Chapter 810 – Three Thousand Mirror Ruins 77

Mo Lan found herself standing in a wide, immaculate open-air corridor.

Beneath her feet lay milky-white stone, smooth as a mirror with natural veining. The railings were a dark wooden structure entwined with purple flowering vines.

Looking out, the view was extraordinarily expansive.

Purple Wisteria Court turned out to be an exceptionally tall building.

In the distance, many similar high-rises stood in well-arranged clusters, each with its own distinct character. Even further away, the hazy, undulating silhouettes of strange mountains rose and fell.

One side of the corridor faced the open scenery, while the other side was a white wall.

The wall side had no doors—only two enormous oval full-length mirrors hanging upon it.

The mirrors were antique and elegant in design, their frames carved with intricate, exquisite intertwining floral patterns.

Ornate script at the top center of each mirror clearly marked them as “Dormitory No. 1” and “Dormitory No. 2.”

Having read 《Mirror Ruins University Freshman Must-Read Guide》 and 《History of Mirror Ruins University》, Mo Lan knew these were the dormitory entrances.

The student dormitories at Mirror Ruins University were not ordinary buildings. Instead, they had been partitioned and renovated from individual resource-poor mirror spaces unsuitable for development.

These mirrors served as teleportation entrances to the spaces behind them, though only the residents living inside could freely pass through.

The Mirror Lords of all these dormitory mirror spaces also typically served as dormitory administrators, responsible for maintaining spatial stability and handling day-to-day affairs.

Each dormitory was equipped with a dedicated contact mailbox for communication between students and administrators.

The dormitory specifications were also quite particular, ranging from the most spartan ten-person rooms that could barely fit a single bed, to eight-person rooms, six-person rooms, four-person rooms, double rooms, and finally the most well-appointed single rooms.

The ten-person rooms were the only completely free accommodations in the entire school.

After enrollment, new students in the regular program enjoyed one month of free housing in a four-person room.

After that month, those unable to pay the steep mirror coin rent would be unceremoniously “invited” to squeeze into the communal bunks of the ten-person rooms.

Although Mirror Ruins University charged no tuition, studying and living here required mirror coins for absolutely everything—housing, meals, access to training facilities, exchanging for resources, and even attending classes.

Housing fees were merely the beginning.

To study and live here, one either needed personal wealth or had to work hard exploring the Academy’s mirror spaces, then sell what they found to the school or other people to earn mirror coins.

But none of this pressure concerned Mo Lan.

As a student in the youth program, one of her privileges was complete exemption from housing fees, plus a monthly food stipend that was far from meager—enough for her to eat mirror beast meat at every meal.

Mo Lan walked up to the mirror engraved with “Dormitory No. 2” and stepped forward, her figure melting into the mirror’s surface.

She emerged into a simple yet elegant small foyer and reception room.

On the door of the first room to her left was an engraved emblem of a test tube intertwined with herbs.

Mo Lan pushed the door open to find a small potion-mixing room equipped with a basic set of compounding apparatus.

Behind the door adjacent to the potion-mixing room was a body-tempering room, containing a medicinal pool built from jade stone, with runes set along the pool’s edge to control water temperature.

Beside the medicinal pool stood several pieces of training equipment, including treadmills.

Next to the body-tempering room was a cultivation meditation chamber with superb soundproofing.

Beside the meditation chamber was a small training arena, suitable for practicing martial techniques and magic skills.

In addition, there was a separate bedroom, washroom, study, and Teleportation Room.

However, the Teleportation Room here was specifically for sending and receiving letters and parcels—it had no teleportation circle capable of transporting people.

The entire dormitory was even more spacious than her home in Deer Cry Mirror, fully equipped with every amenity, and perfectly suited for living alone.

After briefly familiarizing herself with the layout, Mo Lan wasted no time and immediately headed to the Teleportation Room. She remembered the emphasis in the 《Freshman Must-Read Guide》: the very first thing to do after arriving at one’s dormitory was to activate the mailbox and await the advisor’s letter.

Mirror Ruins University operated on a completely open course-selection system.

Students freely chose their courses, but each class required payment of a corresponding mirror coin fee—essentially “pay-per-class.”

There were no strict grade divisions. Study progress and scheduling were entirely in the students’ own hands, and regardless of how well they did, everyone had to graduate and leave after five years.

Under this highly autonomous, almost “self-service” model, the role of the advisor became critically important.

Each class had one advisor.

The school’s so-called class assignments existed entirely for the convenience of the advisors’ work.

Students could consult their advisor on any matter related to academics or daily life, and advisors were the only teachers students could consult for free during their time at school.

This year’s youth program had only two students, and their advisor was a teacher named Mei Ye.

Mo Lan placed her hand on the cool surface of the mailbox and slowly channeled psychic power into it.

Once the mailbox was successfully activated, she could communicate with others.

Although the school recorded the mirror emblem coordinates of all students, only a few specific departments—such as the admissions office and logistics department—had the authority to teleport items directly into a person’s mirror emblem space.

Within the school, daily communication between teachers and students, and among students themselves, relied primarily on the mailbox delivery system.

The advisor’s enrollment guidance letter, course scheduling recommendations, important notices, and the like would all be delivered through this channel.

Once the activation was complete, Mo Lan let out a soft breath.

Now, all she had to do was wait for Teacher Mei Ye’s instructions.

She didn’t have to wait long before she heard the mailbox hum, and a letter materialized inside out of thin air.

On the envelope’s surface, in elegant yet forceful dark-green ink, were the words “To Student Mo Lan.”

The signature at the bottom was a simple “Mei Ye.”

“That was fast!” Mo Lan took out the envelope and pulled out the letter.

The handwriting on the letter paper matched that on the envelope—it appeared to be Teacher Mei Ye’s own hand:

“Student Mo Lan:

Welcome to the school!

Please bring your course selection proposal and your study plan for the coming month, and arrive punctually at Hundred Arts Tower, Room 307, at eight o’clock tomorrow morning.

We will conduct the youth program’s first meeting and enrollment orientation.

Do not be late.

Mei Ye”

“A monthly study plan?” Mo Lan’s gaze lingered on those words.

She had already prepared her course selection proposal well in advance. After all, choosing courses was the top priority for every new student after enrollment, and advisors always focused heavily on this during the first meeting. The 《Freshman Must-Read Guide》 had emphasized this as well.

After reading through the entirety of 《Mirror Ruins University Course Catalog》, Mo Lan had already decided what courses she wanted to take.

The “monthly study plan,” however, was something she hadn’t thought about. Her rough idea had been to attend the classes that interested her first, get familiar with the school—especially the school’s library spaces.

The teacher was probably asking for this to evaluate their ability to plan independently, so she needed to prepare it carefully.

Mo Lan went to the study and, combining it with her course selection preferences, wrote out a reasonably detailed study plan.

The next morning at seven-fifty, she activated her mirror emblem’s teleportation function and teleported to the third floor of Hundred Arts Tower. (End of Chapter)