"First of all, congratulations and welcome to all of you who are participating in the Ultimate Magic Competition, and on behalf of the archmages of the Core Ring Conference, especially Mr. Samiel, I wish you success. ”

The "ticket inspector" humanoid golem bowed deeply and slowly stood up, ignoring Qian Jing's vigorous shouting "Stop! I'm not a contestant!" It looked around as if there were many contestants standing in front of it.

The following is a message from Mr. Samiel, the final prize provider of this magic competition: "The humanoid golem suddenly stood up straight, and Sami El's voice slowly played out from its body: "Welcome, welcome, hello contestants. I'm Samiel, and I'm going to talk about your biggest concerns. ”

"The exits are all at the end of the maze, and so are the prizes. I know you're most concerned about what the prize is, so I won't sell it: this prize is related to the Ring Alliance's ongoing 'Weights and Measures' project, which is the ultimate magic scroll medium and its associated manufacturing method, which is the 'Weights and Measures' solution for the Ring Alliance's 100 million Destiny Gold Coins. Of course, this knowledge can teach you, but it doesn't belong to you. I estimate that as the winner, you will get about 10%, which is 10 million Destiny Coins, and the rest belongs to the Fortress Star. ”

"Magic scrolls are the highest medium in terms of value, but they are not exclusive to you, so we have prepared other rewards, ranging from spells, magic circle knowledge, magic items, etc., you can choose your favorite. The Ring Core, and I promise you, will make it worthwhile, provided you make it to the end. ”

"The door to the Survival Labyrinth is right next to the Golem, I think you guys can't wait to start this adventure survival journey, good, let everything get moving!"

As soon as his voice fell, the earth began to tremble, and the wind and clouds surged in the sky, and from afar there was the sound of the howling of various creatures like mountains and tsunamis, and even the roar of explosions and the loud sound of thunder and lightning were mixed in. The sky was lit up by a halo of colorful light, and God knows what kind of magic caused it.

"Wait, it's not good at all!!" Qian Jing shouted: "I don't want to compete, let me go out, okay?"

The ticket inspector golem turned his head to stare at the money mirror, and his tone did not fluctuate: "The portal that left is at the end of the maze." ”

"I know that, you just said it. I wonder if there is any other way to get out here besides the portal at the end?"

"Nope. In order to strengthen his tone, the golem shook his head specifically.

"What if you get injured or face death? The people of the Core Ring should always watch the game, right? Where is the rescue?"

Please refer to the detailed description of the competition next to the entrance. The golem stretched out his hand towards the money mirror: "Now, please hand in the tickets." Intruders without tickets will be wiped out. ”

Qian Jing hurriedly took out the spell measuring board in his hand - if he had something similar to a ticket on him, then this was the only one. He was ready, and if the golem didn't think it was a ticket to the game, he would start running away as soon as possible. Draw a piercing wellhead on the ground and try to cross the Guardian Barrier diagonally. Maybe he could be trapped underground, but it's better than being obliterated.

The Ticket Golem stretched out his hand to take the spell test board and nodded slightly: "Welcome unknown players, you can go and see the game instructions." ”

The Golem eats the ticket and starts trying to collect it from the other contestants. Qian Jing tried to explain the problem to it to prove that he had accidentally triggered the match, that he didn't want to come in, and that he needed to get out of here urgently. But the golem is still going its own way, and it is still looking for someone who does not exist to collect the ticket, even if the money mirror knocks on it hard, it will not be moved. Having said that, this golem is so hard, no worse than the guardian golem, and it shocked Qian Jing's hand. He knew he couldn't change the Golem's existing settings, so he walked towards the match instructions by the gate.

The Ultimate Magic Contest is a maze survival game, and as the name suggests, there is a maze here. The fortified walls, 20 meters high, rose from the ground and stretched for at least 20 kilometers to the left and right. This distance is not at all pointed by Qian Jing with his eyes, but is really written in the description of the game.

Forty kilometers wide and fifty kilometers long, this is the area occupied by the labyrinth. The skies can fly, provided that you can defeat the various monsters that patrol the air. Dragons are already a headache, and the Qi elemental that is completely invisible and able to manipulate the wind is even more annoying. The note mentions invisible space turbulence, areas of gravitational chaos, and coupled with the shooting of enemies on the ground into the sky, the airspace belongs to the real warriors, the strong, and the fools.

