According to previous years, the essay competition is actually a more important competition than the Nine Schools Battle. Although unlike the Nine Schools Battle, each school has a group of three in the essay competition, because these essays all propose solutions and explorations to difficult problems in the wizarding world, they actually receive more attention.

In comparison, the Nine Schools Tournament is ultimately just a high school sports meet.

However, this year's essay competition is not well-known and even seems a bit lifeless.

There was no other way. The previous terrorist attack caused the eight schools except the First High School to lose a lot of elites, among which there were naturally many talents in magic engineering. For example, Ichijo Masaki from the Third High School, his partner was an excellent magic engineering technician. Originally, these people had prepared for the essay competition, but now that everyone was dead, these preparations were of course useless.

Under such circumstances, not to mention preparing for the competition with great fanfare, there was even discussion about whether to cancel this year's essay competition.

In the end, Japan's excellent bureaucracy once again perfectly demonstrated its stubborn and rigid nature and said that it would not be closed. The schools had no choice but to nod in agreement.

Fortunately, the top management is not all stone-headed. Taking into account the situation this year, they made an exception and relaxed the restrictions on the contestants and specifications. Now, the most important thing for the top management is to successfully complete this paper competition. Nothing else matters.

That’s why Founder sought cooperation with Beishanchao.

Of course, the other two members of the trio around him are...

"Can I really join?"

Following behind Fang Zheng, walking in the steel workshop filled with huge echoes, Mitsui Honoka asked anxiously. At first, she was worried about the possible relationship between Fang Zheng and Kitayama Shizuku, but after Fang Zheng invited her to join the research team, Mitsui Honoka immediately turned into a state of panic in another sense.

"It's too late to talk about this now, Honoka."

Kitayama Shizuku spoke up to persuade them from the side.

"The list of names and the paper titles have already been submitted."

"But, but...can I really do this? Such an important research topic..."

"It's not that serious. To put it bluntly, it's just a child's toy."

Fang Zheng raised his head and looked at the huge steel body in front of him. When he first designed it, he also thought about how big the robot should be, such as a three-head body like Ryujinmaru, or simply a transformation shell like Dibowei, or a toilet machine like Sakura Wars - but in the end, Fang Zheng decided to go big and go with the Gundam.

"Besides, your abilities have certainly helped a lot, so it's not a problem for you to join the research team."

Honoka Mitsui's ability is light magic, which solved a lot of problems in the initial construction stage. Fang Zheng had requirements for many parts, but if he only analyzed the drawings, he might make mistakes because he was not familiar with them. Fang Zheng would ask Honoka Mitsui to use light magic to create a 1:1 illusion, and then explain it to others. From a certain perspective, this is indeed a very useful help.

In addition, since Honoka Mitsui's magic can also explore the interior through the principle of light refraction, it can also avoid construction problems. Therefore, it is also very useful for Fang Zheng.

"But then again... this speed is really fast."

Looking at the mecha that had already taken shape in front of him, Fang Zheng couldn't help but sigh, and Kitayama Shizuku nodded.

"Everyone was very enthusiastic and some even volunteered to work overtime... My father was very surprised because this had never happened before."

It turns out that the Japanese just like this kind of humanoid mecha stuff.

Hearing what Kitayama Shizuku said, Fang Zheng rolled his eyes helplessly. But he could also understand why the staff of Kitayama Industrial worked so hard. This mecha was really cool. Fang Zheng spent a long time looking through the information in the mecha world before choosing this "Destiny Gundam" as the prototype of the mecha.

The reason why Fang Zheng chose it is very simple - because it comes with a big sword.

For Fang Zheng, carrying a big sword means good civilization.

"But I never thought that magic could be used in this way..."

Compared to the huge mecha being manufactured on the scaffolding, Kitayama Shizuku is more concerned about another thing - the energy core of the Gundam.

The Gundam in the mecha world uses nuclear energy, but the nuclear energy in this world has not been developed to the extent of miniaturization. However, this does not mean that Fang Zheng has no other options. According to the setting of this world, this world itself is full of magic power, but it is only the world itself. In other words, magicians have no magic power. What they do is actually a port for absorbing, converting and releasing magic power.

However, Fang Zheng had traveled through so many worlds, and naturally had seen many methods of absorbing and storing magic power. So he used his previous experience from other worlds to create such a magic core. Once activated, the core could absorb magic power and supply it to the entire mecha. From this point of view, it was like an inexhaustible perpetual motion machine...

