At this moment, Haoran and Ling Luochen stood in the middle of a large hall, as everyone in his inner circle gathered.
The floor was laid with cool white jade, smooth as a mirror, catching the lantern light that hung from the ceiling.
Outside, the night wind brushed past the tall palace walls of the academy grounds, but inside, nobody was paying attention to the weather.
Every person standing in the room was looking at the thin air right before their eyes.
Floating in front of each face was a small square of soft blue light.
All of them had been given a sub-system for becoming an 'NPC', and they can access parts of the system.
It did not hurt their eyes, and it did not make a sound, but it showed clean rows of words and numbers that tracked their health, their energy, and their gear, with a 3D projection of their own physical body slowly spinning around.
