The villainous young master just wants to live a Buddhist-like life.

　They all wished they could instantly transform into muscular golden wheels and spar with Professor Jones in dueling class.

　Because he discovered that some students in the first grade were not as intelligent as he had imagined.

　Students who start late or are not so bright are also part of the student body.

　He tried his best to make it understandable even to Spiceron. Then he increased the difficulty of the homework so that even high-achieving students could have room for improvement.

　He would have regular conversations with Professor Mernault on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.

　This wouldn't waste much of his time, but it would bring him great benefits, especially in his understanding of mathematics.

　Despite his advanced age, Professor Merno's ability to absorb knowledge remained frighteningly strong. Dak felt that if they continued exchanging ideas for another ten days or two weeks, his own limited knowledge would be completely drained. However, exchange is a two-way street, and the little knowledge he had accumulated since graduating from university finally began to grow a bit more.

　While magic in the past typically applied this technique to complex calculations or deductions, mastering quantity...

　During Tuesday afternoon's Magical Studies class, Professor Nini gave a comprehensive overview of the monsters that might appear on the first ten levels of the dungeon.

　And as expected, Professor Jones conducted a physical fitness test during the second dueling class on Wednesday morning!

　The assessment was unexpected; it wasn't a simple sprint or long-distance run, but rather orienteering within the academy's premises!

　Although Professor Jones called it a "simulated adventure assessment," it was undoubtedly orienteering.

　The commotion in Hall 1 only gradually subsided when Professor Jones's slightly languid voice reached everyone's ears.

　"I think most of you have already seen the [Safety First] quest. The [Magic Collector] being distributed now is..."

　Upon hearing this, the students exchanged glances, a sense of purpose forming in their minds.

　The Magic Collector isn't expensive, but it's not cheap either. A high-quality 20-slot Magic Collector usually costs over 100 credits.

　If you can rank in the top 40 in this assessment, it's equivalent to saving 100 credits.

　That's not true.

　Professor Jones, pleased with the change in the students' expressions, continued, "The rules and assessment criteria are posted on the bulletin board; those who haven't memorized them should go and check. It's currently 10:00 AM on September 25th. Waiting for the [Magic Collector] to be distributed..."

　"Understood—" "Very good, those who haven't gathered the required magic power by the end of the assessment, as well as those in the bottom forty, are prohibited from entering the dungeon before Halloween!"

　"OeQ9)0 Ahhh!"

　Amidst the rising and falling cries of agony, Dark quickly obtained the [Magic Collector].

　By injecting magic into the center button, you can manipulate the [Magic Collector] to extend a hollow needle. By bringing it close to the magic marker, you can absorb magic.

　He played with it for a moment, then said earnestly to Diana beside him, "After the party ends, go through the rules first, then study the map carefully. You can do it."

　Diana immediately turned to look at Rose, her big eyes filled with cuteness.

　But Rose also took a slight step back, shaking her head and saying, "Diana, now we're opponents!"

　Silently, the group that had been gathered together had scattered in all directions.

　Even Witt and Robert chuckled awkwardly and kept their distance from each other, encouraging one another from half a meter away.

　Moreover, if the magical markers that need to be collected overlap, they will become direct competitors.

　Nobody wanted to spend the next month just watching their classmates adventure in the dungeon; that would be incredibly awkward. Besides, some had already contacted the third-year students and reserved a "guide." As the Qi began to burn, the Force Gatherer finally completed its deployment.

　Professor Jones gave a soft shout, and the students immediately sprang into action.

　Some people rushed towards the notice board, some rushed out of Arena 1, and some even started climbing upstairs.

　Because one of the magical markers they need to find is in Battle Arena 1.

　Dark placed the [Magic Collector] into the card pack compartment, activated the [Sorting Card], unfolded his map, and walked out of the Battle Arena.

　He was, of course, very familiar with the rules of "orienteering." Professor Jones had set up magical markers throughout the entire academy, except for Traveler's Street and the dungeon. There were more than five hundred magical markers.

　They need to select twenty of these thirty magical markers to collect within three hours.

　This doesn't seem difficult.

　But St. Marian College is really big!

　I already had that feeling when I was living in the castle.

　If you step outside the castle and look out, you'll find that the academy covers an astonishingly large area.

　Furthermore, according to Professor Jones, each magical marker has a mechanism in front of it, and one must overcome the mechanism to access the well and collect magical energy.

　During this three-hour assessment, students are not allowed to use magic cards to travel; they can only run on foot.

　In addition, students may interfere with and compete with each other. However, they are not allowed to directly attack each other, cause harm to each other, or trap each other in place for more than three minutes.

　If more than ten of the thirty collectable magic markers are uncollectible, then failure is inevitable.

　However, since these are completely new rules that the young masters have never encountered before, most of them need some time to digest them.

　Professor Jones watched with a smile as the students eagerly began to move, thinking to himself:

　"If we perform well in this assessment, we can continue with this rule for this year's Halloween event!"

Chapter 571 Darkmond Orienteering (4k)

　Orienteering and simulated adventure tests students in almost every aspect. The most basic aspect is physical fitness. If a student cannot even sustain a fast walk for three hours, then even if they enter the underground city, they will certainly not be able to go far.

