Mage? Spell Engineer!.

Chapter 462 Design Competition Opening

When Rorschach was still an engineering student in his previous life, the most common means of promoting industrial software was to sponsor and title various competitions. I hope that engineering students will remember the "familiar taste" while they are still in the development stage, form user habits, and then everyone will happily use pirated software!

There's no way around it, engineering dogs are real dogs, and Rorschach can prove it because he was once one of them.

But no matter what, this method is worth learning from. The essence is to spend money to let those apprentices study the technical manual, get started, and then build an ecosystem. Especially at the moment when the teaching staff is seriously insufficient, except for Rorschach himself occasionally refreshing on the podium, it is Caroline who is in charge of teaching, and the Valois wizard who entered Bain with Andre to take refuge is also on duty.

Fortunately, today's spellcasters still have a tenacious spirit of self-study, which was fostered by the long-term monopoly of knowledge. As long as they have books to read, they will start to study hard.

In short, just after the Kingdom of Bain had recovered from its little "alchemical magic", the "Bain Stability Insurance Cup·The First National Magic Apprentice Spell String Design Competition" was officially launched with overwhelming publicity.

This match was successful in washing the newspaper pages of Bayern for three reasons:

First, the organizers gave too much; second, it can be said that almost all the wealthy people in Bain, big and small, sponsored the competition, although it was involuntary and named after the insurance company that harvested their coins; third, the participants were in groups of three to five, and non-casters must participate.

Teams that are purely composed of mages will be disqualified from participating in the competition.

The main force of the competition is the apprentices who have just joined the Mage Tower. Luosha's Mage Tower is scattered, and the apprentices who were poached from the Arcane Tower are just placed together with students from other schools. The only good thing for the apprentices is that there is a study room and brand new alchemy equipment.

In addition to the study room, the accommodation area also has a public lounge, which is deliberately designed in a classical style. Following Rorschach's strange instructions, a constant flame magic fireplace was lit in the middle of summer. Rorschach personally cast the spell in front of the other apprentices, and said, "Try to extinguish it if you feel hot."

In the lounge, except for those who were competing with the "Eternal Fireplace" by summoning ice and water, everyone else was discussing the competition and studying the technical manual: "The standard frequency bands of feature symbols and the four ways to connect descriptors are as follows."

"In the timeline, the essence of a spell tick is a calibration point of time."

An apprentice angrily threw his precious manual and said, "What the hell is this? I give up!" Compared with the previous mysterious secret techniques and metaphysical magic theories, the apprentice who came out of the Tower of Mysticism found himself falling into another pit, and this pit exuded a "weird smell" everywhere.

This strange taste came from another world, and Rorschach used coercion and inducement to force new members of the Mage Tower to taste it, deceiving them by saying it was "very fresh and very delicious."

His teammates immediately reminded him: "The first place team in the group will receive 8,000 Golden Eagle Coins, and the second place will receive 5,000. Even if there is a participation prize, everyone can choose a scroll of a third-ring spell and get points."

The apprentice who had thrown the book in anger because of the strange smell immediately changed his expression and carefully smoothed the wrinkles on the manual: "Oh, I'm just venting, go on, go on." Of course, not everyone can get the "ink screen scroll" that can be updated in real time like Richard. All the apprentices get ordinary printed textbooks.

Another insidious aspect of Rorschach is that he has to form a team to compete. If he participates alone, he will easily run into difficulties and give up. However, after forming a team, the team members will support each other. When someone shows signs of giving up, other teammates will give him a little help to ensure that his efforts are not wasted. As for the situation where everyone gives up, Rorschach can only rely on "gold magic" to prevent it.

Of course, there is also a situation where the "mainstay" among teammates is forced to complete tasks that do not belong to him.

"Back then, I had to help revise the diagram after I finished the process. It was almost the same as redrawing it all over again! That damn teammate just patted his butt and gave himself a holiday." Late at night, Rorschach got angry when he thought of this matter at his workbench, and hammered the "Spider Assault Construct Magic Circuit Layout (Draft)". At the same time, Feuerbach was also meeting with other professors from the Tower of Mysticism. Senran's conference room was cool, but most of the participants were a little angry.

