"Someone has entered the first red door." People whispered.
"The 100th door," someone asked, "how much faster is this year than the last one?"
"It's a lot faster. The best score in the previous session was 310, set by a player named Loofah from Kaolin-Yin Xiulian."
The staff looked at each other, thinking that most of them will be from Kaolin-Yinxiulian again this time, but if you don’t say that the third division is declining, how could it be so? Could it be that it is the time for the division to rise and fall again?
More than half of the people here are actually here for the Dragon Alchemist. After the first round of competition, the opponent has successfully surpassed the Imperial Twins and become the favorite to win the championship.
Many people want to see how far this talented boy can go and whether he can break the highest record in history?
The best result in history was set by FOX, the pride of the first division selectors, the King of Gray, with four red gates. He gave up the fight only when he reached the last red gate.
At this moment, Fang Plover was looking at a blue wooden door in front of him in a daze.
The door looks very ordinary, with a brass door handle and oak wood. It is simply painted with a layer of blue paint. The texture of the wood can even be seen under the paint. The paint is not evenly applied. Look.
The workmanship is very rough.
He had seen this door many times in the tall tower in Nevad. The only thing they had in common was that they were similar in roughness.
In fact, standing in front of this door, he already knew the difference between the Tower of Winter Solstice and the Tower of Summer Solstice. In other words, the four towers were all different. Among them, the Tower of Summer Solstice was more focused on fighting craftsmen, while the Tower of Winter Solstice was more focused on fighting craftsmen.
Belongs to the Alchemist.
Although there are also three-color doors here, there is a blue door after the nine green doors, and a red door after the nine blue doors, but Ming told him that behind the red door is not a battle level, but more about the practice of alchemy.
Application scenarios.
It may also be an academic debate, in which he must convince everyone in that illusory scene.
After Blue Gate, naturally, it is not his usual refining, composition and test of alchemical formulas, but more about the difficult problems in the history of alchemy and the underlying logic of ether.
In comparison, Green Door is the basic skills, the most basic things in alchemy. But it is also more difficult here.
But none of this surprised Fang Plover.
What really surprised him was the problem itself——
Behind the first blue door, he had already seen it, which was the tower magic furnace.
The second blue door is about the adaptability of elements. This is also a very ancient alchemical topic. How do mortals adapt to elemental magic? This is also the basis for the birth of the magic furnace.
is a problem faced by mortal alchemists.
But this is also a poorly discussed topic. This has been the consensus of alchemists for thousands of years. How can this appear in the tower levels?
He had long heard that the levels for this competition were set by President Friston. The tower-type magic furnace in the first level was not surprising, because it clearly contained the Empire's knowledge of the technical routes of the three geniuses.
Explore.
That may be closely related to the alchemical revolution in the empire. Craftsmen will always want to let the younger generation of alchemists understand their technological progress in this way, which is understandable.
On the contrary, this vaguely shows the temperament of the empire. The contestants come from many countries in different regions, but the imperial people are not shy about hiding their technological progress and ideas. Of course, it can also be regarded as another kind of arrogance, but regardless of
For whatever reason, the Oshurs are at least commendable in this respect.
But as soon as he entered the third blue door, his brows immediately frowned and wrinkled into a ball - how should the wandering magic power be stored?
This is by no means the technical line of the Imperial people.
On the contrary, this is actually a quite ancient proposition. The wandering magic is actually the unshaped ether - the latter is the element, and the wandering magic is actually the largest part of the sea of light.
To put it in human terms, it is magic power without attributes.
How to store attributeless ether, good question.
The non-attributed crystal cannot bear the matching magic power. Mortals have tried many methods and taken many roads. Each of those roads leads to a dead end. Those who take this technical route will undoubtedly fail, and they
The failures experienced were called by later generations——
The road to the sixth technical route.
But are those really failures?
Why did he encounter such a problem? He doubted whether others could give the answer to this question. With such a doubtful attitude, Fang Yu wrote down on the table what he already knew and refined many times.
Alchemical formula.
The door opened with a sound.
The road behind seemed to welcome his arrival.
The question is real, but how should other people answer it? A doubt arose in Fang Yu's mind. He put down his pen and continued to walk forward.
He became curious and decided to move forward to see what would be after the blue door below. After one green door after another, he finally came to this door. He stayed in front of the door for a long time.
After a while, I finally made up my mind to open the door——
Problems came one after another.
Do the more stable crystals that exist in imagination actually exist?
really……
Seeing this, Fang Plover couldn't help but close his eyes, and he felt completely clear in his heart. This question was so natural, as if it was the question asked to him one after another by the alchemists who walked on this path in the past.
That technical route actually began with the alchemists' discussion of the suitability of mortal elements.
