The town of Bantham, located two hundred miles southwest of Gudris City, is bustling with activity at this time of year. Fire and Literature? ??? ．?ｒ ａ ｎ?ｅｎ`ｏｒｇ

The Freshman Competition, a comprehensive competition designed to encourage new freshmen to train hard, compete with each other, and develop practical experience and a sense of teamwork, has begun, and is usually held by schools separately (and many houses choose to co-organize) from March to the end of the year, in the dungeon next to the town of Bantum.

Although the reputation of the Siamus Comprehensive School is not good, the financial situation has always been among the best among all magic academies, which is also a matter that many people are confused about, like the vast majority of emerging colleges, Siamus has been taking the civilian route all these years, but for the funds needed to maintain the operation of such a huge school, the cheap tuition fees charged are obviously far from enough, at most it can maintain a minimum of daily operations, so in order to achieve balance of payments, there is also a need for new sources of funding.

There have always been rumors in Gudris City that the original founder of the Siamers Comprehensive School held a stake in the Haifa Chamber of Commerce, one of the richest organizations in the Dawn Continent, and could enjoy a large dividend every year, and he did not have any heirs, so he left the dividend to the school after his death, but this statement was not recognized by the Haifa Chamber of Commerce, and Siamers has been silent on this issue.

But one thing is certain, the school's principal almost never worried about money, for this freshman competition, Siamers also invested a lot of money, and in one go, he chartered a small competition field on the third floor that can accommodate 500 people, and unlike other colleges' ten-day freshman competition, the freshman competition planned by Siamers is expected to last up to a month, which also makes many small colleges who choose to pool money to jointly hold a red.

When Rob and the others arrived in Buntum Town, it was just in time for the Silver Tower to end their freshman competition, as the old school of Siamers, the Silver Tower Magic Academy is also full of talents, there are four third-order magicians who have been enrolled, and the A-level qualification has reached an astonishing seven, obviously their enrollment work last year went smoothly.

In contrast, Siamers's side is much inferior, only Caesar is a class A qualification, and the B class qualification is also pitiful, and the remaining big votes are basically C and D qualifications, and it is destined to be difficult to achieve much in the future, and the number seems to be quite a lot, especially when there are several other departments mixed together, but no matter how you look at it, it gives people the feeling of a ragtag army.

Most of the students in the Silver Tower looked down on the students of Siams, and some of the Siams students came over to find them to collect some information about the competition field, but unless they were cute girls, most of them ignored them, and they usually met them on the street, and they basically all had their nostrils facing the sky, so they almost wrote "I don't know you" on their faces.

Rob has a little impression of this magic academy, the Silver Tower has a grudge with the Teist Royal Academy of Magic because of something ten years ago, so when Rob became famous in the north, this magic academy was the first to jump out and question, suspecting that Steines had exaggerated his talent, and had sent people to come all the way to challenge him, but naturally it was not surprising that their trump card who had just advanced to the fifth order was beaten all over the ground by Rob, who was still in the third order, and he had no power to fight back from beginning to end.

Afterwards, although the Teist Royal Academy of Magic was very kind and did not publicize this matter, but there was a record of the magic crystal of that battle from some source, and the tragic situation of the challenger was also talked about for a long time, and then the Silver Tower was completely honest, because of this matter, they couldn't recruit excellent newcomers for three or four consecutive years, and the ranking in the south once fell out of the top ten, and it wasn't until these two years that they came back again, and they didn't expect to meet them here again.

The four-person team didn't go to join in the fun, Rob is not short of money now, and he has basically collected the information from Lois, and he has also practiced together, and all he has to do after that is to wait for the competition to start.

Since the competition field had just been used by the Silver Tower, it would take two days of maintenance before it could be reopened, so the regular students had nothing to do for the past two days, except for the Student Council, which was hurrying to prepare for the work, so at someone's suggestion, everyone decided to take a stroll around the town of Bantham.

Similar to Ryan's development trajectory, before the appearance of the nearby dungeon, Bandam Town did not have any special products, just an ordinary town with a population of less than two thousand, but with the continuous influx of adventurers and merchants, today's Bandam Town has a permanent population of nearly 17,000, and at most this number has exceeded 20,000, as the first few layers have been opened one after another, the number of low-level adventurers with the largest base has decreased, and the population has also dropped to a certain extent.

Now that there is only the last floor of this dungeon in the town of Bandam that can be completely attacked, there is nothing to do with ordinary adventurers at this time, but fortunately, the infrastructure built in the early stage is still there, and there is also a sufficient population reserve, no matter what, it is impossible to decay back to the way it was before, but it is not easy to continue to maintain prosperity, so in recent years, the town of Bandam has been working hard to transform into a tourist and functional town.

In this regard, the town has a unique advantage, in addition to the dungeon, the scenery near Bantem is also very good, backed by a small mountain range, there are almost no beasts in the mountain, but there are a lot of rare wildlife, and there are several hot springs, it is a good place for vacation, in fact, every summer there will be a lot of nearby nobles to come to the summer to escape the heat, if time permits, Rob would not mind staying here for a few more days.

Unfortunately, the two days passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was the day of the competition.

Siamers has a total of 126 squads signed up for this competition, and the maximum number of players in each squad is five, of course, if you are confident enough in your own strength, you can also choose one person and one team, and if you can finish in the top ten, you can enjoy all the rewards at the end.

In addition, there will be more than 70 teachers and student council experts composed of a committee of judges, who have entered the competition half a day in advance, and their task is mainly to ensure the fairness of the competition, prevent people from using unethical means to cheat in the competition, but also to protect the personal safety of the participants. Of course, compared to the vast dungeons, this level of referee is undoubtedly not enough to deal with all situations, so the captain of each squad also carries a magic guide on his body, and if he encounters danger or runs out of supplies, he can send an emergency call for help to the neighborhood, of course, once he does, it means that your team has given up the game. (To be continued.) )