Chapter 248 Violently Beating a Child

   At six o'clock in the afternoon, the class of "Silence and Silence" ended.

  After learning three lessons a day, Mu You has gained a lot. The progress of Levitating Curse, Arc Sword, and Silent Curse are already 75%, 45%, and 37.5%, respectively.

  But today's task is not over yet.

  After finishing dinner in a hurry and feeding the animals in the store and in the space in turn, at 7:50 in the evening, Mu You stood guard in front of the mobile phone and manipulated the game characters to rush to the duel field in the school ahead of schedule.

  【You have come to the duel square. 】

  【The time for the duel is approaching, the place is already full of people. As the dueling field is the main source of the Order of the Red Rose, students from all grades at the Academy enjoy being active in this activity every day. 】

  【At the very center of the duel square, on the seven huge magic projection walls, the medal rankings of the seven grades are displayed respectively, but only the top 100 medal owners of each grade are displayed. Do you want to check the list? 】

  The familiar ranking list is very vulgar, but it is necessary. The mentality of comparison exists everywhere. Only with this thing can the students' willingness to participate in the duel be stimulated to the greatest extent.

  Mu You was not interested in the list, but just checked the seventh grade list casually, and quickly found the name of the owner of Coke in it.

  【Chrisfia, seventh grade, the number of medals available this school year: 702. Medal Ranking: Eleventh. 】

   "The seven hundred medals are only ranked eleventh... the competition is fierce!" Mu You sighed.

  Red Rose Academy starts every year in late July, that is to say, this year's school year has just started for more than 20 days. If you have accumulated 700+ medals in 20 days, even if you hit the full number of times every day, you need to achieve a winning rate of more than 70%. At the same time, you need to get at least one additional reward for three consecutive victories every day to make it possible.

  However, according to the number of medals, those students who are good enough can even earn back the sky-high tuition fees every year through the dueling arena.

[At 7:55 p.m., the daily broadcast of the duel field rules floated over the square: each duel lasts at most five minutes, the party that dies first within five minutes or takes the initiative to admit defeat loses, and after five minutes no one will be defeated. In case of death, the outcome will be judged according to the remaining HP of both parties at the end. After the duel is completed, both parties will automatically restore all life and magic points...]

  【Please consciously abide by the school rules of civilized competition. During the duel, there must be no bad behaviors such as insulting, killing, whipping corpses, otherwise you will be punished according to the severity of the situation...】

  The detailed rules of the duel broadcasted are displayed in text one by one.

   Mu You read it carefully and found two hidden rules that were not mentioned in the previous text.

   One is the novice protection. The first-year freshmen who enter each year will only be matched with freshmen who have been enrolled for no more than three months in the duel in the first three months.

  Second, if you defeat someone who has won five consecutive victories or above, you can get additional medals based on the number of consecutive victories of the opponent, and you will get several medals for several consecutive victories.

There is nothing to say about the first one. The new students who just entered the school are basically magic apprentices. They know less magic and have less combat experience. Letting them duel with those old students who have been studying for a year and a half is completely rewarding points. , so the first three months have been set as a novice protection period, and new students can only peck each other in the novice field.

  These two items are estimated to prevent excessively high winning streaks. The higher the winning streak, the higher the value you bear, and your style of play and weaknesses will be repeatedly studied, and the easier it will be for you to be targeted.

  Five minutes are fleeting.

  At eight o'clock, the [Challenge Registration] option popped up in the text on time.

   Mu You clicked on the option for the first time.

  【You input magic power into the badge, indicating that you are ready for a duel. 】

  【The duel field will match you with the opponent...】

  【Match successful! Your opponent in the first game is, freshman: Jones Damian, current winning streak: 7 games. 】

  【You and your opponent were engulfed by the 'illusion creation' in the center of the square, and came to a randomly generated illusion field. 】

  【Site size: 1000*1000 meters. Scene: coniferous forest. 】

   "7 wins in a row?"

   Mu You raised his eyebrows, but he didn't expect to match him with an opponent who won seven consecutive victories.

   Hastily opened the list and checked the opponent's information.

   At the ninth place on the first grade list, Mu You found this name.

[Jones Damian: The famous young master of the Jones family, who is only 9 years old, has mastered more than ten kinds of magic before entering school. He is one of the most promising talented freshmen among the newly recruited students this year. He currently has a medal: 406 , ranked ninth on the first-year list. 】

   Mu You glanced at the opponent's attributes with the Omniscient Crystal again.