Then they encountered the first difficulty, how to extract the ground-state magic power from the sea of light and store it?
Someone has proposed the idea of a stable crystal. That kind of crystal is not constructed from elements, so it can contain magic power without attributes.
They did find the crystal, but were unsuccessful.
At this point, Fang Yu has fully understood that since he opened the door, he should have embarked on a path different from others, and this path should actually be the path between Helinwell and the two geniuses.
experienced.
With such a clear understanding arising in his heart, he naturally became more interested. Is this the entire experience of the three geniuses in the past? Will they write down their answers in the final words of this tower?
With such curiosity, he picked up the pen and wrote the answer on the table again.
The answer is actually very simple, just two words——
'exist'
Without asking for more information, the wooden door opened after a moment of silence.
Fang Yu was a little surprised. He originally thought that the question would ask him what the structure of the crystal would be, but he suddenly thought that maybe the person asking the question did not understand the shape of the crystal.
Naturally, it is impossible to judge whether his answer is correct or not.
Such thoughts arose and then disappeared, and he continued to move forward, passing through one door after another. Most of the problems with those green doors were not simple, but to him they were just the foundation among the foundations.
Helinwell and the alchemists behind him not only asked about those profound ideas, but also made detailed explorations into the basic skills of the alchemists who came here.
They probably hope that the successor will be a true alchemist, rather than a lucky or unlucky person who accidentally entered this place. They strictly and carefully defined the boundaries of questions in the hope that the legacy they left behind would not
Being let down.
But did they really leave behind a valuable legacy?
Fang Yu became more and more curious. What else could be left for him in the sixth technical route? The world regarded it as a failed technical route. Although they would not ridicule the forerunners, most of them had a regretful attitude.
And on such a road that seems to be a failure for most people, are there any precious things that have been lost?
Those basic questions did not faze him, and Fang Piao solved them easily. Sometimes he could even feel the eyes of the great alchemist, looking at him with admiration. The alchemy skills of mortals thousands of years ago are still outstanding.
There are excellent successors.
After the green doors, there are blue doors.
The deeper he got into it, the more Fang Yu became convinced of his conjecture. He also experienced all the difficulties experienced by the alchemists of that era - what he was experiencing at the moment was an experience related to the holy crystal left by Hain-Fam.
It is a completely different process to derive the formula by going backward.
He will encounter the problems and confusions that his predecessors have encountered, and answer them one by one. He will combine the answers with his own knowledge, and the two corresponding proofs will be like walking through the sixth technical route again.
road.
The only difference is.
He has an answer.
The further he moves forward, the clearer the future he sees becomes clear. The confusions that he could not understand in the past, as well as the true reasons why Hein-Fam made this choice among different technical routes, are now clear one by one.
.
So much so that the next stage of the one-type crystal, which was a somewhat vague design that existed in his mind, the design of the delta crystal became clear little by little.
Nor is he simply copying the answer to that question.
Instead, he constructs his own idea in his mind. What exactly does the sixth technical route explore, and what kind of work does he need?
He puts forward a hypothesis, gets verification from the hypothesis, seeks an answer from the verification, and refines that answer into something that truly belongs to him.
The path he was pursuing in alchemy had never been so clear for a moment.
He even ignored time and was constantly prompted to gain knowledge and experience. He jumped from his professional level to the next level, from level 25 to level 26, and even the experience bar increased by half.
Sometimes he could notice the changes in the sunlight outside the window, the sun rising and the moon setting, just like in the tower at the end of summer.
He recalled the number of times he took a break, and a month passed, but that time seemed to have stopped in the tower.
When he pushed open the next green door, a different door came into view - he had seen that door countless times in Xia Jin Tower, and it was painted brown-red.
Painted door.
Golden door handle.
As always, he gently stretched out his hand and held it on the door handle. The cold touch on the handle was the same as before.
open the door.
The noise and hustle and bustle behind the door rushed towards us, as if it were a market with a lot of discussion. Everyone was negotiating prices loudly, talking loudly, and expressing their opinions.
He saw that it was a hall, with alchemists gathered around a huge round table. The sun shone down from the patio and fell on the smooth and bright bald heads of most people. People were unaware and argued and discussed with each other.
.
The sound in the hall seemed uproar.
One of them spoke loudly:
"Compared with the Shadow Man, we can only rely on our own magic technology, because we cannot extract the starlight and let them burn within the star device to give the construct its own will."
"But what is different now is that we finally have the idea of a basic non-attribute crystal. The gratifying messenger brought it to this meeting. Our colleagues succeeded, and then the burden fell on us.
.”
"Yes," another person stood up, "Then the next step is to use it to improve our own weapons. The bullet has been pressed into the barrel of the gun, and now there is only a means of firing."
