Sharjah remembers three months ago vividly, because it was also a time when his life changed terribly.

Three months ago, he was an apprentice, and three months later, he was a mage. And what caused this change, in addition to rubbing the tailwind boat when Xiaoyou was promoted, there is also an extremely important thing, that is, Go.

That day, he asked Xiaoyou what "watching chess is rotten".

Then Xiaoyou took him to the courtyard and started chess, and then the two played chess.

Thinking of how extremely unbearable he was killed by Xiaoyou at that time, Sharjah still feels a little hateful when he thinks about it now. This kid is just too much. Do you think it's interesting to bully a novice, to bully a person who can't do it?

And it was that time that he brought this thing called Go to the teacher.

That time, the teacher said to him, "This is not a chessboard, this is a field!"

And now, the lord on the other side said to him: "This chessboard is the map of the empire's territory!"

These two sentences seem to illustrate the same understanding?

At that time, the teacher also used the Imperial Capital, Juyan City and Redstone Town to explain to him what the "belly corner" in "the higher one is in the belly, and the lower one is in the middle of the ...... corner", but at that time, the teacher was just a simple form and now, the adult on the other side clearly proposed that this chessboard is the map of the empire's territory!

And if you look at it this way, then what does the rule about the "belly corner" mentioned by Fang Tian Xiaoyou in "Journey to the West" mean for the distribution of power and monitoring and deployment of the empire?

For a while, Sharjah's heart fluctuated.

Under the reminder of the gray-robed mage, Sharjah thought of too many things according to this chessboard!

The gray-robed mage did not directly answer Sha Jah's question, but said, "Sharjah, you choose a few games from each of the previous games with Xiaoyou in order of order, and put them out for me to see." ”

Sharjah nodded, and immediately set it up on the stone table.

The first game he set was not the first game with Fang Tian. That time, no, it should be said that those games had no other meaning than to show his stupidity. In those games, according to Xiaoyou's later statement, Xiaoyou stood on the side of "light and justice", while he Sharjah was "a pest to be exterminated".

The most hateful thing is that in the end, his "pest" was really eliminated!

Such a humiliating matter, he can only know it by himself, but there is no need to let the master in front of him know.

So Sharjah set up a return to Boulder City, and after the teacher's teaching and subsequent repeated discussions, he returned to Redstone Town to play against Fang Tian.

At that time, his chess move, although from the current point of view, was very wrong and missing, but the teacher's teaching, after all, was not in vain, and almost all of those mistakes and omissions can be attributed to strength mistakes and omissions, not directional mistakes.

Shalou picked two of the rounds and put them out.

In order to facilitate the observation and thinking of the gray-robed mage, Sharjah was not fast.

After two rounds, Sharjah paused. The gray-robed mage nodded slightly, and did not speak, but just motioned for him to continue.

The next four consecutive rounds were played against Fang Tian after Sharjah returned from Limbo City.

At this time, the game has changed a lot from the beginning. On the one hand, Sharjah has experienced a lot of things after the order of Linbo City, and his mentality has changed a lot, and this and the change are clearly reflected in the chess game.

The same is true for Fang Tian.

That assassination incident also brought him a lot of changes.

This change is also expressed in the chess game.

The chess game, which has changes and benefits on both sides, has become intense and colorful compared to the previous ones. ...,

The reason why Sharjah played four games before and after in this stage of the game was because Fang Tian's chess style at this stage was obviously diverse. I can't see anything in the two games, and the different styles of these four games are enough to explain some problems.

The last two games were the games between Fang Cai and Fang Tian.

After a total of eight games were set up, Sharjah stopped, and the gray-robed mage on the opposite side fell into deep thought.

This thought is about two magic hours.

In fact, for them now, the time of two magic spells is both very long and very short.

I say long because there are many, many things that can be done in this time.

And the reason why I say it is short is because at this stage of their life, a longer meditation or meditation may last a few days or even longer.

"Sharjah, judging from the situation of this chess game, Fang Tian's Xiaoyou's improvement is greater than yours. The gray-robed mage said slowly.

Sharjah nodded.

That's true.

Xiaoyou is indeed in the midst of big or small progress every day. Of course, if you think about it, you know that this is really normal.

Otherwise, how could Xiaoyou be an apprentice at the chemical level by now?

