Arcane Lord

The next day, the first event of the snow melting competition officially began.

Arcane Puzzle was originally a chess game played in Shado's hometown. Later, he added some magic duel elements and recommended it to her teacher Princess Shia through Niya, who was the chief talker of the Seven Towers at the time.

Since then, every snowmelting competition has included the Arcane Puzzle project, which is why this project has been widely spread in the North.

Over the past few years, many outstanding chess players have emerged among the elves.

Today, Shado and Niya came to Severton to watch the competition. Naturally, they would not miss this new project brought by Shado. Similarly, like yesterday, most of the contestants in Netheril today were from Gustav High School. tower.

In other words, having elven blood!

This is actually a continuation of yesterday's silent protest. Not only yesterday, but also today, according to the pre-discussed agreement of the council, in every game thereafter, people with elven blood will be given priority as much as possible.

For this reason, even if you lose some games, you won’t hesitate!

In the audience, Shado and Niya were chatting and watching the game. The two sides currently fighting on the field were from Netheril and Erlan. What a clever combination.

"Which one of them do you think can win?" Niya asked.

"From the perspective of chess power alone, the elves are slightly better, but the arcane game is not just chess, it also involves spell duels. In this regard, humans have a slight upper hand, and the final result is really hard to say."

Xia Duo did not show any preference just because the players on the field were humans. In terms of pure chess ability, the elves were indeed better. Even Xia Duo himself was inferior without the help of his brain.

But as he said, the arcane puzzle is essentially a spell duel with a chess shell. If one party has absolutely overwhelming experience and skills in spell duels, even if they don't understand the rules of chess at all, they may not be unable to win.

The chess pieces in the arcane puzzle have a great advantage in attacking each other. Under the same spell duel level, the first mover will often win, but the one who is killed is not completely incapable of resistance.

You can also use various techniques to manipulate chess pieces to counterattack. If the counterattack is successful, the opponent's operation will be invalid, but the game idea will be exposed.

But no matter what, chess power still has a very strong bonus for winning duels. Otherwise, it would be better to cancel this project and go directly to spell duels.

Soon, the game on the field came to a critical turning point. After many difficult attempts to capture the pieces, the elf player exposed his chess game thinking. In the end, the human player seized the opportunity to complete a fatal move and won the victory.

Although it was only a single game, it still won unanimous cheers and congratulations from the audience. At this moment, he was not a mixed-race human with a sensitive identity in the elf world, but a puzzle player who surpassed the elves with perseverance and wisdom.

This is the charm of competition. It makes people involuntarily ignore the player's identity, gender, appearance, race and many other external factors, and only appreciate the player's competitive level.

If you play well and win the game, even the most demanding audience will not hesitate to give you the most enthusiastic cheers.

But after cheering, they still couldn't help but think of the opponent's identity as a mixed-race human. This caused an inexplicable thought to continue to breed and ferment among the elves until it could no longer be hidden, completely shattering worldly prejudices.

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In the following games, Xia Duo did not miss almost every game, but he had too many things to do. The main body seemed to be rushing to catch up, traveling between the territory, the Tower of Time, and Seventon. turn around.

There is a snow melting competition here in Severton, and there is also a motorcycle design competition and an internal arcane competition in the Territory and the Tower of Time. Shado cannot help but say some words of hope and encouragement in front of the territorial residents and members of the Tower of Time.

Of course, the main body stayed in Severington to watch the competition with Niya most of the time. The Snow Melting Competition was of high standard, and the level of the players was of course increasing year by year almost visibly to the naked eye.

Many games, even from Xia Duo's perspective, are very pleasing to the eye.

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In Everesca, while the main body was leisurely watching the game, the avatar could not rest. Affected by the snowmelt competition, the number of mages connected to the computing power pool dropped off a cliff.

There have been no problems with the sub-networks in the countries that have been launched, but there is a big trouble on the main network -

The mainnet load has reached a very dangerous state and may not be supported at any time!

The reason is that most of the people who access the main network are local mages in Everriska, but now most of the local mages are busy watching games. These elves don’t even need to go to Severton, they can just go to Everriska. Can see the live broadcast.

Compared to watching the game live, you can only rely on your own perception to obtain game information, but in the broadcast, you can directly see the deeper information obtained by higher-level spellcasters through specialized detection spells.

There are two main advantages of the venue. One is that there are many spectators and the atmosphere is sufficient, and the other is that you can watch whatever you want.

Although it is possible to see deeper information during the game during the broadcast, considering the efficiency of real-time broadcasting, the viewing angle is relatively limited, and the audience cannot watch whatever they want. What the audience can see depends entirely on the perspective of the broadcaster.

Some elves like to watch it live, while others like to watch the broadcast, or even check more detailed related records afterwards, but in any case, this has caused the local mages of Evereska to greatly support the computing power pool Lingsi Network. reduce.

On the third day of the Snow Melting Competition, in the gateway control hall of the Lingsi Network Research Center at the alliance headquarters, a group of mages who had been left to work overtime were already in a state of confusion.

"Consultant Xia Duo, what should we do now? Temporarily shut down the computing power pool? Or find a way to borrow resources from other countries?" a mage asked.

But this problem is also a headache for Xia Duo. It is obviously his responsibility as an operator to shut down the computing power pool. And borrowing resources from other countries is actually to temporarily transfer the users who are originally only in the sub-networks of various countries to Come to the mainnet.

This will immediately solve the problem of insufficient number of mainnet users, but——

In this way, the biggest weakness of the main network has been exposed. Even if it is lucky enough to survive this time, in the future, as more and more mages from various countries access the computing power pool and divide the network, this weakness of the main network will inevitably be affected. They are deliberate.

For example, when Everesca has real-life activities and the number of accessors decreases and the load capacity decreases, countries instead increase the number of accessors in their countries to impact the main network load.

In this way, Lingsi Network Center can compromise on certain issues, such as increasing the dividend ratio of each country.

If the future public computing power pool really evolves into this situation, then the so-called "mainnet" will be completely reduced to a dispensable decoration. Countries can use it if they need it, and completely ignore it if they don't need it.

This situation is not what Xia Duo wants to see.