Since all four games in the second round on the first day have come to an end, the second day will begin with eight games from sixteen to eight.
Fang Plover received news from Chickpea early in the morning that their first-round opponent was a small team from Is (a city east of Grande). However, they passed two rounds of preliminaries, which shows that the opponent is very strong, and Soul Fingerprint bought information about the opponent from well-informed people. It is said that the three main players of this team are all good at materials science.
"Being good at materials means that the opponent has an advantage in protection and weapon-type magic devices." Soul Fingerprint held a form and analyzed it with a thin brow.
Several people around him were silent. Fang Yu was scolded for not returning to the team on time last night, but he behaved well now.
The rules of the main competition are that both parties select two departments from the eight major departments of alchemy such as magic tools, crystals, plug-ins, etc. as questions, and then complete these four questions together.
In addition, both sides can also ban one system each, so there are six major systems in the actual game. After four rounds of competition, the game with the highest score will be eliminated, and the winner will still be determined by the average score.
Everyone’s expected result is that they can enter the quarter-finals, which is also in line with Soul Fingerprint’s expectations—guaranteing four and competing for three.
However, Fang Piao's goal is naturally to compete for the top spot, but in such a competition system, he alone is not enough, and he has to find another way. Of course, it is too early to talk about this at the moment, and speaking out will only make people think that he is fanciful.
He just kept this thought deep in his heart.
The group of people then left the hotel and headed to the arena. After arriving at Elfendo Square, Fang Yu was shocked to find that the place was far more lively today than yesterday.
Looking around, the hanging curtains are like woven fabrics and colorful flags are flying. Merchants have also put up advertisements. There are several time-honored brands of Vanrich, and several are cross-border groups from the earth, such as Kingfisher Workshop, No. 45 Workshop, BBK Alliance, Xinghai Group, and so on.
The square is full of lively and festive atmosphere.
Boxes were also set up on the audience stage. When Chickpea saw this, he showed off to everyone that he was well-informed, saying that in addition to all Elfondo's bosses being present today, it was said that there were also distinguished guests coming to watch the game.
Mulan asked: "What other distinguished guests can there be? I guess they are just people from the Craftsmen's Association."
"That's not necessarily true. I heard that Sir Roban was still in the southern region not long ago. Maybe it was him?"
"Daydreaming, Sir Robin is in Idos."
Fang Yu listened to several people arguing. However, as a witness to last night's banquet at the Earl's villa, I naturally knew what was going on.
After arriving at the game, since Mulan and Hummus in the team have already played two games, Ragnarok's lineup today consists of MTT, Fang Pliance, Cui Yu and Dill. Soul Fingerprint gave them some instructions before letting a few people in.
But there was a little accident when the staff came to check.
Since Fang Yu was the selector, the staff wanted to check his star gate number, but the other party took a magic instrument and scanned it several times, but there was no response. Everyone else was a little anxious, and Fang Yu almost lost his mind because his own family knew about his own affairs.
He was racking his brains to think of a way to deal with it, but at this moment, there was a sudden flash of light in the square from the peripheral vision of everyone.
Then there was a loud bang.
The explosion occurred very close, and the shock wave immediately knocked several people present to the ground. Fang Yu felt a buzz in his head for a moment, but fortunately he had experience, so he quickly rolled to the side and lay tightly on the ground, burying his head as low as possible.
After a burst of flying sand and rocks, the dust fell in a swipe, and Fang Plover didn't know how long it took before he made a few sounds and raised his head from the ground. The surroundings were filled with smoke and dust, and the moans of the injured could be heard, but Fang Yu heard some strange hissing sounds mixed in with it.
He knew that the explosion was strange, so he subconsciously held his breath and looked in that direction. In just a moment, a group of black-robed men appeared in the smoke.
As soon as Fang Plover saw the strange movements of these people, Fenris's memory came to mind - they were lizards. A total of three lizard men covered in black robes were walking along the wounded and corpses on the ground. As they moved forward, they inspected the corpses on the ground. Whenever they found a living person, they bent down and stabbed them.
He didn't understand why the lizards appeared here for a while, but he also realized that the previous explosion was probably related to the other party. It was at this time that Fang Yu suddenly saw Cui Yu in the team unconscious not far away, and a lizard man quickly approached the place and reached out to catch the latter.
