Chapter 221
The captain of the Romphi school team has been a "melancholy handsome man" for a long time.
Since the league started and they became neighbors living on the upper and lower floors of the camp apartment, it was the first time that Sorok heard such an excited voice from his neighbor captain.
Sorok's response was: "...Huh?"
He responded to Captain Romfeld's rare enthusiasm with a monosyllable that sounded a little silly.
On the other side of the communication, Romfei's captain paused noticeably.
"Is the signal bad, or is it a bit noisy over here?" Captain Romfeld, a hidden good guy, immediately responded by checking his surroundings. In the background noise of his call, he could hear the Romfeld team downstairs bustling with activity, a constant chattering in the background.
Sorok rubbed his face, feeling that he had not slept well today, otherwise how could it be noon when he heard someone say to him that "the first person to complete the Trial Tower appeared in their team"?
But before Solok could continue asking questions, Aoliang beside him suddenly gasped.
Aoliang was also fiddling with his personal terminal. He found that just three minutes ago, a public notification was pushed to all contestants through the official announcement system of the competition committee.
Ouliang subconsciously read out what he saw: "The League Committee is pleased to announce to everyone that the first person to complete the Trial Tower in this Senior League has been born! Please let us all congratulate this player from the Golden Uriel Academy team!"
O'Brien finished reading this paragraph.
The common living room of the Golden Urie school was very quiet.
Ye Li: "...Who in our team has managed to clear the Trial Tower?"
Captain Romfi's call was still ringing in Sorok's ear. He took a deep breath, his chest rising and falling noticeably.
"Did you just see the news?" The excitement in Captain Romfei's voice eased a little. He heard the conversation between the school team on Solok's side and had a general assessment of the situation.
Sorok said, “Yes.”
Captain Romfeld said with a smile, "Do you have any idea who this 'mysterious contestant' is now?"
The official league committee was also quite clever, always wanting to create some suspense somewhere. In the group notification sent to all league camps, it was stated that the first person to pass the Trial Tower was from the Golden Uriel Academy, but the player's name was deliberately not mentioned.
Sorok closed his eyes for a moment, then looked at Pei Ya like a searchlight.
Pei Ya kept a calm expression, but her eyes sparkled.
Sorok said: "...I already know it very, extremely, and I can't understand it more clearly."
After hanging up Captain Romfeld, he added humorously, "When your first team member returns, please ask her to come downstairs, okay? There are already quite a few people downstairs who admire her, and some who want to ask her for help with clearing strategies."
In the background of Romphi Academy, there was a chorus of voices echoing, and someone shouted loudly: "Please!!"
The decibel level was so high that Solok even worried about Captain Romfi's eardrums.
Solok's gaze remained on Pei Ya. He seemed to be hesitant to speak, wanting to say something but then swallowing it back. His mouth opened and closed slightly several times. Finally, the worried and exhausted captain reached out to hold on to the back of the sofa, as if he needed to find some support. Then, he said weakly to Pei Ya, "Is this what you said, that Jiang Yunu went to 'snack'?"
Pei Ya was not at all afraid of the resentment hidden in Sorok's words.
She said, "She wanted to try to clear the tower first, sneak in the levels, and then try to get the rewards for clearing the tower. How can that not be considered a 'snack'?"
This meal is just not that meal.
Since no one was attending the class, Jiang Yunu went out on his own and opened a high-level self-service class.
Ao Liang said quietly beside him, "They really did secretly increase their training, and then they added a lot of noise."
Senior Jin Qing was more concerned about another point. She remembered that Solok said he woke up around 7 a.m. and hadn't seen Jiang Yunu in the apartment building. She asked Pei Ya, "When exactly did Xiao Jiang go to the Trial Tower?"
Pei Ya replied: "Early morning."
Jiang Yunu, who broke into the tower in the early morning, fought alone for a full eight hours and successfully got through the trial tower. He had just finished fighting on the top floor which looked like a palace in the clouds.
Eight hours have passed outside, but actually, being inside the tower, one feels that time has flowed much longer.
She thought she had been in the tower for three days and three nights.
This Trial Tower truly lived up to its name. Its levels varied, with each three floors experiencing a major upgrade in both difficulty and mechanics. The bottom three floors were roughly equivalent to an enhanced version of school practice exercises, a challenge that any player qualified for the advanced league should be able to overcome with a bit of effort.
Starting from the third level, the difficulty increases dramatically. The attributes and skills of the randomly refreshed elemental beasts are all random. One-on-many situations may frequently occur, and sometimes you have to deal with multiple attacking beasts at the same time in a complex map. The challenger's physical fitness, supernatural skills, and battlefield adaptability are fully tested.
As Jiang Yunu walked into the top floor, he felt a very special physical sensation - it was very strange, and it seemed to have returned to a more original state of life.
The physical feeling is both familiar and unfamiliar. While one can clearly feel that they have changed, they cannot figure out what has changed for a moment.
Then Jiang Yunu realized it.
