Fairy's Chess Game

Chapter 255 The Eve of the Competition
Qingshan was secretly happy, and even his footsteps became excited.This year, I can finally let go and have fun!Because they are deeply influenced by chess players, these chess pieces also like the feeling of controlling a chess game. At present, apart from Damo Douyanwu, there is no one who can control the whole country, or even the entire continent. The perfect chess game for the wizards to catch all in one go!
Walking to the door, Qing Shan stopped and turned around and asked, "Let me ask, sir, what did you plan to arrange this time?"

The chess player continued to sink into the chair lazily, and said lazily: "If I still have to make a question... put all the mages into the arena for a battle royale, or use the mode of single-handedly fighting to choose Will there be a final winner?"

Qingshan smiled helplessly, is it too capricious for the sake of laziness?
Walking out of the chess player's study room, Qingshan shuttled through the empty corridor, while communicating the good news to his comrades in the frontline through the remote communicator, telling them to get ready and stop the battle as soon as possible so that they can come back to participate in this battle. Enjoyable game.

Walking out of the house dedicated to chess players, Qingshan turned into a taller and more spectacular villa next to him, and then went all the way to the basement.Follow the passage in the basement to reach the core research area of ​​the Balance Organization.

The style here is completely different from the Serene Village above, and even different from the entire Aslant world.

Bright lights, silver-white walls and ceilings all show the ultimate simplicity and cleanliness.There also seemed to be a meticulous rigor in the air.

Hundreds of metal puppets—or robots in other words—scattered on various workbenches in this room, and several times as many engineers were concentrating on working around their respective workbenches.

Even though I come here several times a day, I still feel uncomfortable.Qingshan complained silently, his black dress was too conspicuous here, like black dots on a piece of white paper.

And every time he stays in this underground space for a long time, Qingshan will feel that his view of magic has been severely impacted, and he feels that he can no longer look directly at his puppet band—after all, his symphony band is still a technical style that was popular more than ten years ago. It is already seriously behind the magic technology here!

At the end of this largest studio, a metal throne that is also full of sci-fi style was placed wickedly, for the king here, the highest person in charge of the magic technology department to sit on it.

Qingshan sighed, and walked straight to the tall and thin man with facial paralysis - this is one of the reasons why he didn't want to come here. Every time he came to look for that man, it was as if he was going to see a king...Obviously I am him How is your boss?

"Yo, Lord Qingshan, you came on time today." The man on the throne said frivolous words in a stiff and flat tone, which made people feel awkward, "But it's still the same as before, sorry I can't get up to greet you."

He stretched out his finger and pointed behind him, only to see dozens of wires of different sizes and thicknesses inserted all over his back, including the back of his neck and the back of his head!These cables are distributed throughout the studio through the throne. If you look closely, you will find that among the hundreds of engineers here, more than half are not real humans, but mechanical puppets connected with wires.

Val. Vaguely, he is not human, or not a normal human.He comes from a magical race—the mechanical race. The ancestors of this crazy race were a tribe that was good at alchemy. At some point, they mechanized the entire tribe and passed it down to become such a strange man. race.

But it has to be admitted that this race is indeed extremely good at the research and development of various magic technologies.Since Val rebelled from the Alvarez Empire and joined Tianping, the research progress of the entire Magic Technology Department has instantly increased by one level.

Qingshan went straight to the point: "How is your Fumodian system prepared? Hurry up and get a non-combat version out, and use it in this big demon fight."

"Oh, you finally convinced the chess player?" Walton became interested, "Don't worry, I've been ready for a long time."

Qingshan nodded, and then said: "This Damo Dou performance should be our last time to relax, enjoy it, and then it will be time for a full-scale war."

"So, that... wait for me to search... Has Woz already appeared?" Val's eyes kept beating, "The long-lost chess game is finally about to start?"

Qingshan said seriously: "So this time all our chess pieces will gather together, and you will also become a new chess piece."

"Replace the black knight who died?"

Qing Shan nodded: "Yes, instead of Luo Luojian. As the main force of our large-scale war."

Val was a little unhappy: "So what about his strength before? It is impossible for me to replace an ordinary wizard, right?"

"Rologian is the strongest summoner I have ever seen. His summoned beasts are comparable to an army with a complete will!" After thinking for a while, Aoyama added, "Army of mages."

Val narrowed his eyes: "No wonder I'm here to fill this position. Are you looking at my mechanical army?"

"And your research strength."

"Hahaha, in terms of technology, it's just a mutual benefit between us. Strictly speaking, what I get here is far more than what I paid." Val looked at his studio with satisfaction, "Okay, I know everything. Tomorrow, I will assemble the Temple of Fumo at the No. [-] Proving Ground."

Qingshan knew that the other party was getting impatient, and it happened that he didn't want to stay here anymore, so he prepared to leave.

After walking a few steps, Val's voice came from behind: "It seems that you are really planning to accept me. Do you no longer doubt it?"

"Master Chess Player has never doubted you." Qing Shantou said without looking back, "I just don't know if you can face your former companions."

"Ha! Don't worry, the day after I sentenced the empire, a new twelve shields were replaced. So I don't feel guilty about it at all. And there is not such a good research environment there!"

……

Look back to Fairy Tail.All the members of the guild gathered together, except for a few people who traveled far because of the mission and Gildas who set foot on the wandering practice again, Fairy Tail held the mobilization meeting again after seven years.

The goal is Damo Dou Yanwu!

The development of the matter was exactly as expected by Mirajane and Rebby. As soon as they shared the information they obtained, everyone agreed to participate in the competition, win the victory, meet the chess player, and find out the trace of the lost fairy.

