For students of First University, credits were a very important concept.
But they were not difficult to obtain.
Passing assessments for elective courses earned Basic Credits, outstanding classroom performance earned Reward Credits, volunteering during the School Hunt Competition also earned Reward Credits, and there were hunting team hauls, private student transactions, gambling, and so on. It could be said that First University provided every student with ample ways to earn credits.
Take Zheng Qing, for example. Less than two months after entering his freshman year, he had accumulated thirty-three credits. These included classroom rewards—especially from Talisman Class, where he earned the most—as well as credits he had exchanged with Old Yao using the Invitation Letters he received during the freshman club recruitment drive. Then, during the School Hunt Competition in October, Zheng Qing made a small gamble. Before even half a semester had passed, he had accumulated forty-eight credits.
All forty-eight of those credits were Reward Credits.
Under normal circumstances, a student only needed to earn around one hundred and ten credits in an academic year to safely advance to the next one, including more than fifty Basic Credits and a comparable number of Reward Credits. Zheng Qing earned credits at nearly twice the rate of an ordinary student, so theoretically, meeting the requirements for early graduation would not be difficult.
But theory and reality were always liable to clash.
As young wizards studied, they constantly needed to use credits to exchange for the various Magic materials required for magical experiments, or pay credits to acquire magical techniques beyond what books taught. Added to that were the costs of the school's many laboratories, hunting grounds, libraries, and other facilities, as well as unexpected "deductions." The actual consumption of credits was therefore enormous, and many students only discovered near the end