Chapter 3065: Go, Racing Flight

Over the next two days, Xia Duo spent most of his time touring the Holy City—Golden Dragon City District with Xintuosi, personally experiencing the life and entertainment of the Golden Dragon civilization, and also getting to know many local friends.

Xia Duo used the remaining time to prepare gifts for Xintuosi and his other friends. Yes, since he had met many more friends over these two days and received many more gifts, he naturally had to prepare more gifts himself.

Because life in the Kingdom of Radiance was affluent and there was almost no shortage of daily necessities, Xia Duo considered entertainment and learning when thinking about gifts.

In terms of learning, he prepared to gift Netheril Magic to the golden dragons. Although many of them had awakened memories of magic from their previous lives, having one more type of magic to use as a reference was never a bad thing.

Xia Duo categorized magic under learning. Besides magic, other learning-related gifts included some Magic Shadow scenery from the Main Plane, as well as encyclopedic books, which were modeled after the Enlightenment Book for Tower of Time apprentices but were more in-depth.

As for entertainment, Xia Duo followed his usual practice and brought out the so-called Arcane Maze, which was Chess from his hometown. This time in the Kingdom of Radiance, he prepared to make a few sets of Go, also called Arcane Maze, just a different type.

These two types of board games had different styles, and their target audiences might not be entirely the same. Although they required a certain amount of mental effort, they could still be categorized as entertainment.

It was not that there was no pure entertainment, but Xia Duo felt there was no need to bring those things to the Kingdom of Radiance to corrupt these people of order.

Or rather, pure entertainment could be accepted by most living people in the Main Plane who possessed all kinds of emotions, but in the Kingdom of Radiance, the residents here were all Reincarnators born with an inclination toward order.

Pure entertainment would likely be categorized as chaos.

After comprehensive consideration, Xia Duo only prepared to make Chess and Go for entertainment; the former already had a ready-made magic version design in the Main Plane.

As for Go, there was no ready-made magic version design, but this was more of a contest of Wisdom, and whether or not there was a magic design was not the key.

However, to reflect the importance of the gift, Xia Duo designed a chessboard that could automatically retrieve pieces and a board capable of projecting the game state. He did not add any other flashy functions or special effects to avoid overshadowing the main purpose.

Therefore, in the latter part of the trip, after the two sides exchanged gifts, it turned into Xia Duo teaching Xintuosi how to play Go, while Xintuosi coached Xia Duo on flight techniques.

The Dragon Scale Armor that Xintuosi gave Xia Duo also included a set of Dragon Wing Armament. The latter could allow the user to transform into a dragon independently, but its more orthodox use was to enhance flight capabilities after transforming into a dragon.

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Holy City, Golden Dragon City District, the Racing Tower in the southwest corner.

This was a tall building second only to the Temple Tower. At this moment, over a dozen golden dragons had already arrived on the tower's top platform, sitting quietly at the edge of the platform and looking toward the east.

And high above their heads, even more golden dragons spread their wings, circling continuously along the straight line of the sun and the Racing Tower, casting a huge shadow from time to time.

But more often, shimmering golden light burst forth.

Before long, a high-pitched dragon roar rang out from the east. Two golden dragons of similar size were charging toward the Racing Tower at high speed, and in the blink of an eye, they slammed heavily into the center of the tower's top platform.

They arrived almost at the same time, chasing each other; their speed was so fast that the golden dragons circling high above could not help but descend a little.

However, today's protagonists were not those flying in the sky, but the dozen or so sitting at the edge of the platform, including the latecomers Xia Duo and Xintuosi.

"Xintuosi, Xia Duo, you are late."

"Sorry, I am not yet proficient with dragon transformation, so it took some time."

Xia Duo took the initiative to shoulder the responsibility. In fact, besides the reason he stated, there was also the fact that Xintuosi had given him some last-minute coaching, which took extra time, but this was also because of him, so he did not deny his responsibility.

However, no matter how late they were, they had still arrived before the agreed time. The residents of the Kingdom of Radiance had a very strong sense of time; lateness might happen to anyone, but it was impossible to happen in the Kingdom of Radiance.

Accidents caused by force majeure did not count.

The dozen or so golden dragons who arrived first only mentioned it casually and did not dwell on the issue. Since all the dragons had arrived, they naturally went straight to the point:

"Xintuosi, Xia Duo is also our friend, but if you say that in just one day, you taught him to the point where he can participate in a racing competition, even as a friend, I am still a bit skeptical. With just that speed from earlier, there is no way he can place in the competition!"

"Weila, if I say it is possible, then it is definitely possible. Even if you don't trust me, can't you at least trust Xia Duo?" Xintuosi complained with some dissatisfaction, and even a few sparks came out of his mouth.

In the Kingdom of Radiance, it was recognized by everyone that a Divine Envoy would not lie. If it had been Lu Yin who came today, Weila definitely would not have questioned it, but Lu Yin did not come today, and Weila was still habitually at odds with Xintuosi.

This was not only because she had once lost to Xintuosi in a competition and had never won since, but also because she had once confessed her feelings to Xintuosi, only to be rejected.

At this moment, being refuted by Xintuosi, Weila spread her dragon wings with even more dissatisfaction, seemingly preparing to breathe fire at Xintuosi. Just then, a golden dragon with a pale golden beard on his chin blocked Weila's path and reprimanded her:

"Enough, don't act like a hatchling!"

After saying this, he looked at Xia Duo, Xintuosi, and the other golden dragons preparing to compete. "Everyone, prepare yourselves. Today we are racing the City-Ring Grand Slam."

"What? Wasn't it agreed that today would be Headwind Racing?"

Xintuosi stared into the other's eyes for a few seconds before reacting. Although the other party had always been fair in handling matters, when it involved his own sister, it was inevitable that there would be some emotions. Most importantly, this was indeed within the rules.

A verbal agreement between only two dragons could not override the collective requirements of all participants. The tone Xintuosi used just now was a bit too arrogant, which also made the other golden dragons somewhat dissatisfied.

For a human to reach the level of being able to participate in a flight competition in just one day seemed unrealistic no matter how one looked at it.

But since the competition had been set, it would not change because of Xintuosi's personal opposition. The only thing Xintuosi seemed able to do at this moment was to withdraw from the competition, and he would have to take Xia Duo with him.

Taking advantage of the time while the other golden dragons were preparing, Xintuosi communicated quietly with Xia Duo, "How about we just forget it this time? The City-Ring Grand Slam is far more difficult than Headwind Racing. You have only just come into contact with flight competitions; don't start with this. It will crush your confidence. I have seen your performance over the past day, and you are very talented. I don't want you to be broken here."

Of course, this "broken" referred more to a collapse in mentality rather than actually dying in the competition.