Ch.230230 – The Point Giveaway Event

# 230 – Point Giveaway Event

From a player’s perspective, there’s no happier event than a weekly event that gives out lots of points.

In that sense, the upcoming Sports Festival is the happiest event of the first semester.

“Before the Sports Festival, students from all years will be divided into classes of about 50 people. There will be individual competitions, class competitions within the same year, and even competitions between different years.”

Professor Mahabharata, the first-year student affairs director, carefully explained what a sports festival was to the bewildered students.

In a fantasy world without mandatory elementary, middle, or high school education, a sports festival was an unfamiliar concept.

It was just part of a shameless marketing ploy by the game company to stimulate nostalgia in adults!

People complained a lot at first.

Until they found out it was an event that gave out a ton of points.

-Can’t we have 12 sports festivals a year?

-I want to do sports festivals every week

-Agreed

Players who learned the truth withdrew their criticisms as easily as flipping their hands.

Anyway, here’s a summary of the Sports Festival:

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◎Sports Festival Guide

◇Point Distribution

*Individual Events

1st place 10 points, 2nd place 8 points, 3rd place 5 points

*Class Competitions

1st place 100 points, 2nd place 80 points, 3rd place 50 points

*Year Competitions

1st place 1000 points, 2nd place 800 points, 3rd place 500 points

◇Sports Festival Events

*Individual Events (100 types)

-Running 4 types (1km run, obstacle run, tightrope run, fantasy magic run)

-Throwing 7 types (paper airplane throwing, dart throwing, disc throwing, desk throwing, javelin throwing, rock throwing, pillar throwing)

-……

*Class Competition Events (10 types)

-Track and field 4 types (tug of war, relay race, pot breaking, long jump rope)

-Ball games 3 types (super dodgeball, human billiards, Shaolin soccer)

-……

*Year Competition Events (1 type)

-??? 1 type

※Points earned at the Sports Festival are worth 1 point each

※If match-fixing is detected by the student council, the cheaters’ points will be confiscated

※Except for year competitions, matches between lower and upper years are absolutely prohibited for safety reasons

※For safety reasons, 3rd and 4th years will hold individual and class competitions in different locations, so don’t worry!

※Year competitions will be held in the same space, so be careful not to die suddenly!

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“Oknodie. Did you make this template so your classmates could see it easily? That’s nice.”

“No? I’m going to sell them for 5 points each.”

“……”

Tsk tsk. Isabelle, like a true NPC, still doesn’t get it.

If you want to earn points, you can’t miss even small opportunities like this.

“Oh, this is good!”

“Oknodie. Sell me one!”

“I’ll take three. I’ll collect them and sell them to others for more!”

“Ah, then I’ll take ten.”

“See, Isabelle? They’re selling really well, right?”

“…Then give me three too. For Giselle and Son Ocheon.”

In the end, 800 templates sold out on the day they were made.

“Oh right, Isabelle. Keep this between us.”

“Why?”

“These templates are made with duplication magic, so they only last 24 hours. Make sure to copy the information somewhere else before then!”

“!!”

Tomorrow I’ll make a thousand more copies to sell!

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After lectures, students walking around campus were all holding templates, discussing which events would be advantageous to participate in.

Among those students were Titosoga, Frill, and Canillian Truffle.

“Doesn’t paper airplane throwing seem like an easy win? It feels like you could win by luck even without skill. And I’d look super cute throwing a paper airplane.”

In response to Frill’s princess-like comment, Canillian snorted and pointed out the harsh reality.

“You think so? Obviously people will cheat using magic. This is essentially a magic competition to see who can enchant the small surface of paper most efficiently to outperform other paper airplanes.”

“Eh? That’s what it is? What… it’s not an easy win at all.”

Titosoga, who was next to them, also became dejected.

The Sports Festival with massive points at stake.

If done right, this was an opportunity for huge gains.

Finding events with even a slight chance of an easy win was the natural desire of a lower-class student!

But she was also worried.

‘Lady Arcadia… it looks like you’re going to push yourself too hard for Oknodie.’

Is it okay to be casually looking for easy events like this?

Maybe I should just pick some events quickly and go help Lady Arcadia.

After all, I’m not very skilled.

I’m not confident in physical or magical combat, and with poor intellect and dexterity, I couldn’t even compete in the Administrative or Production departments, so I fled to the Adventure department.

All I have is grit and passion, but I can’t turn my back on Arcadia just to pursue my own gain.

Among her brilliant followers, she employed someone as insignificant as me as a close aide. Considering that kindness, ignoring her would be ungrateful.

