168: The First Bliss: A Harem of Three Thousand, the Overlord General

Instructor Wen Muxue tossed the [infinite simulation cube] in her hand, the impatience on her face completely vanishing.

She casually rolled up her sleeves, revealing a section of her mutton-fat jade-white forearm.

Humming an unknown exotic tune, she turned and prepared to walk out of the teaching building.

Before she could take even two steps, three figures appeared out of thin air around the podium, stopping her in her tracks.

The elderly man on the left wore a loose robe and had a thin, gaunt face.

The middle-aged beautiful woman on the right wore a purple dress, with the faint cry of a Phoenix echoing around her.

Standing directly in front of her was the director of the academy's Logistics and Disciplinary Department, a burly man with a face as dark as still water.

These were senior elders of Starry Sky University.

Their cultivation bases had long reached the limit of a True God, only a single step away from the realm of a Main God.

At this moment, the eyes of the three elders looking at Instructor Wen Muxue held little affection for a junior, but were filled entirely with an indescribable helplessness.

"Instructor Wen Muxue, oh Instructor Wen Muxue," the iron-faced burly man spoke first. "Today is only the second class half a month after the new semester started. Does the total time you've spent in the classroom even add up to thirty minutes?"

"Eighteen minutes," the loose-robed elder next to him reported a number and sighed.

"On the first day of school, you lectured for less than ten minutes. Today, you came in, slammed the desk, cursed a couple of times, and threw everyone into the simulation cube."

"You're far too leisurely as a homeroom teacher."

Instructor Wen Muxue stopped, stuffed the Rubik's cube into her pocket, spread her hands, and responded righteously, "Hey, hey, hey, you three old fogeys, speak with a conscience.

"Everything I am doing right now is strictly within the scope of the syllabus prescribed by the academy.

"Practical combat drills, survival of the fittest—this is called immersive teaching.

"Besides, I am doing this to avenge Chen Lie and pay tribute to his soul in heaven. Do you not understand what colleague camaraderie is?"

The three sneered in their hearts at the same time.

Colleague camaraderie?

If this girl knew how to write those words, the monsters on the Abyss Defense Line would have gone vegetarian.

When Chen Lie was alive, he was chased and slashed by her more than a few times over looted spoils.

The purple-dressed beautiful woman took a step forward and warned in a serious tone, "Don't play dumb with us.

"We don't care if you throw them into the [infinite simulation cube], but you'd better show some restraint and not let them suffer too many casualties inside.

"Although the rules of Starry Sky University are brutal and the casualty rate is high, our bottom line is that students can die in the Abyssal Rifts or on foreign racial planes.

"But they absolutely cannot die in the internal strife of the Human Race, much less inside a school of the Human Race!"

"In this batch of High-Risk Class 3, several of those kids are excellent prospects.

"That Lin Yuan from Tianhai Province, and Yan Lie from the Blazing Sun Great Region, are both seeds that can be nurtured into future Gods of War.

"If you set the parameters in your cube too extreme and damage their Origin Divine Fire, the three of us will hold you solely responsible!"

The iron-faced burly man added sternly.

The main purpose of the three elders was to beat down this lawless girl.

To make her restrain her Heart-Nature a bit and focus more of her energy on teaching and Legacy.

Looking at the indifferent woman before them, they cursed silently in their hearts once again.

The Heavens really had no eyes, giving her such a vile, irascible, and utterly irresponsible character.

Yet, she was blessed with a Heaven-Defying Aptitude that could shock heaven and earth.

At less than three hundred years old, she had already touched the threshold of the Main God Rank.

In the tens of thousands of years of the entire Federation Academy's history, not even ten such Prodigies could be found.

Can you even imagine?

Instructor Wen Muxue impatiently picked her ear and waved her hand perfunctorily:

"I know, I know. You three are more repetitive than the repeating birds in the Abyss.

"People dying in the cube won't damage their real-world Origin. At most, it'll shake their spiritual Sea of Consciousness a bit, which can be considered a wake-up call for them.

"Instead of wasting time lecturing me, you'd better go to the Logistics Department and prepare more healing potions.

"I'm off. The broodmother is still waiting for me to gut it."

As her voice fell, the space beneath her feet cracked open like ripples on water.

She stepped into the Void Realm and vanished without a trace.

The three elders stood in the empty classroom, looking at each other, and could only let out a long sigh in the end.

