I loaded the dream game

While complaining in his heart, Xia Zhi stood up and prepared to go to the school sink to wash his lunch box.

However, at this moment, a figure that he suddenly caught sight of out of the corner of his eye made him stop in his tracks.

Opposite the rooftop where he was, in front of a window on the third floor of the club building, sat a girl as pure and beautiful as snow. Her slightly floating black hair was tied with red bow ribbons on both sides of her hair, trembling slightly, presenting a picturesque scene.

Yukinoshita Yukino is such a beautiful girl that she seems out of reach. Although Xia Zhi has already experienced this, he still couldn't help but be amazed when he saw her again.

Seeing that the girl seemed to be in good spirits, he felt relieved.

The girl's physical condition was not very good. If she really had any sequelae in the dream copy, he would feel a little guilty.

Therefore, after seeing that Xueshita was safe and sound, Xia Zhi felt relieved and turned to leave the rooftop.

"..."

In the club classroom, Yukinoshita's hand, which was turning the pages, paused slightly, as if she felt something, and raised her head to look out the window.

What she saw was a familiar scene as usual. Under the clear blue sky, students were walking in the courtyard of the school, talking and laughing. The sunlight shone through the gaps between the leaves and cast mottled shadows on the outer wall of the teaching building.

Looking at the empty rooftop of the teaching building in the distance, it was a long time before Yukinoshita silently withdrew her gaze and looked back at the documents in her hand.

This was what she asked Teacher Shizuka Hiratsuka to get. It was a compiled roster of the entire school, which recorded the names of all students from the first to third grades of the school, and even the names of the previous two graduates.

She flipped through the pages patiently, her expression focused and attentive, as if she didn't want to miss any of the words.

After a moment, her eyes finally stopped on a name.

"... Summer Solstice." Yukinoshita whispered the name in the dream.

At this moment, dreams and reality seemed to overlap, causing the girl's eyes to be dazed for a moment.

She shook her head, pulled her thoughts back, and looked at the line of text below the name:

"Class D, Year 2..."

Chapter 21 Breath Blocking Max

[You have triggered a new side quest: Rank higher than Yukinoshita Yukino in this regular exam]

[Task Reward: 15 Dream Points]

Looking at the task prompt that just appeared in front of him, Xia Zhi felt a few black lines on his forehead.

Don't you think it's a little too late to release this task now?

Now that the exam was over, unless he was willing to spend points to travel through time and space to retake the exam, his score was basically set. In this case, if he wanted to rank higher than Yukinoshita Yukino, he could only hope that the girl had forgotten all the knowledge points like himself after the two-month dream experience.

As for directly modifying the test scores or influencing the awareness of the teachers who grade the papers, Xia Zhi would not do such a tasteless thing for a mere 15 dream points.

...you have to pay extra.

However, the emergence of this side quest also made Xia Zhi confirm one thing: his idea was correct. When reality is no longer the end of the dream, but becomes the continuation of the dream, the dream copy mission can also be triggered in reality.

This means that his 600 points were not wasted.

"It's enough to know this." Xia Zhi said to himself.

As long as the task can be triggered in reality, these 600 points can be earned back sooner or later, and the points obtained after that will be pure profit.

"What do you mean by enough?" The girl's voice suddenly came from behind: "Does Xia Zhi feel that he has already passed the exam?"

Xia Zhi was startled by the sudden voice behind him and turned around to see Kato Megumi looking at him with a puzzled expression.

"Can I ask you, Kato, how do you manage to walk without making any sound?" Xia Zhi calmed his rapid heartbeat and began to humbly ask the girl for the technique of slowing down your steps.

"Because I've been sitting here since the beginning." Kato Megumi replied.

The girl didn't seem to be unhappy that Xia Zhi didn't notice her, as if she was used to this kind of thing happening.

"... Kato-san." Xia Zhi thought for a moment and said tactfully, "Have you ever thought that your talents might be better developed in other areas?"

Kato Megumi tilted her head: "For example?"

"Ambush and assassination or something."

"..."

"Xiazhi-san's personality is really bad." Kato Megumi said in a calm tone: "Even I would be angry if you said such things to a girl."

Although she said so, there was no sign of anger on the girl's face. Her calm tone was not so much cold as it was indifferent, but rather that she didn't really care in her heart. This also gave Xia Zhi a new understanding of her good temper.

