Starfall 837, January 21.

If we talk about the southern part of New Moldavia, then we have to talk about the huge factories that stand on the edge of the city, the thriving commercial and trade areas, and the campus of the warrior branch of Wintercastle Academy, the 'Champion Academy'.

Because Moldavia officially has a complete industrial system such as [mineral production], [material processing], and [light and heavy industrial production chain], its production cost is extremely low, and a large number of goods produced in the magic energy factory are directly transported to the commercial area of the southern city, and these goods produced at extremely low prices can be sold at sky-high prices that far exceed its cost by nearly ten times in the hands of enthusiastic merchants.

Even so, for those cities that don't have magic energy factories, these products are definitely good value for money.

However, if you ask a random passer-by about the most noteworthy places in the southern city, then no one will recommend the business district and factories, and these locals and foreign businessmen will tell you in unison that a trip to Moldavia is absolutely incomplete if you don't visit the Winter Castle Warrior Branch.

In addition to the factories and magic equipment everywhere, the most popular among outsiders is the Wintercastle Academy, which is rumored to have Count Radcliffe himself teaching the course, and as the warlike branch of the Wintercastle Academy, the 'Champion Academy' is also because of this.

The Champion Academy is the largest building complex in the southern city, covering an area of 110,000 square meters, and even has a huge underground part, the training ground and student dormitories behind the towering college castle are arranged in an orderly manner, which is mixed with gardens, fountains and simple self-help medical clinics, which can ensure that every student injured due to training and training can be treated quickly, and in this luxurious academy, there are more than 1,800 highly trained fighters who are receiving intensive training.

And today, in this well-known academy shrouded in the aura of a legendary powerhouse, everyone has ushered in countless young people with nervous expectations on their faces, they are either accompanied by their parents, or accompanied by female companions, or alone, but no matter what, it can be seen that these people are more or less vindictive, with some extraordinary strength.

This is the first large-scale external enrollment of the Champion Academy in the year 837 of Starfall, and the enrollment conditions are extremely relaxed, as long as they are under the age of twenty-five, pass the political review, or have the recommendation of a specific local person in Moldavia, they have the possibility of passing the test to enroll, which naturally attracts countless young people who are eager to study under the legendary powerhouse.

And Priest is one of them.

Today is the time for Priest to participate in the Wintercastle test, this young man with a rough face and a vaguely fierce look looks quite nervous at this time, he is standing alone in the crowd, his hands and knees are shaking slightly, this situation is not until he takes a few deep breaths, and then looks at the picture of the girl in the necklace on his chest, and the situation gradually improves.

This is not to blame for Priest, because he has put too much burden on himself...... In order to give his sister Britney a better life, to live up to the expectations of the factory owner, to reverse his fate as an ordinary person - and most importantly, to carve out his own path to the future, this man will not allow himself to make the slightest mistake.

"I'm going to make it."

Ignoring the strange eyes of the people around him, Priest clenched his fists, closed his eyes, and whispered to himself: "This is not difficult, compared to the beginning, it is just a small scene." ”

Don't be nervous, Priest, you've fought dragons, crossed plagues and deaths, it's just an ordinary academy test, and there's no reason why you're going to lose to these guys who haven't even seen life or death.

Opening his eyes again, Priest looked at the bustling crowd in front of him, at this time he had completely calmed down, he was full of confidence again - not only because of the hard grinding in the past, but also because of Priest's recent efforts, you know, the factory owner, the dwarf Ronde specially gave him seven days off to recharge his energy at home, exercise and review his homework every day.

Yes, review your homework. Unlike the professional academies in other places, the Wintercastle Academy, whether it is the Spellcaster Department, the War Profession Department, or the additional Clergy Department, must learn a lot of additional knowledge, literacy is only the foundation, it is said that anyone who can graduate from the academy can easily write a thesis of more than 6,000 words, even if this skill does not talk about its own combat effectiveness, it is more than enough to go to a certain great nobleman as a clerk.

And all because of the words of Joshua van Radcliffe, the legendary powerhouse and lord of Moldavia, in his New Year's speech in the year 837 of Starfall.

"Neither wisdom nor combat should be taken lightly, for the two complement each other and are the essence of human progress."

