Mario and the rest of the students were surprised by this revelation. How could a lazy bum like Patty suddenly get a perfect score when the Physicality Tests haven’t even started yet? Did he cheat his way there?
Did he bribe the entire school? There was no way. Patty was just a poor student with no influential background. He wasn’t like Griff who had the backing of the great Sunny Sunverk and their company. Only groups like that with tremendous powers and resources could succeed in cheating in the Physicality Tests.
Was the professor biased towards him? That was even less probable. Everyone here didn’t forget how many times the professor and Patty bickered over that guy’s laziness. There was no way that the professor would suddenly give him a favor and let him get a perfect 100 on his Physicality Test.
“How? That’s impossible!”
“Sir, did he already have the Physicality Tests earlier? But that still didn’t make sense. There’s no way he’d get a perfect 100!”
“That can’t be.”
However much the students protested, the professor stayed silent. He wasn’t going to tell them about his bet with Patty. After all, it wasn’t an officially sanctioned thing that the school was on board with. If the Principal got ahold of this, then he could get suspended from his work, or worse, he could get fired.
He was already overextending his authority as a professor by giving Patty a perfect 100 score. But he couldn’t renege on his deal. After all, the Chain God oversaw their whole agreement with a contract and everything. If he broke his promise, he’d suffer a fate worse than death.
Thankfully, he could skirt the rules of the school and allow a student to get exempted from the Physicality Test. But he could only do it once, or else the rest of the students would riot.
“Don’t worry about what Patty is doing or not. Focus on yourselves. This is your very last chance to get good grades on your report card. This is what determines whether you’d be recruited by a top company or not. It’s the difference between achieving your dreams or not.”
The rest of the students reflected on themselves and took the professor’s advice to heart. After all, Patty’s perfect score won’t affect them at all. It could actually raise their scores a little bit in the group tests.
The only one still bitter about it was Mario. He spared a glaring look back at Patty, but as usual, he wasn’t paying attention with anything.
“Okay, once everyone is ready to change into your PE uniform, I expect everyone to assemble in the opening ceremony of the Physicality Tests.”
After the morning session, the professor quickly left the students to themselves. Most of the women were already in their PE uniform, while some of the boys were crude enough to undress in the classroom and show off their ‘muscular’ bodies to the girls.
After a few minutes, most of them were ready and quickly left the classroom with a pep in their steps. Although the Physicality Tests were a source of their anxiety and stress, it was also a chance for them to play and enjoy their last year in high school.
Soon enough, Patty was the only one left in the classroom. After about an hour, he was surprised to see this notification on his screen.
[You have gained 10 energy from relaxation]
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{Mission Completed}
– Go to school
{Reward}
– Option to exchange 25 Summon Scrolls for 1 S-class summon
[Would you like to exchange 25 summon scrolls for an S-class summon?]
[Y/N]
Now that Patty had a way to regenerate more energy throughout the day, spending 25 energy was not that hard on his pockets. In the hour that he arrived at school, he already earned 10 energy, meaning he would only have to spend 15 energy from his pool.
[Name: Patrick “Patty” Patterson]
[Energy: 210/200]
[Yi Power: 825]
[Credits: 50,880]
[Ether: 450]
[Minion Growth Crystal: 15,950]
Of course, Patty picked yes.
Suddenly, the screen changed into the summoning ritual screen with the black sky full of stars. One of the very bright blue stars in the cosmos of the summoning galaxy suddenly emerged from the screen and headed straight for Patty’s head.
This bright yellow star was like a meteor, with glittering waves all around its body. It was much brighter than any summon he had ever seen. Not only that, it moved with purpose and with irregular movements, as if it were a sentient object that was trying to find its way back to its owner.
The yellow star then popped up out of the screen and crashed into his head.
[S-class Neuralyzer Sheep]
[Description]
—This is a miniature-sized sheep that can emit a special red beam of light. Anyone affected by this beam of light will forget their memories depending on the level of the minion.
