Charles did not respond. He stood up, looking up at Leo with eyes filled with anger and disdain.
It was as if he were a sharp long knife, making Leo too intimidated to meet his gaze, causing him to instinctively lower his head.
At first, Leo didn’t react. But as he lowered his head to avoid Charles’s stare,
he suddenly realized that, at some point, he, a level six Beast Master and a member of the top Genosha family, the Taylor family, was actually afraid of a level three Beast Master, a commoner named Charles!
Then, fear turned into anger. Leo spoke up, “Charles, you’re so sure that I’m wrong and you’re right? Why don’t you dare to accept my challenge now and write an apology letter?”
Charles left his seat and walked to the podium, looking at Leo as if he were a clown.
He approached the Fangboar and slowly said, “As a teacher, when faced with a student’s doubt, your first reaction should be to reflect. Instead, you didn’t even think and just insisted that their doubts were wrong.”
“Wrong? Charles, I’m a level six Beast Master. How could I be wrong?” Leo said, flustered, and laughed out loud, continuing,
“Classmates, look at this so-called strongest new student! His skills are impressive, but he is way too arrogant, disrupting class and confronting the teacher!”
“Don’t label me, who are you to be a teacher?” Charles waved his hand dismissively.
He pulled a piece of candy from his jet ring and asked Leo, “You say this Fangboar prefers fruit, but I think it likes sweets.”
“How could that be? Just because most fruits are sweet, you can’t assume it likes sweets. That’s impossible.” After hearing Charles’s words, Leo felt much more relaxed.
He thought Charles had genuinely found a fault, but it turned out to be about this.
Leo was confident that his judgment was correct, this Fangboar’s preference was indeed fruit!
As a level six Beast Master, how could he be wrong? Knowing how to improve a mystical beast’s loyalty was essential knowledge for a qualified Beast Master!
Charles continued to pull out several pieces of candy, peeling off the wrappers and placing them in his palm. He squatted down to feed the Fangboar.
Liam, who had been standing by, watched Charles’s actions with eyes full of gratitude.
Just moments ago, when Leo casually tossed an apple on the ground, it felt to Liam as if Leo was disdainful and disgusted!
He was looking down on Liam as a commoner and dismissing the Fangboar for having only Silver quality.
Now it was Charles’s turn, and he treated both Liam and the Fangboar with kindness.
This scene didn’t just catch Liam’s attention, even the students watching from below noticed the difference between Charles and Leo.
“Was Leo’s attitude a bit excessive just now? After all, Liam is also a student of Cyber Academy.”
“I didn’t realize it at first, but as soon as Charles came up, I noticed the difference between Leo and Charles. It feels like Leo can’t compare to Charles.”
“You think Leo’s judgment might be wrong? I’m starting to support Charles now, even though I can’t see where Leo is mistaken.”
Leo listened to the murmurs from below, and a flash of hostility crossed his eyes. The gentle image he had been trying to maintain was now directly exposed by Charles!
How could he accept that?
Leo forced a smile, trying to keep his demeanor calm, and spoke in a normal tone, “Charles, candy is candy. Even though it’s sweet, it doesn’t mean…”
Before he could finish, the Fangboar, which had been motionless, began to move toward Charles’s outstretched palm.
As it walked, it glanced back at Liam.
Once the Fangboar sensed that its master, Liam, had no objections, it stopped holding back and raced over to Charles, swallowing the candy in his palm in one gulp.
Then, while chewing, it returned to Liam’s side and comfortably lay down by its master’s feet.
The joy radiating from the Fangboar was palpable to everyone present.
“Wow, did you see that? The Fangboar chose the candy without hesitation over the apple. Doesn’t that mean Charles is right?”
“Impossible! Maybe it was just hungry and wanted some candy?”
“That’s impossible! If you’re not stupid, you can see that Charles is right. The sugar content in candy is way higher than in fruit!”
“Is Charles really that impressive? He can even spot mistakes made by the teacher. That’s incredible!”
“Otherwise, how could he be the strongest new student?”
Charles stood up and turned around, a slight smile appearing at the corner of his mouth as he said to Leo, “You weren’t finished, were you? What were you saying?”
Leo’s muscles were tightly coiled, standing straight as a statue. He had never imagined that Charles’s judgment could actually be true!
The Fangboar’s preference wasn’t fruit, it was sweets!
In Leo’s heart, his feelings weren’t of shame or regret but rather resentment!
