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Chapter 27: Unexpected Love Interest

Feeling this sensation wriggle through his arms and his spine, Aeric looked up to see who it was.

His eyes instantly locked with a pair of the most vibrant, beautiful eyes he had ever seen. The girl had blonde hair that stopped a little below her neck, twisting into beautiful curls at the end.

Her face was dainty and fair, there was redness in her cheeks, her eyelids were long and her pupils shone with the color of aquamarine.

She appeared nervous when Aeric looked at her, and so she smiled shyly, hiding her face. "Sorry," she said, pulling her hand away.

Aeric shook his head, snapping away from the trance. "No. No, it's okay," he muttered, helping her gather the rest of her books. Hells, he couldn't stop staring at her.

There was something about her face, like she was an angel. It was a kindness, an innocence? There was this natural prettiness and this sweetness that seemed to resonate from her.

She looked like someone who would never argue with anyone, someone who was kind and caring, someone.... Someone he never expected to meet in such a place.

That was it! She seemed like a breath of fresh air. Honest and kind.

And upon that, he could stress just how beautiful she was. He was so stuck up on her face that he barely noticed how her breasts stretched the turtleneck gown she was wearing, and how blessed she was as well in her back region.

"I... I just..." Aeric found himself stuttering. "I'm sorry."

She flashed him a smile. "It's fine."

He stared at her some more, thinking of what to say. 'Who is she? Looking at her blonde hair, I'll say she's from Dawn Region.'

The system answered and he was correct.

[Player Profile: Celestia of Dawn]

[Title: Third Daughter of Aurora]

[Region: Dawn]

[Class: Lightbringer]

[Level: Master]

[Rank: Gold]

'Dawn Region,' he remarked in his thoughts. 'I'm not surprised.'

Celestia lifted her brow as she looked at him curiously. "Are you okay?" she asked.

"Me?" he widened his eyes. "Oh yes, I am. Sorry, I was just lost there for a moment."

She giggled. "I noticed."

Aeric gave her one good look one more time and exhaled. "Your name is Celestia, Celestia of Dawn."

"Oh," she smiled, humored by the statement. "I already know that, and your name is Aeric. Aeric of Starlight."

For the first time that day, Aeric had a genuine smile on his face. "I know that too."

Celestia responded to his smile with an even wider one. Gosh, she looked so beautiful. Was this how it felt to fall in love?

Wait, fall in love? Was that what was happening? Was he falling in love? At first sight? Was that even possible?

"Do you also know that I was sitting beside you throughout the entire lecture?" Celestia said, biting her lip after.

Aeric instantly frowned. "What? You were?"

"Yeah," she nodded.

'What? I barely even noticed. I guess I was so focused on learning about cultivation, and I was so angry at Melina and Aryanne that I couldn't even care about anything else.'

How could he not have noticed an angel right beside him?

"I'm really sorry, I didn't know," Aeric found himself apologizing.

Celestia smiled nervously. "It's okay," she said. "You were obviously busy with the lecture and Melina was being mean to you and all. It's completely understandable that your mind was too focused on... them."

Aeric stared deep into her beautiful eyes. "Well, now I promise that it's completely focused on you."

She laughed, playfully hitting him on his chest.

Aeric watched her. 'So many curves on her body and the curve I love the most is her smile.'

A few distance from them, Melina was watching the two with a look of disdain in her face. Her eyebrows were furrowed in envy, and her arms folded beneath her breasts.

Aryanne and two other Daughters were talking with her, but all she cared about was Aeric and the fact that he seemed to be having a fun time laughing and speaking to Celestia, the goody two shoes of the Daughters.

Not able to stand it anymore, she walked away from her clique and stomped to where Aeric and Celestia were talking. Her plan was to hit Aeric with her shoulder, nudging him hard and also using a burst of Divinity to push him off balance.

Aryanne and the two other Daughters watched her with mischievous anticipation, knowing she was on her way to stir some drama.

But Melina had no idea that the Divinity stored inside Aeric was hundred times more than the amount presently inside her. The moment she hit him with her shoulder, pushing out a surge of Divinity to strike him, it felt like hitting a brick wall, except this brick wall turned her own attack against her.

Melina struck his shoulder with hers but he stood untouched, and instead a surge of energy pushed her backwards and she fell hard on the ground.

'Huh? What's happening?' Aeric finally broke his gaze with Celestia and looked at the floor. There, with a shocked look on his face, he saw Melina lying on the floor like she had been pushed violently.

The tiny sleeve of her gown had loosened and a large amount of breast was exposed. Melina herself looked quite shocked, like the most unfathomable thing had just happened.

"Why the hell are you on the floor?" Aeric asked her.

Raising his chin, he saw Aryanne and two other Daughters who looked strikingly identical march towards him.

