Chapter 1

"Cards......"

Shang Fan kept muttering these two words.

Having been in this world for eighteen years, he could never escape these two words.

He was unsure if he could be considered a穿越者 (穿越者 means "穿越者" in Chinese, but in this context, it refers to someone who has traveled through time or space to another world, so it can be translated as "transmigrator").

Anyway, this place was no longer Earth, but a place called Blue Star.

Compared to the term "transmigrator," Shang Fan felt more like he had entered the cycle of rebirth without drinking the Mengpo Soup after death.

Perhaps the underworld did not solely serve the people of Earth, so he was reborn in this place called Blue Star, or perhaps it was a planet.

Because this planet seemed to have not developed advanced technology, and no one had studied whether the world was flat or round.

Shang Fan felt that with the knowledge in his head, he might be able to write a great scientific work for this world, but he had no intention of putting pen to paper.

Being one step ahead of the times makes you a genius, being two steps ahead makes you a madman, and being even further ahead might mean you've had enough of life.

He did not want to become another Cai Ke Dasukeli or Giordano Bruno.

Cai Ke Dasukeli was burned to death for proposing that the Earth was a sphere, and Giordano Bruno was burned to death for steadfastly supporting Copernicus' heliocentric theory.

It must be mentioned that although the heliocentric theory was proposed by Copernicus, Copernicus died of illness, and until his death, "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres) was not a banned book. It was actually Giordano Bruno who was burned to death for supporting the heliocentric theory.

Moreover, the status of scientists in this world was not so high.

In this world, only cards were the most important.

Everyone pursued the identity of a summoner and the success rate of synthesizing cards.

A book on astronomy and geography was not as important as a formula for synthesizing cards.

......

"Xiao Fan, hurry up and get up. Today is your first day of school, don't be late."

Just as Shang Fan was lost in thought, someone suddenly called out to him from outside the door.

It was the voice of his mother in this world.

The reason Shang Fan never felt like a transmigrator was because he was not an orphan in the starting orphanage. He had a quite ordinary father who was an architect and a quite ordinary mother who worked as a saleswoman in a mall.

Such a background would not make him the protagonist in the starting point.

However, these were not important. What was important was that this world was relatively peaceful, not so fraught with danger, and living as an ordinary person was also a good choice.

Moreover, today was his first day of school, and it was also his first time to come into contact with cards.

This world also had nine years of compulsory education and universities.

Of course, in this world, after completing nine years of compulsory education, one did not get into university through exams but through a test of aptitude.

In other words, no matter how well you studied, it would be useless. To get into university, you had to have the aptitude of a summoner.

A summoner was a profession in this world.

Only by becoming a summoner could you summon the characters from cards to this world to assist the summoner in battle.

Shang Fan's luck was good. He actually tested positive for the summoner aptitude when he graduated from ninth grade and obtained the qualification to enter university.

Today was the first day of university.

And today he would receive his first card in life.

Although cards were not free, Shang Fan's family was actually quite well-off. Especially after his parents learned that he had the summoner aptitude, they naturally supported him wholeheartedly in becoming a summoner.

After all, in the eyes of ordinary people, becoming a summoner meant you did not have to do hard work that did not pay well.

Shang Fan himself was also quite looking forward to it. He had heard so many magical stories about cards, and the young people in this world were full of curiosity about cards.

Unfortunately, according to government regulations, children under eighteen could not come into contact with cards unless there was a summoner in the family.

Unfortunately, Shang Fan, not to mention his own family, even among all the relatives he could talk to, there was not a single summoner.

Or rather... there was one summoner.

A cousin who lived in another city had a sister two years older than Shang Fan, who also tested positive for the summoner aptitude and was reportedly attending university in that city.

However, it had been about four or five years since Shang Fan last saw his cousin.

Ordinary people in this world mainly relied on various beast-drawn vehicles for transportation. If the two cities were far apart, it was really difficult to meet.

Even on the eve of his graduation from ninth grade, Shang Fan had considered selling bicycles if he did not test positive for the aptitude.

In this world, where efficient transportation was so lacking, bicycles would definitely be in high demand.

However, after he was tested positive for the summoner aptitude, this idea was put on hold indefinitely.

He had never heard of a summoner being short of money. After he graduated from university, not only would he not be short of money, but his parents would probably not need to work outside anymore.

Becoming a summoner for Shang Fan was not for any other reason, partly out of curiosity, but more importantly, because he would not be short of money after becoming a summoner.

After hastily packing his things and saying goodbye to his parents, Shang Fan set off alone for university.

He was going to Daocheng University.

Daocheng was the city where Shang Fan was currently located, a small city, and Daocheng University was the only university in Daocheng.

It was located in the suburbs of the city, quite far from Shang Fan's home.

Fortunately, Daocheng University had a bit of a favor for new students and arranged a school bus to pick them up on the first day of school.

Shang Fan did not expect that his first day of university would be spent chasing the school bus.

Carrying his luggage, he quickly ran to the assembly point.

Breathless, Shang Fan could already see a carriage with the Daocheng University emblem approaching from a distance.

"Fortunately, I didn't arrive late," Shang Fan said, patting his chest in relief.

While the carriage had not yet arrived, he looked at the people at the assembly point. There were quite a few people, but many were parents. It seemed that there were only six students, including himself, three boys and three girls, quite evenly distributed.

Soon the carriage stopped in front of them.

"A new student can board the carriage with the admission notice. Parents cannot board and should return," a person with a hat covering his face said, checking the admission notices of the students as they boarded.

Curiosity got the better of Shang Fan, and he looked up at the person's face. He seemed quite young, with a good face shape and regular features, but a scar on his face ruined the overall beauty.