After hanging up Mentor Odo's communication, Lando fell into deep thought.
The God Research Institute is about to be built, which has no impact on Lando at this time. As his mentor said, with his current strength, it is impossible to set up an independent research project. Even if he is allowed to enter now,
You can also only select one of the projects as an assistant.
Shaking his head, Lando stopped thinking about these things. Lando had a lot of things on his hands now. Although it was important to study talent fusion, the sequence on his side was still very far back. At least he had to wait until he finished the three oranges.
It’s just about condensing your talents.
The gap in the essence of three million souls!
Lando: Ennnnnn...
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The much-anticipated last part of the academy exchange, the trial, was held as scheduled.
When the audience saw Lando from Gastro Academy and Chenglong from Garmendia Academy appearing in their respective rest areas, the entire stadium was in a state of excitement.
The host also took advantage of the situation and shouted with various rhythms, making the atmosphere in the arena more and more lively.
"Wow, have you seen this warm atmosphere? It seems like two names are echoing in the entire venue!"
"Yes, they are Lando from Gastro College, the chief of our class, and Chenglong from Garmendia College, the second in this class."
"The two of them gave us a wonderful duel in the ranking match. Unfortunately, due to their own reasons, both of them were absent from the subsequent academy team match. This made many viewers, including me personally,
We all feel very sorry.”
"However! In the next trial battle, we will see their figures again. Please join us in looking forward to the wonderful performance of the two supernovas of the Conjuration School!"
"Then, I would like to invite the great arcanist of our 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 slowly walked to the center of the stage.
"Hello everyone, I am Roderich, and I will announce the theme of this trial, which is - secret exploration!"
"As we all know, when we go to the dark realm 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 carefully hide ourselves. In this case, what should we do?
How do you find the news or specific items you need?”
"Let these eighty college geniuses tell everyone with practical actions!"
"The next trial location is a special maze. The trialists will be dispersed and teleported into it. They need to crack the various mechanisms in the maze without using their own strength and avoid the many monsters in it. If they can find
The final goal of the maze core will get a lot of points."
"The trial lasts for 12 hours. If the core of the maze can be found during this 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 as usual. So, I wish everyone good luck!"
As Roderich finished explaining, a huge looming face suddenly appeared in the sky of the Secret Arena. It looked like a huge square maze, but its specific appearance was unclear.
Lando's lips twitched when he heard the rules of the competition. It looked like they were specifically restricted to super-standard entrants like him and Chenglong.
But there was nothing he could do. After all, the rules were set by others and he could only accept them.
Dean Steele smiled and said: "The trial mainly tests the overall quality. Strong combat power does not necessarily mean you have an advantage. The most important thing is your ability to adapt."
Lando shrugged and said: "Don't worry, Teacher Steele, my adaptability is first-rate!"
Dean Steele smiled and said, "Yes, I believe that."
After chatting and joking for a while, the eight people left the rest area and came to the huge platform outside. At this time, all eighty trialists from ten academies were 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 slowly descend, and soon landed on the platform. In the process, the fog shrouding it not only quickly dissipated, but the maze itself was no longer illusory, but became an entity. The audience could clearly see what was happening in the maze.
thing.
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In the maze.
The sky is made up of billowing black clouds. The walls of the maze are five meters high. Looking back and forth, you can only see a few dozen meters of road.
Lando's face is full of black lines. It is true that all his power is sealed as the rules say. Although it can be easily broken through, it also means admitting defeat and will be directly eliminated.
"The ultimate goal is the core of the maze, so 'holding the wall with one hand' is useless. It's a pity."
After muttering helplessly to himself, Lando chose a random direction to move forward because he couldn't figure out where he was currently.
As he walked, some dark vines appeared in front of Lando's eyes. As he got closer, these vines began to wave.
Dead end?
Lando stopped where he was and frowned, thinking whether to go back. But as he stopped, the dark vines stopped dancing and fell back to the ground.
Sound?
Lando slowed down his steps and made as little noise as possible. As expected, the vines were not dancing. He even tried to touch the vines, but there was still no movement. From this, it can be seen that these vines indeed only respond to sounds.
Even if he knew the solution, Lando still had some difficulties, because after all, he was not the only one in this maze. If someone made a sound nearby while he was trying to pass through the vine passage, he would still need to face danger.
But the theme of this trial is 'secret exploration' after all. It can be imagined that the entire maze must be filled with various traps and monsters, and blindly avoiding them is not enough.
Lando soon made up his mind and passed through the vine passage.
After all, everyone has just entered the maze at this time and should still be in the careful exploration stage. The probability of someone yelling at this time should be minimal.
Take a deep breath, then slow down your breathing, and carefully walk into the vine passage. Because you can't make any sound, you need to be gentle and steady with every step.
Fortunately, the former point is not difficult for Lando to master his own body.
The latter point was a bit difficult. The dark passage and the dark vines required great care, which seriously slowed down his progress.
He only walked halfway through the approximately one hundred meter vine passage in five minutes, and then he stopped.
Lando looked at the center of the vine passage, where dozens of vines were coiled into a bulge, with a faint white light coming out of it.
Is this a brushed-out prop?
After thinking for a moment, Lando chose to get it.
He walked forward slowly and carefully pulled apart a few of the vines. What was wrapped in them was not an imaginary item, but a faint ray of light.
With a thought in his heart and holding his breath, Lando stretched out his hand to touch the glimmer of light, and immediately the glimmer of light penetrated into his hand and disappeared.
A flash of enlightenment emerged in Lando's heart. This glimmer of light was both points and the key to unlocking the maze.
