Versatile Mage c1-2021, page 76
A dorm could accommodate six people. Normally, the school would arrange students of the same Element to stay together, to make it easier for them to interact.
However, not every Element had students in multiples of six, and so some dorms would end up with students from different Elements.
“Brother Mo Fan, I made an appointment to have a meal with the senior sister, so I’ll take my leave first.” Zhao Manyan swung his hair as he elegantly left.
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Not too long after Zhao Manyan left, another two people came in.
He didn’t know whether they were scared of strangers, or if they just conducted themselves in a rather superior way. These two didn’t even greet Mo Fan, who had been in the dormitory for the longest period of time. They quickly started to unpack their things.
When afternoon rolled around, a tall and skinny guy with dyed red hair appeared. This guy didn’t want to hide that he was a Fire Elemental student. He walked into the dorm as though he was in charge as he swept his gaze across the room.
“Whose bed is this?” The red haired man pointed at the bed he wanted.
“It’s mine.” Mo Fan walked over from the balcony.
“What Element are you?” the redhead asked.
“Summoning.”
“Oh! Oh…” The redhead stared blankly. It was clear that he didn’t expect Mo Fan to be an extremely uncommon Summoner.
The two dormmates who were in the middle of doing their business couldn’t help but raise their heads to take a glance at Mo Fan.
“What about this bed, what Element?” The redhead man pointed at Zhao Manyan’s bed.
“Light Element,” Mo Fan replied warily.
The redhead nodded as he strode to Zhao Manyan’s bed, and immediately put the big bag he had behind his back on it. He promptly threw Zhao Manyan’s things off to the side, and furthermore raised the corner of his mouth in a sneer as he said,” Now it belongs to the Fire Element. Let me introduce myself, my name is Lu Yunzheng.”
Mo Fan looked at the things that were being thrown to the side as he was dumbstruck.
This Lu Yunzheng seemed to be quite arrogant, he had stolen someone else’s bed just like that…
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After finishing his dinner, Mo Fan received a text. He was told to come to his classroom, there was a welcoming party for new students.
After getting to the designated classroom, Mo Fan fantasized meeting a group of beautiful, youthful, and heart-moving female classmates. However, reality was cruel. The spacious classroom had no one in it!
“Did I come too early?” Mo Fan wondered, bored as he waited inside the spacious classroom.
Time passed by, the time for the meeting quickly arrived, and there was still only Mo Fan in the classroom. This made Mo Fan a bit anxious. Had he come to the wrong room by mistake?
When he was about to walk out, Mo Fan turned around and discovered the Summoning Director Jiang Yunming walking in.
When Jiang Yunming was about to say something to Mo Fan, hasty footsteps were heard from outside of the classroom. Six young men hurriedly entered the room together.
From the actions of the six students, it was very clear they were from the same dorm.
Jiang Yunming looked around at the seven people in the classroom as he casually said, “Everyone seemed to get here just in time, I see...”
Boom! Mo Fan’s chin nearly hit the floor.
Shit, everyone is here??
There are only seven new students for this Element???
Just enough to play out the Gourd Eva!²
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Chapter 148 - Entering the Unstable University
“The Summoning Element can be called the Element that stands out from the rest. The way we conduct our classes are also very different from the others. Basically, it’s just having you guys raise your own beast. Other than a couple of important classes per week, you will be nurturing your own summoned beast. If you really are bored and have nothing to do, then you are allowed to go to other Element’s classes and sit through their lectures,” Director Jiang Yunming said.
Mo Fan opened his mouth in surprise, but than quickly nodded.
This was indeed something he wanted. After all, he was a person who cultivated four different elements, he’d only be able to go through them all if he had a flexible schedule!
“Our Institute has always had a special Welcome Program for the Summoning Element students. That will be the main thing that you will be facing next. The first two to show your exceptional performance will receive a Beast Refinement Blood,” Jiang Yunming continued.
