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Inside the room, Lin Zhiying awkwardly put away his phone, knowing that Chu Zihang was right next to him.

Caesar contacting him in front of Chu Zihang always made him feel a sense of immorality.

The options he now faces are all extremely difficult:

"Option 1: Team up with Chu Zihang to take down Caesar."

"Option two: Team up with Caesar to eliminate Chu Zihang."

As for Lu Mingfei, please, who is he?

If we exclude Lu Mingze, an off-field factor, Lin Zhiying even feels that handing him over to "One-Cut-Water" would be fine.

The problem is that no matter what you do, either of these options will offend the other party to some extent.

However, he had already made up his mind about "Freedom Day".

"I'm sorry, I refuse. I have other plans regarding 'Freedom Day'."

Lin Zhiying began to speak slowly.

Upon hearing this, Chu Zihang didn't say anything more, but simply nodded in agreement.

In his view, Lin Zhiying must have had his own reasons for doing this.

Lin Chih-ying also sent the same message to Caesar via text message.

"Okay, I respect your choice."

Caesar quickly replied from the other end, slowly putting down his phone.

Inside the Norton House, brightly lit, Caesar's golden hair stood out most among those around him.

All the student council ministers were gathered here, and his gaze was fixed on Caesar, or more precisely, on the cell phone in Caesar's hand. They were all waiting for a message.

Caesar tapped his fingers lightly on the table and put his phone aside.

"So, Chairman, did he agree?"

A student council minister spoke up, saying that they were meeting here today to discuss plans for tomorrow's "Freedom Day".

"To be honest, he's just a freshman, he can't cause any big trouble at all."

Another minister chimed in.

"Exactly, he's just a newcomer with potential. Letting him join is giving him face."

"I've said it before, he's my friend, so please don't say such insulting things about him anymore."

Sensing that the atmosphere in the room was about to veer off in another direction, Caesar, who had been silent all along, suddenly sharpened his gaze and swept over them.

The minister who had just spoken immediately lowered his head.

"The fact that you are sitting here and can be members of the student council shows that you are among the strongest of your peers."

Caesar spoke calmly, glancing around the round table at everyone present.

Those who were looked at by him straightened their chests.

"One of the qualities of the strong is to embrace the weak and allow for the existence of other strong individuals."

"Because we are strong enough, we don't need to elevate ourselves by belittling others. On the contrary, we warmly welcome new challengers!"

It must be said that Caesar was indeed a born leader. Even under these circumstances, without any prior preparation, he managed to stir up the emotions in the room with just a few words.

"Clap clap clap".

It's unclear who started it, but the student council members around them clapped excitedly, and the applause was deafening.

Amidst the enthusiastic applause, Caesar's heart remained restless.

He had a vague sense of unease.

The source was Lin Zhiying, a freshman at Kassel College.

The strong are the whetstone for the strong, but the question is, what if that whetstone is hard enough?

A half-blood who killed a new Dragon King before even enrolling in school—no one knows what kind of potential he might have.

"Let's proceed as planned for now. However, Principal Angers told me beforehand that there will be some other surprises on this 'Day of Freedom,' so we'll wait and see."

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In the dormitory room, Chu Zihang had already slowly left. As the president of the "Lionheart Society," they also needed to discuss the arrangements for tomorrow's "Day of Freedom."

Lin Zhiying checked his stats; his current level was 25.

"To gain a voice on 'Freedom Day,' this level is still too low."

Although it's only the first day of the new version, some players have already leveled up to level 26.

Lin Zhiying's reason for declining Chu Zihang and Caesar's invitation to "Freedom Day" is simple.

That means they were all tricked!

Xuanyu Company has really tricked all the players regarding "Day of Freedom".

In fact, not only the players, but even NPCs like Chu Zihang were fooled by it.

This "Freedom Day" will be different from everyone's expectations.

If players follow the original story exactly, they will only suffer a crushing defeat. After all, this is the first player event in version 2.0, and Xuanyu Company has invested a lot of effort in it.

But he wasn't unprepared for "Freedom Day." On the contrary, everything he had done before would turn into an advantage on Freedom Day.

Thinking of this, Lin Zhiying opened his previous task list.

"Ding! Congratulations on winning first place in the 'Thousands of Skills' event! Your 'Day of Freedom' weight has increased by 5."

The previous "Thousand Machines and Hundred Arts" event has ended with the early launch of version 2.0.

After Lin Zhiying learned the A-level Word of Power "Jun Yan", he crushed everyone with an absolute lead, and his score was almost the sum of the second to tenth place winners. He undoubtedly won first place in this event.

Afterwards, players leave behind their own unique "afterimages" in the starting village.

But that's not enough; he needs to build a level advantage through more other tasks.

Normally, tomorrow would be Freedom Day, and it's already dark, so there's not much time left to complete the task.

But he was prepared.

Lin Zhiying opened the panel, where a previous task was flashing, showing that it was pending settlement.

He clicked on this page.

[S-Rank Quest "Odin's Abyss"]

[Mission Rewards: Rewards for each survival, depending on the difficulty; rewards for each act of destruction, depending on the extent.]

Current escape attempts: 5

Current damage level: 10%

[Currently available rewards: 1000 million experience points, other rewards: ???]

The rewards for killing "Odin" are not limited to what we've already seen. With "Odin's Abyss" gone, the S-rank quest "Odin's Abyss" is also coming to a fruitful end.

The only thing that Lin Zhiying felt a little regretful about was that even after killing Odin once, the destruction level in the mission only increased by 10%.

The saying "a centipede, though dead, does not fall down" probably describes this perfectly.

"Redeem reward".

As Lin Zhiying finished speaking, countless white energies poured into his body.

1000 million experience points seems like a lot, but now that we're in version 2.0, the experience required to level up has increased many times over.

With the injection of experience, the previously slow-growing and almost stagnant experience bar is revived and moves upward at a visible speed.

His level jumped rapidly, from level 26 to level 27 to level 28... until it stopped at level 30!

"Shouldn't this level be enough to gain a voice?"

Looking at the level on the panel, Lin Zhiying spoke up.

On the first day of the new version, most of the tasks had not yet been triggered, and at this time he estimated that the highest level of other players should be around level 26.

The next moment, the previous notification sound continued to play in his ear:

"Your current level is 30, far ahead of other players, and you have received an additional 50 points to your 'Day of Freedom' bonus."

With 50 points of "Day of Freedom" weight, combined with the previous 10 points, for a total of 60 points, it's practically a sure thing.

Of course, the surprises that followed were not limited to these.

Besides that, what caught Lin Zhiying's eye was something that looked like a branch of the World Tree in his backpack.

[Time (incomplete)]

[Authority (Unique)]

[Result: ??? (This feature is not yet available in the current version)]

[Description: One of Odin's powers, permanently stripped away with His death, holds a powerful attraction for beings of dragon blood.]

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