Chapter 2, The Era of the Reincarnators

Binhai City Fifth Middle School has a history of over ten thousand years, and the school has accumulated thousands of teaching copies, with the Pirate Kingdom being just one of the inconspicuous minor copies.

These are the achievements obtained by humanity's ancestors after exploring the cycle space for one hundred thousand years. Many powerful ancestors gained immense strength from the cycle space, fought for merit in the space, earned military ranks, and subsequently acquired privileges, gradually changing the treatment of humanity in the cycle space, up to the present day

It has been five years since we last met, and now he no longer remembers what the treasure chest key looks like

Ye Qing currently holds the rank of a recruit, which is the rank assigned to every newcomer entering the reincarnation space, without any privileges

Of course, also because it is temporary, when students die in the reincarnation instance, they will not lose their lifespan, but will only be weakened for a period of three to seven days, and will not die.

Moreover, this instance has served as a teaching copy for over one hundred years, and its resources have been completely depleted. Aside from the main storyline, all side quests and hidden plots have vanished due to excessive development. In this instance, apart from obtaining a small amount of resources by completing the main storyline, there are virtually no other resources available. Even the treasure chests dropped by the final bosses, which are most favored by the students, have been of declining quality.

The attribute limit for a normal adult is 10. Logically speaking, this is already quite good. However, considering that Ye Qing has been training for five years in middle school, this attribute can only be described as pitifully low. The most frustrating part is that there is only one month left until the college entrance examination, and this amount of time is likely insufficient for him to raise his attributes even slightly.

The teaching instance is a unique instance belonging to the school, obtained by the school's elite through special tasks upon meeting certain conditions. Access is restricted to those permitted by the instance owner.

Although temporary reincarnators may gain rewards in the instance, the fact that their status is temporary means that the rewards will be diminished by ninety percent

Originally, following the teacher's team yielded little reward; if it were to be further diminished by ninety percent, there would essentially be no gains at all. During the five years at Ye Qing High School, I have participated in public dungeons no less than thirty times, yet until now, my total assets amount to only 116 points of experience, 1 skill point, and 0 attribute points

As for those rumors, he merely listened and never considered seeking it out himself

In the distance, he heard three people chatting, discussing matters related to the school. The three of them were originally a temporary team, acting together, but he was not included.

He indeed wishes to earn merit, but unfortunately, he currently lacks the strength and the opportunity to obtain merit points. Without merit points, it is simply impossible to advance in rank.

It is important to know that this Pirate King is the largest BOSS in this dungeon and is also the only BOSS in the current dungeon that drops treasure chest keys. After each battle, the Pirate King always dies, and the keys that drop will then benefit those top students.

With a sigh, Ye Qing withdrew his gaze, standing up from the deck to look at the two three-masted ships engaged in a boarding battle in the distance, revealing a look of envy.

It is not that there are none, but rather that the cost-performance ratio is too low. Who knows which dungeons still contain hidden storylines that have yet to be discovered? After so many years, they must be hidden very deeply. The probability of actually finding them is too low, and he does not have the time or points for that

Ye Qing sighed, walked from the deck to the edge of the ship, and jumped directly into the sea, swimming towards the naval flagship

At this moment, instructions from the teacher came through the temporary team channel, directing all students to resolve their current matters and converge at the naval flagship in preparation for the final assault

The two three-masted ships, one serving as the flagship of the pirate fleet and the other as the flagship of the naval fleet, represent the two major factions of this instance and are central to the main storyline, depicting the warships of the pirates and the royal navy.

That single skill point was obtained purely by chance when encountering a hidden storyline in a public dungeon

The pirate kingdom replica he is currently in is located in the Special Administrative Region of the Federal Solar System, the Earth Special Administrative Region, the Asian Region, the South China Region, and the Fifth Middle School of Binhai City. Ye Qing is a regular student in Class C of the fifth grade at the Fifth Middle School.

Even in the worst regular class, there are still distinctions in performance, and there are so-called top students in the class who are favored by the teachers. Every time they enter the teaching instance, they are always by the teacher's side, directly ascending to the naval flagship to confront the Pirate King head-on

Of course, he was not the only one on this single-masted sailboat; on the other side of the boat, three students jumped in with a splash and swam towards that direction, just like Ye Qing.

Ke Yeqing currently has just over 100 points in total assets, and using them would reduce the amount by half

Reincarnators must experience different instances, among which there are certainly water battles. Everyone in school learns swimming techniques; while their speed may not be very fast, it ensures that they will not drown

Moreover, the military ranks within the reincarnation space are synchronized with reality. The military rank and status you obtain in the space are recognized by the real-world federal government, granting you equal rights.

If he were strong enough, it would be fine; one could try to see if it is possible to earn it back. However, the problem is that he is not impressive. Unless luck is extraordinarily on his side, it is certain to incur a loss

In fact, at the very beginning, when humanity discovered the cycle of reincarnation space one hundred thousand years ago, it was quite brutal. Once one died in the instance, it meant true death. Unlike now, where even if a formal reincarnator dies, it merely results in a loss of lifespan, with the years lost varying depending on one's strength and the manner of death, rather than resulting in complete death

In the realm of space, the status of each reincarnator is determined solely by their military rank. The higher the rank, the higher the status, thereby granting privileges and advantages within the space.

Of course, the key to the treasure chest is in the teacher's hands, but even some scraps are not something an ordinary student like Ye Qing can conceive. In fact, since middle school, he has only touched the treasure chest key once in five years, and that was merely a touch before handing it over to the teacher

The fifth-grade representatives of the middle school have reached the end, in the final year, Class C represents the average students, above them are the excellent students in Class B, and the elite Class A, indicating that Ye Qing is among the weakest group of students this semester

The resources in each instance are limited, especially in teaching instances like this one, which have been traversed by students almost every couple of months for hundreds of years. They have long been depleted. Currently, the maximum one can earn is just over a hundred basic points, and skill points are impossible to obtain, let alone attribute points. Up to now, Ye Qing has never seen anyone obtain attribute points in any teaching instance, although he has occasionally heard of someone striking it lucky and finding hidden storylines that grant attribute point rewards.

It should be noted that, apart from the opportunity to access the teaching instance every Monday, he does not have the chance to enter the reincarnation space instance during regular times, unless he spends 50 points of credits to apply to the school for a space connection point to enter a specific instance on his own.

Ye Qing is not envious of this enormous three-masted warship, but rather envious of the classmates on the navy flagship