An elderly, mid-level bald wizard who loved mountaineering as a hobby was the first to speak up: "This is outrageous, absolutely outrageous!"

There were many things that were out of place. First of all, what the professors of the Tower of Secrets did not expect was that there were far more apprentices willing to go to the Rorschach Mage Tower than they expected. Although they could not say it out loud, many mages in the tower had a common underlying idea: I can choose not to teach those apprentices with poor talents, but you can't steal my students.

If it weren't for the current time, perhaps Rorschach would not have been able to recruit so many people. But the overall downturn has caused family pressure to be transmitted to these full-time students, and coupled with Varlan's stirring up trouble in the financial market, this process has been greatly accelerated.

The mages of the Tower of Mystic Magic enjoy the best treatment and squander spellcasting materials. They only care about "studying and delving into advanced magical skills" and don't even know that the Magic Guild has cut salaries.

Rorschach "broke a hole" in the Tower of Mysticism, which not only allowed the apprentices trapped inside who were unable to advance to the next level to escape, but also allowed the mages in the tower, who believed that the world had not changed, to glimpse the truth about the outside world through the gap, a reality that made them ashamed and angry.

What's even more "unreasonable" is that in order to work together to achieve the goal, the apprentices in each team began to exchange spells with each other, including their students who had already begun learning first, second and even higher-level magic.

In the past, mutual assistance was limited by the learning cost and difficulty of spellcasting, and the magic exchanged was limited to zero-ring and a small number of first-ring spells, so the teachers of the Arcane Tower could turn a blind eye. Now, under the banner of competition, the magic taught by the teachers themselves is even directly spread to the freshmen.

For the sharers, this is not a loss. Everyone has a spell they are good at. Now they can exchange it with each other, and they can get a three-ring spell as a prize if they finish the competition. Most importantly, anyone who is not a fool can realize that the emergence of the "Spell Cloud" will lower the learning threshold, and low-level spells are no longer so "precious".

The most unconventional thing is that Rorschach stipulated that the group must have ordinary people participating, and also gave some thoughtful suggestions on team formation, such as looking for students from Mugong University for those involved in transformation magic and transmutation. Through this opportunity, many apprentices and secular college students learned for the first time what each other was studying and what they could do.

In Rorschach's Mage Tower, it was very easy for students from both sides to communicate, but it was difficult for the participating teams of the Arcane Tower to find ordinary teammates. Fortunately, the difficulty was temporary. The Arcane Tower apprentices only needed to go to the taverns in big cities to recruit. Many college students, out of their curiosity and yearning for magic, would take the initiative to travel through mountains and rivers to the small mountain village at the foot of the Arcane Tower.

For ordinary people, if they win a place in the competition, they will receive a generous prize. If they are shortlisted, they can also get a two-ring scroll (one ring lower than the wizard's prize and they cannot choose the learning scroll). It is guaranteed to be profitable, provided that they are invited by the apprentice.

Merchants smelled an opportunity and soon public horse-drawn carriages began to ply, new inns were built in the small mountain village, and even a bustling trading market appeared. All kinds of divination gadgets, amulets, and potions of questionable effectiveness appeared on the street stalls, as well as other small business groups.

Although the protection of the Arcane Tower was still open and ordinary people could not see it, the apprentices came in and out, and everyone knew the existence and location of the tower. The Arcane Tower finally evolved from "small hidden in the forest" to "big hidden in the city". Even if the magic guild was commissioned to drive away outsiders, the booming temporary accommodation and gatherings were just symbolically moved a little further out.

The outsiders were bold, and the magic guild staff responsible for enforcing the order were lazy.

"Now that things have come to this, please give the order, Master! The apprentices in the tower must be prohibited from participating in that competition!"

(End of this chapter)