Animal-eared Girl Era: Start by Forming a Contract with an SSS-Class School Belle

In order to investigate this incident, they moved heaven and earth, mobilized everyone, and in the end, they didn't find shit.

Turns out, the whole ruckus was actually caused by the teacher and Xiao Ye.

You gotta be kidding me!

The Deputy Director asked in utter disbelief, "Teacher, are you sure that the mysterious disappearance of the demon beasts was done by you and Mr. Xiao?"

Liu Ya nodded, her tone firm, "Yes!"

"Alright then!"

After a moment, the three Deputy Directors finally accepted the truth.

The kind of move they couldn't even wrap their heads around—at the Grand Venerable Realm, probably only Liu Ya could pull off.

But everyone pulled a strange face, looking at Liu Ya in utter surprise, *Isn't stealing students' spoils kind of crossing the line?*

*The stuff that's happened these days really shattered their image of Liu Ya, over and over again.*

*Was this really that principled, elegant, dignified Goddess Teaching Assistant?*

Liu Ya blushed under all those weird looks, turning her head away.

The Deputy Director who'd busted up the teacher's good thing earlier piped up to smooth things over,

"Teacher probably just helped out, and it was Mr. Xiao who snatched the students' loot, right?"

"Mr. Xiao is a student at Kunpeng Academy, and students fighting over spoils is totally normal, so everyone chill out."

Xiao Ye laughed boisterously, "That's right, it was my idea, and I did everything myself!"

Everyone listened with a smile, *whether they bought it or not, only they knew.*

Still, a teacher was always a teacher, no matter what they'd done, they were still respected.

With that settled, the Deputy Director herded the brothers back to the base camp.

But one of the Deputy Directors got called over by Xiao Ye and stayed behind.

Xiao Ye took stock of all his loot in the System Space.

There were 30 Supreme class, 438 Fortune class, 80 Wood Element, 115 Gold Element, 182 Fire Element, 60 Water Element, 38 Earth Element, 5 Dark Element, and 1 Ice Element.

He was still 20 Supreme Crystals short of leveling up his template.

"Deputy Director, can you tell me where I can find the most beasts with King Beast bloodlines?" Xiao Ye asked.

When it came to the real combat base layout, the Deputy Director definitely knew more than Liu Ya.

The chubby Deputy Director looked embarrassed, "Mr. Xiao, just call me Little Deputy."

"If you're looking for King Beast bloodlines…" He pondered a bit. "That'd be the groups with lots of direct King Beast offspring, like Red Fire Demon Ant, Azure Water Demon Toad, and Soft Bone Rabbit Demon Beast… Those demon beast groups have plenty of King Beast offspring."

Liu Ya said, "Little Deputy, lead the way, let's go!"

And just like that, the chubby Deputy Director took the lead, with Liu Ya and Xiao Ye following close behind.

After shuttling through a stretch of Demon Beast Forest, the three of them arrived not far from a pile of giant mounds.

Each of these twenty-meter tall mounds, riddled with holes, was crawling with huge Red Fire Demon Ants—each half as tall as a man—on patrol, and there were over a hundred in sight.

"Boom boom boom!"

Suddenly, a series of explosions erupted as mound after mound blew apart, breaking into pieces.

The trio looked up, and saw in the sky more than a dozen Pterosaurs, Eagles, Sharp-beaked Birds, and Little Peng Summoned Beasts flying across—their Summoned Beasts attacking the Red Fire Demon Ant Group.

Liu Ya and Xiao Ye exchanged a glance, then leapt into a hidden patch of grass.

The chubby Deputy Director stayed put and explained, "Those are students' Summoned Beasts from Winged Dragon Academy. Looks like they're trying to take down the Red Fire Demon Ant group."

"The Red Fire Demon Ant Group is on average at One-Star Grandmaster Realm—not strong, but there are thousands of them, making them one of the hardest groups to tackle."

"Eh?" The chubby Deputy Director was surprised, "Where'd you guys go?"

The flying Summoned Beasts from Winged Dragon Academy were really throwing themselves into cracking the beast group.

As clusters of bright red Demon Ants poured out, balls of Energy Bombs rained from the sky, blasting them all over the place.