If only this girl could be a bit more sensible and well-behaved.

The higher-ups of Starry Sky University would probably wake up laughing in their dreams.

...

As his consciousness pulled away from Chaos, Lin Yuan opened his eyes.

What met his eyes was an extremely luxurious palace.

Eighteen giant copper pillars, each as thick as two men embracing, supported the grand hall, their surfaces carved with bloody totems of beasts tearing at each other.

The air was filled with the smell of strong alcohol, mixed with a faint scent of makeup.

Lin Yuan looked down and found himself sitting on a throne draped with a complete tiger skin.

His casual home clothes had vanished, replaced by a set of blood-dark full-body heavy armor.

A grim, cold light flowed across the surface of the armor, and the shoulder guards were styled in an exaggerated fashion, resembling two hideous demon heads.

He moved his right hand, which was gripping a blood-colored greatsword over two meters long.

The blade was as wide as a door panel, its edges lined with jagged barbs.

"This homeroom teacher really knows how to have fun, putting the whole class into an immersive role-play right off the bat," Lin Yuan complained in his heart.

He was in no hurry to stand up. First, he closed his eyes and channeled his spiritual Sea of Consciousness.

The divine fire within him was still burning fiercely, and his Divine Power was abundant.

However, when he tried to communicate with his Wasteland Divine Domain located deep in the boundless astral realm—

—intending to tear open a divine domain portal to summon his subordinates, a powerful resistance from the rules echoed from the Void Realm.

The divine domain portal was locked tight.

Lin Yuan opened his eyes, a trace of doubt flashing in his gaze.

He couldn't directly summon his subordinates?

Could it be that Instructor Wen Muxue intended for them, twenty-eight deities accustomed to standing behind the scenes commanding thousands of troops,

to take up cold weapons and personally enter the fray, fighting it out like Mortal martial artists?

As he was pondering, the Void Realm rippled, and several lines of golden text were projected before his eyes.

[Welcome to the infinite simulation cube: Lord Hegemony Mode]

[Current Participants: 28]

[Rule 1: Within this space, all participants' divine domain portals are temporarily sealed. Subordinates cannot be summoned through conventional means.]

[Rule 2: Participants must occupy specific buildings within cities, Subordinate Altars, and consume resources to summon subordinates. The summon limit and the upper limit of subordinate strength are strictly restricted by the participant's current identity Rank.]

[Rule 3: Identity Rank settings.]

[Highest Tier: King. Controls the core royal city, possesses the highest resource allocation authority and unlimited summoning rights. (Currently vacant, must be contested for)]

[Second Tier: General. Rules over a major city, possesses abundant initial resources, can summon high-tier subordinates with a very high quantity limit.]

[Third Tier: Merchant/Gentry. Occupies mid-sized towns, possesses moderate initial resources, can acquire combat power through trade or hiring, with a moderate summon limit.]

[Fourth Tier: Commoner/Bandit/Soldier. Starts with no fixed territory, scarce resources, and an extremely low summon limit. Must raise tier through plundering, aligning with others, or completing specific tasks.]

[Tip: Death within this space will result in a heavy deduction of academic credits and forced exit. The last survivor or the one who successfully crowns themselves 'King' will be the final victor.]

The golden text remained for ten seconds before dispersing into points of light.

Lin Yuan leaned back on his tiger-skin throne, his eyes flashing as he analyzed the core logic of these rules with absolute clarity.

This was a standard sandbox hegemony game of hoarding troops and farming in the Early Stage, forming alliances in the Late Stage...

...and ultimately waging war in all directions to defeat everyone in the class.

"I am first place on the freshman integration leaderboard, with 26,500 points."

"According to the rules, the first place naturally gets the highest-tier identity other than the King." Lin Yuan lightly tapped the hilt of his blood-colored greatsword.

In this sandbox, the identity of a General was absolutely a top-tier existence in the Early Stage of the game.

They occupied the largest city and could bind the most summoning buildings at the start.

They might even be able to summon core subordinate combat forces of the Platinum Rank or even Diamond Tier right from the beginning.

But Lin Yuan was not happy at all; instead, he sensed danger.

A tall tree catches the wind.

Of the twenty-eight people in the class, none of those who could enter Starry Sky University's High-Risk Class 3 were brainless fools.

People like Bai Ye, Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao, and Cheng E would recognize the situation the moment they entered the cube.

