Refining the Heavens 4 (炼天四)

Chapter 1: War

War had broken out starting from the north and the Savage Lands were now ruled by a new leader. Because the resources they have are naturally scarce, they marched south to invade Saint Empire only to be stopped at the border.

Thanks to Kairos' inventions in weapons and stratagem, the empire's troops are no longer the same as before and they held the invaders back.

However, as soldiers of both sides were pinned down, the other vultures circling around, attacked.

The Silent Lambs Empire gathered their troops for war, the Orcs at the Endless Plains rallied, and the mages of the South swarmed out like bees of a disturbed hive.

Despite the chaos, Saint Cadets Academy was in tumultuous celebration for their most legendary seniors graduating from their school.

Kairos and his band of brothers are now sixteen years of age and well-loved. They had not skipped years but stayed the entire six years of school for each other. However, it did not change the fact that Kairos had achieved the highest standard in the academy's long history - if one disregards him getting zero for one specific class throughout his years: Beast Taming.

No matter what, it is hard to grant him any points when their valedictorian had no beast in the beast taming class.

Their instructor, the Sun and Moon clan's genius Lalhal, had wrecked his brains trying to help Kairos successfully acquire a creature, but it was all futile.

He was certain that Kairos did not have problems forming a soul contract with spirit beasts, demonic creatures, or magical beasts. Although there is few records of divine beasts, Lalhal was certain that the boy that had physical and Ki capabilities far exceeding others will be able to bond with such magnificent creatures too.

Instead, there was no doubt that Kairos had tremendous talent.

If it wasn't the physical condition that is limiting him, then it might be other factors.

He tried sentient and non-sentient creatures but failed. Altering the traditional soul contract did not work either.

In the end, Kairos became somewhat of a miracle in their class as a student who never participates.

The true culprit, all this time, stayed hidden in Kairos' robe pocket. Aisa only needs to reveal a glimpse of her power to deter any lowly creatures that dared to pounce on her young master.

There were many creatures that scurried away in fright because of this, and soon Kairos received a new title from his friends.

'The monster of monsters' or The MOM in short.

Kairos, ever grateful, repaid the one who created the acronym with a title, 'Proud owner of a Phoenix' or POOP for short.

"Wha... that sounds terrible," Jim exclaimed, "but why Phoenix?"

"Phoenix. Your Zhu Que is one."

"Ah... That makes sense."

The tiny little flaming Zhu Que was thrilled at being mentioned, and is its tiny beak, it chirped repeatedly, "POOP... POOP!"

Besides Beast Taming, Kairos managed to receive perfect scores in the other classes.

The rest also managed to acquire rather amazing results, even Tommy managed to graduate with everyone's help. He was at the bottom of the class but nevertheless it was an incredible achievement.

There were many times he wanted to give up, but he gritted his teeth and held on. There is a good reason why he must complete his studies, and it is so important that he forcefully completed his retraining in such a short time.