He subconsciously felt something was wrong and immediately raised his right hand to direct a golden light towards the lizard man.
I saw the clockwork goblin hitting the lizard man right in the eye socket, but the latter was caught off guard and covered his eyes and lowered his head. Under Fang Plover's control, the clockwork fairy flew up again, circled behind it, and hovered in mid-air. Its shell opened left and right, and a flash of fire flashed through it.
There was a loud noise, and the lizard man fell straight down, with a big hole opening in the back of his head.
Only then did the remaining two lizard men realize that there were enemies here, so they picked up their scimitars and headed straight for Fang Plover.
Fang Yu was very calm when he saw this, and immediately rolled to the side, and at the same time fired a rocket flying fist with his left hand using concealed movements.
As soon as the lizard man stopped, his cold eyes flashed, and he tilted his head to avoid the blow. But it can avoid the first grade of junior high school, but not the fifteenth grade. Fang Yu held his hand, and the magic furnace drove the hoist to pull the cable, causing the glove that Ms. Ming gave him to fly back.
With quick hands and quick eyes, he grabbed the lizard man's neck with a pair of jaws and dragged it several meters away towards him.
The lizard man's body fell heavily to the ground, and his neck was limp as if he had no bones. When Fang Plover saw this scene, he knew that the other party was already dead, so he let go and turned around again. At this moment, the last lizard man was approaching.
The opponent held out a knife to him. At this moment, other combat craftsmen of his level would have panicked. But Fang Yu didn't panic at all. The situation of fighting Odin came to mind, and he only stretched out his right hand to shake.
I saw the blade in the lizard man's hand creating a spark on the Lone King's Pride, and the sophisticated magic weapon was just like a piece of scrap metal, bent and twisted, like a twist.
The latter was shocked when he saw this and wanted to draw his knife and retreat, but it was too late. Fang Yu retracted his glove with his left hand, then raised his fist and struck it on the chin. Since he was still equipped with the 'small toys' given to him by the bosses during his previous training in Nevad, at this moment, the large and small plug-ins were fully activated, and he actually punched the lizard man into the air.
The lizard man fell to the ground with a thud, and was no longer alive.
Fang Plover breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help but look at his hands. He would never have been able to use this smooth fighting method before.
But when he relaxed, he turned around and was stunned for a moment. It turned out that he saw Cui Yu and Dill, who should have been unconscious on the ground, looking at him in shock - it turned out that these two people were pretending to be dead just like him.
"you……"
"Are you a combat craftsman!?" Cui Yu couldn't help but ask.
Fang Yu thought for a moment and nodded.
Cui Yu was afraid that he would silence her, so he quickly said, "Wait a minute, I won't tell anyone else." Dill didn't speak at the side, but his expression almost meant the same thing.
But Fang Plover was noncommittal. In fact, he didn't mind whether to tell others or not, because he didn't deliberately hide it in the first place.
He just walked over and reached out to pull the two of them up.
Cui Yu was startled, but then he realized that he was overthinking. He couldn't help but look at the latter in disbelief: "...You can actually ignore me when they attack me."
Fang Yu couldn't help but shake his head after hearing this, thinking that I'm not as petty as you: "Then who should I choose to participate in the competition?"
Cui Yu's lips moved when he heard this, but in the end he didn't say anything.
The fighting episode soon came to an end. After the explosion, the city guards who were enforcing martial law on the outside quickly arrived. As soon as they intervened, the few lizard men in the square immediately collapsed and fled in all directions.
But in Fang Yu’s view, the other party probably can’t escape too far——
Sure enough, the sudden explosion and turmoil aroused the fury of Elfendor's top brass, especially in front of thousands of people. It was like slapping the Southern Alliance in the face; the faces of Elfendor's top brass were all dull. , he just ordered a city-wide search with no expression on his face, vowing to capture the escaped lizard man and the mastermind behind it.
After the smoke cleared from the square, people finally settled down after the initial shock. It's just that the city guards guarded each exit and didn't let anyone leave.
And Chickpea quickly got the news and limped over to tell everyone that the game must continue as usual.
