As Sock explained the rules of the rematch, Rhodes also noticed something unusual.
Rhodes noticed that compared with the extremely loose rules of the preliminary round, the rules of the rematch appeared to be stricter.
In the rematch, Sock chose "mental power" as the theme. The effect of the magic potion refined by the mage must be related to mental power. Moreover, when each mage refines the potion, Ice Blue Magic Academy will provide some materials for the mage to refine.
During the refining process, the mage must use up all the materials provided, and the effect of the final potion reaches a certain level to pass this rematch.
During this rematch, the requirements for the quality of potions are higher. Sock specifically emphasized this point. If the mage only crudely refines the potion without any refining, the resulting potion will obviously not meet the requirements in terms of effect and will not be counted as passing this rematch.
In terms of material selection, in addition to using the limited ones, the mage also needs to add some materials by himself to change the effect of the potion. There is no limit to the types of materials that can be added. The selection of these materials requires the mage himself to have a very good understanding of potions.
Due to changes in the rules, in order to prevent mages from passing the competition through observation again, the rematch will not last long. After all the mages who have the ability to pass have passed, the next round of competition will begin immediately.
After the rematch, the next round of competition will be the last competition in Ice Blue Magic Academy. After the next round of competition, the mages who have still passed will go to the center of this academy event to participate in the real finals. .
It is foreseeable that after the potions competition is over, those mages who failed to pass the potions competition but were stimulated by this event will continue to stay in the Ice Blue Magic Academy and conduct other activities related to potions. .
When Sok finished explaining the rules of this potion competition, the other mages around him immediately took action. After obtaining the materials provided by the rematch, they began to refine the potion.
Long before the mages participating in the semi-finals arrived, a large number of equipment needed to refine potions was placed here. Considering that this potion competition is more compact than the preliminary round, the arrangement of materials has been completed early in the morning.
After the demonstration of strength in the preliminary round, the surrounding mages also understood each other. Whether it is through observation or other methods of collecting information, the mage himself knows best what level he is at in potions and whether he has a chance to pass the potions competition.
Rhodes noticed that many of the mages who went on stage to refine the potion were the ones that Elon reminded him to pay attention to. These mages who are good at potions will not make any mistakes even if they go ahead to refine them.
Among them, Rhodes also noticed the man North in the preliminary round.
Since Rhodes did not complete the rough preparation of potions like North in the preliminary round, North had some guesses about Rhodes's attainments in potions. Before going on stage this time, North did not pay too much attention to Rhodes, but focused his attention on the tasks assigned by the Spiritual Association.
For North, even if there are various restrictions in the rematch, North will not have any problems simply completing the rematch.
Being able to accept the task assigned by the Spiritual Association and participate in this potion competition, North naturally has enough confidence.
How to meet the requirements for the rematch is not in North's consideration. What North cares about is how to show his strength and improve his influence among mages.
When North appeared at the venue, the originally quiet venue suddenly became noisy.
After the preliminary round of the potion competition, North already has considerable influence among these mages.
To be able to achieve this, in addition to North taking the lead and showing refining skills that were completely different from other mages before other powerful mages came on the scene, North's own attainments in potions are also extremely important. .
Because of this, when North appeared in the field, most of the mages watching the game set their sights on North, wanting to see what North would have in this rematch. What performance.
Even the mage next to North who was also refining the potion couldn't help but feel some pressure in his heart after feeling the momentum brought by North, and improved the action of refining the potion a lot.
North's behavior in the preliminary round has already had a big impact at this time, and his influence will continue to expand as the competition progresses.
If North can successfully enter the finals and increase his influence in such a way all the way, even if he fails to win the championship in the finals, the goal that the Linghui hopes for will have been achieved.
After realizing this, Rhodes roughly guessed why the Linghui still achieved its initial plan to unite necromancers and orthodox mages without winning the potion competition championship.
At this time, seeing that the other mages around him were already looking in his direction, North stopped waiting and started refining the potion.
During the semi-finals, although the participating mages will be provided with some materials for refining potions, the types and weights of these materials will be different, and the materials received by each participating mage will not be repeated.
In this case, materials have undoubtedly become a difficulty in the potion competition. How to use these materials and combine them with the materials provided by the academy to produce better effects is what the mage needs to consider. At the same time, This is also the place that best reflects the strength of the mage.
The selection of materials is the most important part of potion science, and it is even more important than the general refining method. Combining materials with different properties often produces unpredictable effects.
In past research, the mage was able to find certain rules in the selection of materials through a large number of attempts, and knew how to match materials with what properties.
The common knowledge can help the mage complete the selection of materials. By reading books about occult arts, the mage will naturally understand most of the properties of refining materials.
Compared with those potion competitions that have no restrictions and only rely on the mages' previous research results to compete, the restrictions imposed by the semi-finals can better reflect a mage's attainments in potions.
