King from scratch

The players and npc arrived at the teaching building on time according to the date and location on the admission notice.

"Did the npc also receive the admission notice?"

The player looked at the npc on the side, always feeling weird: "Aren't they npc?"

It's their job to send out tasks on a regular basis, right?No matter how you think about it, there is something wrong with appearing here, right?

"Is it because the number of players is too small?" The players whispered: "Only a hundred players..."

Another player interrupted him: "There are only more than 80 players who have received the admission notice, and there are more than a dozen who have not met the hidden requirements."

"Eighty players are too few, such a big building feels a bit wasteful..."

"It's not like there will always be only eighty players. Didn't His Majesty the King say that there will be more places for the internal test?"

"But now there is no movement again, I suspect he forgot again."

"Wait, the topic is off the mark, so the npc is here to make up the numbers? Is this necessary?"

"Don't speculate on His Majesty's brain circuit, maybe he thinks it is necessary?"

"This reason convinced me..."

"Fuck!"

The sound of uniform footsteps came, and the team composed of humans stopped in the other direction.

With a sound of "swipe", everyone returned to their positions.

The whispers of the players disappeared, and they cast their gazes towards Team 117. Out of some kind of deterrence, even though they knew that this was just a game and the other party was just a bunch of data, no player let himself go and interacted with them.

In the breathless silence, Ye Quan subconsciously measured the next line of sight with his eyes, and then swallowed.

"What's wrong?" The player on the side asked with his gaze.

Ye Quan used the same gaze to signal the other party to look for himself.

After the opponent measured the queue with his eyes, he took a deep breath.

The rustling sound spread among the players, and finally ended in a player's surprised voice.

"Fuck, it's actually a straight line."

Queue No.1 and the last person in the queue formed a straight line, and there was no incongruity no matter if you looked at it horizontally or vertically.

When the players were shocked by this discovery, the npcs stood aside, waiting quietly, and did not respond to the sudden appearance of the human team.

In fact, not only the human team, even the players who are too active, they have never developed curiosity.

Compared with the outstanding performance of elite npcs, ordinary npcs are more in line with what npcs should look like, silently repeating what they should do, obeying orders without asking questions.

When the commotion started again outside the teaching building, the closed door finally opened.

The mages walked out of the door, glanced at the three groups with very different styles at the scene, and guided them with their staffs: "Line up and enter in an orderly manner."

The team that arrived at the end walked directly into the gate. The npcs took a little time to sort out the queue and entered the gate smoothly. Only the players tried to cross the mage scatteredly and were blocked by the air wall. Luye and He Shu took the lead to stand up and organize the queue. When the last players were allowed to enter the gate, the team that first entered the gate had long since disappeared.

After stepping into the gate, dots of fluorescent light float in the air, like illusory butterflies, and like pointers leading them forward, flying around the players.

Some players subconsciously stretched out their hands, and the fluorescent light suddenly collapsed and regrouped in another place that players could not touch.

"Is this magic?" Ye Quan retracted his hand and guessed.

"It's not so dark here that you need something like this to guide you, right?"

Wang Xiaoer raised his head and looked at the tree canopy that runs through the entire building. The sunlight in the canopy makes the place fully illuminated.

He Shu looked at the rising steps on the opposite side of the platform. Compared with the scattered fluorescent lights over there, the number around them was really not that much.

"Maybe it's to prevent people from getting lost there." He Shu pointed to the opposite side.

Players followed the direction he pointed, crossed the platform in the center of the eye-catching building, and set their sights on the upward stairs on the edge of the building.

The stairs are like building blocks, extending around the big tree in the platform to the top.

"How did you get this tree?" A player asked curiously: "I watched the infrastructure video, but I didn't see any trees?"

"Looks like a real tree, amazing..."

Players follow the guidance of the fluorescent lights, follow the mages, and walk onto the platform.

As the distance gets closer, the towering trees become more and more majestic, and the sense of time rushes over us, without any trace of artifacts.

Some players focus on the big tree, while another group of players focus on the people who are already on the platform.

