- Hello again, applicants, oh, that is, Freshmen.
Erald and Haldar immediately recognized this guy. This was their so-called fifth Judge of the fifth trial, Wistan.
- Hello to you too
Haldar and Erald greeted each other, and Kairat and Sarvet simply nodded. Wistan immediately approached them and extended his hand to greet everyone.
- Yo, aren't you hungry? I advise you to visit our canteen. The food there is excellent, made with love
Wistan showed his finger up, and then winked at Erald, who was hungry as a bull, because he was in a hurry and forgot to have breakfast.
- Guys, let's quickly go get something to eat!
Erald Burning looked at his comrades asking them to speed up. Haldar couldn't help but smile, and Kairat laughed:
- Of course let's go
- Come on, Wistan, please lead
- Of course, follow me
Wistan smiled and led them to the dining room. The others nearby heard their conversation and followed them. The Academy was huge; they could easily get lost in it, although they roughly remembered the path shown by Panfol earlier.
The path to the dining room was not long, Wistan knew a shorter way there than the Professor showed them, but everything else was quite far away.
The dining room turned out to be a rather large pavilion from which emanated a charming and alluring aroma of dishes and spices.
Erald immediately began to salivate as soon as he caught the scent. Kairat and Sarvet were also hungry, although they had breakfast before entering.
Erald was the first to rush into the dining room, bypassing Wistan and the others, followed by Kairat, Sarvet and Haldar.
- Uh, what are you saying, this is against the rules?
Wistan rushed right behind them, and Taisi and the others maintained their so-called dignity and walked slowly, for which they soon paid the price by being last in line to order food.
While they were standing in line at the food distribution line, Erald, Haldar, Wistan, Kairat and Sarvet were already devouring their ordered portions of food.
Taisy stood in line and chose to take it. According to the rules, she could take three different dishes a day, and if she wanted more, she would have to pay, which is a small thing for her.
- Give a bottle of Emerald wine, Fenr Fish and white rice from Zamkai
- Not a bad choice girl
The cook, waving her hand, served everything on the tray. Taisy silently took her order and went to look for a table; she also didn't have time to eat in the morning, but she didn't show it like Erald did. Finding an empty seat, she sat down and began to eat slowly, not forgetting to watch the others.
- Eat, eat, boys and girls.
Tiena distributed to everyone what they would like to eat. In the dining room you could eat as much as your heart desires, but few people could eat a lot since every grain of food here was filled with a fairly decent amount of energy, which made it possible to quickly get enough of a small amount.
The dining room was large, which was very strange with the number of students being less than a hundred. Besides them, a couple of third-year students were sitting in the hall, and the students above were not visible.
- Yo, Nightwar, come to us
One of the third year students, seeing the third class, stood up and waved his hand to them. Grakus nudged Nightwar, who was engrossed in the large selection of dishes in front of him.
- Oh, this is Manfred, he was the judge at my trial. Let's go see them
Nightvar immediately finds out who punched him in the face during the test and from whom he promised to take revenge when he grows up.
- Vistan, why are you doing it yourself? Where is your class?
- We just recently passed an intermediate test and the rest are recovering. Someone took a day off and went to visit their loved ones, someone is relaxing in their room, not everyone is close enough to be comrades
- Everyone hides their true power and true motives. At the Academy, in addition to training, many are also trying to increase the number of their connections, as well as strengthen their old ones
- Well, this is expected, since most of them are from well-known clans and orders.
Kairat, finishing his soup, decided to notice. Wistan nodded and continued smiling:
- I'm also not just telling you all this. I hope for your help later, do you mind?
- Hmm, okay
- It's better to find out sooner rather than later
Haldar nodded, looking at Erald, and Kairat and Sarvet were also not against it. They were not stupid, so they understood everything perfectly. Wistan, seeing that they agreed, finished his tea and continued:
- As you know, there will be few theoretical classes, but this does not mean that the academy will not help you at all. We have the Tower of the Greedy Mind, where more than a million different books, scrolls, manuscripts, magic and skills are collected
- Wow, I didn't know there was such a storage facility at the academy.
Sarvet was surprised by so many books, because only the greatest and most ancient guilds and clans could collect so many.
