Chapter 102 Total War - The Wizard (Chapter 6K Special for National Day)
The dung beetle meets dry stool - it comes at the right time. It can accurately describe the situation of the three people at this time: each of the three people wants something from the other two. Tom wants to find two professors to trigger his anniversary celebration.
Professor Flitwick wants to find someone to promote his new game. Professor McGonagall, who has played the game before, and Professor Lockhart, the originator of the game, are naturally the best choices. Professor McGonagall is very simple: she simply needs a few strong men.
That's all.
"Girod, you are here!" Professor McGonagall showed a happy expression. It was obvious that she had a headache with the task of decorating the auditorium. "I am decorating the auditorium. Do you have any suggestions?"
Content description: Halloween is coming, and Professor McGonagall is having a headache on how to decorate the school. If you can help her, you will surely reap huge rewards, right?
Mission reward: Professor McGonagall’s experience in transfiguration]
Tom understood that the reward for this mission was probably related to Professor McGonagall's inner satisfaction. Tom rubbed his chin and looked around the auditorium. It was already after dinner, and there was no one in the auditorium except the three of them. He was right
Professor McGonagall said: "Halloween... pumpkins, dim candlelight and bats are naturally the most classic elements."
Professor McGonagall nodded. This was a decent answer. She would be ready even if Lockhart didn't say anything. She had already prepared thousands of live bats, and Hagrid's giant pumpkins were also mature - each pumpkin was as big as a carriage.
It's so big that three people can even sit inside.
"We can start with the weather on the ceiling." Tom, as a professor, has the authority to modify the weather on the ceiling. And it doesn't require any advanced magic. Dumbledore granted him this power. He just needs to point the wand at the ceiling, and in his mind
Just silently imagine the weather on the ceiling, and the ceiling will change on its own.
Tom waved his wand first and extinguished the candles in the auditorium. The entire auditorium fell into darkness. The only source of light was the faint starlight on the ceiling and the dim light from a few candles beside the three people.
The candlelight was still swaying due to the draft. Suddenly, the scary atmosphere of the castle was there.
Both Flitwick and McGonagall felt that the atmosphere was a bit permeable, and they subconsciously moved a little closer.
After extinguishing the candles, Tom pointed the wand at the ceiling. What was originally a vast sea of stars quickly turned into dark clouds under his control.
The dark clouds were rolling, and there was a faint flash of lightning inside, and there were gusts of wind coming from the ceiling. A bolt of lightning flashed across, and both Flitwick and Professor McGonagall were startled: one of the dark clouds turned out to be a human face.
Seeing this suddenly in a dark environment is a challenge to the heart.
However, Professor McGonagall frowned: The face just looked familiar, how could it be... She squinted her eyes and looked at the ceiling carefully. Another bolt of lightning flashed, and Professor Snape's gloomy face appeared.
in her pupils.
Professor McGonagall:っ?Д?)っ
This was not over yet. Snape's mouth suddenly opened, and three pythons crawled out of his mouth and eyes. Seeing this scene, Professor McGonagall couldn't hold back. She couldn't help laughing and said to Tom: "Loha"
Professor Special, Severus is also the professor and dean of Hogwarts, please don't hang his... uh... head on the ceiling."
You were obviously laughing and never stopped, looking very happy! Tom complained in his heart, but he still directly dispersed the Snape-shaped dark cloud.
"Professor McGonagall, do you really not want to think about it? I think this idea is quite good."
Professor McGonagall used a lot of willpower to control herself. Instead of following her inner choice, she firmly rejected the proposal.
However, this still gave her a lot of inspiration. She decided to add face-shaped dark clouds to the dark clouds, so that the students would be frightened when they saw them for the first time. But their theme was a Halloween party, not a haunted house.
, so this dark cloud will also transform into a lion, snake, badger and raven after the students arrive, allowing these animals to swim on the ceiling.