A figure covered those people and appeared in front of Fang Plover. The shadow stood on the dark side of the hall, as if blending into the shadows. He stood in front of Fang Plover, smiled at Fang Plover and said:
"The fact that you are here means that Helinwell made the right bet. I didn't expect that my old friend could really go this far." The figure stretched out his hand and made an invitation gesture to him, "Since
You have brought this good news, so our discussion is not meaningless. Let’s take a look at our discussion——"
Fang Plover recognized the other party.
Jerdem.
"Mr. Jeldham," he looked at the other party and nodded gently. Although what is left here may be just an image in history, the other party's identity and behavior also deserve his respect.
But Jeldham didn't care about his etiquette, he only looked in the direction of the round table.
Fang Yu also followed his gaze, but in fact, he had already seen the topics that the alchemists were discussing from the discussions on the round table:
"We envision a technology where alchemists use their own methods to manipulate constructs, but if part of the calculations are encapsulated into the machine in advance, can it be made to act in a manner similar to a magic furnace?"
"We have tested this method and the answer is feasible."
"But if this is the case, we have to face another problem, how much computing power do we need?"
Jeldham turned back, looked at him and asked:
"So, have you heard the root of the problem?"
Fang Yu opened his mouth and gave the answer to the question: "The margin technique." He asked, "The margin technique comes from this place, who are these people?"
Jeldham nodded, "Unlike the Shadow Men, they use the starlight to shape the soul of the construct, and that road will lead to the end point where infinite flames will burn everything, and in the end, only
Silent stars and a dead world."
"And everything we are trying to do is to avoid that outcome. In fact, craftsmen can also achieve the purpose of manipulating the construct through their own calculations. If we further refine these calculations and preset them in advance, this will actually
It’s the margin technique.”
"You should have seen my star device. What do you think is trapping us here?"
He pointed to the hall.
Fang Yu listened in silence. He had seen many different star devices, from the mechanism underground in Nozpits to the semi-finished products left to him by Sir Lynn. The most mature batch among them were undoubtedly those he had obtained from hunting.
Obtained from dragon people.
He didn't have time to study in detail the difference between these star devices and those of the magic furnace creatures, but after hearing this, he suddenly understood what the path of this genius was.
Jeldham's light blue eyes remained motionless, and he spoke again: "So, my question is. What is the key issue that the margin technique lacks?"
The answer is actually self-evident.
He has already come to the conclusion from countless practices that whether it is a cumbersome closed-loop machine he designed or a device as exquisite as the stars, as long as it involves residual techniques, it involves an infinite pursuit of a certain type of attribute.
He replied: "Calculate."
These talented alchemists invented the star device that belonged to mortals, but they were limited by that crucial link. Just like the failed sixth technical route, they stopped here.
When Jeldm heard this, his face was stunned with silence at first, and then a look of loneliness appeared in his eyes, but he immediately cheered up again, looked at Fang Plover and said, "Hailingwell always said that I can't see
There are underlying connections between things, but I saw it today."
He smiled lightly, "Helinwell is right, our envoy, since you are here, you should know the answer to that question, right?"
Fang Plover nodded slightly.
So Jeldham smiled again and stretched out his hand to him, "Then please continue to move forward. When you reach the end, there will be more difficulties waiting for you, but let me believe that this time someone can do it.
Arrive at the end.”
Following his gesture, the round table in front of the two people disappeared, the arguing alchemists also disappeared, and their voices fell silent.
There is only one open door left.
But within a moment of asking and answering, the test of the red door was over.
Fang Yu didn't say much. He naturally knew why that question ended, because the answer to that question was as clear as when he came here. There was a technical route that connected all the questions.
And the road it leads to is also called the second technical route.
Fairy Dragon Knight.
But the moment the attributeless holy crystal proves its existence, computing power is no longer an obstacle, and the door to the future opens.
And outside the arena——
People were whispering, "How many people have arrived at the second red door?"
"Fifteen, and the number is still increasing."
"Strange, why is the speed of passing through the second red door so slow this year? It shouldn't be. Logically speaking, the performance of this session is much better than the last one. The first person to enter the red door is already halfway through.
It's been an hour, half an hour outside, but probably a week inside."
"Will it be particularly difficult this year?"
"We don't rule out the possibility," the man replied, "but the levels of the tower are the same in every session. This year is a question set by President Friston, and the difficulty has been evaluated by various major craftsmen's associations. What's more,
The alchemists of the Empire should be familiar with those topics."
"Look, someone is coming out!"
"They are members of the Blade of Gold, one hundred and seventy-three sects. This result is not bad compared to previous years. Their strength level is as expected, even better than those who left the tower first in the previous year.
not enough."
"This also proves from the side how strong this session is."
