"Do you want to participate in this First-Level Wizard Tournament?" Alice asked Leo through the crystal ball.
Alice had visited the Wizard's Tower in person before, but Benji had stopped her each time, Alice didn't think much of.
After all, it's normal for wizards to go into seclusion for decades, especially someone like Leo, a seclusion fanatic who has almost no social life and spends Heavenly Capital in the laboratory.
But with the First-Level Wizard Tournament just around the corner, Alice took the initiative to contact Leo using her crystal ball.
Leo pulled his thoughts back from the experiment in his hands, and pondered for a moment.
' First-Level Wizard Tournament '
As the name suggests, it is a tournament that First-Level Wizard can participate in.
It is a competition held once every two hundred years throughout the Wizard World. It is an unprecedentedly large-scale event and is considered one of the few major events in the Wizard World.
Unlike the tournaments held during the apprenticeship period, the Level-One Championship do not result in the death of wizards; rather, they serve to promote communication and exchange among wizards.
The reason why the First-Level Wizard Competition was first held was because most wizards preferred to stay in the laboratory all year round and conduct experiments by themselves. Over time, they all became reclusive people who did not like to socialize.
Legend has it that a Supreme Lord made the suggestion, with the Wizard Will as witness, to semi-force these wizards to leave their wizard towers and hold a championship every two hundred years.
The tournament format is simple: all participating First-Level Wizard are randomly thrown into different tournament worlds.
The number of First-Level Wizard in each competition ranges from two to three billion, and dozens of worlds are prepared in advance each time, depending on the number of participants.
The first round of the competition is a free-for-all elimination tournament. When only one ten-thousandth of the world's population remains, the competition stops, and then round-robin matches are arranged to advance one by one until the final winner is determined.
I've heard that the ultimate winner will receive unexpected benefits, and it might even help with advancing to Fourth-Level Stigmata.
The reason it's described as semi-mandatory is because there are corresponding rewards for winning each round. Even if you only pass the first round of elimination, you still get a decent reward. This high return is used to entice these wizards who have been staying in the wizard tower for years to come out.
Most importantly, protected by the Wizard Will, when facing death in the competition, one will be teleported back to the Wizard World, without having to worry about the danger of death.
The First-Level Wizard Tournament has been held countless times, and there has never been a case of a wizard dying.
So over time, many wizards chose to participate.
Whether you want to foster communication and exchange with other wizards or simply relax, participating in competitions is a great option.
This is also the biggest difference between the First-Level Wizard Tournament and the apprenticeship period. During the apprenticeship, it doesn't matter how many people die, but the first level is the cornerstone of the Wizard World, so losses should be minimized as much as possible.
Of course, there is one small detail: the competition requires a small registration fee, which is not expensive—ten energy crystals per person!
All wizards know that the prizes for winning the competition come from items equivalent to these energy crystals.
This method of taking money from you and then giving it back to you is very simple, yet not a single wizard could find fault with it.
After all, the registration fee for each wizard is only ten energy crystals, which even the poorest wizard can afford. But once they advance in the competition, the returns will be ten or even a hundred times greater.
If one could advance through several more rounds, the rewards would be an amount that would make even First-Level Wizard tremble!
Of course, if you are eliminated in the first round, you get nothing; all ten energy crystals will be wasted.
"The competition is still a year away, right?" Leo neither agreed nor refused, but instead asked about the time.
It is held once every two hundred years. When it was held last time, Leo had not yet been promoted one level.
"Yes, there's still a year left. We Level One Lesser Wizard have only been promoted to level one for less than two hundred years are just going to broaden our horizons. There's no need to have too much psychological burden," Alice said with a light laugh.
Alice spoke with a lighthearted tone; she genuinely wanted to broaden her horizons. After all, she wouldn't die, and seeing other wizarding styles would be beneficial for mutual learning.
Leo's eyes flashed with various thoughts. If he were to participate, it would definitely not be as simple as just broadening his horizons. For someone like him who already possessed the abilities of a top-level First-Level Wizard, obtaining a good ranking seemed quite easy.
"Then I'll sign up too, just like you, to broaden my horizons," Leo said with a smile.
"Okay, see you in a year then." Alice smiled and hung up the crystal ball connection.
Alice took the initiative to find Leo because she saw that Leo hadn't stepped out of the Wizard Tower for decades. As one of her few close friends, she wanted to encourage Leo to go out and take a walk.
Moreover, she always felt that Leo's strength was beyond what she had seen, and she wanted to see how far Leo could go.
" The First-Level Wizard Competition..."
Leo murmured to himself, and no one knew what he was thinking.
Suddenly, Leo reached out and grabbed Yao Yao, Yaoyao was holding a complicated wizarding book, and dragged Leo from the library to the fourth floor.