"There's also fog!" Tom suddenly thought of the key, "It's best if the auditorium is shrouded in fog, so the atmosphere will be better..."
The three of them just started talking about it. Decorating the auditorium was a chore. The other professors were too lazy to get involved and allowed Professor McGonagall to do whatever he wanted. Therefore, Professor McGonagall didn't ask for advice from other professors.
Opinion.
When the discussion was almost over, Hagrid also walked in carrying several large boxes, which were filled with decorations for the Halloween banquet.
"Excuse me, Rubeus." Professor McGonagall asked Hagrid to put things in his office, and finally completed the task assignment for tomorrow. Tom was responsible for the decoration of the auditorium, and Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick were responsible for the castle.
Other parts.
Tom's mission also changed:
[Anniversary Celebration (Act 3) Task Description: Wait until 18:00 tomorrow night to decorate the auditorium for Professor McGonagall]
After the tasks were assigned, Professor Flitwick also found an opportunity and said to Tom and the others: "Now that everyone is done, why not go to my place and play a few games of wizard chess? It took me more than a month to develop the new gameplay.
."
When talking about his new game, Professor Flitwick's eyes lit up.
Professor McGonagall frowned, recalling some unpleasant experiences. Hagrid raised his hand as big as a cattail leaf and scratched his hair, "I still have to patrol the Forbidden Forest - there has been a lot of rain recently, and the surface of the Black Lake
If it rises, I'm worried that some of the things in the lake will run into the Forbidden Forest."
Professor Flitwick nodded, "Okay, this game can be played by three people. This time I designed the game so that multiple people can play together."
Hearing this, Professor McGonagall thought slightly: If it were a multiplayer game...
She turned her gaze to Lockhart, and found that Lockhart was also looking at her. Their eyes immediately turned away, but they reached a consensus.
【Anniversary Celebration (Act 4) Content: Total War - The Witcher Begins
Content description: Professor Flitwick has developed a new way to play wizard chess, come and try it!
Mission Objective (1): Help Professor Flitwick design a map
Mission goal (2): Complete a game on the map you designed
Mission Objective (3): Win a game
Mission Reward: Professor Flitwick’s Charms Learning Experience]
"Since it is your brainchild, Professor, then we must play it," Tom glanced at Professor McGonagall, "I am very interested in a game that takes you a month to develop."
Professor McGonagall also agreed, so the three of them left Professor McGonagall's office and followed Professor Flitwick to his...
"Game room?" Professor McGonagall was shocked. She thought Flitwick would take them to his office and take out the new wizard chess, but he actually went to his "game room"? Since it involves the game room,
That means the scale of Professor Flitwick’s new game is huge...
"That's right, the corridor where Professor Dumbledore used to store the Sorcerer's Stone has been unused last year, so I used it to decorate my new game." Professor Flitwick said happily, "I used it a lot this time.
It's a difficult spell, Minerva, Girod, you will definitely not lose money if you try it once."
Professor McGonagall also thought about it. During these days, Professor Flitwick often came to him and asked him to help him make some difficult transformations. If a wizard chess had put their efforts into it, then maybe it would be real.
Quite fun.
Professor Flitwick is not an Internet-addicted teenager who is addicted to games, but is addicted to various applications of magic. At first, he just wanted to change Wizard Chess into a three-player version - one-on-one, and there was no one-on-one game in Hogwarts.
He couldn't beat him, so he wanted to make it more difficult for himself: It's not fun to fight one at a time, I want to fight two!
Later, I discovered that I had switched to a multiplayer game, so why stick to three people? However, the disadvantage of multiplayer games is that sometimes there are not enough people, so Professor Flitwick cast a spell on the chess pieces so that they can make their own decisions.
to replace vacant players.
When all of this was realized, Professor Flitwick discovered: Yeah? This map seems a bit small!
Step by step, the game became bigger and bigger, and there were more and more weird and weird gameplays. It was originally scheduled to be released at the end of September, and I asked Professor Lockhart and McGonagall to try it out. However, the game was delayed again and again, and it was forced to start in September.
