All Chapters of ROOM 1313: Chapter 41
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Liam stared at him, unsure of what to say.Then he looked toward Lucas.Lucas gave him a small nod.“He broke through last night.”Lily was sitting nearby, calmly drinking from a glass.“Congratulations,” Liam said.Karl’s grin widened.“Thank you.”There was something particularly annoying about the way he said it.Liam sighed.So that was it.Everyone in Room 1313 had now broken through to Silver.Lucas.Lily.Karl.Liam looked down at his hands.He had spent the past three weeks pushing himself harder than ever, and somehow, everyone else had still moved ahead of him.Even Karl.That one hurt.“Don’t look so depressed,” Karl said.“I’m not depressed.”“You look depressed.”“I’m thinking.”“About how I’m stronger than you now?”Liam slowly looked up.Lily covered a small smile with her hand, while even Lucas looked amused.“Forget it,” Liam muttered.Despite Liam’s frustration, there was one major advantage to having three Silver-ranked members in the room.Their weekly room challen
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Liam headed toward the Magical Engineering area with Alex beside him.Unlike the other competition grounds, which were already filled with noise and excitement, the engineering area was located inside one of Blackthorn Academy's large halls.Even from outside, Liam could hear the sound of conversations coming from within.When he stepped inside, he was slightly surprised by how many people had gathered. Students filled most of the hall, while teachers stood scattered around the edges. Humans were everywhere, but the other five races were well represented too.It made sense.Magical Engineering was one of those fields that attracted almost everyone.It wasn't simply about fighting or having a powerful cultivation level. It was about taking an idea and turning it into something real.A student could have weak physical abilities and still create something capable of changing the battlefield.Weapons, defensive equipment, transportation devices, magical tools, automated formations.The po
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Liam looked down at the empty rune plate.He had thirty minutes.There were no restrictions on what they could create. No required effect. No minimum power.Liam rested the tip of the rune pen against the plate but didn't draw immediately.What should I make?A combat rune would be the obvious choice. Something that could release fire, strengthen the body, or create a defensive barrier.But thousands of students were probably thinking the same thing.Liam glanced at the mana crystal beside the plate.The crystal contained a limited amount of mana, so whatever he created had to work within that limitation.He finally made his decision.He would create something simple.A mana conversion rune.Its purpose was straightforward. It would take the raw mana from the crystal, regulate its flow, and release it at a stable rate.It wasn't powerful or flashy.But if he could make it stable and efficient, it would prove that the rune worked.Liam began drawing.He carefully added the central circ
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Liam stared at the formation.Nothing happened.It only produced a bright light, and the design itself was very rough.Then, suddenly, the mana crystal sitting beside Alex's rune disappeared.Liam blinked in shock."Where did the crystal go?"Alex didn't answer immediately.Instead, he pointed beneath the rune plate.Liam leaned forward, and his eyes widened slightly.The mana crystal was there, but it looked completely different. It had been reduced to a tiny glowing sphere that floated just beneath the plate."What is that?""A mana storage sphere," Alex said.Liam looked at him.Alex smiled."I made a rune that compresses the mana inside the crystal and stores it without letting it leak."Liam stared at the small sphere."So you turned the entire crystal into that?""Not exactly. I compressed the mana inside it."Alex tapped the rune plate."The crystal itself was only a container. I thought I could make the rune use the mana directly and compress it into a smaller form."Liam look
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The magical display remained suspended above the hall as the final numbers stopped changing.FUNCTIONAL: 68,421ELIMINATED: 41,907Then the display changed.The list of qualified participants began scrolling across the enormous screen.Liam watched as names, races, years, and scores appeared one after another.A few students immediately started cheering when they saw their names. Others searched anxiously through the list, desperate to find out whether they had made it through.Then the system displayed Liam's result.[PARTICIPANT EVALUATION]Name: Liam CarterRace: HumanYear: FirstRune: Mana ConversionFunctionality: 100%Stability: 94%Mana Efficiency: 97%Originality: 72%Overall Score: 81%Ranking: 30,000 / 68,421Liam stared at the result for a moment."Thirty thousand..."It wasn't exactly impressive.Out of more than sixty-eight thousand participants who had qualified, he was sitting almost in the middle.Alex leaned over to look at his result."At least you passed.""That's
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The group assignments continued appearing across the massive display.Names shifted rapidly as students searched for their assigned groups.Liam looked up at the screen.After a few seconds, he found his name.GROUP 317He looked down the list.Alex was there too, but Elena wasn't.Liam wasn't surprised. With tens of thousands of participants, the chances of all of them ending up in the same group were low. It was already surprising that he and Alex had ended up in the same group.He continued looking through the other names.Several were familiar from the first round. There were a few Silver-level students, along with several second- and third-year students who had ranked considerably higher than him.Then one name caught his attention.Henry.Liam's eyes paused on it.The third-year human who had ranked first.Alex noticed it almost at the same time."Wait. That's Henry.""Yeah," Liam replied.He looked at the name again."At least we stand a high chance of succeeding."Alex nodded.
