nyslfriends Chapter 39 The Eye of Eternity
Chapter 39 The Eye of Eternity
"One serving per person, please don't crowd."
"Queuing is fine, we have them all."
"Those who have taken breakfast, come here to upgrade your personal terminal..."
At the edge of the south playground, tens of thousands of students who had arrived lined up in dozens of queues to receive breakfast from the cafeteria staff.
Breakfast consisted of exotic animal meat buns, refined flour steamed buns, and soy milk.
Before entering the playground, everyone had to pass in front of dozens of three-meter-high devices, similar to 3D printers, and place their personal terminals on them.
brush!
Under Chen Zheng's gaze, the device emitted a beam of energy that landed on the white crystal of the personal terminal, turning the crystal blue in a few seconds.
"Alright, your personal terminal can now connect to the Eye of Eternity." The staff member gestured to the next person.
The Eye of Eternity?
With a long sword on his back, Chen Zheng's eyes gleamed. He picked up his personal terminal and walked forward. Following the signs, he quickly found his class.
"Chen Zheng, over here."
By this time, about half of the students from Class 9 of the Rune Department had arrived. Chen Zheng stepped forward and looked at Jiang Mohe and Li Tang with some surprise: "You're here so early."
Jiang Mo smiled wryly: "There's nothing I can do. I can't sleep because I'm thinking about the trial today."
As they were talking, Bai Su appeared. Today, the girl was wearing a white tracksuit, with a small bag and a long sword on her back.
"SuSu, over here."
"morning."
The group greeted each other.
Soon, as students arrived one after another, the playground became increasingly crowded, divided into three large groups based on various departments.
Compared to the Rune Department students who generally carry long swords and sabers, the Materials Science and Martial Arts Department students have a wider variety of weapons, including knives, spears, halberds, and swords.
Furthermore, most of the martial arts students wore metal armor, some of which covered most of their bodies, while others only covered their shoulders and arms.
Because there were too many people, Chen Zheng looked around but didn't see his younger brother Chen Ye.
Around 7 o'clock, Song Hui, the homeroom teacher of Class 9, appeared.
At the same time, on a distant high platform, an old man dressed in a black and blue military uniform appeared out of thin air, and in an instant, a terrifying aura materialized.
Boom! The air vibrated, and everyone felt a sudden heaviness on their bodies. The previously noisy playground instantly fell silent.
The old man's gaze slowly swept over the teams from the Martial Arts Department, Rune Department, and Materials Science Department, and he slowly spoke: "I am Xiang Zhantian, the dean of the Materials Science Department."
"I know that many students in the Rune and Materials departments are wondering why you, as liberal arts students, are participating in this trial."
"The reason is simple: in this era, practicing martial arts has never been for the purpose of improving physical health."
"The rift in the abyss still hangs in the sky, and outside the city, mutated giant beasts roar. Countless alien races from other planes are eyeing our human race with covetous intent."
"Over the past century, countless predecessors have sacrificed themselves to achieve what we now seem to be a peaceful place, but the threat has never disappeared."
"So even students majoring in runes and materials science need to see blood, to awaken their fighting spirit through life-and-death trials."
"When the day comes that all the soldiers of the military are dead, and all the strongmen of the Martial Arts Alliance have perished, and you are needed on the battlefield, will you still have the courage to take up arms?"
"This trial will last for three days. You will enter at 7:00 AM and exit at 6:00 PM. Each person must kill a mutated creature of the same level to complete the trial."
"If anyone fails to complete the task, all subsequent academic credits will be halved."
Hiss!!
A collective gasp filled the entire playground, and many students from the Rune and Materials departments paled instantly.
These people originally planned to just wander around somewhere after entering the plane, but that's obviously not going to happen now.
On the high platform, Xiang Zhantian waved: "Class teachers, lead your teams in order and enter plane 059 according to the assigned coordinates."
"Yes."
The deep voices of hundreds of highly skilled class teachers resounded throughout the venue. Immediately afterward, the martial arts class moved first and entered the huge building on the left that resembled a clubhouse.
After waiting for about twenty minutes, the line in front of Rune Class 9 finally started to move.
"Come on, keep up!" Song Hui waved and shouted.
Following the vast crowd, Chen Zheng and the others quickly entered the guild hall building, where they discovered fifteen stone platforms, each thirty meters in diameter.
These stone platforms are one meter high and resemble piles of white jade, with densely engraved runes and loops on them.
Once everyone in the class stood on the stone platform, it burst forth with a dazzling white light, transforming everyone into a pillar of light that shot into the sky and vanished instantly.
This scene left Chen Zheng completely bewildered. "Teleportation! Is this something that should exist in the martial arts world?"
"Class 9 of the Rune Department, Teleportation Station Number 5."
"Here it comes, here it comes."
"Everyone, hurry up!"
Under the guidance of their homeroom teacher Song Hui, Chen Zheng and the others quickly stood on the stone platform. After confirming that everyone was in position, the staff placed their hands on the control panel.
