Cataclysm King

Chapter 459 Semester Assessment Trial

Time passed by and it turned into several months before I realized it.

Ji Xun came to the Royal Academy for the extraordinary knowledge in the library.

So he gave up almost all unnecessary social activities.

No dances, no dinner parties, no participation in any extraordinary societies

Everyday life is almost a matter of two points and one line between the library and the teaching building.

Every day he was immersed in the ocean of books, absorbing vast amounts of extraordinary knowledge like a whale.

But the Royal Academy's collection of books is simply too vast.

Even if there was a clone, Ji Xun felt that it might take him hundreds of years to finish reading it.

However, the good thing is that although the Royal Academy has countless books, it is also very regular.

This is the result compiled by countless predecessors of the academy over two thousand years.

The books on the bookshelf are not like sand, giving people a messy feeling.

But it's like a "tree".

The library's billions of books are divided into categories.

A category is a big tree.

Like fire spells, this is a big category, like "tree trunk".

Then it divided into many "branches", such as element theory, spell structure, curse seal, incantation, enchantment, mystery, etc.

Finally, there are the colorful and confusing spells like various "leaves".

The entire library is a forest of knowledge.

Each category has detailed notes from some authoritative card masters in this field, as well as labels from librarians to guide readers on how to choose the direction they need.

This greatly improves the book-finding and reading efficiency of students who come to the library.

And Ji Xun's understanding is extremely high, and his ontological realm is also very high.

Read those basic classics and you will know almost everything.

For many categories of books, you can basically understand the general framework of this type of knowledge by reading the general outline and then finding a few representative works.

Coupled with his photographic memory and multi-tasking ability to read multiple classics at the same time, he has read a large number of books in the past few months.

He has roughly covered almost every category in the library.

When you see your own shortcomings and what you are interested in, learn more about it, even if it is literature, art, or history.

The legend of the Southern Continent is the origin of the Kashi civilization. Although it is not as glorious as the Talon Empire in the Old Continent, in terms of historical depth, it far exceeds the Old Continent.

These classics contained a large amount of knowledge about chronological civilizations that Ji Xun had never heard of before.

Doxir Civilization, Lordaeron Civilization, Alterac Ruins Civilization, and Ancient Rodami River Civilization.

All kinds of ancient documents that I saw when I visited the Adventurer Market in previous seasons can be found in the library.

These classics are like the mysterious veil that shrouds the world, being lifted layer by layer.

Visibly, Ji Xun understood more about the world.

Ji Xun gradually lost his sense of presence in the college because he spent a long time in the library.

In contrast, the reputations of the other members of Team 16 of the Langdon Family are becoming more and more famous among the freshmen of the academy.

Especially David, Gang Duoduo, and Seri.

After successfully changing careers, their strength and talents have truly exploded.

Because of the "S-level" evaluation in the trials when they entered school, several people have been challenged.

This high-intensity challenging rhythm gave them valuable practical experience. In addition, the magical mystical skills and 100,000 credits given as a starting reward allow them to grow at an even more amazing rate than other students.

Even the nun group Zhuosha and the assassin Gale are among the best in their profession.

this day.

Ji Xun walked out of the library.

At the entrance of the library, five teammates who had blocked the door early saw him immediately and greeted him enthusiastically: "Hey, Su Lun, we are here!"

Ji Xun walked over with a smile and said hello, "Are you all here?"

Hearing this, Seri complained: "You guys are really serious. You didn't even prepare for the semester trial today, and you're still hanging out in the library?"

Ji Xun chuckled when he heard this, "A trial is a trial, what's there to prepare for?"

Even though this guy has a lizard face, he is kinder at heart than most humans.

Hearing this, Zhuo Sha's face under the black and white nun's hood showed a faint smile, and said: "That's right. For others, this kind of trial must be well prepared. But for [Erudition], in the book Reading in the library is all you need to do to prepare.”

"hehe."

Ji Xun smiled noncommittally.