  【Jones Damian (level 10 has not evolved), strength: 10, agility 15, intelligence 35, constitution 25, health: 2500, mana: 3500...】

   After reading the attributes, Mu You immediately had a bottom line.

  Although he is an auditor, he is also a freshman who has just joined the academy after all, so he was also assigned to the novice field. And the matches in the novice field are all a group of young children who have just joined the academy for less than a month.

  This is also the reason why Mu You has the confidence to participate in the duel field.

  Even if it’s just the game AI who is dueling on the opposite side, he can’t display too much strength of the body, even if black magic, equipment and vampire skin are banned, but relying on attributes, his game characters are still enough to crush this group of little friends.

  【You and your opponent entered the coniferous forest at the same time. 】

  【All the equipment and props on your body have lost their effect. There are more than ten standard weapons including wands, swords, bows, guns and shields in front of you. You can choose three of them. 】

  【You choose wand, knife and bow. 】

  【Damian chose a wand, short sword and shield. 】

  【The duel begins, Damian confidently rushes towards you through the jungle. 】

  【Damian stopped when he approached eighty meters, raised his wand and began to chant magic. 】

  【You used a throat lock on him, forcibly interrupting the other party's singing, and the other party fell into a state of silence for five seconds. 】

  【You released arcane missiles, thunderballs, ghostfires, flame circles on Damian... The opponent's health quickly dropped under your magic bombardment. 】

  【Damian turned pale with shock, and could only turn around and run away under the silence. 】

  【You released the Snowball Curse. 】

  【The Snowball Curse rolled over and hit the opponent accurately, and Damian fell into a four-second freeze. 】

  【You quickly approach and slash at the opponent with a knife...】

  【Damian was hacked to death by you! 】

  【You killed Damian (level 10), and ended the opponent's seven-game winning streak, experience value +20, red rose medal +8. 】

  The whole battle ended smoothly in just one minute and fourteen seconds. Mu You didn't even lose a single drop of blood. He won a complete victory, but unfortunately there was no extra reward for a complete victory.

   After a round, there are still three and a half minutes before the cooldown for the next round, Mu You has nothing to do, ready to get up to get a glass of water.

  Unexpectedly, before he could move, a new text popped up.

  【Your opponent Damian raised serious doubts about this game and reported you for cheating. 】

  【The 'Referee Master Ball' in the duel field operates automatically, analyzing the video...】

  【After the analysis, the whole duel was reasonable and there were no illegal operations. Damian's report was rejected. 】

  【Damian is furious! 】

  【Damian left the duel field and sent you an invitation to a free field duel. Whether to accept? 】

"oh?"

  Mu You was taken aback for a moment, the operation just now seemed to have broken the defense of the kid on the opposite side, and the unconvinced ones wanted to come to him for a one-on-one challenge.

   Mu You glanced at the description of 'Free Field'.

  【Free Field: A special duel field. There are no grades, equipment, or magic in the free field. You can use any means you have to defeat the opponent until one of the two parties dies or admits defeat. It will automatically end. Death in the free field does not lose experience and lifespan, but there is no reward for winning. 】

  No rewards? What a shame if there is no reward!

   "No." Mu You resolutely refused.

  【You rejected Damian's free field invitation. 】

  【Damian became even more annoyed, punched you in the air, and commented on your performance in the last duel: one star. The comment is: Coward! 】

  【Your evaluation of Damian's performance in the last duel: five stars. The comment is: a boy who gives money. 】

  【Damian yelled at you, was warned once by the duel field, and deducted a red rose badge. 】

  【Damian left angrily. 】

   "Hehe, brat..."

   Mu You went to make some tea, drank it leisurely, and waited for the next game to start.

   Soon, the cooldown of the challenge ended, and Muyou pressed the match option immediately.

  【Match successful! Your opponent in the second game is, first-year student: Whitehead Joanna (level 5), current winning streak: -3 games. 】

  The opponents in the second game were even weaker, only five-level children, and it seemed that they had just experienced a three-game losing streak.

  This time, Mu You didn't even bother to look at the attributes. The fifth-level opponents belong to the kind who stand up and let the opponent fight, and the opponent can't break his defense.