"By the way, how did Kato feel about the exam today?" Xia Zhi recalled that Kato Megumi had once told him that she was a little nervous, so he asked out of concern and also to change the subject.

Kato Megumi thought about it carefully and replied, "It was not bad. Although I was a little nervous before the test, I didn't feel that way after the test started. The difficulty of today's test questions was also moderate. I didn't encounter any particularly difficult questions, which made me feel relieved."

"Really?" Xia Zhi said nonchalantly as he packed his lunch box into his schoolbag, "Then Kato is really amazing. I heard that quite a few students got the last multiple-choice question wrong and chose option C."

The teacher will probably talk about this question separately when the time comes, after all, so many people lost points on it, he thought to himself.

"Xiazhi classmate..." Kato Hui was silent for a moment and then said, "The teacher has talked about that multiple-choice question in class before. The answer is C."

Summer Solstice: "..."

Eh?

……

"Thank you for your hard work, Yukinoshita-san."

After piling the last stack of documents on the desk, Kirisu Mafuyu breathed a sigh of relief and thanked the girl next to him.

It was obviously the busiest time, but Teacher Hiratsuka suddenly left because of an urgent matter. Fortunately, before she left, she called a classmate named Yukinoshita Yukino to help, otherwise she really wouldn't know what to do.

"You're welcome, Kirisu-sensei." Yukinoshita shook her head and said, "Lending a helping hand to those in trouble is a club activity of the Service Club. Hiratsuka-sensei asked me to do this, and I'm just doing my duty."

"No, the student club serves students. It is not your responsibility to help teachers." Kirisu Madoka did not think it was her right to accept help from students.

If we limit the target and only help some people while turning a blind eye to the plight of others, then the existence of the Service Department will be meaningless.

Just as Yukinoshita was about to say this, her attention was suddenly drawn to a file bag scattered on the desk.

This contains the test paper for today's exam, right?

Looking at the words "Second Year D Class" written on the cover of the file bag, Yukinoshita finally realized that Teacher Kirisu seemed to be the homeroom teacher of Second Year D Class.

The world is really small.

The girl thought silently in her heart.

Chapter 22: Definition of “Maximum Level”

After school in the afternoon, Xia Zhi picked up his phone and called his job, once again canceling today's work assignment.

Then he came to a commercial street not far from the school, and after a simple selection, he bought a pair of black-framed plain glasses.

He spent 15 dream points to add a concept of "disguise" to the glasses. The effect is probably to confuse people's cognition, making it impossible for people to associate him with the glasses, just like Superman's glasses.

It's just that because it's a pure concept setting, this disguise is theoretically absolute. Although it doesn't look strange, just wearing an ordinary pair of glasses, it will give people the illusion that "this is another person".

Unless one possesses a conceptual property such as "absolute detection", no matter whether it is magic, magic or frame-by-frame comparison by a computer, it is impossible to detect the disguise of this pair of glasses.

This is the power of the absolute characteristic. If Xia Zhi hadn't added a restriction of "only valid for humans", the points required would have to be multiplied several times.

"Bang, bang, bang, the Shinkansen~"

On the overpass, a little boy was lying on the guardrail playing with his tram model toy. After thinking for a moment, Xia Zhi walked up and picked up the model in front of the little boy.

"Ah, give it back to me!"

The little boy clutched his trouser legs, tears quickly welling up in his eyes.

However, when Xia Zhi took off his glasses, the little boy's angry and aggrieved look immediately turned into confusion, and doubts and puzzlement arose in his heart.

Eh? Where did that bad guy go? Who is this brother in front of me?

"I'm giving it back to you. Don't lose it again." Xia Zhi returned the model toy to the little boy and said while touching his head.

"Well, thank you, brother!" Although he couldn't understand what was happening, the little boy still nodded and thanked the gentle big brother in front of him.

After confirming the effectiveness of the camouflage glasses, Xia Zhi put them back on, followed the navigation instructions on his phone to the subway station, and used the only pocket money he had to buy a subway ticket.

He decided to find a kendo gym to test his maximum level kendo skills and see what level he was at in this world.

