Humming sounds emanated from Riku's body as the 'Heavenly Recuperating Pill' slowly dissolved within his stomach, transforming into a golden brown warm threads of lights which permeated through his veins, meridians and pores. Giving him a relaxing feeling.

Riku carefully guided the docile energy to course through his body, endlessly nourishing his depleted Mana Force as well as his exhausted body. But when this energy came in contact with his muscles. It suddenly twitched uncontrollably as if it was being hammered down by a blacksmith's tempering hammer.

Searing pain filled every Riku's muscle as he gritted his teeth, silently enduring the pain. As the golden brown threads of light completed forty two cycles of endless nourishing to his body. It finally became dim as it dissipated into a steam of warm air emanated from Riku's body.

With long lasting breaths, Riku slowly stood up. He carried his ragged body towards the futon in the middle of the white room. There, he seated himself cross-legged. His Morrow Academy uniform was practically torn and ripped that his chest was visible. His fair skin had a red tinged in it as a result from the recent muscle tempering.

With the help of the 'Heaven Recuperating Pill'. Riku's Mana Force returned to the most optimal levels and his previously exhausted body was now full of vigor. As if he was fish that met water after crossing a desert.

With a wave of his hand, his bedraggled uniform became a shone a distinct pale blue light as it suddenly dissipated and was sucked inside his cosmos ring. He then hovered his palm over his Radiant Weapon of which a transparent screen appeared.

Welcome, Riku Lightshield!Mana Force Realm; Flesh Improving Stage;Middle PhaseIntegrate Source CodeSpells Accumulated: 4Open IDERanger Rank 1Exit User TerminalMana Force Stats: 1200

He once again gently tapped over the Open IDE button as a new transparent screen appeared, and gently typed the same command he typed to view the general topography of the whole Morrow Academy. There, he once again saw the tactfully built buildings which formed a triangle formation when viewed in a bird's eye view.

After memorizing the general area, Riku closed his User Terminal and waved his hand over the air as a new set of Morrow Academy uniform materialized before him. The uniform gently fluttered in the air as it fell on the ground. The cross-legged, naked Riku snapped open his eyes as he stood up and picked the uniform on the ground. He wore a light smile as he changed.

But never did he thought that something unprecedented would happen.

With a chiii sound, the automatic door suddenly opened. Revealing the visage of two familiar people before him. One was a fair woman while the other was an olden man. Their outfits were quite strange, since the olden man didn't wore his principal uniform and changed to a black tuxedo and black slacks. The aura that he gave off was valiant that if this old man was a teenager in this time. He would surely attract beautiful girls to cater over him.

The fair woman on the other hand was a smiling teenager. Though she was still a teenager. The feeling that she gave off was akin to a flower blooming on its peak. Though her body still hasn't matured to the point that you can call her a full blown woman. It can be said that of she reached her prime. She would surely be a heart-breaker.

Currently, the woman before him wore a knee-length printed flounce georgette with a neckline embroider that emphasized the true colors of her jaded skin. She also wore a platform sandals that greatly enhanced her already enchanting beauty. All of this combined made Riku gasp in surprise that he even forgot the fact that he was changing!

Amidst the awkward silence. Only the sound of the automatic door closing could be heard, followed by a glass shattering wail that suddenly erupted from the Fang Xue.

"Exhibitionist!!!" Fang Xue's face turned red from embarrassment as she turned around and face the automatic door behind her. Fang Lin on the other hand wore a small intricate smile like a blooming flower as he gently nodded. "Hmm. quite bold to do that ey?"

As Fang Lin's words fell. Riku dashed backwards like a lightning as he frantically wore the school uniform's lower body. Sweat even formed on his forehead as the awkwardness in the atmosphere surged.

Riku sighed in relief as he fell butt first on the ground. "Senior, you should've told me that you were coming!" Riku pouted as he wiped the dust on his butt and stood up.

Fang Xue on the other hand was still facing the wall as her two hands clutched below her chin and shrunk back due to embarrassment of seeing Riku's Elite Weapon.