As the light disappeared, the vines coiled into raised vines spread out, which startled Lando.
Fortunately, they didn't pay attention to Lando, but with the movement they made when they dispersed, more vines were attracted and began to dance, which made Lando's expression change.
The difficulty has increased?!
Regardless of anything else, Lando began to speed up and leave the vine passage.
Fortunately, after the first half of the walk, he has become quite proficient, and his brain is working rapidly, trying to avoid every dancing vine as much as possible. If he cannot avoid it, even if he takes a hard blow, he will not disrupt his steps.
Three minutes later, Lando finally left the increasingly dangerous vine passage.
He gently wiped away the non-existent cold sweat and began to examine the glimmer of light that melted into his hand.
In addition to increasing points when obtained, this ray of light can also be chosen to be used at forks in the road, and it will randomly guide a correct path.
Lando curled his lips. It seemed useful, but in fact it was useless, because this trial maze was too huge. There was definitely not just one way to the core of the maze, and there must be many repeated sections, and the light was 'randomly guiding'.
A correct road', which means that there is likely to be a crossroads where all four roads can lead to the core of the maze. It's just that some roads need to be detoured a little further, and some roads are shortcuts, so this 'randomness' is very confusing.
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.
While Lando was exploring, his friends also started their own journeys.
Doug, a young boy with brute force, was fighting a Minotaur. With his extraordinary strength, he was able to beat back the three-meter-tall Minotaur without using any arcane power. He was very brave.
Parkour boy Franco has avoided many traps and monsters with his dexterity, and his exploration progress is at the forefront of everyone.
The dull boy Corey completely wrote down the path he took and began to build a maze model in his mind.
Even if all arcane powers are sealed away, the two sisters Filia and Sophia can still determine each other's position through special telepathy, and can even communicate a little.
Stellan and Simon also relied on their rich experience to launch their own actions.
The maze was actually far larger than the imagination of those who entered it, and eighty people entered without causing much disturbance at all.
"...Our Chief Lando has passed the first difficulty. It's hard to imagine that he can still be calm and comfortable in the violently dancing vine passage. What a strong psychological quality this requires. It seems that our Chief Lando has rich
adventure experience.”
"That's right, I couldn't help but scream out in surprise when the vines hit him just now, but our chief's face changed color and his steps didn't falter at all!"
"Oh, my God, look what I found?! There is a young man playing hand-to-hand combat 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 young man really an arcanist?
?”
"Ah! Oops, it seems that Chenglong, the second seat, has stepped on something. With this dense rain of arrows, is his trial journey about to end?"
"This is impossible. Chenglong was walking at a leisurely pace in the rain of arrows at a speed similar to that of ordinary people. How did he do it?!"
"..."
Whenever the host talks about someone, the area where he is located will light up slightly, so that the audience will not miss some exciting scenes.
As time goes by, Lando encounters more and more traps and monsters.
Suddenly shot hidden arrows, rolling boulders, fallen gate knives, laser channels, etc., can often see the guiding light in the hidden places of the trap, but not all the guiding light in the trap can be seen.
Got it, some he couldn't even find.
Monsters are relatively easy to deal with, because Lando found that monsters tend to stay in specific areas, and their line of sight is lower than him. This gives time to prepare and analyze in advance, and skip those that are not sure. Most others
All of them were solved by Lando with the help of the mechanisms in the maze, and a few of them allowed him to use his long-lost knight fighting skills.
When the guiding shimmers reached ten, they changed as Lando had guessed. They seemed to attract each other, and suddenly condensed into a larger and brighter guiding shimmer, and at the same time conveyed a message.
This shimmering light can be used at any time, and it can guide the direction of the core of the maze.
Lando raised his brows, then frowned again, feeling that things would not be that simple.
Although I can accumulate more to see if there are any bigger changes, I think of the remaining trial time.
Lando no longer hesitated and directly chose to use it. Suddenly, a faint light floated up and turned into an arrow pointing in a certain direction. In just a few seconds, it shattered into light spots and dissipated.
He began to move in the direction of the guide. Although there was no assistance from Xiao Hui, recording the direction was still very easy for Lando. Even in the face of sudden traps and monster chases, he never had the chance to do so.
Not the slightest deviation.
I don't know whether it's because of time or because Lando is heading closer to the core. The strength of traps and monsters has increased, and it's getting harder and harder to get new guidance glimmers.
When Lando spent more time to get ten groups of Guidance Glimmer again, he directly chose to use it immediately.
The result made him look a little ugly.
The direction pointed this time was obviously different from what he recorded last time.
This gives rise to two possibilities. One is that there is a powerful power to confuse perception in the maze, which will affect the people in it unknowingly. The other is that this maze... can move!
Lando is more inclined to the second possibility. Even if he cannot use arcane magic, for him with the [Heart Realm (Orange)] talent, it is equivalent to still having passive resistance, and he will not be confused so easily.
After thinking about it carefully, Lando decided to adjust his strategy, supplemented by finding the core of the maze, and focus on cracking traps and monsters to gain more points.
In this way, it is indeed much more efficient to obtain the glimmer of guidance.
When Lando gathered the fifth tenth group to guide the light, the maze space shook, and the rolling dark clouds in the sky dissipated. He suddenly felt that the restraints on his body disappeared, and it seemed that he could now use arcane power.
The voice of the outside host also came, confirming this. At the end of 12 hours, no one had found the core of the maze.
Without hesitation, Lando soared directly into the sky. What he wanted to know most now was how far he was from the so-called core of the maze.
At the same time, many people also had the same idea as Lando.
PS: The college exchange is over, and a new plot will begin!
