Jessica clutched the broken remains of her Sun wheel Flower tightly.
Tears streamed from the corners of her eyes, yet she stubbornly lifted her head to look at Kylen.
Her life, everything she had hoped for... Why had the happiness that was just within reach been so cruelly destroyed by Kylen?
"Is this your revenge? Go on, do it! Hit me!" she cried out.
"Sniff... Did you meet her a long time ago, deliberately hide your talent, and dump me on purpose?"
"Scum, bastard, heartbreaker!"
"Sniff... I'm sorry, Kylen, I know I'm wrong. Please forgive me. Can we start over..."
Kylen felt a wave of suffocation. How had he never noticed Jessica's shamelessness before?
"If you hadn't charged to the front just now, eager to kill me to curry favor with William, I might have believed your tears. But you didn't."
"You're crying not out of remorse, but because your ugly heart has been exposed more than you can bear."
"Get out. I disdain hitting women."
The moment Kylen turned around, Jessica looked up only to receive a sharp slap across the face!
"Slap!"
The slap silenced all her whimpering.
Avelia Selis left a clear red mark on Jessica's delicate cheek.
"My contractor is a gentleman, but I'm not. Stay away from my man, you bitch!"
Jessica collapsed to the ground, lost and helpless.
Seraphina moved slightly and sent a message via soul link:
"Principal, it's incredible. This must be a rare S-rank talent. Why does his talent report say 'unawakened'?"
Orion, having gotten the answer he wanted, replied contentedly via soul link:
"Hehe, no need to dig deeper. Seraphina, assign Kylen to your department. Take personal charge of him."
Seraphina froze.
"Huh? Understood."
With that, Orion drifted away. It seemed that Kylen's enrollment was a foregone conclusion, no matter what.
Baron, standing nearby, ground his teeth. His nephew had been trampled and humiliated; how could he not be enraged?
Too many unexpected things had happened! Kylen's S-rank talent, Avelia becoming his contracted creature, the principal's personal visit... Baron had almost torn his face to target Kylen, only to end up as a stepping stone for Kylen's rise!
Kylen... Just wait. The Vander family never lets a grudge go unavenged.
Inside the Simulation Field
Avelia lay on Kylen's back, whispering contentedly in his ear:
"Master, I've realized I love you a little more than before."
Kylen shook his finger.
"We can't replenish blood here. There must be plenty of people watching outside."
Usually, when Avelia called him "master," it meant she wanted something!
Avelia pinched Kylen's waist gently.
"Hmph, that's not what I meant. If you wanted, master, I could specially allow you to take that woman as a servant."
Kylen made a vomiting face.
"Ugh, it's hard to go from luxury to frugality!"
After driving Avelia in this top-tier supercar, who would want to touch Jessica's ordinary sedan?
"Hmph, good for you. If you'd agreed, I'd have bitten you to death!"
Suddenly, Avelia realized something.
"Oh no, all those onlookers escaped!"
Oh right! The mission!
Kylen's task was to return to Redrock Fortress, uncover the traitor, and stop the disaster tide.
But Kylen had wasted too much time here. The thirty-odd people who hadn't attacked earlier had fled to the fortress in the chaos!
In other words, as long as they held out until the disaster tide arrived without being caught by Kylen, Kylen's mission would fail!
The onlookers in Saint Rose Square suddenly realized this, too.
"Damn! How can he catch them now? Thirty people scattered in different directions, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack!"
"Finished. This new student barely won, but now the mission will fail!"
"Great! Give Avelia back to us!"
"Wow, you boys are so gross. I support you, junior!"
"Exactly! They're a match made in heaven. Who are you to object?"
Kylen chuckled.
"Let them run."
Who said completing the mission required catching all the traitors?
Avelia curved her lips.
"Oh~ Little one, tell me what your talent really is?"
She grew more curious about Kylen. She'd thought his talent was just having particularly fragrant blood!
Kylen, trusting Avelia completely, leaned down and whispered the truth in her ear.
Avelia's eyes lit up. She added:
"I see. Little one, if one day, an enemy far stronger than these people comes to take me from you, will you protect me like you did today?"
Kylen pinched her cheek gently.
"What silly things are you saying? More than losing my life, I'm afraid of losing you."
"Let's go. Let's solve this disaster tide itself!"
The boys in Saint Rose Square were already numb, watching their intimate interactions. Surely everything that could and couldn't have happened had already happened!
The person they'd pined for Kylen had probably already...
But Kylen claimed he would solve the disaster tide itself? How was that possible? Did he think this was a fight against other Contractors?
The disaster tide terrifying disaster tide. Blood-Eating Ants and Withered Vine Treants were all social creatures. A disaster tide would consist of at least tens of thousands.
What could Kylen use to resist them? Not to mention, there might be higher-tier terrifying creatures in the tide. In many people's eyes, Kylen was no different from a mantis trying to stop a chariot.
However, what happened next exceeded everyone's expectations.
Kylen went to the path of the Withered Vine Treants and had Avelia use her Blood Coagulation Control ability to douse the gray stone ground with Kylen's blood.
No one knew why Kylen was doing this.
After spreading the blood, Kylen and Avelia quickly moved away.
Then, countless Blood-Eating Ants and Withered Vine Treants swarmed in like a flood.
The result?
A jaw-dropping scene unfolded!
The Blood-Eating Ants suddenly went mad, launching a fierce attack on the Withered Vine Treants! As if enchanted, they craved the blood Kylen had spilled with a mad obsession!
Crimson Temptation!
The higher-sequence Blood-Eating Ants lost all reason. Their hunting instinct to chase blood was fully activated by Kylen's "Crimson Temptation"! They would devour every living thing in their sight!
This was their racial trait—and the power of Kylen's unique talent!
In the end, this massive disaster tide came to an end in the mutual slaughter between Blood-Eating Ants and Withered Vine Treants!
"My god! Can it be done this way?"
"Blood-Eating Ants do live to chase blood, but why does his blood have such a powerful allure?"
"What on earth is Kylen's talent?"
"Wailing Rift... I think he's a walking natural disaster!"
"Wow, with this performance, tomorrow's headlines are a sure thing."
"Tomorrow? Tonight! Videos are already popping up on the StarNet forum..."
Saint Rose Square erupted in chaos. This new student had created too many miracles, truly opening everyone's eyes.
And before Kylen, a glowing screen appeared:
[Mission completed!]
[Congratulations on crushing the disaster tide alone!]
[Mission completion rating: SSS!]
[Special reward for activating the Abyssal Rift Simulation Field!]