He thought to himself, “Damn it! It’s all Charles’s fault for standing up to question me, making me lose face. And this is just the first class, and I made a mistake, all thanks to that lowly commoner!”
Despite these thoughts, Leo’s expression was the complete opposite. He wore a look of shame and self-reproach as he slowly bowed to Charles and said.
“It was the teacher’s oversight. The difference between fruit and sweets isn’t that significant. I should have explored further. Thank you, Charles, for helping the teacher!”
A hint of surprise appeared in Charles’s eyes. He hadn’t expected Leo to be able to humble himself and apologize on the spot.
However, seeing the tightly clenched fists behind Leo, he naturally didn’t believe that this so-called teacher was genuinely grateful.
Many from prominent families, like Leo, were incredibly proud and looked down on any commoner.
Little did they know, their ancestors were just ordinary commoners many years ago.
Leo was like that, Carter was too, and Grace even more so!
“Alright, class, let’s continue with the next part of the lesson.” Leo said, pretending as if nothing had happened.
He pulled out a device from beneath the podium and said to Charles, “Since you’re already at the podium, there’s no need to go back down. How about you help the teacher test the loyalty level?”
Although Leo was asking Charles for his opinion, his body blocked Charles’s path back to his seat with the device in hand.
Aside from Catherine, Zachary, and Camilla, who frowned in concern, most of the others were exceptionally excited.
They were very curious about what the loyalty level of Charles’s mystical beast, as the strongest new student, would be.
Camilla and Zachary, unlike the other students, came from the top families of Genosha, and they could clearly see that Leo was targeting Charles.
Even though Leo had been outmatched by Charles in the judgment of the mystical beast’s preferences, he still did not give up.
He was determined to find a way to make Charles look foolish and embarrassed. It’s important to note that even those from top families had spent years learning various mystical beast knowledge and painstakingly building relationships with their mystical beasts. At this point, their mystical beasts’ loyalty levels were only around eighty!
That was considered an excellent achievement. If it were Charles, with his lack of knowledge, one could assume his mystical beast’s loyalty would be around seventy, and it wouldn’t be any higher!
“Charles is just a commoner who needs to study alchemy and forging knowledge, so where would he find the time and energy to raise his mystical beast’s loyalty?” Leo thought to himself.
He planned to test Charles’s mystical beast loyalty and was sure it wouldn’t be high. At that moment, he could publicly lecture Charles in front of the students, pointing fingers and demanding answers.
If the loyalty turned out to be too low, he would even scold Charles loudly for being indifferent to his mystical beast, accusing him of mistreatment and not seeing it as a partner!
After the class, Leo would further criticize Charles in the media, using public opinion to ruin Charles’s reputation completely!
In the world of Beast Masters, a mystical beast is the most important partner, and anyone with a normal sense would not ignore the abuse of a mystical beast!
Thinking about what would happen to Charles next made an uncontrollable smile spread across Leo’s face.
He feigned a casual tone and said, “Charles, please cooperate with the teacher a little, the whole process will be quick and won’t take too long.”
Charles, of course, knew the loyalty levels of Max, Mousie, and Mia, and he was also quite curious about how other Beast Masters’ mystical beasts fared in terms of loyalty.
What level of loyalty do Max, Mousie, and Mia have among mystical beasts?
A hexagram array quietly appeared, and Max’s figure materialized before everyone.
Leo’s eyes lit up, as a level six Beast Master, he could naturally tell that Mia was an emerald-quality mystical beast.
It’s important to note that the higher the quality of a mystical beast, the more challenging it is to increase its loyalty!
In his eyes, Mia’s loyalty could be at most sixty-five! It couldn’t be any higher!
“An emerald-quality mystical beast? Charles, you really have some luck!” Leo remarked casually as he began scanning with the device!
“Emerald quality! No wonder Charles is so strong!”
“Damn, only Charles could contract an emerald-quality mystical beast at the third level!”
“Even the second princess Camilla doesn’t have an emerald-quality mystical beast!”
“Catherine’s four platinum-quality mystical beasts are already impressive, who would have thought Charles would be even stronger!”
“I’m really envious, I can’t even contract a platinum-quality mystical beast!”
“I wonder how high Charles’s mystical beast’s loyalty can be?”
Leo paid no attention to the murmurs from the students below.
He hurried to the front of the podium and projected Mia’s data onto the screen.
When the results appeared, Leo took a glance and was immediately stunned.
Mia’s loyalty was an astonishing seventy-one!