The end of the month has been postponed until now.
The three of them walked to the fourth floor and when passing the library, the door of the library was suddenly pushed open, and a little brown-haired witch walked out holding a stack of books.
"Hermione...Miss Granger, you are still reading in the library so late?" Tom almost said the wrong thing, but luckily he changed it in time.
"Ah, Professor Lockhart, Professor Flitwick, Professor McGonagall," Hermione hurriedly bowed to the two professors, and even dropped a book on the ground in her hurry.
Tom picked up the book for her, glanced at it, and found that it was a reference book for writing the Boggart paper. "It's rare to see such a hard-working child. Someone actually visited the library today," he said.
Carrying the two professors behind his back, he winked at Hermione and said, "Ten points to Ravenclaw! For your tireless pursuit of knowledge."
"Professor..." Hermione lowered her head, extremely nervous: If Professor McGonagall found out, there would definitely be a big problem!
Fortunately, Professor McGonagall did not notice anything unusual except that she felt that the extra points were a bit too much, while Professor Flitwick happily watched Lockhart add points to his own college - if he hadn't given them to Ravenclaw himself.
It was unseemly to give extra points. He had already given extra points to Miss Granger. He was not like a certain dean who abused his power to deduct and add points.
"Miss Granger, please pay attention to the balance between work and rest," Flitwick said, the more he looked at Hermione, the more he liked her. He also thought that she had contributed to the design of this game, although this contribution was almost negligible.
But he still said: "Come with us to play a few games of wizard chess."
Hermione:?
In this confused way, Hermione joined Flitwick's "Wizard Chess Team" and became the fourth player.
When they pushed open the door of the abandoned corridor on the fourth floor, everyone was shocked by the changes inside: the smelly three-headed dog Luwei was gone, and the damp and cold ground and mottled and dilapidated walls had also been cleaned up.
New: The original floors and walls were too dirty and dilapidated, so Professor Flitwick directly laid a new floor on the old floor and laid a new layer of bricks on the old walls to give the corridor a completely new look.
If you think about it carefully, from Hagrid's point of view, Lu Wei is really a good boy, just like this, he is responsible for guarding the magic stone in such a dirty and cramped house. Modern people have mobile phones and takeaways, and they stay in a house with bright and clean windows.
I can't stand it for even a month. It's very touching that this three-headed dog can live with peace of mind for a year despite having nothing.
Both sides of the corridor were brightly lit by countless candles and torches, completely showing the brand new corridor to Tom and the others: there were several chairs placed about five meters away from the door, and a huge picture was posted on the walls on both sides.
The parchment was so huge that Tom thought it would be more appropriate to call it vellum or elephant vellum. There is no doubt that this huge five-meter-long parchment was sewn together from multiple pieces of parchment. Professor Flitwick must have used magic.
, because there are no traces of stitching on the edges of these sheepskins.
Five meters away from the door is a huge sand table that stretches to the end of the corridor, with mountains, rivers, deserts, plains and grasslands, as well as nearly a hundred small cities.
Tom, McGonagall, Hermione: Damn it!
How outrageous! They thought Professor Flitwick just expanded the chessboard a little, but they didn't expect that he expanded it so much and made it so beautifully! There was a difference between what they thought and the two games made by Flitwick
The difference is simply the same as the difference between text adventure games and open worlds.
Professor Flitwick tapped the parchment on the left with his wand, and the parchment lit up instantly, displaying the map model on the sand table.
Because of the terrain of the corridor, the entire map is a rectangle. The upper part is grassland and snowfield. Below the grassland is a fertile plain. There is also a herringbone river on the plain. There are several mountains interspersed between the broad plains.
