Chapter 14. St. Joyce's Principality Reading Contest

"Welcome to the book contest organized by the Principality of St. Joyce, where you are deducted 100 gold from the entrance fee."

"The Duchy of St. Joyce Book Contest was initiated by St. Joyce I for more than 400 years to encourage people to pursue the path of magicians. Since the competition, more than 10,000 outstanding magical talents have been unearthed for the country."

"The Principality of St. Joyce's Reading Contest Phase 1: The Gate of Knowledge (S+ Heroic): Find a way to enter the next floor on the first floor of the Magic Tower of St. Joyce, and successfully enter the next floor, Task time: 8 hours. Note: The Magic Tower of St. Joyce was built by the Grand Magister St. Joyce I himself, and the interior is a space of its own. ”

"Welcome to the Magic Tower of St. Joyce, the Principality of St. Joyce Reading Contest has officially begun, good luck!"

The place where Wan Yi teleported appeared was the legendary magical shrine of the Principality of St. Joyce, the Magic Tower of St. Joyce!

Looking at the dense bookshelves around him that couldn't see the edge at all, Wan Yi was completely speechless, this first floor is probably as big as a "bird's nest"! (Note: "Bird's Nest" is the National Stadium of China, the main venue of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, also known as the "Bird's Nest" due to its unique shape, covering an area of 258,000 square meters)

Only then did Wan Yi understand what it means to be a "self-contained space"! Such a large space is actually a magic tower, and finding a clue to the next floor in such a large area is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack!

And Wan Yi also noticed that the number of aborigines participating in the reading competition this time is also very huge, every few meters you can see someone looking down to read books, so calculated, the first floor of the entire magic tower is afraid that tens of thousands of readers are participating in this competition!

From the system prompt at the beginning, we know that this kind of competition has been held for more than 400 years, and only tens of thousands of people are selected for the competition once a year, which means that the number of people selected in a year is not even 30! There are only less than 30 people among the tens of thousands of people, but I didn't expect that this competition, which was despised by Wan Yi, was so strict that it was close to one in a thousand! And it's one in a thousand magicians that are already scarce!

It seems that you can't even pass the first level without dim sum! Wan Yi is also the kind of person who explodes stronger the pressure, and he is also carefully analyzing the content of this mission. The first is the quest hint, which requires the contestant to find clues to the next level. And this competition is a reading competition, so the clue must be in the book!

However, the space on the first floor of the entire magic tower is so large, and there are so many books, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a sea of books! Searching aimlessly can only be fruitless.

Wan Yi first analyzed the reading contest itself, which has been carried out for more than 400 years, and nearly 30 people have passed the test every year. The achievements of these people who passed the test must also be extraordinary, and these people will inevitably become princes of the Duchy of St. Joyce, and their descendants will inevitably participate in this annual book contest. However, these descendants could not pass the assessment with the help of their ancestors, which shows that these "clues" cannot be fixed or immutable.

Now the question is simple, what can reading a book offer? Books bring people nothing more than two things: information and knowledge. After excluding the "fixed information" that can be obtained as a cheat, the "clues" that can be found in the book can only be the knowledge in the book!

So what is there in the book that allows one to find a way to the second level? Wan Yi thought about it, and in the end he could only make a bold guess - the knowledge of magic! Then, what kind of magic can open a passage to another place? The answer is already obvious, and that is the "space magic" with a rather high door railing!

Only those who have successfully learned the basic spatial magic on the first floor within 8 hours will be able to open the passage to the next floor on their own and thus pass the selection!

Thinking of this, Wan Yi couldn't help but have a deep respect for St. Joyce I, the founding emperor of the Principality of St. Joyce, who was selecting outstanding magical talents! He's clearly training space magicians for the Duchy of St. Joyce! Moreover, Wan Yi believes that by now, the Duchy of St. Joyce must have possessed an army of space magicians, and its combat power will definitely shock all the countries in the entire "New World"! This is probably the most powerful treasure that St. Joyce I left for his descendants!

With a clear goal, Wan Yi finally found a book of space magic on a bookshelf full of miscellaneous books half an hour later, which was still the second stage of the reward "Heart Eye" skill that the system prompted his exclusive talent to find hidden clues and find it in a pile of miscellaneous books!