This "polymath" is joking, but also serious.

Now the teammates are very familiar with each other, and their tone of voice is not unfamiliar.

As soon as these words came out, the teammates responded with smiles.

"yes."

"Haha, others think that our team of Langdon Sixteen is probably David, or maybe Seri and Duoduo. But let me tell you, I think Su Lun is the best. This guy knows everything, I don't know how he can Lose. It’s a pity that no one came to challenge him.”

"He spends time in the library every day. It's weird to find him. But having said that, we have to give full play to this trial. I heard that there are generous rewards for the top few. Come on, let's quickly go to the back mountain to assemble. Otherwise, the instructor will punish you if you are late."

"There's no need to be in such a hurry. If Su Lun comes out at this time, we have already calculated the time. We will definitely not be late."

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Ji Xun just smiled as he listened.

As his teammates said, in fact, the most powerful person in their team is of course him.

However, his teammates didn't really see his strength, but it came from the tacit understanding of the team.

Only teammates who have participated in team trials together know how lucky it is to have a teammate who "knows everything".

Starting from the entrance test and the assassination, to the later awards competition and team training.

Just once, it’s the same every time.

No matter what situation he encounters, he can come up with reasonable and even refreshing tactics; he knows a thing or two about any mechanism, restrictions, and spells; especially in theory classes, he can always deliver perfect answers.

This guy perfectly explained the outrageousness of the [Eruditionist] career sequence.

Although Ji Xun's performance in the battle was not outstanding, his teammates had no doubt that this guy must be very powerful.

Especially David felt the deepest.

As a slave, he could not enjoy any teaching resources, so in the past few months, almost all the problems he encountered in practice were solved by Ji Xun.

Although he didn't know how clever those things Ji Xun pointed out were.

But he can understand [Hegemony Fist], and he has a clear heart of martial arts.

He could rely on martial arts intuition to feel that this teammate was really special.

He was confident that he could fight any card master of the same level he had seen. Even if he lost, he knew where he would lose.

However, when seeing Ji Xun, David always felt elusive and didn't even know how to make a move.

It seems that no matter what move you make, the other party will definitely predict it.

This was a sense of oppression that he could not feel from any student of the same level.

Of course Ji Xun knew that David would notice the difference in him.

The initial plan was to be completely transparent and hang out in the library.

Later, I found out that David was a disciple of Gong Wu, so I gave him some advice.

As long as there is a purpose, the line of cause and effect will of course have flaws.

But it's not a big problem.

The "powerfulness" perceived by his teammates is still within a reasonable range.

Moreover, this impression allowed Ji Xun to perform better in this assessment.

That's right.

These days are the college’s midterm trials.

It is said to be a trial, but it is actually an assessment.

Just like the exams in previous lives, this is the activity that students are most looking forward to and most anxious about.

After coming to the college to study for a year, it’s time to check your learning results.

What we expect is that just like the entrance examination, there will also be surprise rewards in the examination, which is one of the most important ways for students to obtain a large number of credits;

What is disturbing is that this kind of assessment has a death quota.

Every year, many unlucky people, or guys who are lazy in their studies, die suddenly in the trial.

However, this is a mandatory assessment and no one can escape it.

Even the princes and princesses are the same.

This was also the reason why Ji Xun didn't spend a whole day in the library on his rare day off.

When they arrived at Ji Xun, the team of six people walked towards the back hill of the academy.

The strong strength also gave everyone confidence.

Several people had no worries about the upcoming trial, only expectations.

On the way to the back mountain, there were groups of first-year students. Everyone was going for the trial, and they were all talking about trial-related matters. "Hey, what do you think the theme of this year's trial will be? I heard from the seniors that it would be fine if it is a normal adventure mode. But if it is a war theme, many people will die in [Babel Tower] every year."

"Who knows. Anyway, our team's overall strength is not strong. Even in war mode, we will not get too difficult trial tasks. But in that case, we will get fewer credits and rewards."

