Chapter 79: Learning Magic Shouldn’t Be Like This! |
“Mister Black? What a strange name.” Lilith muttered softly.
“Um, Mister Black, I wanted to ask—where will we stay at the academy?”
“Caw caw...” Mister Black flew onto Lilith’s shoulder and tilted his little head.
“Caw caw, regarding accommodations, you’ll need to wait for tonight’s Sorting Banquet. After the Sorting Hat determines which class you’re assigned to, you can go find your homeroom teacher.”
Hearing this, Lilith thoughtfully nodded.
“Then Mister Black, what exactly is the Sorting Hat?”
“The Sorting Hat will assign you to the academy most suitable for your talents...”
Listening to the discussion between the girl and the crow, Jiang Chen’s expression turned strange.
“No, seriously? A Sorting Hat?”
Jiang Chen felt powerless to complain about such blatant laziness.
This academy sorting system gave Jiang Chen the feeling of a class advancement system from other games.
For example, in Dungeon Fighter, the Mage class could advance into Battle Mage, Elementalist, Summoner, and other different professions.
This game merely replaced that concept with academy sorting.
Each academy taught different skills, and their development directions differed enormously.
This left Jiang Chen somewhat troubled.
Jiang Chen already had his own plans regarding the character’s skills.
If the academy he got assigned to lacked skills suitable for him, that would become extremely awkward.
“This game should have some kind of academy transfer function, right...? Like job transfer scrolls in other games.”
While thinking this, the two girls were quickly led by the crow into a large hall.
The moment they entered, both Vivian and Lilith were immediately captivated by everything before them.
The hall possessed a circular dome ceiling and marble flooring.
Most eye-catching of all was the floating fountain in the center.
After bringing Vivian and Lilith there, Mister Black left.
Soon afterward, the two girls casually found a bench and sat down.
“Mister Black just told me we’ll probably still need to wait another four or five hours or so.”
The moment she sat down, Lilith leaned close to Vivian’s ear and whispered softly.
At the same time, Lilith observed the many other students nearby who had also come for registration.
They gathered in groups of three or five, chatting about various gossip.
Vivian, whose body remained motionless under Lord Evil God’s control, also curiously observed everything around her.
However, right at that moment, the words “church” and “blown up” drifted into her ears.
This caused Vivian to immediately perk up and listen carefully.
......
“Did you hear? Apparently Saint Radiance Cathedral got blown up last night?” one student said.
“I heard too. And according to the inside information I got, Father Matthew from the church was actually a cultist. Last night he killed a bunch of Enforcement Officers before fleeing, and now he’s wanted.” another student added.
Then yet another student joined the discussion.
“Not only that, I heard the noble apartments also got blown up last night.”
“My god, what exactly happened last night? Why did so many places explode? I wonder who did it.”
“Silvermoon City is becoming more and more dangerous. I heard a Monster even appeared last night.....”
“That’s nothing. I have a relative working at the Enforcement Bureau. Last night he told me that apparently Senior Connor from our academy is also a cultist.”
This piece of news was clearly even more explosive than the previous ones, since it directly concerned them.
As a result, many people gathered around to ask for details.
.....
Listening to the students’ conversation, Vivian found herself unable to feel happy whatsoever.
Because every single one of those incidents was connected to her.
Meanwhile, Jiang Chen naturally had no interest in listening to all that random gossip.
At this moment, he was instead considering what he should do with these few free hours.
According to Jiang Chen’s personality, he would naturally go do something else immediately.
However, considering his skills had no remaining uses left, Jiang Chen decided it was better to calm down for a while first.
Of course, Jiang Chen also could not simply do nothing.
That obviously would not work.
After all, he still needed to increase his Combat Power.
Thus, after thinking it over repeatedly, Jiang Chen took out the magic books he had seized yesterday.
He planned to arrange his skills first.
“First is the First Ring BUFF skill, Jump.”
As he spoke, Jiang Chen took out the skill book.
“So how exactly does this work next?”
Looking at the book in his hand, Jiang Chen felt somewhat puzzled.
“How does skill learning work in this game?”
“Do I just open it?”
As he spoke, Jiang Chen attempted exactly that.
And once the book was opened, Jiang Chen indeed saw an additional interaction option appear for skill learning.
“So that’s how it is.”
As he spoke, Jiang Chen clicked Learn.
Within the screen, Vivian began seriously reading through the book while a learning countdown also appeared.
【Skill: Jump LV1, Learning】
【Estimated learning completion time: 59 minutes 59 seconds...58 seconds..】
Seeing this number, Jiang Chen raised an eyebrow.
“Damn, skill learning in this game isn’t instant?”
Honestly speaking, Jiang Chen did not even know how to evaluate this kind of system.
It truly fit the game’s “100% realistic simulation” setting much more closely.
But at the same time, the time-wasting aspect was equally real.
“So during the learning process, I can’t do anything else...”
