Card simulation, starting with the Goblin Deserter

Hayes smacked his lips and called out to the many students lying on the ground.

"Um, please ask me again, this time I'll answer properly!"

Upon hearing this, the students lying on the ground hurriedly got up, muttering a string of "woo-wah woo-wah" sounds.

Hayes, regardless of whether he understood or not, nodded seriously and replied, "Yes, I'm ready!"

The classroom fell silent the next second.

Suddenly, a mirror appeared on the door frame.

Hayes understood; this meant he should look in the mirror, and he would pass the test.

But...

"You're not trying to scam me, are you?"

Hayes turned his head suspiciously and sized up the group of students.

These students were really about to cry. If this living devil didn't leave soon, who knew what kind of beating they would get!

A total of 49 students (one of whom fainted) frantically waved to Hayes, indicating that they really weren't lying and that they should look in the mirror to pass the test!

Still somewhat skeptical, Hayes stood in front of the mirror. After just one glance, he was certain that the students were probably not lying to him.

The reason is that, in terms of facial features alone, the man in the mirror looks exactly the same as him, but his expression and temperament are a kind of sinister charm that Hayes would never have!

This should be the "boss" of the second level.

The person in the mirror looked at Hayes and laughed coldly: "So you finally realized those students were all monsters in disguise..."

His voice suddenly turned surprised: "Wait, who are these pig-headed men? Where are your classmates?"

Looking at the scenes in the foreign world that were so different from usual, Hayes in the mirror felt something was wrong.

In his mind, those monsters should all be wearing fake smiles... How come they're all bruised and battered, and they seem quite happy, as if they've finally let Hayes pass the next level?

Is something wrong?

Hayes ignored him, examined the mirror for a moment, and then simply strode in.

The surrounding classroom environment suddenly became a void, with only the mirror behind Hayes reflecting the faint light of the real world.

Hayes reached out and touched it, then, finding he couldn't leave, turned to face his reflection in the mirror.

He lowered his eyelids, suppressing the negative emotions surging in his mind one by one, and then asked calmly.

"Tell me the rules, is defeating you all it takes?"

Hayes in the mirror snapped out of his daze and looked at Hayes with a sinister grin that returned.

"You guessed right, defeat me and you can go back to that classroom and reunite with your real classmates."

"But if you lose, you'll be trapped in this mirror, and I will become the real Patton Hayes..."

Before he could finish speaking, Hayes suddenly exerted force with both legs, pulled back his fists and turned his waist, launching a surprise attack on his opponent with maximum power!

However, to Hayes' surprise, his opponent not only followed his movements but also blocked his attack with a standard blocking stance from "free fighting"!

The Hayes in the mirror actually possessed power and skills equal to his own!

This is troublesome...

As Hayes took several steps back and pulled out a card, Hayes in the mirror laughed loudly!

"It's useless, it's useless, I possess all your power!"

"I have every single card in your deck, and... I can use them even better than you!"

He pulled out five cards in a row, threw them into the air, and laughed wildly: "In the mirror world, my magic is limitless!"

"Enjoy the power of your deck!"

"Activate the [Goblin Cheerleaders] and [Goblin Spearmen]!"

"Activating [Lightning Speed]? [Overestimating your abilities]!"

"And this one, [Suicide]!"

Above the mirror world, five cards shone brightly!

Even Hayes felt a chill run down his spine at the intimidating sight.

But Hayes' laughter in the mirror stopped abruptly. He stared at the words "Overestimating One's Abilities" and "Suicide" on the left side of the sky with a puzzled look, and muttered to himself.

"What are these two cards? Why is your deck so strange?"

"Wait, the effect of [Suicide] is... suicide?"

The moment the words fell, Hayes's body in the mirror suddenly swelled up like a balloon, and even when it reached the critical point, it did not stop!

His head was buried inside his body, which had swelled up to a small mountain. In the last moment before the explosion, Hayes only heard a fragmented sentence.

"You're a **, aren't you? What kind of ** card are you carrying! I'll ** you!"

Bang!

Blood splattered everywhere, and even tiny bits of flesh hit Hayes' face.

He remained in the position of taking out his card, staring at the chaotic world in the mirror before him, and only after a long while did he put the card away and sigh.

"Is this guy trying to be funny?"

I thought it was going to be a fierce battle...

The mirror behind him glowed slightly, and Hayes turned around to look, discovering that the other side of the world had changed.

He walked towards the mirror, stepped out, and the next moment he was back in that familiar classroom, only the group of "pig-headed men" had disappeared.

The already gloomy sky outside was now drizzling, and the biting wind blew through the window cracks, hitting everyone's still-shaken faces.

Hayes looked around and saw a dozen or so people sitting scattered around the classroom, all keeping their distance from each other and appearing wary of one another.

Gentry sat in the corner, watching Hayes's hesitant expression, but ultimately did not greet him.

It seems everyone was quite frightened by the "fake classmate".

Hayes sighed inwardly and sat back down in his seat in the last row.

Not long after, the mirror began to glow slightly, and Linda emerged from it.

Surprisingly, she was unharmed, just like Hayes, a stark contrast to the disheveled state of the other students around her.

However, she looked deeply tired, and Loki's Kaling was closely guarding her side.

Even after entering the classroom, she remained vigilant, constantly on guard against the other people in the classroom. She only breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Wu Wukai sitting at Hayes's desk and walked towards him.

"There's a creature in the secret realm disguised as you, but it can't see Loki, so I saw through it."

Hayes looked at Linda sitting next to him and nodded in response, "It's similar to where I am."

Then, he exclaimed in surprise, "You passed the 'Mirror Image' test so easily? You seemed completely unaffected."

Linda gave him a strange look and asked, "You're not injured either, and you seem even more relaxed than me?"

"My situation is a bit special..." Hayes's lips twitched. "How did you defeat the man in the mirror?"

Linda thought for a moment and explained, "It's not that difficult, you just need to overcome your fear."

"Its magic is indeed limitless. It copied my deck and can even summon Loki."

"But it has absolutely no idea how to build a deck; it just uses whichever card it draws. I kept dragging it out until it used up all its cards and then I won..."

It turned out to be the case.

Hayes nodded knowingly. He hadn't fought the person in the mirror head-on and didn't know their background.

Judging by my gut feeling, this is an extremely difficult opponent!

Since so many people in the classroom, including Gentry, were able to pass the level, he instinctively suspected that these people were actually creatures from the secret realm in disguise...

Fortunately, after seeing Loki's Kaling, he confirmed Linda's identity, which broke through the information barrier and avoided the dangerous situation of having no one to trust.

Just as the two were talking, seven or eight more people appeared intermittently in the mirror, but most of them were in very poor condition.

As the last surviving student scrambled out of the mirror, the mirror shattered and vanished instantly, like ice losing its support.

At the same time, on the blackboard behind the podium, the original bloodstains and graffiti seemed to be wiped away and reassembled by an invisible hand.

Finally, it solidified into a sentence that was so neat and rigid that it was stained with bright red!

"Professor Grace's last class today will begin in thirty minutes. All students, please return to your seats before class begins and maintain classroom discipline!!!"

The number of survivors remaining in Class 1 is 27.