Swoosh… Swoosh…

After roughly picking some events that looked easy, Titosoga got up and realized that a very suspicious figure had approached their table.

Despite the approaching summer, this person was fully armored in black, breathing heavily through the gaps in their helmet.

Their identity was…

“Eek! Is this a point robber?!”

“Not at all. I’m here to sell Dark Association information sheets.”

It was the black knight Morb, working part-time selling information sheets for the Dark Association.

“Kekeke. That seems right though! Information sheets? What would we use those for?”

“That armor looks really heavy. You’re the black knight Morb, right? If you have nowhere to go after graduation, come to Truffle City in the Southern Holy City-State Federation. I’ll give you a position.”

“Thank you. Ah, this isn’t the time for that. Would you like to buy an information sheet?”

Canillian firmly declined.

“I already have enough information with this.”

When Canillian showed Oknodie’s Sports Festival template, Morb cheerfully encouraged her.

“Then this will be even more helpful. This information sheet contains the predicted list of events that upper-class students will participate in. Whether you want to get help or avoid them, it will be very useful.”

“Hmm… that’s unexpectedly good. I’m quite interested.”

After Canillian purchased an information sheet, Frill and Titosoga quickly bought them too, thinking that such a smart girl wouldn’t make a bad purchase.

“<Paper Airplane Throwing> Expected participant: Oknodie. Ah, I didn’t think of that. Our year’s top student is quite childish and would definitely participate in playful events like this.”

“Look here. Oknodie’s name is also in <Desk Throwing>. A girl participating in something like this wouldn’t be cute at all.”

“She’s also in <Balloon Floating>. Beyond cuteness, isn’t Oknodie’s name in all these weird events?”

Canillian doubted the reliability of the information!

Morb shook his head.

“That’s why the accuracy is even more verified. She’s really eccentric. Those who know her will understand.”

“Come to think of it, Titosoga was quite close to Oknodie. Is what this part-timer saying true?”

Titosoga carefully recalled what she had observed about Oknodie.

-Titosoga, I heard there’s a Cerberus in the restaurant basement that eats leftover food. Want to fight it together and loot the remaining food?

-Eh? What’s that? No way. That’s scary.

That was their conversation at lunch today.

-I just heard a huge explosion from a third-year’s lab. Want to climb the building wall together to check it out?

-You could die!! Good first-years shouldn’t sneak into upper-year areas, especially places where accidents seem to have happened, without telling the instructors!

That was their conversation yesterday evening.

-Look, Titosoga. It’s a blue-spotted spider. Hehe. Cool, right? It’s a rare spider that’s hard to collect, and I caught two at once. Want one?

-Eek! That has deadly poison. Put it down quickly. You’ll die if it bites you. You’ll die!

That’s what she said when they met on the street the day before yesterday.

Titosoga’s eyes lost focus.

“Umm… is the reliability 100%… I’m sure it is. The weirder the event sounds, the more likely Oknodie will participate.”

“Since Titosoga officially confirmed 100% reliability, if it’s wrong, we’ll take out our frustration by feeding Titosoga bad snacks. Sorry for doubting you.”

“No problem. I would doubt it too if I didn’t know Oknodie.”

“Wait, aren’t you treating me too harshly!?”

Canillian and Morb shook hands amicably, completing the transaction in good spirits.

But Frill, who had been carefully examining the information sheet, pulled on Titosoga’s collar with a serious expression.

“Tito. You need to see this.”

“Your expression doesn’t look good. What’s wrong?”

“It’s about Lady Arcadia.”

“Huh?”

“Her name is listed. A lot.”

“Well, of course it would be. Lady Arcadia is in the upper class.”

“Not just once. It’s listed an incredible number of times.”

When Titosoga saw the events, she understood what Frill meant.

“What is this?”

From 9 AM to 9 PM.

Monday through Friday.

Excluding team events and class competitions, and accounting for travel time, Arcadia’s name was listed in the maximum possible number of individual events.

“Excuse me, part-timer. What’s going on here? Lady Arcadia is listed in too many expected events.”

“Ah, that’s not speculation but almost confirmed. I heard that Lady Arcadia herself declared she would participate in as many individual events as possible.”

“Whaaaat?!”

Those who didn’t know the situation might think that Arcadia, having overcome her family’s crisis, was determined to showcase her abilities to regain her influence.

But Titosoga, who had overheard the conversation between Arcadia and the foundation scholar Zaku, realized a different intention.

This was a strategy to draw attention.

To make herself the target that all the foundation scholars would focus on.

Among the upper-class students from the frontier, the easiest target would be Arcadia herself, who had overextended by participating in too many events.

She had set herself up as both bait and target in a reckless plan.