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Chapter 1497 - Chapter 1497 Chapter 458 Semester Assessment Trial_3

Chapter 1497: Chapter 458: Semester Assessment Trial_3 Chapter 1497: Chapter 458: Semester Assessment Trial_3 “`

In fact, those hundred thousand points had long been gone.

This was only possible because he used the tens of thousands of points left on Griff’s library card, which sustained him until now.

Several months had passed, and the points in his student card had dwindled to a mere few hundred.

And he estimated that, just to exchange for those classic books, without mentioning any other extraordinary materials, he would still have a massive gap of several hundred thousand points.

Therefore, Leonard Churchill felt that if possible, it was indeed necessary to acquire some during this trial.

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The entire Royal Academy was built at the foot of the Titan Mountains.

Leonard Churchill and his group of six followed the road paved with huge stones, walked nearly ten kilometers from the central library of the academy, and finally arrived at the back mountain.

Here stood a special building a hundred floors high.

It has a name that existed in myths–Sky-reaching Tower!

This was another place in the Royal Academy that aroused great curiosity in Leonard Churchill.

Because Griff had mentioned it before, this was the fragment of the Divine Artifact used to train students in the Taren Dynasty’s Royal Academy three thousand years ago.

Leonard Churchill had even seen it before.

That was the “Divine Ruins Treasure House” used by Noah Wright to annihilate the Crimson and Silver Moon sects.

The Sky-reaching Tower was another part of that Divine Artifact.

At first glance, the tall tower seemed like a structure, but in reality, it was capable of creating trial spaces, accommodating tens of thousands of trialists at one time.

The trial scenes within the tower were individual, magical worlds where trialists could adventure and complete tasks for rewards.

In other words, this was a “man-made Alternate Dimension”!

Moreover, it was an Alternate Dimension that could be controlled to a certain extent.

If one were to evaluate the value of the heritage of Airel Royal Academy, this tower alone would account for at least one-third.

Even many of the collections in the library were brought out by students from this very tower.

Having been in the academy for so long, Leonard Churchill was seeing the Sky-reaching Tower for the first time.

As he gazed upon the towering white tower, his eyes narrowed slightly; while he was awed by the majesty of the miracle before him, he mused, “A controllable Alternate Dimension, huh. I wonder what level of deity could have created such a Divine Artifact…”

To create an Alternate Dimension is akin to creating a new world.

Ordinary people can neither understand nor will they attempt to understand.

But Leonard Churchill was different; within the deduction of “I Am the World,” those logically consistent virtual worlds gave him a glimpse into the vague shadows of the transcendent and highest realm.

However, at the same time, another question came to his mind: “Strange, where does the energy for the Sky-reaching Tower come from…”

Every Mysterious Realm needs energy to sustain it.

Like the battle at Sinless City, Noah Wright was able to wield the Divine Ruins Treasure House, only by consuming the remnants left by Will Smith, the last priest of Talon from three thousand years ago.

Having used it once, now no one knows how it could be used again.

Yet now, Airel Royal Academy’s Sky-reaching Tower opens up to all students for trials every year.

The energy consumed over thousands of years is terrifying.

So, where does the tower’s energy source come from?

…

As teammates joked, Leonard Churchill timed his departure to the minute.

When he arrived, the newcomers of the first year had already assembled.

Before long, the vice chancellor responsible for the first-year academic program began to speak.

“Fellow students, the trial to test your learning outcomes is about to begin…”

“This year’s theme is ‘Ancient Civilization Exploration.’ The Alternate Dimension opened by the Sky-reaching Tower is also a space rich in treasures. I hope everyone will actively explore…”

“This time, the academy has still established generous rewards. The top hundred teams will receive a wealth of points, Relics, Martial Skills, Materials… rewards.”

“…”

Although Leonard Churchill was pondering other issues, he carefully listened to the vice chancellor’s trial rules.

In general, they were similar to what he knew.

Both the rules and rewards were much like the trials of previous years.

The trial was conducted in squads, then points were collected for final ranking.

Students could not only receive rewards from the Trial Space, but also obtain additional rewards from the academy based on their ranking.

Leonard Churchill roughly estimated that the academy’s rewards for the teams ranked in the top ten were worth more than one hundred thousand points.

Although their squad was strong, a lot of the time it came down to luck.

The Trial Space inside the Sky-reaching Tower was a man-made, controllable Alternate Dimension indeed.

But even the academy only had the authority to select the difficulty and dispatch observers.

They could not control the direction of the plot or hidden risks.

This was also why people died in the trials every year.

For noble students who had never ventured on adventures from a young age, this kind of trial was an exotic experience.

But for Leonard Churchill, who was used to exploring various wild Alternate Dimensions, there was nothing novel about it.

In his view, this was essentially a low-level Alternate Dimension with controlled risks.

As Leonard Churchill was thinking, he heard the vice chancellor had finished speaking.

A female voice reached his ears: “Students, prepare yourselves, we are about to enter the Trial Space. Remember to be careful and ensure your own safety…”

The speaker was a young and kind-looking woman with red hair.

This was Chiltern, a Fourth-Order Flame Dragon Lady, the squad’s teaching assistant mentor for Leonard Churchill’s team and the other fifty-something students.

If Leonard Churchill was not mistaken, her identity was not merely that of a teaching assistant. She was likely an investigator, specially arranged by the academy to conduct a subtle investigation into Sack’s assassination incident.

Over the past few months of contact, Leonard Churchill observed that Chiltern was making intentional and unintentional contact with their team, probing for certain clues under the guise of being a teaching assistant.

Her methods were clever, but apart from Leonard Churchill, no one else in the team knew what had happened.

Of course, her investigation yielded no results.

Since she posed no threat to him, he paid her no mind.

But for some reason, at this critical juncture of the trial, Leonard Churchill had a vague premonition.

He always felt that there was something more hidden beneath the surface of this woman’s intentions.

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