——Her energy core disappeared.
The topmost floor of the Trial Tower is the [Space without Superpowers].
Through some special mechanism, superpowers were disabled here, and the energy core was tightly suppressed, preventing the young student contestants from drawing any elemental energy from it. For young superpowers, born with a core and accustomed to its stable operation, this feeling was unbalanced, bizarre, and even terrifying, like an organ disappearing from their body.
But for Jiang Yunu, she was just stunned.
Before she came to this world, she had never experienced what it meant to possess a superpower core.
She had only ever possessed her own human muscle core.
Jiang Yunu stretched her arms, legs, and clenched her fists. She took two small steps in the space where supernatural powers were prohibited, and jumped on the spot to test her body's mobility and combat power.
It is gratifying when the body responds.
——Although the supernatural power is prohibited, everything that belongs to her body is still there.
This made Jiang Yunu feel at home on the seventh floor of the Trial Tower. She could rely on her agility to avoid attacks, use the most primitive fighting skills to find ways to counter the enemy, and launch attacks with her incredible dexterity and self-strength.
After completing the trial tower, the teleportation exit that should have been there did not appear immediately.
In the center of the main hall that had been violently cleared by Jiang Yunu, a small, glittering floating base appeared.
On the base is a black treasure chest inlaid with four-colored gems symbolizing the four elements.
Jiang Yunu observed it for a few seconds, making sure that it was not an additional level and the box was not a trap. Then she walked forward and poked the treasure chest with the object in her hand.
The thing in her hand was originally a decorative strip on a mural somewhere in the palace. Because the material was unexpectedly hard and strong, but the fit between the decorative strip and the mural was not so firm, Jiang Yunu removed it with her bare hands and turned it into her temporarily requisitioned partner.
The top of the decorative strip is a stepped surface, which pokes into the treasure chest, causing the small box, which was originally placed neatly on the floating base, to become crooked.
Untrusted treasure chest: "..."
After poking, Jiang Yunu said: "Well, it seems that you are fine. At least you won't automatically bounce off when touched and start releasing disasters like Pandora's box."
Not only did the treasure chest not release the disaster, it seemed as if it was unwilling to be misunderstood in this way, and it automatically opened with a "click" in the next second.
A key, also inlaid with gems of the four elements, lay quietly at the bottom of the box.
Jiang Yunu used the decorative strip to fiddle with the key again, confirmed that there was no problem, and then reached out to take the key out.
The floor of the main hall shook slightly as the key was taken out, and a door that had never existed before rose out of thin air, with a conspicuous keyhole right in the center of the door.
There is no need to guess, the keyhole and the key that Jiang Yunu has obtained must be a match.
Jiang Yunu put the key in and the door opened easily.
——Behind the door is a virtual treasure trove.
After passing the Trial Tower, the mysterious grand prize that the representatives of the competition committee had kept in suspense for a long time, as well as the prize pool mentioned in Pei Ya's information, were clearly presented in front of Jiang Yunu.
There are many three-dimensional projections of treasures floating in the treasure house. As a player who has passed the level, Jiang Yunu can touch any one of them. After she makes a choice, their physical objects will be sent to her player apartment room.
"Congratulations, you're the first person to clear this league's special level—the Trial Tower!"
Jiang Yunu walked into the treasury, and the artificial intelligence here automatically congratulated her and explained to her the rules for collecting the treasures in the treasury.
This AI seemed to have been programmed with some sort of "recommended ranking intelligence." It immediately introduced Jiang Yunu to the most valuable treasure. "Would you like to try that invitation on the right? Don't underestimate it. It's signed by the First District's top elemental weapon forger. With it, you'll have the chance to have a high-level forger personally craft a weapon for you."
But of course, the blacksmith is only responsible for forging, and other materials and crystal cores are not included in this reward.
However, for 90% of the students in the upper three districts, resources and materials are not difficult to obtain, but hiring a blacksmith is difficult.
"Or would you like to take a look at the purple bottle on the left? It symbolizes a comprehensive maintenance and drainage of your energy core, empowering your external energies. It's said that using it can allow a psychic to increase their abilities by at least 30% within their natural level."
Jiang Yunu took another look at the purple bottle. She always felt that the description given by the artificial intelligence had a sense of déjà vu, and it didn't sound very reliable.
She interrupted the AI's introduction and said directly, "I hope to obtain the A-level crystal core here."
The AI responded smoothly: "Of course, please keep going forward. The Transcendent A-Grade Crystal Core is on the projection platform directly in front."
When Jiang Yunu touched the crystal core projection, the AI said, "But considering the special nature of the A-grade crystal core, especially since it's a Beyond A-grade crystal core, we need to record its basic destination. Please fill in your expected use of this crystal core."
Jiang Yunu didn't hesitate at all. She opened the virtual keyboard and typed in the instructions.
【Give it to someone.】
"Okay." The AI said, "You want to give this Beyond Grade A Crystal Core... to someone else."
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