Fang Yu was not surprised. From the perspective of face, he could also understand why the Southern Alchemist Alliance made this decision. It doesn't matter if something goes wrong in the game. If the game is even canceled, then this person will suffer a big loss.
Especially when there are always craftsmen coming, the Southern Alchemist Alliance will never fall short of this.
As the lizard men were arrested one by one, the turmoil in the square gradually subsided - although people were worried, but with the comfort of the officials, they finally believed that the previous explosion was just an accident.
"If it were on Earth," Mu Lan was a bit dissatisfied with Elfondo's senior management's choice: "Probably they would have to evacuate the crowd first."
"But this is Etalia after all," Chickpea said, covering his head, "Just do as the Romans do."
He was slightly injured in the previous explosion, and his head was wrapped in bandages, but this did not prevent him from enthusiastically and heartlessly selling tidbits he did not know where:
"By the way, do you know the identity of the attacker?"
He said mysteriously: "I heard that they came from Idos - you should have heard about that. Toragothos has died in the hands of Sir Roban."
Cui Yu couldn't help but asked: "Are you saying those lizard men are the minions of Toragotos?"
"What else?" Chickpea spread his hands: "I heard they came to assassinate a person."
"Who are they coming to Vanlik to assassinate? Odin, Ye Hua and Sir Roban are not here. Hummus, you are spreading rumors again." Everyone did not believe it.
Chickpea laughed and said with a smile: "I just heard it from hearsay, it's not a rumor."
However, the speaker has no intention, but the listener has intention. Fang Yu felt a slight movement in his heart after hearing this, wondering whether these lizard people came for that young man named Luo Lin?
This statement sounds very reasonable, but Fang Yu always feels that something is wrong. Those lizard men seemed to kill everyone they saw, more simply to create chaos than to have any agenda.
He suddenly thought of something else - in this way, wouldn't the young man named Luo Lin's position in people's hearts be more stable - after all, if he hadn't killed Toragotos, how could these lizard men have done it? Traveling thousands of miles to take revenge?
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but frown and glance at the stands, hoping that what he and Sylvester said yesterday would make Teacher Ande more alert.
Of course, he also knew that this was very difficult. After all, he couldn't even provide any evidence for this, so he couldn't just rely on his words to decide what to do to the other party. Not to mention that there is actually a competitive relationship between him and Luo Lin. Sylvide and Tianlan can trust him unconditionally, but others may not.
However, this sudden attack caused a lot of trouble for their team. Mainly because MTT was seriously injured in the explosion. Although he was out of danger after treatment by a healer, it was basically impossible for him to participate in the next game.
There was nothing the competition could do about it except to let them find a substitute temporarily. But substitutes are not so easy to find. For this game, the more famous alchemist teams in the southern region have gathered here. At this moment, those more outstanding players are either their opponents, or they have their own agenda.
For the remaining people, they can pick from the team that was eliminated yesterday, but they may not be able to see the soul fingerprints of those people. In fact, ever since the team leader learned the news, she frowned and stood there holding the form, biting her lip and saying nothing for a long time.
Mulan and others are also contacting their friends, but it is not that easy to find someone who happens to be near Van Rick.
Fang Yu was also a little anxious. After all, if he couldn't gather enough people, he would be directly defeated.
But if you find just one person, how can you achieve his goal?
And just as he was searching aimlessly among the crowd, suddenly, an unexpected figure came into his sight. When Fang Yu saw that person, he was startled, and then he couldn't help but be overjoyed, thinking, isn't this a ready manpower?
So he immediately separated from the crowd, walked over, and shouted to the other party:
"Liu Li!"
At the edge of the arena, everyone was looking at the young man in front of them with a very ugly face with some curiosity.
"Who is he?" Mulan couldn't help but ask.
"This is the foreign aid I found," Fang Pulan dragged Liu Liyue forward with a stinking face: "He has a great background. He is a talented craftsman of the Silver Forest Spear. I have dealt with him, and he is very good. reliable."
Hearing that he was a member of the Spear of the Silver Forest, Soul Fingerprint's expression was a little brighter - after all, the Crown of the Silver Forest was also a member of the top ten guilds, and was much more famous than Ragnarok in training craftsmen.