- Yes, the academy was created in this Epoch, it cannot compare with the ancient clans that have existed for several Epochs, but even so its catalog is simply unsurpassed
- And where can we find her? The Academy is huge, while you explore it all the day will pass
Chewing a large piece of meat, Erald decided to find out in advance where to look for her, because he did not want to just waste time wandering around this empty academy. The territory is huge, but you rarely see anyone. The whole way they walked here they saw no one. Wistan naturally knew everything perfectly:
- You saw a huge tower that goes even beyond the heavens? This is what she is, you can't go wrong. Even the Rector's Tower with the Vice-Rector cannot compare with it
- The Library contains many secrets, even I'm afraid to ask about them, after all, the most important thing in the Academy is the knowledge stored in it
- In addition, in it you can also find a lot of forgotten, lost and even forbidden knowledge. How the academy acquired all this ancient knowledge is a mystery. It's better not to try to find out, but just take what they give
- You will learn more about the library from the Elder who sits near the entrance. So on more interesting
- The Academy also has a system of points that can only be obtained by passing tests or completing tasks in the second building
- In the second building there are six corridors that lead to six halls. Each of these halls has a stand with tasks. These six corridors represent your courses, meaning you cannot enter halls that do not correspond to your current course
- It is impossible not to lower the course, nor higher, only yours. Each task has a price for completion and a price for failure, so choose wisely, but it's too early for you to do that. Since you first need to get better at practical training, because all the tasks are very dangerous
- And what kind of tasks are there?
Haldar was very interested in these tasks, which are life-threatening, but they are given to students. Wistan, having ordered new tea, continued:
- Yes, tasks in which you can die, be captured, disappear, or disappear. Nobody forces you to take them and carry them out. If you are in danger of death, just run
- Really
Sarvet was shocked, as was Kairat. Wistan, seeing their shock, shrugged his shoulders.
- There are four types of assignments in each course. The first is simple, they give 5 points, the second is dangerous, they give 25 points, the third is deadly, they give 60 points, and the fourth is Nightmare, they give 125 points. In the first there is a 5% chance of failure, in the second 20%, in the third 50%, in the fourth 70%.
- Why is there such a high chance of failure in the last two types of tasks?
Erald asked with interest. Others also took notice. Wistan put down his food and, remembering bitterly, replied:
- If you go there unprepared, with bad equipment, uninformed and with poor trust in each other, that is, with poor teamwork, then you will fail it 50%+, because those tasks are truly terrible, especially the fourth
- Is it that dangerous?
- Yes. Once, my team and I returned from the successful completion of the third task, but the price was colossal and, in my opinion, it did not pay off these points
- We were then blinded by the successes of the courses above, which easily completed such tasks... But after this task, we realized that we were still far from achieving them..
- Our task was to eliminate the source of infection in the forest of one of the distant regions. I don't know where they get these assignments from and who issues them, but he's crazy
Wistan was clearly dissatisfied with these tasks and their contents.
- The journey there took several days and when we reached the forest it was difficult to even move there. Even nature itself has become our enemy, it has taken on too terrible a form
- We had to survive in that forest, enduring constant attacks from local wild infected creatures, we sometimes could not sleep due to stress and anxiety
- In the end, the days passed, but we could not find the source, and our supplies of food and various supplies, such as medicines, potions, ointments, decoctions, pills and the rest, ran out very quickly due to constant skirmishes
- So we would go back, replenish supplies, take what we need for the mission and that's it
Haldar immediately suggested the most logical option, but Wistan shook his head and continued with a gloomy smile:
- We were too proud to retreat and try again, because how much blood and money it cost us to get to that point in the forest, which we got to was terrible and we could only move forward and search the depths of the forest
"And soon our efforts bore fruit; we were able to find the source of infection and eliminate it. We recorded everything on a recording crystal and sent the recording to the academy via a magical connection
- A day later they gave an answer about the completion of the task and that we could return. Then a stone just fell from my heart and I felt lighter. We immediately, without wasting a minute, returned to the academy.
- Apparently the tasks are not easy
Erald, chewing his meat, was excited about their future assignments. Wistan nodded and continued:
- From the stories it's one thing, but in reality it's completely different. You have to feel and see everything yourself and only then will you truly understand. And we understood a lot and, most importantly, why the task turned out to be so difficult for us
- Because we were careless, we were poorly prepared for that area, we didn't know who we were going to face, we didn't work well as a team, we had many disagreements along the way, also some of our equipment was useless against many of the enemies living there, and the main thing is our own incompetence
- Ehhh, okay, let's not talk about sad things
Having finished the storyh, he smiled, and then decided to warn them.
- Now it's better for you not to take tasks, and if you do take them, they will be simple ones, and if you still decide to take the task, you will have to spend a day or even several to complete it. It all depends on your task
- How then should we study? We'll miss classes at the academy.
Kairat, like everyone else, having already finished their food, simply listened to Wistan. He understood their anxiety very well and immediately replied:
- The task can only be taken during a certain period of time, it is during this period that you will not have classes, so the academy gives you free time for self-development without help
- Naturally, you will be notified in advance, so do not be afraid that you will miss some important activity
- What can we do with these glasses?
Suddenly a beautiful voice reached them, and then its owner sat down at the table with them. Haldar and the others naturally knew her, it was Taisi. Wistan also remembered her from the test so he didn't mind answering:
- Hmm, you can use glasses in different ways. The second building has many departments where you can use them. The first is, of course, a store, where you can buy anything, that's all, the main thing is that you have enough points
- Starting from equipment and ending with the most ancient herbs that cost crazy points.
