Tamur circled around Feng Yuan and said,
"Ti is up."
"Uh, is that the bell signaling the end of the exploration of the Ancient Stone Palace?"
"Wait, could it be... the teacher has been watching us all along?"
Thinking of sothing, Feng Yuan spoke in surprise. At this mont, the teacher responsible for the Ancient Stone Palace was unsure whether to speak up. Although he was observing everyone to ensure their safety, what if the students thought he was spying...
"Didn’t you notice?"
Veronia looked at Feng Yuan in confusion, and he chuckled, scratching his head and saying,
"I just had that feeling, but I wasn’t quite sure."
Speaking thus, Feng Yuan looked at the giant treasure chest and said,
"Well, never mind that, let’s open the chest~ What treasures might it hold~"
As the enormous treasure chest opened, clusters of light fell into the hands of everyone. In the next mont, Feng Yuan felt a force acting upon him, instinctively wanting to resist. But recalling sothing, he finally allowed the force to send him out of the space.
At this mont, everyone from the Ancient Stone Palace was moved outside, looking at the basketball-sized glass ball they held, Feng Yuan was stunned; this thing turned out to be a sealed item.
"I wonder what might be inside."
Muttering to himself, Feng Yuan glanced at the group of teachers. The force that had just moved them didn’t seem to belong to the Beast Tars among the teachers. On closer thought, a force capable of covering the entire Ancient Stone Palace is unlikely to be from a Legendary Level Spirit Beast.
A Spirit Beast with Legendary strength...
Recalling, Feng Yuan wasn’t sure which teacher it might be, considering Maomu Academy had several teachers with Legendary strength, not to ntion the principal.
"Never mind, but isn’t there any feedback or evaluation?"
Sighing, Feng Yuan curiously looked at the teachers guiding them away through the passage lined with warning tape and muttered in confusion, believing that apart from fighting a BOSS, there seed to be little else encountered in this Ancient Stone Palace exploration, given two hours is rather short.
As for the acquired item?
Unable to discern what was inside the crystal ball, Feng Yuan had no intention of guessing. With a roll of his eyes, he placed the crystal ball on an open space in front of Xiao Ji and said,
"Hehe~ Xiao Ji, do you want to try opening the chest~"
Curiously glancing at Feng Yuan, Xiao Ji didn’t quite understand what he ant. Qi Chen laughed at Feng Yuan and said,
"You’re not trusting your luck, are you."
"I just don’t want to waste my luck~ Though I don’t think there’s anything overly special inside, speaking of which, are we going back into the Ancient Stone Palace later?"
Motioning Xiao Ji to open the crystal ball, Feng Yuan thought of sothing and asked Qi Chen, who pondered for a mont before shaking his head and saying,
"Better not, the exploration ti is too short; I don’t know what the academy’s intention is, but the Ancient Stone Palace seems to lack... genuine training significance."
"I agree, other things were alright, but the BOSS battle was a bit unpleasant, although..."
Nodding in agreent, Feng Yuan looked at the crystal ball cracked open by Xiao Ji’s paw. The fragnted crystal seed to be composed of energy, slowly vaporizing and vanishing like ice lting under high temperatures. Had he not felt any temperature change while holding it before, Feng Yuan would’ve thought it was ice.
From the opened crystal ball, aside from several Spiritual dicines, there was a quaintly-styled key and a piece of antique paper. Holding the paper up to look at it, Feng Yuan said speechlessly,
"I see, the Ancient Stone Palace is rely a trial’s precursor. Only upon opening the treasure chest can one proceed to the next level. But why set tomorrow as the entry date?"
At this mont, Qi Chen and the others had also opened their crystal balls, finding Spiritual dicines alongside a Trial Key and an instruction sheet, just like Feng Yuan.
Dou Yanlan stroked her chin and said,
"It doesn’t seem that simple; perhaps tomorrow’s trial won’t be easy to pass, and... the teachers responsible for the Ancient Stone Palace’s safety seem sowhat odd."
