Tianlan Magic High School

Today was the opening ceremony of Tianlan Magic High School.

This was not merely an entrance ceremony, but a ceremony marking their first steps onto the path of magehood.

Because every new student would awaken their own magic element today and become Beginner-level mages!

The awakening ceremony proceeded as usual, punctuated now and then by gasps and wails.

Some people got their wish and awakened the powerful Lightning and Fire elements, while others who awakened the Water and Light elements wailed about jumping off the rooftop.

Amid the Class 8, First Year line, a figure quietly watched it all. He appeared calm on the surface, yet his eyes seemed to conceal blazing flames.

Jiang Yuan felt his heartbeat accelerating, the corners of his mouth unable to stop themselves from curving upward.

Ever since he had transmigrated into the world of Full-time Mage six years ago, he had looked forward to this day every day, learning every scrap of magical knowledge he could find!

His knowledge was so extensive that he could score however many points he wanted on exams. And that was precisely what he had done, keeping his grades consistently around the middle.

Jiang Yuan ranked twenty-fifth in Class 8.

That meant he would be the twenty-fifth person to awaken.

And because of his arrival, Mo Fan had become forty-ninth.

Time passed abnormally slowly as they waited.

Finally, Jiang Yuan reached the front of the line.

"Next, Jiang Yuan!" Instructor Xue Musheng called.

The moment his words fell, Jiang Yuan stepped out from the line.

Xue Musheng glanced at Jiang Yuan without paying him much attention. In his eyes, only students with influential backgrounds or those who awakened powerful elements were worth noticing.

After a few brief instructions, Jiang Yuan placed his hand on the Awakening Stone.

His consciousness sank into his spiritual world.

The Awakening Stone gave off enchanting starlight. At the same time, a glimmer of light suddenly appeared in his previously empty spiritual world—a wave-like shade of blue.

Blue stardust appeared within his spiritual world, seven Star Particles drifting through it.

Jiang Yuan froze at the sight.

He had not expected to awaken the Water element. At the early stage, it only had defensive skills, and many students considered Water and Light the elements they least wanted to awaken.

But to him, any element was the same.

How did that saying go again?

There were no useless elements, only useless mages.

"Water element," Xue Musheng announced flatly.

Jiang Yuan's consciousness left his spiritual world, and he removed his right hand from the Awakening Stone wreathed in watery mist.

Just as he was about to return to the line, his body suddenly jolted. He shut his eyes and stood motionless before the Awakening Stone.

"Hm?" Xue Musheng looked at him in confusion.

Could this student have taken his awakening of the Water element too hard?

Though he was somewhat inclined to curry favor with the powerful, he was not a bad teacher to his students. He immediately comforted him. "Student Jiang Yuan, the Water element is already quite good. It is the only element at the Beginner level with a defensive skill. Isn't it much better than the Light element, which can only produce a bit of light at the Beginner level?"

The moment he said that, the students who had awakened the Light element shouted even louder about jumping off the rooftop.

"I can't go on! I can't go on! Light mages have no rights!"

"I'm going to the rooftop! Nobody stop me!"

"Me too!"

Only after speaking did Xue Musheng realize something was wrong. He hurriedly tried to make up for it. "Actually, the Light element is very powerful too. Later, I'll tell you just how formidable it becomes at higher levels. Until then, don't go to the rooftop!"

Hearing that, the commotion settled slightly.

At that moment, Jiang Yuan opened his eyes as well, a flash of gray light passing through them.

Seeing this, Xue Musheng quickly sent him away and called for the next person to awaken their magic.

Back in the line, Jiang Yuan could barely maintain the calm expression on his face.

Inside his spiritual world, there were actually two patches of stardust.

One was blue stardust representing the Water element.

The other was gray stardust!

Others might not know, but Jiang Yuan, who spent every day buried in the library, was certain that this stardust represented one of the dark magics—the Undead element!

If there had not been so many people around, Jiang Yuan truly would have burst out laughing.

He had actually awakened two elements.

Could it be Mo Fan's Innate Dual Elements?

He did not know, but he would definitely find out at his next awakening!

Jiang Yuan dragged himself back from his overwhelming joy and gradually regained his composure.

His gaze swept over Mo Fan at the end of the line. The future Magic God wore an uneasy expression.

The strength of Innate Dual Elements needed no explanation.

But without the Azure Dragon Pendant on Mo Fan's chest, there would not be enough resources to nurture so many magic elements—unless one belonged to a massive financial empire like the Zhao Family.

The Azure Dragon Pendant had played the most crucial role in Mo Fan becoming the Magic God.

In the end, Jiang Yuan was not the protagonist.

Jiang Yuan sighed to himself. If only he had a Vermilion Bird Pendant or a Black Tortoise Pendant. With his familiarity with the plot, there were simply too many things he could accomplish.

Meanwhile, once Jiang Yuan stopped paying attention to the magic awakenings, the pace suddenly sped up. Before long, it reached the very last person.

Forty-ninth-ranked Mo Fan.

Under Xue Musheng's guidance, Mo Fan placed his hand on the Awakening Stone. Specks of starlight flew out, spreading along his arm like veins.

Just as the magical radiance was about to emerge, someone suddenly cried out.

"My god, someone in the class next door awakened the Lightning element!"

The Lightning element was hailed as the foremost of the elemental elements, possessing the most powerful destructive force among them.

That cry drew everyone's attention except Jiang Yuan's toward the neighboring class.

At that very moment, the Awakening Stone in Mo Fan's hand shone with streaks of purple lightning!

Mo Fan slowly opened his eyes, the delight on his face impossible to conceal.

He had thought the class would erupt in amazement and that he could thoroughly slap Mu Bai and Zhao Kun San in the face. Instead, he discovered that nearly everyone's attention had been drawn to the neighboring class.

No, one person was still looking at him.

Mo Fan's eyes met Jiang Yuan's at once.

Jiang Yuan smiled at him and silently waited for the next scene to unfold.

Mo Fan had not yet removed his hand from the Awakening Stone. He was preparing to shout and make everyone around him worship his Lightning element when he suddenly felt a surge of heat from his palm.

The Awakening Stone, which flashed with purple lightning, had somehow begun to emit a fiery red radiance.

The Fire element had arrived!

Mo Fan's eyes widened at once, utterly immersed in the joy of awakening two elements.

The uproar over the Lightning element awakened in the neighboring class gradually died down. Xue Musheng and the students also noticed that Mo Fan had awakened the Fire element, and they were all astonished.

Xue Musheng was especially delighted and offered him encouragement.

Mo Fan immediately became smug, strutting with an outrageously arrogant gait.

Only after he had finished basking in his pride did he realize that someone had witnessed the entire process of him awakening two elements.

So, after the afternoon classes ended,

Mo Fan secretly sought out Jiang Yuan.

"So you want me to keep your secret—that you awakened two magic elements?" Jiang Yuan asked with a smile as he looked at Mo Fan.

He knew that Mo Fan did not want to reveal it yet. Mo Fan feared that the Mu Clan would kill him, so he wanted to wait until he had grown powerful before going wild in grand fashion.

So Jiang Yuan could make use of this secret for a long time.