Dragon Maid, Thundering Ruins

The white light dissipated, revealing a three-meter-tall Dragonborn.

With emerald green pupils, white dragon scales, and an iron-like tail whipping behind it.

Although much smaller than a true dragon.

It was still much larger than a normal human!

It seemed the transformation was not entirely complete.

Seeing this, Lin Xuan quickly threw out a Transformation Pill.

Indeed, as Irena consumed the pill.

Her body changed once more.

Beginning to transform into a human form.

This process lasted for a full three hours.

Finally, under Lin Xuan's satisfied gaze.

Irena transformed into a beautiful woman with white hair, standing at one meter seventy centimeters tall.

Wearing a black and white maid outfit, with long legs encased in black stockings.

Only her eyes remained emerald green, exuding a unique charm.

"Master, is this acceptable?"

Lin Xuan looked at Irena's attire and nodded in satisfaction.

She looked a bit like Tohru, the dragon maid from an anime in his previous life.

However, his was only white-haired.

"Not bad."

"It's just that the garter stockings are a bit common; wear them only when we're alone from now on."

"In front of outsiders, pantyhose are better."

"Understood, Master." Irena nodded.

After more than three hours of transformation time.

It was already evening.

Inside the training hall, Lin Xuan let Irena adapt to her new body.

After training in physical fitness and skills, they returned to the villa.

The villa he lived in had three floors.

The first floor was a large living room, and the second and third floors were bedrooms.

Lin Xuan and his roommate Ling Fei lived on the third floor.

The new Bird Bro lived on the second floor, directly below Ling Fei.

Of course, his ability to live here was entirely due to his generosity.

Only the top scholar could reside here for free.

Others who wished to live here needed to spend academic credits.

According to Bird Bro.

The academic credits for one month of living here, when converted to gold coins, would amount to over a million.

If he hadn't made some academic credit fortune in the New Student Trial Secret Realm.

He wouldn't dare to live here.

"Should I also spend academic credits to rent another bedroom?"

Irena had already transformed.

Keeping her in the contract space was no longer suitable.

He currently had over ten million academic credits, which was definitely enough to spend.

As a master.

Lin Xuan naturally had to treat his subordinates well.

Of course, Silly Cow and Frost Giant didn't count.

Since Irena had become a maid, he naturally couldn't mistreat her.

Lin Xuan immediately operated the control panel in his room.

When he first enrolled.

He remembered an AI named Xiao Lan.

Lin Xuan woke it up.

Preparing to rent the bedroom below his.

A moment later, Lin Xuan gave up.

To live here.

One must at least be a student of Mingzhu University…

No choice.

Lin Xuan could only let Irena live with him.

"Irena, you'll stay with me tonight."

"Do you understand these technological products?"

"You can watch more before resting."

Lin Xuan pointed at the large screen in the center of the room, which had many applications.

Such as movies, novels, games, social media, and so on.

"Yes, Master." Irena respectfully bowed her head.

Lin Xuan smiled and then led her to a small room within the bedroom.

The villa's area was very large.

Although the second and third floors were called bedrooms, each room was over one hundred square meters.

The layout inside was complete.

It not only had a small living room but also a study, a kitchen, and a small guest room.

The guest room was also nearly twenty square meters, even with an independent bathroom.

"You'll live here from now on."

After settling Irena.

Lin Xuan left the room and went to the study to look up information.

He stayed up until late at night.

Only then did he return to the bedroom and fall into a deep sleep.

The next morning.

Lin Xuan led Irena directly to the Mingzhu University Dungeon Hall.

The overall layout here was similar to the Jiangcheng Dungeon Hall.

Only much smaller than Jiangcheng.

There was no central crystal in the middle of the hall.

Instead, there was a large crystal screen similar to an LCD television.

Various recruitment and quests constantly flashed on it.

At the edge of the hall, there were also spatial-temporal vortexes for entering dungeons.

In front of the vortexes, there was also a crystal ball, which allowed one to choose the difficulty before entering.

As far as Lin Xuan knew.

The reason the Jiangcheng Dungeon Hall had spatial-temporal vortexes.

Was due to the power of the central crystal.

But the outer academy was already located outside the main city of Jianghai City.

He wondered what method they used.

Today was Saturday, the first weekend for the new students.

