Monster Continent, Eastern Capital, Hunter School.
“6-5-2, ride a horse.”
“3-7-1, Lieutenant General.”
…Well, it can’t be done, it can’t be done!”
At the desk, a burly middle-aged man with a beard shook his head and pushed the dead chess piece, expressing his resignation. He said with emotion: "Sure enough, young people like you, Aizen-sensei, can master this new thing quickly, and you are no match for it."
Aizen, who has a natural 46-length hairstyle and a youthful and energetic face, smiled modestly: "It's because I don't do my job properly and spend more time on military ritual chess."
"Haha, don't say that. In the team led by Teacher Aizen in the past two years, the ratio of trainee hunters to junior hunters has been the highest. If you say that you are not doing your job properly, other teachers may not like to hear it." Toto The principal of the Hunter School and former candidate for the God of Hunting King Lu laughed.
Speaking of Aizen in front of him, his opinion has changed several times from the beginning to now.
At first I didn’t think highly of it.
From the perspective of talent, Aizen is an out-and-out genius, and he also took advantage of the supernatural medicine. He awakened his supernatural powers at the age of only 19 and became a member of the numbered hunters.
Although numbered hunters are not as valuable as before, they are not bad. Aizen started out as the second vice-president of the Hunter Guild in a third-level city. He worked diligently during his tenure. There was no trouble in the past three years, and his strength has steadily increased.
Unexpectedly, when he was promoted from deputy to full-time, Aizen suddenly resigned from the Hunter Guild and applied to be transferred to the Hunter School to serve as an ordinary teacher.
Where is Hunter School?
Although they are the key to cultivating the next generation, with the threat of monsters, teachers are basically those who have little potential, little room for improvement, are not good at fighting, or have been injured and lacked strength like him. The hunter who retreated steadily came to serve.
Aizen's behavior seemed like a deserter to him, an old hunter.
However, after getting along with him later, he found that this young man was humble and polite, handled everything in an orderly manner, and was outstanding in both interpersonal communication and teaching stability.
As a result, I gradually began to appreciate him, and now I feel that the other person is ‘gold and can shine anywhere’!
“I don’t know why the main guild suddenly promoted this very niche chess game.”
Wang Lu shook his head, pushed Junyi aside, and took out a letter: "I didn't ask you to come here to play chess with me. Teacher Aizen, guess what's in this?"
"Is it from the research institute?" Aizen's face showed the expectation of a young man.
“Haha, boy, when you applied to be transferred to the school, did you just go to the research institute?”
“No, no, no…”
"It's okay. It's a pity that you stay in school all your life, and this is just a notice for further study. I think Teacher Aizen should be able to balance the relationship between his own study and teaching. After all, you have time to study military honors." Wang Lu joked.
Aizen took the notice with both hands.
Wang Lu continued: "And you have a good vision, and you really want to do something practical. Most people are not willing to apply to become a student of Associate Professor Wu Sen and live a life of dealing with soil all day long."
Professor Wu Sen was just an ordinary farmer six or seven years ago. He had been farming for decades and gained a lot of experience.
One of them had promotion value, nearly doubling the buckwheat yield per acre, and was immediately rewarded and recruited by the Hunter Guild.
In recent years, in addition to promoting the cultivation of coarse grains such as buckwheat, he has also contributed two similar improvements and obtained the title of associate professor.
Although his contribution is not small, his educational level is very low. The researchers at the institute will respect him, but they feel that the possibility of him making a breakthrough in the future is very low and the work is very hard, so they applied to him. Just very few.
However, in the eyes of an experienced hunter like Wang Lu, who has served as the principal of the Hunter School for more than ten years and is well-informed, he naturally knows that nothing is a fluke. Associate Professor Wu Sen must have strong talents and accumulated experience. If you can create something big, it will be difficult to follow it in the future.
Aizen didn't shy away from it, he opened the letter directly in front of Wang Lu and read it. After reading it, he thanked Wang Lu.
Wang Lu waved his hand and said, "I wish Teacher Lan Ran will make great achievements in agriculture."
“Thank you, principal, for your kind words.”
Aizen smiled and excused himself. After walking out of the principal's office, he put the letter in his arms.
‘Hehe, Associate Professor Wu Sen…’
On the other side, Associate Professor Wu Sen, who looked about 60 years old and looked like an ordinary old man, was walking in the fields, but still felt a little confused in his heart.
"Aizen? Isn't this Ji Xing's person? I didn't get close to him, so why did he take the initiative to find me? Is this Ji Xing's intention?"
After receiving Ji Xing's 'cultivation reminder', the God of Ancient Trees, whose pseudonym was Wu Sen, felt confused: "Yes, Ji Xing doesn't know that Bai Ling and I know about Aizen, do you want to use this to plot something?" ?
Haha, naive, even if you are behind my back, he is just a young hunter. Just communicate with Bai Ling and let them do whatever they want. "
…
“Let him do whatever he wants.”
Ji Xing knew that Aizen applied to him later than he did.
Having brought Aizen to the Demon Continent for eight years, Aizen has always had autonomy and freedom. Ji Xing has basically not interfered with any of his actions, and Aizen is not someone who needs Ji Xing to worry about.
