Hundreds of graduates cheered excitedly, shouting "Lynn"'s name while also feeling lucky to be graduating this year.

The students in the other dormitories were incredibly envious. A +1 to their graduation resume rating— for many students, this would change the course of their lives. To be able to graduate this year was truly a stroke of luck.

In the fourth-year dormitory building, a wolf-like howl suddenly erupted from one of the rooms.

"Charles Lynn, the ninth-level difficulty of Seth Canyon has been cleared! Our resume rating just went up by 1! We're set now! 'Lynn' is amazing!"

Inside the dorm, a burly man built like a bear was hugging a thin man wearing a virtual sensory helmet, shouting excitedly, creating a rather odd scene.

"Enough, Henry Lewis, are you trying to kill your roommate?"

Struggling out of the bear hug, Charles Lynn took off his virtual sensory helmet. His long, slightly narrowed eyes glared at his roommate and best friend. "I've been spectating on the virtual platform the whole time—do you think I wouldn't know about this?"

"Hehehe... Our graduating class is so lucky this year! Tonight, we're going to party all night! I'm going to find people, you come over soon too." Henry Lewis grinned, turned, and dashed out of the room to gather students from the surrounding dorms.

Charles Lynn looked around the dorm, his mind still a bit blank—this was the usual feeling after suddenly exiting the virtual platform.

"The ninth-level difficulty of Seth Canyon... graduation resume +1... For the vast majority of graduates in the Star-Ao Empire, this must be a huge event worth celebrating..."

Clutching the virtual sensory helmet in his hand, Charles Lynn murmured, "But what about me? Four years of glory in the virtual warzone ends just like that, and the only reward is a +1 to my graduation resume..."

"By this time tomorrow, I'll have truly graduated, and the Alliance Academy's virtual platform will be closed to me. From then on, I'll really just be an ordinary person..."

With a soft sigh, Charles Lynn caressed the virtual sensory helmet, reluctant to let go.

At that moment, Henry Lewis's voice came from outside the door, snapping Charles Lynn back to reality. He turned off the virtual sensory helmet.

"Ding... Codename 'Lynn', exiting the Alliance Academy virtual platform..."

Chapter 02: Nanluo Graduation Season

The next day.

Morning light spilled over Nanluo Academy, this prestigious school with a thousand-year history. The air around the campus still carried the remnants of last night's all-night celebration.

From dawn, many graduates had already begun leaving the school, carrying hopes for the future as they headed to training camps across the Star-Ao Empire for tryouts.

In one corner of the academy, at the Nanluo Academy Repair Club.

Charles Lynn sat at the workbench, wearing safety goggles and sensory gloves. His hands moved so fast they left afterimages as he disassembled two virtual sensory helmets, inspecting and repairing damaged components, sparks occasionally flying.

Normally in the mornings, there were hardly any people in the repair club. Occasionally, someone would come to fix equipment, but that was usually after noon.

But today was different. People kept coming into the repair club, their eyes glancing over, seemingly admiring the repair skills of the club president and top technician, Charles Lynn.

In fact, everyone present knew that Charles Lynn was known as the "Shadowless Mechanic" at Nanluo Academy. To clearly see his repair process, you’d need to use a holographic recording and slow it down tenfold to truly understand what was happening.

Of course, these students weren’t here so early for Henry Lewis, the burly man with bear ancestry standing by the workbench—most people usually avoided him.

The real reason they came was for the two stunningly beautiful women by the workbench.

One of them wore a silver-white school uniform, her features delicate and her figure voluptuous. She was speaking softly with Henry Lewis.

The other woman leaned against the workbench, her teal uniform accentuating her curvaceous figure. Her face was breathtakingly beautiful, with a hint of heroic spirit in her brows—so stunning it was almost shocking.

The woman talking to Henry Lewis was Ellen Avery, a fourth-year student and the third-ranked graduate of this year’s Nanluo Academy.

As for the woman in the teal uniform, she was Grace White, ranked second among all graduates of the Star-Ao Empire this year.

Ever since Grace White and Ellen Avery entered Nanluo Academy four years ago, their admirers could have circled the entire campus a dozen times.

Today was the day these two genius campus beauties were leaving school, and students from all grades had come to catch a glimpse of them.

"Henry Lewis, do you know how ugly the faces of the other countries' top students were last night in Virtual Warzone 52, when 'Lynn' broke through the ninth-level difficulty of Seth Canyon..."

Ellen Avery laughed softly, her eyes sparkling, her curvy figure trembling slightly as she recounted last night’s legendary event.

Henry Lewis curled his lip and said, "Ellen Avery, 'Lynn' is amazing, but his record on the virtual platform over the past four years could still be surpassed in the future. Don’t forget, in the continent’s university circles, there’s still the [Ninety-Nine Core Code Lock]—I doubt 'Lynn' can crack that..."

At these words, not only Ellen Avery but even Grace White laughed. The [Ninety-Nine Core Code] on the virtual platform hadn’t been cracked in three hundred years—its difficulty was far higher than the ninth-level of Seth Canyon.