You Ditched an R-Rank, Now That I’m an SSR, You Wanna Cry?-Chapter 2: Ever-Changing SSRs

Xia Yuan was completely baffled by being yelled at.
Why are you shouting so loudly!
This woman was truly blind as a bat, actually thinking he was just an ordinary R-card?
While he understood the frustration of losing the gacha pity system, that didn't give her the right to insult him so wantonly!
Xia Yuan's eyes turned cold as he chuckled twice, expressing his speechlessness.
Jiang Li became even more triggered by his chuckling. "How dare a worthless R-card like you laugh at me?"
Spiritual energy fluctuations rippled around her, making the golden-threaded uniform robe exclusive to Spirit Tamers flutter violently. She suddenly raised her hand and severed the soul connection with Xia Yuan without the slightest hesitation.
"You think you're worthy of being contracted by me?"
"A trash card like you is just wasting energy by existing in this world!"
"You're not even worthy of being my foot rag!"
"Understand?!"
"Waste!"
When a Spirit Tamer first draws a character from the card pool, there's a soul connection between them to maintain the Contracted Spirit's basic existence.
The Spirit Tamer who draws the character also has first contract rights.
Many Spirit Tamers, even if they don't get a satisfactory Contracted Spirit, won't immediately sever the connection but instead sell it to others or official institutions to recoup some losses.
Xia Yuan was genuinely angered into laughter.
She gets triggered herself and has to vent her anger on him?
Since she was going to extremes, he wouldn't leave her any room either.
"Wow! Which mental hospital left their door unlocked and let you out to bite people?"
Xia Yuan wasn't about to indulge her and immediately retorted:
"You think I wanted to be drawn by you? If I'd known it would be such a shortsighted madwoman, I'd rather have rotted in the card pool!"
Jiang Li froze slightly, not expecting an R-card to talk back.
"You...!"
"You garbage card, stole my pity pull, and still dare to curse me?"
Xia Yuan tutted twice, looking at her as if she were an idiot. "Your luck is so bad it could serve as the ancestral totem for the Chief of Unlucky, and when others mock you until you get angry from shame, you blame me? What an idiot!"
The entire venue was stunned.
The surrounding students never expected this R-card to be so good at cursing...
Which Contracted Spirit descending from the card pool didn't come with their own imposing aura, silent and aloof?
One that could engage in passionate mutual cursing with a Spirit Tamer right after landing—this was truly something they'd never seen in their lives.
"You... you you you..."
Jiang Li's fingertips trembled as if she had Parkinson's, unable to utter anything beyond "garbage" and "waste," her pretty face turning purplish.
Xia Yuan impatiently picked at his ear. "Alright, alright, you've been introducing yourself for quite a while now, we know you're waste garbage, no need to be a broken record anymore."
Suppressed laughter erupted from below the stage.
Jiang Li knew she looked like a clown now and didn't want to continue making a spectacle of herself.
She stomped her foot in frustration, collected the other resources she'd drawn, turned and left the high platform, snarling viciously:
"See? An R-card is just an R-card, doesn't have any of the dignity a Contracted Spirit should have. Just wait to be annihilated!"
Xia Yuan felt his increasingly weak state and his expression turned serious.
Indeed, his situation was somewhat dangerous.
Without a contract, he would disappear, equivalent to death!
But with his R-rank level, it would indeed be difficult to find someone willing to contract him.
Xia Yuan scanned the entire venue and found the young Spirit Tamers' gazes particularly piercing, filled with contempt and disdain, all watching for entertainment.
He took a deep breath and had no choice but to recommend himself:
"I'm not an ordinary R-card, but a hidden character in the card pool."
"Whoever contracts me is guaranteed profit without loss, I'll carry you to victory!"
For now.
To survive, he had to promote himself.
However, Xia Yuan's words only triggered explosive laughter throughout the venue:
"Pfft haha, this R-card Contracted Spirit is just too funny, actually calling himself a hidden card pool character?"
"Understood, new Contracted Spirit type—comedy performer type!"
"Don't say that, he'd actually be pretty good as a mood-lifter in a Contracted Spirit team!"
"An R-card waste spirit dares to boast about carrying? Is he going to laugh monsters to death or something..."