"Yes. After I accumulated those points and exchanged them for a book of arcane martial arts, I only have a few dozen points left. I'm still waiting to earn a little more from this assessment, exchange them for the permission of the 'practice room', and break through the boxing bottleneck. I hope the trial is a little more difficult.”

"Look, that's the team from Duke Langdon's Mansion! The auras of those guys are so strong. I heard that three of their team are among the top 50 in the first-year strength list."

"Hmph! They're just lucky nouveau riche. Isn't it because of the '100,000 credits' and magic mystical skills that they are able to reach their current level? If it were given to me, I would definitely be good."

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As Ji Xun and his teammates walked along, of course they heard the gossip.

But I have long been used to it.

In the Southern Continent, being powerful is envied by others, which is something to be proud of.

Other teams may still be short of points. Except for David, everyone in their team has a stock of 100,000 points.

It’s only been a few months and I can’t spend it all.

The dwarves were outspoken. Gang Duoduo didn't take the gossip seriously, but muttered as he walked: "Ah, I still have a lot of credits, and it doesn't matter what the trial rewards are. But I don't care about the 'Tower of Babel Trial Ranking' I’m very interested. Do you think our team will set a new record?”

Hearing this, Seri smiled and joked: "How can you have too many credits? Just exchange for some high-end things, and tens of thousands of points will be gone. I have spent tens of thousands of points in the past few months."

Sister Zhuo Sha also said: "Yes. After you advance to a higher level, more and more credits will be needed to redeem extraordinary materials. Of course, the more credits, the better. I am preparing the materials required for the second-level job transfer materials. I will go and see After that, many materials for the Yaoyin Card will require tens of thousands of credits."

Gale's eyes were full of expectations for the future: "Now that the magic mystical method is available, if possible, I plan to exchange it for the legendary demon mark. But I saw that it would cost hundreds of thousands of credits, and I am still working hard to save it. "

Gang Duoduo: "Ah? I almost forgot, we dwarves don't use demon marks. I don't need much materials. I just use the 'training room' to train every day, and I can't spend all my money."

Everyone: "."

Ji Xun couldn't help laughing when he heard this.

However, several others are more or less proud.

And he is really lacking.

Others thought that he was able to stay in the independent reading room on the second floor of the library for a long time because of the 100,000 credits awarded in the semester assessment.

The reality is that those 100,000 credits are long gone.

It still took the tens of thousands of points left in Griffith's library card to last until now.

Now a few months have passed, and the credits in his student card are only a few hundred points.

And he estimated that in the future, just to redeem those classics in his must-read catalog, there would still be a huge gap of hundreds of thousands of credits.

Not to mention redeeming other items.

So in this trial, Ji Xun felt that if possible, he would really get as much as possible.

The entire Royal Academy is built at the foot of the Titan Mountains.

Ji Xun and the other six walked along the road paved with boulders for nearly ten kilometers from the library in the center of the college before arriving at the back mountain.

There is a special building that is a hundred stories high.

It has a special name that exists in mythology—the Tower of Babel!

This is another place in the Royal Academy that makes Ji Xun very curious.

Because Griffith said, this is the fragment of the inherited artifact that was trained by the Talon Dynasty Royal Academy three thousand years ago.

Ji Xun has even seen him before.

That was the "Shenxu Treasure House" that Jia Yu used to destroy the Scarlet Red and Silver Moon sects.

And this Tower of Babel is another part of the inherited artifact.

It seems that this tower is a building, but in reality, it can create a trial place that can accommodate tens of thousands of people at a time.

The trial scenes in the tower are independent magical worlds, where trialists can obtain rewards by taking risks and completing tasks.

In other words, this is an "artificial extradimensional space"!

And it is a different-dimensional space that is controllable to a certain extent.

If you really want to judge the heritage of the Royal Academy of Airel, this tower accounts for at least one-third.

Even many collections and treasures in the library were brought out of this tower by students.

