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"I see, no wonder he's so powerful..."

The surrounding Fantasy Dream students were engaged in a heated discussion about the Rabbit Squad's training. This training ground was open to spectators, and it would not disturb the students training inside. It was precisely because of this spectatorship that these Fantasy Dream students understood the Rabbit Squad's strength.

These students of Huanmeng usually only dared to open the simulation training at 120% difficulty. The Rabbit Squad directly raised the difficulty of the simulation battle to four times, which stunned them. Facing the intricate battlefield environment and the enemy's firepower that was several times stronger than their own, the Rabbit Squad of only four people was able to wipe out the opposite side with only minor injuries to all members, which made all the Huanmeng students here dumbfounded.

"Um, hello..."

At this time, a student from Huanmeng who couldn't help himself finally ran over. He hesitated for a while, then as if he had made up his mind, he extended an invitation to Gongzi and others in front of him.

"Hello, you guys are so powerful, could you help our team conquer the Challenge Tower? I know you're using temporary student cards right now, so you can't accumulate points. So if you're willing to help us conquer the Challenge Tower, we'll split the points 70-30, 30-30 for us, 70-30 for you."

"Hey, you sneaked off! Wait a minute! Please consider joining our team!"

After watching the Rabbit Team's high-difficulty simulation training, the four members of the Rabbit Team were quickly hailed as stars by everyone, and everyone rushed to invite the four to join their team to conquer the high-difficulty dungeon.

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"Ahahaha... what do you think, Miyako?"

Saki looked at his captain beside him with an embarrassed look on his face, while Miyako thought for a moment and nodded: "It's not really that bad, is it?"

"Spreading the four of us among these students and then conquering that difficult challenge tower can be considered a way to hone our individual abilities."

After Gongzi agreed, the students around her cheered. In their opinion, with Gongzi and her group of SRT students joining their strategy team, they would be more confident in conquering the high-difficulty dungeon of the damn Challenge Tower!

So, on the second day, after a good rest, Gongzi became the first person on the Rabbit Team to try to team up with others to tackle the dungeon. She formed a new team with three other Dream students and embarked on the combat mission of the Challenge Tower.

325. Climbing the Tower and the Prophet's Signal

At first, there was complete darkness all around.

Then, pixelated dots of light from the game world appeared on the ground around Miyako and the others, illuminating the surrounding space. Then, like a pebble dropped into a lake, the dots of light created ripples in the dark space.

As the ripples spread outward, the once pitch-black Challenge Tower room took shape in the blink of an eye. From point to point, from surface to volume, the pitch-black gaming area transformed into a concrete jungle of battle ruins.

"Four challengers have been confirmed. The battle will begin in twenty seconds."

A mechanical voice announced, and a red countdown appeared in the air. Miyako took one last look at her weapons. In the interval before the battle began, she glanced at the other three Dream students standing nearby. They each held a pump-action shotgun, a light machine gun, and a sniper rifle. Combined with her submachine gun, they could perfectly cover a wide range of attacks, from near to far.

'Looks like he did his homework.'

Miyako nodded with satisfaction. The four members of the Rabbit Team had once tried to conquer the challenge tower in front of them. Although they took the challenge seriously at that time, they did not expect that this elite team of four would actually fail in the medium-difficulty challenge tower room.

Compared to the four times more difficult daily training, Gongzi could be sure without a doubt that the medium difficulty room in the Challenge Tower was already four times more difficult than what they had challenged.

In other words, Lan Wu's previous explanation that she and the others were blocked by the medium-difficulty room because they didn't have the points to redeem the buff didn't seem to be an excuse made out of shame, but rather that the medium-difficulty challenge room was indeed a bit too difficult.

"Everyone, do you remember the tactics we talked about before?"

Although she was leading students from Huanmeng High School, Miyako still required them to follow the tactics of her own SRT school. As for the previous situation, how could a group of students from bad backgrounds have any tactical coordination?

Normally, they just rush forward blindly, relying on human wave tactics to defeat the enemy and that's it. Where can they learn systematic tactical training and command?

Rather, it is too difficult for these students, who were still bad girls two weeks ago, to master standard tactical command so quickly.

"I still don't remember clearly, sorry."

