After the remaining participants disappeared from the event dimension, they arrived on the platform that materialized in front of the huge screen.
The big screen’s focus changed to the newbie students as the audience cheered loudly.
A woman with small vampire wings and a chubby figure with red eyes, vertical pupils, and wearing a black-red dress floated in front of the students as the camera focused on her, showing on the big screen.
“Congratulations, my dear students. I am the head of External Activities, Melissa Meron, and you all may address me as Miss Mel,” Melissa said with a smile. “Now, I will be providing you with the rewards you earned.”
“First off, we’ll start with the extras. The ones who survived but ranked past one hundred.” Melissa waved her hand as 32 students, with 31 of them being Almond’s Prana Batteries, automatically floated up and forward before gathering in a row in front of Melissa.
“Damn, we survived.”
“I wasn’t expecting to survive so long at first, haha.”
Melissa looked at them and smiled. “You all will receive a survival reward, which is a stay of 10 hours in the Vitalis Crucible Tower.”
“Shit!” Malin was dumbfounded, and his eyes shone. Not just him, but others were also ecstatic.
To enter just for an hour in Vitalis Crucible Tower, one needed 1000 Academy Points, and for newbies, that amount required a lot to gather.
But they just got a 10-hour pass!
“Use this chance wisely. How much you can improve in the tower is up to individual endurance and capabilities.” Melissa smiled and waved her hand. “Now, you may return to the academy. Simply press the blinking button on your wristband.”
The thirty-two students’ wristbands began blinking at a spot. Everyone pressed it and vanished.
“Now, the survivors who ranked from 51st to 100th.”
With a wave of Melissa’s hand, they came forward, carried by a force.
“Congratulations. All of you have earned 20 hours in Vitalis Crucible Tower, as well as a single entry in the Phantom Library.”
The newbies became excited, and the others beside Almond were also thrilled, but Almond didn’t know anything about the academy yet due to his solitary, confined study with Big D so far.
‘Vitalis Crucible Tower and Phantom Library, eh? Well, the names sound cool, so their benefits must be good.’
“You may return to the academy now by pressing the button. Next, the survivors from 11th rank to 50th rank.”
Melissa brought them forward into a row before waving her hand and providing everyone a slip of faintly shining paper with eccentric symbols.
She didn’t give anything previous time as all students who won automatically got the reward registered in their name, so they just had to go to the respective facility.
But this time, the winners of the 11th to 50th rank got something more.
“This paper is called Temporal Reset Slip. You can activate it periodically at your prime condition and make it so that the slip records it. If in the future, when you are in danger and are close to dying, the slip will activate and overlap your condition with the condition that this slip recorded, mainly your vitality so that you may live.”
“And this will only work while you are a Mortal. If you still have the slip after breaking through to High Mortal, you can come to me, and I will replace the slip with another one that will work for High Mortal lifeform rank.”
“In addition to this Temporal Reset Slip, you will get 30 hours in Vitalis Crucible Tower and one-time entry into the Phantom Library.”
*Beep*
Everyone’s wristband began bleeping as Melissa finished speaking about the reward.
“Now, you may return.” Your next read awaits at My Virtual Library Empire
Melissa turned to the remaining 10 people and smiled.
They floated forward and adjusted in a perfect row with the 1-meter distance between them by an irresistible force before stopping two meters across Melissa.
“Congratulations. You are the promising seeds, as evidenced by your performance in the event. But don’t get complacent, little ones, because nothing is certain in this world, certainly not the promise of the future.”
“I will do well remembering that, Miss Melissa,” Karven grinned.
Melissa chuckled and waved her hand as a slip manifested and went to everyone.
“This is a Temporal Reset Slip, which you know what is it after hearing my explanation about it.”
“There’s no Time elemental power in this slip even though it’s named Temporal Reset Slip, right?” the 3rd ranker, a dwarf girl with brown-maroon hair, asked.
“Indeed. I just named it that way,” Melissa chuckled. “Moving on. In addition to the slip, you all will get 41 hours or more in the Vitalis Crucible Tower. The 10th ranker will get 41 hours, with one hour increasing for each rank above it.”
‘So I’ll get 50 hours. Nice,’ Almond thought.
“Aside from that, all of you will get a single entry into the Phantom Library, but there’s more, of course.”
Melissa waved her hand as a mystic scroll unfurled in front of each of the top 10 survivors.
“This scroll has a list of chaotic dimensions. You will see their names changing and the list refreshing periodically. You will get sufficient details of the dimensions by focusing on a name. You may choose one chaotic dimension whenever you want.”
“Fuck,” Karven’s lips trembled as he grabbed the scroll. “We can enter a chaotic dimension…”
Almond, who was standing beside him, muttered, “Is this very valuable?”
Karven looked at Almond with a surprise-pikachu expression.
‘Big D told me about chaotic dimensions, but I don’t know if they are easy to access,’ Almond thought as he looked at the scroll.’
Zek, who was standing on the other side of Almond, chuckled and sent his voice into Almond’s head. ‘Brother Almond, chaotic dimensions have a specific set of powers and laws. If we go there and meditate to understand and perceive the powers there into order, we can increase our assets of all types based on how much we manage to comprehend.’
‘Yeah, I heard about them.’
“Now, there are more rewards for the top three winners,” Melissa said as she singled out Almond, Karven, and the dwarf girl Felima Elya by slowly moving the reset a meter behind and pulling the trio half a meter ahead.
“Felima, you will get 5000 Academy Points and a choice to pick an item from Treasure Pavilion.”
“Karven, you will get 7,000 Academy Points and two options: First, pick an item from Treasure Pavilion or another entry into the Phantom Library.”
“I’ll choose the Phantom Library,” Karven chuckled.
“Alright,” Melissa smiled and moved to Almond as a glint passed through her. “And now you, Almond Crowshade.”
“I’ve heard about you from the Dean. You have a lot to do, little one,” Melissa chuckled. “But you should start by using the rewards one by one, starting from the Vitalis Crucible Tower.”
“I will,” Almond smiled.
“And now, for your reward, you will get 10,000 Academy Points and an All-Facility Pass that will disappear once you use a facility of the academy. You can see the list of facilities and how you may use them by infusing Prana into the Pass.”
Everyone was envious as they heard about the All-Facility Pass.
“Congrats,” Karven grinned. “If you want to sell it, I’ll buy it later.”
“And you cannot sell this pass as nobody besides you can use it.” Melissa smiled and swept her eyes across the students. “Now, please return. I hereby announce the conclusion of the Academy’s Newbie Survival Event.”