　Besides physical fitness, the ability to recognize maps and directions is also very important.

　If you still can't find your way even with a map, then in the complex, maze-like dungeons, you'll only end up getting lost. As for the competition among students, the protection of magic markers, the mechanisms... these elements are somewhat similar to the monsters and guardian bosses in the dungeons. It was a ghostly decorative painting in the Alliance Bathing Room on the third floor of the castle. To collect magic from that ghostly decorative painting, you had to solve the question posed by Miss Ghost—which was a mathematical problem! After collecting magic using the [Magic Collector], a [9] suddenly appeared in the upper right corner of the ghostly decorative painting.

　Because they were both students at the House of Nobles, Dark was relatively familiar with them.

　Siward immediately said, "Let's speed things up in the Allied Baptismal Chamber, Röntgen."

　“I’m already accelerating, Siward,” Röntgen complained. This test, in the end, was still about speed.

　As long as you stay ahead, you'll encounter fewer distractions during the assessment. Of course, since some students' magic markers aren't in the inner circle, but rather further away outside the castle, this period of peace won't last long.

　In order to avoid the most competitive central area, some people will choose to skip the nearby magic markers and go directly to the outer circle.

　Adding cards to the card pack, one big eye and one small eye. Their relationship seemed very bad at the time, yet neither was willing to give way.

　When Dark appeared as a third party, the boy from the noble academy glanced sideways, then exclaimed with delight, "Dark, you're here too!"

　But as he was speaking, the knight academy boy standing opposite him moved his lips rapidly, immediately pulled a magic card from his card pack, and shouted, "Push-Push Spell!"

　In an instant, a force suddenly surged from the heels of the nobleman's son. His feet lurched forward, and he fell backward as if he had stepped on a banana chip.

　A ferocious roar suddenly erupted from inside the door, causing the male students of the Knight Academy to freeze instantly, cold sweat dripping down their backs.

　"Clap."

　The nobleman's son's buttocks finally hit the ground, and he gasped in pain.

　Dark, who could have helped but hadn't, stopped and looked curiously at the office. In his view, the Knight Academy boy who had entered was frozen in place in a strange posture, as if a bottomless abyss lay before him, ready to plunge in. But combined with the beastly roar on the other side of the abyss, Dark seemed to have already seen what he was looking at.

　“Of course.” The boy from the Harmful Clan Academy stood up somewhat awkwardly and said, “I really didn’t expect him to know the Push Spell.”

　“That’s a technique too,” Darke laughed. “Come on, let’s go in together.”

　The young man from the noble academy glanced at the office, his eyes gradually hardening: "Alright." He paused slightly as he entered before stepping across the threshold. The giant beast was covered in bumps, its mouth full of fangs, and murky saliva dripped from its mouth onto its paws.

　With a roar identical to the previous one, the giant opened its bloody maw and pounced, a gust of foul wind instantly assaulting their senses. Dark narrowed his eyes sharply and took a step forward.

　The behemoth froze, abruptly stopping in front of him, its gaping maw wide open, ready to devour him from above. Dark's vision went black for a moment, as if he were being swallowed whole, a damp, writhing sensation of flesh washing over him. These three sensations triggered a tactile experience. But his will was strong enough that he completely ignored these terrifying things and continued to advance step by step.

　Two minutes later, the darkness in his vision rapidly receded, and he had already broken through the illusion.

　Turning his head slightly, Dark saw the entire office. Right in front of his toes was the desk, on which sat a round log, emitting a faint magical wave. He shook his head slightly and took out the [Spirit Insect] from his card pack.

　After a three-second whisper, the glowing insects were summoned.

　Immediately following the command, the Phantom Bug's eyes widened instantly, and huge pupils suddenly emitted a blazing white light. A meter away, the upright office and the magic markers stood out. After collecting enough magic from the magic markers, Dark saw that the magic markers also quietly showed a [9] character. He then turned his head, glanced at the two classmates who were bravely moving forward, and then walked between them and left the office.

　"Hopefully they won't admit their mistake, otherwise we'll have to start all over again..."

　Dak's simulated adventure assessment went very smoothly.

　Students of that grade, regardless of which academy they belong to, generally wouldn't use magic cards on him.

　Even when faced with multiple competitors vying for his magic, he was able to communicate amicably and successfully acquire it.

　When time started to become tight, things finally started to change.

　They didn't deliberately speed up on the road to Dak, and in more than an hour they had only collected +7 bars of magic power, and they still hadn't found three magic power markers.

　He had already left the castle and arrived at the circular building at the entrance to the underground city. This circular building, resembling a Roman palace, had only two floors; the first floor was over ten meters high, and the second floor was also several meters high. Around the perimeter of the first floor, neatly arranged stone pillars were carved with monstrous patterns.

　Shouts rose and fell throughout the building.

　Clearly, quite a few people are already involved.

　Dark hesitated for a moment, then stepped inside. His ears twitched in surprise. "Diana's in there too?" he exclaimed, quickening his pace instinctively.

