Qualifying Round
"Preliminary round?...Written test?" Before Li Yuebai could find a suitable place and time to draw a card, he was shocked by the news.
"Hey, didn't you know?" A black-haired classmate who was nearly two meters tall lowered his head and said to him, "This should be a reserved competition system from previous leagues, right? I thought everyone would know this."
Li Yuebai shook his head.
"It's okay. If it's you, you will definitely pass it." The black-haired student smiled. She was pale and thin, very quiet, and looked like she was good at studying.
...is his favorite type.
"Do you know me well?" Li Yuebai turned to look at him... It was so tiring to look him in the eye. His gaze moved down along the hard facial lines of his classmate... Wow, it's so big.
The black-haired student blinked: "Do you understand? You don't understand?"
Why does this person speak so strangely?
"After all this talk, you are...?"
"Your opponent. I've been following you for a long time. I heard that you are also participating. Good luck." The black-haired classmate extended his fist in a friendly manner, and Li Yuebai bumped it with him hesitantly.
Unlike his rather oppressive physique, he seems to have a good temper.
After fist bumping with him, the black-haired classmate smiled again: "Well, it's time to say goodbye."
He left.
"He's ranked fourth on the freshman list." The blue-haired young man walked over and said, "If you want to know."
"What did he just do? A provocation?"
"Hmm." Cedric said noncommittally, "So you're provoked, Captain?"
——Under Li Yuebai's determined offensive, he finally followed his inner thoughts and agreed to register with him.
It seemed that it was not his illusion. He really seemed to find it difficult to deal with people with Li Yuebai's personality.
When Li Yuebai thought about the competition and the card draw, he immediately forgot about his black-haired classmate and showed a determined look: "I will definitely get a good ranking!"
He usually looks lazy and casual, and it's rare to see him so motivated.
"Yeah." Cedric laughed. "Since you are so determined, as your teammate, Captain, I want to remind you - isn't it time for tutoring?"
Li Yuebai was stunned for a moment.
*
library.
The huge white skeleton was artificially repaired and used as a bookshelf, and each layer was filled with old books.
At first, Li Yuebai thought that the shape of this library was rather peculiar. When he got closer and listened to Cedric's popular science, he found that the raw material of these white shelves was bones.
He touched it and found it felt as smooth as jade.
"Isn't it amazing? I heard that this is the skeleton of a giant dragon." Cedric chuckled and took a few books from the bookshelf. "Let's learn these first today."
Li Yuebai's attention was instantly diverted: "Isn't this too much? What about the twins? Are they good at studying?" The twins looked like poor students with terrible grades and who didn't like studying?
"The Capet brothers? Capet is a long-standing aristocratic surname. This means that, like most aristocrats, they received a rigorous elite education since childhood. Even if they have some personality problems, they are unlikely to be lacking in knowledge and culture."
"Am I the only one who lacks knowledge and culture?" Li Yuebai felt like he was being targeted.
"That's true," Cedric gently told him the cruel truth. "At least there are almost none in this academy. I've noticed your academic performance, and you seem to lack common sense? Is it because you just came to the Imperial City recently?"
He concealed his inquiring eyes.
"Anyway, Yuebai, you have to study hard before the preliminaries." He smiled and said, "I have some experience in this area, so let me teach you, okay?"
Help, can’t I escape from tutoring in another world?
Li Yuebai opened the game system and flipped through all the cards he currently owned, trying to learn an ability from the cards that could help with the theoretical exam, such as [hypersenemy], [memory palace], [super reasoning], etc., but found that he didn't have any.
What a useless game system. It's complete garbage.
Li Yuebai sat on the chair and prepared himself mentally: This is not studying, this is actually playing games.
"What about the twins? I don't think I've seen them in the past few days?"
"They should be very busy now, right?" Cedric said with a smile, "You don't have to worry about them too much. Now, let's get started." He turned to the first page.
He really is like a teacher.
Li Yuebai thought that "overwhelmed" meant busy with training, so he didn't ask any more questions.
