“Tap it with your ruler, Xiao’er,” Gu Changsheng said calmly at the head of the sunlit breakfast table. “Let’s hear what Headmaster Hong has to say.”
TAP—ZZZZZZZZZT!!
Thirteen-year-old Ye Xiao touched the tip of his [Homework-First Bamboo Ruler Sword] to the pulsing blood-red transmission jade embedded in the back cover of Tianfa’s ledger.
Instantly, a three-dimensional holographic projection of an arrogant, gold-robed old man wearing a crown of miniature suns. Headmaster Hong, Principal of the 1,000-Sun Astral Protagonist Academy in Sector 7—materialized above the stone table, speaking in a cold, bureaucratic voice dripping with Upper-Realm superiority:
> “Urgent Administrative Dispatch — From Headmaster Hong (Sector 7, 1,000-Sun Astral Protagonist Academy) to Alumni Warden Tianfa (Sector 6):
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> Warden Tianfa, prepare your outer wormhole relay stations immediately. One month from today, our Academy will hold the Grand Graduation Ceremony for [Batch #999]—our largest and most ruthless graduating class in fifty thousand years!
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