Me and my fantasy world

After coming out of the Awakening Hall, Zero One and the other two came to the Sihai Inn, their old place, to rest and have breakfast. After ordering three bowls of noodles, they discussed their itinerary.

"Otherwise, let's go to the academy." Leo suggested, "The academy's most basic requirement for first-level students is that they can apply for graduation as soon as they unlock the level. The sooner we finish and graduate, the sooner we can sever our ties with the academy. Let's go work as adventurers under Uncle Lion."

Zero One chewed his food slightly, thinking about Leo's proposal. The guild was leaderless due to the escape of President Luo Xian. Originally, everyone wanted to recommend Zero One to be the president of the guild, but Zero One was not interested in this and Zero One might also leave Nord, so he declined the request and proposed that the Lion-Man take over the guild.

At this time, the position of president of the Adventurer's Guild in Nord Town fell on the head of Lion-Man. After listening to what happened to Leo and Alice, Lion-Man promised that as long as the matters with the academy were settled, the guild could seamlessly provide jobs for the two, whether they could be adventurers or civilian staff.

It is not easy to break away from the academy. The minimum requirement is to graduate from the academy. This is also Lingyi's concern, because logically speaking, the academy has forced Leo and Alice into such a situation, and there is no need to have too many entanglements with the academy. Instead, the academy kicked Alice and Leo away. Although it may not seem so glorious on the surface, it is also a good way to get rid of the academy.

But this world will not let go of any dishonorable person. If the academy persuades Alice and Leo to drop out, then Nord Town will not allow Leo and Alice to reside and live. This is the law of the Kingdom of Andressa. Even if someone in Nord Town is willing to provide Leo and Alice with a place to stay, they will be charged with harboring a criminal and imprisoned.

Such a result can be said to hurt others and themselves. Leo and Alice don't want to be implicated by others, but where can they go if they leave Nord Town? The Nameless Village has been destroyed. Can they rebuild the village with Alice?

Now, with the help of Zero One, the mask hidden in the stone pillar of the Awakening Hall was taken out, allowing Leo and Alice to successfully unlock their levels. They just need to return to the academy to report the situation and go through the process.

"Xueyan, Xueyan? What are you thinking about?" Alice's words interrupted Lingyi's thoughts.

Lingyi recovered, looked at Leo and Alice and said, "It seems there is no way out. The best solution is to compromise peacefully with the academy."

"Then let's go to the academy later?" Alice asked tentatively, but Lingyi stared at the table with a serious expression, seeming a little reluctant, "Xueyan, what's wrong? Is there any problem?"

Lingyi raised his head and glanced at Alice again, then glanced at Leo: "I'm curious why the emcee is so persistent in begging me to go to the academy."

"If there are good students, they will definitely welcome them. Is there any problem with that?" Leo asked doubtfully.

Lingyi shook his head slightly and said: "The Royal Academy is the only academy for adventurers. Ordinary people cannot run such an academy, which means they don't need high-quality students to expand their educational achievements. If anyone wants to learn the knowledge of adventurers, they only need to join them."

"From this perspective, it seems that they don't have to pull me over. Is it really just a common phenomenon of 'teachers like good students'? I always feel that something is wrong. The emcee was strong and tough, and only softened completely when we said goodbye for the last time. The purpose should be to lock me in the academy, but what's the point of locking me in?"

Lingyi kept talking to himself, and Alice and Leo did not interrupt him, allowing Lingyi to think carefully: "It seems that the emcee is indeed weird. He keeps trying to win over Xueyan. Although this has happened before, she didn't keep talking about this when she was seeing her off." Based on her past experience, Alice also noticed something was wrong.

Leo held a chopstick in his mouth and said nonchalantly, "Speaking of which, the emcee was indeed strange. She didn't say much when we first entered, and her attitude changed only after we activated our magic power. Is it because we are so powerful that she softened her heart and wanted us to let her go?"

Leo's words suddenly woke up Lingyi, and a light flashed in his eyes: "Do you think such a big academy is just for decoration? He even begged us to let him go, and we didn't do anything." Alice knocked Leo's head angrily.

However, Lingyi suddenly said at this moment: "Yes, how could I forget that this is a different world, not my original world."

"Hmm? Xueyan, what are you talking about?" Leo looked at Lingyi curiously.

"Yes, what different world? It's the original world." Alice also tilted her head and looked at Lingyi.

"This kind of world with cultivation should have the most common school routine, but it is just a battle between the various schools. And I heard that there is only one school in each area, so that school represents a region..." Lingyi suddenly figured it out when he thought of this, and looked at Leo and Alice, "Are there any large-scale competitions recently? Team competitions? Individual competitions?"

"Competition? What are you talking about?" Leo was a little confused by Lingyi's question.

"It's a competition. Each college will select certain candidates, and then go to a certain place for a big competition. In the end, the ranking of colleges in each region will be decided. Is there such a competition?" Lingyi asked Leo and Alice anxiously.

Leo pondered for a while and shook his head: "The annual continent-wide adventurer competition has ended. Is there any big competition next?"

After thinking for a moment, Alice seemed to have a clue. She looked at Lingyi and said, "It seems that there is indeed an event for the contract of alien beasts, but I'm not sure if it can be considered a competition. However, many colleges participated and there were rankings."

