed down again, saying in a low tone: "This is terrible, these three are all elite teachers in our college, just like Li Si Te, only slightly inferior to Teacher Li."

  "The first batch of people who came out indeed included this guy, Hoxton."

  "What's the difference between an elite teacher and a normal one?" Elain couldn't help but turn her head to ask, "Who is Hosan again?"

  "Elite teachers are combat-type mages who can accomplish difficult tasks and have extraordinary battle experience. The biggest difference is that two ordinary teachers like Houston combined wouldn't be a match for an elite teacher." Beru hummed, looked at the center of the arena again, and continued: "Among those four students who came out first, the one who looks the most arrogant, with a bit of silver in his hair, is Hosan. This guy probably only has a little bit of spiritual bloodline, far inferior to Lin Luolan, but he's also extremely arrogant, the leader of a group of people, and my target to defeat and collect protection fees from."

  "Here we go again..."

  Ailin looked silently, and indeed saw that among the four students wearing light blue shirts, there was a tall boy with silver-white hair, but compared to Lin Luolan, the silver-white hair of this boy seemed a bit dull and not as bright and clean as Lin Luolan's hair. Moreover, this boy's hair was tied up with a hairband. Ailin could also clearly see that his ears were very ordinary, while Lin Luolan's ears were slightly "fox-like".

  Among these three elite teachers, it's said that the most formidable one is still Teacher Rui. At this time, Berro whispered again.

  "Teacher Rui, which one is it?" Ailin couldn't help but ask again.

  "It's the one below, who is said to have grasped a secret technique that none of the other teachers in the academy can understand except for him. It's also said that the monsters and beasts in the academy's giant beast arena were all brought back by him. Berro nodded towards the short-haired teacher on the stage below, then glanced at the two teachers standing at the very front edge of the platform. "The female teacher is Jialan teacher, who is said to have some dragon bloodline. The other one, Mingluo teacher, is said to be a pure-blooded barbarian. These two teachers are probably about equally formidable."

  "Dragon clan bloodline, it's this powerful?!"

  "That also depends on how much of the bloodline's power has been passed down. Like Lin Luolan, that guy has at least more than half of his spiritual bloodline being pure, either from a family with a pure spiritual bloodline or having obtained sacred inheritance. And this Hosaun's spiritual bloodline is just a little bit, Teacher Jialan's dragon bloodline won't be too high either, it should be that someone in the family got some dragon tribe bloodline a long time ago and passed it down."

  "That Mingluo teacher is a pure barbarian bloodline? Doesn't look very wild though."

  "Idiot, who told you that barbarians look savage? This isn't the era of Dragon Wars, back then real barbarians wore grass skirts in the forest, smeared themselves with mud and bumped into rocks to leave a print."

  "Look, it's about to start!" Just as Beru was being made a bit speechless by Ailin, a burst of cheers suddenly erupted from the stands. The referee, Mr. Rui, had already raised his black flag, indicating that Saint Leiming Academy's annual "War Beast Assessment" was about to begin.