The majestic man stood on a high platform in the inner city square, and at his side lay a hideous and terrifying black dragon, and the warrior said to all his people in a calm and low voice, but clearly heard everywhere: "The kingdom that separates the scholar from the warrior will have only the soul of a coward and the struggle of foolishness. ”

Jingle, jingle, and just as Priest was still remembering the scene that silenced the whole city, the bell at the top of the academy castle rang, and a team of tall knights in gray magical armor opened the castle gates and began to check the review documents and letters of recommendation of each prospective student one by one, and Priest knew that the test he had been waiting for for a long time had officially begun.

"Name, age, occupation, place of birth."

"Priest Eumini, twenty-one, factory worker, southern frontier province of the empire."

After a long queue, Priest finally arrived at the audit office, led by a scarred gray knight, and after a brief inquiry and answer, he took the letter of introduction and read it carefully.

"It's a letter of recommendation from Land...... Let's go inside. ”

After confirming the identity of the workers of the Priest factory, the gray knight in charge of the inspection showed a faint smile, and he patted the other party's shoulder with his heavy steel hand armor: "Come on, I look forward to you contributing to the prosperity of Moldavia!" ”

"Of course!"

Priest tightened his grip on the necklace on his chest, which seemed to give him endless motivation, and the next moment, he strode towards the examination room located inside the castle.

- Half a day later.

A tired Priest walked out of the castle gates, his expression slightly confused.

Success or failure? What I just experienced, is it an illusion or a reality?

Priest didn't know all of this, but he had done the best he could.

This test is very new to most of the participants, at the beginning, the first is a two-hour written test, the first half, participants need to answer the basic history and geography of the Mycroft continent, as well as some simple questions about Warcraft, this part, reviewed in detail, Priest pen like wind, quickly completed.

But the next question, which is a bit over-the-top, asks participants to write about their ideals and why they want to join Wintercastle Academy and what their purpose is. And the last big question, which asks the participants how they would use this power if they became transcendental, and what the essence of their understanding of this transcendent power was.

There are undoubtedly many people who are not prepared for this, and Priest is no different, but unlike other people who don't know where to start, he only thinks for a moment and then continues to write smoothly.

The man is not stupid, of course he knows the purpose of these questions - the first part is to check the basic knowledge and common sense of the participants, which are not good in this regard, and can only be said to be foolish, and the second part is to observe the character and purpose of the participants, and those with abnormalities will be eliminated, and the last part is to observe the psychological situation of the participants again from the other side, so Priest did not write many fancy words, but just wrote his own ideals, the understanding extracted from past experiences, in plain language.

"Be a strong person who can protect your family and lead them to a better life. Transcendent power is my tool, no different from the equipment I use to produce goods and the knowledge in my mind, and it requires no special treatment. ”

But after all, this is the Academy of Warriors, so after the written test, Priest entered the illusion and conducted a continuous battle test for six hours, during which he used all kinds of fog provided in the illusion to fight in swamps, dense forests, deserts, coasts, lake island areas and all kinds of monsters, these are just a piece of cake for Priest who had really fought with the green dragon on the southern border of the empire, and after the fight, he was not only mentally exhausted, but also physically unfinished.

But the tests are over.

After the test, Priest returned home and celebrated his efforts with his friends who were waiting for his test to end. Then, Priest continued his ordinary life, working in the factory in the morning and picking up his sister Britney, who was studying at Universal School in the evening, and he waited for the notice of the academy test to arrive.

"Priest, hurry up!"

Time flies, a week later, when Priest was working in the factory, he suddenly heard the factory owner Ronde excitedly calling his name, he temporarily stopped the work in his hand, and then followed the sound to the gate of the factory, and then, the man who was still wearing work clothes looked at the tall gray magic armor knight in front of him in shock, and the package in his hand.

"Congratulations, Mr. Omini, you passed the Winterburg 'Champions Academy' test with flying colors, here is your package, please open it now and I will teach you how to use it."

- I passed the test?!

Immersed in the surprise of passing the test, Priest subconsciously obeyed the instructions of the gray knight and opened the package handed by the other party, but what appeared in the palm of his hand was a whole body blue, like a pure sapphire-like crystal, this crystal is roughly diamond-shaped, the surface is incomparably complex faceted facet, it can be seen that there is a fluorescent flicker in the center of the crystal, as if there is a Möbius ring-like rune formation is rotating rapidly, releasing light.

"Relax your mind, concentrate your mind on it, and make your own mark."

