Arcane Lord

In this way, the time came quickly. The last day of April was also the final display day of the Tower of Time Steam Locomotive Design Competition.

This morning, just after dawn, both sides of the Daxia-Saville Passage were crowded with people watching the excitement. Of course, only the two ends of this avenue were like this, and the closer to the middle, the fewer people were.

After all, this road is more than 20 miles long!

The southernmost end of the road is Codex Square in Daxia. From here it extends straight to the north. The main venue of the motorcycle design competition is located in Codex Square.

Security guards in orange uniforms wandered among the crowd, maintaining order at all times and constantly reminding those who were calling the names of their sons or the sons of neighbors to calm down.

Thanks to Daxia Territory's long-standing order and regulations, although the people in the Territory were in high spirits, they still respected the participation order stipulated in the territory's most basic large-scale event organization methods, and truly managed to avoid causing trouble without causing chaos.

Tower of Time.

Shado and Niya stood in front of the projection window, quietly watching the lively scene in Codex Square, but their hearts were not as calm as they showed.

Especially Xia Duo, at this moment he couldn't help but regret not discovering the steam engine in advance and arranging the competition in advance, or not extending the competition time.

The steam locomotive design competition is said to be only open to members of the Tower of Time, but in fact the people of the territory may not be unable to participate.

After all, the competition is more about testing the mechanical design ability of the contestants. Ordinary people may not be inferior to spellcasters. Many things are learned from life.

Especially those blacksmiths who have been engaged in blacksmithing work for half their lives, no matter what, they will know what mechanical design is better than half-grown children.

This competition has already been like this. Xia Duo has decided to give at least half a year's notice starting from the next one, and allow contestants to invite members of the territory to participate.

Whether you are bringing your parents and family to experience the fun of the magical world, or finding a more professional person to compete for rankings, it will be a rare experience for the members of the Tower of Time.

Of course, for Shado, such competitions can also promote the continuous melting of the barriers between territorial spellcasters and non-spellcasters.

What ordinary people fear most is not how powerful the spell caster is, but the fear that they will not be able to participate at all. The sense of participation is very important.

For spell casters, to a certain extent, they don't care how weak ordinary people are, but they care about what use ordinary people are.

Before magical civilization has developed to the point where all the people have magicians, the two groups should be in regular contact, understand each other, and establish recognition, so that social classes will not be seriously divided.

Coupled with the popularization of magic, allowing more spellcasters to appear among ordinary people and allowing ordinary people to have more access to the magical world is the only way for magical civilization.

Just as he was thinking about it, the real-time projection on the projection window immediately changed, and the crowd's jubilant enthusiasm rose again. Xia Duo knew what was happening at a glance, and immediately adjusted the viewing angle of the projection window.

At the southeast corner of Codex Square, all the contestants had lined up in exquisite formal attire and walked out of the portal, waving to the excited crowds on both sides as they walked.

Coming out behind them were other members of the Tower of Time who had not participated in the competition. Some apprentices still stayed in the floating city to catch up on their homework, but most of the official mages appeared here.

Seeing this scene, Niya walked up to Sha Duo and said softly: "It's almost time, let's go there!"

"Um."

Sha Duo straightened his clothes and then stretched out an arm to Niya. Niya took Sha Duo's arm obediently, and then the two of them teleported to Hengchun Square in the Floating City, and then went directly to Codex Square from the teleportation gate in Hengchun Square. .

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When Xia Duo and Niya walked out of the portal, the surrounding voices suddenly became quiet, but then more enthusiastic shouts broke out.

Things like "Lord Lord" and "Ms. Niya" are completely heard, and occasionally there are some sharp sounds made by the spells of some Tower of Time mages who are conducting true enlightenment education for young children in the territory and the magic affairs officers who are already serving in the territory. But they are more often called "President", even those magic affairs officers are no exception.

Chateau and Niya followed the road where the crowd separated, waving to the crowd as they walked. When they reached the Codex sculpture in the center of the square, Chateau saw Leiden who had been waiting for a long time, and he nodded towards Leiden. , the other party immediately joined his team.

On the way to the north end of the square, Chateau also noticed Gibb standing in front of the crowd in casual clothes. He also nodded in greeting, but Gibb did not join his team.

After all, no matter how orderly it is, it is still a large-scale event involving tens of thousands of people. No matter how cautious you are, Gibb will always stay at the scene and keep an eye on the situation.

As for the other chief officers of the territory, they also have their own tasks, such as the logistics department. If there is a fainting or other emergency situation with so many people gathered here, it is necessary to mobilize the airship as soon as possible to pick up the person and arrange for treatment at the rear.

Da Xia Ling held large-scale events more than once or twice. With Xia Duo's special instructions, it was possible to gain experience by just messing around, let alone learn from it consciously.

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At the northern end of the square, the enthusiastic residents had already crowded onto both sides of the [Daxia-Savier Channel]. Of course, they had absolutely no offense to the pre-demarcated competition area.

"People of the Great Xia Territory and students of the Tower of Time, welcome to the first steam locomotive design competition of the Tower of Time. We look forward to the next performance of all contestants!"

Chateau made a simple opening statement and handed over the scene to the real host - Dean, Chateau's old friend and member of the five-person committee of the Academy.

While Dean introduced the players and rules of this competition to the audience, Shado secretly drove the floating city to activate the war spell [Wide Area Prohibition].

Of course, this is not to target anyone, but to "condensate" the originally endless track, while retaining the original appearance, while making some fine-tuning of the spatial structure.

This enables the [Daxia-Saville Channel], which is the audience at both ends of the track of this competition, to clearly see the entire process, similar to the live broadcast display on earth.

However, what Xia Duo allows the audience to see here is not the broadcast, but the real situation of the contestants. From the eyes of the audience to the figures of the contestants they see, the space in between is continuous.

After Xia Duo finished all this, many people had noticed that the crowd that was still a blurry black shadow at the Savile collar at the north end of the track had somehow become clearer. Some people with better eyesight could even see that side clearly. Expressions on people's faces.