Raya Lucaria Magic Classroom

What comes to mind when people think of a "classroom"?

A lecturer with thick glasses who looks old-fashioned, a blackboard full of knowledge, and students who are either serious or playing around?

Jia Paer suddenly remembered the days when he and his friends trained in a swordsmanship classroom during his childhood. There was no blackboard there, only a very strong and burly instructor and an endless number of wooden stakes to chop down.

At that time, besides practicing swordsmanship, his favorite thing to do was to sneak a peek at the only female student in the swordsmanship classroom, and then quickly turn his head back to continue training before she noticed him.

That was probably his first love? At the time, he was thinking of confessing his feelings to the female student after he got first place in his class.

Unfortunately, the female student later fell to her death down the stairs in the middle of the night, and his first love ended before it even began.

That female student consistently achieved excellent results in swordsmanship among her peers, so why did she fall down the stairs and die?

From then on, the staircase in the swordsmanship classroom was given the nickname "the Supreme Staircase".

Why should I think about these things?

Jia Paer waved his hand to dispel the gloomy atmosphere; these were all old stories from the past, and there was no point in bringing them up again.

He should be happy right now, since he's entered the [Raya Lucaria Magic Classroom]! Magic and classroom—these two words together seem like they'd bring him a magic-related reward!

Even just a small Fireball Spell, no, even a slightly less powerful Fire Control Technique, would be fine as long as it looks cool!

The elevator slowly opened, and a sudden burst of light pierced the darkness. An ordinary person would probably squint at this moment, but he was so excited that he stared intently at it.

The first thing that caught his eye was the clean, shiny floor that was so bright it reflected light. Just the fact that the floor was so clean made him feel much more favorably toward the Magic Classroom, since the other buildings in the Zane Dungeon were all dusty and dilapidated.

A long corridor in warm colors appeared before him, its end invisible to his eyes.

How long is this place exactly?

The exquisitely crafted chandelier hangs from the ceiling, and upon closer inspection, the light source inside is made up of individual starlight magic.

The corridor is lined with doors that are either closed or open, and inside are rows of Magic Classroom!

Jia Paer didn't rush into the classroom immediately. Just like someone who always saves the beef for last when eating beef noodles, Jia Paer also understood what "delayed gratification" meant. He wanted to walk through the corridor first and then slowly "eat" the Magic Classroom.

The longer you wait, the more delicious the harvest will be!

Many oil paintings hung on the walls. Jia Paer looked at them one by one. There was a magician wearing a strange stone hood, a gloomy-looking long-haired man, a person wearing Big Hat, and a child with a scar on his forehead.

Their names are listed below: Azur, Orbeck, Logan, Harry Potter, Gandalf

I don't know who they are, but since they're hanging on the wall, they must be outstanding magicians, right?

The art styles of each person look quite different.

Jia Paer memorized the names and appearances of these people after looking at them once, and there were other paintings besides these portraits.

A pale blue lake, a college under the night sky, children riding brooms and snatching something.

The Lake Liurnia, the Raya Lucaria, Quidditch Competition —these are the names of these three paintings.

Neither the people nor the places depicted in the paintings have ever been seen in the world today, and there is not a single record of them.

Looking at these paintings is like communicating with an ancient era.

He walked forward for a while, but after seeing the door of a Magic Classroom getting further and further away behind him, he couldn't resist and changed his plan to start exploring from the classroom.

"Smack!"

Just then, a painting on the wall suddenly fell down, and the transparent crystal that served as a protective shield shattered instantly.

Jia Paer scanned his surroundings, but neither his eyes nor his Aura Perception detected the presence of a second being besides himself.

Wasn't it made by a monster?

He picked up the picture frame from the ground, smashed it, and the painting floated out of the frame. At that moment, he suddenly noticed writing on the back of the painting.

[Azur, the esteemed Origin Mage, who once encountered the wisdom within the stone of distant forefathers, and the great mentor of the oldest and most prestigious Kalos Classroom, your contributions to magic are unparalleled]

The writing on the back seems to be describing the figures in the painting?

Jia Paer suddenly frowned, because he saw a completely different line of red text below the description:

Although these contributions are meaningless in the face of that thing.

Meaningless

The red writing in this line is clearly from different people. What does "that thing" refer to that would prompt later generations to add this sentence after the painting?

A mysterious feeling arose in his heart. Discovering the unknown and powerful always made people feel puzzled and a little afraid of uncertainty.

Jia Paer wasn't particularly afraid, but he was very curious.

If this painting has writing on it, what about the other paintings?

Thinking of this, he pried open Logan's picture frame, and sure enough, there were words on the back of the painting.

Logan, the legendary master of magic from Vinheim known as "The Big Hat," who resonated with the White Dragon Seath, your research on souls and crystals is unparalleled in the world.

Although these contributions are meaningless in the face of that thing.

Here we go again, with that same phrase.

Jia Paer suspected that the Zane Dungeon was deliberately building up curiosity, as every painting thereafter bore this phrase, but none of them explained what "that thing" actually was.

The lack of a response is really making me anxious.

The quiet corridor became eerie because of this line of red writing, as if some monstrous beast was lurking in the shadows.

Unfortunately, it's Jia Paer here. As long as what's hidden isn't some old, cursed phlegm from a cursed Curse Frog that can trigger Curse of Death, he shouldn't be afraid.

It's obvious that the red lettering was deliberately placed there by the Zane Dungeon to create an atmosphere and, incidentally, to foreshadow something and raise people's expectations.

