Zong Jiu, “…”
You are a Yin-Yang Master, you should be having a blessing ceremony, yet you hold a wooden fish to perform consecration, which god is going to care about you? It would be good enough not to put you on the blacklist.
He looked down at Tsuchimikado, who was seriously muttering, “This faithful believer will be a vegetarian all his life and beg the gods and Buddhas to grant the African chief good fortune in smuggling into Europe.” He felt a little distressed for no reason.
Forget it, forget it. It’s been so long since this kid got the Yin-Yang Master bloodline and been unlucky. It’s so pitiful, so don’t bother him.
Zong Jiu also followed Tsuchimikado’s example, picked a futon, sat down on it, and took out the rule book and identity card.
The identity card belonging to the Magician was empty except for a frontal photo of him that was marked No. 9 Zong Jiu. The value column and skill column were all empty. The system props allowed to be carried below included a passive prop stand-in doll, and there was an active prop vacancy below B-rank (including B-rank).
He was the first to leave, and judging by the time, Zhuge An and the others should be arriving soon.
Zong Jiu put down his identity card and opened the first page of the rule book.
The rules altered by the system were much simpler than the rules Zong Jiu used to play before transmigrating.
It roughly divided trainees into several categories. There were strength type, constitution type, agility type, appearance type, and intelligence inspiration type.
Each major category had an exclusive skill. For example, the agility type could choose the “Dodge” skill, the appearance type could choose the “Charm” skill, etc… Trainees could only choose one major category as their initial category and no changes could be made until the end of the instance.
While Zong Jiu was reading, a thoughtful reminder came from the system.
[Because the rules of this instance are relatively complex, it has been detected that one of the five routes is more suitable for the development of this trainee, and the initial value is higher. Do you need the system to provide suggestions?]
The white-haired young man touched his chin and chose yes.
[Ding! It is detected that the trainee’s appearance value is high. It is recommended that the trainee choose the appearance-based route and can get 50 extra points for the exclusive “Charm” skill. Do you confirm?]
Zong Jiu, “…?”
A Magician who could rely on his hands to make a living, why should he rely on his face?
He put aside the unreliable suggestions of the system and turned to the next page.
Immediately afterward, Zong Jiu discovered how delicious the fifty extra points given by the system were.
Because the number of points he could freely control was equal to zero. Who would’ve thought.
That’s right, to prevent the trainees from acting out, they could actually only choose the general route of their identity cards. Other skills could be selected by the trainees but it was randomly generated and assigned by the system.
By the way, the more skills a trainee selected, the fewer points the system randomly allocated to each skill, and the greater the probability of failure in rolling the dice.
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What the hell, no wonder the Devil finished talking after a few lines at the gathering. The emotional ten-sided dice was the highlight, and the rest was not important at all.
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This body was Zong Jiu’s own body before he crossed into the book.
But to be fair, not only the points of strength, constitution, and agility but also the points of intelligence and inspiration were not worth mentioning in the face of his appearance which was as high as 90. The system’s evaluation was “fish would sink and goose would fall, the moon would look away and flowers would scatter” level of beauty.
For example, for his agility, he could only get a 20-point bonus for the “dodge” skill, which was far from the 50-point bonus for the charm skill. Such a big loss.
Zong Jiu threw away the rule book in his hand, stared at the ten-sided dice in front of him, and began a fierce battle between heaven and man in his mind about whether he should rely on his face to make a living.
Zhuge An happened to walk in, and he raised his hand lightly to grab the rule book and the identity card.
The black-haired man glanced at the information on the ID card and handed it to him, “The appearance value is 90, and the charm skill has a natural success rate of 1/2. What are you still hesitating about?”
Zong Jiu, “Then what type are you?”
Zhuge An looked at him with a look that said you still need to ask, and said concisely, “My initial intelligence inspiration is 90.”
There was no doubt that Zhuge An was the intellectual inspiration type.
Several other trainees also decided their routes based on their ability to allocate the most points.
No. 2 Van Zhuo obviously felt uncomfortable after removing the half-vampire bloodline ability. He had not felt this kind of feeling for a long time. He was not afraid of the sun and was not thirsty for blood, but his body was very heavy. Both his speed and strength were greatly reduced. It was the feeling of powerlessness.
However, Van Zhuo had been on the battlefield before gaining vampire abilities. He was also particularly fond of extreme sports in the real world. He often played various sports such as skydiving, extreme rock climbing, longboarding, and surfing, and his physical strength was also not bad. In the end, he chose the power route.
The Exorcist had a high constitution, so he chose the constitution type, which was commonly known as thick skin and tough flesh, and thick blood.
Tsuchimikado also chose the intelligence and inspiration type. The word intelligence had little to do with him, but he, an idiot, was able to become a Yin-Yang Master in the first place because his inspiration talent was extraordinary, so there was no suspense.
Seeing the Exorcist come in, the Yin-Yang Master jumped up from the futon angrily, “You, it’s all your fault!”
“Yes, yes, yes, yes, it’s all my fault.”
The Exorcist thought, who knew you’d take out the blue ticket in public. Even if he wanted to prevent it, he couldn’t.
