Cafeteria Two.
The massive dining hall plunged into a deathly, terrifying silence the exact second Luna walked out the doors.
You could have heard a pin drop.
A few suffocating seconds passed.
Then, the entire room exploded!
Total, absolute chaos!
“Was…
was that Luna?!
The Luna?!
Am I dreaming?
Oh, I must be dreaming.
I just pinched myself and I didn’t feel a thing—”
“Damn it, idiot!
You pinched my arm!
Of course you didn’t feel it!
Get off me!
But you didn’t hallucinate…
that was really her!”
“That was enough monster meat to feed ten grown men, and she just…
inhaled it?!
And her eating speed…
gulp…
couldn’t she break a Guinness World Record with that?”
“Did she suffer a mental breakdown?
I’ve been in her class since Year One!
She used to eat like a literal princess…”
“Duh!
She just awakened F-Class magic, of course she’s having a breakdown!
Not to mention she got stuck with the worst instructor in the academy.
I’d be binge-eating too!”
“This is massive news!
Did anyone get pictures?!
Post it on the academy forums right now!
Just remember to use a burner account and get off the school Wi-Fi!
Hurry, hurry, hurry!”
…
Compared to breakfast, the lunch rush was exponentially larger.
Because of that, news of Luna’s cafeteria rampage spread across the academy’s digital forums at lightspeed.
Post after post detailing the spectacle skyrocketed to the front page.
It wasn’t just the sheer amount of food—it was the mind-boggling contrast between Luna’s famously elegant, ladylike reputation and her savage display of gluttony!
[Breaking News!] One of Year Two’s Top Beauties, Luna, Spotted Binge-Eating in Cafeteria Two!
Terrifying Appetite!
[Former Goddess Luna Suffers Mental Breakdown Over F-Class Awakening!
Personality completely altered?!
Annihilates Five Boar Legs in 5 Minutes!
Medium-Rare!]
[Turning Grief into Gluttony?
Former Goddess Luna Suspected to Have Completely Given Up on the Combat Exams!
Rumored to Deeply Resent Instructor Asher!]
As time passed, the clickbait titles grew more and more unhinged.
At first, plenty of students refused to believe the rumors.
Thanks to her stunning looks, Luna was incredibly famous on campus.
In almost everyone’s eyes, she was the epitome of a refined, untouchable young lady.
How could she possibly stuff her face with bloody monster meat so barbarically?
And in such massive quantities?!
But as more and more “eyewitnesses” chimed in, the credibility of the wild claims skyrocketed.
Finally, a few crystal-clear photos surfaced in the threads, hammering the final nail into the coffin.
It was undeniably Luna!
…
Academy Dormitories.
Many students were scrolling through their lacrimas and smartphones during their lunch break.
Someone suddenly gasped.
“Whoa…
did you guys see this?!
I heard Luna snapped.
She ate a mountain of monster meat in front of everyone in Cafeteria Two today!”
“Has she completely lost it?
How long is it going to take her to digest all that heavy ethernano-rich meat?
Is she just skipping training?!”
“Honestly?
If I were her, I’d give up training too!
She got slapped with an F-Class rating, and her master is Asher, the worst teacher in the school!
She’s guaranteed to fail the Combat Exams.
What the hell is the point of training?”
Fueled by first-day-of-school excitement, the gossip surrounding Luna infected the entire campus in record time.
Soon, it wasn’t just the students—the faculty staff had caught wind of the spectacle, too.
Naturally, the instructors immediately connected the dots back to one specific person.
A certain dead-last instructor who had gained immense “notoriety” over the past two days.
Yes, Asher.
The heat from his public stunt of taking the Heartfilia twins to woo Director Diana hadn’t even cooled off yet, but today, he had dropped two more massive bombshells.
The first bombshell: Asher had actually gotten into a brawl with Drake down at the Logistics Department!
Well, “brawl” was putting it lightly.
It was a completely one-sided beatdown.
Slapping Drake across the room was one thing, but Asher had actually robbed him of his class’s resources!
