The challenge began, Xiao Chen and Arus walked to the bottom of the throne together.
Luo Ling's suggestion just now was that she and Xiao Chen should swap the order of appearing on the court.
He recalled what Luo Ling had just said: "Do you think the king will allow you to launch a mental attack on Leila? Didn't you see the two of them flirting with each other? The king will definitely understand her situation. Your approach will not work. On the contrary, isn't she good at ice magic? I happen to have some experience in this regard, so why don't we compare our respective strengths..."
"Okay, let's start the first challenge..." said the king.
The strength of the Thousand Thoughts Tower is to use the transitive properties of mental power to attack and defend. Rather than saying that they are mages who use mental power to control magic, it is better to say that they directly use mental power as a weapon. In terms of the fine control of mental power, many elites of the Royal Magic Tower may not be better than them.
The king looked out the window. In the front garden, several magnolia trees were in full bloom. He said, "Pick a magnolia tree and use your mental power to pick the flowers on it. Whoever picks the most intact flowers will win."
Picking flowers? This is very similar to the bean game he played with Mei, Xiao Chen thought to himself. But seeing the confident expression on the other party's face, he secretly became alert. However, he didn't know much about the Tower of Thousand Thoughts, and didn't know where the other party's strengths were, so he could only respond accordingly.
The two followed the Marquis Francesco to the garden downstairs, and many of the guests followed them, while the rest watched from the balcony upstairs with the king.
The Marquis selected the largest magnolia tree and asked Xiao Chen and Arus to stand on either side of the tree.
The magnolia tree was covered with nearly two thousand small white flowers, but it had not grown any leaves yet. The pure white crown swayed in the wind, looking very beautiful.
The Marquis looked back at the king, got his approval, and then announced the start of the duel.
Xiao Chen instantly condensed his mental power into nearly a hundred threads and rushed towards the white flowers. His threads were divided into groups of two, one for wrapping around the calyx and the other for breaking the branches. He multitasked, and before long, he had picked more than forty flowers and they flew towards him.
Although Arus on the opposite side was at a higher level than Xiao Chen, he did not have as delicate mental power as Xiao Chen. He used a similar method as Xiao Chen, but only picked about thirty flowers in the first wave.
He saw that the other party's first wave of flowers was more and faster than his, and he couldn't help but feel anxious. So he also tried to divide the silk thread into thinner and more, but he didn't master the measure for the first time, and the silk thread was too thin to break the flower branches. When he readjusted the number of threads and picked the second batch of flowers, he found that Xiao Chen had already picked the third batch of flowers steadily.
"Xiao Chen is good!" Li Jia, who was watching, clenched his fists. They could not see the fine threads, but saw that the magnolia was like a dandelion blown by the wind, with white flowers constantly leaving the branches and flying towards the two of them, but Xiao Chen's flowers flew more and more steadily, while Arus's flowers were not only intermittent, but also each wave was not as many as Xiao Chen's. Soon, the flowers in front of Xiao Chen formed a small slope, and the other party's flower pile was shorter than his.
"That person is not as skilled as Xiao Chen, and he is starting to get nervous. It seems that as long as Xiao Chen keeps the rhythm, the situation will stabilize." Liu Pengfei said.
"It's less than one-fifth." Luo Ling said lightly.
On the balcony upstairs, the king, queen, princess and prince, surrounded by guards and attendants, watched the scene below.
The king said to the queen: "How good is Xiao Chen?"
"Higher than me. I will never be able to do that in my lifetime." The queen looked at the king with some worry and said, "Such a wizard has unlimited potential. I don't know why you want to offend him."
"No, I'm not targeting him. I'm targeting them. You didn't see the faces of those people in the Magic Association and the Temple before. Of course, you are also a wizard, so you naturally think that it is reasonable for the Magic Association to make profits for you. You think I'm bullying the little wizard, right?" The king said, rolling his eyes.
"No, of course not, Your Majesty. No matter who I was before, I am now your wife and the mother of your children. I know where I should stand." The queen pouted slightly, but made the king laugh. "Well, I should have let you go with me a few days ago to see how greedy they are."
"But, Black Mountain isn't an important place, right?"
"Of course, that place was originally a place where horse thieves were rampant and prisoners were exiled, but I can't let the magicians and priests ride on our heads. Otherwise, while I am here, I can still hold them back. When I die, what will happen to their generation? Will they rely on you? I can't bear to do that."
"Your Majesty, don't..." The queen pulled his sleeve.
The king waved his hand and said, "I also want to live a few more years, but there is always a reason. This matter cannot be done smoothly. As for offending people, what is there to worry about? Does the royal family exist by not offending people?"
The queen saw some of the heroic spirit of his youth on the king's face.
"Not to mention there are these two." The king asked the guards to call Princess Laura and Prince Javier and asked, "Laura, which side do you hope will win the next game?"
Laura said without hesitation: "Of course it's the side that you, father, want."
"Tell the truth! Don't think I don't know what you're thinking."
"I... I still hope the Chinese win!" Laura's face flushed a little, but her tone was firm, "I know a lot of them, and I think they are all very valuable talents. In comparison, the Thousand Thoughts Tower has existed for so many years, and no extraordinary figures have appeared."
"Talent? Especially the talent called Liu Pengfei, right?"
"Ah? Well, he is indeed very talented. You haven't heard his views on statecraft, money, and military affairs. It really gives me a new perspective."
"Hehe." The king chuckled twice with his stomach shaking, and then asked Javier, "What about you?"
Javier stammered for a long time and said, "I hope Teacher Xiao Chen and Sister Ye Zi win."
"Why?"
"Because they are nice to me... and I don't know that Arus." Javier said with his head down.
The king looked at the queen and said, "Look, no matter how hard I try to beat them, as long as Laura and Javier have a close relationship with them, there is nothing to worry about. Even if they lose, do you think I will take back all the land? Of course not, the Arias family's land still has to be divided among them."
"Huh? What's going on?" Princess Laura pointed at the magnolia tree downstairs, and saw that Xiao Chen's movements had completely stopped for some reason, and Arus was also much slower, only picking four or five flowers each time. But since Xiao Chen didn't make any progress, he began to chase after him.