Boom! Chen Zheng felt an endless pressure squeezing in from all directions, as if he had fallen into the deep sea and could hardly breathe.
This feeling lasted for about a minute before I felt a relaxation in my body and a sinking feeling under my feet.
Whoosh!!
More than a hundred students, including Chen Zheng, were all panting heavily. As they looked up, they found that their surroundings had changed.
The rolling plains, the gray sky, and the faint outline of mountains at the horizon, all filled with the fresh scent of dry grass and earth.
Beep beep!!
Everyone's personal terminals beeped, emitting an electronic sound: "Unknown signal received. Network connection successful. Information synchronization in progress. Synchronization complete."
"Is there Wi-Fi here too?"
"Didn't we enter another dimension?" Many students were confused.
At this moment, the homeroom teacher, Song Hui, spoke up: "Don't panic, everyone has indeed entered plane 059, and you are connected to the Eternal Eye in the sky."
As he spoke, Song Hui pointed to the sky, where a blue sun hung in the sky, like a giant eye looking down on the whole world.
"The Eye of Eternity is the school's most powerful artifact. It can monitor all the secret realms of Jiangzhou University and even interfere with the interior of those realms to a certain extent."
"For example, during this trial, students from the Rune and Materials departments each have one protection privilege."
"When you are in imminent danger of death, the Eye of Eternity will use your personal terminal location to form an unbreakable barrier."
"That's amazing."
"So strong."
"I was wondering why the school let us in for the trial, since I'm only at level four. Turns out there are such protective measures." Many students who were originally anxious and nervous relaxed.
Don't get too excited yet.
Song Hui interrupted, "The protection of the Eye of Eternity is only a protective measure. Once activated, it means you will be immediately teleported out, and the trial will end."
"If you've completed the basic kill missions before this, that's fine; if you haven't, then you're in big trouble."
"Furthermore, after connecting to the Eye of Eternity, your personal terminals also obtained basic information about the mutated creatures in this plane."
"When you encounter mutated creatures, it's best to check them out first. Don't rush in directly. Since you don't have combat experience, it's best to choose mutated creatures that are one or two levels lower than you to practice on first."
"At the same time, the data on the mutated creatures you kill will be uploaded synchronously and used to calculate your contribution, so no one can fake it."
"Alright, you're free to do as you please. You can team up or go solo. Remember to be back here before 6 PM to return together."
The students in Class 9 fell silent. Some of them were still so nervous that their legs went weak and they could barely hold their weapons.
Some excited men couldn't contain themselves and drew their long knives, calling out to a few friends, "Let's go, brothers, let's find some low-level mutated creatures to practice on."
"Shall we go?" Jiang Mo asked, gripping his longsword with a solemn expression.
"Let's go." Chen Zheng said calmly, holding the knife in his left hand, and turned to walk towards the low, gentle slope in the distance, preparing to scout out the surrounding environment first.
"Let's go." Li Tang pulled Jiang Mo along and gestured for Bai Su to follow.
"Chong, it's just killing mutated creatures, right? With the Eye of Eternity as a backup, as long as you're careful, the basic mission should be fine." As he spoke, the boy who was usually quiet in the class walked out with a weapon in his hand.
"Yeah, what are you afraid of? Let's do it!" Many boys, their blood boiling, ran off in different directions.
The hillside, more than 20 meters high, was overgrown with weeds. Chen Zheng's gaze immediately sharpened as soon as he stepped onto it.
"Be careful." Chen Zheng waved to Jiang Mo and the other two behind him, signaling them to keep their bodies low.
At the foot of the hillside, near the bushes, five mutated creatures resembling black wolves, but with bodies three meters long and shoulders nearly two meters tall, were tearing apart their prey.
These black wolves have bony tails that grow outwards, forming a spiky bony ball at the end, making them look quite ferocious.
Li Tang opened her personal terminal and whispered, "It's a Bloodthirsty Black Wolf, a level five mutated creature."
"Level 5, then we don't need to worry about it." With that, Chen Zheng straightened up, the grass clippings under his feet exploded, and his figure shot out in the astonished gazes of Jiang Mo and the other two.
With his breakthrough to the ninth level of martial arts, Chen Zheng's punching power reached over 1,200 kilograms, and his speed far exceeded that of ordinary people, covering dozens of meters in the blink of an eye.
Awooo!
The five black wolf beasts suddenly raised their heads and let out a mournful howl. The leader dropped its prey and pounced on Chen Zheng with lightning speed.
Wolves are known for their speed, and after mutation, they are even more astonishing. In just a moment, they approached Chen Zheng, their mouths wide open in fury.
Chen Zheng's gaze sharpened, and the muscles in his right hand, gripping the hilt of the knife, tensed.
Cleave the mountain!
Clang! The blade flashed like a dragon, and in an instant, the black wolf's head, still in mid-air, shot into the sky with a thud, and blood gushed out like a fountain.
"So fast!" Jiang Mo exclaimed as he stood up on the hillside. He barely saw how Chen Zheng drew his sword before the mutated black wolf was decapitated.
Is this the strength of a level nine martial artist?