Chapter 392: Gathering of Geniuses
"Are all the major casinos already taking bets—"
In addition to predictions of the participants' rankings in the trial, the directory also included odds compiled from various casinos up to yesterday noon.
Specifically, the analysis of the winning probabilities for participants in the Andrew-Gump Transformation Trial occupied a significant portion of the directory.
"Eighth place is much higher than I imagined."
As a well-known figure in the Transformation Trial, Jia Na's introduction not only included personal information such as her academy background, Wizard level, and Talent abilities, but also her life history as an opera singer, and even unsubstantiated gossip.
It even included news photos of Jia Na and her endorsement of GG in an appendix.
"They even dug up the fact that I've mastered a Law Fragment. Isn't this an invasion of privacy?"
Fortunately, the directory only stated "suspected mastery" throughout, without concrete evidence. Furthermore, it did not elaborate on which Law Fragment Jia Na specifically mastered, merely mentioning it in passing.
"A-grade Spiritual Body Shuttle, B-grade Plant Affinity... It seems some information in the directory is still a bit outdated." Jia Na speculated that as a newcomer who had never participated in any Transformation Trial before, the main reason she could rank among the top ten out of fifty-five participants, besides the rumor of her "suspected" mastery of a Law Fragment, was her A-grade Wizard Talent.
Of course, another part of the reason was that Tongling Group, which successfully secured the naming rights for the Glory Arena, privately manipulated some votes for Jia Na.
The purpose of this was not only to further increase Jia Na's exposure but also to generate more buzz for her as a "newcomer to the transformation field."
Whether it's praise or doubt, as long as there's a topic, it means there's traffic. As long as the traffic continues to rise, then both the tickets for the Glory Arena and Tongling Group's GG marketing can achieve a win-win effect...
"Are they the top three predicted by the Mercenary Guild?"
After flipping back a few pages in the directory, Jia Na saw the three most popular participants in this year's Transformation Trial.
The most popular, ranked first, was Maguire-Storm, a Third-level Wizard Apprentice from the Element Soul Wizard Gathering Place.
His Wizard Talent is A-grade Hurricane Affinity, and he is extremely skilled at transforming into various wind-type bird magical beasts. He is suspected to have mastered a Law Fragment and is known as "Hurricane's Fury" in the Elemental Souls Academy.
Ranked second was Luisto-Turan, a Third-level Wizard Apprentice from the Turans Wizard Gathering Place. His Wizard Talent is B-grade Self-healing, and he has awakened the top-tier Bloodline, Phoenix. He has mastered the Law Fragment of Burning and is extremely skilled at transforming into fire-type and light-type creatures.
Ranked third was Hela-Helheim, a Third-level Wizard Apprentice from the Mist Marsh Wizard Gathering Place. Her Wizard Talent is A-grade Dark Affinity, and she excels at transforming into shadow and undead creatures. She has been a dark horse competitor frequently active in various transformation competitions over the past year.
"Except for Luisto-Turan, the other two are A-grade Talents."
Looking at the updated information in the directory, Jia Na's expression became serious.
Clearly, those who could rank in the top three not only had achieved many good results in previous transformation competitions, but their Talents were also enough to be called geniuses among geniuses.
Even though Luisto-Turan's Wizard Talent was only B-grade Self-healing, the Phoenix Bloodline he awakened was one of the top ten Bloodlines on the Bloodline Side.
What's more, he was the only Wizard Apprentice explicitly stated to have mastered the Law Fragment of Burning.
"If only I had recordings of their previous competitions."
After quickly scanning all the participant information in the directory, Jia Na couldn't help but sigh and heavily close the directory in her hand.
"The various Wizard Gathering Places are indeed full of hidden talents. A-grade Talent, which is extremely rare in Turin, is not so uncommon in this trial."
In addition to Maguire-Storm, ranked first in popularity, and Hela-Helheim, ranked third, the directory also included another Wizard Apprentice from a large Wizard Gathering Place with an A-grade Insect Whisper Talent: Kombu-Thorn.
Kombu-Thorn has only participated in one transformation-related competition so far. Although his results were good, his popularity ranking was relatively lower due to the small scale of the competition.
However, compared to Jia Na, who had no competition experience, Kombu-Thorn's ranking was still quite a bit higher.
"Indeed, Wizard Apprentices from large Wizard Gathering Places have broader horizons. Not only do they study, but they also know how to polish their resumes in advance—"
Thinking of this, Jia Na also summoned her quest panel and looked at the quest reward entry again.
"Today's Quest: Complete a combat training and achieve victory (Completed);"
"Quest Rewards: 200 Talent Experience points, 800 Skill Experience points, Character Talent 'Heavenly Voice' enhanced."
"I didn't expect that Character Talent could continue to upgrade through quest rewards."
Heavenly Voice, as one of the most practical Character Talents Jia Na obtained in the early stages, not only allowed her to successfully learn Sound-type Wizardry but also helped her find work with the Nightingale Opera Troupe, earning her first pot of gold.
Therefore, upon seeing the Heavenly Voice Talent further enhanced by the system, Jia Na felt more surprised than anything else, but also pleasantly surprised—
Splash! After putting away the directory in her hand, Jia Na no longer thought about the things that would double her pressure.
Now, she just wanted to quickly fill the Alchemy massage bathtub with water, then take a hot bath while meditating to recover, aiming to face the Transformation Trial in her best condition tomorrow.
"Speaking of which, Flavor Storm's dishes are indeed good. It would be even better if they were spicier—"
As the Alchemy massage bathtub filled with hot water, Jia Na, who had taken off her clothes, submerged her entire body into the hot water.
At this moment, Jia Na's mind unconsciously recalled the local specialty dishes that Goblin Billy had taken them to eat a few days ago.
It's no exaggeration to say that the taste of Flavor Storm's dishes was the most to Jia Na's liking since she came to this world.
In fact, when Jia Na tasted a special dish called "Devil Pepper Stir-fried Beef," that extremely familiar taste...
also brought back long-forgotten memories in her mind.
"Time passes so quickly. In just over a month, it will be New Year again."
Looking at the silvery moonlight spilling onto the ground outside the window, Jia Na's thoughts drifted further away with her mood.
In that world, is it also almost New Year—
