Get off work and become a magical girl

Chapter 336 Spectators
While the candidates were exploring the maze, many magical girls had already gathered in the central square of the Silver Corridor outside the maze.

Compared to the candidates who were forming teams in the square not long ago, the magical girls gathered in the square now looked much more mature and capable, without the faint immaturity of the candidates. A discerning person could easily tell that these were the "guests" mentioned by the examiner.

Most of these "guests" are from the five academies of the country, and are magical girls of at least the letter card level or above. Considering the system in the magic country that usually only has white card and letter card assessments, they can all be called "assessment graduates."

If it were the assessment in previous years, these "graduates" would not have been specially invited to watch the ceremony, but this time the assessment was in the Queen's year, so some variables occurred.

In the eyes of the people of the Royal Court, it would be a bit unpleasant if the Queen and her subordinates came to the viewing seats and found that there was no one there. Moreover, it was not just the Queen who would come, there would probably be jeweled scepters accompanying her. Therefore, the Royal Court made a request to the staff of the Magic Affairs Institute and the Research Institute in charge of the assessment: open the viewing qualifications for this assessment.

The king's court thought it was just a small matter of "finding more audiences", and there should be many magical girls willing to share a seat with the queen. But for the employees who actually did the work, it became a big problem.

The first thing to consider is the personnel. For security reasons, the examination hall cannot completely open the examination room to outsiders. So after much deliberation, they finally chose to send invitations only to the magical girls in the five halls, and then check the list of those who are willing to come, and then take their seats according to their numbers.

However, after hearing that they could attend the event with the Queen, the vast majority of magical girls accepted the invitation, resulting in the number of people willing to come far exceeding expectations and exceeding the reception capacity of the Silver Gallery... After that, there was a lot of annoying wrangling, and the Examination Yuan finally finalized the final list under the constraints of all parties.

Therefore, the magical girls who were finally able to attend the viewing platform knew that this was a rare opportunity, and sat here with the mentality of "tasting it carefully". They gathered in the square, and the center of their attention was the high platform that was previously used to announce the examination rules. However, at this moment, the projection on the high platform has changed its content - it is the image of the candidates exploring the maze.

In fact, after most of the candidates entered the maze, the projection content had already become these, so the image on the platform could be said to be a real-time broadcast. Although there was a delay of about half a minute compared to the actual situation in the maze, it was already the first time to feedback the real progress in the examination room.

Of course, because it is almost real-time video, it is inevitable that different teams will make "noteworthy actions" at the same time. At this time, the projection on the platform will be split into two parts to ensure that all "highlight scenes" can be seen by everyone present.

At this moment, the stage had split into four projections, simultaneously broadcasting the exploration situations of the four teams in the maze.

These four teams can be said to be the teams with the fastest progress in the maze. They have each found a puzzle hidden in the maze and are working on solving the puzzle.

Among them, the progress of "Team 277" is the focus of everyone's attention.

There was no other reason, it was just that this team was indeed far ahead in progress. With the strong perception ability of the magical girl named "Tudinggui" and the team's good execution ability, the team members were able to each put forward their own insights into the puzzle, so soon, they were close to the answer to the puzzle.

Among the magical girls in the audience, there was even the person who set the puzzle. The magical girl thought that the question she set would not be so easy to solve, but now she felt a little embarrassed by the slightly teasing looks from her colleagues.

It is true that what was contained in that wall of light was a treasure map, but in fact, it also concealed many mental traps.

The first is the ball fixed in the maze. Logically, candidates may think that the content of this puzzle is to "take the ball out", so they try every means to find a way to move the ball. It is normal to waste time on this hurdle.

The second is the difference between the treasure map and the real map - even if the two maps are superimposed on each other, they are not the real answer, because in fact, both maps are real.

However, the real map is for the candidates and for people to pass through; while the treasure map on the wall is for the ball to pass through.

Candidates must first find the sphere in the real maze according to the corresponding position on the map. After finding the sphere, they will find that they will keep hitting the "air wall" when holding the sphere.

The principle is very simple, because the sphere has been processed by a special technique, it can only be moved according to the trajectory on the treasure map. In the real maze, if the person holding the sphere does not follow the trajectory of the treasure map, he will hit the "air wall".

So, the final test emerged: when the two maps conflicted, walking along the real maze would encounter air walls; but when the candidates held the ball and walked along the treasure map route, they would hit the walls of the maze. How could they escape?

The answer is: the body of the sphere can pass through the wall.

Just like the candidates don’t need to consider the “walls” on the treasure map when they move forward. The ball doesn’t need to follow the route of the real maze, because it only needs to follow the track on the treasure map, so the restrictions in the maze have no effect on it. All the candidates need to do is to throw the ball along the route on the treasure map, and the ball will naturally be thrown to the end of a track. Then, the candidates walk along the real maze to the point where the ball lands, pick it up, throw it out, and repeat.

