Trystan jumped in fright.
"No, absolutely not. I'm not hiring ghostwriters. If the academy finds out, they'll cancel all my guide achievements."
"What are you thinking? If ghostwriting gets exposed, we're screwed too," Mark snapped back.
"Then how are you planning to help?"
All Trystan wanted was to make guides and maybe hit one viral post, but with only 11 days left, the pressure was brutal.
Mark's voice came back confident. "You still don't see it? Joanna took a shortcut. She's focusing on resource-harvest guides.
"If she can write them, so can we.
"These dungeons don't need heavy calculations. Once you clear them, just stay inside and search carefully for details.
"It's fast. Including the dungeon run, you can probably pump out three or four guides a day."
Trystan nodded. It did sound workable.
But the anxiety hit harder. "Eleven days. No, ten days now. Even if I write four a day, five without sleeping, that's only fifty guides. Joanna's doing twenty a day."
"Trystan, seriously... You're killing me here. Who said you had to write them?
"What I mean is, if we spread this method, won't a ton of strategy group students start writing this kind of guide too?
"It's the last days of the semester. Who wouldn't want easy credits?
"If lots of students run dungeons and write guides together, that's a direct snipe at Joanna.
"She might clear a dungeon, write a guide, and then come out and realize someone already posted it.
"I even looked into the dungeons she likes to run.
"Our study group can preemptively guide those dungeons and block her in advance."
A bolt of lightning went off in Trystan's head.
Kid, are you a genius or what?
The idea is vicious.
But this was his own skin on the line. He couldn't afford mercy.
I'll do it.
Mark had provided the idea, but he wasn't going to fight on Trystan's behalf. Trystan personally stepped in and posted on the Divine and Demonic Academy forum.
"Don't worry. They can't snipe me."
"Huh? You've got a way to deal with them?"
"It's not dealing with them. It's making it impossible for them to deal with me."
Joanna looked at her system screen.
"Your guide post ‘Shocking Discovery...' has made a major contribution to the Space Alliance guide ecosystem and resource acquisition. Strategy Group special reward granted: Memory Tome Dark Gold-tier Upgrade Stone. Please check your inventory.
"You have published over 100 guides in the Strategy Group, with total views exceeding 10 billion. You are hereby awarded the title: Guide Maven.
"Guide Maven (Gold-tier title): When equipped, removes level restrictions for dungeon entry.
"Note 1: Due to teleportation energy limits, when entering low-level dungeons, your stats will revert to the historical stats at that dungeon's cap. For example, a Level 10 dungeon will restore you to Level 10 attributes.
"Note 2: When entering advanced dungeons far above your level, your Attributes won't increase. However, to encourage Strategy Group members to follow advanced professionals into guided dungeons and contribute to Space Alliance resource acquisition, you gain one extra death immunity effect and a 20% defense boost."
This was her gain today.
Her guides had long passed 100 posts, but the views hadn't been this high before. And her most-viewed guides weren't even these school ones.
They were "Fruit vs. Zombies," which had accumulated over three billion views over time, and "Protect the Chicks Dungeon," with over two billion views as well.

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