1 Ye Qin
Step. Step.
A handsome youth walks along the corridor to his classroom. Upon entering the classroom, a blue plastic bucket filled with water drops down to the ground.
Woosh! Splash!
The handsome youth who was walking into the classroom gets soaked from the plummeting bucket. As he was soaked from head to toe, the sound of laughter resounds across the classroom; as the handsome youth stands at the entrance of the classroom door frozen in place.
"Hahaha! Hey, Ye Qin, how does it feel to have an early shower!?"
Ignoring the youth who called out to him whilst sneering, Ye Qin took off his school jacket and walked to his seat without looking at anyone, as he sat down in his seat and took out a textbook to read ignoring those around him.
Seeing his silence, Ye Qin's classmates turn to him before looking at each other in the eyes before smirking and walks up to him as they threw a pair of trunks filled with flour at him.
Woosh!
Being covered in flour, Ye Qin coughs before glaring at the one who threw it at him.
"What? I threw it! What are you gonna do about it? You trash!" the leader of the bullies shouts.
"Trash!" shouts another bully.
"Trash!" shouts another bully.
"Trash!" another bully repeats.
Suddenly from afar, a female student with a beautiful face and not so bad figure confronts the bullies and scolds them. "Hey! Stop bullying Ye Qin! We're all classmates here, no matter one's talent you shouldn't bully them for that!"
"Class rep! Why are you always defending this trash? He has nothing to say about it but every time it's always you defending him. Don't tell me a talent such as yourself fell in love with this trash?"
Flushing with a red face, the class monitor becomes slightly mad. "You! That's nonsense! Anyways stop bullying him!" she frowned.
Ding! Dong!
Step. Step.
A beautiful young female teacher walks into the classroom in high heels that appeal her height along with her perfect s-shaped figure. Her facial features could only be described as perfect, with unmatched looks along with a perfect figure while her clothes being skin tight showed off her voluptuous figure attracting the attention of all men whilst causing women to be filled with envy.
Uh hrm!
"Everyone to your seats!"
"You're lucky you trash!"
The bullies along with the class monitor go back to their seats as the class starts whilst Wentian gets himself cleaned up in the school toilets.
...
During the year 2019,
The once-familiar world the people of Earth knew started to shatter, with large earthquakes above 9 on the Richter scale happening all over the globe. Countless lives were lost as well as natural disasters of all kinds all appeared at once, the skies became pitch black as if there would be eternal darkness.
The planets all aligned in a straight line at the same time as countless meteors fell from the skies encompassing the Earth.
Strange creatures later known as Monsters started appearing just hours after the meteors landed along with strange stones that varied by color along with various sigils engraved on the surface.
The human population only continued to dwindle as the monsters attacked all life in their sight. One man as if being enlightened during these events barely managed to touch one of the strange stones. Suddenly, a bright light surrounded him, and knowledge from another world suddenly appeared in his mind.
Using this knowledge, a monster of his own that he could control appeared from what seemed like a magic circle. Using this new power, he fought against the monsters roaming the earth as well as encouraged other humans to do the same.
After a century or so, humans regained a part of their lands and increased the population slowly. Now, 1000 years later, countless stones as well as schools where students are taught about the monsters and learn to train them to fight or others. Humans created man-made islands and named them after their familiar countries and recreated earth at the center of the Atlantic ocean.
Ye Qin was born in a wealthy family in a little city around the borders of New China; he went to a school specifically for monster training.
At the age of four, all humans would be able to have their own stone which later became known as the Contract stone, and formed their own unique sigil on the surface of the stone. These stones appear out of a small magic circle from the chest of the individual automatically when the time comes to form a contract.
Humans, using the Contract stones would automatically gain the knowledge to be able to sense their monster and form a blood contract with it. Humans could only have one monster throughout their lifetime, however, some exceptional existences could have two or even three, but their numbers could only be counted on two hands. Each of those peak existences became a hero within their generation and brought humanity back towards the top of the food chain.
Monsters grew along with their owners and start from an infancy stage. They could evolve in various ways, which are either through the way they are trained or through consuming enough materials of certain elements. Some monsters could even evolve through battle.
Monsters are classified in different grades namely; Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Legendary and Mythical grades.
Throughout history, only one man had a Mythical grade monster recorded, while Legendary and Epic grades were considered the peak of humanity. Even then those who had Epic and Legendary grade monsters were 1 in 100 000. No matter what grade the monster, all students had to go to a monster taming school.
However, major cities in New Beijing or New Shanghai had multiple elite schools for students to choose from.
Ye Qin was born with a common grade monster namely a Koi with no special abilities and having close to zero attack capabilities. It was pretty much no different from a regular fish. This caused his family's name to be a hot topic of gossip throughout the city, during the year he called his monster out and became the target of ridicule within his school and throughout the city.
Now 18 years later, this had yet to be changed and caused Ye Qin who was once a cheerful youth to become cold and quiet to others.
...
After a couple of hours, the class ended as Ye Qin went home directly. Arriving at home, he took a shower before having his clothes washed by the family butler and maids, before having dinner with his parents.
At the dinner table, Ye Qin along with his parents and younger sister sat quietly and ate without a single word. As he was about to go to his room, his father spoke to him whilst his sister gave him looks of disdain whilst showing a hint of sadness on her face.
After speaking to his father, Ye Qin went up to the rooftop of his quadra-story house and gazed at the night sky. After a while Ye Qin noticed a bright light in the sky, putting his hands together he made a wish before turning around and headed to his room.
As he turned around, with the corner of his eyes he thought he had seen wrongly.
"Huh? Am I seeing things? Why does it look like it's coming towards me?" he thought.
Rubbing his eyes, Ye Qin looked closely at the bright light that started rushing towards him at great speeds.