This is still very necessary, look at the balance organization, because of the existence of chess players, at least the name "Woz" has been remembered.But in Fairy Tail, they didn't even remember the name.For the group of people who have the closest relationship with Woz, this name is like a key to open the door of memory. As long as they get this name, they can successfully unlock all the memories about Woz; The name will never open that door.

And taking a step back, the current situation of the guild is not optimistic, because after seven years of silence and decline, Fairy Tail has long since faded from the eyes of the world.The direct consequence of the loss of popularity is that the number of missions received by the guild is pitifully small, not even enough to support all the mages in the guild.

Especially now that the Great Demon Fighting Martial Arts is flourishing, the number of jobs in a mage guild is directly linked to the results of the competition.Therefore, in order to reverse this unfavorable economic dilemma, the best way is to participate in the competition.

More importantly, there is a generational gap in Fairy Tail now, also because the reputation has been buried, and no children are willing to come to Fairy Tail as apprentices.This is the most unacceptable to President Makarov who attaches great importance to inheritance, so he tried his best to make the new generation of the guild prosperous again.

Combining various factors, Fairy Tail unanimously decided to participate in this year's Demon Fighting Performance!
"However, our strength is not enough now!" President Makarov said solemnly, "Because what we Fairy Tail need is to win the championship!"

As soon as these words came out, the guild fell silent, and even the ignorant Natsu didn't jump out to refute.In the days after the return of the Sirius group, they also had some contests with the left-behind goblins.After seven years of continuous growth and fighting, the strength of these left-behind members is not weaker than the average level of the Sirius group. Even so, the best result they have ever achieved is only No.2.The advanced combat power of today's magic world can also be seen.

If the members of the Sirius group can spend these seven years normally, the current Fairy Tail must still be the number one guild in the kingdom—with an overwhelming advantage.But during these seven years, they were completely sealed and fell into a deep sleep, their time was frozen, and they still remained in 784.

If it weren't for the original strength of this group of evildoers, which was beyond the level of the times, they would have been far behind by the times now.

But then again, evildoers are always evildoers, even if they were suspended for a few years, the potential of the Sirius group has not been affected at all.These proud teenagers have the confidence to return to the pinnacle of the era.

As a result, the three-month emergency practice began as a matter of course.The members of the Sirius team went to various places to carry out their own special training and gave up their jobs.Anyway, the work on the task board is not enough for so many people, so it's better to just give it to others.

As for the economic losses caused during the period... Anyway, after winning the championship, there will be a lot of money, so no problem!

The long-lost Erza team gathered again. Erza, Naz, Gray, Lucy, Wendy, Xia Lulu and Habi chose to form a team for special training.

Others also went their separate ways and tried their best to squeeze their potential.

It is worth mentioning that Mirajane did not act together with Eluffman and Lisanna to form the Strauss family team.Instead, they chose to team up with Rebby, and the two women tried to continue to collect the fragments of the magic book and find the trace of Woz while undergoing special training.

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Time was slowly passing by, and before the start of the Damo Dou performance, Woz, who had been sleeping for 500 years, finally woke up gradually.

The consciousness returns first, so that Woz can feel the existence of "self", and then connects the consciousness to his body. The whole process is like a soul possessing a body.

Woz has long been familiar with this whole process, and every time he is injured and unconscious, there will be such a process.So he was unusually calm and patiently waiting for his body to wake up.

Finally, Woz could feel every part of his body, and it was time to open his eyes and get up.

But he found that he couldn't move, and there was a biting chill all over his body.Because he is an ice mage, the cold didn't make him feel uncomfortable.

It took a lot of effort for Woz to open his eyes, and then he realized that he was still sealed by a thick ice shell.Through the crystal clear ice, Luluya can be seen lying in the bird's nest not far away.

Gradually, Woz's thinking ability came back online, and he finally recalled that he was in hibernation. Because he was polluted by the blood of the evil dragon, Woz had to choose frozen hibernation. Realizing the plan of going back to the future is really killing two birds with one stone!

The ice shell outside him was formed by the ice dragon Corell himself to protect Woz.

The Frozen Throne under Woz was caused by his own magic power.But over a long period of time, the two different forces gradually merged, and Woz's throne and the outer ice shell became something jointly created by both of them.

This shell cannot be forcibly broken, otherwise the Woz inside will also be smashed together!
And because it is mixed with the magic power belonging to the ice dragon Corell, Woz has no way to use the magic of ice to remove this layer of ice shell. The only way is to use Woz's own magic power to "support it bit by bit. open" and melt away.

Of course, there is a better way: after all, this is the magic power of ice, as long as Woz is willing, he can easily absorb and fuse the power that belongs to the ice dragon Corell at any time.Just as Gray was able to analyze Silver's "Ice of Evil Slayer" and become an Ice Demon Slayer, Woz can also absorb this frozen power to become an Ice Dragon Slayer.In that case, this layer of ice would no longer be a problem at all.

However, Woz is not willing to do this.He has always rejected Corell's invitation to become an Ice Dragon Slayer.Woz is not worried that he will become an ice dragon, he just hopes that the magic power of ice in himself can remain pure, and be a pure ice shape wizard.

Because this magic power, as well as this ice modeling magic, are all inherited from Ulu.This is the principle that Woz cannot give up under any circumstances.

Therefore, Woz finally chose to "thaw" slowly.

The ice layer close to the surface of his body quietly outlined a pattern of faint roses.

(End of this chapter)