Chapter 4: Arrested??? (Second Update)

The ground suddenly shook violently, and more than a dozen jets of water erupted from beneath the earth.

"Is it an earthquake?" Baili Yuan looked completely bewildered.

But clearly, it wasn't.

A roar echoed from underground, and the ground in front of the Emblem Academy’s main gate began to bulge.

*Boom—*

A massive head emerged from the ground, followed by two more, while the rest of its body continued to crawl out. Baili Yuan stared blankly at the giant creature struggling free from the earth.

"Mon... Monster?! Oh, heavens! A monster has entered the city!!!"

Baili Yuan turned to flee, but suddenly stopped in his tracks.

"Wait, that’s not right. I’m Ultraman, why am I running?"

"However, you can't transform right now, and even if you did, you'd only be a juvenile Ultraman. I advise you to run; you can't beat it," the System’s voice rang out.

"Makes sense! Time to bolt!" Baili Yuan nodded, lifted his short legs, and sprinted into the distance.

A monster that large appearing suddenly at the gate of the Emblem Academy was hard to ignore; sirens began to wail throughout the city immediately.

The moment the monster burst from the ground, it swiped its massive claws at the academy gate, only to be blocked by a suddenly appearing barrier.

*Bang!* The monster’s claw struck the barrier. The shield trembled, then returned to calm without even a ripple.

"666, the enemy failed to penetrate our shield," Baili Yuan shouted from afar.

Attracted by Baili Yuan’s shout, the monster glanced at him. Baili Yuan hurriedly shut his mouth, hunched his shoulders, and continued running away.

Fortunately, the monster didn't pay him any more attention and continued to struggle against the barrier.

Baili Yuan knew about this barrier; it was always there. Without permission, one could not enter the academy from the outside.

Otherwise, Baili Yuan wouldn't have been pondering how to sneak in through the front gate. Aside from the main entrance, he couldn't get into the academy by climbing walls or digging tunnels.

As for why he wanted to get in?

Naturally, to loot eggs!

The Easter Egg Detector showed that the quantity and quality of eggs inside the academy were far superior to those outside!

High up in a tower within the Emblem Academy, several figures stood in a room on the top floor, frowning as they watched the monster at the gate.

Suddenly, the door was pushed open from the outside.

A woman walked in, puffing on a half-burnt cigarette.

The woman was none other than the one Baili Yuan had encountered at the gate, and the cigarette was the one she had snatched from him.

"Dean!"

"Dean, you're here!"

The people in the room bowed respectfully to the woman.

However, when they noticed the cigarette at the corner of her mouth, their expressions turned strange.

That wasn't the brand the Dean usually smoked!

"What’s the situation?" The woman walked to the desk, took the cigarette from her mouth, flicked the ash into an ashtray, and asked.

"Reporting to the Dean, the monster is an Underground Rock Turtle, Elite-class. The specific cause of its appearance is unknown, and it is currently attacking the gate," a middle-aged man with glasses stepped forward. The tag on his chest read 'Dean of Students.'

In truth, an Elite-class Underground Rock Turtle was nothing to the people of the Emblem Academy, but the problem was: how did it bypass the city's alarms and enter the city?

If it could appear at the academy gate today, could it appear in your toilet while you're using it tomorrow? Stirring up public "excrement" was no laughing matter!

The mental image was too beautiful to contemplate.

The woman nodded and walked to the window, looking at the Underground Rock Turtle that was still attacking the gate.

"Send the fifth-year students. Have the instructors follow them; count it as a test and grade them based on their performance. After it's over, send an instructor from the Summoning Department to see if it’s someone’s contracted beast," the woman arranged.

"Yes!"

The Dean of Students nodded and turned to leave to make the arrangements.

The Emblem Academy in Cloud City was one of the top academies; an Elite-class monster was merely a whetstone for the students.

Soon, countless figures rushed out of the teaching buildings.

"My great blade has long been thirsty!"

"May the Force be with me!"

"A flash of cold light arrives first, then the chrysanthemum..."

"It is time to unseal my left arm! Burn to ashes! Dark Flame!"

"Shatter! Reality!"

"You are already dead!"

"..."

Listening to the shameful slogans echoing throughout the campus, the woman’s mouth twitched.

"I’ll need to have the Dean of Students ask the fifth-year grade head how they’ve been training their students."

...

Although they shouted shameful slogans, the fifth-year students did not disappoint the Dean and the others. After only ten minutes, the Underground Rock Turtle collapsed to the ground, covered in wounds, with a cry of resentment.

Underground Rock Turtle: *Damn it! You bunch of animals! You won't even spare a turtle!*

Then, an instructor from the Summoning Department stepped forward to investigate whether the turtle was someone's contracted beast.

However, this had nothing to do with Baili Yuan. At this moment, he was facing a difficult choice!

Because... a new egg had spawned on the Underground Rock Turtle's butt!

A Silver Egg!

In a daily life where he could only loot Black Iron eggs and occasionally a Bronze one, the sudden appearance of a Silver Egg within arm's reach was a surprise equivalent to discovering a curvy, beautiful older sister in a group of gay men!

Baili Yuan swallowed hard.

"If I go over now, I shouldn't attract any attention, right?"

"Old buddy, go for it with confidence. It's fine, you're still just a kid!" the System cheered him on.

Then, Baili Yuan took a step forward...

...

There are two types of surprises when meeting a beautiful older sister: one is *hehehe*, and the other is *hehehe*—please interpret that as you will.

At this moment, Baili Yuan’s heart felt like the latter.

Baili Yuan had finally succeeded in entering the Emblem Academy, but now he could only kneel in the middle of a huge room, vividly performing "Obedient.jpg."

Baili Yuan felt he was truly stupid. The people at the academy weren't blind; how could they not see him? He must have been bewitched by the System!

System: I’m not taking the blame for this!

Baili Yuan: Shut up, you shameless old thief!

At this moment, Baili Yuan was surrounded by a group of people who, judging by their appearance, were old enough to be his grandparents. They were constantly sizing him up, occasionally making "tsk tsk tsk" sounds.

Baili Yuan could feel that these elders were looking most at the emblem on his left hand.

Was there something wrong with his emblem?

Baili Yuan was a bit puzzled, but he didn't act rashly because he had already tried—he couldn't beat... any of these old men and women!

"Don't be afraid, we don't have any ill intentions," an old man with a white beard squatted in front of Baili Yuan, trying his best to put on a smiling expression.

"Come on, call me brother!" the old man said.

The other old men: "..."

The old women: "..."

The woman: "..."

Bro, have some shame, will you?

Perhaps embarrassed by the looks from the others, the old man stood up sheepishly and continued to watch Baili Yuan.

The woman whose chest Baili Yuan had bumped into was hugging her own chest, watching Baili Yuan with schadenfreude.

Before long, the Dean of Students walked in.

"How is the investigation?" an old man asked hurriedly.

"This... I couldn't find any identity records for Baili Yuan," the Dean of Students said, then looked at Baili Yuan with a complex expression.

"In other words..." the woman continued.

"Baili Yuan has no legal identity, nor any faction affiliation. He is a free agent."

"What a... surprise harvest!"

*Swish—*

The group looked at Baili Yuan in unison. The look in the eyes of those old men and women gave Baili Yuan the illusion that they were glowing green.

Baili Yuan’s body trembled, and he couldn't help but clench his butt cheeks.