Chapter 2324: Student Representative

————A little later~~

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Every participant in this competition received a reward, but those who placed after tenth only received a few Gold Coins as encouragement; for them, who spent most of their time in the Mage Tower or Floating City, the greatest use was to give them to their families to help subsidize their lives.

Only the rewards for the top ten teams could be considered true grand prizes—

Every member of the first-place team would receive a Level 1 Laboratory in the Research Zone of Chang'an City (Floating City), Level 2 Permission Level for the Spirit Thought Network, a spot in the Inheritance Ritual, resource quotas, and all other rewards.

The second-place team would have fewer rewards than the first, lacking the Inheritance Ritual, while the third-place team would have even fewer resource quotas than the second.

As for fourth through tenth place, they would only receive Spirit Thought Network Permission Level and varying amounts of resource quotas.

Although they lacked the Level 1 Laboratory that Xia Duo provided for them, the additional portable resource quotas would give them a significant starting advantage in the future, regardless of which laboratory they went to or if they used them for their own purposes.

In summary, only the first-place team received the Inheritance Ritual, while the top ten all received upgrades to their Spirit Thought Network Permission Level; after all, it was just a permission level, involving only virtual computing resources existing within the Spirit Thought Network.

One of Xia Duo's next plans was to continuously expand the scale of the Spirit Thought Network, perhaps integrating it with the Communication Mythallar in the future to gain user resources outside of Nan Jing.

As for now—

Naturally, it was time to get busy with the Snow Melting Recruitment.

This Steam Locomotive Design Competition was indeed underprepared; not only the preparation phase and the execution phase, but even the conclusion seemed somewhat rushed.

But regardless, the essential elements were basically all there; by the time the various teams had finished collecting their rewards and Dien announced the end of the competition, it was already afternoon.

Xia Duo discussed the details of the next day's Snow Melting Recruitment with Laidun before returning to the Creation Mythallar Laboratory in the Floating City, where he remained busy until late at night before resting.

……

The next day was the Melting Snow Month, which was also the day for the Tower of Time's recruitment.

The process was much the same as the past Midsummer Festival recruitment, only the questions were more standardized, and the number of participants was many times higher than in previous years, with almost everyone able to participate.

Under Laidun's planning, this Snow Melting Recruitment was almost turned into a grand festival of nationwide revelry.

Savile Town Central Square, Linshui Village Altar Square, and the Code Plaza at the southern end of the Daxia-Savile Passage—these three large squares in the north and south were packed with people today.

Parents sending their children, onlookers, and the children themselves.

However, the age-appropriate youths of Daxia Territory had already been "scoured" several times, and most had already entered the Tower of Time, which made the age-appropriate youths in the less-populated Savile Territory seem more numerous.

On the square, the most conspicuous were the security officers arranged by Laidun; they wore orange-yellow uniforms and were responsible not only for maintaining order but also for directing the movement of personnel on the field.

Since it was the Tower of Time's recruitment, the appearance of Tower of Time Mages was naturally indispensable; this time, in addition to the Official Mages who had received the recruitment assessment tasks as usual, there were also several Apprentice representatives from Savile Territory and Daxia Territory respectively.

In previous years, there were certainly no Apprentice representatives; before the Tower of Time's reform, even those responsible for evaluation were just Apprentices similar to servants, so there could naturally be no Apprentice representatives, and this status did not represent any glory.

And the various expansions after the Tower of Time's reform were almost all carried out by directly drawing up lists of age-appropriate youths, even omitting the assessment stage, let alone anything else.

But Xia Duo felt that "assessment" had become one of the most important elements of the current Tower of Time; the presence of assessment existed everywhere within the Tower of Time: the weekly exams and monthly exams for Apprentices, the Job Rank Assessment for new Mages, and so on.

Restoring the recruitment assessment also helped those new members quickly get into the state of things.

Clang—

At eight o'clock in the morning, when the time arrived, the assessment Mages in the three squares gave the signal simultaneously.

At Code Plaza, the assessment Mage here was Boli, the local Magic Affairs Officer, while at the other Altar Square, it was Pide, who was also a Magic Affairs Officer.

Although Boli only made an appearance during the entry and award ceremony at yesterday's Steam Locomotive Design Competition, as a local and a Magic Affairs Officer who was often active in the territory, his popularity in Daxia Territory was far beyond that of an outsider like Xiluo.

And today, he appeared again to preside over the first Snow Melting Recruitment in the history of the Tower of Time—at one of the branch venues.

"Folks, quiet everyone! The assessment is about to begin. Everyone, listen carefully and watch carefully. After the children finish their assessment, everyone will have a chance to participate, but you must maintain order."

Afterwards, Boli took out a box-like Magic Artifact from his Dimensional Bag, and during this process, he also showed the Dimensional Bag to everyone and introduced:

"Look, this is a Dimensional Bag; it can hold many things inside! Look, this is the auxiliary Magic Artifact for this recruitment assessment!"

The demonstration segment was not necessary, but as the local Magic Affairs Officer, Boli had the responsibility and necessity to popularize more magic knowledge to the residents, which naturally included the Dimensional Bag.

In fact, before today, Boli had shown the Dimensional Bag to many people and even let them touch it and feel it themselves, but in the past, there were rarely opportunities to demonstrate it to so many people at once like today.

If he didn't remember his real task for today, Boli would have wanted to hold a lecture on magic popularization on the spot.

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Next was the formal assessment. Boli first handed the assessment auxiliary Magic Artifact to an Apprentice representative standing nearby, asking the other party to help hold it.

He himself carefully opened the box, set it up inside, and then put on a Crystal Headband that did not quite match his own attire.

After completing this set of procedures, Boli continued to take out the content for today's assessment from the Dimensional Bag and then asked questions to the age-appropriate youths who had gathered into a square formation; they were all common sense questions, such as—

"What is the name of the territory we are in?"

Answer: Daxia Territory!

"Who can recite the first article of the Territory Moral Code?"

Answer: Honest and trustworthy, self-improvement!

"What about the second article?"

Answer: Respect the old and love the young, gender equality!

"Very good! Who knows how many feet two rabbits and three chickens have in total?"

Answer: Fourteen!

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The assessment content covered geography, arithmetic, literacy, magic, general life knowledge, and other aspects. Under the current situation of indiscriminately recruiting age-appropriate youths, this form of assessment was more about substance than form; how many they answered correctly did not affect their schooling.

Of course, if the answers were too outrageous, these files that would follow them for their entire lives might cause them to fail in another assessment at some stage.

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During the assessment process, every time Boli asked a question, he would first give the answer in his own mind, transmit it to the Spirit Thought Network through the Inspiration Headband, and then transmit it to the assessment auxiliary Magic Artifact connected to the Spirit Thought Network.

All youths whose answers matched his would be marked by the assessment auxiliary Magic Artifact; the more they answered correctly, the more marks they would have, until the end of the exam, where the number of marks determined their ranking, although this did not affect their enrollment.