It's weird to apply for Witch Academy as a boy

"It's okay, I just arrived not long ago." I stood up and said.

"By the way, we came a little early. Did you meet the senior who opened the door? She should have allowed us to come in early."

"Well... I met her, but I didn't say I wanted to go in yet, but she went in first. Is that too much of a bother?"

"It's okay, I come here often, and I have some friendship with her. Come with me." Tan Han seemed very familiar. After saying a few words to me, she opened the door and took me in.

The senior student from before was still debugging the dream equipment inside, which was very similar to the dream cabin that Teacher Ji Niang had brought.

As soon as the other party saw that it was Tan Han who came, they greeted her warmly. It seemed that she, Tan Han, was indeed very familiar with this place.

"I didn't expect that you two were really friends? Well, Xiao Tan, are you still at the same place? Where's Xiao Han?"

"Yes, I'm still in the old place, Xiaohan, how about you come next to me?" Tan Han turned around and asked me.

"Yeah, okay, I'm fine."

Afterwards, I was brought by this senior student to a place inside, and Tan Han skillfully opened the equipment cabin and sat in.

"Xiao Han, is this your first time? Do you want me to teach you how to operate it?" The senior student next to me said to me very enthusiastically.

"I have experienced it once elsewhere, but I don't know how to operate it. Please explain it to me."

"Really? That's okay. After you lie down, your consciousness will be brought into the dream. The dream devices here are all linked together. After logging in, you will be in the same login space. You can slowly figure this out. If you don't understand, you can call out the menu or panel. There are explanations and help in it. If you really don't understand, you can find Tan Han. She should be in now."

"Ok."

I turned my head to see that Tan Han had already closed the dream equipment cabin. I stopped being pretentious and relaxed my body and lay down. Then the cabin door was closed.

The last time I had this kind of experience was in the laboratory. Now, I don’t know if it will be the same as last time.

Just as I was thinking this, a feeling of fatigue engulfed my consciousness in an instant, so fast that I couldn't react.

When I came to my senses again, all that was left in my mind was shock.

At this moment, I changed from lying down to standing, and the surrounding environment also changed a lot.

The surroundings are a pure white background, even under the feet, but it is not a glaring white.

Not far away, I also saw Tan Han. Just as I was about to go over, a main menu screen suddenly popped up in front of me.

It seems to be used for various functions. Just a quick look reveals that there are many divisions, such as booking a room, setting up an independent space, challenge areas, and a very conspicuous "Help" icon.

In addition to these, there are several layers of pop-up windows for dealing with various first aid methods and quickly cutting off connection with dreams if you feel uncomfortable after entering the dream, etc.

"Hi~ Xiaohan, I didn't expect that you didn't feel any discomfort when you entered the dream for the first time?" Tan Han walked towards me and said with a smile, but the tight leather pants and belly-exposing short-sleeved shirt she was wearing at the moment were even cooler than what she wore today.

"It's not the first time I've come in. Isn't there a dream chamber in the laboratory? I tried it once, but only once." I explained while checking my own conditions.

The touch, feeling, and vision all seem normal, just like in reality.

When I used my clairvoyance, I could clearly feel that I was indeed in a dream. That false feeling was unreal.

However, there seems to be a kind of correction in the dream, a correction that is compounded by one's own cognition, ensuring that everything in the dream is "completely replicated" with reality, including every detail of oneself. If this were a virtual reality game, this would absolutely be impossible, but this is the dream heart or the original dream, so it seems nothing to do this.

"Oh, so that's how it is. But even if it's my second time, I've adapted to this level pretty quickly. By the way, have you created your personal information here? If you have, this information will be bound to you, and you can also do all kinds of interesting things here, such as changing clothes."

As Tan Han spoke, she also showed off the clothes she was wearing, but the next moment, this set of clothes was replaced by another one. There was no mosaic or interruption, it was a seamless connection, and even my spiritual vision could not see any flaws.

"How magical." I exclaimed subconsciously.

"It's really magical. I heard that each academy will have its own costumes for this academy exchange competition. At that time, our battle will be broadcast live in real time in the dream. And not only the Witch Academy, but other academies participating in this exchange competition will have the broadcasting rights for this game."

"Is it such a big deal?"

I raised my eyebrows, I was very interested in this, but when I think about it, although it is an exchange competition at the Witch Academy, so many academies are coming, it’s impossible for their academy not to see it, right?

"Of course, I'll teach you how to bind your personal information. Although the Witch Academy can't equip a dream device specifically for a certain person, the academy also has a large number of dream devices for rent in a similar way to opening an Internet cafe. The dream battles in the Witch Academy are also very interesting. Not everyone like us freshmen is qualified to use such high-end dream devices."

"That's it..."