"Hmm, you’re not wrong. Generally speaking, there would be so evaluation with full observation. Maybe they are in a testing phase? Considering it’s not easy to link reality with the Data Domain, perhaps this coincidence happens to be a test?"
Thinking about it, Feng Yuan said with uncertainty. While instances of teachers secretly ensuring safety aren’t unheard of, since they are students from the academy, observations are usually accompanied by evaluations, enabling students to identify issues faced in the challenge.
However, this ti they didn’t receive any evaluation, indicating the observers weren’t extrely ticulous, which might be why Dou Yanlan found it odd.
Regarding Feng Yuan’s conjecture, Dou Yanlan felt this might be plausible but also slightly... too rushed?
She wasn’t sure why she felt the trial seed odd, almost as if it had been hastily added.
Feng Yuan wasn’t concerned about these matters. In his view, the trials were ant to increase actual combat experience for Xiao Ji and the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound; as for other aspects, he wasn’t too bothered.
Precisely because of this, Feng Yuan was unaware that the academy was undergoing an ergency shift internally, primarily due to chaos ensuing after deploying Spirit Beasts adept at controlling the Crystal Domain in the back hill on the first day.
Similar to how Feng Yuan and others refrained from using Crystal Domain while battling the BOSS in the Ancient Stone Palace, third and fourth-year students were the first to notice issues related to the Crystal Domain during the initial day’s combat.
After all, they were genuinely challenging powerful Spirit Beasts, and given the varied Spirit Beast Attributes among everyone, encounters with interference from other Spirit Beasts activating the Crystal Domain arose.
Manifesting as unpredictable fluctuations in the power of Offensive Ultimate Moves, were it just this, it might have been tolerable. Despite being third and fourth-year students, they battled alongside familiar teams, rendering this effect insignificant.
Yet, when jointly challenging Legendary Level Spirit Beasts, these issues surged, particularly the disruptive influence of the Crystal Domain on unfamiliar parties. In reality, this trial aid to collect data to ascertain the severity of these issues.
Considering only small-scale challenges among third and fourth-year students occurred, the full extent of the issue remained uncertain.
Initially, intentions were to stage a universal BOSS challenge via the Ancient Stone Palace trial, but opposition arose from teachers, arguing this bore no relation to Ancient Ruins.
Moreover, such Ancient Ruins requiring combat upon entry were typically obliterated by national alliances with local powers, preventing others from encountering potential hazards.
Eventually, the Ancient Stone Palace pivoted to dual assessnts: Ruins exploration and examining Crystal Domain’s impact in scenarios featuring nurous strangers fighting alongside each other.
The final outcos weren’t impressive; aside from Feng Yuan, others struggled to locate a hidden passage, and even interaction bore little utility.
Considering the complexity of the chanisms set up, imitating blindly risked traps, though a wiser pivot to trials led by seasoned third and fourth-year students likely spared the dical team a continuous strain today.
The direction concerning the Crystal Domain was relatively smoother, as the academy hadn’t forbidden repeated challenges. Combined with post-exploration exchanges, everyone garnered tactics to effectively tackle the BOSS.
However, per initial data, the Crystal Domain severely impacted stranger-based team fights, derived from limited understanding among participants. When activated, the Crystal Domain naturally disrupted others’ engagents.
Whether boosting or diminishing, modifications disrupted prior combat flow, notably mid-intense battles with sudden occurrences, where even enhanced attacks failed.
Such events directly overthrow attack timing, yet, should the Crystal Domain only prove useful in Beast Tar competitions, its value diminishes. Consequently, deciding whether to incorporate Crystal Domain into instruction becos a crucial matter.
Currently, exploring the Crystal Domain’s usage remained prevalent among all, including Feng Yuan, who wasn’t entirely familiar with it but understood its future as a ubiquitously useful combat auxiliary tactic, surpassing Burst Form in prevalence.
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