Otaku Translation: The villain only wants to live a Buddhist life Chapter 371

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Chapter 371: Dark Demon’s Easter Egg 2 in 1

Although the idea of the "access card" was initially developed to lure out the "invisible person", neither Professor Cazer nor Professor Silver actually cared that much about their existence.

Especially after solving the big threat that was Vlad the Vampire—the "invisible person" had seemed even less important.

After all, in Saint Marian Academy, similar cases of "hidden people" were actually not uncommon.

As long as they didn't cause too much trouble, the professors would usually tacitly ignore them.

Since they had now prepared such a huge battlefield, if it was just for a mere "invisible person", it would inevitably feel like a loss.

Therefore, Professor Cazer and Professor Silver decided to formalize the Easter Duel Festival!

It also happened that there was a lack of some exciting competitions recently...

The moment Professor Silver proposed it to the Headmistress, both parties agreed, and thus the matter was settled.

Next, posting advertisements, publishing newspaper articles, selling tickets, making Easter eggs...

Everything was to be carried out according to the procedure of a standard competition.

In short, they must build the Saint Marian Duel Festival into a brand!

If it went well, perhaps it might be held every Easter in the future.

……

"Wait a second, making Easter eggs?"

Dark keenly captured the key element and couldn't help but interrupt Professor Cazer's explanation.

Professor Cazer mysteriously smiled: "Do you know about Easter eggs?"

Dark: "Of course I do."

Twirling his wand like it was a pen, Professor Cazer said, "It's the Easter Duel Festival after all, it's necessary to make some souvenirs with a festive atmosphere, so..."

Dark quickly interjected, "No, I mean, have you ever thought about selling the Easter eggs?"

Professor Cazer replied a little confusedly, "Of course the Easter eggs are for sale. Our academy's expenses are huge, we must find ways to maintain revenue."

Dark curiously asked, "Then how are you guys going to sell it?"

"How else?" Professor Cazer spread his hands and said: "160 sacred coins for an egg, which is equivalent to 10 points of credits."

Dark shook his head and said, "Why not sell it for 188? It's only 28 more sacred coins, and it's also a lucky number. Moreover, if you merely sell the eggs as souvenirs, even if 10,000 people each purchase an egg, it'll only amount to 1.88 million sacred coins. How can you make money from this?"

"Go on." Professor Cazer instantly became interested.

But Professor Silver suddenly interjected, "The easter eggs are just souvenirs, the bulk of revenue is in the tickets. Putting the different tiers on average, the price of the tickets is around 1,000 sacred coins. Each branch can provide us with ticket revenue worth tens of millions of sacred coins. Even after deducting the costs and expenses, that's still a huge number.”

Dark glanced at her and shook his head again. "There's no conflict between making money from tickets and making money from Easter eggs. We only need to put a few limited edition prizes in the Easter eggs sold to the public and it can easily double the sales. Of course, those prizes must be attractive enough."

"Perhaps, we can also create a series by making figurines of popular magical spirits and putting them into the Easter eggs. The more popular the magical spirits, the smaller the quantity, purposely manufacturing rarity... If people wish to get the figurines they want, they'll have to buy far more Easter eggs than necessary."

"In short, there are many similar methods, we can even… uh!"

At this point, Dark abruptly stopped speaking.

Because he suddenly realized that the money-making methods he had mentioned might not be very useful to the academy.

After all, the academy wasn't short of money at all...

But Professor Silver, who had just interrupted him earlier, was now showing a great interest: "Don't stop, keep talking."

Dark couldn't help but smile. He then poured himself a cup of black tea and continued, "We can definitely add some movable figurines similar to magic chess pieces among the figurines. Of course, the number of such figurines should be smaller and more scarce. The most important thing is to do a good job in publicity and let the consumers know what they can get from the eggs. After this Easter is over, we can break away from the label of Easter and sell the eggs all throughout the year. Believe me, the business opportunity here is huge.”

"Exploiting the consumers' gambling mentality, is it?" Professor Silver mused.

Professor Cazer also added, "By purposely manufacturing rarity to increase the value of rare figurines, when the time comes, even the people who don't necessarily like figurines will buy the Easter eggs in order to obtain the high-value figurines..."