Several students from Huanmeng clasped their hands together and apologized to Gongzi. They could hear that Gongzi's previous instructions were indeed helpful for their upcoming Challenge Tower attack. However, although they had taken them in, how much of it they would remember and how much of it they would be able to execute in the battle later was completely unknown.

"...Looks like you guys should really focus on your training. I told you beforehand that we probably won't be going very far this time."

Miyako shook her head in despair. Previously, the four members of her Rabbit Team had only managed to clear the first low-level stage. Now, with only herself and three students from Huanmeng High School forming a makeshift team, it was still unclear whether they could even clear the first low-level stages.

"Ah, there's no need to worry too much about that. We usually only make it to the 5th floor before being completely wiped out." A Huanmeng student smiled innocently and touched the back of his head. "For us to be able to break through the 10th floor today is a great victory. As for reaching the 20th floor like your teammates, don't say you don't have confidence. We don't even have confidence in ourselves..."

Miyako smiled at the students in front of her and encouraged them, "Nothing is absolute. If you are so timid before the battle, you won't be able to grasp even that 1% chance. Just give it your all and challenge it."

The numbers in the sky reached their limit, and enemies began to appear in the ruins before them. First up was the leading soldier, the captain, followed by the remaining soldiers, most of whom looked like ordinary idiots.

“It feels like we’re already acquaintances.”

Perhaps it was because after encountering a group of cyber scumbags who were personified by firewall software in cyberspace, Danrito used the images of these scumbags in the challenge tasks he set in the arena.

Even in the virtual training conducted by Miyako and others, most of the main enemies that appeared in it looked like these small fry. It is hard to say whether this was Danrito's bad taste.

"Machine gunner, suppress all enemies approaching us immediately! Sniper, you'll be the one to deal with the leading soldier captain!"

Miyako immediately gave the order, but moments later, the sound of machine guns roared behind her, and the student sniper aimed at the student captain who was hiding behind the bunker and giving orders.

In each challenge room like this, there is a leader unit among the enemies. This leader unit will continuously provide a certain degree of buff to the surrounding enemies.

In the later, more difficult levels, even elite enemies other than leaders will provide buffs. With the accumulation of multiple statuses, even the weakest minions will be enhanced to a terrifying level.

So after suffering a few losses, the teams coming to attack the Challenge Tower learned to bring snipers. Every time they faced a new level, the first thing they did was to go all out to kill the opposing leaders and elites.

Otherwise, a small fry with several layers of buffs on his body could easily overturn the four elite members of the Rabbit Team. When reaching the medium difficulty level, the Rabbit Team was overturned in this way.

When faced with a buff group consisting of three or five elites and a leader, they failed to immediately eliminate them. By the time they realized that one of the elite monsters had the ability to continuously summon armored reinforcements, the Rabbit Squad was already surrounded by tanks, armored vehicles, helicopters, and a large number of drones.

The elite team of only four people was blown to pieces by fierce firepower that was dozens of times greater than their own. This kind of attack with excessive firepower could probably only appear in such a highly random game level.

"Leader unit eliminated!"

The sniper student yelled. Without the buff provided by the leader, the remaining minions were just a few in number and were quickly dealt with by Gongzi and the others.

"Well done, everybody."

Although Miyako knew this was just the simplest level, it also proved that these students from Dreamland were at least willing to follow orders. Being willing to follow orders and being able to act according to them was already a very good quality—for students from schools other than SRT, Miyako didn't dare to ask too much.

"The next levels will also continue to advance according to this pattern. Do you understand?"

"Yes!"

Inside, Gongzi led three Huanmeng students to officially begin their assault on the Challenge Tower. Outside, watching were the other Huanmeng students and the other three members of Team Rabbit.

"Oh~ You're quite capable! With the help of Team Rabbit, we reached the fifth floor in half the usual time!"

Lan Wu, who was watching the game from the audience, slapped her thigh excitedly: "As long as we keep attacking like this, not only will we quickly accumulate enough points to redeem various powerful buffs, but we can also get the top reward 'Domain Sublimator' and the limited-edition cartridge!"

"A limited-edition cartridge for completing the game?" Saki, who was sitting closer, looked at Lan Wu next to him and said, "Is there such a thing? I haven't heard you mention it before."

"Ah... because that thing can't be exchanged just by accumulating points, so I don't think there's any need to say it."