After he mentioned the Beast Refinement Blood, the six Summoners began to get excited, their eyes displayed a radiance of thirst.
“Um, what is a Beast Refinement Blood?” Mo Fan weakly asked the short and small boy next to him.
“You don’t know??” The short and small boy looked at Mo Fan, suspecting something. It was as though he was saying, _Bro, are you in the wrong Element?_
“The Beast Refinement Blood allows your summoned creature to go through a Marrow Cleansing, its strength will substantially increase. This makes it much faster nurturing the beasts compared to using your own Magic energy to slowly help them along. Furthermore, it might allow a Summoned beast at the peak of the Minion level to evolve to the next level. Of course, this possibility is relatively low,” Jiang Yunming explained.
Mo Fan nodded to show that he understood now.
“Mr Jiang, what is this Welcome Program that you mentioned? How do you distribute the Beast Refinement Blood? How about we all summon our beasts and compare whose is the strongest, and you’ll give the blood to the winner?” the boy who sat in the very middle with a glossy hair asked eagerly.
“Hai Dafu, rules are not something that you can change. You will soon find out what the Welcoming Program is. This could possibly make you become the focal point of all of the new students, or make you the laughing stock of the school,” Jiang Yunming displayed a rather mysterious smile. He didn’t explain to everyone about just what this Welcoming Program was really about.
Mo Fan was also very curious. Just what kind of special Welcoming Program did they make for the new Summoning students?
Mo Fan also wanted the Beast Refinement Blood. His own Spirit Wolf’s prowess was actually quite strong, but that was far from enough for Mo Fan. Since there was a blood that could allow it to increase its strength, then he would definitely contend for it!
The main reason for entering the school was to contend for resources!
The majority of the magic resources were in the hands of major powers. If an impoverished Magician like Mo Fan couldn’t even fight for the resources in the school, then he would not be able to match up against others.
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Mo Fan returned to his dorm of fish and dragons, still puzzled about the Welcoming Program.
He sat down on his chair, still pondering over this problem. At this moment, that Zhao Manyan across from him suddenly laughed as he said, “Brother Mo Fan, I’ve heard you Summoning Element students are in big trouble.”
“Big trouble? What do you mean?” Mo Fan didn’t understand him.
“I had heard something from the Senior Sister… It’s the Welcoming Program,” Zhao Manyan told him.
“I’ve been puzzled about that, tell me about it,” Mo Fan’s eyes shone, he hadn’t thought that Zhao Manyan would have such information.
“It’s like this. In the previous seasons, the Pearl Institute would always conduct a Beast Combat Competition during the Welcoming meeting. All of the students and teachers will sit in the biggest battle arena of our Azure Campus. They will place a monster inside of the cage on the battle arena, and all of the new students are allowed to walk into the cage to battle the creature inside. They’ll be demonstrating their strength in front of all the students and teacher of the school,” Zhao Manyan said as he filed his nails.
“Battle monsters?” Mo Fan’s eyes slowly began to shine.
_This Institute sure is interesting. Not long after school starts, they’ll allow others to fight before all students and teachers against a Magical Beast. That’s quite provocative!_
“What kind of Magical Beast, then?” Mo Fan asked.
“Who said it was going to be a Magical Beast?” Zhao Manyan raised his eyebrow as he continued, “You’ll fight against a beast, they’ll be using the Summoned beast of you Summoners.”
Mo Fan’s mouth instantly turned into an O shape.
The other people in the room also looked over, the expressions on everyone’s faces different.
“Shit, isn’t the school messing with us Summoners?” Mo Fan immediately cursed.
“Hahaha, you can only blame yourselves for having the most unique Element… I’m actually quite envious of you, you’ll be able to display the strength of your Summoned beast in front of the entire school,” Zhan Manyan laughed.
Mo Fan scowled miserably.
He finally understood what Jiang Yunming had meant.