Professor Silver suddenly blurted out, "This is much more profitable than the lottery."

Dark: "???"

"Ahem." Professor Silver hurriedly diverted, "Your method is indeed very feasible. But as for what the result will be, it still needs to be proven by fact. It's just nice that this Easter Duel Festival can be used as a trial."

Dark asked in surprise, "It's settled just like that?"

Professor Silver casually said, "People's desire to buy Easter eggs is reflected every Easter. It's just that no one had thought of such detailed measures before you made your specific proposal. I think it's feasible. Cazer, what about you?"

Professor Cazer vigorously nodded: "Very feasible!"

"That's good." Professor Silver said, "I think Arte will also agree with your proposal. If it can really generate income for the academy, the academy will give you the rewards you deserve."

……

Seeing that the two professors were about to start a conversation centered on the "Easter egg", Dark quickly asked, "By the way, professor, why did you guys call me here? It can't be just because you want me to look at this access card and covet it, right?"

Professor Cazer answered, "Of course not. Now that the competition will be formalized, merely putting an access card in the Easter egg to be given out as the prize won't be enough. Moreover, the groupings of year one to three and year four to six are also not very appropriate. We want to ask you if you have any opinions about it."

"Is it not appropriate? I think it's quite appropriate." Dark narrowed his eyes and smiled.

He would still have a chance when competing on the same stage with the third years.

But if he were to compete with the fourth years, wouldn't it be practically looking for abuse?

I'm just a first-year little newbie who needs a novice protection period!

Yet Professor Cazer smiled and explained, "You probably misunderstood my intention. I mean to make the groupings smaller, one group for the first and second years, one group for the third and fourth years, and one group for the fifth and sixth years. It's just right to divide it into three levels—upper, middle, and lower. This is also better for you..."

"I don't think it'll work," Dark said, "Easter only lasts for a day, and the time itself is very tight. Too many group divisions will make the entire competition schedule become overly tight."

Professor Cazer nodded: "You're right."

Dark said, "When the time comes, we'll set the terms and conditions and reduce the number of people. If only the top four are rewarded, there won't be that many participants. It's Easter after all, the duel festival is only a part of it. People won't put the cart before the horse."

"We also think the same," Professor Silver said, "but what if the students, with the mentality of having fun, all want to participate?"

This was actually the very aspect that troubled them.

Students’ enthusiasm was unstoppable.

As professors, it wasn't easy for them to forcibly impose restrictions on the students.

Dark thought for a moment and said, "Then set up a platform for them to display their performance."

Professor Silver asked, "How so?"

Dark elaborated, "Add a preliminary round where everyone can participate. Each time you kill a magical spirit, you get one point. Within half an hour, the first 32 people who get ten points can advance to the main competition. This kind of round..."

Professor Silver's expression changed. "That's indeed a good idea. Sure enough, your ideas are broader."

No, it's your ideas that are too narrow.

Dark silently rolled his eyes. In fact, he could still come up with many other methods, but this one was relatively simple and easy to implement.

Furthermore, there was actually no shortage of this kind of event in the academy.

The Halloween event, for example, was pretty good.

However, it seemed to be an event that was founded a long time ago and had little to do with the current generation of professors.

To put it bluntly, the professors of this generation lacked experience in setting up events.

The in-school events of Saint Marian Academy had remained unchanged for decades. If the "access card" didn't just so happen to trigger the idea of an Easter Duel Festival, there would probably not be any changes.

However, the fact that Professor Silver was able to correctly recognize her own shortcomings and knew how to seek other people's help when unable to solve the problem instead of persistently clinging to her own views was already great enough.

After this experience, they might be able to organize more interesting in-school activities in the future.

Such as the indispensable in-school activity—sports meeting!

……

After helping the two professors answer more questions related to the Easter Duel Festival, Dark finally left the office before the start of the History of Magic class in the afternoon.

"Haah~"

He rubbed his empty belly and heaved out a light sigh.

……

After all the details were finalized, Saint Marian displayed its strong efficiency.

Merely the following day on Friday, when Traveller Street reopened again, a notice about the Easter Duel Festival was posted on the bulletin board at the entrance of the castle.

The dueling club's president and vice-president, Joe William and Inya Nate, personally put up the poster that was urgently made last night on the bulletin board.