But if you really want to talk about it, judging from this game, the two biggest changes in Xiaoyou are after being assassinated.

Especially the previous two games, which simply made Sharjah terrifying.

Doesn't it mean that every assassination can bring Xiaoyou a great boost?

The next moment, Sharjah quickly shook his head in his heart. This idea is not kind to Xiaoyou.

"If the first two rounds were a game for an ordinary apprentice, then the middle four games, Sharjah, did you notice that it already had some mage characteristics?"

After the gray-robed mage said this, Sharjah thought about it and found that it was really like this!

Actually, this is not a new idea, but before, Shadi had never thought in this direction.

Now, as soon as the gray-robed mage reminded him, Sharjah immediately had a new understanding of the game with Fang Tianqian and Fang Tian. So, the next moment, he said, "My lord, then you mean, these last two rounds ......" The gray-robed mage nodded solemnly, and then said: "That's right! I saw the shadow of the archmage from Xiaoyou's move!"

"Now, I'm suspecting that this thing called Go is the storage zài behind Xiaoyou, specially created for Xiaoyou, and used to make breakthroughs along the way of magic cultivation. ”

Sharjah nodded.

This is actually quite obvious. The teacher said the same thing before. In fact, Sharjah himself has thought so.

And when Xiaoyou gave him the "Thirteen Chapters of the Book of Chess", Sharjah had no doubt about this in his heart.

At this point, the gray-robed mage stopped. Next, he cleared the board again, and then, slowly, put a white piece into the board, and then picked up four more gray pieces, placed them around the white pieces, and blocked them.

"Water, fire, earth, and wind, these are the most basic four teeth, and they are combined with the magic circle. ”

As he spoke, the gray-robed mage kept moving, and then, he used a few white seeds and more than a dozen gray seeds in the chessboard to put on a situation where the gray children surrounded and killed the white sons.

"This is still a four-element combined circle. ”

"Sharjah, centered on the white chess pieces. If we think of the gray chess pieces above it as the fire element, and the gray chess pieces below as the earth teeth, element, the water elemental to the left and right, and the wind elemental to the right, what do you think of?" the gray-robed mage asked again as he turned to Sharjah.

"The magicians of these two forces are fighting each other?" Sharjah said almost word for word. The gray-robed mage nodded, pondered for a while, and then said, "Sharjah, the boss should have told you about the Imperial Capital Forbidden Court?"

Sharjah nodded and added: ...... The teacher only talked about the adult, and didn't talk much about the rest. ”

"On the mainland, almost all the major empires today have such a zài, but their names are different. Although our empire is located in a remote place among the major powers on the mainland, it also established such a department as early as 1,600 years ago under the leadership of the lord at that time. ”

"By now, it has almost become a behemoth that encompasses most of the power of the empire. did not occupy a place in the forbidden court, that force or family is basically the sum that can be ignored. ”

Speaking of this, the gray-robed mage said with a smile on his face, "Sharjah, you probably don't know yet. My eldest teacher, your teacher, was the head of one of the branches of the Forbidden Court. ”

"Not leaving now?" Sharjah was indeed surprised by the news, but it wasn't much surprising when he thought about what the teacher had told him before.

"Not now, just a name. But as long as the boss wants to, there will always be a place for him. The gray-robed mage said lightly. Whether it is him or Sharjah, at this moment, when it comes to this matter, there is a faint self-count in his heart, but Sharjah still said in his heart, the teacher will definitely go further!

"Okay, let's not talk about that. There are many branches in the forbidden courts. Although the things they study revolve around mages and spells, their respective research directions and contents are very different. The gray-robed mage continued: "There are those who simply study the cultivation of magicians, there are also those who study how magicians can best cooperate with martial artists on the battlefield, and there are even those who study multi-system or even four-line composite lethality spells, and some are even taboo. This is actually one of the reasons for the name of the forbidden court, of course, only part of it. ”

Speaking of this, the gray-robed mage finally got to the point: "And one of the branches, the content and direction of research, is the magic array!"

"It just so happens that the Boss knows the one who led the study. Today, I will summon the boss and tell him my opinion, so that he can join forces with the lord to break down and study the game of Go from the perspective of the magic circle. I am sure that Your Excellency will be interested. ”

"What I'm looking forward to more is that the empire's thousands of years of research can be used on this chessboard, can Fang Tian's little friend be completely killed?" ）