It was known that there were two types of resources within the campus management system—education points and money.
All other functions were essentially based around these two resources.
In other words, to maximize the function of the campus management system, one had to collect as many education points and money as possible.
In the early stages, the direction of construction should also closely revolve around the acquisition of these two resources.
Especially for education points, this unique resource within the campus management system mainly had three sources: first, student recruitment; second, student training; third, the rising of school ranking.
Among them, student recruitment is undoubtedly the fastest and simplest method, but there was no need to consider it now, as each school only had one recruitment opportunity per year. Moreover, once the names were reported to the Ministry of Education, it meant that this year’s recruitment had ended, and no new students could be admitted.
At the same time, refreshing the candidate list even once required as many as 3,000 education points, making it almost impossible to break even unless a student with Grade A Talent was found.
The system was clearly not designed with the intention for continuous refreshing to be the main method of earning education points.
Therefore, to obtain education points, one generally had to find ways through student training and school ranking.
Both had their advantages and disadvantages.
Among them, student training tended to yield fewer education points; after a period of study, each student might only contribute a few education points to Ma Lu.
But the advantage was the high frequency; as long as improvements were made, whether in cultural class aspects, Talisman Master skills, combat abilities, or even just an increase in physical function, education points could be obtained through exams.
Moreover, the timing was quite flexible; whenever there was a need, it could be collected. Theoretically, as the principal, Ma Lu could even mandate daily exams in the school, but then everyone would have no time to study and would be taking exams all the time. Without improved performances, there would be no output of education points.
Therefore, exams should not be too frequent; monthly exams were the limit. Any more than that and the pressure on the students would be tremendous, potentially leading to school fatigue and a decline in learning efficiency.
In addition to the monthly exams, there were also the Talisman Master Association’s ranking exams.
These were quite significant. Similar to Go, the Talisman Master Association had also divided Talisman Masters into nine grades, from one to nine.
By participating in the corresponding grade exams and passing, one could obtain a certificate for that grade and be recognized by the Talisman Master Association.
Moreover, the number of high-grade students was an important indicator of the strength of a Talisman Master university.
Generally speaking, the higher the students’ grades and the more students with high grades, the stronger the faculty and the higher the education level of the school.
Compared to the internal exams organized by the school itself, the Talisman Master Association’s ranking exams had fixed times, about once every half a year.
If a student felt confident about advancing to the next grade, they could sign up through the school.
After passing the assessment, the Talisman Master Association and the Ministry of Education would award the student with prizes. In addition, the Ministry of Education would distribute extra stipend rewards to schools based on the annual number of ranking candidates.
Furthermore, the ranking exams were recognized and highly valued by the campus management system.
Each successful ranking attempt would yield an education point reward ranging from 50 to 10,000 points.
However, there were still two full months until the next ranking exam, so this part of the reward didn’t concern Ma Lu yet.
Other than exams, a school’s rising ranking could also bring education points, and these were in large quantities: advancing one place on the leaderboard could yield 5,000 education points, and ten places would bring in 50,000.
Hou De was currently ranked 167th among Talisman Master colleges by the Ministry of Education, which was basically at the bottom.
If able to surge to the top of the list, one could gain a massive 830,000 education points in one go—a colossal sum. However, regrettably, the Ministry of Education updated the college rankings in June every year.
That meant that the Ministry of Education had just updated the college rankings three months ago, and the next update would not be until nine months later, which was obviously too long a wait for Ma Lu.
Having reviewed the regular methods of acquiring education points, one could say that indeed they all closely adhered to the theme of teaching and educating students; generally, the better a student was cultivated, the more education points could be obtained.
But beyond that, Ma Lu had discovered another way to obtain education points in scientific research.
—Combat experience.
As expected, as Talisman Masters served as an important force in clearing Disaster Zones and maintaining world stability, their combat abilities were also extremely important. Participating in clearing Disaster Zones was undoubtedly seen by the system as an important means to increase combat experience.
Therefore, after successful research of the skill "Practice is the best teacher," each combat session, based on the number of students participating, would yield corresponding education points.
Yet the amounts were small; for example, in a Level 1 Disaster Zone, each person would only get 2 education points.
Given the current number of students in Hou De, even if Ma Lu deployed all the students, one battle would yield only 41×2, which was 82 education points—admittedly a bit too low.
But, combined with another scientific experiment skill "Weight Training," it could temporarily reduce the participating teachers and students’ physical strength and spiritual power by 50%, in exchange for doubling the education points after the battle.
With the double boost from "Practice is the best teacher" and "Weight Training," one combat session could now provide 164 education points.
And yet this was not the end—"Surrounded."
The effect of this scientific experiment skill was to double the number of monsters in the Disaster Zone, while also temporarily imposing a debuff named "Panicked" on the combatants. In a panicked state, there was a 20% chance of making mistakes in combat decision-making and execution of actions.
As a trade-off, this would result in a threefold increase in education points rewards after the battle.
This meant that just by employing "Surrounded," one combat session could yield as much as 492 education points.
However, this would also bring about a problem—bearing two debuffs would greatly weaken the team’s strength and decrease the success rate of clearing the Disaster Zone.
Furthermore, due to the effect of "Surrounded," the density of monsters in the Disaster Zone would increase. Meanwhile, in a "Panicked" state, both the leading teachers and the students in the team would continually make mistakes.
Casualties were almost inevitable.
As the principal of Hou De, Ma Lu certainly did not wish for the school to suffer reductions in staff, especially since the entire school, including the logistic personnel, still had fewer than 50 people.
And since the recruitment for this year had ended, while teachers and other staff members might still be recruited, the loss of a student meant the loss was real and would have to wait until next year to be replenished.
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Fortunately, Ma Lu had already found a solution.
He first found an unused school building and then spent 18 education points in the item shop to purchase the necessary equipment for constructing a scientific research laboratory—a scientific experiment instrument.