The upgraded Starfire City covered an area of tens of square kilometers, capable of housing tens of millions of people.
However, at this time, only five million people were permanently stationed within the city.
And among these five million people, there were approximately tens of thousands of children.
In the face of the apocalyptic cataclysm, the elderly and children were the most difficult to survive.
Even for children who were fortunate enough to survive, they often lost the care of their parents.
After all, the apocalypse game descended during the daytime, and most adults had to go to work, making it impossible for them to stay by their children's side.
After these orphans were rescued by Chen Luo, following Wei Dayong's suggestion, a unified, massive campus was established.
At least the school environment and the presence of a large number of peers would be a good haven for these children.
But at this moment, in the tiered classroom of the Starfire City campus, non-human screams had been echoing for the past two days.
The shrillness of the screams made passing students turn pale.
And the occasional people dragged out of the classroom fueled the children's fearful speculations about this place.
In the spacious tiered classroom, it was now densely packed with mages, all clad in robes.
As a profession requiring innate mental attributes, the number of humans who could become mages was relatively small.
But at this moment, the complexions of these mages were mostly pale, their eyes somewhat vacant as they stared at the podium.
Suddenly, a middle-aged mage abruptly stood up from his seat and shouted madly:
"Ahhh! I can't learn it!"
As he yelled, the man hastily turned and ran towards the exit.
But, in the next moment, a silver light struck him from behind.
"Sleep!"
*Thump...*
The "Sleep" spell instantly integrated into the middle-aged man's body, and he instantly fell into an infant-like slumber.
Chen Luo, standing on the podium, withdrew his spellcasting hand and said to the guards at the door:
"Drag him out."
The two guards walked forward in silence, each grabbing one of the middle-aged mage's arms. Like dragging a dead pig, they pulled him towards the door, step by step, against the incline of the stairs.
*Bang!*
The door opened, startling the children peeking from outside, causing their necks to snap back.
Then, they saw two guards with cold expressions dragging a person who looked like a corpse out of the door.
The terrifying atmosphere of the scene made the children quickly turn and run away.
Watching the children scatter, the two guards exchanged a helpless glance:
"This is the thirty-seventh one in the past two days."
"What exactly did the City Lord teach that makes these mages want to die?"
"Don't know, can't understand it anyway. Alright, stop asking, hurry up and drag him to the lounge."
"Mm."
The two stopped their discussion and silently dragged the sleeping mage towards the lounge.
As for what rumors the scattered children would spread, no one knew.
...
On the podium, Chen Luo's main body paid no mind to the reality of another mage succumbing to the pressure and continued his lecture.
What he was explaining was actually very simple, just "Meditation Technique."
Chen Luo's own Meditation Technique had mutated into an SS-rank rare Golden Eye Meditation Technique.
This allowed him to explain every detail of the ordinary Meditation Technique from a superior vantage point to the mages present.
The two warriors serving as guards, due to their excessively low mental attributes, were completely unable to perceive the content of Chen Luo's lecture.
But the mages present, from the moment Chen Luo began his explanation,
were drawn into a mysterious, illusory scene by Chen Luo's powerful mental energy.
There, a certain mental space was simulated by Chen Luo's mental energy. In essence, Chen Luo used his 999 points of mental energy to
envelop the minds of everyone present into his own mental world, thereby helping them to feel the changes in the Meditation Technique.
The Meditation Technique was a fundamental skill that every mage must possess. Its growth was directly related to the mage's mental attributes and the enhancement of their mana.
However, this skill also extremely tested the mages' cognitive abilities.
When using this skill, they had to outline the magical trajectories in a specific manner according to the system's regulations to successfully cast the skill.
The higher the skill level, the higher the requirements for the magical trajectories.
And Chen Luo's method of teaching mages was to use his own mental energy to help them experience the process of outlining advanced Meditation Techniques.
During this process, they would receive a large amount of knowledge from more advanced Meditation Techniques.
Their own Meditation Technique levels would also rapidly increase, but at a cost.
On one hand, it was the extremely high consumption of mental energy. The bulk of this consumption was borne by Chen Luo, so the mages' pressure was manageable.
But the other cost was the toll on their sanity after receiving a large amount of knowledge.
This process was roughly equivalent to facing a math exam every second, and only having essay questions, with no multiple-choice options to guess.
This extreme torment of the mind and sanity was the reason for the pale complexions of the mages present.
And when the "math problems" (knowledge infusion) reached their limit, it resulted in mages shouting that they couldn't learn and desperately wanting to escape.
If the mages were allowed to escape at this point, they would likely pick up weapons and prefer to bash monsters with sticks for the rest of their lives rather than learn any more spells.
Chen Luo certainly couldn't allow such a situation to occur, nor was Chen Luo some kind of devil.
After letting the mages experience the "joy" of being filled with knowledge, Chen Luo had also prepared a way to help them find release.
[Sleep Technique (SS-rank)]
[Type]: Skill (Belongs to the Second Law)
[Effect]:
1. Peaceful Slumber: Upon hit, depending on resistance, sufficient to induce the target into a state of the deepest sleep.
2. Dreamless: Dreamless sleep, accelerates the recovery of mental depletion, organizes acquired memories, and restores personal sanity. (Effect limited to friendly units)
3. Nightmare: Nightmare slumber, plunges the sleeping individual into the deepest nightmares, significantly depleting their mental energy, and depending on resistance, can even result in a permanent state of slumber. (Decision rests with the skill caster)
[Description]: Reasonable sleep is the best guarantee for learning and improvement. Don't stop me, I can still sleep.
"Sleep Technique" is a double-edged skill. On one hand, it can directly send enemies with low resistance into dreamland, causing them to lose their ability to resist.
On the other hand, it can also be used on allies as a means of mental recovery.
The latter is far more useful than the former, as there are too many monsters in the world that do not require sleep.
In the past two days, Chen Luo had used this method to send mages whose sanity and minds had collapsed into slumber.
Well, when they wake up, they will be dragged back by the guards to continue their joyous studies.