Please be my partner.

In addition, there are also tests of logical thinking, such as completing complex puzzles within a specified time, and ideas for solving problems in specific scenarios, etc.

Each puzzle you solve will earn you 100 points.

Mellen occasionally encountered students who tried to attack him, but he could avoid most of the trouble by simply maintaining a simple refraction illusion.

However, at this stage, students still have few points. After killing an enemy, they can only get one tenth, which is about a few dozen points. It is far slower than solving puzzles.

It is worth mentioning that the strength of the dogs is calculated based on the strength unlocked by Mellen. When he unlocks the second-level strength, not only will Xiao Liuli's strength also reach the second level, but he can also pull another dog.

Melen thought about it and summoned the golden retriever. Even if he unlocked more power in the future, he didn't plan to summon a new dog.

Not long after Mellen raised his strength to the third level, he heard roars of ferocious beasts coming from everywhere. He knew that this marked the beginning of a new stage in the test.

Without hesitation, Melen headed towards the direction of the nearest beast's roar and soon saw a ferocious beast as big as an elephant.

The strength of the ferocious beast was in the upper middle level of the third level, which was naturally not enough for Golden Hair, so he solved it in just a few moves.

After killing the beast, Melen got 100 points, which was the same as solving the puzzle.

When the test reached this stage, the students also showed their differences.

Some people soared directly into the sky with a defiant expression, releasing a magnificent aura, and faced the challenge of the ferocious beasts and other students head-on.

There is someone hiding in the shadows, flashing with every step, killing with every step, coming without a trace and leaving without a trace.

Some people rely on their superb verbal skills and personal charm to form alliances, gather dozens of students around them, and act cautiously to gain benefits.

Some people are neither hurried nor slow, do not fight or compete, do not deliberately show off, and always maintain their own rhythm.

……

……

Mellen is the latter. It is clearly a group-killing survival game, but he played it as a single-player game.

Solving puzzles, hunting beasts, and occasionally encountering someone obviously too strong, or groups of students, he would actively avoid them under the illusion cast by Xiao Liuli.

In this way, the ferocious beasts became stronger and stronger, and soon reached the legendary level, then the mid-legendary level, the late legendary level, the peak level, and then the number skyrocketed.

Of course, as the strength of the ferocious beast grows, the points gained from killing it will also increase accordingly.

As the difficulty of survival increased again and again, not to mention the students with average strength, even those with top strength soon became passive and were eliminated under the siege of more and more ferocious beasts.

Mellen was no exception. He had found it difficult to kill the ferocious beasts when their strength reached the legendary level. It was not because he lacked strength, but because there were too many of them. If he could not kill the selected target in a very short time, the nearby ferocious beasts would be attracted immediately, and the situation would become increasingly difficult to control.

After the assessment, he only got a score of 76, which was considered average. The best scores were naturally those who performed outstandingly in the assessment.

Just as Melen had guessed before, he noticed that several saint mentors looked at the first place student, the one who released his aura to meet the challenge, with more serious eyes.

When Mellen left the auditorium, Xinke was already waiting outside.

He smiled and said, "Come on, let's go celebrate."

Melen laughed and said, "What are you celebrating? I only got 76th in the test."

"Huh?!" Xin Ke was startled at first, but then he understood and said with a smile, "It seems you don't want to be in the spotlight right now. But it doesn't matter. Let's celebrate your official status as a student of the Golden Academy!"

Chapter 0: The Marionette and the First Dream

Life in college was easy and leisurely, and Mellen adapted quite well to this kind of life.

After completing the entrance ceremony, Mellen basically settled down in the college library, and the dormitory became a decoration. He occasionally left the library to attend the open classes of the saint mentor, and he basically came and went in a hurry.

But this is normal. Considering the collection of the Golden Academy Library, even if Mellen spent all the next ten years of his studies here, he would probably not be able to read even one percent of the content.

It is worth mentioning that after completing the entrance ceremony, Mellen's permissions were upgraded from basic permissions to ordinary permissions. The most intuitive manifestation is that when using the same keywords to search in the library, the number of books that can be searched is now more than five times that before.

Although there are many repetitive knowledge points, there are sometimes some shining points, which makes Melen feel the wonderful pleasure of digging for treasures in the vast ocean.

Occasionally, when he comes to his senses, Mellen will re-plan the training plans for the dogs. With the accumulation of knowledge and improvement of experience, he now has a sense of having a bird's-eye view.

The other dogs were easy to deal with and could easily improve their strength according to the established plan. The only difficulty at the moment was with the Golden Retriever. The Dark Prison Dragon bloodline in the Golden Retriever's body did make its strength soar in the beginning, but as the bloodline was continuously absorbed and digested, the remaining bloodline became more and more stubborn, which had begun to form a reverse constraint on the Golden Retriever.

The Golden Retriever's bloodline problem must be solved quickly, otherwise it will not be long before its strength will be difficult to improve.

Fortunately, Melen has an ultimate solution to this problem...evolution!

