CHAPTER 26: STRANGE

Ling Yu also made sure to let Ye Qingxue use them as sandbags and practice her fighting while she was at it. This experience was important for dealing with monsters later in the future!

Though Ling Yu didn’t intend to fight the monsters herself.

That’s right.

She didn’t have any intention to take care of those monsters with her own hands, to dirty her hands with blood again.

Rather than being a leader, she was more interested in becoming a guide!

Just like how she took in Ye Qingxue and started raising her to become a great asset of the near future, she was aiming to gather talented people by her side and nurture them, molding them into finely crafted gems with the highest value.

Besides, it seems that the system also wanted to do the same, considering how it gave her the skills to use, both defensive and offensive, including some weird set of skills that she didn’t have in her past life.

Ling Yu was staring at the shining silver screen over Ru Feifei’s head with interest when she was lost in a deep thought.

Even in her last life, Ling Yu didn’t know that her friend was such a golden retriever!

Her screen, her status screen, was freaking silver!

A natural-born A-class awakener! And yet she died such a horrible death! Why did Ling Yu miss such a big shot in her last life?!

Ling Yu bit her lips, eyes full of regret as she stared at Ru Feifei, or rather, the shining silver screen hanging above her head, which felt like rubbing salt on her wound.

Even within this entire hall full of students, only three of them, including Ru Feifei, had the Silver screen.

Ling Yu felt curious about Ru Feifei’s level, because she wanted to mold this girl right from the basic, so that she would have the ability to protect herself in the future, so that she wouldn’t need to die such a torturous death like in her previous life.

That’s why Ling Yu activated her Appraisal skill to take a quick look at her friend’s status window.

But the heck she found out! There was a freaking A-class awakener beside her all her life, and she never got to know that?

This is absolutely unacceptable!

Seeing the depressed air hanging around Ling Yu’s head all of a sudden, Ru Feifei thought if she did something wrong to upset her as she called out to Ling Yu, "Yu’er, what happened? Why do you look like that all of a sudden?"

"Ha, haha, sorry, sorry, Feifei. I’m fine, nothing happened. Don’t worry." Ling Yu looked as if she were a person in her sickbed telling her last wish, which made Ru Feifei go frantic.

"Yu’er, why are you looking like a zombie? You are scaring me! No, let’s go to the infirmary right away!" Ru Feifei almost screamed out after seeing Ling Yu’s deadbeat look, but when she was in a hurry, a hand grabbed her from leaving as Ling Yu replied to her, sighing in regret.

"I’m fine, Feifei. I just thought of something unpleasant, that’s all. Seat back down right away, there isn’t much time to think about other things, the Professor may be here at any moment."

"...Fine, I’ll listen to you." Ru Feifei hesitated a bit before sitting back down on her chair as she looked at Ling Yu with concern. "But are you sure you don’t need to see a doctor?"

"I’m really fine, I’m just a bit lost. It would be alright in a bit, don’t worry. Rather than that, we are going to stay at the same dormitory from now on, right?" Ling Yu brought up the matter of sharing a dorm with Ru Feifei, which successfully distracted her.

Feifei immediately brightened up. "Yes! I was so happy when I saw the room assignments! I even brought matching mugs, and I was going to buy some cutesy curtains too! Do you want cats or flowers— wait, don’t tell me, you like the galaxy-themed ones, right?!"

As Ru Feifei was chattering, Ling Yu’s mind was floating elsewhere, deep in thought.

’Isn’t this strange?’

In her last life, Ru Feifei awakened too, but she didn’t awaken as an A-class hunter, but a common F-class one?

How come her root is a natural-born A-class awakener?

Thinking about it, Ling Yu decided to take another look at Ru Feifei’s status screen clearly.

[System Status Window

Name: Ru Feifei

Class: None (Unawakened)

Title: None

Bloodline Type: None

Potential Rank: A-Class (Natural Born)

Warning: Core Awakening is delayed till the system starts

Current Combat Power:

Level: 21

Power Output: Medium

Class Tier: Unclassified

Threat Rating: A-

Awakened Skill Tree: Locked

Agility: Low

Innate Abilities Detected: Sealed

Innate Buffs: Dormant

Cold Immunity: Nullifies cold-based attacks and environments.

Temper rank: High

Pain Suppression (Advanced): Auto-triggers under mortal wounds.

Compatibility Traits:

Best Weapon Type: Greatsword, Gauntlets

Elemental affinity: High

Weapon Synchronization (Swords/Blades): Very High

Not compatible with Lightning or Illusion-type mages

Best Paired With: Healers, Buffers, Tactical Leaders]

Strange. So strange.

Really... Why did she awaken as an F-class awakener at that time?

Ling Yu couldn’t piece together the clues to complete this puzzle, no matter how much she thought.

This just didn’t make any sense.

’Come to think of it, did I know in what circumstances Feifei awakened her powers?’ It suddenly occurred to Ling Yu that she didn’t know how Ru Feifei became an Awakener at that time, because she was locked in the cold storage of the palace for a month after ’destroying’ the new dress bought for Jiang Meng, which she had no clue about.

After coming out, she could only find out after a long time of snooping around for information that Ru Feifei had also awakened, as the least talented ones, worthy of being called failures.

’How did she awaken at that time? I never really asked her... Damn, so much to regret for...’

Is the list going to get longer from now on?