The cool touch came from his palm. After a brief shake, Wang Lin withdrew his hand.
Ding-a-ling!
Just at this moment, the class bell rang, and Ma Yuyuan clapped his hands.
"Prepare for class. The class monitor and vice class monitor come up to hand out the soul tool metal."
Saying this, Ma Yuyuan waved his hand. A full twenty-eight square metal blocks appeared on the podium.
"Okay, Teacher Ma." A light and ethereal female voice rang out. A girl with an ordinary appearance wearing black-rimmed glasses stood up and walked toward the podium.
She was clearly the vice class monitor Ma Yuyuan mentioned.
Xiao Hongchen, as the class monitor, walked onto the podium unhurriedly. The metal blocks were distributed one by one to the students in the class.
A metal block the size of a fist was placed in front of Wang Lin. Wang Lin picked up the metal block and observed it. He felt it was no different from an ordinary iron block, but it was considerably lighter in weight than an iron block of the same volume.
It had to be said, as expected of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy, even the material used to make the shell of the soul tool was soul tool metal. They were truly wealthy and powerful.
After all the soul tool metal had been handed out, Ma Yuyuan, standing on the podium, said in a deep voice.
"Take out your weapons."
As his voice fell, the storage soul tools of all the students in the class lit up. Carving knives of various shapes and colors were taken out by the students. Only one person took out something other than a carving knife.
Clang!
The sound of the forging hammer colliding firmly with the desk rang out. The sound wasn't loud, but the quiet environment made it noticeable, attracting the attention of almost everyone. Ma Yuyuan, standing on the podium, frowned as he looked at Wang Lin who had taken out a hammer.
Wang Lin reached out to grab the forging hammer placed on the desk and naturally realized that something was wrong.
"Wang Lin, haven't you studied soul tools?" Ma Yuyuan's puzzled voice rang out.
"Uh, I haven't. What's wrong?"
Wang Lin asked in return. He was very confused now. Shouldn't learning soul tools involve striking iron? Why is everyone holding a carving knife and not a hammer?
"If you haven't studied soul tools, how were you placed in Class 1?"
Ma Yuyuan frowned, looking at Wang Lin doubtfully.
Class 1 was the traditional special training class of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy. The members who could enter Class 1 either had seniors who were high-level Soul Engineers in the Illustrious Virtue Hall or were genius students who shone brightly during enrollment.
Regardless of the type of student, they all had a foundation in soul tools, and quite a few students were already certified Soul Engineers.
Therefore, the homeroom teacher for Class 1 every year was a high-level Soul Engineer, precisely to provide individual guidance to the students of Class 1. That's why Class 1 was called the special training class.
The homeroom teachers of other classes were at most Level 4 Soul Engineers.
"Uh, I don't know?"
Wang Lin shook his head, answering blankly. He couldn't possibly reveal his identity as Long Xiaoyao's disciple.
"Teacher Ma, he is not a native of the Sun Moon Empire."
Xiao Hongchen's voice rang out at this time. After saying one sentence, he turned to look at Wang Lin, noticing the forging hammer in Wang Lin's hand, a look of contempt on his face.
"My Sun Moon Empire is different from the three great empires. Soul Engineers haven't needed to strike iron for a long time. Do you think you are still in one of the three great empires?"
Wang Lin glanced at Xiao Hongchen and did not argue with him.
Ma Yuyuan also walked down from the podium at this time, approaching Wang Lin, a hint of helplessness on his face.
"Put the forging hammer away. With the progress of metal refining technology, the production of soul tool metal shells no longer requires manual forging in the Sun Moon Empire."
"More importantly, the carving of soul guide arrays is a fine, precise operation. Soul Engineers need to ensure sufficient stability in their hands. Long periods of manual hammering are not a good thing for a Soul Engineer."
He explained to Wang Lin. Wang Lin listened to the explanation and put away the forging hammer with some embarrassment.
Sigh!
I was misled by the original work.
Wang Lin had wondered why Soul Engineers would need to strike iron. He had just been puzzled why soul tool metal was handed out in the classroom.
He hadn't expected that the soul tool metal was meant to be used as a soul tool metal base, left for them to carve soul guide arrays on.
As expected, the situation in the original work cannot be completely trusted. After all, this is the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy, not Shrek Academy.
"Did you bring a carving knife?" Ma Yuyuan looked at Wang Lin and asked.
"I brought..." Wang Lin was just about to nod, when Meng Hongchen beside him suddenly spoke up: "If you didn't bring one, I can lend you mine."
Wang Lin turned back. Meng Hongchen extended her hand toward him. In her palm was a delicate pink-blue carving knife; it was obviously a girl's carving knife.
"Then thank you." Thinking for a moment, Wang Lin still took the carving knife. He indeed had carving knives on him, but both were Listed Carving Knives. The Snow Toad Carving Knife, needless to say, couldn't be taken out temporarily.
As for the Dark Azure Dragon, he felt from Elder Yi's words that it had some issues, so it was better not to take it out. It just so happens that I've moved into the academy.
I'll ask Elder Yi to check it tonight to resolve any issues before I take it out for use.
"No need to thank me." Meng Hongchen spoke. For some reason, she seemed somewhat happy.
"If you have one, wait for me." Ma Yuyuan, who had watched the whole process, nodded, said a sentence, and walked back to the podium.
His storage soul tool flashed, and three more blocks of soul tool metal appeared in his hand. However, unlike the previous soul tool metal, the newly taken out blocks were covered with dense patterns.
One was more complex than the other. Ma Yuyuan first handed the most complex soul tool metal to Xiao Hongchen.
"Carve it out. Ask if you have any questions."
"Mn."
Xiao Hongchen took the soul tool metal, glanced at it simply, handed it to his sister, and used a blood-colored carving knife to start carving on the soul tool metal that had been handed out earlier.
Countless metal shavings scattered. Meng Hongchen took the carving knife, also scanned it a few times, and then, like Xiao Hongchen, immediately began carving.
"Vice Class Monitor, lead your group to study."
Ma Yuyuan handed the second most complex soul tool metal to the vice class monitor, then handed the remaining soul tool metal with the simplest patterns to a small fat boy.
"Ye Ran, lead your group to discuss and study."
Thus, the class of less than thirty students was divided into four parts. One part was the siblings Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, who focused on carving the soul tool metal in their hands.
One part was the vice class monitor leading seven students, with the ordinary-looking girl holding the soul guide array and explaining the difficult points to her group members. One part was the small fat boy named Ye Ran leading the remaining students in discussion and research.
And finally, Wang Lin, standing alone, staring blankly at Ma Yuyuan, not knowing what to do.
"Wang Lin, wait for me. I'll go borrow a textbook from the class next door."
Fortunately, Ma Yuyuan hadn't forgotten that Wang Lin had no foundation at all. He went to the class next door and brought back a textbook on Level 1 Soul Guide Core Arrays for Wang Lin.
"Read this yourself first, and you can try carving it out too."
Handing the textbook to Wang Lin, this homeroom teacher truly didn't know how to teach a student who had never studied soul tools before.