Chapter 2385: Alliance Competition

In the following few days, in addition to their daily Traditional Mythallar practice, Class Four, where Xia Duo was, also kept paying attention to news about the School competition.

As it turned out, at the end of the next class, Instructor Tuto personally announced the news: the School was indeed preparing to hold a Mythallar Defense Competition, and as long as one participated, one could at least get one point.

As for the winners, they could get up to 20 points; for low-year students in the professional course stage like Xia Duo, the high score was no different from a pie in the sky, but the Participation Award was attractive enough.

After all, they could only get 5 Research Sequence Points after working themselves to death for a whole semester, so being able to get one point just by participating in a competition was simply too profitable.

Originally, Xia Duo had planned not to participate unless all classes were required to, but he hadn't expected there to be a guaranteed Participation Award this time, so he had no choice but to go and join in.

"The School and the Alliance attach great importance to this competition, and you must take it seriously as well," Instructor Tuto continued. "Mythallar defense has always been one of the fields highly focused on by the Alliance's top brass. This competition likely has the Alliance exerting influence behind it, and besides that, it is estimated that many Mythallar-related research institutions will also be watching. Perform well, and you will surely have gains in the future."

Instructor Tuto seemed to have high hopes for the students of Class Four, but whether it was Xia Duo or the other classmates, everyone knew clearly that high hopes were one thing, and strength was another.

But the current situation seemed to indicate the degree of importance the School placed on this competition, to the extent that even low-year students like them were being pinned with hope.

"Mythallar defense?"

Xia Duo was thoughtful. He suddenly wondered if this could be the Red Heart Alliance soliciting ideas for solving the Dragon Madness Mythallar? It was actually very simple to figure this out: just ask around to see if other universities had such competitions this year, or rather, in recent years.

If not, then perhaps it was just that Chixin University had received attention from above, and the Mythallar Academy was even more valued by those above. But if there were, then it meant it was highly likely a major strategy.

The biggest crisis currently facing the Red Heart Alliance was the threat of world destruction from the Dragon Madness Mythallar held in the hands of the Evereska Alliance.

If Xia Duo were a top official of the Alliance, he wouldn't be able to sleep peacefully without solving this problem. Although Elves did not need sleep in the human sense, they still needed rest; if this problem were not solved, they indeed could not rest at ease.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo felt there was one more reason for the necessity of participating in this School competition.

After Instructor Tuto left, Xia Duo mobilized his classmates to inquire whether other universities also had Mythallar Defense Competitions, while he himself contacted Gelinqi separately.

He had come to Chixin University halfway through, and he had no connections to speak of at other universities. Although Gelinqi had already graduated, he was, after all, a graduate of Chixin University; even if he just chatted with colleagues at the Negative Energy Research Institute, he could obtain quite a bit of news about other universities.

After making contact, Gelinqi didn't even make Xia Duo wait and immediately gave a definitive answer: "Other universities also have Mythallar Defense Competitions this year; this matter has already spread at the Negative Energy Research Institute."

From Gelinqi's tone, Xia Duo heard shock and confusion. He hurriedly asked, "Why?"

"Of course it's because of the guaranteed Sequence Points reward! Do you know how much of a points quota the Negative Energy Research Institute gets in a year? With over a dozen project teams fighting over it, I'm even regretting graduating so early now!"

Of course, it wasn't as if Gelinqi truly regretted it, but the envy was real and true. Afterwards, he advised Xia Duo, "You must perform well this time. If you are spotted by some research institute, your future path will be much smoother."

"I want to as well, but aren't we still low-year students? How could we compete with those high-year students?"

Although he said that, Xia Duo knew that the higher-ups holding such a massive competition certainly didn't expect the students to achieve any results; it was highly probable they just wanted to absorb some inspiration and ideas from these students who had not yet entered society and had not been influenced by mainstream research thinking.

From this perspective, perhaps the lower the year, the more likely they were to be spotted by those above. Of course, this was only a latent benefit. To get the high-value points rewards on the surface, one still had to win in the competition, which was where the high-year students had the advantage.

Communicating with Gelinqi, Xia Duo valued this competition even more, because he speculated that it was held to solve the Dragon Madness Mythallar. The Red Heart Alliance needed to solve the Dragon Madness Mythallar, and he would also need to when he returned to the Main Plane.

It was just that he didn't know how many Dragon Madness Secret Scrolls the Red Heart Alliance had obtained now. If they hadn't obtained any at all and were analyzing everything externally, that would simply be twice the effort for half the result!

"How can I hand the Dragon Madness Secret Scroll to the Red Heart Alliance without arousing suspicion?"

Xia Duo pondered this question for a long time, but in the end, he couldn't think of any effective method. With the Red Heart Alliance's level of control over its territory, it was almost impossible to hide it from them if there were a Dragon Madness Secret Scroll.

And as for outside the territory, it was very difficult for him as a student to find an opportunity to go out now.

"Perhaps I can apply to be a Wuweilun exchange student for a term."

Chixin University did indeed have this program, but it was aimed at high-year students in the professional stage, and it wasn't something one could pass just by applying; it required evaluating many requirements.

After all, the purpose of the exchange, besides learning true Knowledge, was also to display and promote the modern achievements of the Red Heart Alliance to Wuweilun. If the wrong person were entrusted with this, it would simply be a disaster.

Xia Duo only thought about it for a moment before temporarily dismissing the idea. Anyway, there was still plenty of time; it wouldn't be too late to make plans after finishing the normal professional courses here.

A few more days passed, and there was already news about this Mythallar Defense Competition in the Alliance Mishuo. The higher-ups defined it as: The First All-Alliance University Student Mythallar Defense Competition.

That is to say, the winners of the inter-school competitions would also have the opportunity to continue competing with winners from other universities, and it wouldn't just be this one time; it would be held every five years in the future.

In addition to students majoring in Mythallar at various universities, other social personnel and non-Mythallar major university students could also sign up to participate, though the latter would be divided into the public group.

Not long after this news was reported, all kinds of rumors spread. Xia Duo even saw some saying that the Red Heart Alliance was preparing to go to war with the Evereska Alliance.

Perhaps this was the truth, but the truth was not accepted by the public.

Since the construction of the Unified Mythallar, the Red Heart Alliance had always held great interest in Mythallar research and had invested a great deal of resources into it. The current era, known as the Mythallar Era, was the result of this orientation.

And the Mythallar Defense Competition was merely one type of Mythallar-related competition; one could not conclude from this that the Alliance intended to go to war with the Evereska Evil Axis.

From the birth of the Red Heart Alliance to the present, there had never been a record of taking the initiative to attack. In the future, they might take the initiative to liberate the ordinary people of the Evereska Alliance nations, but the Red Heart Alliance public generally believed that the conditions were not yet mature.

And it would be difficult to achieve in the short term.

But no matter how the public discussed it, this competition had truly become lively.