The entire school was conducting a ceremony where new students battled beasts, and the beasts were their Summoned beasts. _How fortunate that the school can think of this kind of tactic to examine the students!_
When he heard of battling beasts, Mo Fan was actually feeling very happy. It just so happened that he hadn’t fought against a Magical Beast for a long time. However, who knew that it’d be this kind of set up!
_This… this is just irritating, it’s simply crazy and ridiculous!_
With this kind of awful Program, Mo Fan felt even more puzzled.
Only the students with good combat prowess were able to enter the Pearl Institute, there were essentially no existences here that’d go weak on seeing a Magical Beast. Although his Spirit Wolf’s combat prowess wasn’t weak, it couldn’t continuously fight against the new students...
It seemed like the Beast Refinement Blood wasn’t obtained that easily...
“You’ll have to hope for good luck. It’s late, I’ll go to sleep first,” Zhao Manyan patted Mo Fan’s shoulders with a gleeful not-smile on his face before climbing into bed.
Mo Fan’s answering smile was all bitterness. Just when he was about to climb into bed, he suddenly realized something. He looked at the Zhao Manyan that was already in his bed as he suspiciously said, “What happened to that...that Fire user?”
“He’s probably applying for a change of room, nothing important,” Zhao Manyan replied indifferently.
Mo Fan looked at the other people in the room and realized each of their expressions were strange. It looked like some of them were even scared of Zhao Manyan, and they didn’t seem to want to talk about this matter.
From the expression of the other three roommates, Mo Fan was able to guess that the matter wasn’t as simple as Zhao Manyan made it out to be. This rather astonished him. It seemed like this Zhao Manyan wasn’t all just looks, he had quite some ability!
Mo Fan didn’t continue asking. The biggest complication he had was a question that was giving him a headache.
The other six Summoners didn’t seem to be easy to deal with. How could he win against these people and obtain the Beast Refinement Blood?
Furthermore, his own little Wolf sure seemed pitiful at the moment...
Chapter 149 - The Warrior Wolf
In the dead of the night, Mo Fan’s routine was the same as before. He climbed up to the roof of the building as he began to meditate.
Meditating for the Summoning Element was actually a form of feeding. This Meditation turned his Summoning Stardust’s Magic energy into food to feed his Summoned beast. The Summoned beast’s strength would be able to increase a lot through the absorption of the Magic Energy that came from the Magician’s Stardust.
The speed at which Mo Fan restored his Magic energy was relatively fast. The Little Loach Pendant doubling the speed of his cultivation also signified that Mo Fan’s Magic energy replenished at twice the speed of a normal person.
Mo Fan had already reached the third level of the Summoning Stardust, and so the Magic Energy that he supplied to the Spirit Wolf was not small at all.
In the past two months, Mo Fan had been using all of his magic energy to nurture the Spirit Wolf every day. However, he didn’t discover any clear changes to the Spirit Wolf.
_Awooooo~~!_
While Mo Fan was meditating, a sudden howl was transmitted to him through the Pact mark that linked him and the wolf.
It sounded a bit like a provocation!
“This guy is battling again?” Mo Fan murmured, feeling a little stunned.
A Summoned beast was unable to remain in the normal plane for a long time. They resided in the Summoning Plane. In that plane, there also existed many challenges which they had to face.
In what seemed to be an incomparably infertile land for them, each of the creatures were doing their best to survive. Thus, they continuously had deadly fights with other creatures. Many of the times when Mo Fan summoned the Spirit Wolf, it would be riddled with scars...
The past couple of times gave Mo Fan a new insight into the Summoned beasts.
In the past, Mo Fan thought the Summoned creatures would always be in one place. As long as you’d call them, they would appear, and then use all their strength to fight.
In reality, all of the creatures that were called from the different planes had their own lifestyle. The agreement which they had with Magicians had the Magicians providing them with nourishment from their Magic energy, and a bit of strengthening. In return, they would appear and help the Magicians battle when they were called upon.
