Chapter 2386: Geniuses Emerge and Are Invited

According to official news from the Alliance, this competition will begin in mid-June, which is exactly when the Northland's Blooming Flowers season arrives; enjoying the flowers while watching the competition doubles the fun.

And at Chixin University.

The regular courses for Xia Duo's class have also been temporarily suspended; not only them, but other classes have also paused their studies to concentrate their energy on preparing for the competition.

Currently, the Alliance officials have announced the competition format, which will be conducted in two stages; as for the Mythallar Defense Competition, as the name implies, it involves both offense and defense.

The offensive stage involves participants working in teams to attack a target Mythallar provided by the Alliance, or more accurately—to seize or deceive its Permission Level.

The defensive stage involves becoming the target of attacks from the public group; the competition will have professional judges evaluate and score the offensive and defensive processes, and winners will naturally be met with grand prizes.

The academy competition does not have a defensive stage, only an offensive stage; only those who qualify for the all-Alliance finals will be considered for defense.

Of course, during actual training, since the Alliance has not yet announced the details of the target Mythallar, team training can only consist of internal offensive and defensive drills, or scheduling such drills with other classes.

……

Currently, the first place in the academy competition can earn 20 Research Sequence Points, while the first place in the all-Alliance competition is worth one hundred points!

The Research Sequence Points required for an Official Researcher is 500 points; in other words, just by taking first place, one-fifth of the path to becoming an official member is completed instantly.

As for the rest, completing university professional courses earns 5 points per semester, totaling thirty semesters, which is 150 points; adding in some small inventions and minor papers during the usual time, scraping together 50 points is not a problem.

And if one can take first place in the all-Alliance competition, it shows that the team's professional ability is solid, and they will likely receive priority support for independent project funding at the school; the remaining 200 points, with just a little effort, are not hard to complete within the school.

This way, one would be an Official Researcher immediately upon graduation, and there would likely be plenty of research institutions scrambling to hire them.

In fact, this is also the path Xia Duo has planned for himself, and the current situation is very favorable for him; the Alliance has officially announced that the competition will be held every five years, which means a large influx of points.

The only thing to worry about is whether a war in the next few years might interrupt his upward path, or whether such a large-scale handout of points might lead to a decline in the value of the Official Researcher status.

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Mythallar Design Class 4 practice base.

Xia Duo divided the whole class into two groups; he leads one group, and the vice monitor Aotuomu leads the other, conducting offensive and defensive training respectively, but because their professional courses have only reached Equation Maze and Traditional Mythallar.

The content available for training is actually very limited; during this period, there were of course brother classes coming to seek cooperation for joint training, and Xia Duo also organized a few sessions, but the gains were also very limited.

After all, those who could come to their Class 4 were also in the same grade; the upperclassmen were busy with their own training, and perhaps they might look for them for a "social" session before the competition, but they certainly wouldn't waste time on lower-grade students early on.

In fact, it is the same for Xia Duo's class; they don't think much of the grades lower than them, and wanting to find upperclassmen, they can't find any, so they can only practice with the same grade, but it is basically a scene of amateurs pecking at each other.

It made Xia Duo want to laugh at one point.

In terms of Mythallar offense and defense, although he is not as good as the upperclassmen in the Chixin University Mythallar major, he is still a cut above the lower grades, and the current situation truly makes him feel Binding.

"Aotuomu, stop for now; first restore the Magic Net environment, and I will think about what to do—we can't just go through the motions!"

Xia Duo called a halt to the training; there is no great significance in continuing to practice like this, and he is hesitating whether to use his own methods to retrain.

Being one small step ahead is a genius, but being one big step or even several big steps ahead, that would be impossible to explain.

The most troublesome part now is that Xia Duo does not know what level his Mythallar offensive and defensive skills rank at, and most crucially, he has the design drawings for the Dragon Madness Mythallar, which can at least be used as a reference for more precise offensive training.

After thinking it over, Xia Duo decided to trouble his mentor; although the academy requires mentors not to interfere with student competitions, helping to contact one or two upperclassmen classes to observe their offensive and defensive training site should not count as interference!

Regarding this, Mentor Tuto clearly stated that it does not count, but currently, it is the early stage of competition preparation, and the upperclassmen are all busy with training, so they will likely not agree to let outsiders observe.

But regardless, Mentor Tuto still promised Xia Duo that he would try his best to mediate and told him to wait for news.

And while waiting, Xia Duo did not just wait idly, but took the whole class to the Library to search for and borrow all books on Mythallar offense and defense, as well as relevant books for subsequent professional stages.

The so-called "sharpening the spear at the last minute, even if it's not sharp, it will still shine"; it is difficult to organize an effective Mythallar offensive and defensive training using only the professional content learned so far.

Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the academy is willing to let all grades participate without discrimination—it is to see the students' self-learning ability and their extraordinary talent when facing special situations.

For a competition lasting more than a month, as long as one or two geniuses emerge, that is a complete gain for the school and for the Red Heart Alliance.

Even for ordinary students, it is just that their normal academic progress is slightly delayed, but being able to get some Research Sequence Points in just over a month is not a loss.

This can be considered a win-win situation.

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Inside the reading room, Xia Duo watched the books piled on the table growing more and more, almost forming a small hill several meters long, and felt immense pressure in his heart.

It is a pity that neither Chixin University nor the entire Red Heart Alliance recommends students to force growth; only when learning content at the current stage can one apply to use the Inheritance Instrument.

Of course, even if one uses the Inheritance Instrument for content beyond the current learning stage, at most it only saves time on reading and memorization; the actual thinking still needs to be done by oneself.

The Inheritance Instrument cannot replace the person's own thinking, and as for the inspiration-collision style of inheritance, that requires even stricter review to prevent university students with bright futures from being misled.

Right now, Mentor Tuto has not yet persuaded the upperclassmen classes to agree to an observation, so let's read books first!

Xia Duo had already flipped through some of these books when he usually came to the Library, but he had not read them completely; after all, to catch up on progress, there was little free time, and he would likely only have time for free reading after completing his professional courses.

From this, one can also see the level of the upperclassmen at Chixin University, which has long exceeded the level of university students; and with the quality of students and faculty strength of a top university like Chixin University, these upperclassmen are likely stronger than researchers at ordinary research institutions.

After all, researchers can pass by grinding time and seniority; not all research projects require participants to have independent innovation capabilities, and many projects just require one to tag along—although the points one can get from doing so are few, they are still there, and over time, one can always reach the requirements for an Official Researcher.