The Battle Queen They Blindly Kicked Out (Joanna) novel Chapter 2

Chapter 2 One Million and Two Hundred Twenty Thousand

Tears slid down Joanna’s cheeks, but she wiped them away hard.
Crying was the most useless thing she could do.
Joanna had to pull herself together.
She first checked the information on her account. She still owed 30,000 Starcoins in student loans, so there was no way she could borrow more money through normal channels.
There was only one month left before the SAT.
She also had to move out of the villa that Trinity High had prepared for Lucas and the others and return to the regular dorms.
Luckily, her teacher seemed to have known about this already. After all, changing team members required approval from the homeroom teacher.
“Joanna, the school also faces college placement pressure. Lucas changing teammates is also taking responsibility for their future. Don’t be too sad. Over the past few years, they have brought you through many dungeons and helped you gain a lot of Attribute Points. Reaching Level 9 is already very good,” homeroom teacher Drake Schneider said earnestly.
Joanna stayed silent.
“So, they told you that they were the ones who carried me through the dungeons?”
Joanna stressed her words, her voice dripping with sarcasm.
It was clearly she who made the strategies, handled logistics, bought all kinds of potions, and fully used her abilities. Sometimes she even calculated skill timing and counted steps to avoid monsters’ attack patterns.
Yet in their eyes, it was them carrying her.
“Then what else could it be? They all have S-rank talents and strong classes. You still don’t have a summoned beast, so of course they carried you. You should try to understand others and think more about how good they were to you,” Drake replied.
Joanna’s nails dug into her palms, the frustration almost choking her.
She didn’t bother correcting Drake.
“Mr. Schneider, I want to form a new team. Please approve it.”
“Joanna, have you thought about switching to a logistics class? If you apply now, no one will join your team. You also can’t clear dungeon records alone.”
“No, I can do it! Please approve it as soon as possible!”
Drake sighed helplessly but finally agreed.
“Then what is your new team’s name?”
Joanna clenched her teeth.
“Shattered Dawn.”
Drake could tell Joanna still hated Lucas, but that didn’t matter anymore.
A person’s future was decided the moment they awakened.
Still, he approved the request and transferred Joanna’s dorm to an empty room on campus, Building 14, Floor 4, Room 4.
Because the location was bad, no one lived there, so Joanna could have a single room.
Joanna packed her things at top speed.
She had lived here for three years, yet her luggage was pitifully little. That was not only because she was deeply in debt, but also because the team subsidies from the school had all been spent on her four teammates.
After leaving the team, she actually felt lighter.
Ding!
A special alert popped up on her communicator.
She opened it and immediately sat up straight.
It was from a powerful Summoner she followed, also a professor at Alliance Academy. This expert was deeply knowledgeable about summoning circles and had just released a new research project.
“The latest summoning circle researched by the Space Alliance, the Bloodcall Circle, can forcibly summon powerful beings from other realms and bind them. The circle consumes affinity points to attract more contracted companions, with a higher chance of humanoid beings. However, note that this is an equal contract, binding on both sides. It is harder to cultivate and extremely dangerous…”
Joanna automatically ignored the part about danger.
To her, having no summoned beast and failing the SAT was far more dangerous.
But when she saw the price of the circle, she was still shocked.
“Required materials: 1.2 million Starcoins.”
“This is my last chance!”
Joanna gritted her teeth and decided to use some unconventional methods.
She was going to take out loans.
She immediately started searching for loan companies, and there were plenty of them online.
She registered her information. Some companies also required photos. One by one, she signed up with 26 loan companies and borrowed a total of 520,000 Starcoins.
Soon, her communicator lit up with a new message.
“Joanna, are you in urgent need of money? We saw the photos from your registration. We can raise your credit limit, but we need one special photo.”
“What?” Joanna asked.
“Nudes.”
Joanna cursed silently. Get lost!
That was her absolute bottom line.
“I won’t take that kind of photo. But you know I’m good-looking, my talent is S-rank, and I have the ability to repay. How about raising my limit anyway?”
When they heard about her S-rank talent, their tone became much more enthusiastic. After some bargaining, they raised her limit to 100,000 Starcoins.
That gave Joanna an idea. She contacted six more companies, and each one also offered a 100,000 limit.
With 1.22 million Starcoins in hand, she immediately opened her class panel, tapped into the built-in marketplace, and started buying materials.
She purchased large amounts of Bloodcall Circle materials, and the Starcoins in her account vanished.
The materials for the circle were finally complete.
While setting up the circle, she cut her palm and let her blood flow into it. The circle activated at once.
A system voice rang out.
“Bloodcall Circle activated. Do you wish to consume your affinity points and summon a contract beast compatible with you?”
“Yes!”
“Please enter the amount of affinity points to be consumed.”
Without hesitation, Joanna entered the maximum.
It was exactly 100 points.
Joanna currently had 100 affinity points. Over the past three years, she had hunted 10,000 monsters.
That wasn’t actually much. In fact, it was a bit low.
Only the player who landed the final blow received 20% of the monster’s experience and the loot, which went directly into their inventory.
She rarely had the right to deal with the finishing blow.
To raise her affinity points, she had gone to low-level dungeons to hunt monsters alone. But after reaching 100 points, she stopped.
That was because high affinity points came with negative effects. She noticed her teammates’ gazes growing more filled with desire, and she even attracted some obsessive pursuers.
Besides, it wasn’t a stat that affected direct combat.
She didn’t have a summoned beast anyway, so she didn’t dare raise it further. Now she planned to spend it all at once.
She hoped to summon a powerful contract beast.
After the circle released a deep crimson light, it pierced through countless parallel universes and finally stopped on a barren planet.
This parallel universe was located on Exile Star in the Medusa Galaxy.
This was where sentinels who had lost their guides, lost their sanity, and mutated into twisted monsters were cast away.
The planet was filled with deformed creatures. Their eyes were full of chaos, sometimes clear, sometimes mad. Their unstable genes made these twisted sentinels terrifyingly destructive.
Like sharks smelling blood, they went crazy and rushed toward the circle, trying to enter it.
The signal coming from the circle was sweet and tempting, making their very genes stir. As long as they entered the circle, they could meet the one calling them.
But at that moment, a terrifying pressure descended.
The blood moon turned bright red and released an ominous glow. A massive crack split open in its center.
It looked like a giant eye opening, staring down at the land and locking onto the summoning circle.
All the twisted beasts trembled and dared not come closer.
In the distance, enormous mountains collapsed. A gigantic silver wolf shook its fur, each strand seeming sharp enough to tear space itself.
As it walked closer, the surrounding space blurred. The moon above its head looked as if it had fallen onto its forehead, showing just how massive it was.
Only then did it become clear that it wasn’t the moon at all. It was its power. Its extra third eye.