In the two months Mo Fan had been painstakingly cultivating, the Spirit Wolf had fought on its home plane more than ten times. Essentially, it would go back to finding creatures to fight again once it had recovered.
To be honest, Mo Fan was actually very worried about the Spirit Wolf dying in the Summoning Plane. If that happened, Mo Fan would have to brand yet another Spirit Wolf… that really took a lot of mental energy. Furthermore, the nourishment which it had received for such a long time would also be wasted...
The battles within their plane were not something the Magicians could help with. The only thing they could do is meditate, and guarantee they’d be able to provide the beasts with Magic energy once their battles were over. The Magic energy wasn’t just food for their cultivation, but also allowed them to heal up faster.
After a while, the Spirit Wolf’s battle finally came to an end.
The mental mark had become quite weak. From this, Mo Fan could tell that the Spirit Wolf was already badly hurt!
“Shit, don’t die on me!” Mo Fan was scared.
_I’ve never seen such a war-like Summoned Beast! Since you’re being taken care of by a Magician, then why can’t you just go find a safe place and be a good Wolf!_
Mo Fan didn’t dare to ponder too much over it. He hastily used the Pact mark to transfer Magic energy to the Spirit Wolf, hoping the energy would drag it back from the edge of death.
The Stardust that was filled with magic energy the color of moonlight quickly darkened. What relieved Mo Fan was the fact the Spirit Wolf’s aura seemed to have recovered a little.
_I’ll Summon you here and bring you to the school infirmary. There’ll be Healing Element teachers who will help you heal up_ , Mo Fan sent out to the Spirit Wolf.
Mo Fan was now certain that it had received a serious wound. If it didn’t get treated in time, it would be in a critical situation.
When Mo Fan was about to interlink all of the seven Summoning stars, the Spirit Wolf transferred a rebuff to him through the mental link.
_My Wolf brother, if you just heal yourself, who knows how long that will take. If you meet another creature that is hostile to you at this time, you will definitely die_ , Mo Fan sent anxiously.
Not long after, the Spirit Wolf replied, saying he was hiding in a very safe place...
Mo Fan didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
How did he find such a stubborn Spirit Wolf? It was on the verge of death, yet it was still sitting there waiting for its wounds to self heal.
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Mo Fan was worried about the Spirit Wolf the entire night. The Spirit Wolf’s aura finally stabilized as the sun rose.
Mo Fan sent all of his Magic Energy that he had just regained out to the Spirit Wolf. The Spirit Wolf was already in a deep sleep, perhaps it wouldn’t wake up for a long period of time...
“As long as it’s alive!” Mo Fan sighed. “It seems like there’s no hope to obtain the Beast Refinement Blood, it won’t be able to battle in this state...”
The wound the Spirit Wolf received this time was far too heavy, it would take a long time to recover.
In this case, Mo Fan could only give up on the Beast Battle Competition.
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The day of the Welcoming meet was finally here. It was certainly the most majestic event of the Azure Campus.
The older students who had been in the school for a while would definitely not miss out on this chance to see the new students embarrass themselves. Many of the new students still believed their strength stood out from the others, and were waiting for a good opportunity to take one leap and become the focal point of the entire school.
Perhaps every single one of the students here were the most best of the best in the areas they had come from. However, in Pearl Institute, they were easily submerged within the piles of magic geniuses.
“Did you guys ask around about the Summoned beasts of the seven Summoner students?” Inside the cafeteria, four to five boys was sitting together and looked as though they were secretly discussing a major issue of some other country.
“I’ve asked around. the guy called Hai Dafu has a White Armor Battle Cocoon, its combat prowess won’t lose out against an a.d.u.l.t Magical Beast. Zheng Bingxiao has a Rock Demon Soldier, its a Summoned beast with a relatively strong defense and power. And then, there’s a Bone Corpse Demon…” a guy who looked very excited replied quickly.
“Bone Corpse Demon? That kind of thing isn’t something you should provoke!” one guy nearly yelled out.