Below is an oval-shaped ocean. The upper half of the ocean is land with a warm climate, and the lower half is desert terrain. There are several oases dotted along the rivers and coasts in the desert. There is an island in the upper left corner of the map. In addition, the map
There are many details on it, such as swamps, lakes, basins, etc.
Tom: This map looks familiar!
Isn't this an abstracted map of Europe? The Balkans, the Apennine Peninsula, the Iberian Peninsula, Asia Minor, and Britain, with the Mediterranean Sea sandwiched in between, right? Below the Mediterranean Sea is North Africa: the Sahara Desert plus Egypt, France, Spain, and Germany.
It's very reductive, that is, Northern Europe and Russia are all abstracted into a grassland and snowfield, and the Black Sea between Asia Minor and Russia has also shrunk a lot...
"This is a map I made myself. If you have any other ideas, you can erase the map and change the terrain." Professor Flitwick looked at his hard work and felt at ease. He turned his eyes from his two colleagues.
I crossed over to see if they had any good ideas.
"It would be even better if you could come up with a script!" he added.
Tom was overwhelmed by Professor Flitwick's creativity: he could actually edit the map at will?! After hearing the news, Tom suddenly came up with an idea. So he boldly took out an Eastern historical script and told it to the audience.
Everyone listen.
"The collapse of the empire, two rebel armies, the remnants of the empire, the restoration forces of the previous empire, the northern barbarians...sounds interesting!" Professor Flitwick pushed Tom to the map, "Here, put your hand on the map,
Just silently imagine what it looks like in your mind."
Tom followed his instructions, put his hand on the map, and began to imagine it in his mind.
The picture on the map changed rapidly. The sea was moved to the far right, the desert was placed in the upper left corner, and the position of the grassland remained unchanged at the top, but the snowfield was moved to the upper right corner. The plain in the middle was sandwiched by two large rivers.
, several mountains were added to it. The land below the plain has more hills, and there are more forests above.
Tom used a map of ancient China, and the era he chose was the last years of the New Dynasty, when green forests and red brows grew together, and the New Dynasty was dying.
After the map was finalized, the sand table also began to change, becoming what Tom designed.
Then he began to divide the map into regions. Under his division, the entire map was divided into thirteen large areas, each with a certain number of cities. The large areas can be divided into upper, middle and lower levels according to their degree of wealth.
, there are nine cities in the upper-level area, six in the middle-level, and three in the lower-level.
Sili, Xuzhou, Qingzhou, Yuzhou, Jizhou, Bingzhou, Youzhou, Yanzhou, Liangzhou, Yizhou, Jingzhou, Yangzhou and Jiaozhou, these are the names Tom gave to the thirteen regions. As for power, Tom drew nine divisions
Powers: Mangxin, Green Forest, Chimei, Chengjia, Xiliang, Northern Barbarians, Liang Wang, Southern Barbarians and Baiyue.
"It's done, come and take a look?" After the division, looking at the brand new map, Tom felt that the game could start. Hermione and the other three walked to the map and looked at it carefully. They understood that the geographical location where the game would start was
It is quite important, so everyone wants to choose a good terrain.
But this map was too unfamiliar to them, and all three of them were in a state of darkness.
"Girold, you choose first." Professor Flitwick finally gave up thinking and chose to let Tom come first. Tom chose Chengjia in Yizhou without thinking - the terrain of this area is excellent.
The main body is a basin surrounded by high mountains. You can advance, attack, retreat or defend. Choosing it can easily avoid the embarrassing situation of being sent to the audience in a matter of seconds at the beginning. It is also the only high-class region in the south, with a total of nine cities.
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Hermione thought about it and chose Xiliang, which was closest to Tom. Along with the desert, she almost took away a third of the map at once. Professor Flitwick subconsciously avoided Sili, who was already in the fourth battle.
In Guanzhong, I chose Qingzhou Red Eyebrow in the corner of the map. Professor McGonagall followed suit and chose Yangzhou Baiyue in the lower right corner of the map.
The game begins.