There weren't many people here.

Most were busy familiarizing themselves with the campus environment.

Looking for any interesting clubs or guilds.

"As expected of one of the top ten universities in the country, there are actually three dungeons for levels forty to fifty."

Lin Xuan casually swept his gaze across the hall.

He found that there was more to it than that.

Here, for almost every ten-level range, there were two to three dungeons.

"According to the information I checked, Jianghai City has a total of ten dungeons from level forty to sixty."

"Mingzhu University actually occupies five of them."

"Let's clear the three level forty dungeons' records first."

Lin Xuan came before the crystal ball of the first dungeon.

[Dungeon: Thunderous Ruins]

[Level: 40]

[Team: (1/5)]

[Difficulty: Normal / Hard / Hell / Nightmare / World-Ending]

[Note: Challenging Normal difficulty consumes 200 academic credits, Hard 500, Hell…]

"Two hundred academic credits, I remember the manual said that killing one monster in a dungeon only rewards one academic credit."

"Are there two hundred monsters in Normal difficulty?"

Lin Xuan muttered in a low voice, not rushing into the dungeon.

Instead, he first established a team relationship with Irena, who was behind him.

Although his level was currently low.

But with Teacher Li Ming's National Server Medal providing five times experience.

And his own two experience-boosting Magic Cards.

Leveling up would definitely not be slow.

Of course, bringing Irena was not just for her to level up and increase her strength.

There was also another point.

Lin Xuan wanted to try something.

His contracted beasts possessed the companion attribute.

Now that Irena had joined the team.

The dungeon had already become 2/5.

Would the clear rewards also be issued according to two people?

Lin Xuan had asked Irena yesterday.

She didn't have an attribute panel.

So how would the dungeon treasure chest rewards be distributed?

With questions in his mind.

Lin Xuan entered the dungeon.

The map of Thunderous Ruins was very simple.

It was deep in a forest.

Everywhere were ruins composed of stones and wood.

Various Goblins roamed within.

The guardian BOSS was a white-skinned mutated Goblin that could use lightning magic.

Upon entering the dungeon.

Lin Xuan waved his staff, instantly summoning one hundred and twenty-eight Skeletons.

"I almost forgot, I'm someone with an Ancient Artifact."

Letting Irena command the Skeleton Soldierss in battle.

Lin Xuan followed leisurely from behind, taking out a palm-sized scythe weapon.

death scythe, an Ancient Artifact.

Above legend, is myth.

Myths also had different grades.

Lin Xuan didn't know this information before.

He only learned it when he obtained this scythe.

It turned out that myths were divided into Normal, Ancient, Primeval, and Primordial.

Although the drop rate for Normal mythical equipment was very low.

There were many professionals.

The number of monsters killed and dungeons cleared every day was also countless.

Naturally, it was still relatively common.

But Ancient was different.

That was extremely rare.

And almost every Ancient Artifact had a connection with history.

Furthermore, equipment at this level.

The simplest function was that it could freely change its form.

Lin Xuan's heart stirred.

The death scythe in his hand had already transformed into a length of one point two to one point three meters.

With another twist.

The scythe turned into a long spear.

"This function is quite devious."

Lin Xuan thought of the short staff his roommate Bird Bro carried.

The first time he saw him that night.

He demonstrated it.

That short staff could not only turn into a long spear but also nunchaku.

"That piece of equipment is probably also an Ancient Artifact."

"As expected, I still underestimated those wealthy families and clans."

"It seems I need to quickly improve my strength."

Just as Lin Xuan was deep in thought.

Not far away, Irena had already led the Skeleton Soldierss to the guardian BOSS.

The lightning-magic-wielding Goblin in Thunderous Ruins.

Was documented in the guides as a rather troublesome fellow.

However, as soon as Lin Xuan stepped forward.

He saw Irena in her human form, opening her mouth wide and spitting out a mouthful of dragon breath.

The next moment, the dungeon settlement sound rang out.

Lin Xuan rubbed his nose.

He was wondering if he should forge a weapon for Irena.

"I remember there was a Shadow Assassin in the New Student Trial Secret Realm who owed me a piece of equipment."

"And he also said he would introduce me to a blacksmith who could forge set configurations."

"It's time to collect the final payment."