# Chapter 269: The Swift Star Wolf!

The aura alone was enough to confirm it — this was a Battle-General-class creature.

Servant-class creatures possess no true aura of their own. They rely on sheer size and ferocity to intimidate weaker beings.

At the Battle-General level, however, aura becomes something tangible — a beast's domain that radiates outward, capable of fracturing the Star Charts of Intermediate-Level Mages and driving Servant-class creatures to tremble in helpless fear.

**"AWOOOOOOO——!!!!"**

The third roar tore through the air. This time, Mo Fan felt it in his bones — even the nature of the Gloom Wolf Beast's cry had changed. The sheer force of it made his eardrums ring.

The dust still hung thick, but through the murk, the Gloom Wolf Beast's silhouette had grown unmistakably larger. Its body must have stretched to four meters by now.

As the blinding haze slowly settled, Mo Fan finally got a clear look at what stood before him — and the only word for it was *breathtaking*.

The Gloom Wolf Beast had always been a wild creature. In its Servant-class days, it had been defined by raw ferocity; the only thing that could be called beautiful was its long, flowing coat of blue fur.

But now, though slightly larger than before, everything about it had become more balanced. The lines along its neck, shoulders, back, and tail had softened considerably. Its powerful limbs had grown lean and elongated. The overall impression was no longer brute strength and savage menace — it was nobility. Sleek, breathtaking, effortless grace.

The change caught Mo Fan off guard. Most of the time, a creature's build telegraphed its type — power or agility — and he had assumed the Gloom Wolf Beast would ascend into something even more explosively muscled, even more savage and wild. Instead, it had become this: lithe, sharp-eyed, magnificent.

*You really are shaped by your environment,* Mo Fan mused, deeply satisfied. *When your master is a man of such natural refinement and irresistible charm, it's only fitting that even his Summoned Beast would follow in his footsteps.*

Back at the apartment, Teacher Qiu Yuhua sat alone in the common room, a book open in his hands — *Forbidden World* — though his eyes hadn't moved across the page in some time.

On any other day, he would have been utterly lost in its mysteries, captivated by the secrets of the Undead kingdom buried within the Egyptian pyramids. Today, though, his thoughts kept drifting. He had just received word from an old comrade — something about a new magical research project. He couldn't verify the information yet, but rumors of a new magical system had been circulating in his circles for a while now.

"Old Professor, have you seen Mo Fan anywhere?" Teacher Gu Han asked.

"He went to the training hall," Qiu Yuhua said. "He's trying to advance his Gloom Wolf Beast."

Shen Mingxiao and Luo Song happened to be in the common room. On hearing this, Luo Song couldn't help but laugh. "The ascension success rate is practically nothing, and that Gloom Wolf Beast of his was never anything special. He's been gone this long without coming back — odds are he already failed."

Shen Mingxiao smiled and said nothing. The moment anyone mentioned Mo Fan, a poorly concealed flash of envy lit his eyes.

*What a cosmic joke.* That nobody Mo Fan, of all people, born with an incomparable, innate Dual Elements talent.

"Let's go check on him," Gu Han said. "If something's gone wrong, we should know."

"Alright."

Shen Mingxiao and Luo Song exchanged a glance. Shen Mingxiao spoke first: "Come on. Let's go see for ourselves."

The two of them followed Teachers Gu Han and Qiu Yuhua toward the training hall. The time slot Mo Fan had rented was nearly up — the training room door had already swung open automatically.

The moment they stepped through the doorway, heat crashed into them like a wall. The air was thick with the reek of fire, waves of scorching warmth rolling outward.

"Something's wrong — don't tell me his Summoned Beast turned on him?" Gu Han's expression darkened. He quickened his pace.

Mo Fan had clearly used Fire Element magic — the massive tongue of flame that had raged through the hall made that plain. A battle had been fought here.

"That's possible. When a Battle Commander Soul is injected into a Servant-class creature, it can easily overwhelm and consume the original soul. With the original soul gone, the Spirit Imprint between beast and Mage would sever. His Summoned Beast could have gone rogue..."

"I should have talked him out of it sooner," Gu Han muttered, walking faster. "Forcibly advancing a Summoned Beast doesn't just drain resources — it's genuinely dangerous."

Luo Song and Shen Mingxiao perked up at those words, eyes shining.

*Please. Let it be true.* That deadbeat Mo Fan — his Summoned Beast goes rogue, he burns through a fortune, and on top of that loses an entire elemental system. That's basically getting crippled.

The four of them stepped quickly into the training hall — and stopped.

Mo Fan stood at the far end, boots planted on a carpet of crimson flame spreading across the floor. The heat lifted his hair around him, and his expression was perfectly, infuriatingly calm.

On the other side of that fire carpet stood a creature unlike anything they had expected. Its coat was long and black, its frame a perfect marriage of power and elegance. The lower portions of its legs faded into a pale lunar white, as though it stood upon moonlit cloud — lending it an air of weightless, almost impossible lightness.

Where most wolf-type creatures bore exposed, jutting fangs, this one was different. Its canines were long and curved like a saber-toothed predator's, gleaming the same lunar white as its paws, like natural armor shielding its jaw. The contrast between black and white was seamless — a harmony that radiated something rare. Fierce, beautiful, and untamed.

"This is...?" Teacher Qiu Yuhua pulled off his reading glasses. He stared across the room at the wolf creature, and something rare happened: his composure cracked, and pure awe took its place.

Teacher Gu Han was no expert on Demon-Beast breeds, but one look told him this creature was anything but Common Grade. He found himself genuinely tempted — *if I ever break through to High-Level, maybe it's worth awakening a Summoning Element and getting myself a beast like this...*

"A Swift Star Wolf!!" Qiu Yuhua finally spoke the name, his voice carrying a note of undisguised excitement. "It's actually a Swift Star Wolf — the most agile subspecies among all wolf-type Demon-Beasts!"

"So... so Mo Fan's Summoned Beast actually ascended?!" Gu Han stared at the magnificent creature with an expression of pure disbelief.

A Battle-General-class creature in combat was easily worth several ordinary Intermediate-Level Mages combined. For any Summoning Element student, possessing a Battle Commander Summoned Beast meant a decisive advantage over peers of the same generation. Lu Zhenghe had once been a perfect example — with his Battle Commander beast at his side, he had fought one against three, brimming with arrogance, and even top-tier Intermediate-Level Mages like Shen Mingxiao and Mu Nujiao had been hard-pressed to handle him.

Of course, advancing a Summoned Beast from Servant-class to Battle-General-class demanded several times the effort and resources of any other elemental path. When Mo Fan first joined the academy, his Gloom Wolf Beast in its Ascension Phase had made him unstoppable — but a year later, while others' strength steadily grew, the beast's power had stagnated. That was the cruel reality of the Summoning Element path: you either rose to greatness or fell into irrelevance.

Now there was no longer any doubt. Mo Fan had become the former.

With a Battle Commander Summoned Beast at his side, his combat power hadn't merely grown by a fraction — it had outright doubled.