"Miss Fang, It's okay now..." Riku said in a low voice, But although he gave enough effort to lower his voice enough that it seemed to be a whisper. In the confines of this small white room. It resounded like a clapping thunder which made Fang Xue's reddened shoulder to twitch.

And with a slightly reluctant move, Fang Xue once again turned her face towards Riku. Riku on the other hand smiled when he saw Fang Xue's move, It seemed to him that she already forgave him for the sudden unpleasant experience. But unknowingly, Fang Xue's gaze wasn't all focused to him as she darted her gaze all over the white room. Clearly avoiding the youngster before her. And on her natural jaded skin. A faint trace of red line appeared all over her cheeks.

"Hmm, Junior, you really did a number to us by showing that by showing that little... Weapon of yours..." As Fang Lin's voice fell on the Weapon of yours, he purposely lengthened the tone and darted his gaze towards Riku's lower abdomen.

Riku abruptly clutched his Junior as he felt a chill running down his spine and inwardly though. 'I don't swing that way you old man!'

Finally, with a long lasting sigh. Riku slowly approached the two. Seeing Fang Xue's gaze hovering all over the room without even landing on his figure, and the old man's repeatedly winking face. Riku helplessly sighed as the three approached the automatic door.

There on the outside. Fang Lin slightly chortled as he noticed the sullen figure of his granddaughter and the wronged slouched figure of Riku who clearly didn't knew what to do. With a slight schadenfreude attitude, Fang Lin cleaved the air before them as a violet glow surfaced. Enshrouding the figures of the three before the scenery distorted.

Due to the sudden fluctuations on time and space. Riku almost vomited due to dizziness as he felt the scenery around him distorting. After about the time it takes one to breath three breaths. The scene around him finally stabilized as he stared there in the daze.

There, before him were countless tall skyscrapers piercing through the skies. As well as honks by various cars with different sizes running on the road with different speeds. And there, on the sky were different sizes of airships emanating a buzzing sound as they went past Riku's head.

'Amazing...' Riku could inwardly thought as he witnessed the scene before him. Though he had already read this in the book of [Inventions; How Technology Change the World] he still gasped in shock as witnessing the real stuff was vastly different by just reading it and imagining.

Before the three was a steeled gate about five meters in height. Over the steeled gate was a huge transparent screen displaying.

Morrow Academy: Institute of High Magics

Signifying that the gate before them was the school gate of this academy.

"Oh, here is it." Fang Lin's excited voice came as a honking sound emerged beside the gate, there running on the paved road was a black limousine, with three doors on the side, The limousine abruptly stopped as a chaffeur greeted them with a salute position.

"Principal Fang Lin, shall we go?" The man with a firm stance and a lean body, wearing a black tuxedo adorned with a black hat said in an inviting tone.

"Good, Rodriguez, you arrived just in time." Fang Lin lightly smiled before he turned towards the two people behind him and said. "Xue'er, Junior, Let's go." Fang Lin led the way as the chaffeur opened the doors.

There, Riku squeezed himself inside as curiosity emerged from his eyes. The insides of the limousine was dimly lit. But occasionally there were flashing blue and red light emerging near the driver's seat, briefly illuminating the darkness of the room before them.

As the three seated themselves, Fang Xue and Fang Lin wore an indifferent expression towards this, with the exception of Riku who wore an extremely blissful visage as he seated down on the seat.

'Woah... This is so soft... ' Riku had an urge of repeatedly smacking his butt on the seat to test its softness, but due to the other spectators around him. Riku suppressed the desire and wore a light smile as he silently enjoyed the fluffiness of the seat.

With the sound of the engine starting. The limousine finally traversed on the paved road. Its direction was unknown. Awkward silence emerged within the seat as no one talked. Riku didn't even care about it as he enjoyed the seat's softness and even silently smacked his butt on the seat with a bouncy feeling.

Due to the illumination inside, Fang Xue and Fang Lin didn't notice Riku's deeds as they were too busy doing something that Riku also didn't bother to look at. Their gazes were serious as they glanced over the piece of tablet below them.

