When she logged in the next day, Xia Yao unexpectedly discovered that she had an additional tower-sweeping mission.
But she remembered that she had logged off after leading her team through Storm Canyon yesterday, so how could a quest suddenly appear? And it was about clearing a tower?
But there is no open tower in the city.
Feeling suspicious, I clicked on the taskbar details to check.
Then, it dawned on me.
The tower sweeping mission is quite time-consuming, so Xia Yao decided to go to the Scholars' Academy first to take on the five sets of missions. She used the 500 honor points she had accumulated previously to redeem the Guild Establishment Order. Although this did not affect her ranking on the Honor List (because it was based on historical accumulation), she still had to save up in advance so that she could redeem the items she liked as soon as possible in the future.
If you have enough food in your hands, you won’t be worried.
Other players naturally think so too.
Perhaps it was because they heard that she had exchanged the Guild Token from the House of Scholars, but more and more magic players joined Ashaya's school. Even some players who had originally entered the professional hall were eager to switch to the House of Scholars or the House of Power.
It's a pity that the eight professional halls have very strict restrictions on players. If you want to go to the two halls, you must first bind and terminate the relationship. Terminating the relationship requires paying a huge compensation, and a certain amount of reputation points will also be deducted. This is simply heartbreaking for players who love money like their life.
After quickly completing 5 sets of tasks, Xia Yao casually flipped through the world channel and saw that the players were accusing the Professional Hall.
I don't understand why joining the Professional Hall and the two houses conflict with each other? Aren't both organizations affiliated with the Empire?
[I don't understand +1. The Class Hall primarily categorizes players according to the eight major classes, while the two academies manage players based on the magic and physics classes. My understanding is that the classification standards are different.]
If I could file a complaint against the Professional Hall, I'd really like to give them a bad review!
[One more thing to add: the quests posted by the Pro Hall sometimes overlap with those posted by the two houses, just like the Beast of Bass quest at the beginning. Whoever arrives first gets it, and those who arrive later won't be able to complete the quest. Don't you think this is like two factions fighting openly or secretly?]
[Hiss, this is terrifying when you think about it, could there be a hidden secret?]
[It's just a game setting, no need to take it so seriously, everyone should just play it for fun. At worst, you can just quit the professional hall and join the two academies again.]
[Ha, it's so simple as stated above. If you have money, go pay the compensation.]
[(Screenshot.jpg) Submitted, exited Hunter Hall]
【Oh my god, big brother is awesome! 】
…
Xia Yao's eyes turned slightly. Indeed, this request was unreasonable no matter how you looked at it. But if you think about it carefully, it was not an open or covert struggle between factions, but more like the eight professional halls' unilateral exclusion and resistance to the two houses.
Looking at the time in the upper right corner, Xia Yao still had an hour before noon when she would lead the guild members to kill monsters, so she decided to go to the Imperial Library.
The library is open to everyone; all you need to do is show your ID.
After entering, Xia Yao discovered that there were not many players in the library. Only occasionally could she encounter a few life players studying pharmacy and tailoring reading here. The bookshelves in other areas were deserted.
Xia Yao found the history area, took out more than ten books related to the development of imperial professionals, and then carried them to the reading area next to it to read.
After more than half an hour of research, Xia Yao unraveled the mystery and gradually figured out some details that were not mentioned on the official website.
Just like the scene that flashed by in the trailer, the Academy of Scholars and the Academy of Powerful Men were once famous in the Empire and the Continent. The two institutions had cultivated countless outstanding professionals, who entered various industries. Some became soldiers and served the Empire, some became teachers and taught children basic professional knowledge, and some formed their own schools.
As professionals' skills became more and more diverse and their abilities became stronger, some professionals gradually began to question the management model of the two academies. They believed that dividing professions only according to the law department and the physics department was too rough and not conducive to the further development and management of professionals.
Therefore, the institutions that were originally established as a separate school became the destination for these professionals, which is the prototype of the eight major professional halls today.
The emergence of the Eight Great Halls made the professionals very happy, and the king at the time also appreciated this model, so he incorporated the Eight Great Halls into the official institutions of the empire.
Since then, the two houses began to decline, but because of their historical status, the king retained them and did not abolish them.
However, the fact that they had not been abolished did not necessarily mean that their existence was necessarily accepted, especially with the vigorous development of the Eight Great Halls, the two houses were gradually squeezed out of sight. At the worst, the deans of the two houses would be pelted with eggs by other professionals when walking on the street, and they were accused of wasting the empire's resources.
Later, with the appointment of a young dean named Ashaya, the status of the two houses finally began to improve slightly. Unlike other noble professionals, Ashaya was born into a commoner family and was a master of pharmacy who saved the world and helped the people. Therefore, she was deeply respected by the people and allowed the two houses to survive in the empire.
After reading this, Xia Yao had a general understanding of the dispute between the palace and the two academies.
Close the book and think quietly.
There was one thing that still struck her as inconsistent. The two houses had made immense contributions to the empire. Even if they had faded from the spotlight, how could their glorious achievements be overlooked just because of the Palace? Not only that, but players were even restricted from accepting quests in the two houses.
It was as if someone was secretly controlling the situation and wanted to gradually make the two houses disappear from the empire.
A dangerous aura suddenly exploded in her mind, and at the same time, an indescribable chill pierced her back.