William had smooth red hair and a tall and strong figure. Standing next to the equally tall ponytailed girl Inya, they looked quite compatible.

But the two of them actually didn’t get along very well.

William flattened a corner of the poster, looked at the white dragon in the center of the poster that indeed stood out from the paper, and apologized, "We'll have to rely on you again this time, Miss White Dragon."

Inya grasped her long yellowish hair and complained, "President William, you're committing advertising fraud. Pandora said she has no intention to participate in this duel festival."

William crossed his arms over his chest and explained patiently, "Inya, this is not called fraud, it's called publicity. Even if Miss Doragon doesn't participate in the duel festival, it doesn't change the fact that she's a student of our academy. And the prefix of this event is 'Saint Marian', which only then followed by 'Easter Duel Festival'..."

Inya was stunned on the spot. Only after a while did she angrily say, "President, if you keep doing this, people will beat you up after graduation."

William leisurely replied, "It's okay. After I graduate, there won't be many people who can beat me."

"Forget it." Inya chose to give up, "President, do you think this Easter Duel Festival will go smoothly? And that... Easter egg?"

William spoke again, "Inya, you have to remember that the only project we're in charge of is the duel festival. The ones in charge of the Easter eggs figurine project are other people."

"Hey, I'm just interested, okay?" Inya asked, "Do you think I have a chance to get my sweetheart's figurine?"

William: "Is your sweetheart a popular magical spirit?"

Inya shook her head rather dejectedly.

William said, "If it's not popular, you should be able to get it. Of course, that's if they make it in the first place."

……

In fact, the president and vice-president of the dueling club were practically walking signs themselves. They could attract people just by standing there.

After the two finished putting up the poster, some students immediately went over and saw the poster.

"Easter Duel Festival—an unprecedented preliminary battle royale?"

"Easter egg—the most beautiful white dragon!"

"Is there an extra event for Easter this year?"

"The winning reward is a pass for the secret passage?"

"You can get magical spirit figurines from the Easter eggs?"

"For real? Where can I buy it?"

As crowds of people flocked in droves, the chatter gradually increased.

Most of them were not very interested in the secret passage pass. Instead, the preliminary battle royale and Easter egg figurines attracted more of their attention.

Afterwards, in a very short period of time, the news of the Easter Duel Festival spread throughout the castle.

Someone even brought the news to Traveller Street.

Among them, the keener merchants immediately realized the business opportunity. It didn’t take long before someone took the initiative to contact the academy to negotiate about becoming an in-school agent of the Easter egg figurines, or even becoming its original equipment manufacturer!

As for piracy and copying the trend...

They still wanted to keep their place in Traveller Street.

But this also served as a reminder to the academy staff responsible for this project that they shouldn't forget to mark the academy’s crest and serial number at the bottom of the goods when manufacturing the figurines.

Of course, these production works were all carried out in place by the Saint Marian dueling branch.

This way, it could be put to sale immediately after production was completed.

With the support of magic technology, Saint Marian Academy’s productivity was truly amazing.

The promotion of some popular magical spirit figurines had also been rapidly launched.

……

On Monday morning, while eating the breakfast brought by DemiDevimon, Dark opened the newspaper and found that the news about Saint Marian Easter Duel Festival had directly become the headline of 《Daily Sage》!

The very next day, the pages of 《Daily Sage》 were completely occupied by illustrations of popular magical spirits!

Even the 《Daily Sage》 was like this, let alone other small newspapers.

Perhaps at this moment, from the inside to the outside of the kingdom, and even the land of the non-humans such as the beastmen and elves, had all been invaded by these staggeringly overwhelming advertisements.

It was clear that once the huge machine that was Saint Marian Academy went into operation, it really couldn't be underestimated.

Although there was only merely half a month left before Easter, it seemed to be that the time was more than enough?

……

Influenced by this wave that came from the inside out and then from the outside in, Saint Marian Academy also began to feel excited about Easter.

Originally, as a festival fixed to fall on Sunday with no extra holiday or any special events happening, Easter had never caused any stir before.

But this year’s Easter was obviously different.

The first-year boys, for instance, were especially interested in the preliminary battle royale of the duel festival.

……

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