  The end of the game was really quicker, less than 20 seconds into the game, before he had time to play, the opponent actually surrendered.

【Joanna is a weak and timid little girl. After entering the arena, she was forced by your aura and trembled. She also learned that you just killed Damian, a freshman genius who has won seven consecutive victories. She is even more afraid of you. Resolutely admit defeat. 】

  【You defeated Joanna (level 5), experience value +0, red rose medal +1. 】

   "Are you admitting defeat?"

  Mu You was speechless, only medal rewards for admitting defeat, no experience rewards, this wave of loss.

   At the same time, he also figured it out, no wonder this group of newcomers had been in the duel arena for more than 20 days, and there were still four or five levels. These rookies were pecking at each other, and most of them couldn't kill each other within five minutes due to their weak strength.

   Besides, there is also the existence of a admit defeat mechanism. Wizards in the astral world are different from players. Every time they die, they have to bear the real pain of death.

  When most newcomers' health is too low, the first choice is to admit defeat instead of waiting to be killed.

  So, even if these kids pecked at each other for more than 20 days in the duel arena, they didn't actually get much experience at all, and leveling up was much more difficult than imagined.

   "It seems that opponents with too low a level can't do it..."

   Helpless, Mu You had to wait for the next game.

   Soon the third match began. This time, Mu You used his pocket watch to roll a few times, excluding those below level 5, and finally matched with a little boy of level 9.

  【You entered the 'Dark Canyon' at the same time as your opponent...】

  【The duel started, you immediately charged towards the opponent...】

  【You released strong wind blowing, arcane missile, thunder ball, ghost fire...】

  In order to prevent the opponent from admitting defeat again, Mu You didn't hold back at all this time. As soon as he entered the field, he exploded with all his strength, smashed out with a spell, and completed the instant kill before the opponent could react.

  【You killed Pete (level 9), experience value +18, red rose medal +2. 】

  The third game went quite smoothly, and then Mu You followed suit, rolling opponents above level 7 in each game, and then bursting out to gain experience.

  Because it was his first appearance today, many people didn't have any information about him, nor did they make any preparations. The first nine games all ended in smooth victories.

   until the tenth game.

  【Match successful! Your opponent in the tenth game is a first-year student: Webster (level 15 has not evolved), the current winning streak: 9 games. 】

   "Level 15..."

   Mu You's eyelids twitched.

  How did something so advanced end up in the novice field?

   Hastily clicked to check the information.

   It turned out that this person was similar to him, and he was also an auditor who joined the academy halfway. He was a wandering wizard in his thirties before. He joined the academy mainly to buy evolution potions through the school to break through the bottleneck.

  This person's total attributes are slightly higher than Mu You's, and the magic he knows is probably no less than him. More importantly, he is not on the opposite side, but the game AI is controlling the duel, and most of them cannot beat the opponent.

  However, the nine-match winning streak on this person made Mu You a little greedy. If he could defeat him, he would get ten medals in his account, equivalent to a 20-year lifespan.

In the end, Mu You still started this battle. On the first day, he should try to see where the limit of his strength is. He has non-stop technique, clone, life absorption, and his ability to survive is not weak. Kill him in minutes.

  It's a pity that this match ended with Mu You's defeat.

  He was not killed, but it was very difficult for him to hurt the opponent. The spells were basically avoided by the opponent, and when five minutes came, judging by the remaining life, it was the opponent's victory.

  Of course, this result is not absolute. He will have a little chance of winning if he plays a few more times.

   In the next dozen or so matches, Mu You still used his pocket watch to eliminate those opponents who were too low-level, and encountered two opponents who were above level 10, one level 14, and the other level 12. In the end, the battle ended with one victory and one loss.

   At 9:56 p.m., Mu You's challenge cooldown ended again. Before the closing time of the duel field, Mu You clicked on the last match.

   The duel field says it closes at ten o'clock, but the fight started before ten o'clock, and you will definitely be allowed to finish it.

  The last match was just an ordinary eighth-level kid. Mu You didn't hold back, and dealt with the opponent cleanly.

  In the end, after today's 24 duels, Mu You's record is 22 wins and 2 losses. On the way, he ended a seven-game winning streak and a five-game winning streak. In the end, he won a total of 40 medals and 411 experience points.

