Chapter 760 – Three Thousand Mirror Ruins 27

Chapter 760 – Three Thousand Mirror Ruins 27

Three days later, in the early morning when the first light of dawn was barely breaking through, a full half hour before the assembly time set by Teacher Yan Shuang, all twelve students of the fourth-year Mirror Explorer Class One had already arrived. They waited quietly outside the mysterious Mirror Clarity Hall, situated between Starlight Building and Bright Moon Building.

The mirror space they were about to enter—Kaleidoscope Wilderness—was a renowned large-scale two-star mirror space, celebrated for its abundant resources and relatively manageable danger levels. It was widely recognized as an ideal training ground for one-star and two-star Mirror Explorers.

Not only did it yield plentiful one-star and two-star beast cores of various attributes, it also nurtured a vast variety of magical materials—from minerals to herbs and even special biological materials, everything one could ask for. Moreover, the space contained no mirror beast threats beyond the two-star level, allowing Explorers to harvest resources while facing survival pressure that remained within an acceptable range of challenge.

Ownership and management of Kaleidoscope Wilderness belonged to the Eastern China Alliance’s Department of Education, with the space itself directly administered by the Alliance’s Education Bureau.

Besides having one free dedicated teleportation entrance at each key middle school across the Alliance’s various territories, there was only one paid public teleportation entrance located at the Mirror Exploration Center in the Alliance headquarters’ space. The fees were exorbitant—far beyond what ordinary Mirror Explorers could easily afford.

The free teleportation entrance from Deer Cry Mirror to Kaleidoscope Wilderness was located right inside the Mirror Clarity Hall of Deer Cry Middle School, standing before them now.

This was a genuinely enormous resource advantage.

In fact, Mirror Clarity Hall contained more than just the single entrance to Kaleidoscope Wilderness. The hall also maintained permanent teleportation gates to two other one-star medium-sized mirror spaces: Moss Stone Forest and Water-Eroded Caverns.

Ownership of the Moss Stone Forest mirror space belonged to the entire Deer Cry Mirror territory.

Every middle school within the territory that had established a Mirror Explorer Class possessed a free entrance to Moss Stone Forest in their equivalent of Mirror Clarity Hall, though the annual exploration quotas allocated to each school varied based on academic performance and resource distribution.

The Water-Eroded Caverns mirror space, on the other hand, was the personal property of Deer Cry Middle School’s founder. He had stipulated in his will that the space’s resource revenue would be jointly inherited by the school and his descendants.

Therefore, not only did the school’s Mirror Clarity Hall contain a free entrance for its own students, but half of all revenue generated from every paid entrance to that mirror space located elsewhere was also directly deposited into Deer Cry Middle School’s accounts to support the school’s development. Only the remaining half went to the founder’s descendants and family.

However, whether it was Moss Stone Forest or Water-Eroded Caverns, neither could remotely compare to Kaleidoscope Wilderness in terms of space level, area size, resource diversity, or energy concentration.

The mirror beasts and various materials inside these two mirror spaces maxed out at one-star, and their attribute varieties were relatively limited.

One could say that Deer Cry Middle School’s ability to maintain its position as the top school in Deer Cry Mirror for so many years, enjoying the finest student body and teaching staff, owed no small part to its exclusive privilege of free access to Kaleidoscope Wilderness—an extraordinarily weighty advantage.

This was also why the students of Mirror Explorer Class One placed such importance on this practical expedition. Apart from Kaleidoscope Wilderness, there was simply no other place in all of Deer Cry Mirror so perfectly suited for their exploration.

Other mirror spaces were either too dangerous or insufficiently rich in resources, making it difficult to find desirable beast cores—and most of them required entrance fees to boot.

The moment the appointed time arrived, Teacher Yan Shuang’s figure appeared before the heavy doors of Mirror Clarity Hall as if calculated to the second.

She wasted no words. Her gaze swept across the twelve students already standing in formation like a bolt of cold lightning, and upon confirming everyone was present, she uttered a single, crisp command: “Move!”

With that, she turned, presented her access card, and the heavy doors slid inward without a sound.

Entering Mirror Clarity Hall for the first time, nearly every student could barely contain their curiosity and awe, their eyes eagerly scanning the interior.

The space inside Mirror Clarity Hall was far more vast and profound than its exterior suggested. The vaulted ceiling hung high overhead, yet it was not illuminated by ordinary lights. Instead, countless softly glowing Crystal flakes floated suspended in midair, bathing the entire hall in brilliant radiance that was somehow never harsh on the eyes.

But the most striking sight of all was the three enormous mirrors standing in the central area of the hall. These were no ordinary glass mirrors—they were spatial entrances leading to different mirror spaces, each emanating distinctly different auras and halos of light.

The leftmost mirror had a frame composed of rough, ancient gray-brown rock, as if naturally formed.

Its surface did not clearly reflect one’s image, but instead displayed a hazy scene suffused with a faint green moss-like glow.

Looking closely, one could make out the silhouettes of jagged stone pillars and slick, glistening reflections. A faint sense of dampness and the hollow sound of wind seemed to drift through.

According to the placard beside it, this was the entrance to Moss Stone Forest.

The mirror on the right had a frame displaying a complex interplay of milky white, pale yellow, and gray-brown hues, its surface covered in sinuous patterns and holes left by flowing water erosion—like an enormous natural work of art.

Its mirror surface was not a calm reflection, but rather resembled a dynamic, gently rippling “water curtain.”

This water curtain was not entirely transparent, carrying a milky, misty quality reminiscent of underground water. The watery light was deep and dim, and one could vaguely glimpse what seemed to be winding cave passages beyond, hanging stalactite tips, and faint glimmers flickering from the flow of subterranean rivers.

This was the entrance to Water-Eroded Caverns.

The mirror in the center, however, was the most magnificent and extraordinary of all.

Its frame was woven from intertwining vines and iridescent crystalline stones, and upon the vines, leaves and flowers of all four seasons seemed to slowly bloom, wither, and cycle in endless succession.

Within the mirror surface, the scene was a kaleidoscope of shifting wonders: one instant a meadow bursting with flowers in full bloom, the next a blazing sun in a clear sky, then in another flash an autumn forest with leaves swirling down, or a snow-covered ice plain… The four seasons flowed in ceaseless rotation at a pace that defied nature, radiating an intense and chaotic aura of life energy.

This was their destination—the teleportation entrance to Kaleidoscope Wilderness.

Teacher Yan Shuang did not pause for even a moment, striding directly toward the iridescent mirror face where the four seasons swirled.

She took out her access card again, but this time she did not swipe it. Instead, she gently pressed it against a crystalline stone entwined with vines on the mirror frame.

“Hmmm…”

The cycling scenery within the mirror surface suddenly accelerated, then froze, and finally resolved into a stable, profound passage entrance that emitted a soft glow yet revealed nothing of what lay beyond.

“Follow me. Do not stop, and do not touch the mirror’s edge!”

Yan Shuang commanded without looking back, her voice ringing with exceptional clarity through the spacious hall.

She stepped forward first, her figure melting into the surface as if sinking into water, vanishing silently into the iridescent mirror face and disappearing from sight.

The students took a deep breath, suppressed the excitement surging in their hearts, and one by one, in order, carefully stepped into that ever-shifting mirror.