They found the npcs and team 117 that entered the teaching building before them, and finally even found you, zhe, the king and a large number of other npcs they didn't know.

The big tree is located in the very center of the platform, and the mage and the king are standing right in front of it. In front of them are the players and npcs who are about to enroll.

"Has the recording been turned on? I guess there will be a large CG next..."

"The old man next to the king is really good looking..."

"Can't school start yet? I'm in a hurry to do the task..."

Amidst the whispers of the players, Duoti took a step forward, raised the staff in his hand, and the silent etheric fluctuations swept over everyone present, forcing everyone to be quiet.

"Quiet."

Doti stared at the players, npc, and team 117, convinced that they were a big trouble.

As the instructor of the Arcane Academy, the students Duoti met were all young and precocious types—even if they were not young and precocious students, they would be assimilated into obsessed with learning during the learning process of the Arcane Academy.

But now in front of him is a group of etheric bodies with no order at all, a group of dull human beings, and a group of collective creatures that are difficult to classify.

Simply put, a bunch of trouble.

"At the king's invitation, the Arcane Academy will impart knowledge to the king's people." Duoti said: "But before completing the entrance ceremony, I hope you will keep in mind one thing—respect for the ether, reverence for the ether..."

"Ether is everywhere."

If it weren't for the fact that many spells had deprived the players of their ability to speak, now the players wouldn't just be gesticulating wildly with their eyes.

The eager eyes of the players had no effect on Doti.

Doti paused for two seconds, and continued: "Here, you will learn how to correctly understand the ether, how to correctly understand the world, how to correctly use the ether, and how to correctly understand other races in the world..."

Because the reaction of the players below was too intense, Duo Ti had to stop talking and glanced at them warningly.

Players have received system notifications sent by Koukou.

[Arcane academy reputation -5, school reputation -5, more favors -5]

As if the chaos just now was an illusion, the scene fell silent for a moment.

Duoti gave up the long speech and went straight to the point: "According to His Majesty's request, all students must complete three compulsory courses and more than two elective courses. The three compulsory courses include: geography, history, and ether foundation, and the elective courses include Potions , divination, spell composition, ancient spell analysis, etc., the specific courses will be issued to you later."

After Duoti finished speaking quickly, he turned his head and asked He Xingwen: "King? What do you want to say?"

He Xingwen looked around at the respectful NPCs, the calm 117 team, and the excited players. He thought for a second and said, "For this world, the kingdom is extremely weak, but I hope that one day, the kingdom will become stronger because of you."

The npcs stood up abruptly, bent over and bowed their heads.

Squad 117 maintains impeccable order with no changes.

The players looked around, and some people followed the NPC's example, bending over and bowing their heads.

Seeing that He Xingwen had finished his brief speech, Duoti coughed and continued with the process: "Next is the test."

The long-lost task panel is long overdue.

[Tasks from Master Duo:

entrance test

Follow the arrangement of the mages and complete the next quiz.

Task conditions: follow the arrangement of the mage

Task reward: [assign a mentor] [10 points of kingdom reputation] [several favors of mages]

Mission penalty: loss of admission qualification]

He Xingwen was very clear about the test they were about to conduct - Duo Ti submitted a complete report, and only after obtaining the king's consent did he have the next test.

From this point of view, the mage's emotional intelligence is not hopeless.

Dots of fluorescent lights danced around the players, gradually increasing in number, until everything suddenly fell into silence, and then slowly connected. In an instant, dots of fluorescent lights floating in the air turned into a huge screen of light.

A screen of light shrouded them all, and a different scene emerged above each of them—scenes that could not be seen by anyone other than the mage who assigned the test to protect privacy.

Duoti looked around the scene with a complicated expression: "The etheric body of your people is the weakest among the races I have seen."

He Xingwen is not surprised by this - the earth's understanding of ether has just started, and it is normal for the two to have an objective gap. If there is no gap, it is worth investigating.

He naturally turned his gaze to the crowd under the test.

The expressions of the crowd were different, and the scenes that emerged were also different. Some people didn't know what happened and opened their eyes in panic, while some were still immersed in the test, frowning, trying to resist some kind of existence.

