Ninth class citizen

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Hei Mukan walked to his seat with a sullen face and without saying a word.

He didn't want to respond, but Florent remembered what the Blackwood family had done to Nan Rong and didn't want to let him off so easily.

"I understand." Florent withdrew his consciousness from the school's intranet and suddenly realized:

"So this Mr. Kurokikan was in the demotion-to-retention phase? I've heard that some universities have this tradition, giving dismissed professors a chance to stay on, and then deciding whether to reappoint them based on the students' final grades."

The other mentors in the office all looked surprised.

They hadn't thought of this before, after all, Heimukan was used to being domineering in the first-year group.

He was of a high rank and had the Blackwood family backing him up. Ordinary instructors didn't dare to say a word to him. Who would have thought that this person had already been dismissed?

“Professor Kuroki, this must be a misunderstanding, right?” the professor of materials science said. “Why don’t you pull out the appointment letter and show it to them? Otherwise, if this kind of talk gets out, it might have a bad impact.”

Hei Mukan glared fiercely at his materials science tutor. He was arrogant and usually didn't take the tutors who taught basic courses such as materials science and purification seriously. In class, he repeatedly emphasized to the students that the ultimate goal of gene optimization engineers was simply drug synthesis.

There's nothing inherently wrong with what was said, but it sounded rather harsh to the instructors of the foundation courses. So you can imagine what those instructors thought of Heimukan.

Given such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, it would be difficult not to take advantage of someone's misfortune.

"Bang!" The folder containing the lesson plans slammed heavily onto the table with a loud thud.

Hei Mukan stood up and strode over to Nan Rong. He was tall and thin, with somewhat stereotypically sunken cheeks, and he looked down at her.
"I still maintain that the college is a place for teaching and nurturing students, not a political arena for networking—titles are not important, what matters is the quality of teaching."

As he spoke, his gaze swept across the office, lingering on the ornately packaged gift boxes for a few moments before turning back to look directly at Nan Rong: "Professor Nan, would you be interested in having the two classes compete?"

Nan Rong laughed: "What a coincidence—we were planning to have a pop quiz tomorrow too."

Hei Mukan laughed as well: "Since we're teaching potion synthesis, what about the test content?"

“Naturally, it’s a synthetic potion,” Nan Rong replied without hesitation.

Once the matter was settled, Nan Rong left with Florent. As soon as they left, Hei Mukan gave everyone a cold look, especially the pharmacy instructor who had asked the question earlier.

The latter was intimidated by his imposing presence and involuntarily stepped back, sitting back in his office cubicle, no longer sitting and staring at him.

To avoid awkwardness, everyone unanimously started opening their gifts.

"Ah!" A scream rang out in the office.

"My God!" "How is this possible!" "That's an incredible move!"

Exclamations came and went.

A bunch of shallow-minded guys, they probably haven't seen anything good before.

Hei Mukan chuckled and stood up to leave when several bright colors suddenly caught his eye.

Suddenly, I couldn't take another step.

At the desk to the left of Heimukan, the purification professor was grinning from ear to ear, and in the box opened in front of him lay five gems the size of pigeon eggs.

Anyone who has studied materials science can recognize this: it's a source energy crystal without a single impurity. Even the most ordinary quality elemental source energy crystal of this size would cost no less than one million Cowens.

The five source energy crystals in front of us are respectively orange-red (fire element), ginger-yellow (earth element), emerald green (wood element), ice-blue (water element), and silver-white (metal element), one of each element.

It's incredibly rare to find five uniformly sized, flawless elemental energy crystals together like this; they could easily fetch ten million Cowens at auction.

Hei Mukan couldn't help but take a closer look at the purification professor in front of him. He was short, stocky, and not particularly handsome. Why would Nan Rong give him such an expensive gift?
The purification professor felt uneasy under his gaze. Then, a thought flashed through his mind: it turned out that he was the only one in the entire office who hadn't received a gift!

He quickly closed the lid, gave an awkward laugh, stuffed the box into his pocket, and walked away.

What a stingy and sleazy guy. Kuroki Kan's cheek muscles twitched, and he also stepped outside, inadvertently seeing more gift boxes that the mentors had laid out on the tables in the partitions.

One, two, three, four, five.

Each box contains a complete set of five-colored elemental energy crystals.

Typical size, typical purity, just like a mass-produced imitation.

But as a sixth-order gene optimizer, Heimukan could not possibly be wrong.

Those are all genuine, top-quality source energy crystals.

There are nearly a hundred tutors in the first-year group office, and each of them received five of these crystals.

If we consider the price of ten million per set at Cowan, then Nan Rongguang has already thrown away a billion in this office today.

He was unaware that nearly a thousand faculty and staff members throughout the academy had all received at least one source energy crystal, which together was almost equivalent to all the high-quality crystals produced by a medium-sized source energy crystal mine.

A lowly ninth-class citizen could never possess such abundant resources; he could only be generous with other people's money.

Hei Mukan felt his gums were sore and painful, and his throat was constantly churning with acidic fluid.

The Kuroki family has strict rules. Of the money he earns from selling medicine, he can only keep a small fraction; 99% must be handed over to the family. Therefore, he has never owned so much money before.

But Heimukan would never admit that he was envious and jealous.

Yes, people with real talent and skills never need to waste money like this!
Stepping out of the office, Heimukan posted a test notification in the regular class group, urging everyone to make the most of their time to practice.

He had confidence in the children he had personally taught. They would use irrefutable facts to make Dean Xiong, Nan Rong, and everyone else understand that not just anyone is qualified to become an excellent mentor in pharmaceutical synthesis!

Despite scattering so many source energy crystals, Nan Rong felt nothing. This was not only because her potion shop within the Cosmic Heritage Academy was completely sold out, and her account balance had exceeded 350 million spirit yuan; it was also because she was no longer short of money in this small plane.

Of course, there is another important reason: the price of energy crystals is directly proportional to their scarcity.

If all one million spirit coins previously exchanged are sold, the market price of source energy crystals will plummet instantly.

So it's better to give it away as a gift while it still holds its value.

Extraordinary items made from elemental source energy crystals can act as stabilizers, which is beneficial to the purity of extraction and the grade of the potion.

Therefore, gene optimizers are the least likely people to sell them, and she doesn't need to worry about these crystals entering the market and accelerating their depreciation.