After hearing this, Lingyi looked at her with some confusion: "There is a ranking, why is it not a competition? What is a strange beast?"

"By definition, alien beasts are beasts with magical powers. They maintain the form of beasts and are called alien beasts." Alice introduced them to Lingyi. "Alien beasts can sign contracts with adventurers. After the contract, the alien beasts become summoned beasts of the contract. They can listen to the call of the contracted adventurer and come to the adventurer's side to assist the adventurer. They can be summoned at any time."

"Is it possible?" Lingyi asked curiously, "But in this case, he is just an opportunity to improve the adventurer's strength. How can he be related to the ranking?"

Leo nodded and said, "Of course, each academy will have to compete among themselves first. Only those who come out on top will have the conditions to sign a contract with the alien beast. And it's just a condition, not a 100% contract."

Alice nodded in agreement and said, "Yes, only qualified adventurers have the opportunity to sign a contract with the beasts. At the same time, the contract is not 100% signed. It also depends on the beast's degree of submission to the adventurer, the trust it has in the adventurer, and so on. There are also adventurers who return empty-handed."

"Is that so? That's quite difficult to deal with." Lingyi lowered his head and thought.

"The rankings I just talked about are the same, but they are just some mechanisms created by the top management to show off the excellence of the talents in their own region's academies." Leo said disdainfully, "Adventurers who successfully sign contracts will receive a certain amount of points, and the team with the highest points will be the first to sign a contract with an exotic beast, but there is no reward, and even the title of crown is not of much use."

"That's true. Signing the contract with exotic beasts seems to improve the abilities of adventurers, but in fact it is just a show for the major colleges. The ranking is in name only for the adventurer students, but it does have a significant reputation improvement for the regional schools." Alice said, looking at Zero One.

Lingyi pondered with a serious expression, then immediately stood up and said, "We can't talk about anything here, let's go over and take a look. No matter what, you two still need to discuss graduation with the school."

"Row."

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Walk along the main road of Nordtown to the town square, and you will come to a crossroads. On both sides of the crossroads are Nordtown's East Street and West Street.

Standing in the town square, Lingyi stopped and looked around. This place used to be crowded with people, with adventurers coming in and out of the guild. But now there are fewer people, and the crowded town square is no longer seen.

Zero One and the other two arrived at the entrance of the guild, exchanged a few words with the adventurers inside, and then continued walking forward.

After passing the guild, walk forward for about ten minutes and you can see huge building fences on both sides. The building on the left is still a more Chinese-style earthen wall fence. Looking down, you can also see the Chinese courtyard inside. If you walk further forward, you can see a plaque with three large characters "Town Lord's Mansion" written on it.

On the right side is a relatively modern iron fence. Peeping inside from the fence, what first catches the eye is an empty Western-style garden. The flower beds are about knee-high and are planted with a variety of flowers and plants. But at a glance, Ling Yi cannot name those flowers and plants. They may not be the materials that appear in Yan Wuchang's Casting Record, but ordinary ornamental flowers.

There was a red carpet in the center of the flower bed, which led all the way to a teaching building. What surprised Lingyi was that the teaching building looked more like a Western church or palace, which was luxurious and somewhat out of place.

The overall architectural trend of the teaching building is similar to a "pyramid", with a wide bottom and pointed top. Judging from the windows, it should be a three-story building. You can vaguely see that there is another building behind the teaching building, but not many details can be seen from the outside.

"Zero One, come here." Leo's voice rang out, calling out to Zero One who was still staring at the building in a daze.

"Ah, oh, here I come." Lingyi said in a daze, followed Leo's steps, and came to the main entrance of the academy.

The main entrance of the academy was a huge door about three meters high, carved with ancient patterns that seemed to depict a great battle. On the left and right doors were painted scenes of two groups of people fighting on the battlefield, but there were also some familiar symbols on the gate, such as water drops, lightning, and squares.

Those familiar symbols to Zero One were very conspicuous, and they also glowed with different colors, the water drop-shaped ones were blue, the lightning ones were purple...

There are nine such luminous symbols, which form a circle in the center of Ju Men.

Below the giant gate, about one meter above the ground, there is a pair of emerald green circular marks. They don’t look special. Unlike the glowing patterns above, the circular marks are more like paint or pigment smeared on them.

When Leo saw Lingyi coming, he slowly stretched out his left hand and pressed it in the ring. The originally closed door suddenly made a sound, and there was a sound similar to the turning of gears. The door slowly opened inward, and a bright red carpet could be seen from the inside of the gate all the way to the teaching building. It seemed that this should be the main road.

It was the first time that Lingyi saw a non-Chinese style building in this world, so he was curious about what it would be like. He couldn't wait to run inside before the door was fully opened, jogging all the way to the red carpet and looking around at the garden.

The sun was shining, the birds were singing, and the flowers were fragrant. As soon as he stepped into the flowerbed, he felt as if he was in a flower garden among the trees. A cool breeze blew into the academy from afar, carrying a little flower fragrance and the noise of birds.

A young bird had just learned to fly and spread its wings from the flower bed, but was affected by the wind and waves. It was unable to stabilize its body after taking off and crashed into Lingyi's feet.

The bird shook its head and turned to look at the "giant" supporting its back. Unexpectedly, the person standing behind it was actually a human being. The bird was so frightened that it could not move, and looked around in panic.