“My dear Student Kiana.”
“If you keep sleeping during self-study, I’m going to limit your gaming time tonight.”
“Oh.”
“Actually, that only treats the symptoms.”
“How about this?”
“I’ll cooperate with Bronya.”
“No matter what game you play, we’ll both make smurf accounts and stream-snipe you.”
“You’ll have absolutely zero gaming experience.”
“How does that sound?”
Standing beside Kiana’s desk, Xia Ling vigorously stroked the white-haired ball currently sleeping face-down on the table.
“Waaah!”
“Big Sister Xia Ling, are you a demon?!”
“You have to be a demon!”
Kiana’s head was being mercilessly ravaged, yet she did not dare resist.
She could only lie on the desk and howl.
“I’m awake!”
“I’m awake already!”
“Big Sister Xia Ling, please don’t destroy my gaming experience!”
“Hmph.”
“At your skill level, even if nobody stream-snipes you, you barely have any gaming experience.”
Xia Ling finally removed her hand from Kiana’s soft white hair.
She tapped the desk.
“Get up and read something.”
“School’s almost over and you’re still sleeping.”
“Y-Yes…”
Kiana miserably pulled out a book and started studying.
Xia Ling nodded in satisfaction and slowly returned to the podium.
Without realizing it—
Four days had already passed since Xia Ling began working as a teaching assistant.
St.
Freya’s teachers were remarkably reliable.
During those four days, not a single teacher had asked Xia Ling to substitute because of emergencies or other issues.
Thus, Xia Ling only appeared in the classroom during afternoon self-study and occasional lunch breaks.
Despite her low appearance frequency—
She had left an extremely deep impression on the class.
Aside from relentlessly supervising Kiana every day—
Xia Ling’s complete lack of directional sense had also been thoroughly exposed.
The first and greatest victim was their honest class monitor—
Fu Hua.
Over the course of four days, Fu Hua gave Xia Ling directions to the office five times.
Three of those times, she had to personally escort Xia Ling there.
The other students had also experienced Xia Ling randomly spawning somewhere on campus and asking for directions.
Eventually—
Bronya could no longer endure watching this tragedy.
At the risk of violating academy rules, she secretly modified the navigation function on Xia Ling’s teacher terminal.
Only then did the phenomenon somewhat subside.
As for Teacher Xia Ling’s dignity?
Probably gone forever.
Sad.
However—
Today was something Xia Ling had been looking forward to for a long time.
Once midnight arrived—
Meaning Xia Ling could enter again tonight.
But the Trial alone was not enough to explain her excitement.
What truly motivated Xia Ling was the compensation she had received after the System completed its upgrade three days earlier.
Aside from the six Originium Ingots inside the starter package—
Her System mailbox contained a lengthy apology letter.
And a compensation package.
Inside that package was something that made Xia Ling’s eyes shine.
[Top Operator Special Training Invitation]
[Select one acquired character card and immediately promote it to Elite 2.]
Xia Ling was very familiar with this item.
In her previous life, it appeared reasonably often in Arknights paid packages.
But for the current Xia Ling—
It was incredibly precious.
Elite 1 had already transformed an ordinary human like Xia Ling into someone capable of fighting a B-rank Valkyrie.
She could hardly imagine how strong an Elite 2 6-Star would become.
Surely they could at least wrestle with Major Himeko.
That would give Xia Ling enough capital to participate in early-story conflicts.
And now—
She only needed five more Originium Ingots to purchase the shop’s half-price 6-Star permit.
After asking the System, Xia Ling learned that clearing Floor Three would grant total rewards of—
6 Originium Ingots.
2 Hope.
And one random Collectible.
Wasn’t that perfect?
Exactly enough.
So Xia Ling was brimming with confidence.
Tonight—
She intended to personally challenge Floor Three’s mini-boss.
Time quickly reached night.
Under Kiana’s confused stare, Xia Ling logged out of their game early.
Claiming she had stayed up too late the previous night and felt exhausted, she returned to her room ahead of schedule.
Although “ahead of schedule” meant it was already nearly midnight.
She took a shower.
Returned to her room.
Then, exactly as promised, got into bed early and closed her eyes.
“System!”
“Hurry!”
“I can’t wait anymore!”
“Serve me the new Trial already!”
The instant Xia Ling entered System Space, she impatiently called out.
[I know, I know.]
[Host, if you’re this eager, be careful you don’t get spawn-camped by an Emergency Operation.]
“What’s there to fear?”
“I’ll kill, kill, kill!”
“Worst case, I restart!”
Xia Ling planted both hands on her hips.
Extremely confident.
[Please maintain that confidence when a whole group is chasing you later.]
The System complained once and began the Trial.
[Please select difficulty.]
[Braving Nature -1 selected. Enemy difficulty +0. Cipher modifier chance 0%. Standard environment.]
[Cultural Comparison bonus level: 43.]
[Please select Squad.]
“Logistics Squad.”
The Logistics opening had become Xia Ling’s preferred strategy after Elite 1.
After her promotion, she could personally fight through most ordinary combat nodes.
Emergency Operations were also survivable because she could simply run away.
Thus, her original method of stacking three Cipher Plates to avoid combat was no longer particularly suitable.
And because Xia Ling still possessed no other character cards, most Tactical Squads were useless.
That left—
Logistics Squad.
She could gamble for useful Collectibles on Floor One.
If nothing useful appeared, she could simply deposit the money.
With the investment system no longer malfunctioning, Xia Ling’s savings efficiency was excellent.
[Please select Recruitment Set.]
“Do As You Please.”
Because of Crescent Rose’s unusual design, the System classified Xia Ling as potentially Guard, Sniper, or Specialist.
Thus, most of the time she chose Do As You Please.
If all three permits somehow missed those classes—
She could simply restart.
Three permits gradually appeared before her.
Advanced Defender.
Guard.
Medic.
Xia Ling casually opened the Guard permit and recruited herself.
She was about to continue—
When the System suddenly stopped her.
[Wait, Host.]
[Don’t continue yet.]
[Look.]
[Isn’t Support Recruitment on your permits lit up now?]
“!”
Xia Ling hurriedly opened the Advanced Defender permit.
Sure enough—
In the upper-right corner, the previously greyed-out Support Recruitment button had turned orange.
[Host has now formed bonds in reality.]
[Anyone who genuinely regards you as a friend can appear in Support Recruitment.]
“Whoa.”
“Is this the legendary Genuine Friendship Detector?”
Xia Ling became eager.
“System…”
“What if I open it and there’s literally nobody?”
“That would be unbelievably awkward.”
[Have a little confidence in yourself, Host.]
[Whether your suspicion is correct or not…]
[Just open it and see.]
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