“Looks like from now on, before logging off every night, I absolutely need to leave a skill book learning overnight. That way it won’t delay gameplay the next day.”
Jiang Chen made up his mind.
While Jiang Chen continued planning—
Little did he know that on Vivian’s side—
Although outwardly she appeared to be calmly reading through the contents of the book, in reality her consciousness had already been dragged into another world.
This was an azure world.
The ground resembled mirror-like water, producing ripples beneath her feet whenever she stepped.
“Where is this place?”
Vivian looked around blankly.
However, just as Vivian remained confused, the world suddenly changed.
The location where Vivian stood transformed into ten-thousand-meter-high skies, while she herself stood atop a soft cloud.
Although the cloud looked extremely soft, Vivian felt it was as solid as normal ground.
At the same time, Vivian noticed a countdown appear beside the cloud.
5...4...
“What does this mean?”
Before Vivian could react after the countdown ended, the cloud vanished.
Immediately afterward, Vivian screamed as she fell from ten thousand meters in the sky.
Just when Vivian thought she was about to die from the impact, she suddenly reappeared atop another cloud.
The same countdown appeared again.
Vivian noticed another cloud roughly one meter away from her.
“So I need to jump over before the countdown ends?”
Although she did not understand what exactly was happening, Vivian definitely did not want to experience falling from ten thousand meters again.
And just as Vivian guessed, safely jumping onto the second cloud before time ran out kept her alive.
However, immediately afterward, a third cloud appeared, and the countdown restarted.
Moreover, compared to the distance between the first and second clouds, this one was noticeably farther away.
Clearly, by this point, Vivian had naturally realized the situation seemed somewhat bad......
Thus.....
“Help..... aaahhh...”
Inside the space, Vivian’s screams echoed endlessly.
“Lord Evil God, learning skills can be done slowly. Could you at least let Vivian catch her breath first....”
Vivian had basically confirmed this place was definitely Lord Evil God’s doing.
Although learning skills was indeed a good thing, Vivian absolutely could not accept this kind of learning method.
However, Lord Evil God clearly had no intention of responding to her.
Inside this place, she could only jump from cloud to cloud.
If she tried any other method, the clouds would directly disappear.
Vivian no longer knew how long she had been jumping here.
At first, while standing ten thousand meters in the air and looking below, her legs trembled nonstop.
But after falling dozens of times, she gradually became used to it.
However, because the distances continuously increased and the clouds changed from stationary into moving targets—
The difficulty grew higher and higher.
Naturally, Vivian fell more and more frequently.
Eventually, Vivian felt herself becoming numb.
Falling no longer caused even the slightest emotional fluctuation within her heart.
Yet Vivian never could have imagined that right at this moment, the surrounding scenery suddenly changed again.
The high-altitude skies transformed into a lava hell.
The clouds became floating rocks.
And thus, a new cycle began.
Vivian no longer knew how much time she had experienced here.
Perhaps a day.
Perhaps a year.
In any case, she simply repeated the endless cycle tirelessly.
Finally...
When Vivian leapt onto the final constantly moving rock, her consciousness returned.
The familiar hall.
And herself still flipping through the book, which had unknowingly already reached the final page.
Although Vivian felt very happy about learning a new skill—
She absolutely never wanted to experience the learning process again.
Learning was supposed to be gradual and progressive.
Who learned magic like Lord Evil God did?!
Just as Vivian was still thinking this, she suddenly heard a pleasant sound.
“Beep.... beep beep beep...”
“Hm? What’s that sound? What is Lord Evil God doing?”
Vivian felt extremely confused.
Immediately afterward, she heard footsteps, followed by Lord Evil God’s voice in her mind.
“The alarm’s already ringing...? Time passed that quickly?”
“I was still cooking. Plus eating and washing dishes afterward....”
As he spoke, Jiang Chen opened the backpack and took out another skill book.
“In that case, I might as well learn this one too.”
As he spoke, Jiang Chen clicked Learn.
【Skill: Resistance Enhancement LV1, Learning....】
【Estimated learning completion time: 1 hour 59 minutes 59 seconds...58 seconds..】
Looking at the countdown, Jiang Chen reset the alarm and returned to the kitchen to continue cooking.
Meanwhile, on Vivian’s side—
When the book in her hands was replaced by another one from Lord Evil God, she felt as though the heavens had collapsed.
“Nooooo!!!”
However, once Vivian saw the title of the skill book, she relaxed slightly.
“Resistance Enhancement... this should mainly involve meditation-based training...”
At the very least, this method sounded far better to Vivian than all the jumping around earlier.
However, when Vivian entered the familiar world again—
Although this book truly used meditation-based training, the surrounding environment continuously changed throughout the learning process.
When the environment transformed into a poisonous swamp, and Vivian collapsed foaming at the mouth in less than one minute—
Vivian felt she had still been far too naïve.
“Learning magic absolutely cannot possibly work like this!”