After coming to the academy for so long, Ji Xun saw this [Babel Tower] for the first time.

Seeing this towering white tower, he narrowed his eyes slightly. While being shocked by the miraculous majesty, he also murmured in his heart: "Controllable extra-dimensional space, who created the existence of this artifact in the first place? What level of gods are they?"

Artificially creating extra-dimensional spaces is like creating worlds.

Ordinary people cannot understand it, nor would they try to understand it.

But Ji Xun is not like that.

In the deduction of "I am the world", the logical and self-consistent virtual worlds made him seem to have glimpsed a vague shadow of the extraordinary and supreme realm.

But at the same time, he thought of another question: "It's strange, where does the energy from the Tower of Babel come from."

No matter what secret realm, it needs energy support.

Just like the battle in Innocence City, Jia Yu was able to drive the Shenxu treasure house, but he still used up the little information left by Nan Shenyu, the last priest of Talon three thousand years ago.

I used it once and now I don’t know how to use it a second time.

But now, the Tower of Babel of Airel Royal Academy opens trials to all students every year.

It lasted for thousands of years, and the energy consumed was terrifying.

So, where does the energy for this tower come from?

It seems that the college's senior management deliberately concealed this fact.

Griffith didn't even find out when he came to be his mentor, but you can imagine how deep the secret is.

Of course Ji Xun became more and more curious.

As his teammates joked, Ji Xun went out on time.

When he arrived, the first-year students had almost gathered.

Before long, the deputy dean in charge of first-year studies stood on the stage and began to speak.

"Students, the assessment trial to test your learning achievements has begun."

"The theme of this year's trial is 'Ancient Civilization Exploration'. The extradimensional space opened by the Babel Tower this time is also a space rich in treasures. I hope everyone will actively explore it."

"The academy has still set up generous rewards for this assessment. The top 100 teams will receive a large number of credits, relics, martial arts, and materials as rewards."

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Although Ji Xun was thinking about other issues in his mind, he also listened carefully to the vice dean's trial rules.

In general, it's pretty much what he knows.

The rules and rewards are also similar to the trials in previous years.

Trials are conducted as a team, and points are obtained for final ranking.

Students can not only get rewards from the trial space, but also get additional academy rewards based on their ranking.

Ji Xun estimated that for the top ten teams in the trial, the academy's rewards would be worth more than 100,000 credits.

Although their team is strong, it often depends on luck.

It is true that the trial in the Babel Tower is a human-controllable extra-dimensional space.

But even the hospital only has a small amount of authority to choose the difficulty and dispatch observers.

And cannot control the direction of the plot and the hidden risks.

This is also the reason why people die every year in the trials.

This kind of assessment trial is a very strange experience for noble students who have never participated in adventures since childhood.

But for Ji Xun, who is familiar with exploring various wild extra-dimensional spaces, there is nothing new.

In his view, this is essentially a low-level extra-dimensional space that controls risks.

Not even that much of an interest.

Just as Ji Xun was thinking about it, the vice-dean in front finished speaking.

Then a female voice came to my ears: "Students, everyone is ready, we are about to enter the trial space. Remember to be careful to ensure your own safety."

It was a young woman with red hair who spoke.

This is the fourth-level flame dragon girl, Chilona, ​​who is the mentor and assistant to more than fifty people in Ji Xun's team.

If Ji Xun guessed correctly, this person's identity was not just an assistant coach. But the college is still investigating the assassination of Sack, and specially arranged investigators.

In the past few months of contact, Ji Xun discovered that Chilona, ​​through her identity as an assistant coach, was intentionally or unintentionally contacting their team to get some clues.

Although the method was clever, except for Ji Xun, no one else in the team knew what was going on.

Of course the investigation was fruitless.

The other party posed no threat to him, so he ignored it.

But for some reason, Ji Xun had a special premonition at this critical moment of the trial.

He always felt that this woman seemed to have some other hidden purpose.

(End of chapter)