"Now let's see if anyone can't pass through the second red door. When they come out, we will understand the situation inside. You might as well guess, what will happen to the first player to leave the second red door?
From which participating delegation?”
"The first teams to withdraw from the Red Gate in the last session were usually the second-tier teams. I guess they are from Guta. Their strength is much stronger than the teams from overseas, but they should not be as good as the first-tier teams."
"I think so too," the staff member nodded, "Look, you guessed it right, they came out."
The girl who came out of the tower was the girl from the ancient tower.
Vikki still had an indignant expression on her face. She looked at the crowd gathered around her and drove away the reporters who came around to interview her with some boredom.
Players in previous tower trials have the right not to disclose their experiences in the tower. In fact, this is also the tacit understanding of most first-line players.
Therefore, those people did not take it seriously that they did not get useful information from her, and they just gathered around the players of the Blade of Gold. Unlike those players with serious clubs, the free-choice players from overseas can often reveal more.
thing.
The only pity is that they can't go very far.
Vikki sulked and kicked the pebbles beside the tower. She never thought that the level would be so complicated. How many people know the margin technique? Besides the Imperial people, there are people who can make those things move.
What?
She turned around and looked around, only to realize that she didn't find the young man named Zheng Yongzai among the crowd. Then she breathed a sigh of relief. At least there was someone in the ancient tower.
But at this moment, Vikki is not the only one who is actually troubled by the challenge.
Cui Xisi was looking at the topic with confusion and the dark construct in front of her. "How could it be possible? How could it be possible..." She muttered to herself in disbelief. Every step she took along the way
The levels all prove the correctness of their techniques.
From the tower magic furnace to the star device, every step was obviously correct. How could she hit a wall when she got here? She thought it was just a small difficulty at first.
But then I discovered that the high wall was as cold as iron and indestructible.
She stretched out her hand towards the construct, as if groping on the high wall. The cold shell responded with an indifferent rejection. The Empire's star device had no way to make the construct move.
.
All the inputs are correct, but it's cold and motionless.
Trish has even figured out the crux of the problem.
It's just a lack of computing power.
But how is it possible? They have clearly calculated it once in the sea of trees space, and there is no problem at all in controlling the most basic magic furnace creatures. If the calculation power needs to be further improved, it will be impossible to do it.
unless……
In the hall, a voice echoed: "This is a necessary sacrifice."
"No," Juno shook his head, looking up at the dark construct.
With an undisguised disgust in his eyes, he answered word for word, "Mr. President, I have never recognized the Soul School. That is my pride as an alchemist. If this is the only way now.
, then my choice is to rely on my own strength to find another one."
"Maybe you will succeed, but before that, you have to leave. You are the most outstanding genius in the empire. Are you really not going to move on?"
"I will only move forward in the direction of my choice." Juno shook his head without regret.
"pity."
Juno took one last look at the construct, turned around and walked back without any hesitation.
…
At the same moment, Georgifen also shook his head, "I can't accept it."
"Then can you give any other answers?"
"It's not possible for the moment," the former said, spreading his hands. "It's not one or two, but it challenges my cognition. I haven't been able to make this machine work for the time being, but we can always find a way."
"Then when you find it, come back here to answer this question."
Geogeffen was stunned for a moment, then shrugged in agreement.
He turned around and walked out of the door very gracefully.
The moment he opened the door, the bright sunlight from outside the tower shone in, making him couldn't help but squint his eyes slightly.
Only then did he realize that there was another person beside him, and he couldn't help but be startled, "Juno?" He looked at the other Gemini star with some surprise, the person who was slightly better than him, "Why are you out too?"
Juno glanced at him and said, "Aren't you the same?"
"I'm different. You know, alchemy is actually not the most important thing to me. Compared to that, I care more about other... empires," he shook his head, "I have always been a free and undisciplined person."
"I am just the opposite of you," Juno replied. "Alchemy is too important to me."
There was a scream outside the tower, but the two of them seemed not to hear it.
They all understand that when the Empire Twins leave the tower through the second red door, they will definitely cause a shocking wave outside. He has already thought about tomorrow's front page headlines.
If more than thirty people pass the second red door, they may become the first contestant in history to reach the top ten in the first round of the Spire Trial, but cannot go to the Hall of the Holy King.
However, Georgifen has calculated that this possibility is unlikely.
They had already seen reporters—from Stargate Port and from the Empire—swarming in, but both of them chose to remain silent. The reason for their refusal was also very simple.
Clubs don't allow it.
"Isn't Luo Fen out yet?" Juno suddenly asked among the crowd.
Geogeffen shook his head.
"He has gone too far," the former replied, "Where is the Dragon Alchemist?".
"The same goes for him." Georgifen thought of the conversation he had with the other party before entering the tower, and he didn't know if the other party understood what he meant.