“Lu Sheng! Just you wait! I, Qin Yanran, swear I will never let you off!!”
Behind him came Qin Yanran’s hysterical, half-sobbing scream, brimming with resentment and shame.
Lu Sheng ignored her as if he had heard nothing and did not even pause his steps.
With a slight movement of his mind, 『Data Eye』 opened silently, and Qin Yanran’s attributes unfolded before his eyes like a light screen.
『Name: Qin Yanran』
『Gender: Female』
『Age: 18』
『Class: Holy Light Priest (A)』
『Level: LV1』
『Four Dimensions: Strength 4, Intelligence 6, Agility 4, Constitution 8』
『Class Skills: Body of Holy Light, Light Element Affinity』
『Body of Holy Light (A): Converts all attacks into holy light attacks, and increases the healing effect of all restorative skills by 10%.』
『Light Element Affinity (B): Increases the effectiveness of all light-element skills by 10%.』
『Aptitude assessment: Probability of second awakening: 63.9% A-rank talent class, 17.3% B-rank talent class, 18.8% B-rank class!』
The aptitude assessment section was an attribute panel unique to his Master class and could allow someone doomed to fail their second awakening to succeed with a 100% chance after becoming his servant.
After Lu Sheng glanced over Qin Yanran’s attributes, he immediately lost interest.
“A mere A-rank? Her upper limit is only so high.”
Lu Sheng sneered inwardly and closed the panel, completely uninterested, because with this level of aptitude she did not even qualify to be a candidate for his retainer.
With his current abilities, the servants he wanted to recruit naturally had to have as high a potential aptitude score as possible.
Humming a little tune in satisfaction, Lu Sheng walked toward the area outside the school.
The afternoon was a half-day break after the awakening ceremony, which was just right for searching for his target.
Tomorrow the school would arrange for their cohort of class holders to undergo the newcomer secret realm trial, which was the real main event.
As he walked all the way out of the campus, Lu Sheng could clearly feel countless gazes fall on him, accompanied by deliberately hushed whispers.
“Sigh, how pitiful, another one driven mad by awakening…”
“A double E-rank class holder… that kind of luck is something else… a lucky loser?”
“Did you see that hit he landed on Qin Yanran just now, he still had quite a bit of strength, right? A last flare before the end?”
“Shh… keep it down, do not trigger him… careful or he will give you a big slap too!”
Lu Sheng ignored all of this, and the corners of his mouth even curved up in a faint smile.
Since no one supported my soaring ambition, I would tread alone to the snow-covered mountain peak.
How could these ordinary mortals possibly glimpse his true strength?
He casually activated Data Eye and swept his gaze over the surrounding crowd.
『Name: Wang Xiaoming』
『Class: warrior (D)』
『Aptitude assessment: Probability of second awakening: 5.2% C-rank, 94.8% D-rank.』
(Background extra A, pass!)
…
『Name: Li Xiaohua』
『Class: fire-element mage (C)』
『Aptitude assessment: Probability of second awakening: 12.7% B-rank, 87.3% C-rank.』
(Background extra B, pass!)
…
All he saw were C- and D-rank aptitudes across the board, with the occasional B-rank, while A-ranks were extremely rare, and as for S-ranks, he did not even see a shadow of one.
“The students at Lanjiang No. 3 High School this year are really the worst batch I have ever dealt with!” Lu Sheng complained inwardly, but his steps did not slow as he only wanted to leave quickly and find a decent retainer.
“Servants, huh… only 3 slots is still too few, so I should prioritize 3 maids first…”
When he reached the school gate, a blinding golden legendary radiance suddenly crashed into his field of vision and was almost dazzling enough to blind him.
The brilliance far surpassed that of anyone he had seen before.
As the light faded, it revealed a figure standing by the school gate like a steel tower.
He was nearly 2 meters tall, with dark, glossy skin and knotted muscles like cast steel that stretched an ordinary school uniform to the verge of bursting.
It was his childhood friend… Zhang Dapao!
At this moment, this tower-like burly man was posing flamboyantly with his hands on his hips, and at his waist, extremely out of place, were two brand-new plastic brushes, the 5-yuan price tags on their handles especially eye-catching in the sunlight.
“Gagagaga!”
“Brother Sheng! What took you so long to get here? Your brother has been waiting for you so long that even the flowers have withered!”
When Zhang Dapao saw Lu Sheng, he grinned, revealing a mouthful of dazzling white teeth, his voice as loud as a great bell as his fan-sized hand came down heavily on Lu Sheng’s shoulder with a rush of wind, the force almost making Lu Sheng perform a face-first fall on the spot.
“Hiss…”
Lu Sheng steadied himself, rubbed his instantly numb shoulder, and glared irritably at this big lug.
At the same time, Data Eye had already displayed Zhang Dapao’s lavish panel clearly before his eyes.
『Name: Zhang Dapao』
『Gender: Male』
『Age: 18』
『Aptitude: 28』
『Class: Martial God (SS)』
『Level: LV1』
『Four Dimensions: Strength 20, Intelligence 1, Agility 20, Constitution 20』
(Strength, Agility, and Constitution attributes all exploded, while Intelligence was 1?! Lu Sheng almost burst out laughing, but when he saw the 3 golden, shining skills, he instead drew in a sharp breath!)
