Chapter 305 Magic Academy (8) - The Headmaster and Herbs
The boy next to Sister Li disagreed: "According to you, most players here won't be able to complete the task."
Ning Shu nodded: "That's true. The 30-day mission time is obvious. The dungeon just adds another level of difficulty on top of that."
Sister Li seemed to understand something: "What did you mean by consumables just now?"
Ning Shu sighed: "Did you only ask the NPCs for information related to the quest, and didn't you look into the background of the dungeon?"
That's true. The information they're looking for to complete the mission is naturally related to the mission itself. Who would bother to pay attention to the background of the dungeon?
Seeing their expressions, Ning Shu knew it must be true: "Alright, here's the dungeon background for you."
Ning Shu told them that the magic academy they were currently in was established by the royal family, and the talents it trained were mainly to serve the royal family.
The kingdom where the royal family resides is called Baal. Baal is currently at war with its neighbor, Holy Radiance. In addition to normal battles between soldiers, they also use mages to fight.
The goal was simple: a magician could be worth a hundred men, and keeping one magician meant keeping far fewer soldiers, thus saving expenses and maintaining the royal family's extravagant lifestyle.
However, this would increase the death rate of magicians. To reduce the chances of death, the royal family needs excellent magicians.
Therefore, the number of mages graduating from each academy is different.
More magicians are not necessarily better, because the royal family still needs the support of commoners, and it is better to send mediocre students back than to send them randomly to the battlefield.
Sister Li suspected Ning Shu was lying: "How could you find out about something like this?"
Ning Shu: "Of course others won't say it directly, but can't I just connect the context and summarize it myself?"
It's a fact that mages were sent to the battlefield, and it's also a fact that the number of soldiers was small; that's not hard to guess, is it?
Sister Li: "You mean the students of Eagle School aren't considered waste, but the students from other schools are?"
Ning Shu: "It can still be analyzed. The Spirit Academy focuses on healing, which is very useful for soldiers and mages, so naturally the more the better."
Slytherin specializes in Transfiguration magic, making them ideal for spies. I'm not sure how many spies they should have, so I won't comment.
The Phoenix Academy specializes in offensive magic, and its members are likely to be the main force replacing soldiers on the battlefield; therefore, they probably have the largest number of graduates.
Sister Li frowned: "But we've already been assigned to colleges, what's the use of knowing this kind of news?"
Ning Shu: "You'll have to figure that out yourselves. After all, I'm just sharing."
Even if you share clues about the graduation exam dates with me, you wouldn't take me with you, would you?
That's true.
Ning Shu said, "I've finished speaking, now it's your turn."
Sister Li didn't hide anything: "Our people have props that can make us jump to 3 years in the future, at which time we can successfully take the graduation exam."
Ning Shu asked incredulously, "Jumping to 3 years later, it doesn't overlap with the timeline of the original story, right?"
Sister Li nodded: "Yes."
That's definitely a good idea; Ning Shu wants a prop like that too!
Unfortunately, she didn't ask: "Can your props also carry people?"
"No, the number of people is limited."
She knew it!
Sister Li: "Based on the clues you just gave, we still need to consider the issue of graduation."
It seems that just being able to participate isn't enough; I need to secure a place at graduation.
Ning Shu persisted: "Do you have extra props?"
She can buy it with points; if she doesn't have enough points, Si Zhong definitely does.
Sister Li: "No, these kinds of props aren't common."
All right.
Ning Shu glanced at the group and said, "I'm leaving now. Keep in touch if you hear anything."
The boy next to Sister Li said, "News from Fengyuan..."
Ning Shu: "Your information is only worth this much, after all, you can't take me with you."
After Si Zhong returned, Ning Shu told him about it.
Si Zhong, on the other hand, seemed indifferent: "If all else fails, just kill them and steal the items. It's that simple."
Ning Shu wanted to say that although she also wanted to do it, she still couldn't get over her mental hurdle.
She admired Sister Li for sharing such news with others.
She's not exactly a good person either, and this is the first time I've felt so uncomfortable being trusted by someone.
Seeing that Ning Shu didn't speak, Si Zhong raised an eyebrow: "You don't agree?"
Ning Shu smiled and said, "Actually, I have a pretty good idea, but it will take some effort."
Si Zhong glanced at her: "Tell me about it."
Ning Shu said mysteriously, "The matter was accomplished in secrecy."
Si Zhong sighed and got back to the main topic: "Have you been practicing as I told you lately? Let's check your homework first, and then we'll begin the new lesson."
Ning Shu wailed, realizing she had almost forgotten about this.
She was still very obedient, keeping Si Zhong's words in mind, and first practiced the basic magic of Eagle Academy, pursuing flexible application.
Afterwards, Si Zhong said to her, "From now on, we will practice defensive and offensive magic."
This time you can't do what you did before: if there's no improvement, I won't teach you anymore.
Ning Shu choked. "No way, this is serious? Even Teacher Aiwen wasn't this strict with her."
With Si Zhong's words in mind, Ning Shu indeed put a lot more effort into her practice this time, and the results were very good. She practiced like this for another four days.
Ning Shu's practice was becoming quite impressive, so Si Zhong changed the training method that day:
“Ah Ning, from today onwards, I will attack you with magic, and you must subconsciously retaliate with magic. You must put away all your skills and items.”
Ning Shu asked, puzzled: "You mean we can't use our own skills and items in this instance?"
Si Zhong: "I'm not sure. That requirement of having completed one's studies is very strange."
If graduating successfully is the goal, the task should simply state "graduation successfully"; there's no need for the unnecessary part about stating the first part.
Ning Shu had also wondered about it, but she hadn't thought about it in that direction. Now that she thought about it, Si Zhong's considerations were not unreasonable.
This training lasted only two days before Si Zhong disappeared again, leaving Ning Shu to think carefully about the dungeon mission.
The dungeon time was already halfway through, and she really needed to do her quest.
The glasses gave her a clue about the principal.
That day, while she was observing the players in the cafeteria, the principal also appeared there, and she saw that the principal had a blade of grass on his head.
At first, she thought it was the principal's magic, but later she took off her glasses to take a look and found that it was actually the glasses that were giving her a hint.
She couldn't quite understand what the grass on the principal's head meant.
The plant wasn't entirely grass; it also had a flower on it. She pondered for a moment and decided she had to find out what it was.
She took a piece of paper and drew the grass she saw. Then she took the drawing to the library and went through all the books that recorded herbs.
She finally found the herb in a potion book. After comparing the shape of the leaves and the style of the flowers, she finally confirmed that this was the herb she was looking for.
This herb is called Anga grass, and its main function is to treat headaches.
No matter what the cause of the headache is, eating this herb will make the headache disappear and never recur. However, at least 3 plants are needed to achieve the desired effect.
This works very well, but the only downside is that the grass is hard to find.
According to the medical book, this herb grows on the top of a cliff and is guarded by magical beasts, making it difficult to pick.
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