Two opposite walls of the Training Room had Xilin and Knight "embedded" in them.
Xilin dropped from the wall to the floor, moving his arms and rolling his shoulders. Every movement produced a clear series of cracking sounds from his bones. Knight was in about the same shape on the opposite side.
"Hahaha, that was awesome! First time I've had such a great fight since I came to Seven Luminance!" Knight laughed happily.
Ci Jincheng and Long watched the two of them from the isolation zone, their faces twitching. Were these two secretly made of King Kong?
They'd smashed human-shaped dents into the walls, then climbed out and dusted themselves off like nothing had happened!
Xilin looked over his clothes, which had a few distinct scorch marks. Fortunately, they'd brought changes of clothes just in case. The Training Room didn't have a separate changing room. They were all guys, so what was there to be embarrassed about? They could just strip and change.
While Xilin and Knight changed, Long picked up his mini camera and snapped away.
"Heh heh, next time I'll put photos of you two changing up for auction on the Seven Luminance Net~~"
"Long, are you asking to have your picture embedded in the wall too?" Knight nodded toward the two human-shaped dents.
"Come on, we're roommates. At worst, I'll split the money with you. Anyway, Xilin, are you really a B-class gene? Plenty of A-class people can't match you."
He was quick to change the subject, but Knight really did get sidetracked by it.
"Definitely. That last hit felt like running into an armored vehicle," Knight said, shaking his arm. When Xilin had slapped the two hovercars down, he hadn't even used much strength. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been left in that condition.
Xilin smiled. "It's just my physique."
"With a physique like yours, you should join the military. You'd rise through the ranks fast. Just look at Pride's second brother, Ji Feihang. When he was a new recruit, he took on an entire squad by himself. My dad said that was an A+ physique, probably caused by hybrid vigor."
Hybrid vigor...
Judging by the names of Pride and his second brother, that was probably right. Their parents were from different races, and one son had been named after his father while the other took after his mother.
"But," Knight went on, "I know some people whose parents are from different races too, but they only have B-class genes, nowhere near their parents' A-class genes... Of course, I don't know what's going on with you, Xilin. I'm not familiar with the Daongs Family." Knight was in a good mood, and he was especially talkative.
Long narrowed his eyes and rubbed his chin. "So, if I find a woman from another Star System someday, would that increase the odds of our child having A+ genes?"
Ci Jincheng considered it. "People have studied this. Some think that the greater the geographical distance between the parents, the more likely their offspring are to surpass them genetically."
"Great!" Long clapped his hands. "I'll find a woman from another Star System to marry!"
"You've decided to keep yourself pure?" Xilin asked, clearly unconvinced.
"That's different. My wife will be from another Star System, but I'm not picky about my lovers."
"Yeah, right~~" The three of them looked at him with contempt.
Xilin would never tell anyone the truth about his physique. The chip integrated into his body was his greatest secret.
Outside the Training Room, a group of students were debating whether the people inside were instructors or senior students. When the door opened, their voices immediately died down.
Xilin and the others filed out. They only glanced at the crowd gathered outside the Training Room before heading straight for the exit.
"Who are those four? They don't have student badges. I can't tell what year they're in."
"It's that guy!" Some senior students recognized Long. His name had spread quickly among them, since lately he'd been the most talked-about person among the senior students who set up stalls in the Trade Zone: the young master of the Andrelara Family.
"So they're first-years?"
"That's crazy!" Someone stared at the human-shaped bulges in the Training Room walls and swallowed. Even students in their fifth, sixth, and seventh years who specialized in military studies couldn't cause that kind of damage, could they?
Not far away, several third-year students leaned over the railing, their gazes following Xilin and the others.
"Fegler Knight? I never thought he'd come to Seven Luminance. Hasn't he always looked down on every school except military academies?" said a young man with an earring, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Oh? Stolte, you know them? Which one is Knight?" someone beside him asked curiously.
The young man with the earring, Stolte, said nothing, as if he didn't want to discuss it...
