25: Chapter 25 Freshman Challenge

Outside the dungeon.

After a night of restful sleep.

Chen Xi arrived at Stronghold Room 301 first.

The first thing he did was open the tactical computer in the stronghold room to check the battle team points leaderboard for first-year students.

A virtual light screen slowly unfolded before him.

When his gaze landed on the leaderboard, a satisfied smile couldn't help but appear on his face.

【12th Place: Nirvana Battle Team, Current battle team points: 1000】

With Lin Feng's timely assistance, combined with the ranking vacuum caused by the sudden dissolution of the Nightfall Team, as well as the points they gained from speed-running the Frost Dragons Lair yesterday.

After this series of events, the team, which had been established for less than a day,

leaped straight to 12th place in the entire grade!

"Not bad luck."

Chen Xi smiled slightly.

12th place.

Not too much, not too little, it was exactly the minimum threshold required to participate in the Freshman Challenge Tournament in three days.

Afterward, with a thought, Chen Xi opened his personal attribute panel.

After yesterday's continuous leveling up, he could clearly feel that his body had undergone another transformative change.

【Name: Chen Xi】

【Class: Miracle Card Maker (Unique Hidden)】

【Level: 15】

【Strength: 177】 (class core card bonus)

【Agility: 169】 (class core card bonus)

【Constitution: 172】 (class core card bonus)

【Spirit: 208】 (class core card bonus)

【Skills】

【Miracle Creation, Miracle Deduction, Card Affinity Reflection, Myriad Rivers Return to the Sea, Sovereign Judgment (Current limit for simultaneous card destruction: 0 / 2)】

"Not bad."

Chen Xi nodded with satisfaction.

Thanks to the deep link established with Li Murou, plus the base attribute increase brought by leveling up.

Now he could destroy two class core cards simultaneously!

As long as he could establish the same link with Su Xiaoxiao before this Freshman Challenge Tournament started.

Then, given Su Xiaoxiao's attribute panel.

He would most likely be able to raise this limit to "4"!

By then, he would be able to instantly destroy the class core cards of those four ingrates from the Shenfeng Battle Team simultaneously!

Just thinking about the comical scene where Lin Feng and the others were suddenly stripped of their power at the most critical moment.

A cold arc couldn't help but curl up on the corner of Chen Xi's mouth.

He excitedly opened the battle team store again and quickly browsed through it.

Hoping to find a suitable lightning-element material for Su Xiaoxiao.

However, it was a pity that the highest grade of lightning-element materials sold in the battle team store only reached A-grade.

"It seems that high-quality lightning-element materials still have to be obtained by grinding in dungeons myself."

Chen Xi sighed helplessly.

There were only 3 days left until the Freshman Challenge Tournament.

He had to clear another dungeon that dropped S-grade lightning-element materials within these 3 days.

And craft Su Xiaoxiao's exclusive class core card as well.

"Beep!"

Just then, the door to the stronghold room was swiped open from the outside.

Li Murou strode in with her cheerful long legs, bouncing in like a happy little bird.

"Good morning! Captain Chen!"

"Good morning."

Chen Xi responded with a smile.

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Chen Xi stated his plan for the day.

"In three days, it's the Freshman Challenge Tournament. We need to clear another dungeon before then to craft Xiao Xiao's class core card as well."

"Freshman Challenge Tournament? What is that?"

Chen Xi patiently explained:

"This is a very important team competition for us First-Year University Students in the first semester. Only the top ten teams on the battle team points leaderboard, plus two additional specially invited teams approved by the academy, are qualified to enter this competition."

"These twelve teams will enter a super-large dungeon together. The twelve teams need to earn competition points by hunting monsters inside the dungeon. The team with the highest points will become the champion of this Freshman Challenge Tournament!"

He paused, his eyes flashing with a sharp light:

"The rewards for this challenge tournament are extremely generous! More importantly, this is also a good opportunity to make a name for our Nirvana Battle Team and attract more powerful members to join!"

"I see…" Li Murou nodded.

A day ago, she was just an intern doing odd jobs in the office.

Who would have thought that a day later,

she had also become a strong contender for the Freshman Challenge Tournament champion.

Li Murou looked at Chen Xi gratefully, with burning fighting spirit in her eyes.

"Then let's set off immediately!"

"We have to wait a bit longer," Chen Xi said, pointing to the clock on the wall:

"Xiao Xiao hasn't arrived yet."

Hearing this, Li Murou frowned slightly.

She said with some concern:

"Xiao Xiao seemed to only say yesterday that she would try going to a dungeon with us to see… Could it be that she wasn't satisfied with our performance yesterday, and that's why she isn't coming today?"

"How is that possible?"

Chen Xi smiled confidently:

"Are you kidding? Yesterday we cleared the dungeon in just five hours and even broke the dungeon record! How many people are lining up and begging to get into a team like this? How could she possibly be dissatisfied?"

Although he said that, Chen Xi still subconsciously opened the team's information panel to confirm.

【Battle Team: Nirvana】

【battle team points: 1000】

【Current team members: 3 / 5】

Seeing that Su Xiaoxiao's avatar was still lit up in the team roster, Chen Xi finally let out a long sigh of relief.

It seemed she still approved of this team.

Then this was strange.

It was already almost 9:30.

As a former member of the Nightfall Team, Su Xiaoxiao should possess super strong discipline.

How could she be late for so long for no reason?

Fortunately, the three of them had also exchanged contact information yesterday.

Chen Xi thought for a moment, and still couldn't help but make a voice call to Su Xiaoxiao.

The phone rang several times before it was answered.

"Hello~"

On the other end of the phone came a familiar, yet somewhat weak and cold female voice.

It didn't sound like she had just woken up.

On the contrary, her tone carried a hint of undisguisable panic and helplessness.

"Xiao Xiao, it's me, Chen Xi. Where are you right now?"

Hearing Chen Xi's voice, Su Xiaoxiao on the other end of the phone seemed to have grasped at the last straw.

She replied with a distinct sobbing tone:

"Chen… Captain Chen… Save… Save me!"