Chapter 516: Invitation Letter

At noon today, Ciri had just been liberated from the painful course of the purple-clothed man.

Not long after he was liberated, Joshua told Ciri the good news, that is, he created a new game and hoped that Ciri could test it.

At present, all the games in the game division of the caster forum are tested by Ciri before they go online.

As a senior game tester, it is still the exclusive one for Joshua. Of all the games that Joshua has produced so far, Ciri has not found a single one that is 'not fun'!

The news of a new game is undoubtedly a surprise for Ciri.

Just when she happily ran to the first floor of the Hearthstone Tavern and asked Joshua, "Where is that new game?", Joshua pointed to a square 'wooden plate' on the wooden table with squares drawn on it. square lines.

There are also board games in this world, but Ciri is not interested.

When Shirley guessed that there was some strange inscription engraved on this wooden plate, just like an arcade machine in Hearthstone, the result was very regrettable.

It's really just a piece of wood that's been polished, and two boxes of black and white raw spar pieces, also polished of course.

What made Shirley even more frustrating was that even though Joshua had explained the rules of the game, she didn't even know how she lost in the first half hour.

In the second half hour, even if Shirley figured out how to play this 'Go', he still had a tendency to be crushed by Qiao Xiu.

This poor game experience aroused Ciri's competitive spirit, but she still chose to give up her position to the gray clothed man.

"Is it okay to just explain it once?"

Ciri whispered next to Joshua's ear.

Go is not like those simple games on the magic net that can be fun. The rules and tactics in it are so complicated that they are no less than studying a new magic.

At least in the match just now, Ciri didn't experience any fun at all.

"It depends on the understanding ability of the man in gray."

Qiao Xiu said this in front of the gray-clothed man. The sage was sitting opposite to Qiao Xiu pondering over the chessboard.

The dwarves who were not playing cards around came over and took a look and left feeling bored, and the people who stayed to watch were some human spellcasters.

"You go first, those in gray," Joshua said.

"According to the rules of the game you explained, this should be the way to go."

The man in gray picked up the black chess piece and landed it on the lower right.

"Have you mastered the trick? The first few times when Shirley played Tian Yuan, he was always the first." Qiao Xiu also picked up the chess piece and landed on the other side.

"Tianyuan? These points have names."

The man in gray stared at the criss-cross on the chessboard. He first came to the Hearthstone Tavern to find Joshua to inform him about something, but when he saw the black and white chess pieces on the table, the man in gray temporarily put down the task of notifying him.

He watched the match between Joshua and Ciri for a while, and thought it was just an extremely simple game. After all, the tools were very simple, and there were only two differences between black and white.

But after careful study, the connotation of this game is so complicated that it makes the gray-clothed man's scalp tingle.

"It's not a complicated name, let's talk about it later."

Qiao Xiu said after watching the man in gray pick up a bag again and drop it.

Shirley also found a small bench and sat down to watch the game. The chess game went on for almost an hour.

The rest time given to Ciri by the man in purple also came to an end.

"Ciri."

The person in purple walked down the stairs slowly, preparing for Lahiri to go upstairs to continue her class, but she noticed a crowd gathering on one side of the tavern.

This is a very common situation in the Hearthstone tavern. A well-known Hearthstone player, the birth of a legendary card or even a wonderful duel will attract a group of people to watch.

But this time the onlookers were not those dwarves who did good deeds, but the spellcasters in the Hearthstone Tavern.

When the purple-clothed man walked towards the casters, they all recognized the identity of the purple-clothed man and consciously stepped aside, and the purple-clothed man also saw Ciri sitting in the crowd... and the gray-clothed man.

The two sages of Nolan appeared in a tavern at the same time. If it was changed to before, no one would believe it.

When the man in purple called out Shirley's name, did he realize that what Shirley was watching was not a Hearthstone match, but a chess game?

"Teacher, are you okay when you suddenly ran out?" Ciri asked.

"I'm not as fragile as you think."

After the purple-clothed man gave this answer, he looked at Qiao Xiu and the gray-clothed man, and the black and white interlaced primordial stone between them.

These raw crystals are all 'waste', that is, raw crystals that have lost their magic power, no different from ordinary stones.

But the man in gray was staring at these 'waste' seriously, with some troubled expressions flashing across his face from time to time.

"What's this?" Although it wasn't the first time that the purple-clothed man had seen the gray-clothed man look so serious, it was the first time he'd seen him getting so entangled in order to play a game.

"Go." Shirley acted as the narrator at this time. "The rules of the game are simply to surround the opponent."

"Uh... Shirley, although your explanation can't be completely wrong, it can't be right either."

Joshua intervened in her conversation with the man in purple while the man in gray was thinking.

"This chess piece should land here! That's right..." The gray-clothed man suddenly raised the black stone and dropped it again, and the owl standing on the table made a happy 'coo' sound instead of him.

"Grey clothed man, are you here to play this?"

The purple-clothed man really couldn't stand the gray-clothed man losing the majesty of the sages like this, although the gray-clothed man had been doing things like refreshing the sages offline.

"No, I'm here this time to inform Qiao Xiu of something."

The gray-clothed man finally remembered his purpose for coming to the Hearthstone Tavern. He took out an invitation letter from his worn-out robe and handed it to Joshua.

"What's this?"

After receiving the invitation, Joshua found that the magic inside did not belong to the man in gray, but the magic that sealed the invitation was very complicated, and the texture of the paper was also very expensive.

"After discussions between the Council of Sages and the Patent Council of Nolan, you have been listed as one of the candidates for the Skjrona Award, and the award ceremony will be held at the Crystal Palace of Nolan two months later," said the man in gray.

"Scjrona Award?"

Qiao Xiu searched his memory carefully, and remembered that the man in purple once mentioned this award to him.

After Joshua told the man in yellow and the man in gray the idea of ​​the Nobel Prize, the Council of Sages actually approved the award and named it the Skjrona Award.

Qiao Xiu didn't expect that one day this place would become a candidate for the Nobel Prize in another world... But the invention of the magic net may really be eligible to receive this award.

"Maybe I should set up a few more awards, such as Oscars, Grammys, Japleys, etc." Joshua put away the invitation letter, then picked up the white chess piece again and said, "But now let's put this The duel is over."