Chapter 694 - 318: Gifts, Shadows Beneath the Divine Birthday Festival
The fact is, when it comes to attracting attention through popularity, Mende is quite serious about it.
Lu Wenwu doesn’t know exactly how he managed it, nor does he know how he persuaded the grand dean.
But he truly fulfilled this matter completely within just a few days.
Lu Wenwu suspects there is support from the Bauhinia Royal Family behind this.
Why suspect this?
Because, Mende not only delivered the first batch of donated materials on the day of the Divine Birthday Festival, but also used Plan A — this kid, with proximity to billions, sent a Divine Birthday Festival gift to every teacher and student in the school.
Although it’s not anything particularly expensive, it’s merely a sculpture symbolizing the Bauhinia Empire Royal Family’s Bauhinia Flower.
However...
Each sculpture is made of Amethyst.
Even if it’s not the top-grade amethyst, giving each of the tens of thousands of students and teachers one is indeed a very large number — if this thing were to be sold, just with the top-tier craftsmanship, Bauhinia Royal Family mark, and Mende’s magical signature engraving, it’d be worth at least dozens of Gold Coins.
With just Mende’s pocket money, achieving this step is definitely impossible.
It can only be said, it’s no wonder it’s even more ancient than the Jade Empire, a massive empire, indeed the wealth accumulation is astonishing.
Moreover, Mende really has some qualities.
If it’s not that his eloquence is extraordinary, then it’s that his family truly spoils him, otherwise he wouldn’t do things that look like he’s being like a scatterbrained wealth-distributing boy.
To show sincerity, he even specially wrote a card in each gift package, attaching some brief blessings.
Handwriting tens of thousands of names, casting Duplicate Magic "printing" cards thousands of times.
For his own little hobby, Mende truly strives hard.
It proves that the direction proposed by Lu Wenwu indeed has no problems.
Apart from the Arcane Servants responsible for delivering gifts having some opinions on this matter, everyone else feels good about it.
All day during the Divine Birthday Festival, wherever Mende went, he could garner looks akin to those watching a giant panda, and he was excitedly pointed out by many Arcane Academy classmates.
At the evening banquet of the Divine Birthday Festival, when the grand dean, Fiery Sun God·Douglas publicly announced this matter and voluntarily applauded it, this attention belonging to the entire academy reached its peak.
Many students of the Arcane Academy specially expressed their gratitude to him at the social dance held after the banquet.
As a top-level social butterfly, Mende extremely enjoys this feeling.
He weaves through the crowd, tirelessly smiling and dealing with everyone who comes up to greet him.
Being watched and surrounded by everyone made him feel almost celestial, as if he’d energized to an uncontrollable excitement.
In this strange mood, Mende even mastered several Silent Spellcasting techniques of Support Magic, along with a significant increase in his magic power capacity.
It can be said that one may cultivate in every gesture.
In cultivation, finding the right path and method is crucial.
And the method suitable for Mende undoubtedly is exactly this kind.
After the banquet, Snow eagerly pulled Lu Wenwu and two other roommates to go back and unwrap gifts.
In the public lounge, the snow werewolf boy, who is adorable looking and has a social butterfly attribute, naturally received the most gifts, mostly given by female classmates, occupying nearly half the room.
Lu Wenwu received quite a few as well.
Although he has made few friends over recent months, many noble or other large force-originated students value the talent he possesses and have intentions to befriend him; hence, they’ve sent many things for good connections.
As for the Silver Skull, due to this undead creature’s race being too unique, besides the All Living Beings Equal Bauhinia Flower given by Mende and the gifts from three roommates, only that Professor Witch Demon sent a piece of the Land of Death Breath.
This is extremely rare and precious from among undead creatures, and is also one of the main materials Witch Demon uses to refine the Life Box.
It appears Silver Skull has already caught the eye of that Professor Witch Demon, it’s very stable for it to become a direct disciple.
As for the Fire Element...
Better forget about it.
On ordinary days, the only one who can speak to it is Silver Skull; even Lu Wenwu and Snow have quite a nuanced relationship with it, let alone calling it friends.
Therefore, only Mende and three roommates gave it a gift.
Lu Wenwu glanced at his pile of gifts, raised his hand, snapped his fingers, and those gifts for forming connections were directly opened at once.
As expected, inside mostly were some unremarkable precious metals or magic materials, probably thinking Lu Wenwu’s "background" needed these.
The princess from the Jade Empire sent a local specialty called Jade Magic Crystal, which contains extremely pure attributeless magical power that can be refined by mages; the Jade Empire is named for this reason.
The letter accompanying the gift from this princess subtly shows an inclination to recruit admiration, and hints that if he pledges loyalty to the Jade Royal Family, he will receive more Jade Magic Crystals, with a great possibility to break through to the Truth Tier.
Lu Wenwu fiddled with it for a bit, it’s approximately equivalent to a Low-grade Spirit Stone level.
For a normal transmigrator, this would definitely be the treatment of a protagonist.
As long as they get connected with Princess Emerald, it’s inevitable there will be a few suitors for the princess coming out as antagonists, then being crushed by the transmigrator, subsequently face-slapping, repeating the routine of escalating flow, pretending to be weak while being strong.
Subsequent developments could definitely span a million words of main storyline, plus tens of thousands of words of side stories as a bonus.