"Cola Apes are considered ancestors of humankind by some biologists. Hahahaha, did they just dub apes as their great-grandfather?"

"Ice dragons are Matrical and male ice dragons only serve as sperm providers to the whole race? Oh wow. Sucks to be a male ice drag. I will hunt some weak-ass male dragon if I see them in the future."

"Scooty cows are carnivorous. Hmm, would they eat other cows too?"

"LadyCharm spiders of Evergreen forest eat the males after sex? Ahhh, is sex more important than life for these horny spidys?."

"Oceania octopus's tentacles remind certain novel readers of particular memories? Why would I need to know that?"

"Ah f*ck, just how much of these do I need to memorize?"

On a not-so-special day, a handsome teenager was sitting on a chair. But his actions weren't normal. He had a thick book in front of him but, he was reading while crying and hitting his head on a table. As if, he was suffering from mental disorder syndrome.

Yep, that was me. And I was having a great headache over the Elemental Beast Biology book Mr. Dickenson threw at us.

For the last 10 days, I was having my sweet time analyzing battle tactics and practicing Spear arts from a Weapon master. As the tournament between seniors continued for 10 whole days, I spent most of the day sitting in the arena. Then cultivating, analyzing their battles at night, taking a little nap, and practicing spears in the morning took all the remaining time I had.

In short, I was driving myself to the extreme and this wasn't a pleasant experience. But, I was quite satisfied with my development.

Until…

Jacob reminded me of the exams that were gonna take place after 2 days. My happy mood vanished into the clouds. I hurriedly checked the prospectus to search for any surprising elements I missed. Most of the topics from the Runic arts and Human Anatomy classes were complete. The parts that I didn't study took me only 1 day to completely master.

But, the problem was- aside from the encyclopedia Mr. Dickenson forcefully inserted in our head, he added another big-fat book. And this thing contained all the peculiar characteristics of particular elemental beasts.

I thought as they were about unique animals, the information wouldn't be that much. So I ignored this book for quite a few days. But, I was shocked just after reading the index. This freaking list of these weird animals was so long that I started feeling dizzy.

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This list was long enough that I questioned the meaning of life in this world.

"What's wrong with these guys? Is this what evolution brought to us? Peculiar tastes, weird fetishes?"

I didn't mind their unique traits, but I did mind the thickness of this book. The exam was the next day and I had just started reading this. And I couldn't ignore this as Mr. Dickenson emphasized greatly about this boom.

"He emphasized it so much maybe because he has weird fetishes just like his weird name."

After cursing Mr. Dickenson and his big-thick Book in my mind, I started memorizing them again.

When I put down the book, the sun of the next morning was already shining like a star. I looked at the librarian snoring on his easy chair, then at the clock.

I have been studying this for 33 hours straight! 38 hours a day felt too short for me today.

"So, we humans have a peculiar trait too. We tend to waste our time till there is a little left. Then pull an all-nighter to inherit the red eyes of owls. Should I write it down? Hahaha."

I lamented over my irregularity and then, channeled lightning energy into my eyes. My fatigued eyes became functional again.

"Ahhh, having Healing Factor as your property is quite convenient sometimes."

Stretching my stiff body a little, I moaned in pleasure as popping sounds came from my body.

"I have done everything I could. No need to overthink it anymore. Let the time tell what it has prepared for me."

Overworking oneself always results in lower work efficiency and I felt it is very true. Now, I didn't have the strength to study anymore, talk about exams huh? But, something made me leave the library early. Felling the nerve-wracking desire in my tummy, I headed toward KFC to get something with the little money I have left.

"Stupid dad, couldn't you just give me enough money for 1 year? Now I have to get full marks if I want both food and crystals. And what a system we have, buy food with your exam point, Hah."

A bitter smile formed on my face as I remembered dad's last "Advice".

'Carve your path with your own hand'

"Hais, does he know that people use mechanical Road Crawler to build paths nowadays? Why would I use my hand?"

While thinking about paths, I walked on the path leading to the exam hall which will open my path to earning money..ahm exam points.