Chapter 65
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Chapter 65: Battle Royale
[Frost Lock]: Releases a chain made of frost condensation, and the toughness of the ice lock is positively correlated with the ice elemental affinity of the caster.
Winnie looked at his palm, still cold from the lingering frost, and removed his ice crystal earrings.
Instantly, he conjured an spear tied to a blue tassel.
After testing, his ice elemental affinity was not low, far higher than that of an ordinary person.
The enchanted spear, generously gifted by the angel investor Crimson Demon Chieftain, was also of the ice element and would unleash extraordinary power in his hands.
The higher the affinity, the greater the power of the magic and the potential to master that type of elemental magic.
The same principle applied to enchanted items.
A fire-enchanted weapon wielded by someone with high fire affinity would perform exponentially better than in the hands of someone with average affinity.
Winnie casually twirled the spear in his hand a few times.
Its weight felt just right, as if it could adjust itself according to the user’s strength.
That Crimson Demon Chieftain had truly given him a treasure to exploit.
Carillian Academy allowed freshmen to carry two enchanted items for the entrance examination, including rings and weapons, filling exactly two slots.
With these two treasures, Winnie was confident he could barely make the cut.
However, he couldn’t afford to be careless.
The entrance examination at Carillian Academy attracted many geniuses from across the continent, including numerous heroines from the original story, a significant variable in the assessment.
The Heroines of Destiny were called such because they were inherently lucky.
While others might face accidents and dangers nine times out of ten, these heroines would encounter opportunities amidst their perils.
Since his rebirth, Winnie had never considered confronting the protagonist group.
With the world’s luck on their side, how could he possibly compete?
Because he couldn’t surpass them in luck, and if he confronted them, he would only forge a bond of “courting death.”
After all, a person could make countless mistakes, but he could only afford one.
Any self-aware passerby character would know what to do.
Fortunately, he hadn’t provoked many heroines so far… right?
Winnie fell silent.
Aesphyra’s relationship with him started at -99, but what about the other heroines?
In the original story, the Elven Queen was hostile toward him for some reason, and the Royal Princesses completely disregarded the marriage contract with him, though it was merely a verbal promise from their parents.
In short, these two heroines already held a negative impression of him, disliking him without even meeting him.
He could understand the Royal Princess’s disdain.
Arranged marriages were unpopular anywhere, especially when the family in question was of noble royal lineage, tracing back to the ancient Carillian Empire.
Winnie, on the other hand, was just a Varelis family untalented, expelled and scorned by the Church of Radiance.
The disparity in their statuses was vast. Expecting her to have a good impression of him was akin to a toad dreaming of eating swan meat.
But Winnie was completely baffled by the Elven Queen’s ill feelings toward him.
It’s not like they were sisters, they hadn’t even met, and their relationship was so distant that it couldn’t be connected by any stretch of the imagination.
So why was her favorability negative from the start?
Why did she harbor such animosity toward him specifically?
Did bad servants deserve to be bullied?
Winnie knew the world was full of malice toward him.
He had no rights in this world.
Perhaps one day, a certain heroine would lose her temper, and he’d die from some random AOE attack.
Because of this, improving himself was his top priority.
That’s why he had to find skills he could learn, no matter what.
There were only a few days left before the entrance examination began.
In a few days, all the candidates would board carriages heading to the secret assessment site.
The remaining time was meant for him to master Frost Lock, improve his physical fitness, and maximize his combat effectiveness.
Everything seemed to be in order, but there was one glaring problem: if he took the exclusive carriage provided by Carillian Academy, there was a chance he’d end up sharing it with a certain silver-haired troublemaker.
The bad news was that Mirexia, a second-year student at Carillian Academy, wouldn’t be participating in this freshman assessment.
This meant Aesphyra would be even more reckless in her actions. While she wouldn’t do anything in public, how could he put it…
Just the thought of sharing the same carriage with protagonist, breathing the same air, made Winnie feel like he was drowning.
Sitting in the same space as the original protagonist of the world, who had a murderous vendetta against him, do you know how much pressure that would put on him?
The suffocating tension alone might kill him.
However, this was just like encountering Aesphyra in the Dungeon, a low-probability event. How could it be such a coincidence?
Surely, he wouldn’t be unlucky enough to encounter all these “good things,” right?
Winnie recalled the specific rules of the Carillian Academy’s dungeon assessment from the original game.
After the written cultural test, there was the Dungeon assessment, which carried the highest weight in the total score.
Many players in his past life had jokingly called it the Carillian Battle Royale.
The cultural test had a very small impact on the overall score, essentially serving as an optional bonus.
After all, many civilian geniuses hadn’t received much formal education before this.
To avoid filtering out these talented individuals, Carillian Academy had deliberately set the cultural test score to be insignificant.
In a way, the cultural test was a privilege for the nobles, but this privilege didn’t benefit Winnie at all.
Original Winnie was a slacker who hated studying.
He, like most civilians, could only rely on the dungeon assessment to earn points.
As for the rules of the dungeon assessment, all candidates would enter a specially designated dungeon for the event.
They were allowed to bring two of their own enchanted items, and the mechanics of this rule were eerily reminiscent of a no-holds-barred battle royale.
In the dungeon, candidates can earn points by killing monsters.
Of course, if they feel that hunting monsters is too slow, they can also eliminate other candidates and take their points.
The scores of the eliminated candidates will be reset to zero, and they will be teleported out of the dungeon, forcing them to wait until the next year to try again.
The assessment lasts for three days.
During this time, the accessible area of the dungeon will rapidly shrink, eventually leaving only a few key regions for the final showdown.
Every year, the number of new students admitted to Carillian Academy does not exceed 500.
This number is strictly capped, never exceeding it.
If, in any given year, there are too many candidates remaining in the final stages, resulting in the number exceeding 500, the excess will be eliminated based on their score rankings, ensuring that only 500 students are admitted.
