#714 - Competition (seeking monthly ticket recommendation ticket)

This practical exercise ended so dramatically.

Percy's Third Squad, after taking down Cedric, was also heavily damaged. In the end, after rescuing the three hostages on the second floor, they chose to return to headquarters.

After everyone returned, Anduin summoned them back to headquarters. Most of them were out of breath from exhaustion, but their expressions were still excited.

They all felt like they hadn't had enough of the ruins.

The exploration of the unknown, the passionate battles, and even the mutual wit and courage, all made everyone feel extraordinary.

"It seems that everyone enjoyed this practical exercise very much." Anduin said with a smile as he stood in front of the conference table. "Now I'll give everyone a chance to speak freely. You can all talk about your feelings and opinions on this activity, and I'll make some targeted adjustments."

"To be honest, this temporary dungeon will be open to the whole school next, and you can be said to be the first batch of experiencers. I need to get more inspiration from you."

Hearing Anduin's words, everyone showed a knowing look. They had already guessed this. It was impossible for Anduin to create such a large dungeon just for them to test.

"Cool! This dungeon is so cool!" Fred excitedly spoke first. "Professor, why don't we just have our tactical training classes here in the future? I feel like my strength has improved a lot, especially in practical combat. Both my footwork and spellcasting have become more skilled."

Hearing Fred's suggestion, everyone nodded. It was much more interesting than staying on the training ground to practice.

"This place can only be used for entertainment and auxiliary training after class, so your idea is impossible!"

Anduin ruthlessly rejected Fred's idea, but finally added, "However, the number of such practical dungeons will gradually increase in the future. It can be considered to add them to the practical content of the course, but the main course is still based on standardized training and learning."

Everyone's faces lit up when they heard this. It seemed that there would be other things to play with besides this ruin dungeon in the future. As for Anduin's rejection of Fred's suggestion, everyone didn't reject it much. They didn't expect such a good thing to happen.

"Then in the dungeon, can you make the task settlement simpler!" George still couldn't forget the fact that he had been tricked. "Like just now in the shopping center, if we could submit the hostages on the spot, the winning side would definitely be our Fourth Squad!"

"Come on, who told you to be careless when transporting the hostages?" Ron grinned. "In my opinion, there's nothing wrong with this kind of form. This way, those of us who are weak have room to play, otherwise you'll all rely on your age to bully people."

"Ron is right about this." Anduin nodded. "The task dungeon itself must ensure its uncertainty and diversification to be interesting enough."

"Also…" Anduin couldn't help but smile when he said this. "Actually, even if you bring back the princess, the victory will not belong to the Fourth Squad."

"Ah? Whose is it then? Didn't you say that the princess has the highest score?" George looked at Anduin blankly.

"It's the Second Squad!" Anduin glanced at the calm Wood next to him. "They gave up the princess in the shopping center from the beginning and turned their attention to other ordinary hostages instead."

"While you were still fighting to the death in the shopping center, the Second Squad had already successfully returned with 9 hostages from the three hostage points."

"So in this practical exercise, the first place is actually the Second Squad with 9 points, the second place is the First Squad who brought back the princess with 5 points, the third place is the Third Squad led by Percy with 3 points, and your Fourth Squad… 0 points!"

Hearing Anduin reveal the final result, everyone turned to look at Wood and the others. Everyone really didn't expect that the Second Squad, which had been missing all along, was the ultimate winner.

"We guessed that the shopping center must be the focus of everyone's competition, so we gave up on it from the beginning." Wood explained somewhat reservedly. "In the ruin dungeon, each detention point has 3 hostages. In fact, as long as you successfully take three points, the score will exceed the sum of the shopping center, and the risk is smaller."

"I see!" Cedric, who led the team to failure, held his head in annoyance. They were all tempted by Anduin's previous words and only wanted to rescue the princess.

The others also lowered their heads and reflected. Although they had just experienced a ruin dungeon, everyone found that there seemed to be many tricks and tactics in it.

Thinking of this, everyone looked forward to trying the ruin dungeon again.

"Professor! When can we enter the dungeon again? I have to get my revenge!" Cedric shouted unwillingly.

The others also looked at Anduin with burning eyes, obviously they were all addicted to this dungeon game.

"This is just a temporary dungeon after all. It will take at least a week to debug after the first trial. You should wait. Now let's talk about suggestions for the dungeon."

This ruin itself was made by Anduin for testing, and the content was very simple. He didn't expect the attraction to be so strong.

"Professor!" Hermione raised her hand seriously. After getting Anduin's permission, she said, "Is your dungeon trying to create a place where underage, or even adult, wizards can conduct practical combat and competition?"

"Yes, you have a very keen eye." Anduin did not deny this. "And I can tell you that I will launch a series of similar scene dungeons in the future, and even put them on the market after they are mature."

"In my vision, I want to create a competitive activity comparable to 'Quidditch' and promote it to the international wizarding world!" Anduin didn't mind revealing some of his future business blueprint to these little wizards.

"Comparable to Quidditch?"

"Promote it to the world?"

"So we are participating in such a grand project?"

"Oh my goodness, does Professor want to infiltrate the Silver Flash Trading Company's business into the sports field? The Silver Flash Trading Company has already created a card game project like 'Magic Mahjong'!"

After hearing Anduin's answer, everyone couldn't help but talk excitedly. They didn't expect that the exercise they participated in today involved such a big project.