The end and exit are located in the center of the labyrinth, surrounded by complex, dangerous and ever-changing environments. The competition instructions list the current road conditions of the maze in a very intimate way, and there are ten copies of the 300-page "Maze Change Instructions" hanging next to it. This maze starts to change every twenty minutes, not only the road, but also the dangers inside. The algorithm for changing is written in the "Labyrinth Change Description", and as long as you apply the 300-page algorithm according to the initial state and the time elapsed, you can guess what the new state of the maze will be after each 20 minutes.

"Daddy! The maze is so big, it changes every twenty minutes. This complex algorithm itself is 300 pages, who can have time to calculate it? Before the calculation can begin, the next change will start again!" Qian Jing threw the book on the ground, but he quickly shook his head and picked it up again: "This is paper, it is expensive and rare in the fortress star, and it is good to use it for drawing." ”

For those who don't have the ability to calculate the changes in the maze, the core magic ring also has a hint, "The position of the end point does not change". This seems to be good news, as long as you don't touch the spatial magic effects in the labyrinth. Qian Jing saw a lot of spatial teleportation magic on the map, which would silently throw people to random places - and even deliberately marked "except for the end point".

"Oh, found it, rescue. Qian Jing hurriedly widened his eyes and read carefully: "All the contestants' competition situation is recorded by the following Eye Golem and transmitted back to the core magic ring, when you encounter life danger or want to withdraw from the competition, please declare to the eye ball golem, the core magic ring will suspend the operation of the maze, and send someone to rescue." During the rescue timeout, the other players must stay in place and must not move......"

Qian Jing immediately came to the Golem and slapped him on the head: "I don't have an eyeball Golem, I can't ask for help and quit the game! ”

"Every contestant will have an eyeball golem before passing through the teleportation portal. ”

"I didn't! I came in directly, not through the portal. Qian Jing was quite innocent: "Also, I was directly teleported to the inside of the protective barrier by this spell measuring board, and I don't want to participate in the competition." ”

"Wrong. You have to go through a portal to enter the playing field, and you have an eyeball golem to get through a portal, and there is no logic in your words. Fixed: You lost or damaged your Eyeball Golem, and that's your own responsibility. Please start the race as soon as possible. ”

"I'm not going in yet, what can you do to me?" Qian Jing sat at the door, his arms folded, and he looked like he was playing tricks. However, the Golem ignored him, still trying to ask for a ticket from the air around him.

After about a minute of sit-in demonstration, Qian Jing already knew that this method was useless. The golem only has a mechanical command execution, and there is no such advanced thing as compassion at all. Even if the money mirror is sitting here, it will come to sweep the garbage at most to ensure that the ground is clean.

From the cries of wild beasts coming from the labyrinth, you can know that it is definitely full of sinister and full of all kinds of traps. Qian Jing really didn't want to go in, but was it a good choice to stay at the door? He didn't have anything on him, just a set of clothes, a few pieces of legion bread in his pocket as snacks, a book that was basically full, and an element pen to create a magic array, and then it was gone.

Stay at the door and stay in, relying on this little snack on your body, and hold on until the Ultimate Magic Contest begins, when the other contestants come in and call for help with their eyeball golems. It's a negative approach and a gamble. Although theoretically, the ultimate magic competition should start soon, but who can guarantee this? People can last five or six days without eating, but the money mirror does not bring any water at all, and dehydration will cause a rapid collapse of the body, and it will be over in three days.

Or you can try Hu Ga's idea, first dig a deep pit from the ground, and then make a magic array at the mouth of the wellhead diagonally upwards, and go out through the protective barrier? Qian Jing dug the ground with his bare hands, although it looked like ordinary soil, it was as hard as iron. A layer on its surface is easy to pick off, but it is completely impossible to dig under a few centimeters.

"I guess it's to prevent creatures that can escape in the dirt. If you can escape the ground, you will be safe, and you will not be limited by the walls of the maze, and you can reach the end faster than others. Qian Jing looked up at the sky: "In the same way, the sky looks empty and easy, but it must be the most heavily defended and the most dangerous place." It is estimated that it is not very safe to climb the wall...... But if you walk through the labyrinth, you may encounter something. ”

Qian Jing stood up and paced back and forth at the gate of the maze, his eyes glancing at the maze map from time to time. He wasn't sure what to do, but he thought of the two-headed ogre. Hu Ga has always wanted to come in, and Qian Jing has been dissuading, but those who wanted to come in didn't come in, and those who didn't want to come in were trapped here.

"If Hu Ga was here, he would have been so happy that he would have rushed in with his hands dancing and shouting things like 'the champion is mine'. Qian Jing thought about that scene and found it interesting, but a thought also quietly germinated in his heart: If I go in, can I win the championship?