About thirty minutes later...

The limousine finally stopped, the chaffeur also got out from the limousine as he politely smiled and gently opened the doors for his customers. Fang Lin was the first to get out while the latter was Riku who once again widely opened his eyes as he saw the skyscraper before him that was so tall the he couldn't even see the tip of it.

A huge transparent screen flickered over the doors of the skyscraper saying.

Four Season's Restaurant

There, the two wore a light smile as they waved Rodriguez to wait for their exit. Rodriguez waved back towards them as he entered the limousine and made his way towards the underground parking lot.

Fang Lin gestured to the two youths before them as he grimly said. "Turn your Radiant Weapons to stealth mode."

Riku's shoulder abruptly shook as he heard the words that Fang Lin said. But without any question, he murmured towards his Radiant Weapon, and followed Fang Lin's video instructions regarding voice commands as he said. "Administrator Commands, Stealth mode, On."

"Administrator Commands, Stealth mode, On."

"Administrator Commands, Stealth mode, On"

Three words with different intonations coming from three different people resounded followed by the almost simultaneous reply of their Radiant Weapons.

With a light smile, and after confirming that everything was fine. Fang Lin gestured to the two. "Follow me."

With a small smile, the two followed Fang Lin towards the Four Season's Restaurant. On the way, they were greeted by a polite waitress who obtained a small purple token from Fang Lin and carefully guided them towards their dining area.

Before them, the waitress finally stopped before gently saying. "Sir, please go inside this elevator and enter your purple token. It will immediately bring you to the highest level of our restaurant. " The waitress deeply bowed before excusing herself.

Following the instructions of the waitress, the three went on their journey unblocked. Every people who met them gently smiled upon seeing the purple token on Fang Lin's left chest. Riku slightly frowned his eyebrows to the strange gestured of the people around them. But he dismissed the strangeness of that attitude after noticing that the people only bowed after realizing that Fang Lin wore the mysterious purple token.

Because of that, Riku already deduced that, that purple token was akin to being a VIP if worn. But along this journey, although they were unblocked by any obstacles. Riku always had this strange feeling that something was watching their every move.

And to lure the perpetrator, Riku wore a carefree attitude as he strode. And only after noticing that the perpetrator was somewhat reluctant to do his planned deeds, and when they had entered this building, that Riku personally lowered his guard.

Fang Lin suddenly stopped as he retrieved a small hexagonal key from his spatial ring as he lightly smiled to the two before saying. "Here, we are."

Without further ado, Fang Lin inserted the key in the keyhole as a clicking sound resounded. With a gentle push. The door automatically opened.

But strangely, the room inside wasn't within Riku's expectations. What greeted them was a tatami floored room with wooden sliding doors around them. In the middle of the room was a small table with a mat that seemed to be there to be used in sitting.

On the table were various dishes that Fang Lin ordered beforehand. The smell of the viands made Riku's stomach noisily rumble as he rubbed his lower abdomen in an awkward smile.

"Hahahahaha, I know that you're hungry already , and so we are. So now... Let's eat." Fang Lin announced as he leaped towards the sitting mat without reluctance. Fang Xue also leaped with a 'toh' sound as she also leaped towards the sitting mat and tightly clutched the chopsticks beside the dishes.

Riku could only smile as he also moved in slow pace towards the sitting mat. After seating down, he also clutched the chopsticks beside the dishes as he said. "Let's eat!"

After that, Riku's hand swiftly moved to tightly clutched the delicious looking foods that were placed before him. And without any care for his appearance, He swiftly stuffed them inside his mouth. As if he was a man who was deprived of food for weeks.

Fang Xue on the other hand moved her hand holding the chopsticks with a fluid motion. Her movements were graceful as her chopsticks tightly clutched on the salmon sushi before her. And with a gentle tap over the soy sauce. Fang Xue discreetly stuffed the sushi inside her mouth as she enjoyed the explosion of flavors.