In fact, Kitayama Shizuku knew that this magic core alone, if released, would be enough to shock and change the entire magic world. But in fact, there were far more improvements on this mecha, including a mental skeleton that amplified magic through resonance vibration waves, a long-distance controlled dragon cavalry system... Any one of these, if published alone, would be enough to rewrite the entire history of the development of magic engineering.

As a result, that man actually used this thing as an experimental platform for the practical application of flying magic...

Although it is true that this thing was flown by flying magic.

Looking at the wings at the back of the mecha, Kitayama Shizuku was speechless. She could almost foresee how other people would react when they saw this mecha during the essay competition...

Of course, strictly speaking, this machine is not without flaws. Fang Zheng also told her and Bei Shanchao that this thing is not something that everyone can use at present. Only people with extremely strong magical powers can drive it. Ordinary magicians would be exhausted just to activate it.

Kitayama Chao didn't care about this. Any new invention will naturally have many shortcomings when it first appears. There is no invention that is perfect when it comes out. In fact, the most important significance of a new invention is that it "realizes" the theory and proves that something that was originally only in theory can be created and used in reality - this is enough.

As for optimization and enhancement, it won't be too late to study and discuss them later.

And so, time passed day by day.

During the period when the Yokohama paper competition started, everything was unexpectedly calm, and those human supremacists who had been making trouble outside seemed to have given up because they had not been able to succeed. Everything went according to plan until the day of the paper release conference...

This is naturally very exciting for Fang Zheng, Mitsui Honoka and Kitayama Shizuku.

But for Shiba Miyuki, this was not so pleasing.

"Brother, why do we have to participate in the essay competition?"

Sitting on the commuter bus, Shiba Miyuki stared at her brother unhappily and asked. On that day, the branch family of the Yotsuba family hoped that Shiba Miyuki could "take down" Fang Zheng, which made Shiba Miyuki very unhappy. To be honest, she didn't really hate Fang Zheng, she just felt that she couldn't get along with him. Moreover, the people from the branch family told her that only if Shiba Miyuki took down Fang Zheng, they would recognize her as the head of the family, otherwise, let their father become the head of the family - Shiba Miyuki certainly didn't want the father who hated her brother to become the head of the family.

But to sacrifice herself for this... Shiba Miyuki was also unwilling to do so.

This is also the reason why she has basically been avoiding Fang Zheng during this period of time, because Shiba Miyuki herself has a complicated heart. After all, apart from her brother, she has never had similar feelings for anyone else, let alone taking the initiative to deepen feelings with men.

Normally, men would approach her on their own initiative when they saw her, but Fang Zheng didn't seem to be like other men. He treated her quite casually, and even seemed to be more enthusiastic towards Honoka Mitsui and Shizuku Kitayama than herself, which made Shiba Miyuki feel mixed emotions.

"I want to see if there is anything worth paying attention to in the essay competition, and I also want to know what Kasugano's research topic is."

Tatsuya Shiba was not as depressed as his sister. He knew nothing about Fang Zheng, and the two had never met. The only time Tatsuya Shiba and Fang Zheng had a conflict was when they were both working on the research of "universal flying magic", and Tatsuya Shiba was certainly a little shocked. Not to mention that after that, Fang Zheng also released the contents and code of the automatic calculation core, which was worth thinking deeply about for Tatsuya Shiba.

but……

“Woo…”

Thinking of this, Shiba Tatsuya frowned slightly, and a feeling of dizziness came over him, making him look a little uncomfortable.

"Brother, what's wrong with you?"

Noticing something strange about Shiba Tatsuya, Shiba Miyuki asked hurriedly. In response to his sister's question, Shiba Tatsuya smiled and shook his head.

"Nothing, I just feel a little too tired, that's all. It's okay."

"Need a break?"

"Um……"

After thinking about it, Tatsuya Shibata closed his eyes and leaned against his sister. Ever since he read the automatic calculation core code released by Founder, Tatsuya Shibata always felt dizzy from time to time, and sometimes the scene in front of him would be distorted, and there would be a faint whisper from his ears... Tatsuya Shibata didn't know what was going on. He also checked himself and concluded that everything was normal.

So what is the reason for this?

Shibata had no idea what was going on.