Even Fang Plover said that if the other party was a talented craftsman of the Silver Forest Spear, he must have some level of skill.
She then politely asked the other party: "Our team member was injured before. The competition team agreed that we find a foreign aid. Are you willing to join us?"
Liu Liyue glanced at Fang Yu.
"First of all, my name is Liu Liyue, not Liuli," he said angrily: "Secondly, why should I come to participate in this guy's competition?"
Fang Yu was greatly embarrassed and hurriedly tried to smooth things over: "Isn't this just sending someone to help?"
"But I haven't forgotten the last time you let me go," Liu Liyue replied: "I rescued you once at Traveler's Rest, and you promised me that you would come to Silver Forest Spear to compete with me. .”
Fang Yu thought to himself that I had never promised you, and it was not like you saved my life at that time. I would have been able to do something if you didn't take action. Besides, it's for your own good that I don't go to Silver Forest Spear, so as not to hurt your self-confidence.
"What's your expression like that?" Liu Liyue glared at him.
"Okay, okay," Fang Plover said quickly: "Let me ask you, are you an alchemist?"
"Of course," Liu Liyue replied firmly, "So what?"
"So, you are an alchemist, and so am I," Fang Yu said immediately, "Isn't it just a competition of alchemy? Later in the game, if you score higher than me, then you will win."
"Who can compete with you on those children's gadgets?" Liu Liyue was not stupid: "What I compete with is -"
Fang Yu interrupted him loudly: "There's so much nonsense, just tell me whether you dare or not?"
Hearing this, the latter seemed to have thought nothing of it: "Why don't I dare?"
"Okay, come with me."
"Wait, I haven't agreed yet."
"Don't wait, the staff is already here, let us in." Fang Yu couldn't help but said, grabbed the man's arm and walked forward.
"What does letting you in have anything to do with me?"
Fang Yucai didn't bother to pay attention to him, and only warned: "Remember it clearly, you will say that you are our substitute later."
"Wait a minute, what a substitute, am I not a member of the main competition?"
Everyone was left standing there looking at each other.
Mu Lan looked at the backs of the two people and couldn't help but look at the soul fingerprints on the side: "Senior sister, do you really think they are reliable?"
Soul Fingerprint shook his head and whispered: "There is no other way. Just trust Ed once."
The others could only nod when they heard this.
When Fang Luo dragged the noisy Liu Liyue onto the stage, he discovered that the previous attack seemed to be beneficial to him. It turned out that after the previous interruption, the staff forgot about his identity check and just let them in directly.
This actually made Fang Plover breathe a sigh of relief.
Their opponent, the team from Yisi, had been waiting there for a long time, because the opponent was luckier than them. They were standing farther away when the previous explosion occurred, so they did not suffer any losses in the explosion.
At this moment, Cui Yu brought the other party's question and handed it directly to him - due to MTT's injury, Fang Pulong now temporarily assumes the role of leader of the team. Fortunately, after the previous battle, both Cui Yu and Dill were somewhat convinced of his 'chief general'.
Fang Yu took a look at the form and saw that the category the other party chose to ban was crystal.
This was completely within the predictions of the soul fingerprint, and Fang Yu couldn't help but admire the leader of the team a little - she was good at materials science, and she must avoid crystals, the category she was least good at. After thinking for a moment, he crossed out the Potions category on the form.
This is also a tactic that Soul Fingerprint has planned in advance.
Then he chose the two topics of Almighty Plug-in and Clockwork Fairy II among the remaining major series, and handed them over to the staff. The opponent chose the sword-shaped magic guide and the walker.
The two sides selected a total of three major series, and there was overlap in the flexible construction of this series.
Next, they will work on these four questions, and the final average score will determine the winner. It was only at this moment that Liu Liyue realized that they seemed to be serious.
He was a little panicked now: "Wait a minute, our Silver Forest Spear also has a competition."
"Your team is not the main competition team?" Fang Yu asked.
Liu Liyue nodded: "Yes."
"So you are a contestant?"
Liu Liyue shook her head: "No."
"Then why are you panicking?"
"But."
"But what?" Fang Yu couldn't help but feel a little amused: "This is just an exhibition match. You don't think you will go up against one of your own, do you? Don't worry, I will let you leave after these few matches."
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