Chapter 46: The Complaining Little Rabbit Cub part 1
Yun Yingzhi arrived at the venue of the Xingyao Competition.
He could feel that the moment he appeared, he became the focus of everyone’s attention. The students from the Top Ten Military Academies, in particular, watched him with exceptionally burning gazes.
Thanks to his excellent hearing, he heard them all speculating about which student from Fanse Academy he might be.
To prevent his “vest” from being stripped away, and after some internal struggle to suppress his sense of shame, Yun Yingzhi had put on his padded cotton three-piece outfit. He thought triumphantly to himself: No matter how they guess, theyāll never figure it out!
Yun Yingzhi raised his chin slightly, feeling that with this outfit, even Yun Yinghui or Yun Yingyao wouldn’t be able to recognize him.
He had sacrificed too much to keep his identity hidden.
As the chief examiner, Master Tang briefly explained the rules before the preliminary round began.
Some students whispered among themselves, speculating that Master Tang was repeating the rules specifically because he was worried Yun Yingzhi didn’t know them.
At nine o’clock sharp, the competition officially commenced.
Yun Yingzhi scanned the room, secretly observing the other contestants. Compared to the simple qualifying round, everyoneās attitude was far more rigorous.
The requirement for this round was to manufacture an all-defense type source weapon.
Many contestants chose to manufacture Level 6 or higher source weapons. The designs were highly complex, and the quality was bound to be top-tier.
Yun Yingzhi thought of the two “gold-swallowing” little cubs waiting to be fed at home, and then he remembered that he had been kicked out of the house by Madam Yun. Additionally, since he had entered Fanse Academy through the back door, the annual tuition was a staggering amount of money.
Yun Yingzhi felt more than ever that he had to win this competition.
He opened his personal terminal and began redesigning an all-defense source weapon.
In the blink of an eye, noon arrived. A student wearing the Fanse Academy uniform walked over to him and asked in a low voice, “Hey, brother, want to go grab lunch together?”
Yun Yingzhi, who was currently engrossed in his design blueprints, heard this just as his stomach let out a loud rumble.
He looked up at the student who had approached him. He recognized him; he was a fifth-year senior from the Source Weapon Manufacturing Department.
The student asked again, “Shall we go eat together?”
Yun Yingzhi thought to himself that the students of Fanse Academy were currently dedicated to uncovering his identity. If he ate with them, he would definitely have to take off his mask in front of them. It would be bad if they found out who he really was.
“I’m not hungry.” As he refused, his stomach let out another rumble.
The Fanse Academy students looked at Yun Yingzhi with complex expressions.
Yun Yingzhi felt his cheeks burn. He used his red-tinged fingers to adjust his mask. From top to bottom, he exuded an aura of someone who absolutely could not be seen. He said, “Sorry, itās a bit inconvenient for me.”
The Fanse Academy students left, looking disappointed.
Yun Yingzhi breathed a sigh of relief.
His ears twitched as he overheard their conversation.
“He rejected us. Why? Weāre all from the same academy, wouldn’t it be better to move together?”
“He seems particularly afraid of being seen.”
“Do we have someone like that in our department?”
“His voice and his fingers are actually quite nice-looking…”
“Now Iām even more curious about who he is.”
Yun Yingzhi shuddered. He was terrified of his true identity being discovered. Right now, he wished he could put on one of those black balaclavas used by bank robbers in the old dramas heād seen on TV.
He regretted his choices a little.
Yun Yingzhi continued with his blueprints, only running off to eat during the last half hour of the break.
He sadly recognized a reality.
When the two cubs were in his belly, he could eat a lot. Now that the two little food-thieves were out, he still ate just as much.
After eating and drinking his fill, he wiped his mouth and returned to the venue to continue his design.
For defense-type source weapons, he preferred the water elementāit was gentle and highly versatile.
Many people said that the water element was the weakest ability.