Lan Wu felt a bit overly excited at this point. She calmed down a bit and explained to the three members of Team Rabbit, "Well, that's a reward from the final boss of the Challenge Tower. It's said to be a cartridge that works with the Domain Riser, and it's even more advanced than the Dream Player cartridge."

"Last boss?" Miyu was stunned for a moment. "Uh...how come there's a term like this that sounds like something out of an online game?"

"Because it's a truly formidable monster," Lan Wu shrugged. "In the latter half of the medium-difficulty level, a monster called the 'Perfect Collapse' appears, said to be far more formidable than any boss or elite monster we've encountered so far. And the final boss, the 'Game God,' is even more difficult to defeat with conventional means... Ha, what a piece of shit!"

"Huh?" Saki was stunned. "How did you know?"

"Mr. Danrito showed us all the first day the Challenge Tower opened," Lan Wu said, spreading her hands. "He said, 'Ah, it's a boss you can't possibly defeat right now, so it's okay to show you.' And that makes sense. With three transformations, all sorts of powerful buffs, and a health bar so long it could completely drown a person, it's definitely not something we can defeat right now."

"That sounds really scary..." Meng Hui, holding a lollipop in her mouth, complained with a normal expression despite saying it was scary. "So, for us, without any buffs, reaching a medium-difficulty level is already impressive?"

Lan Wu praised generously, "It's really amazing."

"According to Mr. Danrito, the difficulty level below medium is the 'human realm,' the limit of what ordinary people can achieve. And above medium difficulty is the watershed towards the 'god realm.'"

Lan Wu folded her hands and nodded. "And those buffs are the boosters that allow us to reach the 'God's Realm'—I don't understand it, but that's how Mr. Danrito described it."

"But what's the point of exchanging these buffs just to capture this tower?" Menghui said, her lollipop in her mouth, confused, her eyes fixed on Gongzi's team fighting on the field. "Aren't these buffs simply for capturing this tower? Once we get out of this tower, won't these buffs be useless no matter how powerful they are?"

"Who said it would disappear?"

Lan Wu looked at her. "Any buffs redeemed with points can be permanently bestowed upon the holder through the 'Dream Player' game cartridge. That's why Mr. Danrito said this is the engine that will allow us to reach the 'God's Realm'."

"……what?"

Putting aside the Rabbit Squad, who were overwhelmed by the Challenge Tower's rewards, Dream High School was currently thriving. After Danrito began spreading the word that Dream High School could help delinquents gain admission, a large number of delinquents had already begun flocking to Dream High. Conservatively, we'd expect the peak enrollment period to arrive in just three to five days.

Meanwhile, Danrito unexpectedly received a call from Himari, who he hadn't contacted for a while.

"—You really have a great surprise for me, classmate Riju."

Danrito raised his voice to express his dissatisfaction to the person on the other end of the phone, and Himari, who was using encrypted communication, could only let out an awkward laugh of "Ahaha" in an attempt to gloss over the matter.

"Who can say for sure about this kind of thing?" Himari chuckled and changed the subject: "Actually, I called you this time because I have an important favor to ask of you."

"Oh?" Danrito's mind raced. "Since you called me directly, I guess it must be the same as what happened in Abydos last time?"

"Your mind works really quickly."

Danrito was referring to matters related to the Cross God. After Himari had previously summoned him to Abydos to deal with Vina, the Cross God's prophet, Danrito had become quite concerned about the fact that Vina was able to transform into a "Knight of Providence" using cartridges similar to his own and a completely pirated driver. It was surprising to hear about this topic from Himari even today.

"In the ruins of a thousand-year-old abandoned floating city, I discovered a signal related to the 'Cross God Prophet'—well, it's worth my long pursuit."

Himari sounded very proud, "Our research on the Cross God has advanced a step further."

"Hmm... that's a nice thing to say, but it doesn't seem to have much to do with me, right?"

Danrito rubbed his chin, puzzled, "Isn't this a problem your Paranormal Investigation Department should handle on their own? Or do you think of me as a handy thug?"

"Uh... Mr. Danrito, being so petty isn't what a good man should be like, you know?"