The players who were the first to break free from the test were taken out of the team one after another and placed on the other side, still in shock.

Duoti glanced at the scene on the light screen, and suddenly asked He Xingwen: "Is that what your world looked like before?"

The scenes that appear on the light screen are not exaggerated, absurd, horrifying, or scary, but mostly peaceful daily life.

Because of the calmness, it becomes more and more real. When the deepest fear suddenly comes, the sense of reality intensifies the fear.

Regarding the purpose of this test, Duoti’s explanation is: to test the strength of the etheric body, to arrange tutors according to the personality of different students, to conduct targeted teaching on students’ fears, etc.

In fact, the Arcane Academy and the school He Xingwen knew couldn't be generalized.

The Arcane Academy not only teaches knowledge, they also take on the responsibility of teaching students to have a strong enough mind and not easily get lost on the road to becoming a mage.

This is a heavy responsibility, because until death, the students of the Arcane Academy have an extremely close relationship with the Arcane Academy.

After graduation, they will build a mage tower in the desert, continue to pursue knowledge and explore the ether.

Few mages leave the Arcane Academy to explore this world.

Their lives are dedicated to the arcane and to learning, so it becomes the job of the arcane academy to teach them how to become better human beings.

For mages, it is the responsibility of every mentor to understand their students, know their fears, pay attention to their hearts, and correct their way forward.

But He Xingwen has a different idea about this—whose responsibility is it to teach them to become better people, He Xingwen does not comment on this.

But in a game, in a hastily built school building, it is a bit too much to require a mage who has reached an agreement through the exchange of interests to play this role.

But so far, they have not known each other's differences in perception of the identity of a mentor.

Everything is still focused on the testing that players are doing.

With many questions asked, the scene on the light screen appeared in front of He Xingwen, high-rise buildings, continuous traffic, ordinary furniture, familiar decorations... In a glance, the familiar world was displayed in front of He Xingwen.

He Xingwen silently looked away from the unlucky guy who was stabbed to death by his girlfriend, and nodded calmly.

Duo Ti carefully observed that strange world and concluded: "It's very peaceful."

He paused for a moment, then continued: "It's also very weak."

He Xingwen remained silent on this.

Duoti was not surprised by the civilization of the earth. Compared with the Zerg, the abyss of the undead, and even the kingdom of the sea, the civilization on the earth is so ordinary that people can't feel any emotions.

Instead, he developed some admiration for the king: "A world that relies too much on alchemy is indeed easily destroyed."

Don't talk nonsense, the earth is fine.

He Xingwen touched his nose, but didn't answer.

But Duoti seems to have come to a conclusion: "Although most of the bordering worlds can leave a small piece of world wreckage, if it is too weak, there is also a precedent for the complete destruction of the entire world."

"But even if the world is destroyed, you still protect your people and allow civilization to continue." Doti said very sincerely: "You are a king worthy of respect."

The tests ended one after another, and the player was the first to break away from the test, staring around with lingering fear, and fell silent because he faced the deepest fear in his heart.

The second group to end the test, some time apart, was Squad 117.

He Xingwen glanced briefly at the light screen that appeared on their bodies before, and their fears were very similar to a certain extent.

A war to protect, a constant battle because of an invincible enemy, a repeated death because you don't want to give up.

"Although the etheric body is very weak, it unexpectedly has an extremely strong mind."

Duoti glanced at them, took out the admission notice, and made a special mark on Team 117.

Team 117, who woke up one by one, quickly calmed down, and the chaotic team due to loss of consciousness regrouped. Fear did not have a greater impact on them, and the moment they woke up, their traces were erased.

The npc team that lasted the longest did not recover from the temporary loss of consciousness until the light screen turned fluorescent again.

Duo mentioned the initiative to end the test.

Because there is nothing on their light screen, creatures without fear, cannot be defeated by fear.

Doti euphemistically said: "They don't seem to be normal humans."

He Xingwen glanced at the three distinct groups of people, and said tactfully, "Do you think there are normal humans in my kingdom?"

