Chapter 973 – Communication Card Anomaly

Instructors flush with points barely hesitated at all, immediately using the bracelet system to book the Natural Perception and Resonance course for a long stretch of sessions ahead.

At that moment, inside the circular Great Hall, the last few students with higher Natural Affinity had also reached their limits one after another, finishing their meditation.

The first session concluded successfully in under half an hour from when it began.

Mo Lan rechecked the magic circles, replaced the energy sources with fresh ones, and prepared to receive the next batch of students.

The same process played out once more.

Then came the third batch…

By the time the final wave of students left the Great Hall, thoroughly satisfied, the sun still hadn’t set.

Mo Lan activated the Great Hall’s self-cleaning and energy stabilization arrays. By now, her knowledge bracelet had long been flooded with notifications of incoming points and alerts that the next day’s course slots were completely booked.

The reputation of the Natural Perception and Resonance course swept through the entire Starlight Magic Academy Advanced Division like the fiercest whirlwind overnight, and even began spreading to other divisions.

Enrollment numbers for the second day’s sessions hit a new record.

Those who had been watching from the sidelines, skeptical of the steep point cost and dismissing it as a “gimmick,” could no longer sit still once they heard the firsthand accounts from the initial batch of students — especially from those highly esteemed Instructors who personally vouched for the effects.

The Instructors with deep reserves of points went without saying, but even some students from wealthy backgrounds or who had completed high-value Academy missions and accumulated impressive point reserves joined the ranks of attendees.

This surge of enthusiasm continued like a tsunami for several days straight.

Every day, Mo Lan’s point balance swelled at an astonishing rate. Every day, more students experienced the wonders of natural resonance firsthand and became the course’s most loyal “repeat customers” and unpaid promoters.

The fervor didn’t begin to level off until several days later.

But it wasn’t because interest had waned — it was because many students’ points simply couldn’t keep up with such frequent, expensive consumption!

At 500 points per session, for students with relatively limited sources of income, attending just a few classes was enough to drain their long-accumulated savings.

They had no choice but to pause and go earn more points.

Only those Instructors who had served at the Academy for many years, enjoying stable high salaries and research funding with deep point reserves, along with a handful of students from privileged backgrounds, could afford the ongoing expense of this course.

The craze even reached the lower division of Starlight Magic Academy in the Silverglow Ring.

Some lower-division Instructors interested in nature-aligned professions, upon hearing about the astonishing effects of this “course” in the Advanced Division, willingly spent extra time and points each day to take the cross-ring train to the Advanced Division, all for the chance to attend one of Mo Lan’s classes and improve their Natural Affinity.

Through a single course alone, Mo Lan had become a notable figure within Starlight Magic Academy and even in a small circle within Quelariel in an extremely short time, while also amassing an enormous amount of Academy points.

The slots for her other three courses were quickly snapped up as well.

Mo Lan’s life gradually settled into a routine.

She spent her daytime hours teaching to accumulate points, her nighttime hours digesting inheritance memories, advancing in various extraordinary professions, and studying Magic. In the evenings, she would spend a few hours in the courtyard of the Place of Convergence, exchanging insights and sharing inheritances with other members of the association.

When the topic of the bloodline atavism ritual and the history of the Old Seekers Association came up, Mo Lan learned that the association had been founded when Quelariel first ascended into the sky, yet to this day, not a single Elf had successfully undergone atavism to become a high Elf.

“A thousand years ago, there was a brilliantly talented Astral Elf predecessor in the association. He was not only a level 19 Astral mage, but also a level 10 Radiant Cleric, a level 11 Shadow Assassin, and a level 10 druid.”

Celestian sighed at this point. “But when he went to Suramalan full of confidence to perform the bloodline atavism ritual… he still didn’t become a high Elf. It wasn’t a total loss, though — he obtained a very small portion of the high Elves’ inheritance memories. It was thanks to those memories that Quelariel’s magical civilization took a great leap forward!

From that time on, we Astral Elves began sending clan members who possessed talents in Natural Affinity, light elemental affinity, and dark elemental affinity to join the association and attempt to obtain more of the high Elf inheritance.”

“All of them at mid-tier or above still wasn’t enough?” Mo Lan was somewhat surprised.

After that, she quietly raised the priority she placed on extraordinary professions from the various Elf branches — druid, ranger, Radiant Cleric, Solar Knight, Shadow Walker, Shadow Assassin, Astral mage, and Astrologer — allocating more time to each of them.

After all, only these professions benefited the bloodline atavism ritual, and they would determine whether she could obtain the high Elf inheritance.

Beyond that, she also devoted considerable effort to newer, powerful extraordinary professions that Astral Elves had developed based on psychic power, such as the Arcanist.

The higher one’s level in each Elf-branch extraordinary profession, the greater the likelihood of completing the bloodline atavism ritual and becoming a high Elf.

Mo Lan simply decided to raise all of these professions to the Seran world’s upper limit — level 20 — before going to Suramalan.

If she still couldn’t succeed even then, there would be nothing more she could do.

As she went about her days, year after year, quietly accumulating power in her own way, climbing steadily toward the Peak of this world one solid step at a time — her Communication Card suddenly received a new message.

The signal network hadn’t been extended to the vicinity of the Seran world. Mo Lan had arrived in this world directly through the Well of the Sky.

The Communication Card had long since gone offline due to the excessive distance, and she had stored it away in the Book of Cards’ card album.

The moment she sensed the anomaly from the Communication Card, Mo Lan immediately returned to the mirror space, summoned the card tree, and opened the Communication Card to check.

【Sylph: Mo Lan, are you there?】

Sylph! She had made it to the Seran world too!

An enormous wave of joy instantly overwhelmed Mo Lan, and she replied at once.

【Mo Lan: I’m here. Sylph, you’re in the Seran world too? What’s your identity? Is your surrounding environment safe?】

【Sylph: …It’s a bit complicated. As soon as I arrived and regained consciousness, I found that I had… turned into a green Dragon egg. I only just recently hatched and broke out of my shell. Right now, even crawling out of the dragon nest is a struggle. There’s no way I can go collect magical plants from this world. But the environment is quite safe, at least.】

【Mo Lan: So it really is an issue with the Realm-friend invitation after all. I suspect the world invitation tokens held by the Dragons and the Elves are race-specific, with a fixed racial identity. The one you received was from the Dragons, so you became a young green Dragon. Mine was from the Elves — when I first arrived, I was growing on the Tree of Life in the Emerald Forest, and even after hatching, it took a full hundred years before I matured enough to leave the forest.】