"9th Class Low Grade Familiar."
The instructor and all of the staff members were stunned when they saw the familiar that appeared.
I was also standing there in a daze looking at the bat that had appeared in front of me.
This bat looked around a bit before turning to look at me.
The moment that bat's eyes fell onto me, they immediately opened wide and lit up.
This bat looked like it was filled with joy when it saw me before coming forward to rub its head against me.
But I really couldn't react to this since I was still in a daze over what the instructor said.
The entire area was filled with silence as everyone was stunned when the results were announced.
After a long silence, the instructor finally came back to his senses.
With a sigh, the instructor said, "It isn't just his parents, even his big brother only awakened a trash familiar. It seems like talent really was decided from birth, talent isn't something that can be changed…"
It was like a dagger was stabbed into my heart when I heard this.
Without a single care for what I thought, the instructor continued with another sigh, "It seems like I really backed the wrong boat here. I wonder if I can still find someone else to become a mentor to…"
Another dagger right to the heart.
I looked around at the staff, but it didn't seem like any of them were looking in my direction. All of them seemed to have turned to take care of their own matters, as if they were working hard.
But in my heart, I knew that they were doing this to avoid interacting with me.
Just like the instructor, they were treating me completely differently now.
Only, what was I supposed to do about this?
Eventually, the instructor turned to look at me. The look on his face was completely different than before, he even narrowed his eyes to look at me as he said, "What are you still doing here? Why aren't you getting out of the way already? There's still other people that need to go through the summoning ceremony."
A bitter smile appeared on my face when I heard this, but I still had to say, "The status for my familiar. I still need the status page."
The instructor looked like he wasn't interested in this at all, but he still pulled out a piece of paper that he threw over at me before saying, "Get out of the way already."
With a sigh, I caught the paper and walked off the summoning platform.
When I did, I heard the whispers coming from all around me.
"Wasn't he supposed to be the top scorer?"
"It's just scores, how could it compare to actual talent? He's nothing more than a fake."
"Ha, ha, and to think that I actually had a crush on him. Now I can see the truth."
I just ignored all of them since I had already been prepared for this scenario, but it would be a lie to say that their words weren't like daggers that pierced my heart.
At this point, there was nothing that I could do other than finishing my mandatory education and then finding a job that was suited to my abilities.
But of course, I couldn't blame it on my familiar.
It was summoned because of my abilities, so it was just a representation of what I was capable of.
With a sigh, I looked at the status sheet that was printed out.
I didn't know what I was expecting, but it was as disappointing as I thought it would be.
Echo Bat
Level: 1
Exp: 0
Strength: 5
Vitality: 5
Intelligence: 10
Dexterity: 13
Skills: Echolocation
This was a familiar that was only useful for scouting areas, it didn't have any other uses.
However, when I looked at it closely, I could see that the Echolocation was only useful up to twenty meters. That was far from being enough to be useful…so it seemed like the only skill that this bat familiar of mine had wasn't of any use.
With a sigh, I slowly turned to look at the bat familiar that was still hugging me and rubbing its head up against me.
There was a part of me that didn't know what to do with this bat familiar, but it wasn't as if I could just abandon it…
But all of a sudden, there was this blue screen that suddenly appeared in front of me as I looked at my familiar.
I was surprised to find that it was a status screen.
Statuses were supposed to be special information that could only be discovered by those that had an appraisal skill, or used a special appraisal item. That was why I had insisted on getting the status for my familiar from the instructor earlier in hopes that this familiar of mine would have some kind of secret.
But now…
"Echo Hypnosis? What is that?" I softly said to myself in a shocked voice.
The status that appeared in front of my face was completely different from the one that I had gotten from the instructor.
This status screen had the same stats as the sheet of paper, but there was an extra skill that wasn't on the sheet of paper.
It was a skill that I had never heard of before even with all of studying on different kinds of familiars.
There was a part of me that wanted to turn back and ask the instructor, but I didn't get the chance to do so.
There was a large commotion that suddenly caught everyone's attention.
"1st Class High Grade Familiar!"
This loud announcement filled the entire area and everyone immediately turned to look in the direction that it came from.
There even seemed to be some kind of blue glow coming from the summoning platform that it came from.
Standing in the middle of the summoning platform was someone that I recognized.
Long Tang Tang.