"On Space Magic" (D+ elite level), a popular science book with no attribute bonuses has reached the D+ elite level! The author of the book begins by asking: Does space exist? Then ask yourself: What is the name of a place where there is no space for us? So of course there is space! So magicians can perceive the existence of the four elements of fire, water, wind, and earth through the use of spiritual power, so why can't they feel the existence of the space element? The author's bold assumptions: space is real, but it is not in the form of elements!

So in what form does space exist? This question is known to modern people, and that is dimensionality. The book also directly uses the word dimension to describe space, and points out that when the spiritual power of mages operates in a special way, it can stretch the dimension of space, so as to achieve the purpose of changing space, which is also commonly known as space magic! The principle of space magic is nothing more than two words: stretching and contracting. Shin can make a room that looks small on the outside, but can accommodate tens of thousands of people inside. Contractions can change the distance, allowing people to step thousands of miles away in one step.

"Congratulations on your initial understanding of the mysteries of space magic, and you have received the "Fundamentals of Space Magic" from St. Joyce's Magic Tower."

Just after Wan Yi received this news, the "On Space Magic" in his hand directly became "The Foundation of Space Magic". Wan Yi guessed that this shape-shifting method should also be a way to use space magic.

"Fundamentals of Space Magic" (D+ Elite): Let users learn to control their mental power in a special way, so as to change space. Learning requirements: Reach the level of D in intelligence and the utilization rate of intelligence reaches more than 110%.

Because Wan Yi has become a magic apprentice, the utilization rate of intelligence has reached 120%, and there is naturally no problem in learning "Fundamentals of Space Magic"! However, after becoming a magic apprentice, the magic book could not be studied directly, but had to be comprehended by oneself.

Fortunately, although the methods of using mental power recorded in this book require the user to have a very high degree of control over mental power, it is not difficult for Wan Yi.

Wan Yi carefully controlled his spiritual power according to the method described in the book, forming spatial nodes in the air, but failed when manipulating these spatial nodes to form a spatial magic structure. After practicing dozens of times, Wan Yi found that the composition of the spatial magic structure could not be arranged according to a specific position. In space magic, the space near the two spatial nodes has actually been distorted by the spiritual power of the magicians, and the perception of the mages will also be greatly disturbed. Therefore, at this time, the mages need to use their imagination, you need to know the distorted form of the space in your mind, compare the spatial structure in your eyes with the distorted spatial structure in your heart, and then arrange the spatial nodes in it.

This difficulty is not ordinary, fortunately, Wan Yi was already very familiar with the method of using mental power before and successfully transferred to become a magic apprentice, and there is a mysterious power in the Magic Tower of St. Joyce that can always replenish the mental power consumed by mages. After dozens of failures, Wan Yi finally succeeded in arranging a stable spatial structure!

Then things were simple, Wan Yi used the ability of this spatial structure to cut through space and slowly controlled it to create a passage that was wide for one person to pass through, and then walked in.

"Congratulations on successfully reaching the second floor of the Magic Tower of St. Joyce, and the completion of the first stage of your Principality of St. Joyce's Reading Contest will reward +4 primary attribute and +2 secondary attribute."

"You have +4 Intelligence, +2 Strength, +2 Dexterity"

"Congratulations on successfully passing the St. Joyce exam and obtaining the Inheritance of Spatial Magic, and since your reputation exceeds 30 points, you are eligible to continue to participate in the next stage of the exam.

The Duchy of St. Joyce's Reading Contest Stage 2 "Spaces of Confusion" (SS+ Epic): You have successfully passed through the first floor of the Magic Tower of St. Joyce to the second floor. The space on the second level is very chaotic, and there is a risk of random teleportation with every step of the mage, so you need to find a way to the third level in this chaotic space and reach the third level smoothly. Mission time: 8 hours"

Wan Yi looked at the time, the first stage took him more than seven hours to complete, and this was when Wan Yi didn't spend too much time searching for the space magic book! It's really hard to imagine that nearly 30 aborigines can complete the assessment in 8 hours every year, and I have to say that in terms of magical talent, the aborigines in the "New World" have far surpassed the earthlings!