"What are you doing? You've disturbed a promising young mathematician who's about to become a great mathematician! You'll pay the price for your mistake!"
Yaoyao was instantly furious when she saw Leo in front of her. She hated being disturbed when she was studying.
I don't know where he got a pair of glasses and put them on his nose, making him look like a highly educated intellectual, but all he said was childish and pretentious talk.
"Alright, alright, I apologize for disturbing you, great mathematician."
"Now I'd like to ask you, mathematician, how well you've read my book on the formula for calculating nuclear fission?" Leo asked.
"Hmph, you underestimate me, a future great mathematician. Those formulas you wrote are nothing."
Yaoyao snorted coldly and even made a small slit with her paw at Leo, a blatant display of contempt.
"Talk is cheap; now calculate the fission equation of the shadow core materials." Leo pointed to the shadow inside his body. He knew that Yaoyao, like him, could also sense the distribution of the shadow core materials.
"You doubt me? Now I'll show you what I'm capable of."
Yaoyao pushed up her glasses, stretched out her paw, and took out a pen and a piece of paper from the Shadow Space. She actually bent over and started calculating right in front of Leo.
This situation made Leo's lips twitch. Could they really do this?
Who allows you to do on-the-spot calculations during a battle?!
No wonder he calls himself a seedling of a future mathematician; who knows when he'll actually grow up!
Ten minutes later, Yaoyao compared the draft paper in her hand and moved the position of the shadow core raw material.
"See? I didn't make a mistake, did I?"
After the nuclear materials were moved, Yaoyao put her hands on her hips and looked at Leo with arrogance. She knew that all those years of studying in the library hadn't been for nothing.
"Alright, although there are thirteen errors, at least a nuclear fission reaction can occur, even if the efficiency doesn't exceed 15%."
"For the next year, you will learn from me. Our goal is that within a year, you will be able to perform calculations without paper, with an accuracy rate of over 97% in five minutes."
After figuring out Yaoyao's calculation abilities, Leo immediately revealed his true colors, for learning has no end.
Once the teacher has figured out your background, what follows is an even more violent storm.
Therefore, always leave yourself a bottom line and never reveal your full strength!
"Huh? Why?"
Even though Yaoyao was completely covered in black, Leo could still see the pain, torment, and disbelief in his expression.
"Are you trying to trick me???"
Yaoyao was stunned for a moment, but then she realized that Leo had just used a provocation tactic to test his calculation ability...
Mathematics is the source of everyone's suffering!!!
"Because I'm going to participate in the First-Level Wizard Tournament a year from now, do you want to make a name for yourself? Do you want to be the center of attention? Do you want to be admired by millions? Do you want to become the most renowned soulmate?"
Faced with Leo's devilish temptation, Yaoyao Yao nodded vigorously. This kind of public display of power was a fatal weakness that could be fatal to a chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) teenager.
"Then learn from me. When I become number one, won't you become number one too? First-Level Wizard worth billions, you'll be number one. What could be more glorious than that?"
"I studied!"
Under Leo's direct gaze, Yaoyao clenched her teeth, her small body trembling uncontrollably, her eyes wandering off into the distance.
Leo guessed that he had already floated up to the podium!
Seeing Yao Yao Yaoyao in her studies and eager to participate in the competition the next day, Leo breathed a sigh of relief, finally managing to persuade her.
Test your basic attributes: Mental Strength 100, Stamina 95, Strength 97.
His stamina and strength had long since reached the maximum for First-Level Wizard, but the modification of his tonsils had weakened his attributes by a few points.
My mental strength also reached 100 points a few days ago, so all three stats are now at their maximum.
One hundred points of mental strength represent a slight increase in attack power, but more importantly, it gives Leo greater computational ability to handle more complex situations.
Just like nuclear fission, after fission occurs within the carrier's shadow, Leo can only control the energy generated after the fission to launch attacks.
While consuming the Goddess of Darkness's protective energy, Leo, after a simple transformation, unleashed all of his fission energy at once.
It's not that such attacks are weak, but rather that they are limited in scope and can only address a limited range of situations.
Now that his mental strength has reached 100 points, Leo could potentially explore other uses for his energy. For example, he could forcibly recreate the entire fission scene at the moment of its occurrence—isn't that just a simplified version of hand-crafting a nuclear bomb?
However, these ideas are still just ideas and require a lot of time to verify.
"There are still 55 years until the second mandatory expedition. A typical Level-One Championship lasts 10-20 years, so there's plenty of time."
Leo calculated the time while watching Yaoyao get into the zone and start studying. He had no other choice but to use this trick on Yaoyao.
Each nuclear fission requires three minutes of focused calculation, but in battle, no one will wait three minutes for you.
Therefore, nuclear fission is essentially useless on the battlefield, but if someone could help with the calculations, Leo could reap the benefits without lifting a finger.