Chapter 31: The Depressed Xiao Shan and the Desperate Fate

  "Nicholas, do you have a summoning beast of your own?" Veronia asked enthusiastically, and then summoned her own summoning beast.

  It was a third-level Ironback Spider, which had slightly stronger physical defenses and could spit some weak venom. However, Li Junshan looked at Virginia's expression and felt quite pleased with himself.

  Several other students also deliberately showed off, and each summoned their own summoning beasts. Li Junshan looked at them from head to toe, the most powerful one was a young man named Ailen who summoned a fourth-level demon beast, the Flower Skin Leopard, while the others were mostly third-level demon beasts.

  "Take a look at mine." Lorch Jeffery chuckled and summoned his own summon, a level 5 Long-Armed Fire Ape, with a body covered in fiery red fur, standing about two meters tall.

  As soon as the long-armed fire ape came out, it opened its bloody mouth and let out a furious roar. The other several summoning beasts that were barking and howling suddenly tucked in their tails and hid behind their master's back. Geoffrey patted the shoulder of the long-armed fire ape and smiled complacently.

  "Why is there a competition being held here today?"

  Suddenly a voice came in, Li Junshan hadn't had time to turn his head back when he saw Jeffrey and others' faces change, quickly recalling their respective summoned beasts.

  A young man and a maiden walked in, the man was handsome and elegant, the woman was beautiful as a flower, both were dressed in noble attire, with an arrogant expression.

  "Who are you?" The young man walked over, the other students automatically made way for a position, and the young man smiled and let the girl sit down before sitting down beside her, only then asking Li Junshan.

  "Nicholas." Li Junshan replied subconsciously.

  "Which family are you from?" The young man's tone was arrogant, his brow furrowed as he glared at Li Junshan. The beautiful girl beside him watched the scene with great interest.

  Li Junshan saw that there was no summoner mentor around and didn't want to stay any longer, turned around and took a step out, also too lazy to care about the young man.

  "Halt." The young man, seeing that Li Junshan was ignoring him, felt his face lose its luster and shouted, "If you don't stop now, don't blame me for being impolite!"

  Li Junshan still ignored him, but suddenly heard a low, muffled growl. He turned around to see that the young man was now accompanied by a demon beast. The beast was over four meters long, its powerful tail swishing back and forth on the ground, its body covered in thick, keratinized skin, its mouth over half a meter long, with razor-sharp teeth standing upright in its bloody maw.

  Sixth-level demon crocodile lizard!

  Li Junshan was slightly startled, he thought the young man had at most only a fifth-level magical beast, but unexpectedly it was a sixth-level magical beast, the Crocodile Lizard.

  The young man saw Li Junshan's stunned expression and smiled complacently: "Remember, here I, Sedum, have the final say. Since you're new and don't understand things, I'll forgive you this time."

  "It seems like he's not convinced." A beautiful young girl chimed in, saying in a coquettish tone: "Look, he's still glaring at me."

  "Little vixen, fearing that the world is not chaotic enough." Li Junshan cursed in his heart and turned to walk away.

  "Whoosh!" A gust of wind sounded, and Li Junshan's heart skipped a beat as he hastily accelerated to the side. Just then, the alligator's massive tail struck the ground, causing several cracks to appear on the green stone surface in front of it. The young man didn't have the guts to kill anyone, and the alligator's attack was still a great distance away from Li Junshan.

  "Ungrateful!" Li Junshan turned around and scolded the young man named Sedum, then prepared to summon a monster.

  "Hehe, you're quite quick on your feet! Let my summoned beast join in the fun too." The beautiful girl smiled and stood up, summoning her own summoned beast - a level 6 magical creature, the Single-Horned Flame Antelope.

  Two sixth-level magical beasts!

  Li Junshan's heart tightened involuntarily; this imperial capital was indeed different from Florence.

  "Release your summoning beast." Sedorn sneered, "With such a big show, I thought there would be something impressive. Can't even summon a single beast?"

  Nan Xian smiled and said, "Sedum, I feel like we're bullying others."

  Sedan hehe smiled and didn't say anything.

  Li Junshan heard their sarcastic remarks and his face sank, just as he was about to unleash his true form. At this moment, the door behind him creaked open and an old man with a head full of white hair walked in. Li Junshan looked up and saw that the old man had a somewhat ethereal appearance, but his eyes were unusually small and filled with an unspoken slyness.

  The old man entered the door without saying a word, and with a flick of his hand, a huge demon beast suddenly appeared in the hall. The demon beast was over ten meters long, with thick turtle shells on its back, and its massive body was like a small mountain.

  Its sturdy tail was surrounded by electric arcs, and a yellowish glow emanated from its body, giving the hall an inexplicable sense of suffocating oppression as soon as it emerged.

  "Eight-level Magic Turtle!" Li Junshan was shocked, he had seen this magic beast in the "Magic Beast Atlas", its physical defense had reached a perverted level, and it was also a dual-system magic beast, which could use both thunder system and earth system double system magic at the same time, with extremely shocking destructive power.