Drake himself was a nobody, but the man backing him was Instructor Loke, the heir to the Loke Family.
You have to look at the master before you beat the dog!
Just as everyone was certain Asher was about to suffer a brutal retaliation, the second bombshell detonated.
Drake had dragged Director Crawford to Asher’s classroom to demand justice—only to be intercepted by Director Diana!
In the end, with both Directors serving as witnesses, Asher and Drake had placed a massive wager on their classes’ Combat Prep rankings.
If Asher won, Drake would have to fork over a staggering 600,000 Jewels and publicly apologize.
If Drake won, the 300,000 Jewels he owed Asher would be completely wiped clean!
Even though the terms of the wager seemed incredibly favorable to Asher, the other instructors universally agreed he was out of his damn mind.
Sure, Asher could have secretly hidden his strength, biding his time to ambush Drake and exact his revenge.
But this bet was based on student rankings!
Everyone knew Asher’s class consisted of three absolute F-Class rejects.
What, were those three F-Class students secretly hiding their power too?
Were they somehow going to trigger a mythical secondary magic evolution?
Because of this, the vast majority of the faculty had zero faith in Asher.
And now, hearing the rumors about Luna suffering a complete mental breakdown and binge-eating, they were more convinced than ever that Asher was guaranteed to lose.
“Asher is just too young and arrogant.
How could he dare challenge Drake’s class rankings?
Does he not realize Drake recruited a C-Class Awakener?”
“I think he just got blinded by greed.
He wants that 600,000 Jewels so badly, but did he really think that kind of money would just fall into his lap?”
“Exactly!
If I had Director Diana backing me up, I would have just taken the 300,000 and walked away.
300,000 is plenty!
But humans…
they always try to swallow the elephant and end up choking on their own greed!”
“I gotta say though, Asher might be a massive simp, but he sure picked the right target.
I can’t believe Director Diana actually stepped in to protect him!”
“I think there’s more to Asher than meets the eye.
He was stuck at Tier Three, Level One forever, and suddenly he’s Level Three?
He definitely hid his true cultivation level!”
Asher was completely oblivious to his colleagues’ gossip.
And even if he had known, he wouldn’t have cared in the slightest.
Why would he waste his breath on a bunch of nameless cannon fodder?
At that very moment, he was busy guiding Luna through the intricacies of the Extreme Compression Breathing Technique and the Star-Shattering Fist.
Her comprehension skills were undeniably top-tier.
After just a few physical demonstrations, she was already circulating her mana and practicing the forms completely on her own.
Even so, by the time they wrapped up, evening had already fallen.
Not even the Combat Prep classes held mandatory night sessions.
When mages constantly pushed their latent potential to the limit all day, proper rest and recovery were absolutely essential.
After reminding Luna to strictly adhere to her heavy meat diet and meditation schedule, the two parted ways, bringing his first official day of teaching to a close.
Luna headed home, while Asher returned to his assigned faculty dormitory on campus.
The single-occupancy dorm was incredibly cramped.
Aside from a small bed and a desk, there was no room for anything else.
But at the very least, he had the room to himself, providing a decent amount of privacy.
Night fell.
Asher sat cross-legged on his bed, circulating his newly upgraded Cosmic Breathing Technique to absorb ethernano from the air.
However, a deep frown soon crept onto his face.
Even though the Cosmic Breathing Technique had reached the Mystic High-Grade tier, he still felt his cultivation speed was far too slow.
He had been hovering at the absolute peak of Tier Three, Level Three all day, feeling like he could break through at any second, yet he remained frustratingly stuck by a hair’s breadth.
But right at that moment, the crisp, mechanical voice of the system echoed in his mind.
“Ding!
Detected that Personal Disciple [Luna] has increased her cultivation.
Cultivation Return triggered!
Drawing multiplier…”
“Ding!
Congratulations, Host!
You have drawn a 10x Return Multiplier!
Transferring cultivation…”
The very next second.
Boom!
A massive surge of pure magical energy flooded his veins.
Asher’s cultivation instantly shattered the bottleneck, breaking straight into Tier Three, Level Four!
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