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Ze Xia yawned, tossed the finished novel aside, and sat up from the bed with a stretch.

“Hungry.”

Putting on her fluffy slippers, she shuffled to the kitchen and opened a cabinet.

“Not here.”

She closed the cabinet door, frowning slightly.

After moving to the new house, even the kitchen was much bigger, making it difficult to quickly find what she wanted.

“Vienia! Where's the leftover cream-filled shortbread from last time?”

She continued rummaging through a cabinet while asking.

A paper bag filled with cream-filled shortbread floated towards her.

“Oh, thanks.”

She took it and turned around, but saw that it wasn't Vienia behind her.

Instead, it was a beautiful creature with a unicorn horn.

Ze Xia's expression faltered slightly: “Aren't you that…”

“Mengjias,” the creature said softly.

The kingdom's sacred beast, Mengjias, was now here, standing on the kitchen floor, standing in front of her.

“Ze Xia, long time no see. It's been three hundred years since we last met after you ascended the throne.”

Ze Xia stared at it for a moment, then tore open the bag of cream-filled shortbread, threw one into her mouth, and started chewing.

“So why are you here?”

“The human you know, Yalo, is taking the academy's assessment today. I saw the current situation between you and Elga from the fragments of his soul,” Mengjias said.

“Seeing that you were near the royal capital, I thought I should come and visit you.”

It paused, then continued, “I never thought that the once invincible Silver Moon Dragon could so naturally integrate into human life.”

Ze Xia coughed slightly in embarrassment: “This king… this king was the Dragon King for over two hundred years, and after being tired for so long, what's wrong with relaxing a little?”

“Is it worth giving up your dragon form? Human life must be very exciting, right?” Mengjias said.

Ze Xia choked slightly, then waved her hand impatiently:

“Alright, alright, hurry up and tell me, what do you want from this king?”

Although she had only met Mengjias once, she knew that this sacred beast of the kingdom would not easily come to her unless there was a real matter, and would not use a casual reason like "visiting."

“Very well.” Mengjias then said: “I need your help.”

Ze Xia raised her eyebrows at it: “Help? A sacred beast who can glimpse the truth still needs someone else's help?”

“It's precisely because I can only see it, and my power cannot change it, that I need you to stand on my side,” Mengjias said sincerely.

“Alright,” Ze Xia interrupted it, waving her hand: “If you're here to say this, then you'll be disappointed, because this king has no interest in human affairs.”

“What if it's about him?” Mengjias said.

“Huh?” Ze Xia frowned, looking at the other party.

“You are very attached to that human now, aren't you?” Mengjias said calmly.

Ze Xia snorted: “So what? You want to use him to threaten this king?”

She didn't refute the sacred beast's words, because she knew that there were no secrets in front of the sacred beast.

“No, I just want to propose a suggestion that you might find interesting,” Mengjias said.

“What?” Ze Xia asked curiously.

Mengjias paused for two seconds before saying:

“Go to Horog College as a teacher, his teacher, what do you think?”

When Serena came out of the simulated environment, it was already dusk. The picture frames on the stage had been removed, most of them belonging to students who had been eliminated early on.

The simulated environment used illusionary time, and at least ten hours had passed inside, while only five hours had passed in reality.

“So tired…”

She slumped directly onto the ground, covering her forehead, feeling deeply exhausted.

This exhaustion was not physical, but mental. The senses in the simulated environment were incredibly real.

The scene of plants and undead armies fighting bloody battles still lingered before her eyes.

“I shouldn't have planted the man-eating flowers in front of the walnut wall… that would definitely reduce a lot of casualties,” she said remorsefully, covering her face.

“Your performance was excellent. You achieved the passing condition with more than 60% of the plants surviving. You passed the assessment,”

The teacher in charge of scoring made a mark on the clipboard and smiled approvingly at her.

“Thank you,” Serena replied.

Then she turned her gaze to Yalo's picture frame, waiting for him to come out.

About ten minutes later, Yalo walked out of the picture frame, staggering and almost falling over.

“Are you okay?”

Serena quickly stepped forward to support him.

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“I’m… I’m okay…”

Although he said that, his face looked terrible, as if he had worked overtime for twelve consecutive hours and then heard that he had been fired.

Yalo reached out and hugged Serena, burying his face in her chest.

“What… what are you doing!”

Serena was immediately embarrassed and annoyed, but Yalo's weak voice came from her arms:

“At least let me feel the warmth for a while now… please…”

Serena frowned and tapped him on the head, but still let him hug her like that.

“Yalo, your body died in the simulated environment at the end, but your excellent performance in the early stages can add points. You barely passed the assessment,”

The supervising teacher said after recording on the clipboard.

“You died in the simulated environment?” Serena looked at him in surprise.

“Heh heh…”

Yalo chuckled quietly, raised his head, his face full of regret:

“I got an Annihilation Scroll from a few gophers, and then used it directly to perish together with all the enemies.”

If he hadn't used it then, his chastity as a giant lizard would not have been guaranteed.

As for why gophers could have large-scale destructive magic scrolls, ask the creators of the simulated environment, how would he know?

“You… you worked hard.”

Serena looked at Yalo, who looked like he had no will to live, and still hugged him again with some pity.

After the two of them rested in place for a while, Vice-Principal Hagen with his gray beard walked among them.

“Everyone is all the candidates who have completed the second round of assessment. Currently… there are a total of twenty-three people, um, still a very optimistic number,” Hagen said.

“Please allow me to express my best wishes to you all. In two days, the third round, which is the final assessment, will begin. Please take this sealed letter, which contains all the information you need to know about the third round of assessment.”

A teacher stepped forward and handed each of them an envelope, similar to the one they had received before.

“Well then, I wish you all good luck.”

Hagen bowed slightly, saluting them.

“The third round, I remember it's an interview, right?”

On the way back, Yalo opened the envelope. Inside was a silver-plated badge, but it was not quite the same as the previous one.

There was also a letter that said they were required to go directly to the academy's dean's building in two days to participate in the interview.

“An interview… reaching this stage actually makes me feel a little nervous…” Serena patted her chest.

“No matter how nervous you are, it's not as nervous as facing a sacred beast,” Yalo said.

Speaking of which, he suddenly remembered that the sacred beast had mentioned Ze Xia in his conversation with him. He had to go back quickly and ask Ze Xia how much she knew about the sacred beast.