  No wonder the Summoner's classroom is so big, with a height of over 100 meters from the top to the ground. This isn't for humans to cultivate, but rather for summoned beasts.

  "Fight!" The old man smiled slyly, stroking the sparse whiskers on his chin, and said: "I'll give you a chance to test your skills. New kid, release your summoned beast and fight them."

  Sedun's face suddenly changed to a flattering smile, and he quickly withdrew his crocodile lizard. Meanwhile, Nanshi spoke with a smile: "Master, we just got to know each other and took a look at each other's summoned beasts." As she spoke, she also recalled her own single-horned fire goat.

  Li Junshan saw the old man looking at himself, and tactfully walked over. Without asking, he knew that this was Randolph, the only mentor of the Summoner Class.

  Li Junshan walked up to him, handed over the admission list and said respectfully: "Hello, mentor. I am Nicolas Harriman, a new student."

  "Tuition, hmm, let's start with 100 gold coins." Randolph recalled the summoned beast, Land Turtle, and spread out his emaciated right palm.

  "Huh?" Li Junshan was taken aback and said: "Didn't we already pay the tuition when we enrolled?"

  "That's the academy's tuition, what you're paying now is the mentor's fee." Randolph said seriously: "As a noble son of the Hariman family, one hundred gold coins shouldn't be a problem for you. I see you have a spatial ring, so you shouldn't lack money, right?"

  Li Junshan was speechless, fortunately when he came Linda gave him a lot of gold coins, wiped the dark space ring, Li Junshan took out a small bag of gold coins and handed it to Randolph.

  The latter took the gold coin and shook it, instantly delighted, turned around and shouted at Sedern and others: "What are you standing there for, hurry up and cultivate your spiritual power."

  As he spoke, he went towards the distance. Li Junshan hurriedly caught up with him and asked: "Master, what should I do now?"

  "Get familiar with the surroundings first." Randolph threw out a sentence and hastily ran outside the college.

  Li Junshan turned around and glanced at Sedun, who was staring back at him. Neither of them wanted to make a big deal out of it, so Li Junshan simply turned around and walked away.

  "That Cedric is a scion of the Will family, and Nancy is a pride of the Bate family. They usually bully in the Summoner class, so just bear with it."

  Jeffrey followed up and walked beside Li Junshan, whispering something.

  Li Junshan smiled at him and didn't say a word.

  "George College is very big, I'll take you for a walk." Jeffrey seemed very enthusiastic, and Li Junshan couldn't refuse, following him to wander around the college.

  "I still can't believe it, how come there are so few students learning summoning techniques?" Li Junshan said with some emotion.

  Jeffrey sighed and said, "The size of the spiritual space determines a summoner's achievement. Most summoners can only summon one or two magical beasts. I've been here for almost ten years and have never seen anyone who can summon five magical beasts. Most magicians can own magical pets through soul contracts, as long as their spiritual power is higher than ordinary people. Who would still want to learn summoning techniques? They all go to practice magic."

  "By the way, Mr. Lendolf just grabbed a hundred gold coins and rushed off in a hurry, what's going on?"

  Jeffrey chuckled and said in a low voice, "There's a hotel not far from the academy where Mr. Randolph owes a lot of money. I guess he went to pay it back. Heh, most of us have been through that, but he never asks ordinary people for help."

  Li Junshan was about to speak when he saw a group of people gathered on the other side of the garden. At first, he didn't pay attention, but suddenly heard a familiar voice and couldn't help but tiptoe over to take a look.

  At this sight, Li Junshan was furious and didn't even bother to greet Jeffrey, he rushed over hastily.

  Pushing aside the onlookers, Li Junshan squeezed in and saw that Fate was being cornered by several people against the wall. At this moment, he looked terrified and anxious, but more so embarrassed.

  "Brandon, forget it, what's the point of arguing with these plebeians. You, newcomer, just slip away from here and we won't bother you."

  A stout young man dressed in noble attire walked up to Fate with a self-satisfied smile, opened his legs and pointed at himself.

  The onlookers suddenly let out a burst of snickers, with only a few showing disdain, while most had an air of detachment, pointing and commenting with a mindset of watching a spectacle.

  Li Junshan was about to go over, hesitated for a moment and retreated a few steps back. He wasn't very tall or noticeable anyway, so no one paid attention to him.

  Fa's face sank, and he didn't speak for a long time. The stout young man became impatient and shouted: "Don't be arrogant, hurry up and come over."

  Fa Te's forehead began to sweat, gritted his teeth, and after a while, he hung his head in despair and walked towards the young man.

  "Alright, Gavin, that's enough." A tall and handsome young man with flowing black hair and exceptionally bright eyes said, his light brown skin looking radiant.

  "Lei Xuan, nothing's wrong, just messing around." The chubby youth, Gao Wen, seemed to be a bit intimidated by him as well, and didn't look at him, instead spreading his legs apart and staring fiercely at Fa Te.

  At this time, Fa Te had already walked three steps in front of him with his head down, his face pale and his lips moving as if saying something, slightly bowing his waist.

  Li Junshan secretly sighed and felt an uncontrollable disappointment with Fa Te for the first time.