In fact, Melen has always had a guess that although bloodline exploration is to find traces of the dog's higher race from heaven and earth, this search may also be related to Melen's own strength and knowledge.

However, because the wolf-shaped pendant has been in a dormant state, Melen cannot confirm this speculation.

But perhaps this exploration of the Golden Retriever's bloodline can reveal something.

Of course, the spiritual energy that Melen has accumulated at present is too little, and it will take some time to start exploring Golden Retriever's bloodline.

Melen has not found any good way to train the Void Dog, or rather, his current method of sealing the Void Dog's Void Power, so that the Void Dog can grow and improve without being disturbed, is already the optimal solution.

In addition, the Void Beasts are completely different from the cultivation system that Melen currently knows. They do not have any rank divisions such as legends, saints, and demigods. Their strength is determined simply by their size and the power of the void.

The larger the void beast, the purer the void power in its body.

Just like the Void Dog at this moment, the reason why it is comparable to a legend is that in addition to the tremendous amount of Void Power, the ability of Void Power itself to erode energy and laws is also one of the decisive factors. Otherwise, ordinary power, compared to the legendary power with the additional power of laws, is like hitting a rock with an egg.

Similarly, when the void beast grows to a certain size and the quality and quantity of the void power in its body reach a certain level, even the saint's territory cannot trap it, and the power of rules cannot erase it, which is equivalent to a saint and a demigod.

It can be said that Void Dog has the potential to become an emperor, and his future is promising!

As his knowledge and experience increase, there is another more obvious benefit, which is that Melen's understanding of himself and the [Wolf Tamer] has improved.

Ever since entering the Legend, Melen has been confused about his own strength. Although he holds the mythical inheritance of [Wolf Tamer] and the strength of his dogs has been increasing rapidly, he does not know where his direction is.

It is not the mainstream way of advancement based on laws and rules, nor is it the way of spiritual concentration similar to Spike, nor is it the ancient way of authority, nor is it even the way of a glutton like the Void Dog who likes to eat as much as he wants!

This has left Mellen very confused.

Now, Mellen gradually has new ideas. Perhaps the path he wants to take is completely different from those.

Since he can use the power of any dog without restrictions through [Soul Synchrony], he doesn't have to stick to a certain path. He can just shout... I want them all!

As long as the dogs can become saints, demigods, or even great, Melen can directly use the power of the dogs to reshape himself.

Learn from each other's strengths and make up for each other's weaknesses, share what you have, choose the good and follow it, absorb the strengths and advantages of all paths, turn them into your own resources, and walk a path that belongs to you.

With this realization, Mellen felt more and more that this was indeed the path that suited him best.

but!

Everything is so right!

Spike follows the path of spiritual fighting spirit; Little Red Lotus follows the path of the rules of the sea of blood; Garuru possesses the power of dimension; Little Liuli is of the fairy species; Golden Retriever has made some achievements in the path of blood; even the newly recruited Void Dog follows a completely different path of the Void from the other dogs.

All of this was so right, so right that it made Melen feel a chill unconsciously.

It’s like a puppet being controlled, who can only follow the predetermined script and complete the performance that is supposed to belong to him!

destiny!

This word appeared in Mellen's mind again uncontrollably, because of his father's experience, he couldn't help but think so.

Mellen has a clear understanding of his previous experiences. Every choice he makes, whether good or bad, comes from his heart, and the results he obtains are mostly in line with his interests. There is no sign of tampering or manipulation. Even if he were to do it again, he would only correct some minor mistakes, and the final result would not change much.

Mellen suppressed these thoughts deep in his mind. For now, it was useless to think too much. It would always be a good idea to improve his strength as much as possible.

Mellen's improvement of himself is tentatively divided into two aspects, spirit and body. The improvement of these two aspects can increase his own carrying capacity, so that he can [Soul Synchronize] more dogs.

Moreover, Mellen's own improvement can also benefit the dogs.

In fact, Mellen has been practicing these two points.

For example, at first, there was no corresponding training method for the [Wolf Tamer], so Melen used the wizard's meditation method to improve his mental strength.

Later, as his strength increased, he received more and more inheritances. In addition to changing to better meditation methods, he also engaged in physical exercises.

Although the starting point at the time was that as the number of contracted dogs increased, the physical qualities he would interact with would become more and more, and he might be able to perform like One Punch Man in the future, it was still a good foundation.

Nowadays, when it comes to improving the spirit and body, Melen actually has the top-level training methods in his hands. Whether it is [Dream Summoner] or [Dragon Herder], they are all complete inheritances.

In [Dream Summoner], there is a meditation method called [Dream Traveling], which can separate a wisp of thought into the magnificent and mysterious dreams of all living beings, thereby improving mental strength.

[Dragon Shepherd] also has the secret technique [Dragon Forging], which can quickly increase the physical strength of oneself and the contracted dragon.

Unfortunately, the former relies on the characteristics of the [Dream Summoner]. Even if others can learn the [Dream Traveling] meditation method, they will definitely not end well if they use it rashly.

