Three days later in the afternoon.

Dorothy ate a bite of the free croissant from Hearthstone Tavern and looked at the black-haired dwarf opposite him who was scratching his head with his hands.

The older dwarf has been forced into a desperate situation by Dorothy.

"Use this? No...no." He fell into hesitation with his hand, but after several consecutive calculations, an unchangeable conclusion was defeated in front of him.

"I lost."

The dwarf picked up a large glass of wine at hand and poured it into his throat, then said helplessly.

When the elderly dwarf gave in, Dorothy's familiar cheer came again.

"Congratulations to Dorothy, a girl from the Iron Country, for winning the quarterfinals!"

The voice of congratulations rang in Dorothy's ears. After learning that she had successfully advanced to the quarterfinals, Dorothy fell weakly on the wooden table beside her.

The qualifiers these days have been a long game, with more than a thousand players competing in this tavern until only eight remained.

The daily competition begins at 9 a.m. and continues until 5 p.m.

For most dwarf contestants, the unique endurance of the dwarf tribe makes it okay even if they play for three days and three nights.

But for human players, it is a kind of... spiritual experience.

Dorothy devoted all her energy to every inning. When the last game was announced to the end, Dorothy was completely powerless to cheer and just wanted to find a place to sleep.

But Dorothy sat up with her spirits and raised her arms to the players around her.

At this moment Dorothy really felt something called... honor.

It's like the Gladiators of the Kingdom of Steel win, holding up their arms to receive the audience's applause.

"You are the last player to reach the semifinals."

Joshu walked down from the referee's seat and came to Dorothy, and handed a letter to Dorothy.

"The envelope contains your qualifications and the time and place of the next game, and good luck."

After seeing the letter, Dorothy's tired expression finally turned into a smile.

"Can I just take it apart here?" Dorothy asked.

"This is something that belongs to you, of course," said Qiao Xiu.

Dorothy couldn't wait to unpack the wax seal on the envelope.

As he unpacked the wax seal, a trace of worry surged into Dorothy's heart.

All the developments before were as Dolucie wished, she won the quarterfinals and was one step closer to the championship.

And the three-day competition was the same as Dorothy had imagined, all of which were held in the Hearthstone Tavern.

The only audience of the game was Hearthstone players, no other outsiders, and Dorothy did not see any images of Hearthstone competition on the 'TV' that can be seen everywhere in Nolan.

I escaped my marriage to come to Nolan to participate in this...tavern card game game, Dorothy didn't want to be known by acquaintances far away in the Iron Country.

So for the next game, Dorothy hopes to be held in the Hearthstone Tavern.

With this expectation in mind, Dorothy opened the envelope in her hand, and the letter had an inscription imprinted on it. The first line of words was her name, Dorothy Bexner.

The Knight's Medal?

Dorothy remembered the word after seeing the letter.

She continued reading and began to look for information about the venues for the competition. Soon Dorothy saw the locations for the semi-finals and semi-finals in the penultimate line.

‘Rursk Higher Magic Academy, Magic Arena.’

Ru…Rursk Higher Magic Academy?!

What Dorothy was worried about still happened.

Young spellcasters from all over the world hope to go to the four advanced magic academies in Nolan to study. This fierce competition determines the status of these four advanced magic academies in this world.

Although Dorothy has never been to one of the Rurske High School of Magic, it can be imagined that if she was in the Hearthstone competition in the Magic Arena...

The audience who came to watch it would definitely not be just the players of Hearthstone.

"Do you want to play Hearthstone in such an empty arena?" Dorothy asked Joseph tentatively, who was the organizer.

She admitted that Hearthstone's game is indeed very ornamental. At least compared to traditional card games, Hearthstone's various probability events and special effects have added a special "dramatic sense" to the game.

But put eight magic machinery on such an empty magic arena, and then let a group of people come to watch and play cards?

Dorothy felt a little inconsistent and monotonous just thinking about it.

"Not only in the arena, the process of your competition will be presented to all Nolan's audiences on TV, and the process will never be monotonous," said Qiao Xiu.

Presented…in front of all Nolan’s audiences?

"I will prepare well." Dorothy's face was a little strange, and finally Qiao Xiu watched the girl drag her tired body away from the tavern.

After today's competition, the entire tavern entered the regular business again. A group of young dwarves who took leave to participate were dragged back by their elders to mine again.

Qiao Xiu handed over the affairs in the hall to Mrs. Marina to take care of it, and walked directly to the third floor of the tavern.

After arriving on the third floor, a powerful vitality enveloped Qiao Xiu, feeling like he was lying on the grass in the afternoon basking in the sun.

Qiao Xiu came to a room on the third floor. Before he could reach out and knock on the door, the door was automatically opened.

"How do you feel, Merols Sage?"

Qiao Xiu walked into the room covered with vines. The purple-clothed man agreed with Qiao Xiu's suggestion yesterday and was ready to try to use the Tree of the World to relieve his body from aging.

“The fatigue eliminates a lot.”

The inscriptions on the hand of the purple-clothed man flashed by, and books made of illusions were piled up on the wooden table made of vines.

But these books were quickly knocked over by a black dragon the size of a puppy.

This black dragon is the death wing Nesario that Joshu is familiar with! But the one who waves his wings in the room is a mini version, and there is no deterrence at all.

The mini version of Deathwing flew around the room and landed on Cili's shoulders, then spit out a circle of small flames.

"The details are pretty good." Qiao Xiu walked to Xiri's side and looked at the death wings.

She was an illusion constructed by Xiri...

"But it's too magic and spirit." Xiri covered her forehead with some distress, and the death wing on her shoulder made the same move.

Soon the black dragon turned into pieces and fell to the ground and disappeared.

This is also the reason why there are very few people who learn illusion magic. It is difficult to get started. The second is that you want to master the movement of an illusion so that it looks real, but it is not as simple as other magic just 'releasing' it.

"Cili needs to spend time accumulating her own magic power." said the Purple-clothed man. "She is learning in inscriptions very quickly."

"What about the other apprentices?"

Qiao Xiu remembers that Ziyi was also the administrator of a higher magic academy, and she must have established majors related to illusion in her academy.

It has been a long time since "Avatar" was aired. Qiao Xiu first mentioned the name of the Purple-clothed Man at the beginning of each movie.

Let the viewer understand that everything in the movie is constructed by the illusion of the person in purple.

"The only two illusion magic tutors in my college told me that there were quite a few more students who chose this course, many of them came to learn to try to shape the Navi people."

The purple-clothed man rarely smiled on his face when he said this.

"It really worked, so I will help you perform more excitingly in the Rurske Academy competition tomorrow."

The purple man said, and the lilac inscription appeared in her palm, and an orc in heavy armor appeared in the room and roared at everyone.

A ray of light flashed through the orc's figure instantly disappeared and transformed into a magician wearing a blue robe.

All of these illusions are heroic characters from Hearthstone.

"Well, I'm already thinking, 'Is it still time to sign up now.'"
Chapter completed!