"What was the meaning of that?" she demanded.

Gaping at her, Aeric frowned. "What was the meaning of what?"

"You pushed her!"

"What?" He glared at her like she was crazy. "I didn't push anybody."

"Yes you did!" Aryanne accused. "I saw you, and so did Nyx and Nyssa."

The Daughters helped Melina get up to her feet while Aeric stared at them with disbelief. "You girls are crazy. Utterly insane."

"Stop lying you delinquent piece of shit," Aryanne snarled. "I always knew you were here to cause trouble."

"Really?" Aeric raised a brow at her. "And my way of doing that is by pushing your dumb sister to the floor?"

"How dare you!" Aryanne's eyes suddenly turned silver with a threat. "Don't you speak of my sister like that ever again."

"Or what? Are you going to try to have me murdered like your mother did?!"

Gasps echoed from the onlookers after that.

Celestia, who wasn't one to resort to violence, tried to settle things as fast as she could. "Arya, Aeric didn't push Melina. She walked right into him and then suddenly she fell."

"Stay out of this, Celestia." Aryanne eyed her. "If you know what's good for you. This has nothing to do with you."

Aeric looked at Celestia and he could see the anger creeping into her heavenly face. "Actually, I do know what's good for me. And this does have something to do with me because I was a witness. Aeric didn't push Melina, he was talking to me, he didn't even notice her till she was on the floor."

Aeric felt his heart smile. She was already standing up for him, even though Aryanne had a higher Rank than she did.

Aryanne's eyes showed pure anger as she stood still, looking at Aeric and then Celestia. "Melina?" she spoke to her younger sister.

"Yes?" Melina replied, still flustered.

"Did Aeric push you?"

Melina refused to even look at him when she responded, "Yes."

"You're a crazed liar," Aeric growled.

"That is enough!" Mrs. Cresttla demanded. "I've waited long enough for you all to finish with your madness and leave. This is a place of Divinity, your childish quarrels are an insult on this ground. Get out. Now!"

They continued to glare at each other for a while, then slowly began to disperse.

"We're going to settle this, Classless," Aryanne whispered to him maliciously. "Game Arena. Heart Hunt."

Aeric watched her leave with her minions. Then he turned to Celestia and asked, "What the hell is Heart Hunt?"


Chapter 28: Heart Hunt Challenge • 1

Heart Hunt was a game. It was a competitive, fast-paced, tactical game in which the Players in the Royal Institution and their Beast Companions form teams of two.

In the game, the aim was to capture the Heart Tokens from all the opponents while avoiding elimination.

Although there were other competitions such as Beast battle where there were one-on-one battles against each other's beast, the majority of the Players preferred Heart Hunt because the game combined agility, strategy and beastly combat as players dodged, outwitted, and overpowered rivals to claim victory.

The last team standing after retrieving all the Tokens, claims victory. Heart Hunt wasn't just a game, but winning it also gave XP and increased bonding levels between the Beast Companion and its owner.

Once it was time, Aeric, alongside Celestia who showed him the way, arrived at the place in the Institution grounds where the game took place.

It was a walled, labyrinthine arena known as the Veiled Maze. From where Aeric was standing, he could barely comprehend anything of the strange place.

The chairs were very raised high for onlookers who would want to watch the contest. But for this day, there were very few. Most of the Daughters had requested to be amongst the teams of five that were going to join in the contest.

They divided themselves as follows; Aryanne and Melina, Rosette and Misty, Nyx and Nyssa, Phoebe and Linnette, and Aeric and...

"Do you want me to be your partner?" Celestia asked him.

He turned to her, feeling a rush of emotion wash over him. Normally, the Players were paired according to their sisters of the same Region, but there was no rule suggesting that they weren't allowed to play with interregional teams.

"Yes!" he replied without haste. "Yes I do want you to be my partner."

Celestia smiled. "All you have to do is just ask," she said as her Beast Companion lowered its back and she climbed on top of it. "Come on, get yours ready."

Celestia's Beast Companion was a Winged Pegasus she named Lumi — from illuminate. Like a pegasus, it was reminiscent of a horse, except with the long and sharp horn attached to its forehead, the magical mane of glistening gold, and the beautiful pair of golden wings.

From a quick inspection of the Beast, Aeric saw that Winged Pegasi were able to shoot beams of light out of its horns, obscure vision with a burst of illumination from its wings, and the horns also acted as weapons.

Once the Winged Pegasus drives the horn into a target, they will be infected by its magic and would experience difficulties in simple bodily functions and even go completely paralyzed.

Not to mention, they were extremely fast as well. Celestia had herself a really powerful Beast Companion. But not one better than his Silverwolf.