At the same time, in a teaching building some distance away, two girls were talking beside a long-distance viewing device.
"Flo, who do you think was fighting in there just now?"
The girl who spoke looked younger. She blinked her big eyes, her voice playful, and when she smiled, two dimples appeared on her face. She was very cute.
"What do you think?" Flo replied with a faint, graceful, and fresh smile.
"Hmm..." The younger girl rested her chin on her hand and pointed at Knight on the screen. "This guy was definitely one of them. His fighting spirit hasn't even settled down yet." Then she pointed at Ci Jincheng. "This guy definitely didn't fight. As for the other two..." Her big eyes shifted between Long and Xilin before she pointed at Xilin. "This guy was more likely to have fought."
"I think so too."
"But how come those two look perfectly fine when they smashed the Training Room walls like that?"
Flo watched the ruby-like hovercar rise into the sky and disappear, her gaze complicated. She had a feeling the days ahead at Seven Luminance wouldn't be peaceful.
After returning to the dorm, Xilin took a good shower, ate the quick meal the robot had prepared, and shut himself in to sleep. He needed to examine the day's fight in detail while in that state.
As he slept, every moment of his spar with Knight played back clearly in his mind: each of Knight's movements, every muscle contraction, the slightest changes in the surrounding air, the fission of particles, the sparks of electricity... Everything began replaying in high-definition slow motion.
But Xilin didn't sleep for very long. He woke up the next morning, at least. He checked the time on the bedside display, scratched his head, and went downstairs to wash up. The smell of breakfast was already wafting up from below.
As soon as he reached the ground floor, he saw Long lounging with one leg crossed, gawking at the "Teacher Information Display" on the dorm's teaching platform.
"Look, this teacher's eyes are really pretty. Just like shit!"
Xilin: "..."
Was that a compliment or an insult?
Ci Jincheng was eating breakfast at the table and spreading mayonnaise on his bread. At Long's words, his hand stopped. He frowned at the mayonnaise and suddenly lost his appetite.
Xilin didn't bother with any of that. He needed to replenish his energy after using so much brainpower. He had the robot make him five portions of the same breakfast, then picked up a ham sandwich from the table and took a bite. "Where's Knight?"
Long pointed upstairs. "On the roof, messing with that Wireless Jammer thing. Oh, Xilin, our network's working now. Jincheng installed something, so the management office can't look up our real identities. That means we can curse out the principal on the Seven Luminance Net without worrying about getting caught and docked Credits."
"Not just the Seven Luminance Net. It works on the B Star Zone University Alliance Network too," Ci Jincheng confirmed.
"That's fantastic! I had a flash of inspiration yesterday and came up with a Love Letter. I'm going to send it to all the beautiful girls at universities across the B Star Zone!" Long eagerly pulled out his Electronic Notebook.
Xilin and Ci Jincheng went over to see what kind of heartfelt confession he'd written.
The Electronic Notebook read:
"You are the flame that sets my blood to boiling and my soul ablaze the moment you appear. The heat that burns deep into my bones makes me willing to search across the Star System for carnations, chasing your footsteps as you refuse to pause for anyone..."
Xilin and Ci Jincheng were sweating buckets. The part about his blood boiling his soul was creepy enough, but what was with the carnations?
The two of them pointed at the word "carnations," which had been highlighted in shades of pink and crimson, and looked at Long.
"Huh? Aren't carnations a symbol of passionate love?" Long asked, his eyes wide and his expression innocent.
"What do red roses symbolize, then?" Xilin asked.
Long gave him a look that said even a child would know this. "That one I know, of course. A curse!"
Xilin and Ci Jincheng: "..."
A curse, my ass!
Knight had just finished installing the jammer and was coming downstairs, ready to show off, when he was so startled he nearly fell down the stairs.
Good grief!
Young master, you can't just use flower language however you please when you write a Love Letter!
Xilin and the others had finally realized which screw the young master was missing.
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