Location: Ethereal Emblem - Principal's Office

Chloe sat on the sofa in the office, opposite him was Principal Alfredo.

"Chloe, this time you've worked hard on the matter."

Chloe said, "Not at all, it's good to help the school."

"Anyway, we've already identified a mole in the mentor team, now let's see how they will act."

Alfredo's eyes were profound, his voice low as he said:

"There might be something that I need to ask your Extreme Association to handle, of course, whether to accept it is up to you."

"Hmm? What do you mean, Principal?"

"You've been targeted by the Void Erosion Sect, their branch is likely to strike at you again. However, if you're at the Ethereal Emblem, their chances of attacking are almost gone.

So next, do you want to consider entering the Maze or going to another city for a mission?"

The meaning of Alfredo was very clear.

For some unknown reason, the Void Erosion Sect had directly locked their targets onto Chloe and Rephya.

Rather than waiting for the enemy to attack, passively defending, why not actively create an opportunity for them to attack, allowing the academy to handle it?

Of course, the latter option inevitably involves facing risks.

But what Alfredo didn't expect was, upon hearing his suggestion, Chloe not only didn't hesitate but even smiled.

"Actually, without Principal telling me, I was planning to strike at them anyway."

"Hmm?"

"It's a bit of a small trick, able to slightly enhance strength like last time during the siege of the Flesh and Blood Hermitage."

Alfredo could only be glad his beard was enough to hide his twitching expression.

"A little bit?"

"Yes, a tiny bit."

"Very well, I believe you."

Alfredo began to have a headache because of this student.

Chloe, this kid, is too reckless.

Previously, he let this kid handle things as he pleased, because he thought he was old enough, had seen all kinds of actions.

But now he suddenly felt, being old doesn't mean he's seen everything.

At least Chloe's situation, he couldn't just let it be.

— But neither could he recklessly restrict it.

As the principal of Ethereal Emblem, he always believed that limiting students' talents is a foolish thing to do.

As a teacher, he needs to not only provide knowledge to students but also appropriately clean up after them, which is his responsibility.

So after pondering over it, he still said:

"You can act on your own, but don't blame us for intervening, after all, if certain trump cards can be spared, why waste them?"

Chloe nodded and said:

"Of course, if I can avoid wasting, I won't want to."

Chloe thought to himself:

[But Principal, maybe you haven't seen enough of the mess a Hero can create]

Indeed.

From the start, Chloe didn't plan to reject the help from the school.

Because judging from his experience playing "Simulated Hero," it truly is a case of "you laugh at me not understanding the Evil God, I laugh at you not understanding the Hero."

Creates messes often.

Without the Principal, it wouldn't work.

...

After reaching an agreement with the Principal, Chloe went out for an internship.

When he returned, it was already the next day.

This time, he gathered the members of the Extreme Association at Amber Hall to discuss the recent plans of the association.

In short, since they've obtained the Racer license, according to Racer Association's management regulations, it's time to head to high-difficulty mazes for a challenge.

High-difficulty mazes do not mean they're dangerous to the extent that even strong adventurers would dare not enter.

Rather, compared to ordinary mazes, high-difficulty mazes have the following three characteristics.

[Unbearably extreme environment]

[Extremely high monster density]

[Monsters that possess overwhelming power beyond the current sequence]

Any one of these characteristics, and such a maze can be called a high-risk maze.

For instance, the D-level maze, Dragonbone Cave, Chloe was headed to this time, belongs to a conventional maze.

Usually, such a maze is tasked to extraordinary individuals within sequence eight to nine to challenge.

C-level mazes are then tasked to extraordinary individuals within sequence seven to eight to challenge.

It's not that countries do not wish to dispatch higher-level extraordinary individuals for quick clearance.

Firstly, subsidies are insufficient, and stronger extraordinary individuals might not want to come.

Secondly, high-grade maze challenges already require a significant amount of extraordinary individuals, and there simply isn't enough to spare.

Thus usually, the maze for the corresponding stage is given to the corresponding association or individuals to handle.

But starting from C-level mazes, unless individual strength is very strong, all countries generally require extraordinary individuals to form teams and enter.

Otherwise, it's basically giving away for free.

However, there are still some mazes, even when extraordinary individuals compromise and collaborate, they may still be crushed.

High-difficulty mazes are such circumstances.

Equipped with any kind of high-difficulty maze characteristics, an additional plus sign is added.

So, in a D-level maze, a specially marked D+++ maze will appear.

If an ordinary D-level maze requires roughly 10 sequence nine adventurers,

a D+ maze might require half of those 10 to advance to sequence eight.

A D++ maze is feared that even the entire team of sequence eight may not pass through.

As for a D+++ maze, it's terrifying enough to require multiple sequence seven leads.

This is the high-difficulty maze.

Although the life sequence of maze monsters is capped at sequence nine, due to various reasons, it still makes it difficult for adventurers of the same level to proceed.

Unless...

...

...

"Unless it's the Racer Association, right?"

Aisha, sitting in the Amber Hall lobby, asked curiously.

