The blood-purple clouds boiled fifty yards above the courtyard roof, spitting jagged forks of crimson static that smelled like burnt iron and old ink.
[WARNING! Mutated Heavenly Script-Punishment Tribulation Detected!]
[Cause: Four Destined Final Boss Children reached Rank 6 Golden Core with 100% Flawless Benevolent Cores!]
[Corrective Action: Firing 36 Bolts of Rank 6 Peak Five-Element Destruction Thunder Simultaneously!]
Down on the sports plaza of Campus #1 next door, fifty thousand morning students stopped their calisthenics. They looked up in terror as the sky turned dark.
Even the morning sparrows nesting in the bamboo grove went dead silent. Across the four peaks of the Nine-Continent Unified Compulsory Education School District, the automated brass lightning rods installed by Campus #4 began to hum and spark with warning lights.
Standing on the roof of the main classroom building with a wet mop in his hand, Reformed Supreme Sword Grand Ancestor Jian Chen felt his knees turn to jelly.
“Five-Element Destruction Thunder?!” Jian Chen shrieked, his mop sliding down the roof tiles with a loud clatter. “And thirty-six Rank 6 Peak bolts firing at the exact same second?!
