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629 : The Heavy Metal Rock

Chapter 629

The Heavy Metal Rock
Translated by Yan of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

The person hosting the competition was another white-robed man from TongTian Palace. From the part of his jaw that was exposed, it seemed that he was an old man. As the competition advanced, he took his hat off.

The old man’s features were ordinary. Even though every part of his face seemed quite good-looking on its own, when they were all put together, they became extremely mediocre. He was the kind that definitely wouldn’t be noticed in a crowd. However, his eyes were very commanding and reflected light, and all of the people that he looked at averted their gazes without exception.

The first exam of the competition was testing a mage’s ability to control their soul force. In reality, it wasn’t this simple. Besides testing their ability to control, they would also be tested on their ability to endure.

“Please look at the stones in front of you. These stones are not typical stones. Something called ‘Heavy Metal’ is mixed inside of these rocks. The bigger the stone is, the more Heavy Metal is contained inside of it. Your goal is to use your soul force to pick up these rocks and to throw them accurately inside ten small holes,” the old man explained calmly.

As the name implied, Heavy Metal was a kind of extremely heavy metal. It had some resemblance to the principle behind the Gravity Room, back when You XiaoMo was at Dao Xin Academy. It also targeted the soul force, and what this trial would be testing was the mage’s ability to endure.

Throwing the stones into the ten small holes would be testing their ability to control. There were small holes and large holes, and each of the corresponding stones also varied in size.

However, the competition didn’t actually have a rule that said the competitors couldn’t pick up a stone even smaller than the hole. Or in other words, if you weren’t certain of it, you could pick up a smaller stone. But if you did that, your evaluation in the eyes of the examiners would probably greatly decrease.

The top three in the competition were determined by their performance in the two exams. The first exam compared who could accurately put in the corresponding stones to ten of the small holes. The ones who scored well would receive the opportunity to place in the top three, as long as no accidents occurred in the second exam.

The old man expressionlessly listed out the rules for everyone, before he continued, “Now I will announce the beginning of the competition.”

Since the time was pushed forward this year, there were less people participating than in the previous years. The palace was also fairly expansive, so there was more than enough space for over a hundred people to compete at the same time without making it seem too crowded.

You XiaoMo near the back of the middle section. He looked at the black stones resting in the grooves. There were both large and small rocks, each one corresponding to a hole, but there were more small rocks than large ones. Whether a mage could resist picking it up would depend on their willpower.

In addition, there was a sensor in each of the ten small holes. As long as the stone was thrown in, the sensor would be able to tell and would automatically close, so it would be impossible to take it out, because there was only once chance.

You XiaoMo had guessed that it would be like this. Therefore, he would have to be very cautious each time.

He used his soul force to test out the weight of a stone. He picked up a medium-sized one, and the moment he picked it up, he felt his soul grow heavy, as if three large bags of rice were pressing down on his shoulders. If the medium-sized one was this heavy, one could well imagine what the heaviest one would be like.