The data of personal power all appeared on the parchment on the right. Tom saw the tax rate of each city, population, money, minerals, food and various materials, special troops in different regions, and even the public sentiment index.
Policy and technology trees!
"Professor Flitwick has brought a lot of things up there!" Tom sighed from the bottom of his heart. After the start, he did nothing and directly implemented the policy of seclusion. The infrastructure was full and he wanted to cut off all roads to the outside world. The key
He set up checkpoints on all the roads. Then he did nothing and concentrated on fighting the southern barbarians, farming, and conveniently sent a covenant application to Hermione in the north.
After Hermione became familiar with the interface, she was about to show off her talents, but Tom's saucy operation made her look stupid: How else could it be like this? Shrink into a turtle first, and then wait for the opportunity?
However, she soon discovered that she could not replicate this at all, because her land was too barren and the cost-effectiveness of farming was too low. It seemed that she could only graze. However, she observed it and found that she had two advantages. One was her external environment.
Yes, Tom's Yizhou Chengjia in the south is an ally; he is the westernmost political power; Mangxin in the Sili Pass in the east is the most powerful force, sitting on six states, and has a friendly relationship with him, and is busy dealing with Green Forest
, Red Eyebrow's attack did not deal with his own thoughts; the only enemy was the barbarians in the north, and they were also in disarray.
Hermione recruited an army within her own territory and actually recruited 6,000 cavalry. Then she swept away the barbarians and robbed many horses. The cattle and sheep came back: horses are synthetic materials for cavalry, cattle can increase food production, and sheep are food.
, can increase public support.
Hermione first enriched her own power, and then sold the remaining supplies to Tom's Yizhou. This formed an extremely strange situation: Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick were conquering cities and territories, and Tom and Hermione were trading across borders.
…
Of course, Tom is not completely unmotivated. He is still seriously beating up the Nanman.
The situation changed very quickly. Green Forest and Red Eyebrow soon overthrew Mang Xin. Hermione was not idle either. They teamed up with Tom to carve up Sili and Bingzhou. Mang Xin was the first to be eliminated, followed closely by Nanman.
The Northern Barbarian was also beaten to death by Hermione.
At this time, Tom's power reached its peak, and he marched eastward along the Yangtze River with the entire nation's troops. Tom led a total of 80,000 troops and Professor Flitwick's red-browed forces, which had swept through the three states of Qing, Xu, and Henan, to fight for Jingzhou. Flitwick
Professor Wei only has 60,000 people, but he has come all the way from afar and has gone through several battles. As the saying goes, "A strong crossbow cannot penetrate Lu Jian at the end of the battle." If 80,000 fights against 60,000, the advantage is...
Tom was beaten to the point of being wiped out.
If Green Lin and Red Eyebrow hadn't been fighting, and Hermione hadn't sent support, Tom would have been sent to the audience.
However, Tom was completely defeated this time. His Yizhou, which had a total of 800,000 people, suddenly lost 80,000 young men, basically saying goodbye to this game.
It’s not a big problem. In this game, you can dominate the world by yourself or your own camp. Tom watched Hermione occupy all the border states while Professor Flitwick was beating up Greenwood, and then went south to catch up.
After defeating Red Eyebrow, Green Forest's decisive battle, driving out tigers and devouring wolves, helping Green Forest eliminate Red Eyebrow, and then go back to deal with Green Forest, unify the Central Plains, and achieve victory in the game.
As for Professor McGonagall, she has been fighting in the southern rainforest from beginning to end, trying to unify Jiaozhou, Yangzhou...
Until the end, she joined the Tang-He alliance and won directly.
After a game, Hermione is responsible for fighting, Professor Flitwick is responsible for fighting NPCs, Tom is responsible for transporting supplies to the enemy and ourselves, and Professor McGonagall is responsible for edge OB...
But everyone had a great time.
[Anniversary Celebration (Act 4) Mission Objectives (2) and (3) Completed]