And right now, Team 277 is actually doing this last thing.

There is no doubt that this last test is a long and arduous task. Even if the candidates find the right way, they still have to spend a lot of time on it. Because the paths of the two mazes are very different, the candidates must go around in the real maze and even go back repeatedly to reach the location of the ball.

Overall, solving this puzzle is definitely not an easy task. In fact, in terms of actual difficulty, this puzzle is at an upper-middle level among all the questions in the entire maze: it requires not only correct thinking, but also the execution of the entire team to pass it smoothly. Otherwise, it is very likely to get stuck in a certain link and waste a lot of time.

What made people laugh was that this puzzle was the first one to be solved. As Team 277 got closer to the finish line, the reaction in the audience became more enthusiastic. Even the person who set the puzzle could only smile helplessly and applaud softly to show his approval of the team's performance.

"There's something here. I thought this cosplay team was just here for fun, but they turned out to be surprisingly skilled?"

"From the beginning, I thought the cosplay team looked like they had the potential to be champions."

"Oh, I was wrong. I was prejudiced against the hobbies of young people today. I thought that the kids who were into Cospree were not serious."

"It's really amazing, even though it's just cosplay."

Discussions on the viewing stand continued one after another.

Although many of the magical girls present would be mothers or even grandmothers in the material world in terms of age, after joining the kingdom and gaining eternal youth, most of the magical girls have a much younger mentality than their peers.

Because of this, some of the guests present had watched magical girl anime such as "Sweet Angel" or "Colorful Sky Angel". Whether it was because they wanted to watch it or because they watched it with their children, at least they had watched it.

After the guests had their own exchanges and the origins of the clothes worn by the magical girl "Longdan" and Dogtail Grass became known to everyone, Team 277 somehow became known as the "cosplay team".

In addition, this team's exploration progress was indeed ahead of schedule, and they became the focus of the projection content early on because of their discovery of the puzzle, so this name spread quickly.

Somehow, this name even reached the top level of the viewing platform.

Countless magical girls from the Royal Court Guard lined up there, forming a human wall to separate the seats in the center from the outside world. Sitting in the middle were the jeweled scepters and the faceless figure wearing a crown.

There were three jewel scepters present. In addition to Pigeon Blood Red and Purple Diamond who arrived together, there was also Emerald who slept in and came to the scene slowly.

According to this standard, the last of the four Gem Scepters, Golden Green Cat's Eye, should have been here, but all the Gem Scepters present knew that the Investigation Institute had recently been assigned a big case, and everyone was very busy. So Golden Green Cat's Eye chose to take a leave, and no one had any objections.

Even the current Purple Diamond, who had an arrogant look on her face and looked like everyone owed her money, only stammered a few words and couldn't say much more when the matter involved the golden-green cat's eye.

Finally, the three jeweled scepters and the figure wearing a crown were the most distinguished guests of this assessment.

When the name of the "cosplay" team reached the "VIP seats" here, no one else reacted. Only Emerald, who had a sleepy face and was leaning on the armrest and yawning, was stunned for a moment, and then showed a distorted expression as if she wanted to laugh but couldn't, and had to hold it back.

Unfortunately, her back was turned to most of her colleagues at the time, so no one noticed her abnormality.

After all, although this "cosplay" team performed well and stood out among the newcomers who did not yet have certification cards, it was ultimately just a minor performance in the assessment. The so-called execution and judgment are certainly important criteria for assessing newcomers, but in other words, as long as they passed the assessment, most of them were not bad in this aspect.

The most eye-catching member of the team is "Tu Ding Gui", a disciple of the strongest flower card "Blue Star" in the material world. This identity is enough to make the scepters and the royal guards look at it with respect, but for them, it is not that prominent.
In addition to this, there is another magical girl who is seriously assisting Tudinggui and has been analyzing things all the time, and the last one seems to be analyzing something as well, but most of the time only the top of her head appears in the image.

——An ordinary team of top students, with a captain of distinguished status, a team member who is somewhat capable even though she is playing cosplay, and another little girl who is almost invisible in the camera and seems to be playing cosplay as well.

This was the impression that the guests at that moment, including the Gem Scepters, had of Team 277.

So soon, as the team solved the mystery and took the lead, the on-site images were replaced by another scene that was more worthy of attention.

And that was a battle between teams.

According to the information provided by the commentator on the stage, it seemed that the captains of the two teams had a personal grudge against each other, so during this exploration, one of the teams made a special trip to launch a sneak attack on the other team.

Right now, this sneak attack is gradually becoming more intense.

(End of this chapter)