Chapter 1: Summoning the Golem! (1)
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"Student No. 0193, Donna V. Jasper, please come forward to summon the puppet."
The middle-aged male teacher pushed his old-looking gold-rimmed glasses and shouted in a tired and lazy tone.
“Great!”
In contrast to the male teacher, the girl who was called responded with energy.
The petite girl walked through the line of students who were also waiting to summon puppets, and stood in front of the large magical device used to summon puppets - the Pseudo-Life Gate - with an expectant look on her face.
It was a golden door that looked like a time-space portal that often appeared in science fiction movies.
(Okay, what interesting things will this guy shout out?)
Alfred D. Elect, the protagonist of this work, thought with interest.
Like that girl, Alfred is also a freshman at Illya Alia Doll Academy.
The girl named Donna followed the teacher's instructions, stood at the pseudo-gate of life and began to chant.
"O eternal glacier that freezes life, please bless me who is devout and send the apostles of God to protect me."
(Wow, this chant feels a bit childish~ I won’t have to say something similar later, will I? I feel like if I say the chant that Rose-san taught me, I’ll want to kill myself.)
Just by watching, Alfred felt a little ashamed for the girl.
However, the strong light emitted by the Pseudo-Gate of Life quickly attracted his attention.
A little blue bird, as crystal-clear as a bird, flew out and landed on Donna's shoulder.
"Hmm... it's the Ice Rose Bird. Its racial rarity is B+, and its individual talent value is 9. It's an excellent puppet summoned by freshmen. Congratulations, Jasper."
The male teacher, who originally gave people no spiritual impression, used a piece of purple crystal to identify the blue bird and congratulated with a somewhat excited tone.
"Eh?! Is that so? Thank you so much, teacher."
Donna held her puppet and excitedly bowed to the teacher to thank him, then walked back to the students with brisk steps.
The other students also stared at Donna and her puppet, some whispering with envy.
Currently, the strength of a newly born puppet is usually measured based on its racial rarity and individual talent value.
Racial rarity is the rarity of a puppet type. Generally, the rarer the puppet, the more powerful it is.
The individual talent value is the natural level cap of this puppet.
If the value is nine, this puppet can theoretically grow to the ninth level (level 91~99) without using any special props.
Taking a freshman as an example, Donna is considered lucky among students for drawing the Ice Crystal Rose Bird with an individual talent value of 9.
Although it did not cause a big stir, many students still looked at her with envy.
(Oh, what should I do now? It makes me feel excited and nervous.)
Alfred listened to the whispers of the students around him and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
He originally had the mentality of just taking whatever he drew as the prize, but because of the noisy atmosphere of the students around him, he began to feel uneasy and was looking forward to what kind of puppet he would summon next.
Alfred hadn't experienced this kind of expectation that only children would have for some time.
Alfred is a reincarnated person, and not the kind of person who has been reincarnated once or twice.
Whether it was hunting dragons as a brave warrior, or becoming a demon king who had to destroy the world, or commanding a fleet in a sci-fi universe... Alfred had experienced all kinds of bizarre past lives.
This time, Alfred was finally reborn into a peaceful world where puppeteers are respected and the atmosphere is so peaceful that it reminds him of the Pokemon. Alfred decided to enjoy his new life.
Just think of it as a long vacation after a long, hard day at work.
(My body is just that of a fifteen-year-old anyway, so it doesn’t matter if I just follow my instincts and act a little childishly, right?)
Just as Alfred was recalling his past experiences, the two students in front of him had already completed the puppet summoning.
Next it was Alfred's turn.
"Student No. 0196 Alfred D. Elect, please come forward to summon the puppet."
Hearing Alfred's name, the other students who were waiting to summon the puppets began to whisper again.
"Hey, I didn't hear that the useless Duke Elect's heir will also be enrolled with us this year, Illya Alia~"
"That's true. It's unlucky to be in the same class with him."
"Hey, I heard that the current Duke of Elect wanted to enroll in the Puppet Academy, but he couldn't even summon a puppet, so he was expelled. Could this guy be the same?"
"That's quite interesting. I heard that people who can't summon puppets are very rare. Let's just broaden our horizons today."
(Hey, you little brats, is it really okay to be so venomous?)
Hearing the whispers of the students around him, Alfred sighed in dumbfoundedness.
Just as introduced before, this is a world where puppeteers are respected.
Even with the title of Duke, the Elect family is still despised by the world. Even in the empire, they do not have the territory and voice that match the status of a Duke. They are just "honorary nobles" in name only.
However, these insulting words were just a drizzle that sounded a little harsh to Alfred, who had experienced several rounds of tragic life.
He walked briskly and leisurely and came to the middle-aged male teacher.
"E-Elect, if the result of summoning the puppet is not satisfactory, please don't be discouraged."
Even the male teacher showed a complicated expression and comforted Alfred before summoning the puppet.
(I appreciate your consideration, but is it really okay to say this to me before the puppet summoning begins?)
Alfred shrugged his shoulders, thanked the teacher, and indicated that he was ready.
Following the teacher's instructions, he cut his finger with a silver dagger and dripped the blood into the blood groove on the pedestal nearby.
"The next step is 'Oath'. Elect, please chant the Pseudo-Gate of Life and summon your puppet."
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PS: The pace is slow, I hope you guys like it. If possible, I hope you can give me a good review~ This is really important to me as a rookie (sell misery and cuteness~)
The current plan is to start updating 8000 words a day from the verification period onwards (if life is busy, or if I happen to have no inspiration for a while, the update may be a little less.), and if there are friends who still haven't read enough, they can click on it to urge for updates.
When I have more free time, I will try to prepare more manuscripts.
Also, because I personally hate giving chapter titles (it's really a headache, and writing some irrelevant titles in the title file makes me feel guilty [doge]), many chapters will share the same chapter title. I hope that friends who care about this will forgive me.