Chapter 870 - 481: The Advantage Is Ours (Part 3)

"That’s awesome!"

"Good idea."

"Haha."

"Count me in next time!"

The crowd started chattering away, leaving Xue Dili exasperated.

These people seem utterly indifferent to their own lives, embracing a sort of ’living is fine, dying is no big deal’ attitude.

Who did they learn this from?

Or does the Void truly alter one’s mindset, causing them to gradually become indifferent to their own survival?

Xue Dili calculated that about one-tenth of the people were missing.

Though it wasn’t a lot, many were acquaintances of Xue Dili, and had even toyed with him before.

Xue Dili decided to find them something to do—ideally, something they could continue to enjoy even if he accidentally left.

At the very least, since Hassan entrusted these people to him, he couldn’t allow them to simply perish.

He already had a rough plan in mind.

"Everyone, the school we invested in previously now has a confirmed location, and we’re preparing to build a large Subspace Academy! The building is almost finished!" Xue Dili spoke as a projection appeared above the Masked Ball.

That was the Magic Academy building within his Consciousness Space, although it was designed by Old Green, Xue Dili had expanded it after so many iterations.

At least he wasn’t just swindling money; at the very least, he served the "shareholders" some wheat before painting a bigger picture.

"It’s tiny!"

"Did the lazy management slack off? Why is it so small?"

"It looks like it can’t accommodate ten thousand students, no way, we need to expand!"

"How much more money do we need? I’ll contribute! We can’t let others underestimate our academy!"

The group of fun-loving people started chattering, feeling it was too small, everything was too small.

Xue Dili: "..."

Your mouths are talking about a ten-thousand student academy; Old Green’s Magic Academy was just over a hundred people, and this original design was only meant for a thousand. You talk of a ten-thousand student academy...

Right now, Susu, that unfortunate kid, is the only one in the entire academy...

However, since they thought it was small, Xue Dili actually found a good excuse.

"We don’t need any more investments for now; the treasury is full enough. But, I’m lacking manpower here, so the main campus is temporarily set for a scale of ten thousand, but I’ve also designated locations for many branch campuses!" Xue Dili opened the map.

Currently, besides the original main area, his Consciousness Space includes a large region that absorbed the Seventh Apostle’s Subspace.

There are towns, cities, islands...

The vast space surrounds the main campus, with many areas where wandering Evil Ghosts and oddities haven’t been cleared by Xue Dili yet.

"So next, I can’t work alone; the remaining campus areas will be designed and built by you! You can unleash your imaginations and build it however you like, as long as you’re not afraid the future students will curse you to death." Xue Dili proposed.

The Masked Ball fell silent, interested in building the academy according to their visions, but also wondering if the lazy management was exploiting them?

Xue Dili knew these fun-loving folks wouldn’t stay calm and compliant here, so he introduced another measure.

"Secondly, now that we have the academy, we need to set various trials and dungeons for students across exams and evaluations, and these dungeons..."

Xue Dili revealed a mischievous smile: "will be entirely designed by you!"

"Have you thought about how to ’challenge’ the future students? Once you have, start creating! I can also provide 136 different oddities and 272 types of various Evil Ghosts to offer the future students a unique surprise!"

"Of course, I have only one requirement for the dungeons you design!" Xue Dili held up a finger and said, "To clear the dungeon you created yourself! Apart from this, complete freedom—you can design any prank-like dungeon you wish."

"You can even treat the future students like Apostles, as long as it’s not life-threatening, everything is free!"

"I declare that the first Magic Academy Student Dungeon Design Conference starts today!"

"The winner will have their dungeon become the entrance exam dungeon for Magic Academy students! Let everyone experience it once!"

At this moment, the fun-loving people beneath the masks flashed extremely perverted smiles.

Their self-designed dungeons could bring everyone Healing and make them smile...

And there are also a plethora of oddity and Evil Ghost materials ready to become NPCs in their dungeons...

Kekekeke!

Each person at the Masked Ball became instantly intrigued and began pondering how they should design their creations to give future students a fright to remember...no, to make them smile!

In the next moment, Xue Dili immediately opened the permissions of his Consciousness Space. Besides the main plane, which was the original Consciousness Space where the Divine Tree and Magic Academy are located, all areas swallowed from the Seventh Apostle are completely open!

The imagination of Seventh Apostle’s various dungeons was too low, and Xue Dili felt the need to find something for these people to do, at the very least, before the Divine War, so they wouldn’t lose their lives.

Ultimately, he actually didn’t need such a large space; during the Divine War, he would just cut away the area where the Divine Tree resides, taking it along, while the remaining regions would all serve as school areas.

After all, Xue Dili was preparing to treat them as long-term talent for the construction of the academy and the establishment of corresponding Subspace dungeons.

This was also an idea slowly formed by Xue Dili; the Magic Academy he was planning to establish wasn’t an "intimidated by trouble is mediocrity" type of ragtag school, but a place where theory and practice are genuinely combined.

Moreover, after swallowing the Seventh Apostle’s Subspace, the Seventh Apostle’s model of harvesting fear through dungeon settings provided Xue Dili with abundant inspiration.

Indeed, the Seventh Apostle’s seemingly infinite-stream-like model can be used for rightful purposes, such as...

Setting up student trial dungeons!

Small tests every three days, major exams every five days, plus monthly exams and mid-term and final exams...

Coupled with thousands of imaginative dungeon designs crafted by the fun-loving Masked Ball members, creating an infinitely large random trial mode will undoubtedly let future students feel the deep concern of their founding principal.

(Future students: Who’s the senseless designer? How could you be so selfish! Tsk!)

In an instant, the Masked Ball erupted with cheer; they became hungry for the task.