- The second is the training department
- For points you can use rooms to develop your physical body, soul, mind, purify your blood or energy and much more
- For example, a gravity room where you will be subject to a several-fold increased force of gravity. A good place to strengthen and test your body
- Everything there is also divided into six different halls, from the first to the sixth, because it will obviously be difficult for you in the hall on the course higher. Believe me, it's better not to go into rooms in the hall above your course
- I understand that with each hall the efficiency of the rooms for development increased several times, but also the difficulty of being in them accordingly
- Once, when I was still in my first year, I wanted to try what kind of rooms were in my second year and chose the Cruel Desert room
"The sand in the Cruel Desert room simultaneously brought with it absolute death and absolute life. Being in the midst of the storm and withstanding its onslaught tempered my blood and energy
- Such a pleasure cost me 25 points in one hour, the professor opened the doors to the room for me and there was a teleportation light and I confidently walked into it
- Once inside, it was suddenly dark in that desert. Before I could even see anything, a cutting pain pierced my entire body. As if millions of sharp grains of sand began to tear my body
"At that moment my body was on the verge of destruction. I gritted my teeth and activated my level 45 Originator power, but even so the pain continued to intensify.
"A minute later, blood sprayed out of my mouth. Without wasting a second, I quickly flew out of this monstrous world of Cruel Sand
- After taking off, I immediately began to recover, after about five hours I recovered. The professor, seeing that I had recovered, asked if I would like to continue since I still had time
- I immediately refused and walked away from there, fortunately time only counts when you are inside, so I still have 59 minutes, which I will use in the near future
- The rooms are also divided into four levels, like the tasks, simple, dangerous, deadly and nightmare, that room was at the dangerous level one step away from deadly..
- Well, of course you are a suicide bomber
Haldar was surprised by his choice, as if he wanted to check he could have taken a simple one, and not just above average. Wistan simply shrugged and continued:
- You can also rent Rooms. The rooms are different, there are ordinary ones, and there are more expensive ones with energy collection formations that help in Ascension; in addition to the rooms, there is the possibility of purchasing a building
- Buildings are usually purchased by 4th year and above, for a better time at the academy. Why do they need regular dorm rooms when they can create their own team lair. Buildings can only be purchased before graduation, and rooms can be rented
- Some bought pavilions purely to install their formations on them and not pay for each hour in a room with strong energy collection Formations.
- This surprisingly did not affect the amount of energy in the Academy.
- How did it not influence? If you set up a bunch of such formations and at a fairly high level, then the energy drain from the environment would be very fast and there would be a low energy density in the academy
Sarvet was well versed in formations and could not help but ask, because it was very strange.
- It turns out that the whole point is in some formations that surround the academy, namely formations of the Eternal level!
Wistan leaned over and whispered to them quietly.
- Wow!
Sarvet exclaimed in shock, for he did not know that the Academy was surrounded by such powerful auxiliary formations in addition to defensive and attacking ones.
- Yeah, I was also shocked, that's why you don't have to worry about the academy, because apparently everything has been taken into account for all occasions haha
Wistan laughed and continued:
- I also advise you to look into the fourth chapterorpus, where you can choose a profession and study it in your free time. The fourth building has the largest number of professors, because we have many professions
- Is it necessary to choose a profession?
Erald asked with a frown. He didn't want to waste time learning all sorts of part-time jobs. Wistan shook his head and decided to explain:
- This is not necessary, but by choosing a profession that suits you, you can also improve your skills, not counting the fact that with a profession and good hands you can find your place in the world and not die of hunger
- For example, Artists, you can sell your paintings and earn a living this way, and with the right level of skills you can lock the enemy into the world of the painting, or recreate your drawing into reality
- I remember there was one artist who painted one of the strongest swordsmen of his generation and hung this picture in his home. And one day thieves entered his house and began to rob his house, they noticed a picture and as soon as they looked at it, the swordsman from the picture came to life and beheaded them all, although they were all strong Higher Ones
- It's a very strong profession, but it requires a certain talent. After all, you need to learn all this, but it's just a mistake, you won't be able to create something like this right away
- It's right
Haldar nodded understandingly, he himself developed in Herbiology and understood how useful the profession was, but most of the nobles did not want to waste their precious time on this.
- Okay, let's finish this. Now who has eaten, let's go take the dishes
- Let's
Haldar and the others immediately stood up and followed Wistan to the exit. It turns out that the dishes just had to be thrown into the portal near the exit and that's it, and what happened to it after that was not their concern. Wistan assured them of this.
- Well, okay, I have to go! I advise you to stop by the library on the way back, just for fun. I hope you're here for a long time
- Necessarily
- Good luck, Wistan
- Thanks for the info
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