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

  Ailin and Moss walked shoulder to shoulder on the tree-lined path leading to the Academy gate, both with panda eyes.

  "Moss."

  "Really?"

  "Haven't you seen the battle between Kairō and Shiting? Those guys who might have already opened three gates, how much stronger are they compared to us?"

  "What's the difference between us?" Moss rubbed his face, turned his head to look at Ailing, and said somewhat dejectedly: "Even if we stand still, we can't see clearly, and before we know it, we've been beaten to who-knows-where, and we can't even crawl up."

  Ailin clenched her fists and exclaimed: "There's such a huge gap, is this for real?"

  "Simply put, one of Sardin's ordinary moves, the 'Great Water Dragon Technique', even if I used all my strength and doubled my power, he could easily knock me flying tens of meters into the sky." Mos raised his hand to gesture to Ailin, "If it were you, you would have already become a small black dot in the sky."

  Ailin thought for a moment: "Has Kriss also opened three gates of tactics?"

  "I don't know, I heard she's just an ordinary human bloodline, so maybe it won't be that fast, maybe she just opened two technique gates." Moss puffed out his cheeks, relieving the pain in his mouth where he had been hit: "But people like her might have a different combat talent, able to use various techniques most appropriately. From what she said about being able to beat Instructor Huston, it's not surprising that one-on-one, she could beat an upper-level technician who opened three technique gates. And she also has that ultimate secret technique that can devour technique origin particles. It's just that people like Akane Tendo and Suting Han seem to have some kind of mysterious secret technique that others can't understand."

  "Ah! Ah! Ah!" Elin suddenly let out three loud cries of frustration.

  "Are you crazy?" Moss was startled: "Nothing, why are you yelling randomly, is it that there aren't enough people staring at your panda eyes?"

  "It's such a huge difference, how long will it take to condense the yuan particles?" Ellyn said: "Mos, what level do our bodies need to be refined to in order to reach the critical point where we can condense yuan particles?"

  "If ordinary people could run twice as much as you and climb up two huge boulders of that height, they would almost reach the critical point." Moss glanced at Ailin. "However, the Condensed Particle Technique requires both physical and mental strength to reach the critical point. Ordinary people can use their physical strength as a standard to measure, and their power can be cultivated to that extent, so their mental strength should also be about the same. But for you, a monster with rapidly increasing physical strength, your body is far ahead of your mental strength. Only by practicing to the extreme limit can you truly test your willpower and make some progress. For example, ordinary people need 100 times of extreme practice to gain the physical strength that you get from 10 times of extreme practice, but their mental strength has been tempered more than yours. So, when the time comes, your physical strength will far exceed theirs, but your mental strength is still not enough and cannot condense particles like them. Physical strength can be seen at a glance, but to know the level of mental strength, you must use the Dwarf's measuring device."

  "What is a dwarf divider?"

  "It is a Dwarf Kingdom's alchemist who can manufacture, it is a special instrument used to measure the level of spiritual power, and its main components are some kind of mysterious underground crystal."

  "Where can we buy it in Saint Laurent City?" Elin's eyes lit up instantly: "Let's go buy it now."

  "Idiot, the price was over a hundred gold coins just a few years ago, and it wasn't even guaranteed to be available." Moss scolded Ailin, then turned around and said; "Our Quin family seems to have one, if you really want to see it every day, I'll think of a way to bring it out in a couple of days."

  "Uh-huh..."

  Ailin and Moss, who had just nodded vigorously, walked out of the school gate and wandered through the streets and alleys of Saint Lauren City. Looking at the two people's appearance, no one thought that they had just had a fierce fight, and just the other day, Moss looked at Ailin like a sworn enemy.

  "This must be the foolish and passionate youth." When Moss and Ailing supported each other and walked out of the Thinker's Stone Forest, Minglu described the two people like this. This state even made Minglu feel a little bit nostalgic and a little bit envious.

  ……

  As night fell over Saint Laurent City and the stars shone brightly once more, Ailin and Moss arrived at the east gate of God Shield Academy.

  The inside of the Divine Shield Academy was devoid of commercial streets, which in turn made the surrounding streets all become commercial streets, bustling with people coming and going. Compared to Saint Lumina's Academy, Ailin felt that the entire Divine Shield Academy was like a lively city that never slept, while Saint Lumina's Academy was like a park that had few people after dark.

  In order to better infiltrate the enemy's interior, both Ailin and Mos did not wear the uniform of Sheng Li Ming College. However, the two people's bruised faces still attracted the attention of most passersby. What was even more unexpected was that when the two were trying to sneak into the God Shield Academy gate, they were stopped by two people standing at the entrance of the God Shield Academy.

  "Are you students of our God Shield Academy?"

  "Why aren't you wearing your uniform?"

  "Which dormitory area and building do you live in?"

  “……”

  It only took a few questions for Moss to be completely stunned.

  He had just seen a notice outside the gate of God Shield Academy that read: "Non-students are not allowed to enter and visit."

  "What's going on, are other colleges not allowed to enter students from outside? Why can our Sheng Leiming College enter at will? Didn't you also enter the Tie Lin College?" After rushing for half a day, Ai Lin, who had not expected to encounter such an event, retreated to the corner of the street with Mo Si and couldn't help but mutter.