Jia Paer was indeed quite agitated, angered by the Riddler.

The descriptions on the back of each painting are different, but the red text is the same. After looking at them over and over, he couldn't find any other differences. It seems that he will have to find the true identity of "that thing" elsewhere.

"Never mind, let's see what the classroom looks like first."

Standing in the doorway of the room closest to the elevator, Jia Paer's eyes looked as if he were anticipating a New Year's Eve gift as he reached out and pushed the tightly closed door.

[Cannot be opened from this side]

Jia Paer's face darkened, and he mustered all his strength to kick the door open with a powerful stomp. The door, clearly designed with malice, was kicked open in an instant.

It would be great if Sion could have some kind of permission to make the environment and buildings indestructible in the future. Although most of the doors that cannot be opened from this side have been reinforced, they still can't stop Jia Paer's full-force kick.

He straightened his clothes, intending to enter the classroom, this temple of knowledge, with an elegant and proper demeanor, but unfortunately, the Zane Dungeon forced him to resort to the violence of a brute.

It's a pity, a lamentable thing.

The room was furnished in accordance with his stereotypical image of a classroom: a podium, a blackboard, desks, and piles of books.

There was no one there, but one could imagine the scene of lecturers and students passing on knowledge together.

Jia Paer immediately appeared in front of the pile of books. He had heard that the Zane Dungeon produced magical pages that could instantly teach magic to anyone.

What if we can find it in this pile of books?

But the moment he reached out and touched the book, he realized something was wrong. Why was this thing so hard?

Upon closer inspection, the surfaces of these books are covered with a thin layer of crystals—no, not covered, but rather they themselves have crystallized.

For unknown reasons, these books have become minerals that resemble books and can no longer be read.

"Can't you just let me learn magic more easily?" Jia Paer sighed. Instead of destroying the crystallized books to vent his anger, he wandered around the classroom.

This place is filled with boxes of minerals and crystals, which contain a lot of magic. If they were sold, they should fetch a good price.

The only point of light was on the podium, but when you picked it up, it turned out to be the "Magic Grease Crafting Manual".

That's it! The huge classroom is empty!

Jia Paer was slightly disappointed, but he hadn't expected to find what he wanted in a classroom anyway.

"Click, click"

A metallic scraping sound seemed to come from somewhere, but it only lasted for a moment.

Jia Paer arrived at the second classroom, which was set up exactly the same as the previous one, oh, there was one difference.

This time, even the White Light Spot have disappeared!

Looking at the remaining classrooms, he suddenly had a bad feeling.

As expected, the rooms were all empty after being explored one by one.

Five classrooms, and the most valuable things in them were magical oils and boxes of unknown ores.

What exactly do you teach in this classroom? Civil engineering or mining?

Jia Paer took a deep breath and told himself that the corridor was long and there were other classrooms waiting for him to explore, so he couldn't possibly come away empty-handed.

He walked forward, the long corridor seemed to have no end, and he had not yet seen any other forks in the road.

Finally, the door to the new classroom was discovered, but...

Why is this door collapsed? It looks like it was kicked open by a terrifying external force.

Jia Paer suddenly fell silent, looked at his shoes, then at the shoe prints on the door, and finally realized that he had kicked the door open himself!

The room's layout was exactly the same as before, or rather, it was a perfect copy and paste.

He looked sharply back the way he came; the elevator was almost out of sight, but he was certain that the place still existed.

The other classrooms were in the same state, with materials reused and copied and pasted. In any case, these classrooms were all in the same terrible state.

He suddenly smashed the podium of the classroom whose door had been kicked over, then ran back the way he came and disappeared into the same classroom in the blink of an eye.

Sure enough, the podium here was also shattered!

". cycle?"

The experienced Jia Paer did not panic, but immediately thought of a solution.

What's happening right now can only be explained by magic. Could it be Space Magic, something we haven't seen in a long time, that could cause this effect?

The solution may lie within these five classrooms.

Jia Paer looked at the classroom with a door that couldn't be opened from the side. Since it couldn't be opened from the front and could only be opened from the back, that meant one thing.

There is some way to get into the remaining four classrooms.

Is it a hidden door?

Given the nature of the Zane Dungeon, there will either be hidden doors or teleportation chests.

How can we find the hidden door the fastest? Since this thing needs to be touched to reveal itself, the most suitable thing for Jia Paer is to directly become a desktop cleaning master.

He gripped the Stars Linked Sword at his waist. He had cherished this sword ever since he acquired it, and he was also deeply impressed by the cool Weapon Skill attached to it, making it his favorite sword.

"Click, click, click."

The sound of metal scraping came again, but this time it didn't disappear.

"Bang! Bang!"

The ceiling suddenly collapsed, and several iron cages crashed down. Luckily, Jia Paer ran away the moment he heard the sound, otherwise he would have been locked up.

But the trap wasn't just an iron cage; along with the cage fell a dozen or so other creatures.

That looks like a person? No, how could a person have so many hands?

Accompanied by the clattering sounds of mechanical devices, a group of broken, puppet-like monsters appeared before Jia Paer.

Their bodies are like iron cages, and each arm holds a different weapon. The most terrifying puppet holds Repeating Crossbow in all four hands.

These guys are followers created by mages, soldiers specially developed to fight against enemies.

[Puppet Soldier]

I'm exhausted from working overtime; even typing a few words leaves me mentally drained. I hate the end of the year!!!