The Grey Knight slowly guided Priest, his eyes flowed with a little envy, but it quickly returned to normal, and the knight said with a glance: "This is the latest general magic device developed by Wintercastle Academy, you can call it the information terminal 0.9 beta version, the official version has not yet completed the test and launched, but the basic network has been set up within the academy." ”

"Kudos to my lord, and feel honored that you and others who have joined the academy are among the first users of this terminal."

……

"Joshua! What are you doing, the server is about to crash, hurry up and reinforce it! ”

"Tsk, Nostradamus! Why are you telling me this, aren't you and William responsible for maintaining the stability of the mental network? Also Where did Barnier go? Why hasn't his rune program been written yet? ”

"Yesterday he said that he found a program error, and he worked overtime to revise it overnight, and it seems that he hasn't finished revising it yet!"

"I'm just saying that you are in such a hurry to create a batch of information terminals that are unreliable, can't you wait until the experiment has made more progress?"

Northern Empire, Moldavia, Wintercastle College in the Nissière Snow Mountains.

In a huge steel laboratory located at the top of the snow-capped mountain, the nervous voices of several legendary powerhouses resounded back and forth.

At this time, Joshua strode to a huge rune crystal core that was twenty-five meters long and blue, and there was a swaying magic projection of No. 3 floating beside him, and the warrior frowned at this time, and asked in a low voice: "No. 3, look where the server is overloaded, I'll transform it." ”

"This is it."

No. 3 raised his head, glanced at the rune crystal that was quite similar to her body, and then pointed to a place where the light converged: "This place is more seriously entangled in runes, and the load is very large." ”

Hearing this, Joshua didn't have any nonsense, so he aimed at the place pointed by No. 3 and injected some steel power, fine-tuning the material structure in it, and soon, Nostradamus's relieved voice could be heard: "Okay, the link between the mental network and the magic network is stable, just wait for Barnier to finish writing the program." ”

"You guys ......"

Joshua, who felt that he had become a hand-to-hand maintenance worker, said quite annoyed, but then, he sighed again: "Blame me too, talking too much at once...... The knowledge of the two worlds blended, and it was no wonder that these legendary mages were so excited. ”

It all started more than a month ago.

On December 15, 836, Barnier, the Legend of Freedom, the Rune Master, and William, the Master of Minds, and the three legendary powerhouses of the Northern Empire, Israel, Nostradamus, and Joshua, contributed an important piece of news, that is, the existence of the 'magic web' in the sky above the Mycrof continent.

This is an extremely ancient, thousands of years of existence of the network, it is rooted in the energy cycle of the whole world, if it were not for Barnier and others through the link of the giant god soldier backwards, even the legendary powerhouse would almost be able to find it, this may be the network of the Glorious Era Legacy is very well preserved, itself is a stage of the database, which stores many secrets, but with the current research of the legendary powerhouses, there is no way to dig out these secrets.

However, Joshua said that even if he couldn't dig out the secrets, the network itself alone had countless possibilities, and the warrior used the Star Sea World, the Atrium Man and the Mother Tree's psychic network as an example, and even used the development of the Internet in his previous life to deduce, he showed the future he knew to the four legendary powerhouses present: the development of the network means the sharing of information, which will undoubtedly bring about an era of information explosion, and the most basic benefit brought by information explosion is the popularization of knowledge.

On the Internet, there may be a lot of falsehoods, maybe there are many lies and boasts, and in it, there is a lot of worthless junk information, but as long as you have the heart, anyone can draw a wealth of knowledge from it.

This immediately attracted the interest of Israel and Nostradamus, who wanted to popularize the supernatural powers, Barnier and William, who have always liked to look for all kinds of ancient books and secret news, also brightened, and they even quickly found other ways to use the network, that is, real-time communication between places, under the magic of transmitting information at the speed of light, there can be almost no delay in communication within the Mycrof continent, which is important for the command of the army, the communication and sharing between the adventure teams, Asking for help and rescue can make a big difference.

In addition, there are many benefits of the network, Joshua did not describe them one by one, but just gave a general outline - probably when the martial arts hall was opened in the past, the mistake of being a good teacher was committed again, and the warrior accidentally talked too much, and even put forward a new concept: Since now, we don't have enough materials to use the magic net on a large scale, then we can build a large server in Moldavia based on the Creeping Forest as a signal relay, and use the power of the magic net in a small area.

