Chapter 153: Major Changes Before Departure

Sun Fei shook his head and looked at Oleg with a slightly softer gaze. This fat guy’s earlier performance showed that he still had some conscience, and it was worth Sun Fei’s previous efforts to keep him safe.

“Do not worry, I know what I am doing!”

Prison Warden Oleg was right. The world behind the giant black steel door was indeed very dangerous. Several previous kings had sent many people to explore it, but none had returned. However, Sun Fei had his own reasons for needing to go and see what was behind it. He had to quickly figure out what was hidden there. From every angle, Shampoo City held too many mysteries. Though they seemed beautiful and mysterious, for Shampoo City, it was like sitting on a volcano that could erupt at any time. So Sun Fei had to control the risks that might come if the ‘volcano’ really erupted.

Of course, Sun Fei was not taking this risk without any plan.

After clearing the first level of the World of Diablo, the Rogue Encampment, with all seven professions, the rewards gave Sun Fei more confidence to explore the dangerous maze. Before officially entering the dark steel door to explore, he needed to make some more arrangements. Sun Fei had a clear feeling that this time he might be away for a long time, so he had to make sure that everything in Shampoo City would keep running smoothly while he was gone.

The next day, Sun Fei started preparing for his exploration behind the steel door.

Besides a lot of long ropes and paint, he also prepared food and water. These were all prepared secretly by Prison Warden Oleg. Apart from this useful fat guy, no one else in Shampoo City knew about Sun Fei’s plan.

At the same time, Sun Fei also finalized the last plans for Hero City.

A higher-level institution than the Chambord City Civil and Military School, the Shampoo City University, was quietly established in Hero City. While the Civil and Military School taught basic skills like simple martial arts and magic meditation by people like Brook, the courses at Shampoo City University were more specialized and detailed. Nun Acarra taught Mysterious Potion Making and Scroll Crafting. The female Rogue leader Kashya taught Magic Archery. Dark Blacksmith Charsi taught Blacksmithing and Equipment Enchanting. The shady old man Kane taught Magic Principles and Magic Meditation. The eternal extra, the boatman Warriv, taught some knowledge about marching, ships, and surviving in the wild. Even the NPC fat guy Gheed, who always hid deep in the Rogue Encampment and liked gambling and cheating, was summoned to the real world by Sun Fei in his role as the supreme leader of the Rogue Encampment. He could teach Deception, Diplomacy, and Psychology…

Besides being the principal, Sun Fei also personally started many highly specialized subjects like Assassination Techniques, Combat Arts, Beast Taming, the four schools of magic (Ice, Fire, Lightning, Poison), Healing Magic, the study of projectile weapons like bows and javelins, and Magic Trap making.

The school was set up in Hero City. The classrooms were built earlier when they were renovating the Underground Grotto Labyrinth. Each department had not only teachers but also plenty of space and labs. The basic facilities were all there. Sun Fei almost completely recreated the setup of the third-rate school he attended in his previous life.

Of course, there were also entertainment facilities.

Sun Fei, feeling mischievous, created three swimming pools, a decent-sized bar, a football field, and two basketball courts inside the Underground Grotto Labyrinth. Then he had his clever fiancée Angela and Gemma make simple basketball and football skins. They used tough magical beast bladders filled with air as the inner part. After several improvements, they were almost no different from the finely made balls produced by machines in his previous life. It turned out that the global popularity of basketball and football in his previous world was no accident. With Sun Fei’s explanations and participation, both sports quickly became very popular in Shampoo City and the Underground Grotto Labyrinth. Their popularity far exceeded Sun Fei’s expectations. Many citizens of Shampoo City used to just take walks after meals, but now these two sports took up much of their free time. A basketball team formed by the twenty-two warriors, including Drogba and Pierce, dominated Shampoo City without any rivals… Cultural and sports activities were booming in Shampoo City.

Of course, the existence of the Underground Grotto Labyrinth still had to be kept secret within the country for now.

According to Sun Fei’s plan, the university would mainly select students from the children at the Chambord City Civil and Military School and the loyal soldiers who had combat experience. Besides having strict requirements on identity and loyalty, other things like talent, age, and background, which were usually very important on the Azeroth Continent, were considered less important. This was because Shampoo City desperately needed talented people now. Sun Fei had to open the door widely and recruit talent from all sources!