I nodded and continued to listen to Tan Han's explanation of this matter to me. I didn't expect that there would be such a place in the Witch Academy. It seems that I have oversimplified things like dreams.

It is also very simple to bind personal information to dreams. It only takes a few operations. The above information is registered based on the information on my student card. You can also change your nickname and avatar.

However, when used for college exchange competitions, some personal social avatars and nicknames cannot be used. Only the official avatars and names of the person are used.

After the binding was completed, the dream also gave a set of initial clothes, which was a very classic witch suit, somewhat similar to the style of the witch's four-piece suit, but more refined. After all, dreams are false, and the reality still needs to consider the cost issue.

So I quickly changed into this new set of clothes. This way of changing clothes is just like those low-quality online games where you can transform with one click. However, in a dream, this ability is really terrifying. I only felt the touch of my body change, and the clothes on my body changed, and they were adapted to the best size for my body!

"How are you adapting? Do you want to try fighting in a dream?"

"Where do we fight? Do we need to rent a room?" I asked curiously.

"That is to create a new private room, generally for personal use. It has many functions, such as personal meditation, learning combat skills, and so on. You can also invite friends to fight directly here."

"But regular dream battles require creating an arena, where you can choose from a variety of scenes, such as cities, deserts, wasteland ruins, forests, and the Land of the Dead. You can also adjust the weather, so you can have rain, sunshine, or hail."

"I see... Then how do we fight if we don't have any friends? Will we be matched randomly?"

"Random matching is another function. If it is just a simulated battle with fake enemies, it is the challenge mode, in which you can challenge various levels, or customize challenges with virtual opponents, etc."

Tan Han patiently explained to me, and it can be seen that Tan Han understands much more than I do here.

But it won’t take long to figure this out on your own.

"Have you decided which one you want to try?"

"Let me try fighting a virtual opponent first," I said.

After all, I'm a newcomer, so I might as well try an entry-level one first.

"Okay, you try it first. By the way, let's add each other as friends first. Do you want to try a battle between the two of us today?"

"talk later."

I didn't refuse immediately, but gave an ambiguous answer. However, I still added Tan Han as a friend.

"Okay, I look forward to your performance."

Tan Han didn't insist too much and disappeared into the public area on her own. She must have entered Kaichuang's room.

Then there is no need for me to hesitate.

Challenge the levels and start!

Soon, my surroundings were completely replaced. This "teleportation" effect did not give me the strange feeling of being teleported, but rather a scene change centered around me. I feel this design is great, at least it is very friendly to people who are prone to teleportation dizziness.

At this moment, the level information of this challenge appeared in front of me. This is a regular level that has been designed, and it also saves the troublesome process of customization.

After half a minute of preparation time, the opponent in the first level appeared in front of me.

A man wearing iron armor and holding a sword walked out. His style was somewhat similar to the knight's armor in the Middle Ages, and it felt a bit flashy.

"Illusionary clone."

I simply used a spell on the opponent. It was an illusion. I wanted to see if this fake opponent would be fooled by the illusion.

As a result, the other party was quickly deceived and reacted in a frightened manner.

So, in the dream, this guy is a "living" guy, rather than some kind of setting?

It suddenly felt interesting, and I subconsciously wanted to take out my wand, but I soon realized that this was a dream. I had no weapons or storage equipment, so I couldn't take anything. However, I was not bad at casting spells with my bare hands.

Under the fireball, the opponent had no way to hide and was killed by the fireball. Even the metal armor was blown into black cracks, and the guy inside the armor was naturally dead.

I walked over curiously to see the power of my fireball, wanting to see if it was the same as in reality. Although I didn't want to doubt the authenticity of the dream, it was unrealistic after all.

In case there is an error, I can know it in advance, but the level will not give me too much time.

When I checked, the second level was also opened.

Compared with the first level, the second level has ten people instead of one.

Even I am a little surprised by the change in quantity. Is this a level-breaking process?

Can the level designer design it?

But soon, they were knocked down by my lightning spell. Wearing such thick metal protective armor, I would be sorry for the energy-shaping spells I studied if I didn't use lightning spells.

As the third level opened, it was no longer the iron knight from before who came out, but a tall giant whose body shape was completely different from that of a human. It was estimated to be nearly three meters tall, and the huge and ferocious muscles on its limbs showed terrifying strength. The opponent was dragging a weapon similar to a meteor hammer, and he gave me a warning as soon as he came up.

Even the deflected energy shield was shattered by this throw, and the weapon was simply deflected by me and flew to the side.

Did the level designer realize that his first level was too easy, and that’s why he designed the subsequent enemies to be so terrifying?

Then wouldn't the fourth level mean we have to face ten of these big guys?

