Chapter 25 Poverty Makes Me Capable of Anything
“It doesn’t matter.”
“I’ve already gathered most of the intel I need anyway.”
Shaya grabbed a large garbage bag, wrapped the corpse of the black-robed thug in it, and tossed it outside.
He turned to Aerora, patting her silver-white knight’s helmet. “Alright, put it away. It’s not good for a girl to be so murderous.”
Aerora glanced at Shaya, and the armor around her body shimmered with pure white light.
Then, in an instant.
The once heavy Mithril Armor transformed into a silver-white flowing light, lingering around Aerora’s side.
After a few breaths, the flowing silver light dissolved into countless illusory points of light, gradually merging into the knight’s silver spear clutched in Aerora’s hand.
The pure silver armor on her disappeared, revealing her original academy uniform.
Watching everything unfold before him, Shaya let out a whistle.
“Seriously, no matter how many times I see it, it’s still so cool…”
“Ancient Phantom Arms, the Holy Spear that Sustains the Stars and Anchors the World – “Rhongomyniad”.”
“So how did you come up with so many chuunibyo names? I guess that’s what you get for being the top author at the Royal Publishing House?”
Aerora’s words carried a hint of helplessness.
She waved her hand, retracting the silver spear, which was shimmering with brilliant radiance, into her Soul Pact Space.
In this world of extraordinary powers, it wasn’t just traditional beasts that could become familiars.
Plants, Elemental Life, information-based lifeforms… even ancient swords and weapons had the potential to become familiars.
And unlike Shaya, who was more traditional and accustomed to filling his Soul Pact Slots, cultivating multiple familiars as a mainstream Beast Tamer,
Aerora was a typical specialist Beast Tamer who only formed one contract and invested all her energy and resources in her first Soul Pact.
Of course, as her only contracted partner, the origin of this knight’s silver spear was also unusual.
While Shaya was hiring archaeological teams to explore the ruins of the Azure Court Duchy, he had also discovered many other ancient ruins unrelated to the Azure Court Duchy.
This silver spear came from a ruin that had no Historical Echo.
According to Shaya’s research at the time, the owner of this ancient ruin should have been a legendary guardian knight who had followed the first emperor of the Freista Empire.
When Shaya and Aerora were exploring that ruin together, perhaps Aerora’s sentiments resonated with it, and this ancient silver spear, sealed within the ruins, actively formed a contract with Aerora.
Compared to weapon-type familiars that usually possessed sentience, this silver spear might have been sealed for too long, as its spirit had shown no signs of awakening, making it impossible to determine its exact Racial Level.
However, aside from that, this silver spear was undeniably powerful.
After Aerora advanced to the Second Ring, she could manifest not only the weapon but also her knight armor, helmet, gauntlets, and other defenses.
In terms of outright combat ability, even familiars of high-level King Races were no match for Aerora at the same level, allowing her to rise to the first rank at Saint Roland Academy.
This had made Shaya, who grew up watching Armor Heroes and Kamen Riders, envious for a long time. He had secretly snuck into various ruins many times without Aerora knowing, but had never received a response.
Thinking about it now, perhaps his soul was ultimately too abstract and prone to mischief…
Knight’s honor, golden spirits like the Seven Virtues, couldn’t really be associated with the name Shaya.
And “Rhongomyniad” was the name Shaya gave to Aerora’s unnamed silver spear.
At the time, he had merely made a casual suggestion based on an association, never expecting Aerora to actually adopt this rather chuunibyo name.
Just then, the chaotic noises outside gradually subsided, replaced by an eerie silence.
Shaya shook the dust off his trench coat. “Let’s go, it’s time to move.”
Aerora furrowed her delicate brows slightly. “If we’re going to break through, the best time would have been when the crowds were dense and chaotic, and these rioters were distracted.”
“Judging by the sounds now, most of the students have already been subdued or lost the ability to resist.”
“If we choose to break through now, we’ll likely have to face multiple opponents single-handedly.”
She looked at the black body bags outside the house. “The strength of these people, individually or in pairs, poses no threat to us, but if they gang up, there’s still a certain risk.”
“And according to what he said earlier, the Ash Cult also dispatched a Patriarch at least at the Four Rings level, and they are carrying Pollutants.”
“Our best option now should be to stay here and wait for rescue from the professors and the military.”
“Pffft—rescue will probably take a while.” Shaya pointed outside the door.
In the distance, along the outer perimeter of the student dormitory area, the several passages that should have led to the outside were now engulfed in roaring walls of fire.
The flaming walls connected, subtly forming a complex formation that sealed off the entire student dormitory area, isolating it from Saint Roland Academy.
Not only were the ground access routes blocked,
but even students with flying familiars who tried to escape by air were forced to land by the rapidly rising flames.
It was clear that this fire formation was not merely a physical blockade but had achieved a conceptual principle of “no entry.”
“They deliberately sealed this place with a formation,” Shaya said, looking at the distant pillars of fire. “And the fact that they are only blocking and not massacring suggests they plan to use the students here for something.”
Aerora also turned her gaze to the distant flames and closed her eyes to perceive for a moment. “Based on my intuition… if I unleash Rhongomyniad’s maximum power, creating a temporary gap for the two of us to pass through should be feasible.”
“If we leave, what about the others?” Shaya shook his head righteously.
“I just realized, President Diris made a lot of sense. The academy is our home, and we should have a sense of collective honor. We can’t just abandon our fellow classmates like this.”
However, Aerora did not respond to Shaya’s righteous and just expression.
She merely gazed silently and calmly into Shaya’s eyes with her ice-blue irises.
Their gazes met for about ten seconds before Shaya finally broke.
“Alright, I admit, saving people is secondary. I mainly had my eye on that Pollutant from the Ash Cult.”
“But don’t worry, if things get really bad, I’ll make a run for it. Shan Shan just awakened the Spatial Jump skill, and in terms of escape ability, no one in the entire Saint Roland Academy, not even the instructors, can match me.”
Aerora gave Shaya a deep look, then nodded gently. “Oh.”
This was their accustomed way of interacting.
Aerora would occasionally act a little willful in front of Shaya. For example, if she felt Shaya was hiding something, she would quietly gaze at him with her ice-blue eyes until Shaya explained it to her himself.
But once Shaya made a decision, she would execute it unconditionally.
This was the unspoken understanding unique to Shaya and Aerora, something they had shared since they first met.
“Don’t worry.”
Shaya pushed open the door, his black trench coat fluttering up and down with the gust of heat that rushed in, rustling loudly.
“Poverty makes me capable of anything.”
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