Arcane brilliance, shining forever

Chapter 264 Trial
After hanging up the communication of Otto's mentor, Lando fell into deep thought.

The God Institute, which is about to be completed, has no effect on Lando at this time. As his mentor said, it is absolutely impossible for him to set up an independent research project with his current strength. Even if he is allowed to enter now, it is impossible Only one of these items can be selected as an assistant.

Shaking his head, he didn't think about it any more. Lando had a lot of things on hand now. Although researching talent fusion was important, the sequence on his side had to be at a very late position. At least he had to wait until he got the three orange Talent must be condensed.

There is a gap of 300 million soul sources!

Lando: Ennnnnnn...

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The last item of the long-awaited academy exchange - the trial, was held as scheduled.

When the audience saw Lando from Gastro College and Cheng Long from Garmendia College appear in their respective rest areas, the entire arena was in a state of boiling.

The host also took advantage of the situation and shouted, all kinds of rhythm, which made the atmosphere of the game more and more lively.

"Wow, did you see the warm atmosphere? It seems that two names are echoing in the entire venue!"

"That's right, they are Lando from Gastro College, the chief of our class, and Cheng Long from Garmendia College, the second seat in this class."

"The two once gave us a wonderful duel in the qualifying battle. Unfortunately, due to their own reasons, both of them missed the college team battle later. This made many viewers, including myself, All feel sorry.”

"However! In the next battle of trials, we will see them again. Please join us in looking forward to the next wonderful performance of the two supernovas of the conjuration school!"

"Then, let's invite our great arcanist of the conjuration school—Lord Roderich Crowe to announce the rules of the next trial!"

Following the host's words, a middle-aged man wearing a retro luxurious dress and a monocle walked slowly to the center of the stage.

"Hi everyone, I'm Roderich, and I'll announce the theme of this trial next, that is—Secret Exploration!"

"As we all know, when we go to the black domain to explore and adventure, we will always encounter a variety of situations. Many times, in order to avoid danger or achieve a certain purpose, we need to hide ourselves carefully, so in this case, we should How do you find the news or specific items you need?"

"Let these eighty academy geniuses tell everyone with practical actions!"

"The next trial site is a special labyrinth, and the testers will be dispersed and sent into it. They need to break the various mechanisms in the maze without using their own strength, and avoid many monsters in it. If they can find The ultimate goal of the maze core will get a lot of points."

"The trial time is 12 hours. If the core of the maze can be found during the period, the trial will end early, otherwise it will continue until the duration is reached."

"Similarly, we will also give mysterious rewards to those who find the core of the maze according to the usual practice. Then, I wish everyone good luck!"

After Roderich finished explaining, a huge picture suddenly appeared in the sky of the secret arena. It looked like a huge square maze, but the exact shape was not clear.

Lando twitched at the corner of his mouth when he heard the rules of the game. No matter how you looked at it, it seemed that they were specially restricted against super-standard entrants like him and Chenglong.

But there is no way, after all, the rules are set by others, and he can only accept it.

The teaching director Steele said with a smile: "The overall quality of the main test of the trial does not necessarily mean that you will have an advantage if you are strong in combat. The most important thing is to see your resilience."

Lando shrugged and said, "Don't worry, Mr. Steele, I have top-notch adaptability!"

The dean of teaching, Steele, smiled slightly: "Well, I believe that."

After joking a little, the eight people left the rest area and came to the huge platform outside. At this time, the eighty trainees from the ten colleges were all in place.

Eighty beams of light descended from the illusory maze, covering all the testers. After the light disappeared, they all entered the maze.

The illusory maze also began to descend slowly, and quickly descended to the platform. During this process, the fog covering it not only quickly dissipated, but even the maze itself was no longer illusory, but became a reality, and the audience could clearly see what happened in the maze. thing.

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In the maze.

The sky is made up of tumbling black clouds, and the walls of the maze are five meters high. Looking back and forth, you can only see a few tens of meters away.