At this moment, the Capet brothers——
"After signing up, the junior student hasn't contacted us again."
"Just throw it away after use."
"I really want to go back to school to see my junior."
"There's nothing we can do about this situation."
"Ah, it burst and got on my hands. It's sticky and disgusting."
“…Stay away from me!”
“Tsk.”
Li Yuebai was completely unaware of the bloody storm outside. He studied peacefully in the library with his blue-haired friend. For half a month, nothing unusual happened.
"So boring." When will this day end? How is this different from before the time travel?
"A peaceful life is very precious." Cedric always looked calm and composed, and never became impatient when faced with his various questions.
It really looks like the guiding NPC in the game system.
"Really?" Li Yuebai did not comment. As a native of Earth, his life was smooth sailing. The biggest setback he encountered was probably the inflammation of his wisdom teeth.
A peaceful life was simply the easiest thing for him to obtain - something that was almost impossible to lose.
The colorless dragon skull was hidden between the roof and beams of the library, staring lifelessly into the void.
*
The time before the game was spent hanging out with friends during the day and sticking with his pet at night, and the preliminaries were soon approaching.
Before entering the examination room, Li Yuebai also met his red-haired roommate whom he hadn't seen for a long time - he didn't look very well. Elvis seemed to have undergone rigorous training during this period, so from his body posture to his eyes, he looked a little gloomy and bloody.
"Are you joining the league too?" my roommate looked puzzled.
Before Li Yuebai could say anything, he continued.
"You are so weak, don't die on the field." He said with a light mockery, then walked away without looking back.
Li Yuebai: “…” After he is done with this busy period, he will go and teach this arrogant guy a lesson.
For some reason, he still didn't meet the Capet brothers today, probably because the exams for different grades were not held in the same place.
He entered the examination room, sat down, glanced at the questions, and picked up the pen.
I have to say that Teacher Cedric's level is very good. After realizing that Li Yuebai's knowledge of this world was terribly lacking, he decisively changed his teaching method and directly predicted the possible questions that might be tested, which allowed Li Yuebai to answer the questions smoothly.
"There's really nothing I can do about it." Cedric could only cover his forehead in front of the clueless poor student. "Actually, I don't like this method. It's unreliable and feels like cheating."
"Can just guessing the topic be considered cheating? You're thinking too much." Li Yuebai came over and said nonchalantly, "Write me your guessed topic quickly."
Cedric's predictions were eerily accurate.
The only question Cedric didn't mention to him was the last one.
The last question reads:
The prophet Meris once made a famous prediction: This continent will face a mass extinction at a certain time point. When will the mass extinction occur? (10 points)
I've never heard of mass extinction.
Li Yuebai didn't notice anything wrong. After all, Cedric was not a god, and it was normal for him to have blind spots that could not be improved.
In line with the central idea that no question should be left blank, Li Yuebai picked up the pen and wrote casually on the horizontal line:
[Ten years later.]
He blinked.
On the white test paper, the black words suddenly turned blue, and then gradually became lighter, like the tide, fading from the white beach.
The game system, which had been silent for a long time, made a dinging sound.
He opened the game system and found that the system had only updated one entry: [Meris Prophecy]: The prophet Meris burned out his life and uttered chaotic mumblings in his dying moments, predicting that a mass extinction would occur in ten years.
Shortly after he walked out of the examination room, the light computer also made a prompt sound. He turned on the light computer and found a large photo on the front page of the news. It was a funeral photo.
The headline of the news is: The great wise man Meris has passed away.
Is this last question some kind of game Easter egg? Li Yuebai thought casually that mass extinction was just a setting that all games have, and it was just a story background that allowed the protagonist to shine.
Although he now lives in this world, he always has an indelible sense of unreality towards this world.
This made him completely unconcerned about things other than drawing cards, to the point of being indifferent.
Why not reward myself by doing something that makes me happy both physically and mentally, he thought while humming a song in a very good mood.
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