However, the parts of Hero City that these students could access were only the areas before the first eleven of the twenty-two steel defense doors. This was also where the main part of Shampoo City University, the classrooms, and the lab areas were located. They could not see the core areas inside the mountain. Only those who passed many tests would have the chance to gain the King’s approval and enter the core area behind the last eleven gates.

Besides the talent training system, military facilities were another major focus for Sun Fei.

Sun Fei introduced all the special forces training systems and methods he had seen on TV and in books in his previous life into the military school in the Underground Grotto Labyrinth. Some simple magic could help recreate the effects of real explosions or fire scenes from his previous life. High and low walls, rope nets, obstacles, crawling under barbed wire, etc., were all perfectly recreated in the military training ground according to Sun Fei’s designs. Besides these common training setups, Sun Fei also created a very dangerous real combat training field that no one expected.

This was a giant pit ten meters deep. A small ‘steel elevator’ was installed on the side. Unless you were a Three-Star Level expert or above, you could only enter or leave this pit using this ‘elevator.’ Inside this pit, Sun Fei kept dozens of monsters that no one in Shampoo City had ever seen before, but were very familiar to everyone in the World of Diablo – the Fallen. To be precise, there were fifteen Fallen and one Fallen Shaman.

“Each of these monsters probably has strength close to a One-Star Warrior. That bigger monster holding the strange Magic Staff has the strength of a low-level One-Star Level. They are very cruel and cunning. Their only weakness is that they are cowardly. I need the soldiers to fight these monsters to gain real combat experience, but safety must be ensured. As long as you do not kill that larger Fallen Shaman, it can use its magic to constantly revive the dead monsters. This way, we don’t have to worry about finding replacements if we kill them all.”

Sun Fei called Prison Warden Oleg, Taurus Golden Knight Drogba, Capricorn Golden Knight Pierce, and Cech to his side. He carefully explained how to use this beast-fighting arena. Then he personally took them down to experience the Fallen’s fighting power. With Sun Fei, an expert who could instantly kill the monsters, present, everyone was safe. After they clearly understood the monsters’ strength, Sun Fei put Peter Cech, the strongest among them, in charge of this place.

Summoning these monsters was actually a new function of one of the Three Divine Skills, the Summoning skill, after it was upgraded as a reward for Sun Fei clearing the Rogue Encampment with all seven professions. By spending a certain amount of experience points, Sun Fei could summon any type of monster from the first act, the Rogue Encampment. He could even summon the major BOSS monsters, but he could not control the summoned monsters yet. That is why Sun Fei came up with this method to train the soldiers’ combat abilities.

After doing all this, everything in Shampoo City began to run in an orderly way. Even if King Sun Fei was temporarily away, it would not have a big impact.

Sun Fei spent some time with his fiancée Angela. He also carefully observed and adjusted the amount of Hulk Potion that needed to be added to the feed for the Blaze Beast and other army horses. He gave this important task to his fiancée Angela, who had an amazing natural affinity with animals. Then he announced to the public that he would be in seclusion for one month, claiming he was going to focus on practicing a powerful martial skill.

In reality, Sun Fei secretly took a lot of the previously prepared items and went with Prison Warden Oleg to the giant steel door deep inside Hero City. He knocked and opened this iron door that had been closed for nearly a hundred years.

“After I go in, you must immediately close this iron door again. No one is allowed to open it. One month from now, if I knock on this door, you must order someone to open it immediately. Understood?” Before entering the dark passage behind the iron door, Sun Fei turned around and gave Prison Warden Oleg one last serious instruction.

“Yes, Your Majesty the King!” The fat guy knew he could not stop him, so he just followed Sun Fei’s orders strictly.

Sun Fei turned and stepped into the dark, deep passage.

Then Prison Warden Oleg used his Battle Qi and slowly closed the giant steel door again. He carefully erased any traces that the door had been opened. No one could tell that this door, sealed for nearly a hundred years, had just been opened.

Shampoo City began to develop rapidly in the background of Sun Fei’s quiet departure.

Of course, Sun Fei also left some backup plans before entering the passage. With the powerful World of Diablo experts like the Rogue leader Kashya and Acarra, who had Five-Star Level Strength, and the female Rogues stationed there, plus having Best as the Right Minister for civil affairs and Gordon Brook as the top military figure, Shampoo City did not have to worry about any enemies reaching the city walls even without Sun Fei for a while.