Originally, he was planning to look for the kendo club in the school, but considering that his skills were at the maximum level after all, it would seem like bullying to challenge a group of amateur enthusiasts, so after considering for a moment, he changed his target to those professional dojos with better skills.

After getting off the subway, he followed the navigation instructions and came to the door of a kendo gym, pushed the door open and walked in.

As soon as he entered the door, noisy sounds came into his ears, including bursts of shouting and the sound of wooden swords clashing. The air was filled with a sour smell of sweat, which made Xia Zhi almost turn around and leave.

"Hello, welcome." Seeing a stranger, the receptionist stood up and greeted him warmly, "Excuse me, are you planning to come to our dojo to learn kendo?"

"I guess so." Xia Zhi nodded and replied, "I have some basic knowledge before, and I want to test my level first. Can you find a teacher to help me take a look?"

The girl at the front desk was even happier when she heard that the person coming this time was not a complete newbie.

People with a certain foundation are different from beginners who know nothing. They have more or less understood the hardships and difficulties of learning kendo. Therefore, as long as they are determined to learn, they will basically stick to it. Compared to the newbies who run away after learning for two days, such people are better fertilizer for the kendo hall... ahem, better apprentices.

"Please wait a moment. I will go and ask you which teacher is free now."

The girl at the front desk ran to the backstage happily.

However, more than ten minutes later, watching the masters being carried away one by one, her mood changed from joy and expectation at the beginning, to shock, astonishment, confusion, and finally to doubt about her own life.

"Did I accidentally let someone dangerous in?" she thought to herself trembling as she hid in the corner.

"Snapped--"

Accompanied by another crisp collision sound, a bamboo sword flew out, and at the same time, a figure in kendo uniform also flew out.

"Director!" A group of people immediately surrounded him and said, "Director, what's wrong with you? Are you okay?"

"Where's the medic!? Where's the medic?"

"Director, the ambulance is ready. Please hold on a little longer... Eh? Why are you sitting up?"

Looking at the noisy scene not far away, Xia Zhi sighed and retracted his bamboo sword with some disappointment.

"Have I come to the wrong place?" he couldn't help but wonder in his heart.

He didn't know if it was because his maximum-level kendo skills were too powerful, or if the level of this kendo gym was too low, but these people's physical fitness was obviously much better than his, but they didn't bring him any pressure at all. The fight was basically over with one or two moves. If he hadn't deliberately restrained himself, those people might not be able to take on even a single move.

"Excuse me, are there any other dojo nearby?" Xia Zhi turned around and asked the girl at the front desk.

He decided to try another store.

The girl at the front desk nodded quickly, wrote the detailed address of a Taoist temple on a piece of paper, and handed it to Xia Zhi with both hands.

After receiving the note, Xia Zhi left the kendo hall under the awed gaze of the girl at the front desk. After identifying the direction, he walked towards the address written on the note.

……

Two hours later.

Walking out of the fifth dojo, Xia Zhi fell into deep thought as he looked at the bamboo sword in his hand that was covered with scratches.

He thought he might have made a mistake.

Just now, for a moment, he felt that if he had not reacted in time, he would have almost used this bamboo sword to draw out sword energy.

He hadn't even felt how powerful this skill was in the dream copy of the Academy Island, so why did it suddenly become so outrageous in the real world?

After much thought, Xia Zhi felt that the reason should lie in the "maximum level" setting.

Different worlds have different power limits, so the definition of the maximum level is also different. Just like "Nine Yang Magic" and "Tai Chi Xuan Qing Dao" are both top-level skills in their respective worlds, but in fact there is a huge difference between them.

Compared with the isolated school island world without supernatural powers, the world we are in now has monsters and gods, so the kendo skills at the maximum level are naturally upgraded to the inhuman realm.

"So, it's me who is holding back this skill?" Xia Zhi complained in his heart.

The power of the maximum-level kendo skill was indeed beyond his expectations, but if you were to say how excited he was about it, it wasn't that much.

After all, even if we ignore the limitation of the definition of "full level" being affected by the upper limit of the world's power, compared with those conceptual skills with absolute characteristics, kendo skills without the blessing of other concepts seem a little inadequate no matter how strong they are.

"anyway……"

Standing in front of the ticket office at the subway station, Xia Zhi touched his empty pockets and gradually realized a serious problem:

I... am I going to go back?