Lando's face was full of black lines. It was true that all his strength was sealed as the rules said. Although he could easily break through it, it also meant admitting defeat and would be eliminated directly.

"The ultimate goal is the core of the labyrinth, so 'supporting the wall with one hand' is useless, what a pity."

After helplessly talking to himself, Lando chose a random direction to move forward because he didn't know where he was.

As he walked, some pitch-black vines appeared in front of Lando's eyes, and as he approached, these vines also waved.

Dead end?

Lando stood still and frowned, thinking about whether to go back, but as he stopped, the black vines also stopped dancing and fell back to the ground.

sound?
Lando slowed down his footsteps and made as little noise as possible. The vines did not move any more. He even tried to touch the vines, but the latter still did not move. From this, it can be seen that these vines really only respond to sound.

Even though he knew the solution, Lando still had some troubles, because he was not the only one in this maze after all, if someone made a sound nearby while he was trying to pass through the vine passage, he still had to face danger.

But the theme of this trial is "Secret Exploration" after all. It is conceivable that there must be various traps and monsters scattered throughout the maze, and blindly avoiding them will not work.

Lando soon made up his mind to pass through the vine passage.

After all, everyone has just entered the maze at this time, and they should still be in the stage of careful exploration. At this time, the probability of someone yelling should be the smallest.

Gently took a deep breath, then slowed down his breathing, and walked carefully into the vine passage. Because he couldn't make a sound, he needed to take every step lightly and firmly.

The first point is okay, it is not difficult for Ellando to master his body.

The latter point is a bit more difficult. The pitch-black passage and the pitch-black vines require great care, which further slows down his progress.

About 5 meters of vine passage, only halfway through in [-] minutes, and then he stopped.

Lando looked at the center of the vine passage, dozens of vines were coiled to form a bulge, and there was faint white light shining through it.

This is, the tool that was brushed out?
After a little thought, Lando chose to get it.

Stepping forward slowly, carefully pulling apart some of the vines, what was wrapped by them was not some imaginary item, but a faint ray of light.

With a heartbeat, holding his breath, Lando stretched out his hand to touch the shimmering light, and the shimmering light disappeared into his hand immediately.

A sense of enlightenment rose in Lando's heart. This ray of light was both points and the key to unlocking the maze.

As the light disappeared, the coiled vines spread out immediately, which surprised Lando.

Fortunately, they didn't pay attention to Lando, but as they spread out, more vines were attracted and began to dance, which made Lando's expression change.

Increased difficulty? !

Regardless of other things, Lando began to speed up to leave this passage of vines.

Fortunately, after the first half of the walk, he has become quite proficient, his brain is running fast, and he tries to avoid every dancing vine as much as possible.

After 3 minutes, Lando finally left the increasingly dangerous passage of vines.

Gently wiped off the non-existent cold sweat, and began to look at the shimmer of light that melted into his hands.

This ray of light will not only increase the points when you get it, but you can also choose to use it at the fork, and it will randomly guide you to a correct path.

The corner of Lando's mouth twitched. It seemed to be useful, but it was actually useless, because this trial maze is too huge, there is definitely not only one path leading to the core of the maze, and there must be many repeated paths in it, and the light is "randomly guided A correct road', that is to say, it is very likely that there will be a crossroad where all four roads can go to the core of the maze. It is just that some roads need to take a longer detour, and some roads are shortcuts, so this 'random' is very exciting. Speechless.

Shaking his head again, he didn't plan to use this thing anymore, and wanted to see if there would be other changes if he accumulated more.

When Lando was exploring, his little friends also started their own journeys.

The brute-force boy Doug was fighting a Minotaur. With all his strength, he defeated the three-meter-tall Minotaur without using arcane power. He was very brave.

Franco, a parkour boy, has avoided many traps and monsters with his dexterous posture, and his exploration progress is among the best among all.

Curry, a dull young man, wrote down all the roads he had traveled, and began to build a maze model in his mind.

