Ascension

Due to Vortex Town's external recruitment and faculty-student intake, the school also needed to undergo a certain scale of expansion. Fourth Middle School had already added quite a few brand-new buildings, including an indoor gymnasium.

Its interior had been expanded through special spatial technology and contained numerous medium- and large-scale simulated combat spaces.

Whether it was sparring between students, physical education exams, or private matters that needed to be handled in secret, all of it could be dealt with inside.

Additionally,

Teacher Guo had set up a special swimming pool section inside the gymnasium.

Constructing this pool had been time-consuming and labor-intensive. The spatial expansion technology needed to be further enhanced so the pool could reach a depth of one thousand meters.

Furthermore, the water poured into it had to be seawater.

For this reason, Teacher Guo had made a special trip to a fishing village, where he established a teleportation point to channel seawater over until the pool was completely filled.

This newly constructed ocean pool was not yet open to the public. Even the teachers had not been granted access. It was only open to two special students.

On a lounge chair beside the pool,

Mr. Qu, representing Ultimate Flesh and Blood, had no intention of relaxing. His gaze remained fixed on the swimming pool.

Tiny fibers constantly writhed within his pupils. Each seemed covered in countless microscopic eyeballs, providing an unimaginable visual effect. They could penetrate the thousand-meter-deep seawater and observe the situation at the bottom.

In the deep sea,

some creature lay at the very bottom,

She seemed to have completed her molt. An entire fish-scale skin large enough to cover the pool floor had completely shed away.

Yet the Girl who should have been there was nowhere to be seen.

Even Mr. Qu had to