CH 477

477: The Mission: Bring Back the Heart of Wood

Yaoyue could ignore everyone else, but Mogefei was a stronger seventh year and the team captain to boot; so, no matter how unwilling she was, she had to give him face. There were a lot of stronger people in her class and she knew how big a role luck had played in her being able to join the special mission. It was only because they had not joined the challenge that she was able to rank high enough to get into the top ten.

She didn’t dare offend Mogefei, who was a well-known seventh year.

Don’t let her harassment of Feng Wu and the other girls fool you; she only dared do so because they were second-years and weaker than she was.

There were ten people, but only three rooms. They ultimately divided the rooms up with six guys to two rooms and four girls to one room, which, considering there were more guys in the party, was a fair division.

Even though Yaoyue wanted a private room, she didn’t dare provoke Mogefei and could only agree unhappily to sharing a room.

The girl’s room wasn’t big, but it had two beds of adequate size to fit two per bed. The question was, who would share a bed with Yaoyue?

“I’ll take this one. You three take that one.” Yaoyue, having no intentions on sharing a bed with anyone, promptly declared ownership and laid down on her bed.

“Senior Sister Yaoyue, that’s going too far!” Ai Lin exclaimed.

“I am your senior sister. Do you listen to me or do I listen to you?!” Yaoyue said with a smirk. She couldn’t handle Mofegei, but she could certainly handle these girls.

“You...” Ai Lin wanted to keep arguing, but Yaoyue ignored the girls, pulled out a romance novel and began to casually read in bed.

Ai Lin was livid. What kind of person was this girl? Was she really a seventh-year senior? Weren’t seniors supposed to take care of their juniors? Why was a bed even something to fight over?!

Zi Cheng stopped Ai Lin and shook her head when she saw Ai Lin about to rush up to Yaoyue. “Forget it, listen to Senior Sister Yaoyue.” Zi Cheng also felt Yaoyue was excessive, but it wasn’t worth it to argue over such a trivial thing and possibly make things more difficult later.

Ai Lin understood fighting against a seventh year wouldn't be any good for them as second years, so she took a deep breath and resolved to get back at Yaoyue in the future. She asked, “What should we do now? It’s a little difficult for all three of us to sleep in one bed.”

Wasn’t it? The bed was a small and could barely fit two, never mind three. Even though the girls were slender, there was no way for all three to sleep in it.

Zi Cheng thought about it and offered a solution. “Why don’t I put a spread for Feng Wu and myself on the floor to sleep? You can take the bed Ai Lin.”

Ai Lin scoffed mentally. The heroine never forgot to show how caring and compassionate she was. Had Ai Lin not known better, she may have been moved. Realizing this, she turned to look at Feng Wu a little worried Feng Wu might be deceived. She had learned from their interactions that Feng Wu was a simple girl.

One glance was all it took for her to realize her worries were unfounded. It was clear Feng Wu had no idea what Zi Cheng was doing.

“You sleep in the bed; I have this.” Feng Wu said before producing a hammock from her space ring. It was something she had purchased a long time ago. Though she normally bought things to eat, she would occasionally buy things that caught her interest, so there were many miscellaneous items in her space ring other than food.

She secured the ends of the hammock to the sides the room and placed a blanket on top. The setup looked even more comfortable than the beds.

The beds were basic, just wooden planks on top of a base and a quilt covering over top. It was by no means a luxurious spread.

After Feng Wu made her hammock, took of her shoes and laid down, she squinted her eyes in satisfaction.

And just like that, the bed drama passed without further issues.

Ai Lin left the room to search for a secluded spot to message Zo. She breathed a sigh of relief upon learning he had already arrived.

The individual challenge ended and the final results came out fifteen days ago. A lot of people were in shock that a group of second-year girls triumphed over so many seniors. If it weren’t for the live broadcast, no would have believed it. The girls had somehow succeeded where many seniors failed.

After the challenge, they were brought to the vice principal’s office and personally assigned the mission.

The school wanted them to enter the desert wasteland and find the sealed Heart of Wood.

Legend had it, a thousand years ago the wasteland was a beautiful area filled with grass, but then something happened and the grassland turned into a desert.

The Heart of Wood was the most precious artifact for wood magicians. When it physically manifested in the world a thousand years ago, it had a weak consciousness, but that didn’t stop magicians from fighting over it. How many entered the lush grassland to get it? They fought to the point the land became barren and the once sprawling oasis became a desert, forcing the Almighty to seal the Heart away. No one had seen it since.

But the seal was soon to be lifted and the Heart would appear again. Who knew how many powerhouses would vie for it this time? Though both Star Marshall hall and Xingguang Holy academy knew a lot of powerful people would fight to the death for it, they didn’t know how to prevent it. They existed to protect humanity from external forces and were not good at protecting humanity from itself.

This was why the school chose to send students instead of their more powerful teachers. There were also several people from Star Marshall as well.

Ai Lin knew from having read the book that the school wanted to get the Heart, not for ambition or power, but to restore the desert and turn it back into the grassland it had once been.