CBS no. 138

Chapter 69

Contract Ceremony

The contract ceremony would officially start after the opening ceremony. At this moment, the freshmen who showed their special prowess were also eagerly waiting for the contract ceremony with their faces full of excitement.

It had not been easy for them to get to this place. They remembered the battles at the training ground where they went through all sorts of difficulties. Only two fifths of the exam attendees had passed the freshman examination and each student had a malicious light in their eyes that resembled a wolf.

Of course, there were also a few freshmen who were not participating in the contract ceremony even though they had passed the test. This was not because they were absent from the social activities for no reason, but because this contract ceremony was held for the freshmen to choose their first suitable beast. So one could just watch the contract ceremony if they already have a beast that suited them well and there was no need to replace their beast just for this ceremony.

However, the situation described above was only applicable to a small portion of students. After all, despite the number of beasts being three to four times more than that of human beings, most of them were support beasts without combat skills or combat beasts with low combat skills. The price of combat beasts above Level C were high because the number of such beasts were in rapid decline. Thus, a good Level B beast was not affordable for ordinary families.

The contract ceremony of the Royal Hunter Academy was its most famous activity, and as a certain academy itself was quite rich and imposing, it was said that the newborn cubs appearing in the contract ceremony were basically the higher level beasts that were above Level C. There were even two to three Level A cubs appearing every year.

And those Level A beasts were the targets for all the new and even the old students.

The reason why there were also senior students was that there would certainly be people who had not chosen a suitable beast for themselves after each year's new students had selected their beasts. If this was the case, they would have to wait until the next year's contract ceremony to find one. Of course, these senior students had to look for their suitable beast after the new students have gotten their turn for the sake of fairness. Otherwise, the senior students were more likely to get a reaction and sign a contract with the beast than the new students.

The number of beasts was exactly one thousand. However, there were nearly two thousand freshmen who were here to look for suitable beasts. With the addition of more than five hundred old seniors, it became a situation where there were many monks and not much gruel. There would also be cases where two or more people targeting one beast at the same time and this were the circumstances where JinYu and the so-called judges were required.

The judges of the contract ceremony determined who the contested beast would go to based on the strength of the student, the strength of the beast's reaction, the psychology of the beast and the health of the beast. Of course, the category that Boss Jin was responsible for was the beast's psychology. In fact, all these judgments could totally be left to him and his family's Boss according to a certain Mister Jin. Those like Old Jin, Old Long and the two other serious looking guys could all go and have a rest. They really shouldn't be randomly wandering around at such an old age.

Of course, Boss Jin had no idea that the four people he was disregarding were completely out of his league, be it in terms of their own status or the strength and power they held. In local slang, he was not qualified to even carry their shoes...

However, no matter what Boss Jin thought, the contract ceremony started in full swing after the old headmaster's words.

The two thousand freshmen rushed into the middle of the indoor combat arena like they had been injected with chicken blood. Under their extremely expectant gazes, hordes of juvenile or recently matured beasts were delivered by twenty giant-type Long Winged Birds that cooperated together as they descended from the sky. Finally, a hundred mature support beasts led the little beasts one by one to their own nest.