"An R-card Contracted Spirit should just obediently dissipate, who would be foolish enough to contract a trash card character, wasting spiritual energy..."
"......"
Mocking laughter continued.
Below the stage, Jiang Li crossed her arms and sneered, "Still talking tough when death is imminent. Today I'm going to personally watch how you turn to ashes!"
She leisurely watched the youth on the platform, her eyes full of disdain.
Listening to the full venue's mockery, Xia Yuan's heart sank to the bottom.
It's over...
These locals simply don't understand what a potential stock means!
With this web novel protagonist-like humiliating start, no one wants to contract him?
Don't these guys usually read Tomato Novels?
Time passed.
Throughout the entire Chuanbei Spirit Tamer Academy, still no one was willing to contract a worthless R-card.
Xia Yuan's figure grew increasingly illusory, his presence constantly fading.
He felt quite helpless.
Was he going to die immediately after transmigrating? This is too humiliating!
As long as the contract succeeded, he could transform into SSR and obtain ceiling-level combat power.
Just at that moment.
A commotion arose below the stage.
Someone exclaimed:
"It's Mo Shiyu!"
The crowd behind suddenly parted to create a path.
"So beautiful, truly worthy of being the beauty who immediately topped Chuanbei's school belle ranking as soon as she arrived! I heard her spiritual power is also first among this year's freshmen!"
"Chuanbei Mo Family? That's a major family that produces and cultivates SR Contracted Spirits!"
"Hisss... this appearance... this figure, if you told me she was an SSR character from the card pool, I'd believe it!"
"She came to the Myriad Realm Living Beings Card Pool to draw cards too?"
"Goddess Mo seems to only have one C-rank support-type Contracted Spirit—that little cat perched on her shoulder. As a freshman, she definitely still lacks a main DPS!"
"......"
Xia Yuan looked up and immediately spotted that school belle from the crowd.
She was simply too eye-catching, with skin so fair it seemed to glow, a tall and slender figure, and exquisitely beautiful features.
What's more, she didn't have the ordinary oval face, but instead a slightly baby-faced cuteness.
Although her expression carried a distant aloofness that kept people at arm's length, her large, clear black-and-white eyes were innocent and pure like a young deer in the forest, inexplicably giving off a somewhat adorably clueless vibe.
A cute black cat with snow-white wings perched on her shoulder.
The pure white Spirit Tamer robe trimmed with gold thread couldn't conceal her exceptional "S"-shaped figure, and her straight, jade-like long legs were faintly visible as she walked, like a breathtaking illustration that had stepped out of the 2D world!
This kind of mature beauty with some cute attributes certainly had a unique charm.
Xia Yuan couldn't help but take a few more glances.
Before dying, being able to see an otherworldly beautiful school belle at least meant it wasn't a wasted journey...
Mo Shiyu's gaze swept across the card pool platform and finally stopped on the youth wearing the "Chinese Youth" T-shirt, her pupils slightly contracting!
From a perspective others couldn't see, a golden screen popped up before her eyes, showing that R-rank Contracted Spirit's panel attributes:
[Contracted Spirit True Name: Xia Yuan]
[Rank: R]
[Level: 1]
[Race: Human]
[Combat Power Value: 1 (Barely qualifies as human)]
[Skills: None]
[Growth Potential: SSS+MAX!]
[Hidden Attribute: Ever-changing SSR!]
[Contract Recommendation Index: Full Stars!]
[Tip: Super incredibly rare card pool character! Host must must contract!! Miss this and regret it for life!!!]
Mo Shiyu appeared cold and aloof on the surface, but internally, tidal waves of shock surged, utterly astonished!
Since childhood, she had had a little-known ability—she could see through unclaimed Contracted Spirits' stats and potential to consider whether to contract them.
Ever-changing SSR?!
Both growth potential and Contracted Spirit recommendation index were almost maxed out!
And the data displayed by this R-rank Contracted Spirit before her was something she had never seen before.
Looking at the already semi-transparent Contracted Spirit, Mo Shiyu immediately made a decision and quickly ran forward.
Her ability couldn't be wrong.
This R-card—she had to contract it!