[No more people were added because the rune academy in the city started enrolling. You were tested and found to have top-tier talent, so you were admitted on the spot, and to the highest level, the "Barbir Rune Academy."]

You have encountered Chi Yan, a newly hired teacher.

She taught her students fire runes in class.

However, with only the "Imperial Seal" covering her entire body, she was actually unable to utilize the power of the rune system.

[She forcibly simulated the rune effect through her exceptional control over her fire power.]

You also ran into Forest, a mischievous classmate from the next class.

[The aloof and arrogant senior, Mo Ling (who knows how she skipped a grade to be a year ahead of you).]

[Your yandere classmate, Miyako, is always secretly following you.]

[The little girl with snow-white hair and silver eyes who called you "Daddy" in public.]

[Ye Ranyi, the unemployed gang leader outside of school.]

[Ao Ying, with her pink nose and fierce, tiger-like appearance.]

"No, the white tiger you summoned that time also transformed and followed us!?"

A jealous male classmate asked you for the secret to being popular.

"Isn't this simple?" you retort. "If you choose one of three options, just try a few more times and you'll succeed, right?"

"W-what, a choice of three?"

"Don't you see the options when you're talking to girls?"

"After five reincarnations, he became a Japanese male high school student."

[...]

"Although I really want to experience campus life in a fantasy world, that's true..."

"But why are they all familiar faces?!"

Faced with your incompetent outbursts, they either remain expressionless or roll their eyes.

"Aren't we enough for you?"

"With your skinny arms and legs, how many can you possibly handle at once?"

【"that is."】

"Master, we can change faces."

Xu Ling'er silently retreated and left the chat channel; this wasn't a topic she should be involved in.

She just wants to be by your side, that's all.

As for those "teachers' wives," she didn't care. Anyway, she wasn't involved in any of those things, so she wouldn't get jealous.

In 4343, you represented the Barbier Rune Academy in the National Academy Rune Competition and deservedly won first place.

[Unexpected events occurred during the competition, such as an assassination attempt by the alien "Er Clan."]

[You narrowly escaped death, and afterwards learned a terrifying truth about the world from high-ranking government officials!]

"In this world, we humans are not the masters!"

"There are many other terrifying alien races that are our enemies!"

[“For example, that strange creature that assassinated you belonged to the ‘Er Clan’! It acted to eliminate you, this prodigy!”]

"From now on, you must be extremely careful!"

You nodded earnestly.

Two months later, the news arrived after a long journey.

The Er tribe was wiped out, and coincidentally, it happened on the very afternoon they assassinated you.

You swear you weren't the one who did it.

The real culprit was... Gong Ying!

[Because you remember very clearly that after you were assassinated, her hand almost shattered the void.]

In the year 4344, you experienced many events.

[Academy training, bandit suppression, student teams slaying evil rune masters, etc.]

[Two major events were interspersed throughout: a large number of terrifying alien races at the second realm infiltrated the human race, launching a city-annihilation threat; and a late-stage second realm beast king awakened in the Monster Mountain Range, causing a crisis for the students training there, all of which you saved the day.]

[In 4347, you advanced to the second realm of Earth Rune Master, entered the core circle of the human race in this region, and were summoned to the first rune holy land of the human race.]

"Holy crap, I've entered the core circle of the second realm."

[You and some other companions are finally qualified to learn the terrifying truth about the world from the strongest human being, a third-realm Celestial Talisman Master. Part 2.]

"...Okay, I almost forgot, the human race in the Bitter River Domain doesn't even have a fourth realm cultivator."

The Celestial Talisman Master's gaze sharpened: "You may have learned from your country or your teachers at the academy that this world is not home to only one intelligent race—humanity. There are other powerful races as well. Humanity is not the sole ruler of heaven and earth!"

"But! What's even more terrifying is that—not only are humans not the masters of heaven and earth, they can't even be considered a powerful race!"

"This land is also known as the 'Bitter River Domain,' and within it exist six supreme races and fifty-seven powerful races. The human race isn't even considered a powerful race; they're merely insignificant!"

"We're having a tough time! It's so tough for us!"

"They may be glorious within their own territory, but in the vast lands spanning millions of miles, and in the hundreds of billions of miles beyond, humans are merely a lower race, inherently inferior!"

The Celestial Talisman Master spoke earnestly.

"You are the most outstanding geniuses of humanity, the rising sun! The rise of humanity depends entirely on you!"

A glimmer of hope flickered in his aged eyes: "I have no hope left, but you still have a chance to become the legendary fourth-realm Heaven and Earth Talisman Masters in the future!"

"And then, they can't be ordinary talisman masters! They have to be..."

The old man sighed, and just as everyone's interest was piqued, he suddenly stopped, saying, "Never mind, let's talk about it when you all become Celestial Talisman Masters."

Although he's keeping it a secret, those who watched the last simulation know the answer.

[Once a clan in the Bitter River Domain produces someone who reaches a higher realm, they will be attacked by the "upper clans." They must withstand several stronger, established clans of the same realm even after their breakthrough!]

In the original history, the first "Heaven and Earth Talisman Master" would be born among the human race of the Bitter River Region in three hundred years.

[Then he was surrounded and killed by seven alien races at the fourth level, some of whose opponents were comparable to Heavenly Sovereigns.]

[This... has almost no hope of success.]

[Unless you've already made prior arrangements with other powerful clans, agreeing to become their vassal and pay annual tribute, the pressure of facing attacks from the "superior clans" will be lessened, and you can simply go through the motions.]

[Or they may have been accumulating strength, unleashing dozens of Celestial Talisman Masters at once.]

The humans of the Bitter River Region are clearly unaware of this; they are truly a lowly, ignorant, and weak race.

They genuinely believed that the powerful would abide by the rules, merely testing humanity's qualifications. Little did they know that the seemingly open and transparent promotion channels were just for show; the powerful races were simply after everyone striving to climb the ranks!

"But that's not something I should be thinking about; I'm only at the second realm."

[In the year 4350, you experienced significant growth within the Rune Sanctuary.]

Yun Shou: "Pfft."

[In the sacred classrooms, in the activities, and in the grand competition within the human race, you, the hope of this generation of humanity, solemnly swore that you will strive for the rise of humanity!]

[The women: "Pfft."]

...

(Four o'clock? (ˉ﹃ˉ?))