Although I thought so, I didn't stop the spell in my hand. This big guy was a complete sitting duck. When he didn't get close to take the initiative, half of his body was blown up by my modified fireball.

At the same time, when I was fighting, I was also thinking about what the point of fighting like this was. After simplifying it, it was just a game of who attacks first.

Because the damage of the attacking means far exceeds the opponent's defense limit, no matter how scary the guy looks, he is just a weakling.

There is no sense of satisfaction at all. Of course, it is still very interesting to kill this thing for the first time, but it is foreseeable that after a few more times, I will get bored and it will no longer be fun.

Even now I don't feel like this is a formal battle.

While I was thinking, the next wave came out, but it was not the ten I expected, but three. However, I still killed them all instantly using different spell books.

The same spell book will have an interval between uses due to its own limitations, which is equivalent to a "cooling time". Even if I use magical means to quickly speed up the interval for the next use, and this is a basic spell book with a very short interval, this time is also reduced to the limit.

But I found that having more spell books is also beneficial. As long as you master multicasting, you can release many spells in an instant. Just like killing these three guys now, the time consumed is even shorter than the previous round of ten armors.

The key point is multiple casting. This kind of thing really needs more practice. If you don't practice more, you won't be able to use it.

So I have temporarily found a use for this level-breaking game, which is good for practicing multiple spellcasting.

In the later levels, there are spellcasters who can also cast spells, but it seems that they are not using spell books to cast spells. Instead, they are using their mental power to replicate rituals and energy circulation similar to the internal structure of a spell book to cast spells. This is quite magical.

Moreover, they can control the distance between the enemy and us. I spent a lot of effort to observe them more before killing them.

Casting spells without relying on spell books?

It seems very interesting. If a person's mental strength is strong enough to cast spells without a spell book, then this way of using spells must be more terrifying than using a spell book!

But this doesn't seem to be a possible thing at this stage. After all, how could I not have tried this possibility when I was studying the spell book?

The result was that I couldn't do it. Ultimately, I could only attribute the reason to insufficient mental strength. My mental strength seemed insufficient to condense the ritual, guide the extraordinary energy, and successfully release spells.

I guess if you reach the level of an extraordinary witch you should be able to do it, right?

Thinking of this, I waved the spell in my hand, and the spell shields of the spellcasters in front of me were completely broken, and they fell to the ground and died.

It's another round of bullying.

Chapter 191: The farce from the vampires in the dream

After countless rounds of fighting, I finally stopped completely until all the magic power in my magic source was exhausted.

In this situation, it is not suitable to continue, and I also discovered a fatal problem, that is, even if I have hundreds of mana sources and use spell books with basic consumption, they will still run out, and the speed depends on how big the work I do is.

Any fancy combat skills require extra mana to prepare for, and the self-recovery of the mana source takes a long time. In the beginning, I tested that it took a whole day for one mana to return to its original state.

This means that the more mana sources you have, the more mana you can recover in a fixed time, because no matter how many mana sources you have, it will take a whole day to recover to optimal condition, and the recovery of each mana source is calculated separately.

Therefore, with my current magic source limit, the total amount of magic restored through natural recovery for one hour will probably fill up more than thirty magic sources.

If it is aided by potions or recovery spells, the speed will be even faster.

So after I used up my magic power, I exited the challenge room because I couldn't learn much more there.

Even the skill of multiple casting, which I value very much, may be difficult for others. That's because they don't understand spell books. As for me who understand spell books, I know very well how to use the most concise mental power to activate different spell books at the same time.

In the short time I've just spent, I've put these techniques into a fixed pattern, but it will take more time to develop these instant habits.

It probably won't be possible in a short time.

After I came out, I found that there seemed to be quite a few people in this initial public area, but at first glance, they did not seem to be students of the Witch Academy.

My sudden appearance attracted a lot of people's attention, but that was all. No one came over to talk to me or anything.

That’s right, they are not students of the Witch Academy. Maybe when they see me, they just think I’m an ordinary student of the Witch Academy?

Not all students who come to participate in the exchange will come to the arena to watch the game.

But no one came to disturb me, which was just what I wanted. After all, my attention was attracted by the prompt that popped up at this moment, reminding me whether I needed to recover quickly because of excessive consumption of magic power.

For this kind of thing, I would naturally choose yes. After all, without quick recovery, I would not be able to perform various operations uninterruptedly, and I also wanted to try other operations in the dream.

"Hehe, look who this is, a student from the Witch Academy, coming here to practice so early, are you afraid of losing too badly, so you come here to practice extra time?"

A sudden provocative voice rang out, and even I was stunned for a moment. I looked around and confirmed that I seemed to be the only student of the Witch Academy here. Only then did I roughly determine that the other party was talking to me.