Chapter 343: Exchange It All
Corovina had been very busy these past few days.
As the administrator of the martial arts database of the Star Cloud Academy’s Martial Arts Branch, her work was originally only responsible for the maintenance and management of the database. She should be the most relaxed person in the Martial Arts Branch.
This was also one of the reasons why she chose this job. Although the salary was slightly lower, because it was easy, it could allow her to obtain a large amount of free time and do some things she liked more after work.
However, this relaxed and leisurely feeling instantly disappeared after the academy announced the reforms.
According to the new system reformed by the academy, any student could rely on their points to exchange for their corresponding martial techniques in the martial arts database, unlike in the past where the academy had to arrange it according to the students’ situation.
In the past, as the administrator of the database, she only needed to pull out the corresponding martial technique information according to the application proposed by the academy’s teacher. She only needed to enter a martial technique name number and the mainframe A.I. of the remaining database would help her settle it. Naturally, it was easy.
Now, she needed to directly face the students’ request to exchange for martial techniques.
Not only did she need to give the martial technique information requested by the students, but she also needed to inquire if this student’s points were enough and his level had reached the requirements. The time needed to complete any application was more than twice as long as before.
Most importantly, in the past, it was the teachers of the academy who submitted the application, but now, it was the students who submitted the application themselves. This number was naturally far inferior. Now, the number of applications she had to deal with every day was more than several times greater than before.
On the first day of the system reform, she was so busy that she did not have any free time at all. She almost could not even eat.
…
Fortunately, the first few busy days had already passed. Now that she had gradually adapted, she felt slightly better.
However, even so, she was still very busy.
Early this morning, as soon as the information library reached work time, she immediately received a total of 37 applications, causing her to spend nearly half an hour before finally completing them.
Just as she heaved a sigh of relief and planned to take a break, a long application list suddenly appeared on the virtual screen in front of her.
“What the heck…” Corovina cursed softly. Her gaze landed on the application list and she was stunned.
There were as many as 73 martial technique projects on this list that were applied for. Almost all the martial technique categories were involved, and it looked extremely comprehensive.
However… this application actually came from the same student!
“Is this guy crazy?” Corovina looked at the list in surprise.
Although after opening the martial arts database, many students would choose to apply for more than one martial technique at a time, the most they had applied for so far was only four.
This guy actually applied for 73 in a row! What did he want?
The key was that the system reform had only been implemented for a few days. Could his points be enough to exchange for so many?
Corovina gave an order to the mainframe A.I., and quickly calculated the points needed for these 73 martial techniques. Then, she was stunned.
The points needed to exchange for these 73 martial techniques added up to exactly 1,000 points!
The basic points of every student were 1,000 points. The system had only been reformed for a few days, so there was basically no major change in that student’s points. In other words, this student had used up all his points in a row!
“Could this guy… have already calculated it?”
Corovina was stunned for a moment and could not help but look at the name behind the application list.
Chu Nan.
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“Hey, Chu Nan, are you crazy?” Mondeo widened his eyes and looked at the long list of martial arts exchanges that quickly fell like a waterfall on the virtual screen of Chu Nan’s personal terminal. He shouted in surprise, “Why are you exchanging for so many F-rank martial techniques at one go?”
Hearing Mondeo’s shout, the other two people in the dormitory leaned over in surprise. They looked at the list that was still falling on the virtual screen with equally surprised expressions.
“Chu Nan, what are you doing?” Saar asked in confusion, “With your level, what’s the use of these F-rank martial techniques to you? You’re completely wasting points.”
Tanaka Iyoko looked at the name of the martial technique on the list seriously for a while before asking in confusion, “Chu Nan-kun, these martial techniques seem to be of every type. It seems that you don’t plan to specially exchange for a certain type. Why did you do this?”
“That’s right. You spent a lot of points like this, right? We new students have few points to begin with. It’s a pity for you to waste them like this,” Mondeo said with a heartache.
Chu Nan went through the list of martial techniques that he had exchanged for and memorized them. Then, he closed his personal terminal and looked up at the three of them with a smile.
“It’s nothing. I just want to see if the academy’s martial arts database is sufficiently perfect. This way, if I want to exchange for a certain martial technique in the future, I can find the corresponding martial technique.”
The other three shook their heads.
“Stop talking nonsense. If you only want to understand this, you can just check in the database.” Saar bluntly exposed Chu Nan’s lie, “You can’t be an impulsive person. Tell me, why did you do this?”
Being stared at by the three of them, Chu Nan could only sigh helplessly.
“You only remember the rule of using your points to exchange for martial techniques from the database, but have you forgotten the other corresponding rule?”
The three of them were stunned. Then, Tanaka Iyoko rolled his eyes and his expression changed. He asked in surprise, “Are you talking about using martial techniques to exchange for points? But what does this have to do with you exchanging for so many F-rank martial techniques?”
“Tanaka, it’s not bad that you remember this rule, but you forgot that there’s another explanation below this rule.” Chu Nan revealed a rather mysterious smile.
“What is it?”
“After we students exchange for martial techniques from the database, as long as we can cultivate this martial technique to a higher level and submit it to the database to be recorded, we can obtain the corresponding points reward according to the specific situation. If we cultivate it strong enough and make up for the amount we spent back then, we can earn a lot of points.”
The three of them looked at each other.
After a while, Mondeo suddenly stretched out his hand and touched Chu Nan’s forehead.
“You don’t have a fever… Chu Nan, is there something wrong with you? Although what you said is theoretically correct, you’ve forgotten a very important problem. It takes a lot of time to cultivate these martial techniques. Do you have so much time to waste on such low-level martial techniques?”
“That’s right. Although these are all extremely low-level and simple F-rank martial techniques, it’s not that easy to cultivate any of them. As for cultivating them to a higher level than the database, it’s even more difficult. I’m afraid any one of them will take a lot of time to achieve. I feel that the gains won’t make up for the losses,” Saar said.
“Chu Nan-kun, I noticed that you’ve also exchanged for many Internal Breath martial techniques. If you really have this intention, shouldn’t you only exchange for external martial techniques that are easier to successfully cultivate quickly?” Tanaka Iyoko’s words were much more tactful than the other two, but he also expressed his objections.
Mondeo slapped Chu Nan’s shoulder and asked in a deep voice, “Hey, Chu Nan, you exchanged so much. How many points did you spend?”
Chu Nan smiled and stretched out a finger.
“No more, no less. It’s exactly 1,000 points.”
“Damn!”
This time, even Tanaka Iyoko could not help but curse.