As long as there is no fear of betrayal, Aizen is a trump card when needed, and when not needed, just let him enjoy the world by himself.
Just like chess and Go, the identity of the inventor is unknown, but it is extremely niche.
Now it is because of his interest that it has been greatly promoted. As the father of supernatural medicine, Li He's prestige is too high. "In this case, it doesn't seem like there are senior time travellers. It's strange. Some habits of military etiquette evolved from Japanese." With insufficient information, Ji Xing could only make some unfounded guesses based on what he knew.
In another seven years, maybe we will know?
He paid attention to the other half of his consciousness.
【Estimated time remaining for invasion: 0 days, 0 hours, 23 minutes and 18 seconds】
Unconsciously, three months have almost passed, and Ji Xing will soon know what kind of changes have happened in the invaded world!
…
Tower of Mystery, first floor.
Initial town, Black Iron Palace.
The chestnut-haired girl, wearing a robe and with a face painted like mouse whiskers, was standing in front of a huge black stone monument in a daze.
“In the blink of an eye, it’s been two and a half years.”
Suddenly, she let out a long sigh.
Her name is Argo. She was originally a girl who was severely addicted to the Internet. She made a living by playing games. She worked as an information dealer in major online games and had a small reputation.
With the development of science and technology, the virtual reality technology NERDLES gradually matured a few years ago. Later, quantum physicist and game designer Akihiko Kayaba brought this technology into application and developed the first civilian machine NERvGear. The realm game SAO Sword Art Online was born in response to this.
Fortunately, Argo grabbed one of the 1,000 closed beta qualifications to experience the game in advance, and naturally became one of the 10,000 public beta players. Two and a half years ago, at the first time of the public beta, he put on a helmet and prepared to play the game. Show off your skills in the first virtual reality game.
As a result, a supernatural phenomenon occurred!
Cannot be explained by scientific principles.
No one could have predicted it.
Like a joke from the gods, the 10,000 players wearing helmets were enveloped by a strange force and disappeared on the spot.
Then we came to this mysterious tower.
It is very similar to the Aincrad world in the SAO game. It is a 100-story tower. As long as the player progresses through each level and clears 100 floors, he can clear the game and get rewards.
But this mysterious tower is far larger than the world of Aincrad, and the difficulty is also exaggerated.
The first 20 floors are regarded as the novice area. Starting from the 21st floor, the difficulty increases in circles. The difficulty increases every time it is a multiple of 5. Players experience extraordinary power, but they are also tortured to the point of death. According to her, As you know, the most advanced strategy team has been stuck on the 50th floor of a large level for two months, and so far they haven't even found the boss' door.
At this rate, the more difficult 50th floor will probably take another ten to eight years, and maybe I will have to live here for half my life.
At this moment, she is standing here at the stone monument to wait for new players.
Although players move in the mysterious tower with their real bodies, if they die, they will not really die. Except for certain monsters and traps, at the moment of death, players will be protected by the power that sent them and teleported back to where they came from.
Lost everything in the game, unable to return to this mysterious ‘game’, only retaining the memory here, like having a long dream.
So the reality side has learned about the situation here, and most people are excited and fanatical about conquering this mysterious tower.
'Dead' players can no longer enter the game, so the helmets are vacant. In addition to the helmets of 10,000 beta testers, there are also 300,000+ helmets produced and prepared for sale in the same batch, which also have the ability to send people to the Mysterious Tower. Effect.
It’s just that the helmets produced later do not have such an effect, and 300,000+ is still not enough.
The military and financial groups have taken action. The players here have been rotated many times. Although the number is still 300,000+, at least 3 million people have experienced it. The original batch of players is probably gone. How much has it fallen?
This is also the reason why she is not optimistic about the strategy for the last 50 floors. It took 3 million people to explore the first 49 floors. How many young adults are there who can play this game and are good at it?
The quality of ‘new players’ is getting worse and worse.
And because a unique 'Resurrection Grass' was discovered on the 46th floor not long ago, it can revive the player within half an hour of death. Although it is accompanied by a very dangerous immortal disease and is difficult to obtain, it still reduces the strategy team's ability. mortality rate.
Coupled with the fact that more and more helmets are controlled by big forces, new Sanren players are becoming even rarer.
Due to various reasons, the person in charge of recruiting new players on behalf of the guild and intelligence brokers like her who were always waiting in front of the initial stone tablet recording the names of all players are becoming fewer and fewer, and there is no one around them.
She was standing here stupidly because she thought that no one was buying information recently and there was no new information.
Just as I was thinking wildly about another fruitless day, I suddenly caught a name being generated at the end of the stone tablet out of the corner of my eye.
‘Ji Xing’.
Have you arrived? !
In an instant, Argo turned around and rushed out of the Black Iron Palace, looking towards the initial square.
A figure is emerging there.
Argo looked at the past, his eyes gradually straightened, and his inner emotions could only be summarized as "f*ck".
‘Why…so tall and strong? ! ’
3k2, two updates today, and one more update, which will be late.