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Volume Seven: The Kingdom of Delusions

Chapter 688 Teacher Tina's Little Class

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Fairy Tale Town.

In the fantasy fairy tale book group project, inside the castle with its pointed round tower, there is a magnificent reception room on the first floor... or it would be more appropriate to call it a palace for receiving guests.

After welcoming Alpha into the palace, Fan Xiao summoned Yan Keke, Yin, and the Lu Xining sisters.

The other members of Whale Fall are still participating in the newly created dungeon in Zone 004, harvesting dungeon items.

Participating in a B-level dungeon can take quite a while; if you want to get more items, you'll need to spend more time.

As Yan Keke and her three companions entered the palace, the first thing they saw was Fan Xiao, whose expression was so serious and meticulous that even his sitting posture was proper.

They all felt something was off.

Especially since the person Van Shaw was entertaining was Alpha... no, did Alpha need special treatment?

Isn't he just an idiot created by Fan Xiao?

Being so polite to an idiot...

When Silver saw Alpha, her brows furrowed slightly... She felt that the other person's style of dress looked somewhat familiar.

After thinking for a few seconds, she gradually realized... Wait! Could this be Teacher Tina?!

Although she didn't quite understand the principle behind this change, Gin still tentatively called out, "Teacher...?"

"Your reaction time is much slower than your senior brother's."

The Alpha version of Tina is still a little girl, and her tone is just like the real Tina's, both elegant and with a touch of majesty. The only difference is her voice.

Tina looked at Yin and continued, "I'll be completely at ease with you when you have his reaction speed and flattery skills. Oh... don't try to learn how to push your luck."

"The teacher is right."

Fan Xiao appeared to be humbly accepting instruction.

silver:"……"

The four, including Yin, finally understood why Fan Xiao had acted so unusually well-behaved today.

It turns out that the person who can control him has arrived!

Tina turned her gaze, lingering on Yan Keke and Lu Xining for a few seconds before nodding and saying, "Not bad. With Yin and Xiaoyu added, Whale Fall now has five A-level psychic users. This organization is starting to take shape."

Xiaoyu must be referring to Yu Xuezhao... Fan Xiao asked Tina, "Teacher, how is Alpha?"

“Astrology,” Tina explained casually, “She will return once I leave, so there’s no need to worry.”

"I haven't read many books, teacher, you're not trying to fool me." Fan Xiao's eyes were subtle as he asked, "Is this astrology?"

"Stars are one of the important elements in numerology and can serve as a medium connecting numerology."

Tina's lips curled up slightly, seemingly quite satisfied with Fan Xiao's reaction: "Using stars as a medium to forcibly occupy a segment of a target's destiny, isn't that astrology?"

"..."

Yes, "占" is pronounced in the fourth tone, which makes perfect sense... Fan Xiao suppressed his worries about Alpha, that idiot.

Astrology... This should be one of the effects of the S-rank item, Wheel of Fate.

Under this effect, Alpha temporarily became the vessel for Tina's arrival.

He wondered if Tina, who had descended in this way, could be considered his true form? And how much of her strength could she actually unleash... He had this thought simply out of curiosity, not out of any ulterior motives.

“When using astrology, one’s strength is greatly reduced, since it’s a method similar to celestial projection, not even a clone.”

Tina, with a slight upturn at the corners of her mouth, said to Fan Xiao, "Why don't you take this opportunity to test whether I'm still qualified to be your teacher?"

"...Teacher, why did you suddenly bring this up? This is quite a jump in topic."

Fan Xiao became wary.

Did Tina guess what he was thinking, or... could she read minds?

"and."

He continued, "Although you are my teacher, there is one thing I must correct you on."

"In my opinion, the teacher-student relationship has nothing to do with combat power. As players, we are different from martial arts practitioners. Combat skills depend on abilities and the type of items."

"Teacher, you are my guide on the path of life! What I respect is your great personality and noble character, and has absolutely nothing to do with your fighting ability!"

"Really... But I don't seem to have any of those things you mentioned." Tina said, "If you don't have them, how did you come to respect them? You... you're not lying to me, are you?"

