Chapter Five: A Chorus of Useless Gifts

Class Zero rose to ninth in the club rankings, but Lin reached only 298 individually. The system called his victory irreproducible because his sources were unstable. Su Mi uploaded all seventeen public scores with every provider credited. At one hundred thousand downloads, the academy deleted them and froze Class Zero for “disclosing dangerous ability structures.” That night the Four-Academy Rising Stars roster appeared. Headmaster Lu personally placed a special invitation on Lin's desk. “The rules call you unstable,” Lu said. “Prove them wrong where the world can see.” The event would take place in Linhai City, where the first fragment of the Morningstar Rain had supposedly fallen.