Don't disturb the sorcerer's scientific research

Chapter 119: Santello is a very inclusive college
The two-day break is over and the second round of competition is about to begin.

The final rankings of the first round have also been released.

Jia Xiu finished fifth with a time of 3 minutes and 44 seconds, which was better than expected, considering some unexpected events occurred during the process.

Ram finished 5th with a time of 18 minutes and 34 seconds. He was the fastest among all the contestants who passed the competition to subdue the hellhound. He strangled it with one hand and spent all the time comparing the symptoms to determine which healing spell to use.

In fact, Jia Xiu felt that if he just picked a healing spell based on his feeling, he would probably be able to break the record.

However, it is also a good thing to solve problems seriously according to the rules. Even if you have good luck, if you want to achieve results, you must at least make a start on your own and have the necessary abilities.

Mia finished 10th with a time of 32 minutes and 113 seconds. Her time was mainly spent waiting for the infection to take effect. However, although her ranking was just over , it was still in the upper-middle level.

A total of 252 people passed the first round, which is less than half of the total number of participants.

Among them, all the militarized "professional players" of Uckermark passed.

As for Saint-Delo, 80% of the people who came have been eliminated.

They are now scattered across Serdarion, fulfilling their original purpose.

Travel at public expense.

During this period, students from Sant'Ero became some of the most popular people in the city.

Every shop looks forward to students' patronage.

They are simply the most perfect rip-off customers, no, service providers.

They usually have a good family background, a lot of spare money, and are students who are not good at bargaining.

While the eliminated contestants were enjoying fancy "services", all those who passed the first round were now gathered on the Silver Moon Court campus, waiting for the rules to be announced.

Starting from the second round, the competition will not necessarily be held in the arena, and the degree of freedom in rule design will be much higher.

The school responsible for organizing the second round of competition was Santero, the most "free" of the five schools.

Soon, a professor that Jia Xiu knew appeared in front of the waiting contestants.

Professor Tanshul.

The one who wanted to recruit Jia Xiu to be his disciple and become a professor in the phantom world together.

Since he was the one reading out the rules, Jia Xiu thought that the second round would probably have something to do with illusion.

"Hello everyone," Professor Tanshull said, "The second round of competition will be very simple. It won't be as dangerous as the first round with its hellhounds and toxins. You will only need to create a simple illusion for viewing."

As soon as the professor finished speaking, the students were in an uproar.

The concept of viewing with phantoms is not unfamiliar.

It's a youth version of Phantom World.

It is a relatively popular form of entertainment. It is not like a real phantom world where people can enter and perform various actions.

The viewing phantom is just as its name suggests, it can only be used for viewing.

Single-player VR viewing.

It's not difficult in principle, and it shouldn't be too difficult to make either. The key is that most students have never been exposed to this kind of magic.

Especially for students in Uckermark, because of the militarized management, they are restricted from even seeing such illusions, let alone making them. They have strict time quotas for the use of all entertainment spells every month.

As long as it exceeds the limit, it will be punished.

It is even more impossible to prepare for the competition in this regard.

The students immediately asked various questions.

"What about the illusion resources used to create illusions?"

“Isn’t that too much work for the competition?”

“How do we judge whether it’s passed or not…”

……

A series of questions arise.

Professor Tanshuer waved his hand, signaling everyone to be quiet.

"In this round of competition, the ranking will be determined by the number of viewers of the phantoms you create, and the top 80% will pass. The audience watching the phantoms you create are the residents of Serdarion.

“You have three days to complete the production. After you obtain the finished product, an anonymous public exhibition will be held in the college, open to all residents free of charge, also for three days.

"Attention, it is forbidden to include personally identifiable information in the work, it is forbidden to bribe the audience, it is forbidden..."

Professor Tanshurst outlined a series of prohibitions. In summary, only phantoms could be used to attract the audience; no other methods were permitted.

Of course, there are some limitations on the content of the phantom.

For example, as a serious student in a serious school, it is not okay to attract audiences by doing erotic things.

"As for the method of counting people, we will provide a marking spell to mark the viewers."

Hearing this, Jia Xiu raised his hand.

"explain."

"Can I add a similar marking spell to the illusion?"

Professor Tanshul did not immediately respond to Jaxiu's question.

Based on his understanding of Jia Xiu, he knew there must be something wrong if he asked this question.

But what's the problem?

I can't guess. The marking spell is used to mark the audience. What else would he use it for?

Forget it, they are students from my own school anyway.

Professor Tanshul then replied: "As long as it does not violate the prohibitions mentioned above, you can add it."

After receiving a positive answer, Jia Xiu nodded, looking as if everything was settled.

At this time, someone asked again: "What should I do if I don't know how to create an illusion image? Many people have not studied the illusion school."

"Yes, considering this, this round of exams encourages teamwork. The final number of views will be divided equally among the teams. We also provide professional illusion team support. If you have an image that you need but cannot produce, you can apply for help from the support team.

"We don't want the lack of resources to limit your imagination. The goal of this round of competition is to test your creativity. Novel ideas are also the abilities required of spellcasters. Secondly, it is about planning the basic skills of casting spells that call upon these resources.

"From now on, you have half a day to form teams. The second round of competition production will officially begin at 2 pm."

For the contestants, forming a team is not a difficult task.

We all have classmates and understand each other's abilities, so it's easy to get together.

As for the situation where someone can’t find the team.

Single players can also compete.

But you are not allowed to complain about the unfairness of single-player and multi-player competitions. Integrating into a team and cooperating are also part of the competition.

The Larvin "Big Three" came together naturally.

Unconditionally trust Boss Jia Xiu.

Follow the boss, no matter whether the process is legitimate or not, you won’t suffer any loss in the end.

"Boss, look at them, they are so professional."

Mia said, pointing towards Uckermark.

Jia Xiu looked over and saw that they did not form teams freely, but were assigned to teams under the command of a leader, and no one raised any objections during the assignment process.

"Don't worry, I don't believe they can figure out what the audience likes to watch."

However, after the team was formed, the leader turned and walked towards Jia Xiu.

"Hello, Mr. Jia Xiu, I am Justus Staudinger."

"Uh, our team is full."

"No, I'm not here to join you, I'm here to challenge you."

"Is there a possibility that we are already competing?"

"I will prove in this round of illusions that I am the Uckermark who possesses the greater imperial spirit!"

"You want to prove the spirit of the empire in the illusion?"

"Of course, this is my mission!"

After saying that, he turned around and walked away. To be honest, his walking posture was quite standard.

Looking at Justus's back as he left after declaring war, Mia whispered, "I don't believe they can figure out what the audience likes to watch."

Isn't it wrong to consider what spirit it has instead of whether it looks good?

(End of this chapter)