The Truth of Magic


Chapter 6: The End of the Stairs?

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
After being reborn as a human once again, Zhao Xu didn’t take too long to think about this, and immediately decided on a course of action.
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He could just sort-of answer a huge number of different questions and make sure he was left with only the Wizard statue and the Cleric statue.

The game might activate the Natural Flaw system when he was left with only two statues since he was a Double Elite.

Even if he made the wrong guess, it didn’t matter. He would just continue answering more questions until the Cleric statue was also eliminated.

It was a bit more difficult to do something like this, but he didn’t feel nervous about it at all.

Answering a bunch of questions couldn’t be harder than fighting monsters anyway.

You could choose more than one answer for each of these questions and answer vaguely. Even though this would slow down the final selection process, it was a chance for Zhao Xu to leave both Wizard and Cleric as his choices.

Zhao Xu took the next step to answer a question on the stairs.

He wasn’t a Wizard before this, but he had seen them before.

He was the only one right now in this world who had come into contact with Wizards and Clerics before the game started.
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So, besides those who were truly suitable to take on this Character Class, no one would be as sensitive to each Character Class as Zhao Xu was.

Actually, toward the end of the game, the players had gone through a lot and would naturally understand which Character Class was most suitable for themselves.

A lot of people just skipped this step of letting the system recommend a Character Class and doing so didn’t affect their gameplay after that.

In the end, things went as Zhao Xu expected. The brightness around the Wizard and Cleric statues kept getting brighter, while the light around the rest slowly faded.

The statue of the Fighter, which was Zhao Xu’s Character Class in the past, was the first one to go out.

And Zhao Xu had even sort of grasped the logic behind the questions that the system gave him.

After understanding this, Zhao Xu found it even easier to answer the questions.

By the time he completed 500 steps, he had already extinguished the lights of half the statues.
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The light had gone out but it was not completely eliminated. Once his answers went in that particular inclination, the statue would light up again.
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Zhao Xu was like a kitchen helper helping the chef to chop vegetables and just kept repeating cut after cut.

It looked like a completely mechanical process, but only he knew where the catch was.

Most people would be able to see which statues were brighter and could choose one after about 30 questions.

If one wanted to be more careful, then by the time one reached 100 questions, most of the statues would be rather dim and the statues that were still lit were usually as bright as a light bulb.

But the Natural Flaw system would only be activated if the system saw that ten of the statues were completely extinguished, not just dim and nearly extinguished.
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Otherwise, Zhao Xu would have achieved his aim within 200 questions.

The system would only completely extinguish the statue if it was sure that this Character Class was definitely not suitable for the player and would never recommend it at all.

And that was also why there were very few players who managed to activate the Natural Flaw system.

He had gone through more than 900 questions.

The statues in front of Zhao Xu were mostly on the verge of being extinguished.

The Wizard and Cleric statues were already so bright that they hurt his eyes, but the Druid statue still had a little light in it and refused to go out completely.

Even after Zhao Xu had answered at least another 50 questions, none of his answers had made the Druid statue’s light waver at all.

He knew that the AI wasn’t picking on him, but these irrelevant and useless questions were starting to stir up anxiety within his originally calm heart.

A Druid could also attain Level 9 magic, and the player had to maintain a neutral stand between Law and Chaos, as well as between Good and Evil.

So, in a way, this Character Class was quite close to Zhao Xu’s own way of thinking as well.

So unless there was a question that definitely eliminated the Druid class, for example, if the system asked if you hate nature or animals, it was really hard for Zhao Xu to extinguish that last bit of light in the Druid’s statue.

The even bigger problem was that Zhao Xu had underestimated the number of questions. He didn’t think that so many irrelevant questions would appear towards the end and he might even have to throw the Cleric out.

Also, this staircase only had 2000 steps.

After going through 2000 questions, the system wouldn’t give him any more questions, even if he wanted to answer more.

As long as the player answered the questions seriously, nobody would hit 2000 questions. No matter how picky one was, only one statue would be left lighted up after 1000 questions and the system would stop giving new ones.

If the player really didn’t like what the system recommended, the player could still choose to extinguish that statue anyway.

Zhao Xu had to start weighing his pros and cons. If he still couldn’t eliminate the Druid before he hit 1500 questions, he was going to throw out the Cleric as well.

In order to make sure he definitely got Wizard at the end, he had to ensure he had 500 steps as a buffer.

Zhao Xu continued to answer the questions.

The total number of questions started to slowly go up. 1000, 1100, 1200, 1300, 1400.

In the time before he hit 1500, the Druid statue reached the very brink of being extinguished several times.

But Zhao Xu didn’t manage to follow it up well, and the light grew brighter again twice.

Otherwise, he would have gotten rid of this statue by the 1300th question.

When he saw that he still hadn’t attained his goal after 1500 questions, he sighed and decided to go according to his original plan, and his answers started to lean towards eliminating the Cleric instead of the Druid.

Most people would think that since he’d come this far, he might as well try for another ten or twenty questions. For all you know, he might manage to put the Druid statue out.
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But Zhao Xu had never been much of a risk-taker.

If he went into a casino and bought 1000 chips, he would definitely leave if he lost everything and wouldn’t think of trying again to recoup his losses.

The questions continued on. 1510 questions, 1520 questions, 1530 questions.

When it was close to 1550 questions, Zhao Xu finally noticed that the brightness around the Cleric’s statue was becoming significantly dimmer.
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After that, Zhao Xu finished answering an ethical question concerning an oncoming train. He had to choose between saving one child who obeyed the rules or five children who flouted the rules.
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He made a choice entirely based on the perspective of a wizard.
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But strangely enough, instead of causing the brightness around the Cleric to dim, this answer caused the last bit of light around the Druid statue to finally go out.

“Player’s Double Elite Character Classes have been confirmed. The question and answer system will close automatically.”

“Starting Natural Flaw System. Please choose if you wish to take on Natural Flaws.”

Zhao Xu felt his heart leap for joy.

He had made the right bet.

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