That afternoon, Hiri had just been released from the purple-clothed man's painful lesson.
Not long after, Josiah told Hiri a piece of good news. He had created a new game, and he hoped that Hiri could test it.
Currently, all the games in the spellcaster forums were tested by Hiri before they were released.
As a veteran game tester, and one that belonged solely to Josiah, Hiri had never found a single game that wasn't "fun" to Josiah!
The news of a new game was undoubtedly a pleasant surprise for Hiri.
Just as she happily ran to the first floor of the Hearthstone Tavern to ask Josiah where the new game was, Josiah pointed at a square wooden plate on the table. There were square lines drawn on it.
There were board games in this world, but Hiri wasn't interested.
Just as Hiri was guessing that there were some strange inscriptions carved on the plate, just like the ones in Hearthstone, she was disappointed.
It was really just a polished piece of wood. There were also two boxes of black and white raw crystal shards. Of course, they had been polished as well.
What made Hiri even more depressed was that even after Josiah explained the rules of the game, she didn't even know how she lost for the first half hour.
Even after Hiri figured out how to play the game, she was still crushed by Josiah in the second half hour.
This terrible gaming experience actually ignited Hiri's competitive spirit, but she still chose to give her spot to the gray-clothed man.
"It's fine just once, right?"
Hiri whispered into Josiah's ear.
Go was not like the simple games on the Mana Net that could be easily obtained. The rules and tactics were so complicated that it was no less than researching a new spell.
At least, Hiri didn't have any fun in the game just now.
"That will depend on the gray-robed man's comprehension ability."
Josiah said this in front of the grey-clothed sage, who was sitting opposite Josiah and pondering over the chessboard.
The dwarves who weren't playing came over to take a look and left after finding it boring. Those who stayed to watch were all human spellcasters.
"Grey-Clothed one, you go first." Josiah said.
"According to the rules of the game you've explained, this is how it should go."
The man in gray picked up a black chess piece and placed it on the lower right corner.
"Did you get the hang of it? Hiri always gets the first move. "Josiah also picked up a chess piece and placed it on the other side.
"Heaven's Origin? These dots have names. "
The man in gray stared at the crisscrossing lines on the chessboard. He first came to the Hearthstone tavern to find Josiah to inform Josiah of something, but after seeing the black and white chess pieces on the table, the man in gray temporarily put down the task of informing him.
He watched from the side for a while as Josiah and Hiri played. At first, he thought that it was an extremely simple game. After all, the tools were very simple, and there were only two differences: black and white.
But after a closer look, the game was so complicated that it made the man's scalp go numb.
"It's not really a complicated name, let's talk about it."
Josiah said as he watched the man in gray pick up another chess piece.
Hiri also found a small stool to the side and sat down to watch. This game of chess went on for almost an hour.
The time that the man in purple gave Hiri to rest was also over.
"Hiri."
The man in purple slowly walked down from upstairs and was about to pull Hiri upstairs to continue her lesson, but she noticed that a crowd had gathered in the tavern.
This was a very common situation in the Hearthstone Tavern. A famous Hearthstone player, the birth of a legendary card, or even an exciting match would attract a crowd.
But this time, the crowd wasn't the nosy dwarves, but the spellcasters of the Hearthstone Tavern.
When the purple-robed figure walked toward the Spell Casters, they recognized his identity and consciously opened up a path for him. The purple-robed figure also saw Ciri sitting in the crowd … and the gray-robed figure.
Noland, two sages appearing in the same tavern at the same time. If it was before, no one would have believed it.
When the man in purple called out Hiri's name, she noticed that Hiri wasn't watching a Hearthstone match, but a chess match?
"Teacher, are you alright for suddenly running out?" Hiri asked.
"I'm not as weak as you think."
After giving this answer, the man in purple looked at Josiah and the man in gray, as well as the black and white Primordial Crystals between them.
These Primordial Crystals were all 'waste'. In other words, they had lost their mana and were no different from normal stones.
However, the man in gray stared at these 'waste' seriously, and from time to time, a conflicted expression flashed across his face.
"What is this?" Although it wasn't the first time that the man in purple saw the man in gray so seriously, it was the first time that he had seen him so conflicted over a game.
"Go." At this time, Hiri took on the role of a commentator, "The rules of the game are simply to surround the opponent."
"Uh … Hiri, although your explanation isn't completely wrong, it isn't completely correct either."
Josiah took advantage of the time that the man in gray was thinking to interrupt the conversation between her and the man in purple.
"This piece should be placed here! That's right … "The man in gray suddenly raised his black piece and placed it down again. The owl standing on the table also happily cooed in his place.
"Man in gray, did you come here to play this?"
The man in purple could not bear to see the man in gray tarnishing the dignity of the Wise Ones, even though the man in gray had always been refreshing the Wise Ones.
"No, I came this time to inform Josiah of something."
The man in gray finally remembered why he came to the Hearthstone Tavern. He took out an invitation from his tattered robe and handed it to Josiah.
"What is this?"
Josiah took the invitation and found that the mana inside did not seem to belong to the man in gray. However, the magic sealing the invitation was very complicated, and the quality of the paper was very expensive.
"After the discussion between the Wise Ones and the Noland Patent Council, you have been listed as one of the candidates for the Skegerona Prize. In two months, there will be an award ceremony at the Noland Crystal Palace." The man in gray said.
"The Skegerona Prize?"
Josiah carefully searched through his memories and remembered that the man in purple had mentioned this prize to him.
Back then, when Josiah told the man in yellow and the man in gray about the Nobel Prize, the Wise Ones really did approve this prize and named it the Skegerona Prize.
Josiah did not think that there would one day be a candidate for the Nobel Prize in another world … However, the invention of the Weave might really qualify for this prize.
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