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Liam was still staring at the target when Alex suddenly spoke."What if we don't protect the target at all?"Liam turned toward him in confusion.He wasn't even done processing Henry's suggestion, and Alex was already saying something that sounded like nonsense.Henry also looked up.Alex pointed at the small device in the center of the table."We keep thinking about how to stop the attacks from reaching it," he said. "But what if we make the attacks hit something else?"Liam blinked."Something else?""A decoy."Alex's eyes lit up as he continued."We could create another target that looks the same to the attack. If the defensive device can make the decoy appear more attractive than the real target, the attacks might go after it instead."One of the older students at the table frowned."That sounds unreliable.""Probably," Alex admitted.He shrugged."But it doesn't have to work perfectly. We only need it to survive three attacks."Liam looked back at the target.Then at Henry.Henry
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A student across the table finally spoke."This is too risky."Everyone looked at him.He pointed toward the target."If the decoy fails even once, the real target gets hit."Alex frowned."So?""So we need something safer."Alex looked at the timer, then back at him."We have ten minutes."The student fell silent.Alex pointed at the target."We don't need a perfect device."He tapped the table."We just need it to survive three attacks."Liam looked at him.Alex smiled."That was the whole point, wasn't it?"Liam couldn't help but smile.He was right.They weren't building a perfect defense.They were building something that only needed to work long enough to pass the test.Then a sharp sound echoed throughout the hall.BEEP.Every magical display around the room changed at once.[TIME REMAINING]10:00A voice echoed through the massive hall."Phase Two devices must be completed within the remaining ten minutes."The atmosphere changed instantly.Students who had been talking sudden
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With a little over eight minutes left, the group stopped making major changes.Now, they had to make the device reliable.Henry leaned over the detection rune and carefully adjusted the outer ring.“The detection is too sensitive,” he said.Liam looked over.“How?”“It reacts to small changes in the mana around it.”Henry tapped the rune.“If the academy sends a weak attack, that's fine. But if the surrounding mana changes before the attack arrives, the system could activate too early.”Liam nodded.“That would waste the decoy.”“And the mana.”Henry made another adjustment.The rune's glow immediately became steadier.“Now it only responds to a concentrated flow of mana moving toward the target.”“Better,” Liam said.On the other side of the table, Alex was working on the decoy.His original design had been consuming too much mana. He removed two unnecessary runes and redrew one of the inner channels.The decoy flickered, then stabilized.Alex grinned.“I reduced the consumption by a
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As the attack came closer, the detection rune flashed.Almost immediately, the decoy activated, and its mana signature surged.The movement mechanism responded at almost the exact same moment.The decoy shifted sharply to the side.With that, the projectile suddenly changed direction and followed the decoy.Liam's eyes widened slightly.The attack had actually locked onto the decoy.A second later—BOOM!The projectile slammed into the decoy.A wave of magical energy spread across the testing barrier.Smoke briefly covered the area.Everyone at the table froze.Then the smoke began to clear.The decoy was damaged, but the target was untouched.Alex stared at it.Then he slowly raised one finger.“One.”Liam didn't smile.He adjusted his glasses.“Two more.”A senior student standing nearby looked at the device with a surprised expression.“At least it works.”Liam didn't take his eyes off the target.“So far.”The senior student glanced at him.“You're not celebrating?”Liam shook his
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