You should know that in addition to being magnificent and mysterious, dreams also have a creepy and strange side. To give the simplest example, sometimes you feel that a long time has passed in a dream, but in fact when you wake up you find that you have only slept for less than half an hour. This is the huge difference in the speed of time flow between dreams and reality, which may be tens of thousands of times or even more.

Once you put your mind into such a dream, when you retrieve it, God knows how huge and complicated the memories will be. Once you encounter such a situation, at best your own memories will be washed away and your personality will be changed. At worst, your mind will collapse and you will fall into madness.

This is just an ordinary dream. You should know that the dream world is not absolutely safe. There are also some strange and terrifying creatures wandering in dreams.

As for the secret method of [Forging Dragons], it goes without saying that it is entirely dependent on the special contract with the [Dragon Herder]. Without that contract, even the most basic entry level skills are impossible.

But if you think about it carefully, isn't integrating different inheritances into the [Wolf Tamer] exactly what Mellen should do at this stage!

I believe that as his extraordinary knowledge grows, one day he will be able to learn from the strengths of many inheritances, eliminate the dross and retain the essence, and perfect his own extraordinary path.

In a daze, three months had passed.

On this day, Mellen rarely left the library. When he looked at the green grass and trees outside and breathed the fresh air, he felt a long-lost feeling and even wanted to go out and play for a few days.

After all, although he can now appreciate the joy of reading, he is inevitably a little tired after such a long time.

But then he put this idea behind him. If he wanted to become a strong man and couldn't even stand this little loneliness, it would be better not to set his goals too high at the beginning, so that it would be easier.

Melen has never forgotten his original dream...

I want to go somewhere farther to see if the scenery there is more beautiful!

To this end, he can change himself bit by bit and make himself better.

I believe that a better self will be able to better carry his dream.

"Meren, this way!"

Mellen looked in the direction of the voice and saw Xinko walking towards him with a smile on his face.

Melen greeted him and asked, "Xinke, what can I do for you?"

Xin Ke said speechlessly, "What's your situation? Even if you love studying, there's no need to stay in the library for months. Do you understand the importance of combining work and rest?"

Mellen said calmly: "Reading makes me happy, reading enriches me, reading makes me progress, reading makes me happy, and reading makes me relax."

"I study to relax. I don't want to work hard for the time being."

Faced with Mellen's words, Xin Ke's face became even more speechless. He waved his hands and said, "Okay, okay, you're awesome. Can you spare some time to have dinner with me?"

Melen naturally agreed to this request.

The two came to a new restaurant. Of course, this "new" was only for Mellen. Xinke knew all the delicious food in this restaurant.

When the delicious dishes were served, Melen's mouths were watered. Although the free food provided by the academy was not bad, it was still far behind the food area that brought together the essence of many of the world's top delicacies.

Moreover, these delicacies are made of priceless and extraordinary ingredients, and special cooking techniques are used to maximize their extraordinary properties. It is no exaggeration to say that every bite is equivalent to a short period of spiritual practice.

Unfortunately, these delicacies are good in every way except for one drawback: they are... too expensive!

After three rounds of wine and five dishes, Xin Ke finally told him the real reason for coming to see Mellen.

Xin Ke said seriously: "Meren, remember our previous agreement. I will get you a place to enter the secret realm."

Melen nodded. This was the exchange condition that Xinko proposed for the saint-level thunder crystal that Melen had to take out after he left the Broken Land.

Mellen asked, "What's wrong?"

Xin Ke said somewhat embarrassedly: "There were indeed some minor problems."

Melen looked attentively, waiting for Xinko's next words.

Xin Ke said, "Didn't they say that the secret realm would accumulate enough energy and be open about three or four months after school started?"

"But I recently received news that the secret realm seems to have lost energy due to unknown reasons. I'm afraid it won't be able to open on the normal schedule. It will be delayed for at least half a year, or even a year."

Mellen asked doubtfully, "Energy loss?"

Xin Ke shrugged and said, "Secret realms often produce extremely special resources and treasures. To accelerate the birth or growth of these special resources and treasures, they are usually sealed and placed in areas with rich energy to infuse them with energy."

"As for why this secret realm experienced energy loss, resulting in the inability to replenish energy as scheduled, I don't know the specific reason."

At this point, Xin Ke paused, deliberately glancing around at the private room where they were alone. Then, lowering his voice, he spoke mysteriously, "It's said, just said, that some extraordinary treasures appeared in that secret realm, consuming a large amount of the realm's energy, delaying its opening."

"Super-sized treasure?" Mellen frowned, quickly understanding the significance of the matter and asked, "If that's the case, then the entry to this secret realm must be worth even more, right?"

Xin Ke said as a matter of course, "Of course. Many sequences and seeds are interested in the super-sized treasures born in this secret realm. The quota is naturally in short supply. It has been hyped up to the point where it is about two Saint-level resources."

"But don't worry, you got that spot before this news broke. The academy won't raise the price."

Melen was touched by Xinko's tone of "You really made a fortune".