Chapter 18: Copper’s Grievance (1/2)

Chapter 18: Copper’s Grievance

Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Star Academy abruptly announced that it was going to conduct student exchange activities with Eastern Wei Academy. In small Eastern Shang-Wei City, that was very big news.

And who was the Star Academy? Well, it was one of the great academies, with a much longer history than the Great Hall of the Comprehensive Federation Academy, which currently had the best reputation. Its founder, Heiner Van Sant, stood shoulder to shoulder with the father of card theory.

Every bit of the Star Academy's former glory was dug up, so that in short while, it was as though the Star Academy had become the pride of all the inhabitants of Eastern Shang-Wei City.

Eastern Wei Academy was also lifted by this tide. Each one of the students was now walking tall, in lively spirits.

Everyone was talking about why Star Academy had come to Eastern Wei Academy. It was not so long before that ordinary people could only gaze up toward the Star Academy, and suddenly it was coming to Eastern Wei Academy! Many of the residents of Eastern Shang-Wei City scoffed on first hearing teh news, bluntly calling it fake news.

The environment of Eastern Shang-Wei City seemed to become clean and orderly overnight. No trash and no vagrants were to be seen on the streets anymore. Workers were everywhere painting the walls, with orders coming down from the mayor, personally.

The number of visitors to Eastern Wei Academy surged. Lots of people were extremely curious about whatever it was that made the Star Academy so fond of this obscure school. Within a week after Star Academy made this announcement, the amount of correspondence Eastern Wei Academy was receiving from other schools about student exchanges increased a hundred-fold.

Of course, Chen Mu didn't know any of that, since he hadn't been out of the house for quite a while. But even if he did know, he probably wouldn't think it had anything to do with him.

Training every day, as always.

He didn't know why he was that way himself, and he didn't want to know. He only knew that he didn't want to stop. While he was undergoing this somewhat masochistic training and studying, he was making quite rapid progress.

Chen Mu felt that it was like he was dreaming. It was a dream that was both very long and very short, and when he woke up after a while he felt like a stranger to himself.

He felt full of strength all over. He could now easily pick up heavy things with one hand, which had previously required two hands. Apart from that, his perception had become a lot sharper. Bursting with strength, his supple tough nature was rising all around. By comparison, his muscles hadn't grown much at all.

What he found inconceivable was that his body was already supple enough that he could practically bend in any way at will, which made him think of the acrobats in an acrobatic troupe. They were so flexible that they could slowly change direction in a narrow tube, and those were all twelve or thirteen-year-old girls. Girls by nature are much more remarkable than boys in their flexibility, and that was the age at which their bodies were the supplest.

What about him? Already sixteen years old, and he was a man.

Of course, in Chen Mu's eyes, there was no difference between a boy and a man, or at the very least it had been that way for him.

Although Chen Mu was making startling progress with this training, he still felt a little dispirited, as before. This progress didn't provide him any pleasant surprises. The way he was now, it seemed that he had lost any curiosity toward anything, except for that mysterious card.