"Come on, Sylver. I hope you're ready for this," he petted the Beast on its back.

Sylver let out an agreeing whimper, noting to Aeric that he was indeed ready.

"Now's as good a time as any to check your stats," Aeric said. "With the overflow of Divinity strengthening my brain, I'm sure it would be even easier to understand."

[Do you wish to see your Beast Companion's stats]

Aeric selected [Yes].

The window expanded and an interface of categories appeared before Aeric.

[Alias: Sylver]

[Name: Silverwolf]

[Species: Evolved Wolfkin]

[Rank: Legendary]

[Tier: Four Star (Upgradable)]

[Synergy: 3/10]

'Hmm,' Aeric placed a hand on his thinking chin. 'Synergy must mean our bonding level. 3 over 10 is pretty low. I think we're gonna have to work on that. The Daughters will certainly have higher synergy since they've got more experience with their Companions. Hopefully your Attributes could make up for that.'

[Attributes]

[Strength: 7]

[Agility: 10]

[Endurance: 8]

[Intelligence: 6]

[Divine Power: 8]

[Charisma: 5]

Aeric understood charisma to be the bond-building stat, reflecting Sylver's present loyalty and ability to form stronger bonds with him.

He moved on to another section. This one was for core skills.

[Core Skills]

[Combat: 8]

[Stealth: 9]

[Perception: 8]

[Flight: None]

[Swimming: 2]

[Communication: 7]

'Sylver's a poor swimmer. We're gonna have to work on those stats. His communication is surprisingly high for someone with a low synergy with me.'

Divine Abilities

[Shadow Cloak]

[Silver Runner]

[Howl of Terror]

[Power Claw]

[Silver Blast]

[------] [Unlock Ability with BT]

[------] [Unlock Ability with BT]

[------] [Unlock Ability with BT]

[------] [Unlock Ability with BT]

[------] [Unlock Ability with BT]

[------] [Unlock Ability with BT]

'Six more abilities are locked,' Aeric thought. 'What exactly are BT's?'

[Beast Tokens. Beast Tokens can be claimed from beast kills or by using XP to purchase].

'Interesting. So just like Skill Points, I can also turn my XP into Beast Tokens. This makes gaining XP kinda like the most important thing in leveling up in this world.'

There were some other sections as well, which surprised Aeric because it made Beast Companionship so much more specific, significant and meaningful. It was like leveling up another Player at the same time, and needing that Player to do things that he couldn't do.

He found Sylver's Weaknesses.

[Light-based attacks]

[Attacks to the chest and heart]

[Excessive exposure to hot sunlight]

[Water]

'By water, I'm going to guess that means you can't swim, not that drinking water is going kill you.' He looked at Sylver. "Right, boy?"

"Wmmh" Sylver whimpered a yes.

[Bond Compatibility: Silverwolves have high compatibility with a Players having shadow, night or dark abilities]

This made Aeric frown. The window explained that Silverwolves were initially found in the Moonlight and Twilight Regions first, which was the reason they were more compatible with Players from those Regions.

It made sense. Especially because Sylver's powers were really similar to that of Moonlight and Twilight Regioners. Maybe this was why their synergy was so low.

After thinking about it for a short while, his brain quickly came up with a solution. [Claiming] the Main Skill of a Player from any of those Regions would give him their powers, right? Which meant the more of those powers he [Claimed], the more compatible he would become with Sylver.

In fact, he was sure they had that amount of compatibility because he had [Claimed] Erimyra's Main Skill.

Glad to have understood that, Aeric went on to Growth and Leveling Potential.

[Upgrade Paths: Path 1/10]

[Potential: Dire Silverwolf.]

[Your Beast Companion will evolve to its maximal form, the Dire Silverwolf upon reaching Upgrade Path 10 and completing synergy]

[Upgrades can be done with Beast Tokens, but the price for upgrades increases with each Upgrade Path].

[Battle Performance History]

[Win Rate: Zero battles fought]

[Teamwork Efficiency: —]

Aeric took a deep breath, and removed the interface. 'Studying the stats with this faster brain really helped me with understanding. Most people would feel so overwhelmed after reading all that.'

"Hey, Late Bloomer!"

He turned his head to his left and saw Aryanne and the rest approaching him on top of their Beasts.

Aeric's eyes widened.

Aryanne's beast was a giant dog. A pitbull as they were called back in his former world. But this was something more. It had glowing dark skin that emitted a silvery smoke, dark fire was burning out of its eyes and its legs were armored with spines and sinewy muscles.

'What kind of Beast Companion is that?' he thought with fear.

The system made an assessment, then quickly replied.

[Name: Dreadhound]

[Five Star Legendary Beast]

Aryanne grinned devilishly. "Are you ready to have your bastard ass beaten?"


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