   After fighting this night, he already had an estimate of his own strength: apart from being unstable when encountering those old fritters above level 12, he was already invincible in the novice field.

The strategy in the future will be simple. If you encounter those who can’t beat them, just roll them away, and only pick those of level 7-11 to fight. Of course, if those high-level players have accumulated a high enough number of wins, they can also beat them. Give it a try, if you lose, you will only lose one medal of income, and if you win, you will make a lot of money.

  The time for the duel was over, and the students went back to their homes and dispersed one after another.

   Mu You also manipulated the characters to leave the academy and ran to Siye Street to find Jing Mo Niang.

  【You came to Four Leaf Street, where the Quiet Bookstore was originally located, and found that there was a lot of traffic and people, and the shops around were full of people coming and going. You searched the neighborhood for a week, but you never saw the quiet little shop from yesterday. 】

   "What about people?"

  Mu You looked confused. It was there yesterday, but it’s gone today. Does this store fly or something?

  At this time, he suddenly remembered the text description when he first met Jing Mo Niang yesterday: "Jing Mo Niang doesn't like noise, and her shop is only open in the dead of night."

  The focus is on the four characters 'dead of night', not only 'deep night' but also 'quiet', these are two different conditions.

  Last time, it was because of the impact of the large-scale influx of fools brought about by the operation of breaking the tower, which made this bustling street very deserted that night, and the Silent Bookstore showed up only once.

  Now that the Four Leaf Street has resumed its prosperity, Jing Mo Niang naturally once again entered the hermitage.

   Wanting to understand this, Mu You immediately lit up a jack-o-lantern and searched nearby with the lamp.

  【Under the blue glow of the pumpkin lantern, you can see a deep alley on the originally closed wall between the two shops on the street. 】

  【You walked along the alley until you came to the end of the alley away from the sound of people, and finally in the corner ahead, you saw the quiet little shop bathed in the moonlight. 】

  【You have entered the Silent Bookstore. 】

  【The cat lied lazily on the front desk table, raised his head and glanced at you, opened his mouth wide and yawned, then stopped paying attention to you. It seems to be much less vigilant towards you. 】

  【In front of the desk in the store, Jing Mo Niang saw you coming, closed the book in her hand, straightened her glasses, and held up the cardboard she had already written on to you. 】

  【"A very good book, I haven't read such a novel story for a long time."】

  【"I don't know if there is another volume?"】

  【Obviously, the book you gave last time moved the other party. Jing Mo Niang is obsessed with the story in the book, and she took the initiative to ask you for the follow-up part. 】

   "Are you really addicted..."

   Mu You was not surprised. He went to the study to pick up the second volume of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" and sent it into the game.

  【Jing Mo Niang took the brand new book you gave me, couldn't wait to open it, and cast a translation spell on it. 】

  【Seeing the story that is indeed connected with the previous book, Jing Mo Niang breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at you, held up the cardboard, and asked what do you need today? 】

  Three options: [Ask questions], [Tutoring magic], [Upgrade magic].

   "Ask a question."

  Mu You first selected the question, and then in the pop-up input box, wrote: 'The method of entering the silent library. '

  【Jing Mo Niang accepted your question and started writing on the cardboard...】

  【A minute later, the other party raised the cardboard. 】

[The Red Rose Library has sixteen floors, and the Silent Library, located on the '15th and 1/2 floors', is a hidden mezzanine between the fifteenth and sixteenth floors, guarded by a large number of silent beasts, constantly shielding its location so as not to be discovered by outsiders.

  Silence Beast is a cursed ghost creature. Anyone who tries to break into the library by force will be turned into a ghost by them. However, Silent Beasts are devout believers of the Moon God at the same time. On every full moon night, the Silent Beasts will leave the guard for a short time and gather on the rooftop of the library to pray for the full moon.

   Therefore, the only time to enter the silent library is the night of the full moon every month.

The way to enter is: in the corridor on the first floor of the library, go around five times in a clockwise direction at a normal pace, then go to the second floor, go around five times counterclockwise, and then go to the third floor, continue Go around clockwise, counterclockwise on the fourth floor... until the fifteenth floor.

  The above actions require a silent spell to eliminate all your voices.

  If you do all of this, when you climb from the fifteenth floor to the sixteenth floor, you will find the entrance to the silent library. 】

  (end of this chapter)