However, after thinking about it carefully, they didn't feel surprised, because everyone had personally experienced this exercise, and the feeling of excitement and passion was indeed not something that Quidditch could bring.

All kinds of monsters, exciting battles, and wonderful props, isn't this more interesting than playing ball on the Quidditch field?

Hermione, who raised the question, also nodded knowingly. She had been wondering why Anduin spent so much effort to create such a large-scale dungeon.

And a lot of the content in the dungeon has both practical and entertainment value. If it was just an ordinary practical exercise, there would be no need to set up so many vivid enemies and props.

"Professor, so the dungeons you make need to have a certain degree of challenge, but also need to be eye-catching and interesting, right?" Hermione seemed to have grasped the key to this kind of dungeon.

"That's right. If a product is not popular, then it's useless no matter how high the technical content is." Anduin gave Hermione an appreciative look.

"Then I think it's best to distinguish the monsters and props in your dungeon by strength, at least let us be able to see it." Hermione suggested after thinking for a moment.

"For example, in the previous ruin dungeon, there were so many kinds of monsters and props, we couldn't tell their strength and rarity at all, so when we defeated some monsters or got some props, we couldn't get a greater sense of accomplishment."

"Oh? You mean… I can give those props and monsters a level, just like giving spells a level?" Anduin understood what Hermione meant.

"Yes! It's the level!" Hermione said excitedly. "Except for a few pieces of equipment that can be identified by attack power, we can't tell the value of many props after we get them, so everyone has to stop and study for a while every time they see a prop, or just carry them all with them."

"That's right!" Ron nodded next to him. "At first, Malfoy and I would collect anything that showed data, but later we were like scavengers, with garbage all over our bodies. We couldn't use many things until we died."

"Yes, I was still carrying several bottles of canned food before I was killed. I really don't understand why I picked them up at that time? In addition to the level, it would be better if the use could be clearly marked." Malfoy also added at this time.

"I understand, your suggestions are very useful." Anduin nodded with satisfaction. Sure enough, these little kids know what to play. Before, when he designed the dungeon, he mainly referred to the suggestions of Hog and Xia Tiya. These two guys like to insert private goods and are full of bad tastes.

"In addition to enemies, can you add some other elements? For example, neutral monsters that can become helpers, or mounts that we can ride?" Neville said with a longing smile. "The skeleton horse in the ruins looks so handsome. It would be great if we could ride it too."

Neutral or friendly units? Isn't that an NPC?

Anduin immediately reacted when he heard Neville's words. He himself had borrowed many game elements from the Muggle world when designing this kind of competitive dungeon. He was no stranger to this kind of friendly unit similar to an NPC.

In addition to Hermione, Neville, and others, other little wizards also discussed it in a hubbub. Whether it was participating in such a large-scale project or the interesting dungeon itself, it made everyone full of interest.

And these little wizards' suggestions were all wild and imaginative. Although most of them sounded very outrageous, they did provide Anduin with a lot of inspiration, and what he lacked was inspiration.

"Your ideas are very creative. Some of them are not difficult to implement. I think you will see them soon."

After discussing for a while, Anduin interrupted the unfulfilled crowd.

It was also very late at this time, so Anduin asked several senior wizards to lead everyone back to the castle.

As for the reward promised to the first place, Anduin did not go back on his word, but what he was going to give was the mobile terminal that would be launched next year, so he did not deliver it immediately. He assured Wood and others that it would be given to them before the end of the term.

When leaving, a group of little wizards reluctantly looked at the distant ruin dungeon. Although they had suffered a lot in it, it must be said that the harvest was also very great.

But the most reluctant thing was those magical equipment and props. They were all genuine legendary props, but they were not allowed to take them away after the exercise ended.

This made a group of legendary prop fans, led by the Weasley family and Malfoy, extremely unhappy. At the same time, they were even more looking forward to the subsequent dungeons.

After sending away the group of little wizards, Anduin did not leave immediately, but stayed in the headquarters tent to sort out today's gains.

In this practical environment dungeon, if you want to face more audiences in the future, the most critical thing is the safety issue.

So today Anduin arranged this exercise, mainly to test the safety of the [Transmission Vest] and [Tactical Goggles], and today the performance of these two pieces of equipment was still normal, at least it did not cause any little wizard to be seriously injured.

As for some small scratches, that is normal. If a little injury is equivalent to death, then the first to express dissatisfaction will probably be these little wizards.

Like Wood, a tough guy, had several arrows inserted in his chest and was fine. This also indirectly shows that these little wizards are growing up in terms of both physical fitness and mental level.

"Master, are you really planning to open this dungeon to the whole school? When I suggested it, I thought it was a temporary dungeon that could only be used a few times." Hog still hasn't taken off that weird princess dress. He has recently become a little obsessed with cosplay.

"There's no way, who made me suddenly have a Philosopher's Stone? When I used it, I accidentally made it bigger and bigger, so I can't bear to discard it like this."

Anduin himself also smiled helplessly. At the same time, he was once again amazed by the power of the Philosopher's Stone. In just over a month, he almost built such a place with the scale of a small town out of thin air. He even felt that this had not touched the limit of the Philosopher's Stone.

"If too many people enter at the beginning, it won't be easy to supervise, right? After all, a lot of content is still being tested, isn't it?" Hog said with some worry. He couldn't be sure that those protective equipment could take effect on time every time.

"So this will be left to you." Anduin looked at Hog with a tangled expression. "You should take off that dress as soon as possible. Let others take care of the troublesome job of the princess in the future!"