Someone is watching her!
Xia Yao turned around quickly and scanned the rows of bookshelves behind her with half-closed eyes.
The gaze disappeared.
But the breath is still there!
She stood up quietly, straightened her body, and walked quickly towards one of the bookshelves.
But suddenly!
Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo!
The smoke alarm above my head suddenly sounded!
The shrill alarm sound instantly spread throughout the library, and the NPCs rushed out, carrying fire extinguishers to put out the fire while urging the players to leave quickly.
The crowd pushed and shoved, and the noise in the hall instantly covered up the trace.
Before being pushed out of the hall by the NPC, Xia Yao sensed something and suddenly looked back, only to see a masked man jumping out of the opposite window.
She didn't have time to see the man's ID clearly, but she couldn't be wrong about the color.
"It's black," she murmured.
This is the color that represents the villain camp.
The news of the fire in the Imperial Library quickly spread among the players, and everyone was amazed.
[I was shocked. I didn't expect this game to be so realistic! Even the fire scene is set up.]
So, the question is, which player was so bored that they actually played with fire in the library? Did they miss the cold bed in the Imperial Penitentiary? Or the sadistic look of the jailer NPC?
[Those who have had the good fortune to sleep in prison for one night would like to express that they never want to go to prison again in their lifetime]
【Please tell your story upstairs】
[Brother, I'm very interested in your release from prison. Tell us about it.]
After coming out of the library, Xia Yao returned to the guild.
It was not yet the agreed time of 12 o'clock, but everyone was already waiting for her.
Zhang Bupa leaned forward and suddenly smelled something: "Sister, why do you smell like you're burning?"
Xia Yao remained calm: "Oh, really? Maybe the high temperature during forging accidentally burned the corner of the clothes."
Forging requires high-temperature smelting, and this reason is completely convincing.
Zhang Bupa nodded and said, "Sister, be careful next time," and didn't ask any more questions.
Their mission today is still to go to Storm Canyon to kill monsters, and the goal is to level up everyone by at least 1 level.
In order to speed up, Xia Yao led the team another 100 meters into the canyon this time. The number of gnolls and eagles doubled compared to yesterday.
At the beginning, everyone had a hard time fighting, especially since there was only one knight in the entire team, Huangcheng, who could pull monsters. After the huge crowd of monsters rushed out, his taunting skills were of no use at all.
Just when he was about to be cornered by the dog-headed man, a figure rushed up from the corner of his eye.
He threw out several skills, which landed accurately within the circle, and the ogres who had been besieging him were quickly pulled away.
"Thank you, President." He wiped the sweat from his forehead and said.
"It's okay, just keep an eye on the kobolds in the distance, I'll handle this side."
If he was surprised at his president's ability to pull monsters before, now Huang Cheng only has full trust and admiration for Xia Yao.
He responded, turned around without hesitation and rushed to the remote side to carry the monster for Sandaofu and the others.
The team regained their rhythm, and more than four hours later, each of them successfully leveled up as Xia Yao had said.
Everyone was so tired that they could hardly stand up.
"Oh my god, running for four hours straight and swinging weapons at the same time, the consumption is so great that I feel I can lose 5 kilograms today." As a planner of the Heavenly Realm, Sandao Fo is a typical fat otaku. He felt tired enough last night, but he didn't expect that his limit would be exceeded again today.
However, although I am tired, I feel a great sense of accomplishment!
The Three Buddhas panted and fanned themselves with their hands. At the same time, they looked at everyone, their faces filled with joy.
However, at this moment, a piece of world news broke the excitement of the whole team.
[Attention, the Guild [Northern Capital] has issued a challenge to the Guild [Sword and Rose]. Please [Sword and Rose] come and fight! ]
"Beiming City?! Are they crazy?" Wu Shan Leng cursed immediately, "What time is it? Why are they issuing a declaration of war so late at night?"
"Ah? Is there anything special about this?" Zhang Bu's eyes blinked, not quite understanding why Wushan Leng was so excited.
Sandao Buddha stepped forward and explained to everyone, "The guild challenge is valid for six hours. If the challenged party fails to accept the challenge within the specified timeframe, it will be deemed an automatic abandonment and will be deemed a failure by the system."
"What will be the punishment if we fail?" Yunyan asked weakly.
The Three Buddhas looked at everyone solemnly: "The guild will be demoted, with financial penalties and a reduction in world reputation."
It doesn't sound like a big deal to Sword and Rose. After all, they are only level 1 and can't drop any lower. The funds should not be much. They asked Xia Yao yesterday, and the latter didn't reveal the specific number to them, but that meant that the guild's start-up funds were very small, otherwise they would have directly bought a base.
As for the guild's world reputation? They don't care even more.
As long as a guild is created through a guild creation order, no matter how low its world reputation is, it will always be naturally one level higher than a player guild.
In other words, the punishment after failure is of no concern to them at all.
But even so, it doesn't mean they accept losing.
The enemy has come to their doorstep, how can they be cowards?
After the Three Buddhas finished speaking, they followed the crowd and turned their gaze to their pillar.
"President, should we answer it?" he asked on behalf of everyone else.
Xia Yao looked at them and smiled softly: "Take it."
Of course.
The fact that Yuan Qinglan still dared to jump around in front of him meant that the two words "Ying Yao" were not intimidating enough.
In that case, let her die completely at once.
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