Fang Lin silently chortled as he witnessed the deeds of the two before his hand also turned to a blur, tightly clutching the various dishes served before him. And like a lightning, the clutched foods were now inside his mouth as he enjoyed the different flavors exploding within.

After eating in that manner. The three finally sighed in relief as they clutched their stomachs and whispered. "Ahh, that was good."

After about thirty breaths of relaxation. Fang Lin finally broke the silence as he said. "Now, Let's get to business."

Riku's figure slightly twitched as he frowned his eyebrows and focused on Fang Lin's words.

"My granddaughter said to me that you came from the Rising Moon Empire and became and orphan after your father went on a drinking spree and murdered your mother. You ran around the woods until you found yourself inside a small hut of which an old lady whom you consider your benefactor lend you a helping hand. But suddenly the black panther of which you angered found its way towards the hut of which you and your benefactor lived." Fang Lin stopped as he glanced over Riku. Noticing that the youngster nodded in response. He finally continued.

"And with that black panther was a pack of wolves, your benefactor named Lily protected you from the pack of wolves with her knowledge in the path of alchemy. But since she was old, her struggles eventually became fainter, and as her dying breath. She gave you two rings, of which you currently wear right now and a medicinal bottle to ward off those pack of wolves right?" Fang Lin once again stopped and hovered his eyes towards the youngster. Of which Riku once again nodded to confirm the fact.

"You got very unlucky and found yourself being chased by a strange Fire Spitting Beast. And after acknowledging that you don't have any chances in defeating the beasts. You desperately ran around the woods before being roasted by the profound fire of the Fire Spitting Beast right?" Riku nodded in response.

"But let me tell you something, what actually happened was strange! Stranger than everything that I've witnessed with my old life! After I scanned everything around the area with my Divine Sense, I found out that there were no beasts habitat around! And that mysterious hut was also strange! Although it was scorched black by fire, It was still there firmly standing!"

"And Its wooden posts used to stabilize the wooden hut was unbelievably strong! I tried to punch it with all of my strength but nothing happened! It was like my fist struck an unbreakable fortress!"

"And also, that Fire Spitting Beast was a Rank 5 Magical Beast. It was unthinkable of it to ruthlessly hunt a human. In its eyes, every human it met were akin to an ant! So It was very unlikely for it to have chase you!" Fang Lin almost howled as he spat out the facts that he confirmed on the scene.

Riku's mind immediately reeled in. At first, his act of deceiving Fang Xue worked but never did he thought that this old principal was actually this cunning and careful!

"After taking samples from the damages on your body by scraping off the burnt pieces of flesh. I found out something incredibly strange! After confirming using thermal vision googles. I found out that the pieces of flesh burned from your body was burned by an extremely high temperature!" Fang Lin solemnly said.

"After several tests. I found out that the temperature that burned your flesh to that degree was the same temperature as the surface of the sun! of which is five thousand seven hundred seventy eight kelvins!"

"No human could possibly survive such extremely high temperatures like what happened to you! Your internals are even intact and undamaged! To have a human survive after being scorched in such extremely high temperatures is impossible!"

"And not only that. I even found out that there was no pack of wolves lurking around the area in a radius of One thousand kilometers! And you said to Xue'er that you only ran for three days before being met by a Fire Spitting Beast! It was extremely unlikely for a food deprived youth to ran that far towards the mysterious hut!" Fang Lin's voice finally became a howl, and Riku's face became paler and paler in each time he spouted out this facts.

"Although you helped me have this incredible ancient cultivation method. I don't want to risk myself by possibly helping a spy! I would gladly return this cultivation method of yours and sent you to the authorities than have my family at risk for helping a possible spy!" Fang Lin once again howled as he tightly clutched his hand. It was noticeable that he was quite struggling in his heart by just saying this words.

Fang Xue also turned pale as she glanced over her grandfather and Riku with shock visible on her face.

Riku's face became as pale as paper as he lowered his head, and waited for Fang Lin's next words.

"And so! I would like to ask! Riku Lightshield! Just who the hell are you?!" Fang Lin grimly said.

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