[Level: 0/100]
[Growth Crystal Required for Level Up: 5]
[Ability: Memory eraser]
—The user will gain the ability to make anyone forget their memories during the last (0) days. The user can suggest a false memory for the target. The more detailed the false memory, the more the target will believe it to be true
[Application]
—Kingdom Building
[Real world immersion successful]
He saw the 16-bit representation of the Sheep Neuralyzer on his screen. It looked like a normal sheep, except for the strange futuristic goggles in its eyes. It looked like something that a superhero with laser eyes would wear.
“Umm…can you talk?”
The only S-class minion he had was the Diplomatic Slime, and that guy could talk. However, he didn’t know if that applied to all S-class minions or not.
But seeing that the sheep didn’t answer him, it looked like the Slime was a special case.
“I’m embarrassed,” Patty muttered under his breath. He was speaking to no one.
But just after he said that, the Neuralyzer Sheep suddenly jumped out of the screen and materialized in real life. Strangely enough, it didn’t materialize the whole sheep, only the strange futuristic goggles that it had.
A bright red line that spanned the entire glass glowed in a neon light.
“Do you want to forget that embarrassing moment, sir? Activating memory eraser 3…2…”
“WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! STOP!”
Patty almost got his memory erased because of that. He didn’t expect the summon to suddenly activate its powers on him.
“Do you not want to erase that embarrassing moment, sir?”
A girl’s voice asked him. Patty looked at the floating visor in front of him. “Are you the sheep? Are you talking to me?”
“Yes, sir!” the goggles wiggled in place.
“Why did you activate your powers on me?”
“It’s because you said that you were embarrassed. From my understanding, humans want to erase their embarrassing moments. And because I am your loyal minion, it is my responsibility to make you happy by erasing your embarrassing memories!”
Patty didn’t know what to say. The sheep didn’t mean any harm and was simply uneducated in the ways of human exaggeration.
“Was I not supposed to erase your memories?” she asked, with the goggles titling in turn.
“Yeah, you’re not supposed to.”
Now that it knew that it had done something wrong, the sheep turned depressed. The red neon glare on the goggles slowly turned into a somber violet.
“Urgghh…I am embarrassed. Sir, is there a mirror nearby?”
“Why–”
“I want to erase this embarrassing moment from my memory sir…uhuhuh…”
Patty couldn’t believe that a minion could be this expressive. Unlike all his other minions who didn’t even know how to talk and think for themselves, an S-class minion sure was different. It had its own thoughts, desires, and even flaws! If this wasn’t a minion, he would have thought that there was a human controlling it.
“It’s fine. Don’t worry about it.”
The goggles materialized a miniature windshield wiper and wiped the tears from the goggles. “Ugh…thanks, master.”
“So, what’s your powers again?”
“My ability allows me to make anyone forget their memories. Right now, since I’m still low level, I can only make the target forget a minute of their life. However, if I get upgraded more and more, I can make them forget a full day! So, please level me up more, Master!”
The goggles turned enthusiastic once it was on the subject of leveling up.
Patty thought about it for a second, but he couldn’t think of anything useful for the Neuralyzer Sheep to do. Although he felt bad for the Sheep, he wasn’t incentivized to spend Minion Growth Crystals on the sheep.
“What more can you do?” Patty asked.
“I can do a lot of things for you, Master. But I am especially helpful in stealth!”
“Stealth?”
“Yes, Master. If you want to enter a girl’s room and steal some underpants, you can do so without anyone knowing!”
“WHY WOULD I DO THAT?!”
“Umm…it’s what I thought human teens did, right?”
“No, it’s not…”
“Huh…I must erase this fact from my mind, then.”
“Aside from that, I saw that your application is in the Kingdom Building aspect.”
“Ah, yes! Since you are just starting to gather your strength in this world, no one must find out about your powers.”
Patty raised his eyebrows. She was right. This ability was extremely helpful if someone found out an extremely sensitive fact about his powers!