557: Believe in yourself

Time quickly moved to the next day.

Early in the morning, Lu Ran arrived at the academy.

The square was already packed with people.

Today was the annual day for profession awakening, and students from all classes had come.

Lu Ran was among them.

However, since it was still early, the entire venue seemed a bit chaotic.

Lu Ran went to his class and glanced at the classmates around him.

Everyone was still chatting among themselves.

But if Lu Ran remembered correctly, he still recalled the professions of most of them.

Some with decent spiritual power awakened to ordinary, useless professions.

Some with low spiritual power, on the other hand, awakened to rare professions.

Although no hidden professions appeared in Lu Ran's class, rare professions were already enough to change one's destiny for every profession holder.

At that moment.

Lu Ran suddenly noticed a small group from the neighboring class chatting.

A leading figure among them was loudly bossing a girl around, ordering her to buy him breakfast.

That girl, Lu Ran remembered, was named Wang Wei.

Like Lu Ran, she came from the Poverty Area.

Lu Ran hadn't paid much attention to her before, but he clearly remembered that Wang Wei had one of the rare professions.

The reason he remembered so clearly.

Was because the number of rare professions was already small during the initial awakening.

After Lu Ran awakened as an Undead Mage, before discovering his tag abilities, he had also been quite envious of those rare professions.

But at this moment, Wang Wei clearly didn't realize her destiny was about to change.

She was still being ordered around by these so-called classmates with slightly higher spiritual power, just like usual.

Having received the order, Wang Wei was now walking away.

But Lu Ran suddenly grabbed her wrist.

Wang Wei jolted in surprise, looking at Lu Ran with astonishment.

"Lu Ran, you..." Wang Wei was somewhat taken aback.

Lu Ran's famous reputation was known to everyone in the academy. After all, his spiritual power of 130 was no joke.

An absolute genius!

It's just that Wang Wei and Lu Ran hadn't interacted much.

Wang Wei, hailing from the Poverty Area, was inherently introverted and withdrawn, rarely taking the initiative to approach others.

Lu Ran was the same. He was single-mindedly waiting for his profession awakening to change his destiny. Being in a relationship with Wang Yujiao was already unexpected.

Never thought he'd misjudged her.

"They have their own hands; they can buy it themselves. Why should you help them?" Lu Ran said calmly.

"I..." Wang Wei stammered, unable to get the words out.

To put it bluntly, it was still due to low self-esteem.

"My spiritual power is very low to begin with. Most likely, I'll only get a life profession or an ordinary, common one, probably a useless one. Serving others is probably the purpose of someone like me. It's nothing." Wang Wei said, not minding.

"Nonsense. Spiritual power has a certain correlation with the awakened profession, but it's not absolute. Although your spiritual power isn't high, you shouldn't belittle yourself. Who knows, the profession you awaken might be much better than theirs. In front of them, you are the one qualified to have the say." Lu Ran said to Wang Wei.

Wang Wei stared blankly at Lu Ran.

She didn't understand why this boy, whom she rarely interacted with, suddenly came to counsel her.

But even a fool could sense Lu Ran's concern.

"Thank you, Lu Ran. It's just... the chance of me awakening a good profession with my spiritual power is still too small." Wang Wei shook her head.

"It's not small. Trust me, I have absolute confidence in you. Don't say it won't be a useless profession; even a rare profession is possible." Lu Ran said.

"Really?" Wang Wei's eyes lit up, as if she instantly envisioned a beautiful future.

But that was predicated on actually awakening a rare profession.

In reality, it wasn't that easy.

At that moment.

Lu Ran had already pulled Wang Wei over to the few guys from earlier.

"Wang Wei? I told you to buy breakfast. What are you still doing here? Useless thing, can't you even handle such a small task?" The leading young man frowned and scolded.

He glanced at Lu Ran at the same time.

But didn't pay him much mind.

Although Lu Ran was the academy's top genius with the highest spiritual power, due to his Poverty Area background, he rarely interacted with others.

In the eyes of others, he was just a genius, nothing more.

But unexpectedly.

Before Wang Wei could react, Lu Ran casually said, "Don't you have hands? You need someone else to buy breakfast for you? Seems to me, you're the useless one."

Huh?

The young man was stunned.

What was going on?

"Lu Ran, have you eaten gunpowder? What does this have to do with you? Get the hell out of here!" the young man cursed.

But as soon as the words left his mouth.

Lu Ran stepped forward directly and kicked out.

The kick was delivered without any courtesy. Caught off guard, the young man was sent sprawling onto the ground.

He was completely dumbfounded.

"Lu Ran, you dare... mmm..." The young man cursed.

But before he could finish.

Lu Ran stepped forward and directly stomped his foot on the young man's mouth.

At the same time, he said coldly, "If you utter one more word of nonsense, I'll tear your mouth apart. I mean what I say. If you don't believe me, you can try."

Lu Ran looked down at the young man from above, his gaze cold.

In that instant, an overwhelming sense of pressure washed over him.

The young man, being stepped on by Lu Ran, actually froze, not daring to make another sound.

But fortunately.

Lu Ran still had some restraint.

This was the awakening venue. Lu Ran wouldn't go too far.

Although he was the absolute master of the Datafication World, for now, he didn't want to break too many rules and make it known Globally.

Of course, in reality, doing anything was fine.

The main principle was to follow his heart's desire.

At this moment.

Lu Ran lifted his foot, turned to Wang Wei, and said, "It's about to start. Go take your seat. Don't pay attention to these people. Your low spiritual power is not a reason for them to order you around. Just like how their spiritual power is inferior to mine, I don't order them around either. The principle is the same."

Wang Wei listened in a daze, looking at Lu Ran.

Suddenly, she felt a wave of grievance in her heart. Growing up in the Poverty Area, no one had ever been this kind to her.

Tears welled up, threatening to fall.

Actually, Wang Wei was quite pretty. However, due to long-term malnutrition, she was somewhat petite and thin. Although her clothes were worn, they were clean and tidy.

It was clear she was a girl who valued cleanliness.

"Go on. Believe in yourself. You are no worse than anyone else." Lu Ran gave his final piece of advice.

Wang Wei nodded solemnly.

She ran to take her seat, looking back at Lu Ran with every few steps.

As for Lu Ran.

He glanced at the young man lying on the ground. Seeing that the time was almost up, but the crowd was still chaotic.

Lu Ran simply turned his head to look around, wanting to see if Qin Wuyao had arrived.