Compared to the earth or ice-type defense warriors, its hardness was insufficient. Compared to combat-type abilities, the water element was famously weak.
Yun Yingzhi was attuned to the fire element. Precisely because he was a fire-type, he knew better than anyone that if used correctly, the water element was actually incredibly powerful.
At around two in the afternoon, Yun Yingzhi finally finished his design.
Compared to other source weapons he had carefully designed before, this one had taken him less than five hours.
The time spent wasn’t long, but it contained all of Yun Yingzhiās childhood worries for Yun Yinghui.
When he was younger, he didn’t understand the difference between the water and ice elements. Yun Yinghui was a power-attack ice-type warrior who would inevitably enter the military in the future.
Having just started learning source weapon manufacturing back then, Yun Yingzhi had been filled with anxiety at a young age. For several nights, he had worried that Yun Yinghui might suddenly run off to the front lines.
At that time, Yun Yingzhi believed that Yun Yinghui had no ability to escape or protect himself, and he had fretted over him constantly.
He had started designing various defense-type source weapons.
Defensive Water Curtain, Defensive Water House, Defensive Water Tower, all the way to the ultimate Defense Fortress.
Oh, and then he found out.
The engravings he designed were completely unsuitable for Yun Yinghui because he was an ice-type warrior.
Compared to water, ice was indeed not very suitable for pure defense. Rather than creating an ice city defense fortress, it was more practical to break force with force. After that, he had dropped the idea of further researching defense-type engravings.
However, over the years, even though he hadn’t actively thought about it, he always had ideas in this area. It just so happened that the opportunity had arisen today, so instead of just “shearing wool,” he decided to design the blueprint directly.
There was no rush to shear all the wool at once; one had to do it steadily and for a long time to get the most out of it.
Once the design was finished, he immediately went to the material vending machine to collect his supplies.
The preliminary round had no grade requirements.
Yun Yingzhi could choose to make a Level 5 or Level 6 source weapon. In the end, to be safe, he chose Level 6, as the competition was quite fierce.
During the qualifying round, someone had already made a Level 7 weapon. For the preliminaries, he felt it was even possible for a Level 8 weapon to appear.
In the blink of an eye, Yun Yingzhi had moved his first batch of materials.
Some contestants noticed him and whispered, “His strength is really incredible.”
Yun Yingzhiās footsteps faltered as he thought for a moment…
In the minds of the Fanse Academy students, he was perceived as weak and unable to take care of himself.
He felt that if he showed himself to be even more powerful, no one would ever associate this persona with his true self.
Thinking this, after quickly moving the first batch of materials, he easily shouldered even more and transported them to his workbench at extreme speed.
He did a quick count; all the materials were present. He began the manufacturing process.
Once he started making a source weapon, he became exceptionally focused, tuned out to the world.
First was the material processing, followed by the engraving.
To save materials, starting from the first layerās Water Curtain, every engraving served as the base for the final Defense Fortress. Eventually, countless Water Curtains would link together to transform into a Water House, a Water Tower…
It was a layered progression.
According to Yun Yingzhiās logic, not a single bit of material should be wasted. The final fortress resulting from this progression was essentially a “freebie” skill.
At this moment, Yun Yingzhiās brain was in a semi-vacant state, everything proceeding according to his intuition.
He had often been like this in the past. Occasionally, designing weapons by feeling would result in failure and a loss of a lot of money, but as long as it succeeded, it would bring an astonishing boost to the source weapon.
This time was no different. After perfecting the final Defense Fortress engraving, Yun Yingzhi realized that he had intuitively optimized the weapon further.
In other words, based on the weapon’s skills, he had “freeloaded” yet another new skill.
Yun Yingzhi: “…”
Yun Yingzhiās eyelids twitched as he looked at the finished product in his hands, feeling a bit dazed.
He had to admit, as a “fragile little rabbit,” he still preferred attack-type engravings over defense-type ones.
However, he never expected that in the endā¦
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