　Even though it wasn't his first time here, Dak still couldn't help but be drawn to the twelve colossal statues in the square.

　Immediately afterwards, he suddenly noticed that a huge [1] was floating on top of one of the colossi! And the magic marker for this place was placed on the head of this colossi. Dark couldn't help but want to complain: "Is this meant for people to climb up?" If the person who drew this magic marker didn't have a magic card like the [Flying Charm], wouldn't they have to climb up? The second-year students were arguing at the foot of the lion-headed colossus.

　Besides Diana, there were also Witt, Robert, and Doron. Good heavens, none of these four had any flying spell cards! He finally understood why these four were arguing here.

　"It seems that those that can fly have already collected all the magic and left; the rest have landed..."

　"I reckon they all want to climb up and collect magic, but because of interference, they can't get up. They're unwilling to give up."

　"In short, this dragging on isn't a good thing, I have to help them."

　Dark smiled and took out the [Flight Spell].

　He struck a Superman pose and instantly leaped into the air.

　"Look, someone is flying!"

　Robert suddenly patted Witt on the shoulder, his face grim. Witt looked up, then secretly breathed a sigh of relief—finally, he could leave!

　Diana puffed out her cheeks and ran off angrily.

　"Once I learn the Transfiguration Charm, I'll become... Ha, no! I'll become a flying bear!"

　Only one magical marker remains atop the Lion Head Colossus's head - Gemor.

　Now that someone has already flown up, there's no point in the four people below continuing their argument.

　But Robert and Doron were still not satisfied. A [1] on the top of the lion's head became [0], and the two started running again.

　Following the path of Yu 52 and Rebirth 2559, they continued searching for the next Force marker. "Two more to go, I'll head here first... I remember there should be a dense forest here."

　The latest magical marker? In? This… forest.

　Emerging from the circular building, Victor glanced briefly at the distant forest, then set off on his run after confirming his direction. He knew all too well that the competition would intensify as the event progressed, and given his two previous failed attempts at gathering resources, he needed to speed things up. He needed to find the location of the Bulgarian Yuan.

　If it weren't for this simulated adventure assessment, they probably wouldn't have entered the dense forest until graduation.

　Andrina repeatedly looked down at the map in her Sorting Card, trying to find the right path through the dense forest of towering trees.

　She wore her hair in brown pigtails, and had a few harmless freckles on her face. Sweat dripped from her pretty cheeks. But as a student of the Knight Academy, she possessed an indomitable spirit and unwavering perseverance: "So where exactly is the magical marker in this dense forest?!"

　Andrina froze for a moment, gazing at the treetops with a dazed expression.

　As she marveled, the startled glowing butterflies gathered on the treetops, and more and more of them appeared.

　【Good evening!】

　[Keep it up! -w))00!

Chapter 572 The Ghost Butterfly of Darkdemon (4k)

　"What was that nearly a kilometer away?" Several students running towards the dense forest instinctively stopped in their tracks.

　It wasn't until this simulated adventure assessment that many people suddenly realized there were so many unfamiliar areas within St. Marian Academy.

　Unable to fully explore even the castle, they were forced to explore many other areas.

　This dense forest, stretching as far as the eye can see, is the most unfamiliar and the most frightening region.

　Therefore, most students who discovered magical markers on the map within this dense forest chose to leave... or move on. Only when they had no other choice would they venture back into the forest. Students from the Riding Academy often displayed a "knowing there are tigers in the mountains, yet venturing into the tiger's den" spirit. The second-year prefect of the Riding Academy, Ichiro Stingwayne, entered the dense forest more swiftly than the ground. With his magical spirits clearing the way, he had already covered half the distance and was not far from the magical markers within the forest. The dense canopy obscured his vision; he did not see the river of light converging, and continued cautiously forward.

　Outside the dense forest, whether it was Dark, Witt, or the other students who were also heading towards the forest, they all paused briefly before speeding up again.

　After more people noticed the commotion, they changed course and rushed into the dense forest. Professor Jones forbade students from using magic cards to travel, which naturally included riding magical spirits or using magic cards for assistance. Although Dark hadn't used any, seeing the strange phenomenon in the forest, he couldn't help but activate his chakra, circulating his "qi" into his legs, and suddenly erupting!

　He keenly sensed that someone might be in trouble in the dense forest. However, since Professor Jones had set up magical markers within the forest, there shouldn't be much danger, at least on the outer edges. So, it could be a false alarm. He quickly covered the kilometer in the blink of an eye and rushed into the forest, immediately summoning [Hawkman]. After the process of [de-summoning → re-summoning], the sweat from Hawkman's training was completely filtered out. Hawkman immediately understood, took a few steps, and then soared into the sky, quickly flying over the treetops and seeing the sea of ​​light formed by glowing butterflies. It narrowed its eyes and flew directly towards it.

　On the ground, Dark, wielding the [Hawkman] magic card, clearly sensed the location of the magical spirit and followed closely behind. The further they went, the denser the trees became. Their progress was affected, slowing them considerably. When Dark regained his senses, he was surrounded by trees on all sides.