One Energy Bomb could seriously injure a dozen Demon Ants at once, but there were just too many. Wave after wave swarmed out from the mounds.

The top Summoned Beasts from Winged Dragon gave it their all.

Energy Bombs, water attacks, smoke—spicy smoke powder.

Talent Skills, gear, anything that could be used was used.

After dozens of minutes, they finally claimed victory.

The ground around the mounds was littered with Red Fire Demon Ants, all seriously injured or almost suffocating.

Even the Queen Ant couldn't handle the spicy smoke grenades, crawling up to the top of a mound, barely holding on, wheezing and gasping.

"Hahaha! Worth every bit of that middle-grade Grandmaster Crystal Core I paid for these spicy smoke grenades—the effect is awesome."

"Tsk, only you would burn Grandmaster Realm gear just to take down a bunch of Grandmaster-level demon beasts."

"Hey, wait, there's someone on the ground. Looks kinda familiar."

The flying Summoned Beasts flapped down and turned back into human form.

"Hello, Deputy Director!" "Good afternoon, Deputy Director."

They all greeted him one by one.

The chubby Deputy Director nodded with a smile, "Yeah, yeah, you guys carry on, just ignore me."

Next, those proud Contractor students started looting—collecting Grandmaster Crystal Cores and demon beast tokens for exchange points.

The Deputy Director stood there with his hands behind his back, really putting on that big-shot attitude. Reader support at M*VLEM*PYR made this translation possible.

At that moment, he sent a secret voice transmission to Xiao Ye and Liu Ya, "Mr. Xiao, Teacher, it's prime time to grab loot—should I step in?"

Liu Ya replied, "No need, Xiao Ye can handle it alone."

The chubby Deputy Director was stunned, Xiao Ye could do it by himself? *You gotta be kidding! That weird vanishing trick—only Teacher could do that.*

The Deputy Director totally didn't buy it.

Right then, Xiao Ye made his move, activating the Template Adjuster's Rule Fragment Crystal extraction function.

Vast, profound, supreme power descended.

No one there was strong enough to sense it.

All they saw was those limp and barely-breathing Red Fire Demon Ants suddenly go berserk, limbs flailing, jaws snapping, violently struggling and convulsing.

Within just a second, a rotten aura streamed from their bodies, spreading fast, and soon they rotted away, turning into dust that blew into the air.

The top students from Winged Dragon Academy, busy picking up loot, suddenly grabbed for nothing—the stuff in their hands had turned to dust.

They were all left dumbfounded, stunned for a second.

"!" The Deputy Director witnessed with his own eyes as the demon beast bodies mysteriously disappeared. His face was priceless: shocked, frowning, and with a forced grin.

*A third shock, a third confusion, a third bitterness, and a dash of blank stares.*

*He couldn't feel a single trace of Teacher Liu Ya making a move!*

*He couldn't even sense the tiniest energy fluctuation!*

*Who did it? He had no clue.*

*He had to admit he was stunned, and also super confused, then gave a wry smile,* "Could it really have been Mr. Xiao?"

*Mr. Xiao, not simple at all!*

*Maybe that's why Teacher took a liking to Mr. Xiao and made a contract with him!*

"No way, it turned to powder! Are you freaking kidding me?"

"What the hell, who's screwing with us!"

The Winged Dragon top dogs cursed and swore.

"Ahem!" The Deputy Director chimed in at that, "Everyone, take it easy."

His voice echoed in all directions, "Cult bastards, get lost from our academy grounds, or Modu Academy will hunt you down ourselves."

Cult members on the loose?

The elite Winged Dragons all got the chills and rushed to huddle close to the chubby Deputy Director.

"Deputy Director, are you saying that weird stunt just now was the work of a cultist?"

The Deputy Director nodded, "Yeah, there have already been four incidents like this today, and I'm here to catch whoever's behind it."

"Too bad that guy's super good at hiding—their tracks are impossible to pick up."

As he spoke, his old face went a little red, *Since when was he actually here to catch a thief? He'd literally just brought Xiao Ye and Liu Ya along to snatch some loot.*

*There was never any plan to nab a culprit.*