Chloe nodded and said, "One of the purposes of the Racer Association is to challenge those high-risk mazes that ordinary people find difficult to face."

Daniel, sitting next to them, said with a smile:

"Actually, you don't need to be so nervous. The Ethereal Emblem is different from other schools. Here, the students' abilities are generally assumed to be half a sequence or even a full sequence higher than ordinary adventurers outside."

As he said this, his gaze involuntarily turned to Chloe.

Chloe rolled her eyes and said:

"Why are you looking at me? Just continue talking."

"Dude, you're just too monstrous."

Others might not know Chloe's situation, but how could the Extreme Association and the Fantasy Association not know?

Chloe never intended to hide it.

The Filthy Thunder in the Menilanka area that could vaguely alter the weather and the body of the Legendary Disaster Beast that was taken down in two hits said it all.

The dominance in Sequence Five speaks volumes about the credentials of the Extreme Association's president.

Of course, they also knew that their president hadn't even attended the Adventurer's Guild's title holder assessment.

The Guild had directly sent over the rewards and license for the title.

You could only call it absurd.

At this moment, Aisha, sitting in the corner, raised her hand and asked:

"So are we going to tackle the high-risk mazes this time?"

Chloe nodded and said yes.

Daniel spoke up:

"Let me explain about this point."

The chubby guy turned on the projector and displayed the PPT.

The first slide was a grid combination image.

"As you can see, these are the D+ mazes that the Ethereal Emblem needs to tackle in the near future.

These are Yellow Ape Ridge, Black Water Valley, Mechanical Ruins, Nex's Graveyard, White Wave Grand Waterfall, Whale Habitat Coast, Insect Chirping Canyon, Thousand-Year Mountain, and Cannibal Giant Woodlands.

These nine mazes will be the ones our Extreme Association needs to tackle in the first phase."

The audience erupted in excitement.

"Isn't that too many?"

"Starting off with such intensity?"

"What's there to be afraid of? Let's just go for it!"

"Exactly, we've mostly completed the recording of the Simulated Earth Divine Rune. If we don't dare to fight now, how could we push our limits?"

"That's true."

"Wait a minute, am I the only one who noticed that keyword 'first phase'?"

"...Everyone noticed, so let's not bring it up?"

Noticing the slightly guilty expressions on their faces, Fufu, sitting next to Chloe, spoke up to comfort them:

"There's no need to be so scared, the pressure from the D+ mazes isn't even as bad as the battle we had heading to the Menilanka area."

A student cautiously asked:

"Senior, is that true?"

"It's true," Fufu said with a smile. "I've been to a D+ maze before; it's not as terrifying as you think. You just need to overcome the fear of the unknown."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief at her words.

High-risk mazes seemed distant to them at the moment, and they were a bit worried just hearing about them.

But haven't they faced Land Giant Claw Crabs without stepping into high-risk mazes?

"If the pressure is less than that of the Land Giant Claw Crabs from the Menilanka Fallen Zone, then it's not a problem."

"Eh? The D+ mazes aren't even as bad as the Land Giant Claw Crabs?"

"Now that you put it that way, we can definitely handle it, just need to form the right team."

There was a buzz of conversation among the crowd.

The chubby guy clapped his hands to get their attention back to the PPT.

"Since you already have experience battling in the Menilanka area, the D+ risk zone isn't much of a risk for you, so..."

He flipped the PPT to the next slide, showing images of three mazes on the screen.

"For the second phase, we need to mentally prepare to tackle the three newly appeared D++ mazes: Red Ant Nest, Forest of Destruction, and Dark Great Tomb."

Even though they had some anticipation, the members didn't expect the association's tackling schedule to be so tight.

Chloe gave them a reassuring look and said:

"Honestly, passing through the D++ mazes without help from me and Senior Sister Fufu would be quite difficult for you.

But since I'll be pitching in, that's a different story entirely."

The members cheered loudly on the spot.

Whether the president takes part or not greatly affects their confidence.

Seeing them so excited, Daniel quietly dampened their spirits a bit.

"Don't get too happy yet; the president will go in with most of her abilities restricted except for healing methods, suppressing her to Sequence Seven to fight alongside you."

"It doesn't matter, as long as the president is there, it's all the same," a member said with a laugh.

But the next moment, his face froze.

Because Vice President Daniel turned the page again:

"Since you've all said that, for the third phase, we'll tackle the D+++ maze, Pure White Marsh."

"Huh?" *N times

C'mon, man, we admit we were cheering a bit too loudly just now.

But generally speaking, students in Sequence Nine aren't allowed to enter D+++ mazes.

Many students here are still in Sequence Nine.

Chloe saw this and clapped his hands, saying:

"Of course, we're not going alone. Let me introduce someone to everyone. Senior Sister, please come in."

The door of the meeting room opened at that moment.

Miseria wearing glasses and Laura holding a magic staff walked in.

Chloe smiled and said:

"The two seniors from the Fantasy Association will also join the battle, providing Fantasy Show and magic support."

Oh, President.

Have you been negotiating deals with the seniors next door again?

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