"Absolutely not! As the saying goes, there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's eyes."

Fan Xiaoyi said sternly, "Perhaps my understanding differs from yours, which has led to some differences in our views... It's alright, teacher, you can correct me. Whatever you have to say, that's what I will respect."

"My good apprentice, you really know how to talk."

Tina was almost amused by his shamelessness.

She turned her head to look at Yin and said, "See? You still have a lot to learn. When you can be like him, you'll be considered a true master."

silver:"……"

Teacher, you teach this... So, are you yourself as thick-skinned as Fan Xiao, with skin as thick as a city wall...? Yin subconsciously wanted to ask this question.

Fortunately, she was rational enough to shut her up.

At this moment, Tina turned her gaze back to Fan Xiao: "You've done a good job with the Whale Fall organization. The achievements you mentioned in your information bombardment of me weren't just boasting. So..."

"So, teacher, you're saying you've agreed to my request?" Fan Xiao asked.

Tina nodded slightly and said, "You've come to the right person with your request. I've studied 'Psionic Instances' extensively and happen to have what you're looking for."

"Psionic dungeon?" Silver, standing next to Fan Xiao, asked in confusion, and then asked on Fan Xiao's behalf, "What is a psionic dungeon?"

"It's the dungeon you and your senior brother participated in when you first met. It's a dungeon so difficult that you could get an S-rank dungeon rating."

After giving a brief explanation, Tina countered, "Have you never questioned why the difficulty levels between dungeons can vary so drastically?"

"There have certainly been doubts, but teacher, the amount of information we have is far less than what you have."

Fan Xiao said very modestly, "We're... well, newbie players. A lot of things in the Evolution game are unknown territory for us."

"When something new comes along, due to the habitual thinking of novice players, we will first accept it as a normal phenomenon."

"There are some doubts, but not many. Many things can only be realized in hindsight."

"Very well, I will explain it to you in detail..."

Perhaps because she was in a relaxed state of mind, or perhaps because she had just been amused by Fan Xiao, Tina patiently explained the knowledge about "psychic dungeons" to everyone present.

Instead of giving a direct definition of "psychic dungeons," she slowly began to recount the past, or rather, the history of evolution games.

The original version of Evolution was far more brutal than the current version, with its main theme being to encourage player-versus-player combat.

Back then, anyone caught up in the evolution game was basically sentenced to death; very few players survived, and the time limit for participating in dungeons was not as lenient as it is now.

Because of this most primitive and cruel law, most of the players living under oppression have become lawless, bringing all kinds of devastating disasters to the societies of various sub-worlds.

The original Evolution game... could be described as a huge exploitation ground for leeks.

Players are like crops of韭菜 (a metaphor for easily exploited people), being harvested one after another.

The three types of players that existed back then were slightly different from the three types of players now—the demi-human players and cannibal players have remained unchanged, but the original human players were extremely rare, and each of them possessed fully awakened psionic abilities, so the concept of "developing talent" simply did not exist.

There isn't even a concept called "talent".

The subsequent emergence of "talented human players" was born from the silent dedication of demi-humans and cannibalistic players... well, passive dedication.

As the alien genes within demi-human and cannibalistic players continue to evolve until conceptual attributes are mixed in, they will evolve into extraordinary genes, gaining power that surpasses their original genes.

After these two types of players die, their extraordinary genes will be recycled by the evolution game, and the ethereal "conceptual attributes" within the genes will be substantially extracted and modified.

Subsequently, these improved products were allocated to newly joined human players—matched and assigned according to the different conceptual compatibility of the human players.

And so, the "talented" human player was born.

The game profession of a human player is the potential direction locked in by the evolution game after detecting the player's spiritual compatibility - awakening the talent in this potential direction has a higher chance of completing the talent into a complete psionic power.

When a player with full psionic power dies, the psionic power is recycled by the Evolution Game and becomes the property of the Evolution Game.

To use an analogy, it's like an evolution game using players as petri dishes, planting seeds, and then, once the seeds have sprouted and matured, the game will reclaim all the results after the player dies.

