The Lord Demon King is Unfathomable!

Chapter 1229 - 365: Another New Map Update?

Early in the morning, in the faculty dormitory tower, the diligent and dedicated assistant had already gathered all the assignments, and brought them over with the help of two apprentices and a small cart.

In fact, he didn't have to deliver them personally. The Tower of Great Sage has assistants like Kegi who specialize in administrative work, excelling at errands and communication tasks.

However, someone had spread the word that Prince Colin is an incredibly generous gentleman, whose tips include a priceless Demon Crystal, making serving him a coveted task among the assistants.

Taking the assignments from the assistant's hands, Sarah carried them into the study and placed them next to the desk.

Having gotten up early, Luo Yan stretched lazily in front of the desk, looking at the pile of assignments stacked like a mountain, roughly counting over a thousand sheets.

Some people, to show their seriousness, specifically used parchment for making scrolls to write. Others, even though they used wood pulp paper, wrote several thousand words in a free-flowing manner, stapling together not just one sheet.

All the assignments were labeled with numbers and arranged in order.

Taufu laughed on the side, her gloating expression seemed to say — 'Serves you right for showing off! Let's see how you end up!'

Her sniggling expression was truly infuriating, but Luo Yan naturally wouldn't stoop to argue with a little brat.

Besides, he didn't plan to grade these assignments himself; if she thought such a minor task could stump the respectable Lord Demon King, she'd be underestimating the power of the masses.

"Youyou, scan and upload, start an event thread," Luo Yan leaned back in the chair, instructing the white mist floating nearby, and took a sip of coffee, "Just to hype up the new map...correcting a paper earns you ten Joss Paper, limited spots, first come first served."

"Got it~"

Youyou responded cheerfully, the white mist surged, enveloping all those assignments and then packaging them up for upload to Catastrophe OL's official forum, along with an eye-catching headline —

[Guessing Event: "The Demon King as a Master in the Academic State": What score should I give these assignments?]

The ten Joss Paper reward wasn't much, but for players constantly keeping an eye on game trends, it was undoubtedly a rare bit of fun.

Especially since this event included the Academic State, which only existed in the background setting!

"Whoa! New plot content again? Wait, how did our Demon King end up teaching in the Academic State?!"

"Why is the sky green? I know this one! Because I moved the prairie to the sky! (dog head)"

"Why don't you say you moved it to your dog head? (funny)"

"Get lost!"

"You idiot upstairs, this is a serious discussion thread! I think the guy who wrote a 6,000-word thesis arguing steel is soft is a genius, deserves full marks!"

"Is this new map setup? Quick, tell me it is!"

"Stop arguing, I've bet everything above 90 points! Quick, when will the Academic State map open? I can't wait to become a Mage!"

Amongst the players' chattering discussions, those thousands of assignments were not nearly enough to go around, and the grading and feedback were completed almost instantly.

Luo Yan looked at the statistical results presented in his Sea of Consciousness and nodded with satisfaction.

In this intellectually barren place, a few unique "flowers" had finally bloomed. The probability might be low, around one percent, but it was enough.

Incidentally, how many points the players gave don't really matter; he could guess with his eyes closed that they wouldn't grade seriously, so he wouldn't adopt them anyway.

He mainly looked at the feedback, which essentially served as a summary by the players, and then Youyou would aggregate it.

This way, it could greatly save him the time of reading through long essays.

It's inevitable some people wrote nonsense, but among a hundred people, there are always one or two who take it seriously.

That's all he needed.

Luo Yan waved his Magic Wand, signaling the dozen or so feather pens floating nearby to get to work, then pulled out a few particularly outstanding assignments.

Among those special assignments, an answer by a student named Ilana was particularly satisfying to him.

However, her response wasn't sharp enough.

She should've directly written – the sky is the sky, the water is the water, steel is steel, before discussing "why," we must first clarify the concept of "is or is not."

Many people actually lack this concept, which is what's called the "sense of chives," they haven't even figured out what logic is before attempting logical deductions.

Of course, Luo Yan knew well that most of these assignments were attempts to guess the mindset of the proposer.

The Academic State lacks no clever minds, only fools unaware of their ignorance think that the rare talents are genuinely foolish rather than playing dumb.

They are merely using the most secure and advantageous way to earn that "reward" worth one credit.

This was understandable, but not what he wanted.

"My laboratory happens to lack an apprentice, she could come help me out," Luo Yan grinned, placing the relatively satisfying answer sheet aside.

Just as Luo Yan was picking out the future "Science School" team, Taufu, lying by the fireplace, widened her eyes at the feather pens scribbling furiously.

"Aren't you even going to look at them?!"

She couldn't see Youyou, nor know of Catastrophe OL's existence, of course not knowing these papers were already graded.

Seeing her ignorant look, Luo Yan teased with a smile.