Forty-seven houseboats floated on the river, their flags snapping in the wind, each emblazoned with a school crest. The apprentices about to compete either flew above the houseboats or stood on the decks.
Yu Xunge observed carefully for a long while and discovered that the thirty-seven small and medium-sized schools had far more contestants than the Nine Great Magic Academies.
Even the Nine Great Magic Academies had only a little over eight hundred participants at most. Moonlight Wetland had the fewest, with just over three hundred competing apprentices—only slightly more than the non-academy apprentices.
By contrast, even the smallest Magic Academy had over a thousand apprentices standing on the deck of its cruise ship.
Either they did not care about losses at all, or they were confident they could withdraw from the game before dying.
At seven o'clock, as the sky brightened, a pale blue curtain of light slowly unfurled overhead like a scroll. The world seemed to have been muted. Every living being held their breath and immediately turned to look at the light curtain, which displayed this year's basic Godly Game rules and rewards.
``` AS170 Godly Game
Number of magic items allowed: 3
Mid-game withdrawal mechanism: The player destroys one of the initial magic items they brought into the game.
Team competition champion reward: Every player on the champion team may choose 3 SSS-rank Skills from the skill repository as rewards and receive 200 free attribute points.
Individual competition champion reward: The champion may select one of their own God-Bestowed Talent Skills and upgrade it, and receive 200 free attribute points.
Fun Match champion reward: Gain three opportunities to modify skills and receive 100 free attribute points.
Reward for unlocking Tian Huhaoqi: Increase the potential of the player's race. The minimum God-Bestowed Talent grade among the player's