『Class Skills: Pinnacle of Martial Dao (SS), Invincible Golden Body (SS), Martial Soul Entwining (SS)』
『Pinnacle of Martial Dao (SS): A Martial God class holder is destined to ascend to the pinnacle of the martial path, does not need to undergo job-change trials, and faces no bottlenecks when leveling up and breaking through.』
(A cheat! A pure, outright cheat!)
『Martial Soul Entwining (SS): A Martial God class holder possesses unrivaled close-combat ability, and anyone approached by a Martial God will feel a suffocating pressure like a python coiling around them, which weakens their hostility and causes their fighting spirit to crumble.』
(As Lu Sheng looked at this skill, its name seemed a bit familiar to him…)
『Invincible Golden Body (SS): During battle, there is a 0.1% chance to obtain 1 second of invincibility!』
(Lu Sheng: The name of this skill feels even more familiar!!! Danger!!!)
『Aptitude assessment: Probability of second awakening: 31% S-rank class, 22% A-rank talent class, 47% A-rank class!』
(His potential was astonishing!)
“Brother, brother!”
“Why are you not saying anything? Have you been struck speechless by how dashing your bro is?!”
Zhang Dapao grinned in triumph and slung an arm around Lu Sheng’s shoulders, his rock-hard pectorals digging painfully into Lu Sheng’s back.
He really was a man with 20 Constitution.
It was just that the 1 point in Intelligence was a bit moving in its own way.
From his memories, Zhang Dapao’s behavior was indeed somewhat foolish at times, but he still fell within the bounds of a normal person.
One could only say that gains always came with losses.
“How did you know that I awakened an SS-rank class… Martial God!!”
An expression of disbelief appeared on Zhang Dapao’s face, as though his secret had been discovered.
Who asked you?!
Looking at the smug-faced Zhang Dapao, Lu Sheng had not even had time to make a snarky comment before Zhang Dapao blurted everything out to him in one breath, saying, “Three golden skills, your bro is super awesome now!”
“The principal of our school, that old geezer, grabbed my leg on the spot and bawled his eyes out, insisting on becoming sworn brothers with me right then and there! If it were not for his son, our school’s dean of students, holding him back for dear life, the two of us would already be sworn brothers with different fathers and different mothers!”
“How about it, brother? Awesome, right?!” he asked excitedly as he shook Lu Sheng, his flying spit almost spraying onto Lu Sheng’s face.
“I am not looking!” Lu Sheng pushed away his stubbly face that had come far too close with a look of disgust, but he still said with a cheerful smile, “Awesome, awesome! From now on when we run dungeons, I will just follow brother Pao and lie down to win in peace!”
“I have got you, I have got you!”
Zhang Dapao thumped his chest with loud bangs and said, “From now on, when we run dungeons, if anyone dares touch even a single hair on my brother, I will beat the shit out of him and then stuff it back into his mouth and make him swallow it!”
After making his sky-piercingly bold promise, he suddenly remembered something, leaned in curiously, and asked, “Oh right, brother, what did you awaken? It definitely is not bad either, right? We grew up wearing the same open-crotch pants, after all!”
“Me?” Lu Sheng revealed a mysterious smile and said, “An E-rank Seeker, plus… mm, a new class that I will keep secret for now.”
He definitely could not directly say that he was a “Master”; that would be far too embarrassing and might easily make people take him for a pervert.
“E-rank? And a dual class at that?”
Zhang Dapao was clearly stunned for a moment, but then the surprise on his face was instantly replaced by brotherly loyalty as he said, “Hey, that is nothing! It is fine, brother! From now on when we run dungeons, brother Pao will cover you! If anyone dares bare their fangs at you, I will crush his yolks!”
He slapped Lu Sheng’s shoulder hard again, almost driving him into the ground, then twisted his waist in a showy way so that the 2 plastic brushes at his waist swayed as he asked, “How is it, brother, does your bro’s look have style or what?”
Lu Sheng’s gaze fell on those two completely out-of-place brushes, and the corner of his mouth twitched as he said, “Pao… what is the deal with you wearing 2 brushes at your waist? Are you planning to moonlight as a wall painter?”
“No way, Brother Sheng?! You do not even get this?!” Zhang Dapao’s cow-like eyes immediately widened as he stared at Lu Sheng like he was some caveman and said, “I keep telling you to read more books, but you just will not listen!”
He shook the brushes at his waist proudly, his face wearing a “you do not understand my art” expression.
“This is what you call literally ‘having two brushes’! It was not easy finally awakening an SS-rank, so if I do not do something a bit unique, I feel uncomfortable all over! Do you understand what it means to have status or not?”
Lu Sheng: “…”
Fine, as long as you are happy.
The taste of an SS-rank big shot was indeed out of the ordinary.
What? I was also an SS-rank big shot now? Then forget I said anything!
Zhang Dapao was obviously very satisfied with his own status; he waved his big hand, pulled Lu Sheng into a bold embrace, and his booming voice made Lu Sheng’s ears ring.
“Enough about that, brother! We are finally damn well liberated! Did we not agree before that once we finished awakening we would go to ‘that place’?”
“A place only adults are allowed to go!”
“Hehehe!”
When the words “that place” were mentioned, Lu Sheng and Zhang Dapao’s gazes met, and both of them showed the kind of lewd yet expectant smile that all men understood.
“Looks like it is going to rain soon… there is no time like the present…”
“Let us go!”
Zhang Dapao let out an impatient bellow and dragged Lu Sheng as he strode off in great strides toward the direction in his memories.