  "I don't know, it seems like other colleges don't have such regulations." Moss said somewhat dejectedly and embarrassed: "Maybe it's because the Shield College is sponsored by House Lannister, so many students who graduate from the Shield College will join the Westerlands army or the mage squad of House Lannister, that's why they are particularly strict with some militarized management."

  “……”

  "Let's just go back, we don't even know what the members of their college team look like, otherwise even if we guard here, we won't know if they pass by under our noses. And it's not possible to see their training either." Moss said helplessly, looking at the many golden roofs inside the Divine Shield College, and the two Divine Shield College students on duty at the entrance who were staring at them with eyes like they were watching thieves.

  "No!" Ailin was still unwilling to give up: "I want to circle around the wall, see if there's a place where I can climb over. If not, then see if there's a place where I can dig a hole!"

  "Hunh!" Moss looked at Ailing: "No wonder you've managed to survive with that impulsive newcomer."

  ……

  "Seirin High School? That trash Seirin High School... We never considered Seirin High School as an opponent."

  Just as Morse was following Elin around outside the God Shield Academy, he and Elin suddenly stopped.

  The sound was coming from a shop not far away from them.

  It was a small shop specializing in selling skewers of barbecue, and also sold some cards with patterns and descriptions of various giant monsters and beasts.

  "Who is being so arrogant? Could it be a member of the God Shield Academy team?"

  Ailing Hu strode straight towards the store, with Mo Si immediately following behind him.

  "Haha, two panda eyes, and this giant panda man in the picture does look a bit like you guys." As soon as he saw Ailin and Mos's appearance, the shop owner, who was over thirty years old, immediately laughed, "Just kidding... what do you two want to buy?"

  "Don't say anything." Moss felt that Ailing and Bero had also become somewhat impulsive after staying for a long time, and he thought that Ailing was sometimes clever, but sometimes stupid to the point of being unimaginable. So, he quickly became tense and rushed forward, saying: "We are freshmen at God Shield Academy this year, and we are also very concerned about our college team's competition. It seems like someone is discussing the competition, so we came in."

  As he spoke, Moss turned to those few people sitting and chatting, "Are these seniors really our college team? Can you sign an autograph for us?"

  Those people sitting together were all wearing the neat, military-style uniforms of God Shield Academy in autumn yellow. When Mo said that, one of them, who was also wearing glasses like Bero, but with hair standing up higher than Houston's, raised his head and said, "Freshmen are freshmen, they don't understand anything. Our team from God Shield Academy is not so easy to see, would we be sitting here at this time?"

  "Wasn't it?" Moss said calmly: "But I just heard you say... that Saint Luminous Academy has never been considered an opponent, but doesn't Saint Luminous Academy have a girl like a goddess, Chris? It's said that she alone defeated the entire squad of Nanji Feng Academy."

  "How can that trashy team from Nanji Wind Academy compare to us, Divine Shield Academy?" The boy with standing hair said disdainfully: "That mentally ill girl only has some fame in a place like Saint Luminous Academy. If she were in our Divine Shield Academy, humph, maybe we could even handle her as our girlfriend. I think she's ugly as our girlfriend, and as an opponent, it's laughable. Next up is probably Akane from Iron Forest Academy..."

  As soon as Mo heard the heavy breathing behind him, he knew something was wrong. Sure enough, before he could even turn around, Ailin's voice rang out: "Did you practice handstands for too long today?"

  "Huh? What's that supposed to mean?" The bespectacled man with standing hair was momentarily stunned, looking dazed.

  "I've been upside down for too long, and even my rice cakes have fallen out of my mouth, which is why I smell so bad when I speak." Ailin said to her opponent.

  "...Moston was speechless, before that he had always thought of Ailin as a good treasure who would never get angry, and didn't expect Ailin to scold people, let alone scold them so severely."

  "What did you say?!"

  The man with his hair standing on end and the few people next to him finally came back to their senses, all of them getting up with a rustling sound.

  "You must apologize for what you just said about Kriss," Ailin said.

  "Are you from Sheng Li Ming College or our Shen Ci College?" The bespectacled man sneered, "What if I don't apologize?"

  "We are from Sheng Li Ming College! If you don't apologize, we'll beat you until you do!"

  "What's with St. Lumin Academy?! Do you think you can just come here and cause trouble?! Either scram or I'll beat you until you kneel down and lick my feet!" The bespectacled man and the few people from God Shield Academy glared at Ailin menacingly. But what made them stunned was that before the sound of this sentence had even faded away, Ailin had already run out of the door in a flash.

  "I'm too tired to fight you today, I'll come back and beat you tomorrow!"

  “……”

  When everyone in the Shield Academy store reacted, Moss had already followed Elin and disappeared without a trace.

  "Haha!"

  The man with glasses couldn't help but burst out laughing, his stomach hurting from laughter. "He actually ran away just like that? He not only ran away but also said 'I'll come back to beat you up tomorrow!' I've seen some funny things before, but this is the most hilarious one yet."