"Huff..huff. If not for the fact that Mecha isn't allowed. Will I have been chased by those C level star beasts?!" Gia complained as she caught her breath.
"Gasp! An'an, why don't you look tired at all?" Gia exclaimed seeing An Ke'an not looking tired at all, even the boys in their groups looked visibly tired.
"I asked you to train alongside with me, but who was the one who kept running away?" An Ke'an asked looking at Gia with contempt.
"I was wrong, okay?" Gia pouted seeing An Ke'an's look.
"Ke'an, you're amazing." Luo Shiyi said with admiration.
An Ke'an smiled at Luo Shiyi, she looked happy being complimented.
Xian Shi looked at An Ke'an feeling a little proud and secretly thinking he should train more harder. How can his little sister rely on him if his physical strength is too low?
Adjusting his breath, Ayan looked at An Ke'an with a complicated look.
An Ke'an doesn't posses mental power yet her physical strength has surpassed him and yet she is only twenty while he is twenty eight!
After catching their breath, they decided to rest for a while and eat before continuing their journey.
Meanwhile Xiao bai laid on An Ke'an's hair looking at the bustling humans with a sense of superiority. They couldn't even defeat C level star beasts, how weak...
Gia who was drinking water suddenly met Xiao bai's eyes. Seeing the contempt in its eyes, she was furious. But she suddenly calmed down thinking of something and a cunning smile crept up her face.
"An'an, the instructor didn't forbid us from using a starbeast as a mount, did he?"
"No, he didn't." An Ke'an said absentminded as she packed her hiking bag.
Xiao bai felt a chill down his spine seeing Gia's smile. He had a bad feeling.
"Why a mount?" Luo Shiyi asked and the boys also looked at Gia curiously.
It would be great if they had one since their mecha has been seized.
"Don't we have a ready made one here?" Gia smiled looking at Xiao bai.
Xiao bai almost exploded in anger after figuring out her intention.
"That's right, how did I forget?" An Ke'an said in realization as she picked Xiao bai from her head.
"How is Xiao bai a mount?" Xian Shi asked confused. Xiao bai was too small to be a mount.
Meanwhile Ayan looked at An Ke'an then at Xiao bai with complicated eyes before saying.
"Some A level starbeasts and above are capable of shrinking their sizes."
But most A levelled star beast that could shrink their size had almost gone extinct. The last one appeared three hundred years ago. Only those that are S level and above could still be seen though they are rare.
"That's true, but aren't they rare." Luo Shiyi nodded still confused by his words.
"Xiao bai is just an E level starbeast." Xian Shi looked at Ayan, he understood what he was trying to say, but Xiao bai has a low level and that small size will be its permanent size, until it rises in level.
"He's not. He possess intelligence. " Ayan retorted.
"How is that possible.....Gasp! Ke'an don't tell me he really is an S level starbeast." Luo Shiyi said before her eyes widened in shock. She had overlooked the fact that Xiao bai possessed a high intelligence.
Once a star beast possess the intelligence, it means the star beast had reached an S level upward.
"How did you even tame it?" Xian Shi asked still a little shocked.
The reason he didn't register this fact a little faster was because almost all tamed C level star beast and above are raised in the palace. And most tamed beast in the palace possess intelligence. Though their number does not exceed ten because of the difficulty in taming them.
Those tamed star beasts are usually the offspring of captured high levelled star beasts. Even so, not all their offspring could be tamed because they possess high intelligence from birth, and they are extremely cunning at a young age.
"Hehe, it's a family secret." An Ke'an said mischievously, avoiding their question
"Oh."
The three didn't make things difficult for An Ke'an. Taming star beasts has 30% success, those who succeeds wouldn't easily tell others the means.
Xian Shi and Ayan sighed with admiration, as expected of Uncle An, he was even able to tame an S level star beast.
But Luo Shiyi was a little confused, almost all tamed beasts belongs to the royal family and An Ke'an is a commoner. How did she possess such thing? But thinking of the rumours about how rich she was, Luo Shiyi thought it might not be impossible.
"Can you tell him to enlarge!" Luo Shiyi asked excitedly staring at Xiao bai with burning eyes.
"Of course. Xiao bai, come on." An Ke'an said as she put Xiao bai on the floor.
Xiao bai didn't want serve as a mount, it felt a little resentful. Why should this hateful humans deserve to climb on its back?! But thinking about the fact that if he goes back to its majestic size again, they would be too scared to mount him, he proudly crawled away.
Seeing the distance was right, Xiao bai transformed. He had wanted to roar but remembering that An Ke'an had told him snakes do not roar, and he would expose his abnormality if he did. He reluctantly didn't say anything, just looking down at the humans who was looking at him.
But the reaction Xiao bai was expecting didn't occur.
"Woah!!"
"Oh my God!!"
Xian Shi and Luo Shiyi exclaimed in amazement, while Ayan's eyes glowed like those of a hunter looking at his prey. They had expected it to be so huge.
Meanwhile in a room, different screens could be seen. On it were surveillance of the students, the room contained some famous professors and some military personnel who were supervising the students.
They stared at the giant white snake on the screen in amazement and shock. Though they couldn't measure its level, they could see it was an S level from its aura.
"Who is this An Ke'an?" One of the men asked his tone filled with amazement.
"Ha! Her parents must have bought it from the black market. I just hope it's fully tamed, if it's not, her whole family is better off perishing." Another man snorted, his tone filled with ridicule and disdain.
But the other people ignored him. Nobles have always disdained nouveau riche, so his words were not surprising.
Meanwhile some people took note of An Ke'an, while some had their head calculating. If they could get close to An Ke'an's family, the benefits they could get would definitely not going to be bad. After all, a family that could afford to buy or tame an S level star beast wouldn't be that simple.
Two days passed and students who had low physique or were raised delicately at home began to wish they could leave. While others were enjoying themselves because of the amount of star beast core they had managed to hoard. Thinking they still had less than two weeks had them excited.
..
Harry Mila was exhausted as she leaned against a tree. If she had known that this trip was this exhausting she would have called in terminally ill or bribe one of the professors so as not to come.
Qiao Yao noticing Harry Mila was exhausted asked the group to rest. Hearing this, Harry Mila gave her a grateful look and Qiao Yao smiled back.
"Since we are going to be here for more than a week, why don't we enjoy ourselves?" Harry Mila said as she brought pull out a huge chunk of meat wrapped in a thermal package. She suggested this because she noticed the displeasure from the other three members, when Qiao Yao suggested resting.
Seeing the meat, the three boys had their displeasure wiped awau. They had been drinking food nutrient and the remaining food and fruits they brought were kept for emergency.
And it was very difficult to buy meat because the amount being sold isn't enough for the masses.
"Thank you." Xian Hanmin thanked Mila. Though the meat wasn't really something scarce in the royal family, who would get tired of eating it?
"There's no need for thanks, aren't we teammates." Harry Mila smiled with her eyes turning onto a slit.
After that, they found a safe place and gathered before roasting the meat.
"System, how is it? Have you found her?" Qiao Yao spoke to the system in her mind while closing her eyes. She looked like she was taking a nap.
"I was able to find her, but Lin Shiyi wouldn't be able to do it."
"Why?"
"An Ke'an has a S level star beast in her possession, her group had been using it as a mount. Lin Shiyi wouldn't dare to provoke them." The mechanical voice reported.
Qiao Yao frowned hearing this.