187 Shopping (1/2)

”When the School of Royalty was established centuries ago, they transported alder, elm, Populus euphratica, white birch trees and much more from all over to make the campus green and ensure spring all year long…” Gazing at everyone’s confused expressions, Ye Qingxuan suddenly kicked the sapling beside him. ”But there weren’t any indus trees, which had spread from the East two hundred years later!”

Crack! The tree trunk trembled and the tree was suddenly uprooted. It wanted to run and unbelievably fast. But the youth was even faster and raised his badge. Light flashed from the badge and landed on the trunk. With a shake, it disappeared.

Ding dong...The badge vibrated. Fifty more points were now his.

Everybody was completely shaken. They had never imagined that a graduating student was hiding right behind their butts! Ye Qingxuan gazed at them and stated, ”The moral of this story is that illiterate people who don’t even know about botany don’t deserve to graduate.” With that, he turned to leave.

There was a clatter in the hall in the distant, like something being kicked over. The people could not help but shiver. They looked over, but could only hear, ”A trash can? How can there be such a clean trash can? Your mimicry isn’t up to standard. Go take this class again.”

”…What’s wrong with him?”

Everyone stared blankly at each other in confusion.

”Should we go look?” someone made the suggestion that they would deeply regret in the following months. But—f*ck—they actually agreed!

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Hum... There was a quake in the clouds and the expressions of all students in the enchantment changed. In the campus, someone in the volunteer crowd furrowed his brows and pressed something invisible in the air. A faint tune spread in all directions and reported back.

”Hurry, there’s only ten minutes. The enchantment’s going to change again.

”Ten minutes is enough.” Banner raised his head. His eyes were emerald and the vertical pupils trembled. His body burned with glowing flames. His lower body was a gold lion and his tail had a dark green hook like a scorpion. Beside it was a youthful musician who had the same face but an entirely human body. There were two Banners, but their companions did not find it strange.

Seeing that Banner had called forth the manticore, his friends sighed in relief. Banner waved and the lion roared, galloping away instantly in the campus.

The manticore was the phantom beast unique to the Adrian family. Its talent was high sensitivity to the breaths of living creatures. Even with the double blockages of the requiem enchantment and mimicry, it could still sense all living things around it. Compared to others who had to use music scores and other methods, Banner undoubtedly had the biggest advantage. Furthermore, his brother Gavin had given him his former confidant to help in this trial.

Banner had broken into the top three in a few short hours.

”As expected of Gavin’s brother,” an upperclassman at the front looked at him from afar and murmured. ”His manticore is already humanized and he’s just gotten into the Musician level.”

Humanization was a phenomenon unique to the School of Royalty. This school was a new branch of the School of Summoning. It was different in that Royalty had inherited the theories of Arthur, the most powerful Summoning musician. Because of this, it was also known as the Anglo School.

All phantom beasts summoned by Summoning musicians were demons created by the broken pieces of their consciousness and raised in their minds. The School of Royalty abandoned most beasts and focused on those that fit themselves the most. They developed the beastliness of these demons in their minds and gave them their characteristics, allowing it to be continuously refined.

In the end, it would practically become the beastly version of the musician. A well-experienced musician could allow himself to temporarily have some of the beast’s characteristics. But the other characteristic of the School of Royalty was that the beast could be from a different school than the musician! Those who liked destruction and creation would study Modifications on the side, those good at observation and predictions would study Revelations…

Taking advantage of the fact that the phantom beast came from the same source and heart, the two of them had an effect of more than two.

In the School of Royalty, there were also secret sublimation rituals that could make the phantom beast also study from the School of Summoning. Through these rituals, the musician could create a frightening wave of beasts whenever and wherever. This belonged to the secret occupation of the School of Royalty. Because of its feathering abilities, they were referred to as the ”descendants of the phoenix.”

”Looks like the School of Royalty is going to groom him next.” The upperclassman Cullen stared deeply at Banner. It seemed that the new Adrian power could not be stopped. Five years later, the family would have two musicians. If both became descendants of the phoenix, the School of Royalty would be the playground of these two brothers. With Gavin’s skills, he might even be the concertmaster of the Royal Musician Division in fifteen years.

The humanized manticore roared once again. It rushed out from a collapsed library, a trembling dictionary in its mouth.

”Very good.” Banner took the dictionary and placed his school badge on it. The dictionary crumbled and vanished with a flash. It was yet another idiot who thought he could turn into a book and hide in the library to hide from the searches.

”Number thirty-seven,” a student helped Banner count.

The badge vibrated and made a crisp sound. With the press of a finger, a light display jumped from the badge, showing the results of all students. Of the top ten, Banner was the first. He was three hundred points away from second place.