The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 82 Exchange Competition Begins

In the blink of an eye, the day of the exchange competition has arrived.

[Spirit 41, Physical 45, Magic 410, Rated Senior Apprentice]

In the bedroom, Li looked at the data in the crystal ball and nodded with satisfaction.

After two years of meditation, Richard's mental strength once again reached the level of a senior wizard apprentice.

This is undoubtedly a good thing for Richard's upcoming exchange competition.

As long as the level gap is not too big, a slight difference in mental strength can be completely made up by knowledge.

I went to the balcony and opened the window. As usual, three days before the exam, the college supervisors would come to distribute the rules.

Ga! Ga!
Sure enough, as soon as Richard opened the window, an academy inspector flew over with a scroll in his claws.

Richard took the scroll and returned to the house, ready to see what the game was that the vice-dean had been hiding for so long.

"Hiss..."

As soon as he opened the scroll, Richard gasped.

"Apprentice War, is the academy crazy?"

According to the rules of black and white wizards divided by the Parliament of Truth, black wizards undergo bloody tests and mainly fight behind enemy lines, while white wizards do not undergo bloody tests and mainly fight in frontal legions.

These are two completely different development concepts.

And on this scroll, the Black Tower Wizarding Academy, which trains dark wizards, joined forces with three other dark wizarding academies and three other white wizarding academies to hold an exam called the Apprentice War.

In this exam, the black wizard apprentice and the white wizard apprentice will fight each other for the resource points on the map.

Isn't this the equivalent of giving the White Wizards a bloody test?
Looking at the rules on the scroll, Richard let out a breath and threw aside the unnecessary thoughts in his mind.

Whether this exam is in accordance with the rules or not has nothing to do with him. What he has to do now is to familiarize himself with the rules as quickly as possible and then come out on top in this war.

According to the rules, the entire battlefield was divided into three areas, and the apprentices of the two camps fought each other and were evenly distributed in the three areas.

Each of these three areas has seven resource points, and these resource points will deliver 1,000 magic stones every month. At the beginning of the war, each camp has three resource points in each area, and the extra resource point is used as a public resource point, and whoever occupies it will own it.

Moreover, in this war, the number of magic stones that apprentices can carry is limited. Each apprentice can carry a maximum of three thousand magic stones.

From this, it can be seen that this resource point is a flesh-and-blood mill that induces apprentices from both sides to fight each other.

Magic stones represent combat power. Once the number of magic stones gained by one of the two warring parties increases, it means that the balance of victory will tip towards the side with more magic stones.

The victory conditions of this war are very simple. As long as one side controls less than two resource points, or the total number of apprentices is reduced to less than half, then that side will be considered the loser. When all regional wars are over, the final result will be determined by the regions where both sides win.

As for the rewards and punishments the academy gives to apprentices after the competition, that is up to the academy itself.

The Black Tower Wizard Academy rewards the winner with ten places for admission as wizards and magic stones based on the number of apprentices killed. If the winner loses, all the rewards will be lost, and the academy will hold an additional bloody exam.

It can be said that both the rewards and punishments are extreme.

However, the Black Tower Wizarding Academy is a dark wizarding academy after all, so it is normal for the rewards and punishments to be extreme.

After reading the rules, Richard rubbed his temples and began to think of countermeasures.

War is different from the bloody exams of killing each other. War requires strategy, organization, and execution. If the White Wizard apprentices are trained according to the legionary combat, then they will have an absolute advantage in this war.

Since the White Wizarding Academy has no bloody exams, their number of apprentices is quite astonishing, almost three and a half times that of the Black Wizarding Academy.

If this number difference is applied to a normal war, the war can basically be declared over.

However, the rules designed by the academy did not favor dark wizard apprentices, which made Richard very curious about what the White Wizard Academy was like.

A difference of more than three times in numbers would also ensure that the rules would not favor dark wizards.

Are these white wizards all useless?
Richard looked at the scroll again to make sure he had read the data correctly.

The number of White Wizard apprentices is indeed more than three times theirs.

"I hope these white wizards are as weak as I think."

After closing the scroll, Richard began to prepare the things needed for the Apprentice War.

Due to the number of magic stones stipulated by the academy, Richard had to exchange as many of the excess magic stones as possible for alchemical materials, among which Richard specifically exchanged a lot of materials for annihilation grenades.

He had some new ideas while studying alchemical machinery during this period, and this time he could use these white wizards to practice.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye, and it was the day of the competition.

The apprentices were neatly lined up in a square in front of the central black tower, and each mechanical puppet had a badge pinned on their chest.

The badge is a smaller version of the central black tower, with the apprentice's name and rank engraved on the back.

This thing is both an apprentice's dog tag and a merit for hostile apprentices.

Since multiple colleges are involved this time, the previous curse points are no longer applicable. If you want to calculate how many apprentices an apprentice has killed, you have to obtain the school badge from the hostile apprentices - don't think about throwing away the school badge to save your life. After the exam, the school badge will be counted, and apprentices without the school badge will be directly executed by the college.

As usual, Vice President Erics gave a short speech.

"To the 432nd batch of wizard apprentices of the Black Tower Wizard Academy, you will take an unprecedented exam today.

This was a great attempt. Six great wizards jointly submitted an application to the Parliament of Truth. After a long wait of hundreds of years, the great wizard of truth agreed to this experiment.

This means that your every move has been seen by the great wizard of truth.

The Wizard of Truth is watching us!"

Vice President Alex was surprisingly excited this time. He spoke passionately and waved his arms constantly.

His emotions soon spread to the apprentices on the ground. The apprentices had no idea what this game meant, but after Alex's speech, they became pioneers and great explorers of the wizarding world. Their names would even be engraved on the eternal monument and worshipped by future generations.

But Richard was not infected by this passion.

Fanaticism is a double-edged sword for wizards. Although fanaticism will make wizards more passionate about doing something, it will affect their rationality and prevent them from making the most correct judgment.

Alex's speech ended quickly, and after it, he waved his wand. Dozens of wizards around the apprentice formation waved their wands at the same time with him, completing this huge spell together.

The location of this Apprentice War is not in the wizarding world, but in the secret realm of a great wizard.

(End of this chapter)