Huang Ji wore a gray trench coat, his hands in his pockets, and walked straight toward Morning Light Academy.
Security at the entrance was unusual. The high gates and deep grounds made it look like a psychiatric hospital.
The iron gates stood over six meters tall and seemed never to open. Everyone entered and left through a small door beside them.
When Huang Ji reached it, a man in the guard booth looked up at him.
The guard had an imposing air himself, with hawk-like eyes. He toyed with a fountain pen whose nib gleamed with sharp metallic light.
Huang Ji did not spare him a glance. He walked to the small door, took something resembling an access card from his pocket, and swiped it across the reader.
The door unlocked at once.
Sharp-eyed as the guard was, he still could not see what Huang Ji held.
Huang Ji's hand was too large and completely covered it. The guard could only tell that it was a card.
Seeing Huang Ji unlock the door and enter the school without looking back, the guard let him go.
Instead, he turned to the computer in the booth and checked the access log.
The school's security system recorded every card used to open every door, along with the time.
"Dragon? A level-29 Ascender transferred from X12..."
The guard nodded. So he's the new senior instructor. No wonder he's so arrogant! Level 29! Even the principal is only level 30.
He thought no more of it. The photo in the card record matched the man he had just seen, so he sat back in his chair and resumed playing with his pen.
Meanwhile, Huang Ji walked down the academy's main road and slipped a playing card back into his pocket.
Some students greeted him along