Ciri had just been freed from the course of suffering in purple this noon.
Not long after the liberation, Joshua told Ciri good news, that is, he tossed a new game and hoped that Ciri could test it.
All games in the current Spellcaster Forum game section are tested by Ciri before they go live.
As a senior game tester, it is the kind exclusively for Qiao Xiu. Of all the games that Qiao Xiu has produced so far, Ciri has not found a single "not fun"!
News of a new game was undoubtedly a surprise to Ciri.
Just as 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 four squares drawn on it. Square lines.
There are also board games in this world, but Ciri is not interested.
Just when Ciri guessed what strange inscription was engraved on this wooden plate, just like the arcade of Hearthstone, the result was very regrettable.
This is really just a piece of polished wood, and two boxes of black and white original spar fragments, which are of course polished.
What made Ciri even more frustrated was that even if Joshua had explained the rules of the game, she didn't even know how she lost the first half hour.
In the second half hour, even if Ciri figured out how to play this "Go", it was still a tendency to be crushed by Qiao Xiu.
This bad gaming experience aroused Ciri's competitive spirit, but she still chose to give up her position to the one in gray.
"It's okay to just say it once, right?"
Ciri whispered in Josh's ear.
Go is not like one of those simple and fun games on the magic web, where the rules and tactics are as complex as a new magic trick.
At least in the game just now, Ciri didn't experience any fun at all.
"It depends on the gray-clothed man's ability to understand."
Qiao Xiu said these words in front of the gray clothed man, who was sitting opposite Qiao Xiu, pondering the chessboard.
The dwarves who didn't play cards came over to take a look and felt bored and left. The people who stayed behind were all human spellcasters.
"The one in gray, go first." Joshua said.
"According to the rules of the game you explained, it should be like this."
The man in gray picked up the black chess piece and landed it on the lower right.
"Have you mastered the trick? Ciri always played Tian Yuan first." Qiao Xiu also picked up the chess piece and landed it on the other side.
"Tianyuan? These points have names."
The man in grey stared at the criss-cross pattern on the chessboard. He originally came to the Hearthstone Tavern to find Joshua to inform Joshua of something, but when he saw the black and white chess pieces on the table, the man in grey temporarily put down the notification task.
He watched the match between Joshua and Ciri for a while. He thought it was just a very 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 scalp of the gray-clothed person tingle.
"It's not a complicated name, let's talk about it next."
Qiao Xiu said after watching the man in gray pick up a piece and drop it again.
Ciri also found a small bench to sit and watch, and the chess game continued for almost an hour.
The time that the purple-clothed man gave Ciri a rest was also over.
"Ciri."
The man in purple walked downstairs slowly, preparing for Lahiri to go upstairs to continue the class, but she noticed the crowd gathered on one side of the tavern.
This is a very common situation in Hearthstone Tavern. Well-known Hearthstone players, the birth of legendary cards, and even a wonderful duel will attract a crowd of onlookers.
But this time, it's not the dwarves who are doing good things, but the spellcasters in the Hearthstone Tavern.
When the purple-clothed person walked towards the spellcasters, they all recognized the identity of the purple-clothed person and consciously made a way, and the purple-clothed person also saw Ciri sitting in the crowd... and the gray-clothed person.
The two sages of Nolan appeared in a tavern at the same time. If they were replaced, no one would believe it.
When the man in purple called out Ciri's name, he noticed that what Ciri was watching was not a Hearthstone match, but a chess game
"Teacher, is it okay for you to suddenly run out of your body?" Ciri asked.
"I'm not as vulnerable as you think."
After giving this answer, the man in purple looked at Qiao Xiu and the man in gray, as well as the black and white original spar between them.
These original spar are "waste", that is, the original spar that has lost its magic power, which is no different from ordinary stones.
But the man in gray was staring at these "wastes" seriously, and some tangled expressions flashed on his face from time to time.
"What's this?" Although it was not the first time that the man in purple had seen the man in gray being so serious, it was the first time he had been so entangled in order to play a game.
"Go." Ciri acted as a commentator at this time. "The rules of the game are simply to surround the opponent."
"Uh... Ciri, your explanation can't be completely wrong, but it can't be right either."
Joshua intervened in her conversation with the purple one while the grey one was thinking.
"This chess piece should fall here! That's right..." The man in gray suddenly raised the black piece and dropped it again. The owl standing on the table also made a happy "coo" sound in his place.
"The man in gray, are you here to play this?"
The purple-clothed man really couldn't bear to see the gray-clothed man lose the majesty of the sages in this way, although the gray-clothed man has been doing things like refreshing the sages offline.
"No, this time I'm here to inform Joshua about something."
The man in gray finally remembered his purpose for coming to Hearthstone Tavern. He took out an invitation letter from his shabby robe and handed it to Joshua.
"what is this?"
Qiao Xiu took the invitation and found that the magic inside was not like that of the man in gray, but the magic that sealed the invitation was very complicated, and the quality of the paper was also very expensive.
"After discussions between the Council of Sages and the Nolan Patent Council, you have been listed as one of the candidates for the Skjerona Award, and the award ceremony will be held at the Nolan Crystal Palace in two months," said the man in gray.
"Skgerona Award?"
Qiao Xiu carefully searched his memory and remembered that the man in purple had mentioned this award to himself.
After Joshua informed the idea of the Nobel Prize for the men in yellow and gray, the Council of Sages really passed the award and named it the Skjerona Award.
Joshua never thought that this place would one day be a candidate for the Nobel Prize in another world... But the invention of the magic net may really be eligible for this award.
"Maybe I should set up a few more awards, Oscars, Grammys, Jipleys, etc." Joshua collected the invitation, then picked up the white chess piece again and said, "But for now, let's put this one first. The showdown is over."