Himari only said this jokingly, then said seriously, "Also, with Tianqin's help, I found something very interesting in the prophet's signal. It's a fluctuation of a unique frequency, and the wavelength is very similar to the one detected when the 'Knight of Providence' was monitoring the 'prophet's' changes last time."

"You mean..." Danrito narrowed his eyes.

Facing the computer screen in front of him, Hikari's eyes were extremely serious. "Perhaps, the culprit who caused the prophet to transform last time has appeared this time as well."

326. Preview! The Trinity Chronicles event is coming!

Danrito had no particular objection to the concept of prophets. These prophets were simply the inevitable product of Kivotos's overdeveloped artificial intelligence technology.

What will happen when robots start studying religious philosophy? It's like the ever-popular question: Do androids dream of electric sheep?

To be honest, Danrito didn't have much of an issue with these weird robots who called themselves prophets. Or rather, as long as they didn't provoke Danrito, he wouldn't care what these guys wanted to do.

But the problem is that the prophet Vina had transformed in front of Danrito using a driver that she had no idea where it came from, and she also took out a game cartridge that Danrito had no idea about. This was what he could not forgive the most.

"The guy who escaped at the last moment was the culprit who caused the Prophet to transform into a Knight of Providence."

Jiuwu Ling Yi Ba Ling Jiu Another

After Himari revealed that along with the source of the prophet's signal, there was also another signal wavelength that was also detected in the previous battle, Danrito's eyes became dangerous.

"That gives me a reason to go."

Danrito's eyes flashed with a fierce light. "He actually dared to transform using a game cartridge and driver that I had no idea existed. That means he's prepared to piss me off!"

Suppressing his anger, Danrito turned to Hikari on the other side of Tonghua and asked, "Besides this information, is there anything else you haven't finished telling me? Tell me everything."

"Really? We at the Paranormal Investigation Department aren't an intelligence agency."

Although Himari sighed pretentiously, she quickly shared all the information she knew with Danrito.

"Based on our previous recruitment records and comparisons with the data, we can confirm that the prophet who appeared in the water ruins city is the prophet named "Kaiser."

"Although it's a guard mechanism from long ago, it has three different enemy combat modes to cope with different situations. If you're not careful, you can still suffer some losses."

At this point, Himari's tone became more relaxed. "But if you were to personally take action, no matter what kind of enemy it was, it wouldn't be a problem, right?"

"Whatever the prophet is, it's just a pile of junk."

Danrito was arrogant, but he had the capital to be arrogant. To him, the Prophet was just a larger machine with more weapons. The person hiding behind the Prophet, providing these machines with game cartridges and drivers, was the most important person.

"That unknown collapsing body is the key I want to grasp."

Danrito played with an unfinished game cartridge in his hand. "Once I catch him, I'll ask him how he made the game cartridge."

"By the way, although it may not be necessary, do you want us to send someone to support you?"

After learning of Danrito's intention to take action, Hiruju finally felt relieved. As long as Danrito was willing to take action, everything would be fine. At least when it came to dealing with the prophet, Hiruju wouldn't have to worry about any setbacks.

"But there's no need to find someone to help me."

Danrito said to Himari, "We just upgraded the equipment for the guys in the game development department. Now it's time to take them out for some real combat."

"The guys from the game development department?" Himari blinked, then realized what was happening and said with some envy, "That's great! Not every student gets an opportunity like Momo-kun and the others."

"It can be said that they are very compatible with me."

Danrito didn't see any fairness or injustice in this matter. Whether it was favoritism or suppression, it all depended on Danrito's whim. If he liked someone, he'd give you the cassettes and drives at will. Only someone like Danrito could do such things without fear.

Himari nodded with satisfaction and smiled, "Then I will send you the coordinates of the location where the prophet appeared. I will also continue to track the direction of the prophet and the special signal individual. If there is a significant deviation, I will inform you."

After hanging up the phone, Dan Lidou took a quick look at the records from Yumei. After confirming that everything at Huanmeng High School was on track, he temporarily let Huanmeng High School continue to develop naturally.

After accepting the Rabbit Squad, all other matters at Dream High School remained the same. Thanks to the self-directed learning model popular in Kivotos, students could adjust their learning schedules to suit their current circumstances, regardless of when they joined. All they had to do was enroll the delinquents who had come to attend, and then wait and see what the final outcome would be.