A few days later, on September 10, the Alchemy Competition in Arant City officially began. All outstanding alchemists from all over the world gathered in this city, and they were already waiting in front of the alchemy guilds in Arant.
, waiting for the people in the union to present the preliminary test questions.
The requirements for the preliminary round are very low. As long as you pay an entry fee of ten gold coins and know alchemy, anyone who meets these two requirements is allowed to participate. Of course, only those who pass the preliminary round are eligible to participate in the next round of rematch.
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Alice also gathered in front of an alchemy guild early. Through these few days of temporary study, Alice, who is proficient in magic, also learned a little bit of alchemy, but she signed up to participate without even knowing it.
At nine ten in the morning, Yarant time, the city's twenty-one alchemy branches posted the test questions for the preliminary round of the alchemy competition at the same time.
"What? You're kidding, it's just a preliminary round, there's no need for such difficult questions!"
As soon as the question came out, almost all the outsiders who participated in the Arant Alchemy Competition for the first time started shouting.
Some locals looked at the outsiders with mocking eyes and said, "What's all the fuss about? Do you think anyone can pass the alchemy competition in Arant?"
"What do you mean?" a foreigner shouted back in dissatisfaction.
The locals laughed and said: "Idiot, there are so many people participating in the competition. If you really want to test what you have made one by one, how long will it take to go there? It is said to be the preliminary round, but in fact, it is difficult for people who have already entered the preliminary round.
They want to eliminate or give up 90% of the contestants in the first game. As for why they set the threshold for the preliminary round so low, is it to make money from you?
The registration fee of ten gold coins per person is a considerable amount of money."
"Damn it!" a foreigner gritted his teeth and hated it.
The question read by the alchemists of the Alchemy Guild and posted on the bulletin board is: It is required to refine a magic cloak, conditions: .1, the length must be within 1.4-1.5 meters, and the weight must not exceed 2.5 kilograms;
.2. Have certain magic resistance. The resistance requirement is 3 3, that is, the resistance to more than three elements and non-element magic reaches the third level (the third level: the resistance to intermediate magic reaches 60%, and the resistance to advanced magic reaches 60%.
Magic resistance reaches more than 30%.);
.3. The resistance to physical damage reaches Level 2 or above, and the resistance to magic damage reaches Level 4 or above. That is, it is required that it cannot be easily damaged by swords of general nature, the affinity of elements is lower than 100, and the magic power is low.
Destroyed by two hundred and forty magic;
.4. The magic resistance effect will not affect the owner's normal use of magic, and it can be used by all professional groups;
.5. The power of rune stones must not be injected to meet the above conditions;
.6. The time limit for completing alchemy is three days. Please submit the finished product to the competition inspector of each alchemy union for inspection before 5 pm on the fourth day, and briefly describe the refining process. After inspection of the finished product, if any
Participants who cheat or buy finished products will immediately lose their qualifications. Those who pass the competition will receive a qualification certificate for the rematch.
After reading the alchemy requirements and conditions on the bulletin board, the alchemists of the Deep Sea Mercenary Group said: "Okay, brothers, let's go back and prepare the materials. We must do our best to make this anti-magic cloak."
"Yes!" The people from the Deep Sea Mercenary Group responded in unison and left immediately.
A person next to him heard the words of the Deep Sea Mercenary Group and secretly sneered: "Tch! If we have to use our full strength at this level, there is no need to count on the rematch."
Mahalud, who was wearing a red cloak, murmured: "The review of the preliminary round is still very loose. There is no requirement for on-site alchemy, so there is still the possibility of cheating."
The person next to her said disdainfully: "After seeing this question, those who want to cheat will probably stop cheating. Because even if you are lucky enough to pass the preliminary round, you will definitely not be able to pass the semi-finals. Why embarrass yourself in public."
"Let's go, I'm going to make this thing tonight. After the preliminary round, we'll see how many people can stay." Maharoud put on the hood of the jumpsuit on his back and turned around in the crowd.
Disappeared.
In front of an alchemy guild on the other side, some average alchemists looked at the competition question with great distress: "The magic resistance requirement of 33 is a bit too difficult. To make such a high-resistance cloak,
It’s not easy.”
Prince Hullington walked out of the crowd and gently rubbed his nose. It seemed that his nose had healed in the past few days. He turned back and glanced at the worried alchemists gathered in front of the competition questions.
They said to themselves and smiled: "These people can't pass the preliminary round. They don't even see the difficulty of this question. Obviously, the most difficult part of this question in the preliminary round is not the second one.