Duoti paused for two seconds, realizing that he had said something nonsense.

After completing the test, the mages were divided into classes on the spot-basically it was superfluous, and the positions before the end of the division did not change.

There is a huge insurmountable gap between players, Team 117 and npcs.

Just because of the large number of people, the players, npcs, and team 117 were divided into several classes.

The teaching building became lively, and the mages led different students into the classroom.

Players enter the first floor, Team 117 enters the second floor, and NPCs enter the third floor. Obviously, some kind of division has been made according to the results of the test just now.

The task of the teaching building in the thinking palace was marked with a completion mark, followed by the next task to be completed.

[Improve the game setting related modules - this is so simple that you don't need to record the progress at all, you only need to reach out and push the altar door, and it is enough to complete it. 】

After pushing open the door of the church, the familiar golden light scattered all over the ground.

Two major pieces of content, the kingdom setting and the game basic setting, appeared in front of He Xingwen.

He Xingwen's gaze fell on the basic settings of the game, which quickly unfolded, revealing a menu that already contained six options and many options that had not yet been selected.

He Xingwen reached out and added a new setting to the menu.

"7. Establish an ether pool to ensure that the amount of mobilizable ether in the ether pool remains above 30%."

More than half of the energy I had worked so hard to save was gone.

He Xingwen didn't look sideways, and dragged into the next setting.

"8. Open the occupation, skill, and level settings, which will be automatically completed by Koukou (main console)."

Watching helplessly that the number of recoverable subjects dropped from four digits back to single digits, He Xingwen let go of the hand that opened the door, allowing Jin Guang to be trapped inside the door again.

The ether pool is what the system said before, a cheating method used to allow players to successfully release their skills.

The ether mobilized by the player comes from the ether pool—that is, the main console of the kingdom.

Just like a real game, they can directly "release" skills, and the energy to release skills comes from the "main console" of the game.

This ensures that even if they return to reality, they will not have superhuman abilities due to becoming magicians in another world.

After all, the real world cannot cheat, and there is no "main console" to provide them with ether energy.

The only disadvantage of this setting is that it will continue to consume the energy obtained by He Xingwen. It is a bottomless black hole, and the consumption rate will even increase as the number of players increases.

System: "Of course, the etheric bodies that players gradually strengthen will also establish a stable connection with the ether pool created by the 'main console', and when their etheric bodies are strong enough, the energy they consume for using ether will also decrease... ..."

The players know nothing about planning the bottomless energy.

With the prolongation of the mage's class time, the players who gradually lost their patience suddenly received the system notification that they had learned the first skill.

[Level-[-] skill: Ether perception, learned. 】

He Shu, who listened carefully, was taken aback when he received the notification. He clicked on the character panel and found a small sign under the player's name.

Mage [level 0 (not transferred)], level [-] skill: perceive ether.

He Shu subconsciously recited this word, and a new world suddenly opened up in front of him.

All perceptions "perceive" the existence of the so-called "ether" at the same time.

Flowing in the air, flowing in the mage's body, shuttling through inanimate matter, flowing in living matter, it is everywhere.

It cannot be simply defined as gaseous or liquid, and it cannot be touched even if you stretch out your hand, it is like another world close at hand.

He Shu's gaze was attracted by the mage who was giving a lecture, and a large amount of ubiquitous ether gathered in the mage's body, like a vast and boundless sea, which flowed with his movements, and ether was constantly attracted by the mage and poured into him. The body is filled with this sea.

He Shu turned his head and glanced at the players. Under this perception, the players turned into round bodies made of ether. Because the amount of ether contained was too small, they looked very fragile.

The world in front of him changed back to a familiar appearance under the dazzle of He Shu, and the skills on the character panel turned into light gray, reminding the player that the skills cannot be used again in a short time.

He Shu heard the other players make surprised sounds one by one, and knew that they had also seen the scene he had just seen.

He Shu lowered his head and poked his hand, the warm skin and tight flesh fed back his real perception—no matter how he distinguished it, it didn't look like the inhuman creature he had just seen that was only made up of a mass of energy.

Is that what they really look like in this world?