Even if the two sisters, Felia and Sophia, have been sealed away with all their arcane powers, they can still determine each other's location with special telepathy, and even have a little communication.

Strand and Simon also relied on their rich experience to start their own actions.

The size of the maze is actually far beyond the imagination of those who entered the trial. After 80 people were thrown in, there were not many waves at all.

"...Our Chief Lando has passed the first difficulty. It's really hard to imagine. It takes such a strong psychological quality to be able to remain calm in the passage of violently dancing vines. It seems that our Chief Lando has a wealth of experience. adventure experience."

"That's right, I couldn't help but exclaim when the vines hit him just now, but our chief didn't change his face, and his steps didn't scatter at all!"

"Oh, my God, look what I found?! There is a boy who is actually playing hand-to-hand with a tauren. You must know that the physical fitness of an adult tauren is more than 20 times that of an ordinary human. Is this boy really an arcanist? ?”

"Ah! Oops, the second seat of Chenglong seems to have stepped on some mechanism, this dense rain of arrows, is his trial journey coming to an end?"

"It's impossible. Chenglong is walking around in the rain of arrows at the speed of ordinary people. How did he do it?!"

"..."

Whenever the host talks about someone, his area will light up slightly, so that the audience will not miss some exciting scenes.

As time went by, Lando experienced more and more traps and monsters.

Sudden hidden arrows, rolling boulders, falling gate knives, laser channels, etc., in the hidden places of the trap, you can often see the guiding light, but not all the guiding light in the trap can be seen. Got it, some of which he couldn't even find.

Monsters are relatively easy to deal with, because Lando found that monsters are often guarded in a specific area, and their line of sight is lower than him, which gives time for preparation and analysis in advance, skip those who are not sure, and most of the others All of them were solved by Lando with the help of the mechanism in the maze, and a few of them made him show the knight fighting skills he hadn't seen for a long time.

When the guiding gleams reached ten, they really changed as Rando had guessed. They seemed to be attracted to each other, and suddenly condensed into a larger and brighter guiding gleam, while sending out a message.

This twilight can be used at any time, and it can guide the direction of the core of the maze.

Lando raised his eyebrows, then frowned again, feeling that things would not be so simple.

Although you can accumulate more to see if there are any greater changes, but think of the remaining trial time.

Lando didn't hesitate any longer, and directly chose to use it. Suddenly, a faint light floated up, turning into an arrow pointing in a certain direction, and it shattered into light spots and dissipated in just a few seconds.

He started to move towards the pointed direction. Although there was no assistance from Xiao Hui, it was very easy for Lando to record the direction. Not the slightest deviation.

I don't know if it's because of time or the direction that Lando is walking closer to the core. The strength of both traps and monsters has increased, and it is becoming more and more difficult to get new guiding light.

When Lando took more time to get the ten guide shimmers again, he directly chose to use them immediately.

The result made him look a little ugly.

The direction he pointed out this time is obviously different from what he recorded last time.

This creates two possibilities. One is that there is a powerful power to confuse perception in the maze, which will affect people in it without knowing it; the other is that this maze... can move!

Lando is more inclined to the second possibility. Even if he can't use arcane magic, for him who has the talent of [Heart (Orange)], it means that his passive resistance is still there, and he won't be so easily confused.

After thinking about it carefully, Lando decided to adjust his strategy, supplemented by finding the core of the maze, and put the main goal on cracking traps and monsters to get more points.

In this way, the efficiency of getting the guidance shimmer is much higher.

When Lando gathered the fifth ten groups to guide the shimmering light, the labyrinth space trembled, and the tumbling dark clouds in the sky dissipated. He suddenly felt that the restraints on his body disappeared, as if he could use arcane power.

The voice of the external host also came, confirming this point. After 12 hours, no one found the core of the maze.

Without hesitation, Lando directly soared into the sky. What he wants to know most now is how far he is from the so-called core of the labyrinth.

At the same time, many people also had the same idea as Lando.

PS: The college exchange is over, and a new story will start next!

(End of this chapter)