Meteor Fall Master in the 'Starry Abyss'
Chapter 472 - 109. Silence Breaks Defense_2

Chapter 472: 109. Silence Breaks Defense_2

"Again, I hope you all will respect each other and become outstanding Mages who respect rationality, venerate magic, and spread the beliefs of Materialism. However, this means that you will bear a heavier burden than the average college student and face more intense competition,"

"In this school, aside from ensuring your basic livelihood, everything else: advanced courses, alchemy equipment, quantum mana brains, biological laboratories, exploring semi-planes, and even daily transactions, all of these require credits to access. Our teaching staff will issue tasks on a regular basis every week, as long as you complete them within the set time, you can earn credits."

The female dean spoke bluntly, without any of the amiability her appearance suggested, her gaze sweeping across the hall, even the students of noble birth didn’t dare meet her eye.

She then continued:

"Apart from this, our school does not prohibit private fights, but we are firmly against murder. As long as it’s not a serious offense like causing death, endangering public safety, or disrupting the order of teaching, Baizhu Star will not hold you accountable. For minor criminal cases, we will not expel you, but this will affect your academic career; if you don’t want to be paying tuition for nothing until retirement, then just follow the laws and regulations honestly."

"The workshop system is the greatest institution of the Crystal Tower Civilization, and among the workshops of Baizhu Interstellar University, which in Trevela is the only one of the thirteen famous schools that imposes no restrictions based on origin or species. As long as you work hard to accumulate credits, you can join any workshop. No matter what negative records or deficiencies you had in the past, once you join a workshop, you can start anew."

At these words, many students buzzed with reaction, but still maintained silence.

’That’s how it is...’ Hobbs sent a message to their group chat with the three of them: ’This school is the most unique among the thirteen famous schools of Trevela. Dina is useless here; credits are the real currency. Everyone needs to be careful, don’t think that because it’s an interstellar university, the death and disability rates will be low...’

Lucite remained calm, for the fiercely independent Xilus Catfish People, fighting on the way to school was quite normal.

"Can’t we exchange money for credits?" Aozi asked.

"Money? It’s no use, not even ammonium gold."

Aozi’s expression suddenly turned strange.

As a Star Realm Echoer, he was unable to study extraordinary knowledge. Therefore, he only planned to learn some magic skills, coast through his days, get a degree, and then run to a Narrative-level Civilization.

Following the Valenkov incident, all his preferential treatment was revoked, and the Ministry of Education was still striving to erase his honors and protect his privacy.

This move by the school to not accept Dina for credits had seemingly stripped away even his last advantage of ’being rich’ in an instant.

"Lastly, I want to remind everyone: the oldest graduate of our school accumulated enough credits to graduate at 127 years old. He was the son of the President of the Coral Federation," the dean said with a kind smile.

"That concludes my talk. I hope everyone achieves academic success,"

The sound of clapping rose amicably, yet factions formed silently among the students.

From now on, lineage, wealth, and status would all be deemphasized.

Almost instantly, all the students began to flip through their freshman handbooks.

"Any student is a competitor, and for freshmen, if you don’t transfer to an excellent workshop by the time the second year arrives, then graduation is far off," Lucite said seriously.

"We must work hard to earn credits. The minimum standard for advancement to the second year is 5,000 credits, yet completing a general education course only provides 50 credits. Even if you completed all 20 general education courses, that’s only 1,000 credits."

"Wait, there are a total of 64 elective courses. Assuming 8 hours per course, that’s 21 days in total, but the problem is that electives only give 30 credits each, so even if you complete all, that’s still less than three thousand credits," Hobbs said, biting his pen and realizing the seriousness of the situation.

"So, we have to earn the remaining 2,000 credits through club activities and campus tasks? How long will that take? If we just barely pass the 5,000 credits, we can only pick the worst workshops."

"No, it’s worse than that," Aozi glanced at the student handbook:

"Baizhu Interstellar University only has six workshops, each accepting only 100 people. And there are as many as 1,200 freshmen this year, those with insufficient scores, I’m afraid, will have to continue competing with the next batch of freshmen."

Credits were everything.

"So does that mean, even the upperclassmen from the previous year are competitors?" Hobbs pulled a wry face.

"Done for," Lucite grimaced, "Had I known, I would’ve switched my preference to the Department of Civil Engineering."

Aozi looked forward, his retinas projecting information:

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[You have triggered the career task—"Academic Success"]

[Type]: Career/Advanced Studies

[Time Limit]: One natural year

[Mission Difficulty]: Abandon

(Note: ’Abandon’—Give up! Although such tasks carry no threat to life, for some individuals, they are more agonizing than death. It’s easier than a standard A-level task, but with greater difficulty.)

[Introduction]:

"Welcome to high school, although you face an ultra-high school level of despair."

You crawled out from a pile of corpses, but now you must face a group of sneaky, ambitious living classmates, a difficulty that is in no way less daunting.

You cut people down with swords as easily as slicing through vegetables, but now you must take exams and study with a pen in hand, and you can’t even kill any of your classmates, which is extremely frustrating.

You’re a brash ronin who dies by using your brain, and now you must study rules and tests more diligently than anyone else to avoid elimination.

You once sacrificed your head, your weakness, for your life and strength.

Now, how are you to learn new things?

[Settlement Conditions]:

A."Passing with Flying Colors"—Successfully complete the first year’s academic work without any failing subjects, after which the task will update;

Reward: Specialty·[Elementary Chant Mastery]

B."Academic Research"—The pursuit of magic and truth never stops; master at least three spells before the end of the first year.

Reward: Skills·"Worldview: Materialism"

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Aozi lowered his implant gear head, deep in thought.

[Perhaps, I might just crash and burn in the least expected way.]

Now, he had to really consider how he was going to graduate.