They knew very well that if Lin Yuan, who had over twenty thousand points and started as a "General," was allowed to smoothly pass the Early Stage of development...

...once his divine domain subordinates poured out of the buildings in scale, no one in the entire sandbox would be able to stop his iron hooves.

Therefore, there was only one optimal solution—alliance.

"Having too obvious an advantage has actually become my biggest disadvantage." Lin Yuan lifted his two-meter-long greatsword and stood up from the throne.

"I can't just sit and wait for death. I must occupy the summoning array in the city first and summon the first batch of subordinates as quickly as possible."

He took a step, just about to walk down the hall steps to inspect the map layout of this General's Mansion.

Suddenly, the copper-clad doors were pushed open from the outside.

Accompanied by a rich fragrance like orchids and musk, a large crowd of gracefully shaped women swarmed into the hall from outside, chattering like warbling orioles and swallows.

There were easily twenty to thirty women in this group. Every single one of them was an absolute beauty of the Mortal world, coming in a wide variety of types and exotic charms.

The few walking at the very front had fluffy white fox ears growing on their heads. Their steps were light, and their bare little feet pressed silently against the floor in silent temptation.

They wore only a layer of pink gauze as thin as a cicada's wing, with their enticing bodies faintly visible beneath.

With every movement, the golden bells worn around their waists let out a crisp ringing sound.

The group of women on the left possessed typical succubus bloodlines.

They had dark purple hair, eyes like spring water, and a pair of small fleshy wings on their backs, dressed very revealingly.

The upper body had only two pieces of black velvet barely covering their vital parts, revealing a large expanse of snowy white and deep cleavage, while the slits of their battle skirts went straight up to their waists.

The few on the right were even more gentle as water, resembling well-bred young ladies from an ancient Jiangnan water town, faces like peach blossoms and eyes filled with lingering affection.

As they walked up to Lin Yuan, their legs actually went weak.

Stirring up a gust of fragrant wind, they fell delicately and directly against his iron armor.

"General~ You've slept for three days and three nights. You're finally awake."

"General, let this servant remove this heavy armor for you. The iron is cold; we wouldn't want it to hurt the General's skin~"

"General, please drink this cup of deer blood bone-rendering wine. Tonight, in the thirty-six chambers of the harem, the sisters are all looking forward to the General's favor~"

"General! Look at me! I have the best flexibility!"

"General, pamper me first!"

As they spoke, this group of beautiful sirens actually began to move their hands.

The fox-eared girl reached out her fair, tender hand to unfasten the wide belt around Lin Yuan's waist.

The succubus beauty held a jade cup, pressing her entire body against the back of the blood-colored greatsword, blowing a breath of aphrodisiac fragrance toward Lin Yuan's face.

Several of the gentle women reached out to pull at Lin Yuan's shoulder guards, trying to strip off this majestic General's armor right then and there.

His eyes were filled with dazzling white flesh, and his ears were filled with bone-melting, coquettish panting.

Had it been any other hot-blooded young demigod,

confronted with this triple-sensory suggestive onslaught of sight, smell, and touch,

they would likely have had their blood rushing instantly, drowning in this gentle paradise and unable to free themselves.

Lin Yuan, however, felt that something was wrong, the veins on his forehead throbbing.

"What on earth? This was a hot-blooded sandbox hegemony game, not a wild high-society orgy."

He didn't sense any Killing Intent in the movements of these women.

They weren't assassins; they were probably native NPCs spawned by this sandbox space.

"Everyone, stay one meter away from me. Back off, back off, back off." Lin Yuan waved his hand, driving them back to a distance of one meter in front of him.

Taking advantage of the moment they backed away, he quickly pulled up his personal panel and focused on the identity title column at the very top.

Just a second ago, he had felt that the identity of "General" was incredibly majestic.

The next second, after clearly seeing the full string of prefixes, Lin Yuan almost coughed up blood.

[Current Identity: Nine Underworlds Blood Butcher · Elysium Indulgence · Overlord General of Three Thousand Harem Beauties]

[Identity Effect: Automatically refreshes and attracts beautiful concubines of different races to enter the mansion daily. In harem scenes, self-blood/vitality recovery speed is increased by 300%, but Sanity is decreased by 50%.]

[Warning: Killing harem members will lead to low morale among your subordinates and a decrease in combat power!]