This is indeed not a wrong idea, the only mistake of Joshua is to misestimate the leisurely degree and action ability of the other people present - whether it is His Majesty the Emperor and the old mage, or the legendary mage duo, they have been idle and panicked recently, and their ability to act is far beyond ordinary people, Joshua proposed the possibility, they planned to do it directly, and Joshua was once again pulled to build a super server connected to the magic network after just finishing the production line of the empire's void warship.

"I'm really bothering you this time, No. 3."

Thinking of this, Joshua couldn't help but turn his head and glance at the AI girl with a high nature on his side, and said softly: "Pull you to work with me all the time." ”

"No trouble, no trouble!"

Is this kind of work still available? I'll have a few more! Number 3 hurriedly shook his head, a smile on the corner of his mouth.

As an artificial intelligence, No. 3's own rune crystal body is actually a large information management center, as long as it is slightly improved, and some equipment to detect the signal of the magic network can be successfully built out of an information processing matrix, so if Joshua wants to make changes to this rune crystal server, he also needs to pull up the No. 3 to check together.

It's just that the workload of this 'little' improvement is really beyond the imagination of many legendary powerhouses, just a network that supplies the students of Wintercastle makes Barnier, who is responsible for writing rune programs, exhausted, and he doesn't seem to be so tired when he fights for control of the fog with Black Mist, and Joshua, who has to fine-tune the system at least hundreds of times a day, although his spirit still seems to be normal, he is actually irritated and wants to find someone to talk to.

"It's actually okay now."

On the side, William, who was observing the situation of the spiritual network linked by the students of Wintercastle and the magic net in real time, seemed to want to comfort everyone, and he said with relief: "Think about the situation when the White Tower of the Heavenly Piercing, the Sacred Mountain of the Far Sea, the official of the entire Northern Empire, and even all the humans, elves, and dwarves join this network in the future, the server load at that time ...... Right? We're pretty relaxed now. ”

"Shut up." "Please silence."

Although he reprimanded William like this, in fact, Joshua was quite looking forward to the future growth of this network - now is the beginning of the creation, and it is natural that these legendary powerhouses need to be on the front line to perceive the link magic network and set up servers, but in the future, there will be more mages and technicians to replace their work, and even do it further than they expected.

Just like now, in version 0.9 of the information terminal, there is only the task section and forum within Wintercastle Academy, of which the task section is designed by himself through a little information in the system, which is used to replace the credit task system within Wintercastle Academy, and now the academy students want to receive tasks, they no longer need to go to the central hall of the major colleges, they only need to click on the task section, and the credits do not need to be counted by many tutors in turn, and the rune program written by Barnier will naturally accumulate automatically.

The forum section,It is an information exchange center proposed by the warrior,The specific usage,It is an ordinary post,Provide many students to exchange information,Although it has only been a dozen days since the service was opened,But the number of various posts has reached an astonishing number。

Although,Most of them are ordinary mission completion commemorative posts,But there are also a lot of detailed details of how they completed this mission,The characteristics and points of the monsters are all clearly written essence posts,And this is the original intention of the warrior to establish this forum - knowledge is something that can only be valuable if it is diffused,Only by communicating with each other,Civilization can develop rapidly。

——In the foreseeable future, the psionic people in the west will be able to communicate directly with the mage associations in the east, the ancient psychic psionic energy will usher in new blood, and the emerging magic will also be supplemented by ancient knowledge, and some fighting spirit and combat skills that have gradually fallen behind will also be rejuvenated after being supplemented by other knowledge, it will be a feast for everyone in the world, as long as everyone is willing to share, then everyone can get everything he wants.

Perhaps, Israel and Barnier and others did not know what changes their actions would bring to the world, but Joshua was different, he knew how valuable his network was in advocating and creating with one hand.

"I'm really looking forward to it, this is completely different from the previous life, the future of the new McCrove world."

And at the same time.

In the Boundless Heavens, the starlight of the stars of the multiverse world began to flicker in the dark void here, and the brilliance of the Great Demon Tide became thicker and thicker, and finally penetrated into this semi-independent plane hanging above the Mycrof world.

"The time is coming."

A long sigh with an echo appeared faintly in the center of this world.

"The gears are returning, the legacy is being revived, and although it is hundreds of years late, the glory of the Age of Glory is finally shining on the Age of Starfall."

"Tell Eagle that the time of the coming of the gods is near."

"We're coming back."