Obviously, Hu Ga is more concerned about the ultimate magic competition than himself, and he has more knowledge to prepare. The method he proposed to "use the wellhead to cross the labyrinth" to constantly cross the labyrinth wall will never be untargeted. Thinking of this, Qian Jing came to the wall and tried it, the mind shaping ink can be painted on the wall, which means that the method of crossing the wellhead can be used.

Qian Jing gradually became excited. He was an adventurous person, or he wouldn't have been an employee of a White Flag grocery store, or a hostage of his own volition, or directing a prison break to the venue of the ultimate magic contest. Now, the passion for adventure in his heart has been ignited again, and the title of Ultimate Magic Contest Champion is becoming more and more attractive.

"I have several advantages when participating in the competition, the biggest one is of course being able to pass through walls, and the others include stickman pathfinding, reconnaissance, protection, and drawing some tools to solve difficulties at any time. Oh yes, I started earlier than others and got the championship more easily. Moreover, the maze map was correct only when I set out, and the people behind had to be calculated. Hehe, it's just that 300-page algorithm......"

"There are also a lot of disadvantages, such as the strength is still relatively weak, I haven't learned a few magic, and if you really want to encounter monsters, you can only escape, and it's basically hopeless to fight. Oh, and the lack of food and water is also a disadvantage, but this disadvantage is the same whether you enter the playing field or not. Qian Jing listed the advantages and disadvantages on a piece of paper and then weighed them. "The people who were caught in the cell, including Huga, were very promising players to win the game. Grand Stanch's plan includes a step for them to win a prize, and then explode into dissatisfaction in order to bring the rhythm to the reputation of the magic contest. Those people aren't particularly strong either, so I should probably tone down some of my predictions for the difficulty of the maze. ”

Qian Jing thought about it for a while, and finally persuaded himself of a reason: they have already come here, if they don't go inside and don't try, they will definitely leave regrets. After figuring this out, Qian Jing no longer hesitated, and only thought about how to give himself a better chance to pass the test of the maze.

His greatest reliance is on the wellhead of the boundary, and this has not changed. He could complete a piercing well in three minutes at the earliest, and then pass through it with the power of spatial distortion. If the time is extended to five minutes, he can basically guarantee that there will be no spatial distortion at the wellhead of the piercing hole. Of course, the longer the preparation time, the better, but in the face of danger, the shorter the time, the better.

"So, there had to be a way to quickly draw the wellhead through the boundary. Not...... The Mind-Sculpting Ink protects me from the distorted space in the wellhead of the Realm, but I need to grit my teeth and endure the pain of being electrocuted when my body is restored—in that case, it is achievable to be fast rather than accurate. In the simplest way, draw a three-dimensional recessed door frame. ”

Rich details are a science, and so is simplification. Qian Jing didn't rush in, but began to try. He continued to simplify the components of three-dimensional painting, using the simplest triangular pyramid channel as the basis, using children's stick figures as the method, and with the spirit of abstracting the retouched photos into stickmen, he insisted on shortening the painting time to ten seconds.

"I can't reduce one stroke more, and if I subtract it any more, this painting will not be established. Qian Jing memorized the drawing method of this "triangular wellhead", simulated it in his mind over and over again, and tried to draw it casually. "Just this thing looks dangerous, and when it comes out, the reducing power of the Mind-Shaping Ink will definitely toss me to death. Well...... Wait, if even I will be tossed to death, what will happen to the others who have no protection?"

Qian Jing's mind was opened: Who said that he had no threat to fight? As long as he could let the enemy drill into the specially twisted piercing well, wouldn't that be a means of space magic in itself? The two-headed cannibal mage Hu Ga was not aware of this kind of power at all, and he was unable to resist, so he was compressed? Before he only thought about drawing in the direction of "good", in fact, he could also draw in the direction of "bad"!

It's hard to be a good person, but it's really easy to learn badly. Qian Jing found that as long as he could ensure that the "drawing method was correct", no matter how he designed the inside of the wellhead, he could actually achieve it. Distorted, divided, confused, shattered, how black the heart is, how dangerous the painting is. Therefore, Qian Jing named this thing "Black Heart Trap Spell".

Qian Jing simply took off his robe and drew directly on it, and then put his head inside to make a smock with chaos space protection. At this moment, even if a tiger suddenly pounces, it will fall into the "Black Heart Trap Spell", and there is basically no way to survive. Even if it was lucky enough to turn around and come out immediately, it would only regain its pre-attack posture. Coming and going, won't Qian Jing be able to avoid a life and death crisis?

It's definitely earned - Qian Jing has confidence and stepped into the door of the survival maze. The maze starts to work, and the timer begins.