But his good brother was suffering. They had known each other for so many years, so he had to express something, right?
Seeing the Exorcist bring up the dagger he had been coveting for a long time with a heartbroken look on his face, Tsuchimikado was filled with joy and beamed with joy.
“Okay, okay, we are all good bros. This kind of social death, it’s not like we haven’t seen it before, right?”
The Yin-Yang Master patted his chest, looking like he and the Exorcist were so buddy-buddy that the other couldn’t help but roll his eyes.
On the other side, Zong Jiu, instigated by Zhuge An, chose with great difficulty to rely on his face to make a living.
In this regard, the dog-headed tactician cited one, two, three arguments to demonstrate the facts. It was very clear and logical.
In short, “being good-looking is also an advantage.”
Okay, take the charm route, isn’t it just the charm route? The Magician could bend and stretch, do things flexibly, and endure it.
After putting down his ID card, Zong Jiu saw Xu Su who was standing at the door.
“Hello, Jiu-ge,” Xu Su nodded to him with a respectful tone.
After not seeing him for a whole month, Xu Su’s whole demeanor changed.
Although Zong Jiu had heard Zhong Yiyuan and Anthony talk about Xu Su’s changes before, now that he saw it before his eyes, he still couldn’t help but sigh inside.
A month ago, Xu Su was still a lively and active male college student. He was the talkative one when playing the instances. In the Famine Village instance, he was the comic relief of the entire team and had a very lively personality.
Even if he smiled now, it was only an implicit polite smile, and the smile couldn’t penetrate deep into his eyes. Not only did his face become more resolute, but his entire temperament also changed. He became more solemn and quiet. It would not be an exaggeration to say that he had grown up overnight.
Zong Jiu could even see the shadow of the deceased Xu Sen in Xu Su.
It was true that some people would do this and live like the person they loved after they died.
Faced with this situation, he really didn’t know what to say, so he stepped forward and patted the other on the shoulder.
“This is the last instance.”
The white-haired young man comforted him, “Things will be settled soon. What I said last time was not just a lie to comfort you. If there were such conditions, I would have planned to do that.”
Xu Su suddenly stopped holding back, tears welling up in his eyes, “Jiu-ge…”
Before he could shed tears, a cool voice came from behind Zong Jiu.
“After the S+ rank instance, there will be a decisive battle instance.”
According to Zhuge An’s calculations, the decisive battle instance could only be attended by all S-rank members.
The final winner would be chosen from these ten and get the Universal Wishing Ticket.
Now that No. 1’s Instructor identity had been revealed, it meant that No. 1 couldn’t participate in the decisive battle instance. They were five against four and only needed to deal with the Devil’s puppets. Regardless of whether it was No. 2, No. 3, or No. 4, the overall ranking was higher than that of the Devil’s puppets. As long as the Devil didn’t interfere, the odds of winning were at least 60.
Zong Jiu could tell something was wrong from Zhuge An’s words.
He turned around and expressed his doubts with his eyes.
The black-haired man looked at him deeply, his pupils were dark and bottomless, and his tone was calm without many ups and downs.
“You said before that after you get the Universal Wishing Ticket, you will make a wish to send everyone out of the infinite loop.”
Not sure if it was an illusion, but Zong Jiu actually saw a hint of aggrievedness in the other person’s eyes.
He thought he might be blind.
“This…”
The Magician touched his nose, feeling guilty.
If Zhuge An didn’t say anything, he really would’ve forgotten.
In the beginning, he was able to get help from the dog-headed military tactician with nothing, all thanks to that talk.
For some reason, Zhuge An was very concerned about “bringing everyone out of the infinite loop”. When he first heard Zong Jiu say that, he didn’t even ask and helped him a lot along the way. Not to mention that after Zong Jiu’s identity as the savior was confirmed, everyone could see he tried his best to assist and worked hard.
Just grab any of the endless loop survivors and ask them, no matter who did this kind of business without capital and selling one’s body, it would never possibly have anything to do with Zhuge An. It would be good if he didn’t trick people into death. When Tsuchimikado was exposed in front of everyone, he not only received Tsuchimikado’s hush money but also received the Exorcist’s benefits. He took from both parties and let them fall anyway.
Fortunately, Zhuge An didn’t seem to have any intention of digging into this issue in front of Xu Su.
There was still some time before the finals, and now that the external enemies were at the forefront, it was undoubtedly a stupid thing to start a conflict of interests internally.
Zong Jiu also changed the topic at the right time.
He was indeed now more inclined to wish to resurrect all the dead.
Not only because of Xu Sen, but also because of No. 99 and No. 15 who bid farewell to Class 9 forever in the First High School instance.
The Magician said that no one from Squad Nine should be left behind, and everyone must be brought out of that instance.
But he broke his promise.
For the first time.
T/N: And we’re back alive with TLTN here on CG! I’ll be taking lead for most of the rest of the chapters for this series. I originally joined this TL project as a filler translator, but due to real-life reasons, the other 2 translators can no longer put too much attention to this series anymore. Thanks so much to Luckykoi, Silverneko, and the editing team for much of the previous chapters!
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