"What the f*ck! It's aiming for me!" he shouted internally.
Before he could even shout for help, the bright light shrunk and turned into a small meteor that went inside the center of his forehead.
Whoosh!
The meteor went inside his forehead and brought him soul-piercing pain that made him feel like he was better off dead. The inhumane pain kept him awake and didn't let him fall unconscious, whilst he screamed his family and butler rushed up to the rooftop and panicked before carrying him to his room while he was still in pain.
After 10 or so hours, the pain finally subsided as he fell asleep while his mother wiped the sweat off his body. The next morning, Ye Qin woke up on his bed in a new set of pajamas. Feeling a difference within his body; he closed his eyes and focused his mind into the Monster Sea.
The Monster Sea is located within the human mind, it's the place where humans can call for their monster from another plane. One could only see it if they were focused enough, and free from any thoughts.
Within his mind, he saw seven different colored lights.
"What the f*ck? I only have a single monster why are there six other lights?"
Upon focusing closely on the seven-colored lights, Ye Qin noticed that each light had a different symbol. At the top of the red light, a flame symbol could be seen along with a rose-colored Koi. The other lights revealed the following;
[Red: Flame - Crimson colored Koi]
[Light Blue: Snowflake - Arctic colored Koi]
[Light Green: Leaf - Seafoam colored Koi]
[Yellow: Lightning - Banana colored Koi]
[Purple: Wind - Lavender colored Koi]
[Gold: Hourglass - Golden colored Koi]
[Silver: Space - Cloud colored Koi]
"Dafuq? Why did my Koi suddenly multiply? Could it be thanks to the meteor?" he thought.
It had to be known that throughout history, very few people had more than one monster in their lifetime. Each one of those with two or even three monsters became the leader of their era and lead humanity to greater heights. If others knew about Ye Qin's monsters, they would be shocked to death!
"Hang on that aura..."
"???, All seven of them have a trace of Dragon Aura around them!" he shouted within his Monster Sea.
The reason Ye Qin can sense a trace of Dragon Aura is that when he was a toddler, he had met a white-haired girl about the same age who was born with twin Dragon-type monsters. The two of them had met a couple of times and played together before the girl suddenly moved to an unknown place.
He could feel a trace of the same aura around each of the Koi he had. After looking at his seven Koi fish he left his Monster Sea as he slowly opened his eyes.
"Young Master." the butler said as he bowed respectfully next to Ye Qin. Ye Qin turned around and nodded before asking "How long was I out for?"
"You were out for a single night, would you like your breakfast now?" The Butler asked him.
"Alright." Ye Qin replied as he looked at the time before changing into his uniform, brushing his teeth and doing other miscellaneous things as the butler left his room.
…
After changing into his uniform; which is almost completely white accompanied by blue and black stripes around some edges, Ye Qin went downstairs to the dining room to have his breakfast along with his family as per usual.
During the meal, his father asked, "Are you sure you can attend school today?". Ye Qin paused and nodded as he faced his father without saying anything. However, his mother was still extremely worried and asked "Are you sure we don't need to visit the hospital? You were in so much pain last night, I couldn't sleep at all."
"I'm ok." Ye Qin replied.
After breakfast, Ye Qin got into the family car along with his sister and headed to school. Ye Qin's little sister Ye Fei is 15 years old and as she is in middle school, they naturally went to different schools. In the car, Ye Qin sat quietly and looked outside the window and thought "I should keep the other Koi a secret, meaning I can only reveal my original golden Koi."
Suddenly from within his mind, an interface that looked as if it came out from a video game had appeared in front of him. Looking at the board and his golden Koi he noticed it displayed:
[Monster - Koi]
[Type - Beast (Fish - Dragon)]
[Grade - Common (Can be upgraded)]
[Level - 2]
[Element - Gold and Time]
[Evolution - Possible (1 Pathway)]
[Evolution requirements - ]
[Level 10]
[Uncommon Grade]
[100 kg of raw Gold]
[One of every monster core Element]
"! Wha? Did my life turn into a video game? That meteor is mysterious… It even gave me the ability to check a monsters' stats along with the ways to evolve them! Not only that, but the sliver of Dragon Aura I sensed also wasn't just my imagination, they really can become dragons!" Ye Qin thought excitedly as he remembered his childhood promise.
Ye Qin then looked at the silver-colored Koi and saw similar stats -
[Monster - Koi]
[Type - Beast (Fish - Dragon)]
[Grade - Common (Can be upgraded)]
[Level - 2]
[Element - Silver and Space]
[Evolution - Possible (1 Pathway)]
[Evolution Requirements - ]
[Level 10]
[Uncommon Grade]
[100 kg of raw Silver]
[One of every monster core element]
"Hmm getting 100 kg of the raw materials shouldn't pose a problem... But a monster core of every element will be troublesome... The biggest problem would be increasing their levels and turning them into Uncommon Grade monsters.." Ye Qin thought.
Every monster is born with a grade; most monsters will forever stay in the same grade throughout their entire lifetime. However, 400 years ago, it was discovered that a monsters' grade could be increased with the right materials or through battle. This brought about hope to humanity and changed the economy entirely as the rich families occupied most of the monster materials market leaving the poor families with almost nothing.
After pondering for a while, Ye Qin looked at the way to increase his monsters' grade.
[Common to Uncommon - 1. Bath in the blood of two or more monsters of the uncommon grade (Chance of success (50%). 2. Survive a mortal wound from a foe (Chance of success > 1%)]
The same conditions applied to each of his seven monsters to increase their grade, however, for evolution they required similar materials, but a larger quantity of monster cores of the same element. As he was still thinking to himself, the driver said "Young Master, we have arrived." which caught Ye Qin's attention.
"Thank you." Ye Qin said as he got out of the car and walked to class.
