On Monday morning, a sudden, earth-shaking war-horn echoed from the central warp-gate at the zenith of the 1,000-Sun Astral Academy’s main Star-Ring!
BWOOOOOOOOOOOOOM—ROOOOOOOOAR!!
Across the central flagstone plaza. There, Five thousand reformed sophomore and junior trainees in yellow work-study vests were diligently sweeping the walkways and studying Ye Xiao’s accounting workbooks—the golden clouds parted like a torn curtain!
Descending through the orbital warp-gate came ten colossal, blood-armored Rank 8 Star-Beasts—ranging from a three-headed Crimson Flame-Qilin to a Twin-Winged Abyssal Bone-Wyvern—pulling a floating pavilion forged from conquered planetary cores!
Standing atop the ten roaring Star-Beasts were ten young men and women between the ages of eighteen and twenty-two, dressed in black-and-gold Imperial Student Council Coats.
Unlike the spoiled, lazy inner-sect peacocks like Wang Ba, Dugu Ao, or Chen Ao who relied on rigged campus props. These ten youths radiated the cold, suffocating, battle-hardened slaughter-aura of genuine apex predators who had just returned from conquering three outer galactic war-zones!
More striking still: hovering above the head of every single one of the ten Student Council members were Three Stacked, Blindingly Bright Golden Luck Halos:
1. Halo Layer #1 (Bottom): [Grade-8 Immortal Plot-Armor Halo] (Reduces incoming damage by 90% and forces fatal attacks to miss by half an inch);
