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After eating his food, and dealing with the aftermath of Ava beating up 4 kids, Jack sighed before returning to his dorm room and entering the game. This time, although he had a book in his hand, he was updating his thread on the forum, which he had left alone for quite some time.

Surprisingly, his post seemed to have collected quite a bit of traction, based on the real-time graphs and statistics, before reducing in popularity slowly due to how outdated his information was.

The books here at the magic tower also had an encyclopaedia about many random things, including monsters.

And so, Jack put down the book for Magic runes and began copying all the information from the various encyclopaedias. After all, he would need fame within the players in order to create his own guild successfully, and for that, he would need his posts to become as famous as possible, hopefully helping out a lot of people in levelling up.

Since he had the information right in front of him, paired with the bits of information regarding certain types of monsters from his previous life, Jack successfully filled out information about 200 monsters, 300 plant types, and even a map of the entire Leon kingdom. However, he did not upload it all, and instead put up a timer, to upload 10 items per day, which would allow this to last at least for 20 days. After all, releasing something slowly but consistently had a better grip on the audience compared to something which was released in bulk at once, and then you had to wait for a month or two before the next release.

{Author's Notes: Yes, This is from my personal experience. It actually works, and will likely be what I am doing with this novel. Lol, when I say personal experience, I'm talking about the 12 novels I started and got 20 chapters into writing before giving up on them… T-T Hopefully this is not like one of those…}

After that session of copying, Jack left Tether for dinner, before returning to the game to continue reading the magic rune book, and after completing that, Jack went on to read some other books related to Golems and other Magic creations.

In his previous life, he had never done this, since he mainly relied on the stone to provide him with enough magic power to control hundreds of the most basic clay golems, and fought with the united alliance of players from the council.

This time, however, he had already spent a few days reading the basic knowledge on golem crafting, as well as a few more, which greatly boosted his understanding of the class. If he were to be given the stone right now, and a bit of time to boost his stats and level, Jack would be able to summon an army of over a hundred thousand stone golems, which were a level stronger than the clay golems he knew from his previous life.

The night passed by quickly, and just before the morning came and Jack had to exit the game, Jack realised that he was slowly running out of books to read on the ground floor. He might be occupied for another day or so, but after that, he would have read all the free books on the ground floor of the magic tower.

'Perhaps the old man would react then?' Jack thought to himself.

[Logging out]

[Successful]

[United Human Calendar Year 4702, 10th of December]

Jack got out of bed and went to the mess hall, where all students in each class were supposed to gather in the morning right before breakfast.

"100 rounds! Go! Only then will you get breakfast." Once again on an empty stomach, the 17-year-olds began running round and round. While Jack was running, he decided to try and figure out what the last line of the jumbled words from the stone meant.

Unfortunately, after about 50 rounds, he was simply too tired to think about anything other than the sharp pain near his stomach, and his heavy breathing.

Well, at least, he made some progress. Out of the millions of possibilities, he had cancelled out a few hundred at least.

…

After breakfast, the students were made to gather at the mess hall once more for new instructions. Unfortunately for them, the same teacher as before barged in, almost breaking the door down while yelling as usual.

"Aright. I have been assigned to be your permanent teacher. You guys will have to battle it out in VR against other classes in individual and team battles of 5 students. Make up your groups of 5, and begin practising with each other. You all have 10 days to get familiar with each other. Then, battles will begin."

"Of course, there will be rewards. Monetary rewards to say the least. For class leaders, if you can beat the class leaders of other classes, their class will be fused with your class permanently, with you as the leader of the combined class. Of course, you can choose not to access a few people, and accept a few others, to prevent too many people from collecting in a particular group."

"For normal students, winning an individual battle means you get 200 credits, and winning a group battle means each student gets 100 credits"

"Also, if you beat anyone with a higher player rank than you, you get their player rank."

"GO!"

Jack immediately turned to look at Ava and Max, who nodded, before looking towards Lucy, who also nodded. Jac then looked around, but could not spot the last member of his group.

"Hey, Boss. Did you know, that a star shines because it is continuously farting, but is also lighting its fart on fire while doing the same…"

Jack gave Kai a hard kick on his a*s to make him get up from his kneeling position at Jack's feet before his group was finalised.

"Alright, I know that everyone would rather spend time in the game. So how about this? Every day, for 2 hours, we will focus on team strategy in VR, before separating to play Tether?"

"Sure" everyone agreed, and Jack left after setting the time to meet for right after lunch.