This system has now become incredibly mature.

In other words... the probability that human players can convert the talents they develop based on their game professions into psionic energy is almost... no, it has already reached 100%.

Of course, no matter how powerful this system of exploiting players is, players are not without a chance to fight back.

The Evolution Game is a system that operates according to rules and cannot be acted with impunity. Only after a player dies does the Evolution Game have the authority to intercept the player's psionic energy and claim it for itself.

In other words, as long as the player doesn't die, they can turn the evolution game into a platform to become stronger, parasitizing the game like a bloodsucker and constantly growing stronger.

Moreover... if one can reach a very high position in the super player stage, there is a chance to break free from the game and completely control one's own destiny.

After hearing this rather sensational information, Fan Xiao and the others spent some time digesting it.

Yin and the others fell silent. It seemed that the perception that "players are just easy targets" made them feel complicated and they fell into philosophical contemplation.

Fan Xiao wasn't worried about that. He had guessed this before, and now he was just confirming his guess from Tina.

What he was really worried about was something else entirely.

"Wait a minute, teacher." Fan Xiao became wary: "This knowledge... shouldn't be cursed, right?"

He was a little afraid that Tina might accidentally let slip the knowledge that the S-rank item was cursed.

This is no joke!

At this stage, his biggest hope is to survive and develop slowly, rather than be hunted down by people sent by the game company prematurely.

"This level of knowledge can be deduced by studying the characteristics of players in depth and grasping some basic information. It's not at the point where we need to be cursed."

Tina looked at Fan Xiao, a hint of teasing in her slightly upturned lips: "My good apprentice, I think it doesn't matter if you know those curse knowledge, since you can't die anyway. As your teacher, I can guarantee that—after all, even I can't really kill you."

"...Teacher, let's get back to the main topic. You haven't explained what a psionic dungeon is yet."

Fan Xiaojian and the others were intrigued by Tina's words and quickly changed the subject.

Just how many secrets does Tina know about him?

They even know about his "immortality"?

On the other side, Tina graciously returned to the main topic: "I've finished explaining the background, and I'm sure you all understand now. Since the Evolution Game is collecting psionic energy, it's impossible for it to give away complete psionic energy to the players."

"So... that's why those dungeons that can be cleared to an S-rank rating and obtain the full psionic reward are so difficult and dangerous?"

Yin Lu looked thoughtful and asked, "If the Evolution Game is unwilling to provide it, why create a complete path to obtain psionic energy? Isn't that a contradiction?"

"Even evolution games cannot directly strip a person of their spiritual energy unless that person has a deep causal relationship and soul bond with the evolution game."

Tina replied, "Every time a player increases their evolution rate or improves their talent, they are deepening their causal entanglement and soul bond with the evolution game."

"However, if someone awakens their psionic abilities shortly after becoming a player and dies in an accident... because their bond with the evolution game is not deep enough, their psionic abilities cannot be directly intercepted by the game."

"In order to prevent high-value psionic energy from disappearing and to preserve it, the Evolution game will create a special copy of it as a container."

"The longer the instance runs, the deeper the bond between the psionic energy and the evolution game becomes, and eventually the evolution game can reclaim the usage rights."

At this point, her gaze fell on Yan Keke.

Fan Xiao and the others followed her gaze and looked at Yan Keke.

"I see……"

Based on Yan Keke's past experiences, Fan Xiao immediately understood what Tina had said.

Previously, Yan Keke was a high-value psionic power possessor who was not deeply bound to the evolution game.

In order to preserve her psionic power, the Evolution game created the "Looking Town" instance.

"It seems you have figured it out."

Tina continued, "Your Once Upon a Time Town is a 'psychic dungeon' born in this way."

“All psionic dungeons are far more difficult and dangerous than regular dungeons because they are not created for players, but are a byproduct of psionic energy.”

"But as I said before, the evolution game operates according to the rules of balance. Such a high dungeon difficulty must be accompanied by corresponding dungeon rewards - those who complete the dungeon with a perfect rating will obtain the psionic energy corresponding to that psionic dungeon."