Today at noon, Ciri had just been liberated from the course of the Purple Ones' suffering.

Shortly after the liberation, Joshua told Ciri the good news, that is, he tossed a new game that he hoped would allow Ciri to test out.

Currently, all games in the Spellcaster Forum Game Section are tested by Ciri before they go live.

As a senior game tester, or Qiao Xiu's exclusive kind, all the games Qiao Xiu has made so far, Ciri has not found a single 'not fun'!

The news of a new game was undoubtedly a surprise for Ciri.

Just as she happily ran to the first floor of the Hearthstone Tavern and asked Qiao Xiu, 'Where's that new game?', Qiao Xiu pointed to a square 'wooden plate' on the wooden table, on which boxy lines were drawn.

There are board games in this world as well, but Ciri is not interested.

Just when Ciri guessed that there was some strange inscription engraved in this wooden plate, like an arcade machine from Hearthstone, it turned out to be very regrettable.

It really was just a piece of polished wood, and two boxes of black and white protozolite fragments, which were also polished, of course.

What made Ciri even more frustrated was that even if Qiao Xiu had explained the rules of the game, she didn't even know how she lost the first half hour.

In the second half hour, even if Ciri figured out how to play this 'Go', it was still a trend of being crushed by Qiao Xiu.

This poor gaming experience only piqued Ciri's competitive spirit, but she chose to give up her place to the Grey One.

"It's okay just once, right?"

Ciri whispered in Jossiu's ear.

Go isn't like one of the simple and fun games on the Magic Web, where the rules and tactics are as complex as delving into a new magic.

At least in the first game, Ciri didn't experience any fun at all.

"It's up to the Grey Man to understand."

Qiao Xiu's words were said in front of the gray-clothed man, and the sage was sitting opposite Qiao Xiu pondering the chessboard.

The dwarves who weren't playing cards around came to take a look at them and left without being bored, and the people who stayed behind were some human spellcasters.

"The one in gray, you can do it first." Qiao Xiu said.

"According to the rules of the game you explained, this is how it should go."

The Grey Man picked up the black piece and landed on the lower right.

"Got the hang of it? The first few times Ciri went down, he was always first-handed. Qiao Xiu also picked up the chess piece and landed on the other side.

"Tian Yuan? These points also have names. ”

The Grey Man stared at the crisscrossing of the chessboard, he had originally come to the Hearthstone Tavern to find Qiao Xiu to inform Qiao Xiu of something, but when he saw the black and white chess pieces on the table, the Gray Man temporarily put down the task of notification.

He watched the game between Qiao Xiu and Ciri for a while, thinking that it was just an extremely simple game, after all, the tools were very simple, and there were only two differences: black and white.

But upon closer study, the connotation of this game is so complex that it makes the gray-clad man's scalp tingle.

"It's not a complicated name, let's talk about it as we go."

Qiao Xiu said after watching the gray-clothed man pick up a son again and drop it.

Ciri also found a small bench to sit next to him and watch, and the game was played for more than an hour.

The time given to Ciri by the Purple Suit was also over.

"Ciri."

The Purple Man walked slowly downstairs, ready for Lahiri to continue her lesson, but she noticed a crowd gathering on one side of the tavern.

This is a common occurrence in Hearthstone Taverns, where well-known Hearthstone players, the birth of legendary cards, and even a great duel attract crowds of onlookers.

But this time it wasn't the dwarves who were doing good things, it was the spellcasters in the Hearthstone Tavern.

When the purple-clothed man walked towards the spellcasters, they all recognized the identity of the purple-clothed man and consciously made a way, and the purple-clothed man also saw Ciri sitting in the crowd... And the Grey Ones.

The two sages of Nolan appeared in a tavern at the same time, and no one would have believed it before.

When the man in purple called out Ciri's name, he noticed that what Heri was watching was not a Hearthstone game, but a chess game?

"Mentor, are you okay with running out suddenly?" Ciri asked.

"I'm not as fragile as you think."

After giving this answer, the purple-clothed man looked at Qiao Xiu and the gray-clothed one, as well as the black-and-white primordial crystal that was placed between them.

These protocrystals are 'scraps', i.e. protocrystals that have lost their magical powers, and are no different from ordinary stones.

But the man in gray was staring at the 'scrap' with a serious face, and some tangled expressions flashed on his face from time to time.

"What is this?" Although it is not the first time that the person in purple has seen the person in gray so serious, it is the first time he has seen him in order to play a game.

"Go." Ciri takes on the role of narrator at this time: "The rules of the game are simply to fence each other up. ”

"Uh... Healy, while your explanation isn't entirely wrong, it's not right either. ”

Qiao Xiu intervened in the conversation between the Gray Man and the Purple Man while she was thinking.

"This piece should land here! That's right......" The man in gray suddenly lifted the sunspot and fell again, and the owl standing on the table also made a happy 'coo' sound in his place.

"Grey Man, are you here to play with this?"

The purple-clothed man really can't stand the gray-clothed man losing the majesty of the sages like this, although the gray-clothed man has been doing this kind of thing to refresh the sages offline.

"No, I'm here this time to inform Qiao Xiu of something."

The Grey Man finally remembered the purpose of his visit to the Hearthstone Tavern, and he took out an invitation from his shabby robe and handed it to Jossiu.

"What is this?"

Qiao Xiu took the invitation and found that the magic inside did not look like the one in gray, but the magic that blocked this invitation was very complicated, and the texture of the paper was also expensive.

"After discussions between the Council of Sages and the Nolan Patent Council, you have been selected as one of the candidates for the Skrirona Award, which will be presented at the Nolan Crystal Palace in two months' time." Said the man in gray.

"Skerona Prize?"

Qiao Xiu carefully searched his memories and remembered that the person in purple had mentioned this award to him.

After Qiao Xiu told the Yellow Man and the Gray Man the idea of the Nobel Prize, the Council of Sages actually approved the award and named it the Skerona Prize.

Qiao Xiu didn't expect that this place would one day become a Nobel Prize candidate in another world...... However, the invention of the magic net may really be eligible for this award.

"Maybe I should have a few more awards, Oscars, Grammys, Jepley, whatever." Qiao Xiu put away the invitation, then picked up the white chess piece again and said, "But for now, let's finish this duel first." ”