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Chapter 583 - 324 The Grand Feast of the Whole City_2

Chapter 583: Chapter 324 The Grand Feast of the Whole City_2

And, as for Mu You, he was a newcomer with extremely high potential in their evaluation, and there was a great likelihood that he would become their colleague in the future. Therefore, Blue Eyes White Dragon was sparing no effort in helping him handle the current matter, showing no sign of impatience.

After an exchange of questions and answers between the two of them, all five tests were completely answered in just two hours.

According to Blue Eyes White Dragon, even if they didn’t score full marks, they certainly got over 90% correct. This was enough to pass.

"Thank you, Boss!" Mu You expressed his gratitude sincerely.

He found this kind of examination to be much more difficult than he had imagined. Luckily, Zhang Yang had brought Blue Eyes White Dragon, who had experience with such examinations. If it had been an ordinary person, his written test today would have been somewhat risky.

"Hehe, it’s nothing."

Blue Eyes White Dragon laughed, "After all, cheating in a written test is quite straightforward. For players, there are many ways to pass. The real challenge is the upcoming practical examination."

"What format does the practical examination take?" Mu You asked promptly.

"In the practical examination, you will be thrown into an illusion that resembles a gladiator arena. You will face ten opponents in a row. However, these opponents aren’t real people, but avatars of students from all grade levels. These avatars possess all the strength of the students, but their movements are rather rigid, akin to our game characters. The grade level you aim to skip to will determine the grade level of the student avatars you have to face. You pass only if you defeat all ten opponents."

Blue Eyes White Dragon continued, "Generally, players participating in such examinations would aim for a quick completion and directly challenge the level of sixth or even seventh graders. However, this increases the difficulty quite a bit. If you were facing a real person, it would be easier. But for game characters, you generally need attributes close to Level 20 to have a chance to pass."

The reason why Blue Eyes White Dragon brought this up was to advise Mu You not to be too ambitious. It would be more appropriate to challenge up to grade five at most.

"Are there any restrictions on the methods I can use for the practical exam?" Mu You asked after giving it some thought.

"Actually, there aren’t any..." Blue Eyes White Dragon didn’t expect Mu You to ask this. "The practical examination is a free-style mode, and there is no ability to record the process. Nobody can observe the examination process. Theoretically, you can use whatever method you want as long as you pass in the end."

"That’s good..."

Mu You felt relieved after hearing this.

As there were no restrictions, he could use large-scale black magic throughout. For him, this practical examination was much easier compared to the written examination.

His subsequent examination experience validated his thought process.

Seventh-grade students were also wizards with attributes exceeding Level 16 or 17. However, they were still academy students who haven’t experienced a real-life-or-death battle. How much combat experience could they have?

For every level, Mu You set off a massive thunderstorm, flame explosion, and blizzard, and simply waited for the opponents’ HP to deplete on its own.

It took only half an hour in total to pass the practical examination flawlessly.

All he had to do now was wait for the results of the written examination tomorrow, and he would officially get the promotion, becoming a seventh-grade student.

Taking advantage of the last moments of being a first grader, at eight o’clock in the evening, Mu You revisited the gladiator arena.

The primary reason was to fulfill his agreement with Damian and, incidentally, to convert his winning streak into wealth.

Mu You entered the arena, fought with a few novices and increased his winning streak a bit.

When the time was ripe, he used the pocket watch to forcibly make Damian his opponent, then commanded his character to stand still and get hit until death.

[The moment you die and exit the gladiator arena, you hear a series of gasps around you.]

[You hear the students around you all shouting Damian’s name in unison, treating him like the hero of the first year!]

[Damian defeats the brutal and vicious Mountain Ghost, ending his 280-win streak. From now on, the name Mountain Ghost will become history...]

...

[Afterwards, Damian found you in the dim grove in front of the school gate and handed you a lifespan card of 800 years.]

[280 wins in a row, which is equivalent to 560 years of lifespan. You ask him about the extra lifespan.]

["The rest is for hush money." Damian said this, pocketed his hands, and left nonchalantly.]

"This little devil is quite a convincing actor..."

Mu You raised an eyebrow, he didn’t plan to extort the others over a minor matter. Since the others offered a hush payment, he saw no reason to refuse it and took it guilt-free.

He received an 800-year increase in lifespan, replenishing more than half of the thousand years he had consumed from the Statues of Gods. Now, his lifespan balance was 1551 years.

Mu You teleported back to Dawn City after he finished handling affairs at the academy.

The construction of the level two City Lord’s Castle in Dawn City had just finished, and the city level rose to LV2. The population limit increased by another ten million, and more building construction permissions were activated.

As usual, Mu You brought another ten million new residents into the city, ranked from highest to lowest level, then began to upgrade the buildings.

He upgraded the temples, training fields, and scarecrows to LV2, and built two newly unlocked types of buildings.

One was a prison. This was necessary as the rapidly increasing population got used to life in Sky City, and conflicts among them started to rise.

With tens of millions of people in the same area, countless petty crimes and disputes occurred. If they kept going on without proper regulation, it would lead to chaos. Hence, building a prison was imperative.

The other new building was the ’Feast for All’. This kitchen-like structure served the entire city. It worked exactly as the name suggested: it fed all the citizens.’Feast for All’ replenished the stamina of all city dwellers when activated, which could be done once each day.

Of course, this wasn’t completely free. Before partaking in the feast, each resident had to pay a bit of reputation to the ’Feast for All’ building, which served as the ’food fee’. Those who refused to pay the fee wouldn’t be able to recover their stamina during the building activation.

A bit of reputation was roughly equivalent to a month or so of lifespan. Trading a month of lifespan for full stamina was certainly worth it.

After establishing this building, Mu You promptly issued a city-wide announcement explaining the rules for using the new building.

’Feast for All’ would be opened at noon every day based on the capital time of the Celestial Dynasty. All residents had to ensure that they had paid their food fee and depleted their stamina before the meal, to avoid any waste.

The introduction of the new building instantly attracted envious comments on the forum.

Getting over a dozen points of stamina daily was indeed a huge benefit!

Showing off their brand-new ’Dawn City Welfare Map’, the inhabitants of Dawn City gloated on the forum.

This caused a wave of dissatisfaction among the people of the neighboring City of Dawn.

While Dawn City residents were enjoying the benefits of +2 to all attributes and daily free stamina recovery, what did they have? Nothing but bare city walls!

Many people expressed their displeasure on the forum, criticizing Solomon’s city-building philosophy, demanding he prioritize welfare buildings, causing numerous likes and responses.

Solomon was caught between a rock and a hard place. Sure, he wanted to prioritize welfare buildings, but could he?

Doing so, he felt like he might as well give up the city!

With the current defense level, it was still somewhat challenging to fend off the periodic attacks from the Desert Sky Thieves. He could only imagine that once Dawn City reached level two, he would still need to prioritize the walls. As for welfare buildings, he dared not consider them until level three.

He would inevitably lose a large number of high-quality residents during this period, further slowing their development speed.

The gap between the development of the two cities became gradually evident, and it would only widen over time...

Mu You didn’t concern himself with how Solomon managed his city.

After dealing with matters in Dawn City, he moved his game character to the underground railway, preparing to go to Clockwork City.

[In the confusion of teleportation, you arrive at the goblin’s underground transit station.]

[You carefully bypass the lighthouse platform and come to the front of one of the railway tracks. This is the direct route to Clockwork City.]

[You wait here for a moment and see a mine cart approaching.]

[You jump onto the cart and hide inside, quickly disappearing into the dark tunnel ahead with the railroad.]

[Driving in progress, estimated arrival in 15 hours...]