How to achieve this 3 3 magic resistance, but in the fourth article, it will not affect the owner's magic. Because the best magic resistance material is a material that directly interferes and blocks magic, and in this way
, for spellcasters wearing cloaks, their own magic casting will also be interfered with. Therefore, how to resist the damage of external magic while eliminating the impact on their own magic casting is the most important. If we do not solve this difficulty first,
No matter how beautiful the cloak is, it’s useless.”
After the competition title was announced, almost all participating alchemists returned to their rooms and began to think about how to refine a cloak that met the competition conditions.
Caesar is one of the most famous alchemists in the world. His manor is naturally equipped with all the equipment and materials for alchemy.
After Alice copied down the six conditions of the competition question, she immediately returned to Caesar's alchemy room and had to try to make a cloak that met the requirements. She also forced her master Bing Zhixie to help.
Bing Zhixie also wanted to take this opportunity to learn more about the art of alchemy.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Alice stood in front of the stone table full of utensils, opened the book and read: "Wash your hands before making alchemy in the first step." She read it.
Looking at the hands he just washed: "Yes, they are already washed."
She looked at the book and said: "The second step is to figure out what item you want to refine. Well, what I want to refine is a cloak. What can it resist 3... 3..., oh, it can resist 3
3 magic cloak. Then, select the materials according to the items to be refined."
Next to Caesar's underground alchemy room, there are several large warehouses. Alice took a look at several warehouses. There were hundreds of ores, plants, soil, animal bones, and all kinds of different materials.
There were thousands of them, which dazzled her at the time.
"Wow, there are so many materials. I don't even know a lot of them."
Before she even started practicing, Alice was stumped.
Bing Zhixie sighed and said: "You didn't do alchemy this way. The first step of your method was wrong."
"Is it wrong?" Alice ran back to the stone table in the alchemy room, read the book and said: "Yes, the book says that the first step is to wash your hands first. Washing your hands is to wash away other foreign objects on your hands.
To prevent any impact on the materials during the alchemy process."
Bing Zhixie shook his head: "That is the first step in the refining process, but first you have to figure out how to do it and what materials to use."
Alice thought for a while, nodded in understanding, and asked, "What do you mean?"
Bing Zhixie said: "A professional alchemist will definitely think about the entire refining process before making alchemy. For example, if he is making an anti-magic cloak, he will first think about what materials can resist magic.
What materials are suitable for making a cloak? Then he will think about whether there will be any conflict in properties between these materials. For example, if some materials are mixed, bad effects will be produced. Finally, he will think about what auxiliary materials to use to make the cloak.
To solve the conflict between these materials, or to find what materials to replace them. Generally speaking, there are three steps before alchemy."
Alice wondered: "But...but I don't know those materials at all, so what should I do?"
Bingzhixie said: "The prerequisite for an excellent alchemist is that he must have profound knowledge, not only magic knowledge, but also try to understand as much as possible about various substances in the world and understand the characteristics of these substances, so that he can alchemy better. This is a must
An indispensable condition.”
Alice pursed her lips and said, "There are still so many things to know, so isn't it true that I won't be able to practice this time?"
Bingzhi smiled evilly and said, "Not sure. No matter how good a person is, it is impossible to understand everything in the world, so some alchemists often hire relevant people to make up for their own shortcomings."
Alice suddenly clapped her hands and said, "Ah, it's like Toby's father was hired by some alchemist."
"Exactly."
Alice smiled and said, "Master, come and help me."
Bingzhixie said: "Am I not helping you? But I can't do it alone. Although I have helped others repair equipment and weapons before, I have never made a decent thing. You can learn while reading books like this.
You have to find a professional alchemist to help you."
"You mean Uncle Caesar?" Alice said, "But he seems to be very busy these days. I heard from my servant that he went out early this morning again."
Bingzhixie said: "Isn't there another person?"
"Who?" Alice asked.
Bingzhixie said: "That's the Duke's son, the man named Wright."
Alice said: "Yes, he seems to have participated in this competition. I will go find him now."
Bing Zhixie grabbed Alice's back collar and dragged her back: "Idiot, you are a princess from another country, how can you just go to the house of a duke in this country? What's more, this duke also has the royal blood of Gallusia.
"
Alice reacted immediately and broke into a cold sweat. She patted her heart and said, "I almost forgot my identity as a princess."
This kind of thing is indeed a very taboo thing between countries. A duke means a noble status, and having royal blood means having the right to inherit. As a royal princess of a foreign country, if she visits the Imperial Duke's house in Corussia privately, this will
It will arouse great suspicion among the ruling royal family.
Alice said: "Then I want the housekeeper to call Wright over in the name of Uncle Caesar."