In the blink of an eye, the time spent in Bavaria exceeded half a month. After four rounds of competition, the day to return to Ayinbrok was approaching.
This city on the edge of the empire has beautiful scenery. Humans and lizards live together in the city, and it has a cultural landscape that is completely different from other parts of the empire. Bavalan is adjacent to the Agave Forest, less than a hundred miles away from the city. Through the southern part of the forest, you can have a glimpse of the legendary Great Rift Valley, where the famous Pistoia Monument Falls of the Empire are located.
This cloud-sea waterfall, which spans nearly three kilometers, was discovered by the imperial adventurer Pistoia Reynald and was named after it. This is also a famous landmark on the Far South Route. Tourists come here in an endless stream every year and give it another name, 'The Brocade of Mamir, the God of Love and Beauty'.
Because the sea of surging clouds flows into the Great Rift Valley from here, the waterfall reflects colorful brilliance in the sun.
This area is rich in a kind of amethyst, and there is a huge amethyst mine located deep underground. The amethyst quarried locally has a faint element of wind and thunder, which is an indispensable type of lower-grade alchemy rough stone. It is sold all over the world together with Bavaran's fluorescent ink.
However, people prefer to give this kind of bright and beautiful purple crystal another meaning.
"How much does this crystal cost?"
Fang Plover stood in front of an old lizard man.
On the stall opposite, there are several types of amethysts, large and small, some of which are of quite outstanding quality. Fang Plover picked one up and looked at the sun. The shape of the crystal was like an olive. After being cut by a skilled craftsman, charming light emitted from different facets.
The contestants stayed in Bavalan for half a month, but they almost didn't leave home. Except for a few who couldn't stay idle - such as Xiaoyao, Mulan and others, they only took a stroll around the city. Others are either staying in the hotel or on their way to the stadium.
It’s warm and humid in the south, and after staying there for more than half a month, everyone felt a little moldy on their bodies, and their competition status continued to decline. After the four rounds of competition, seeing that the last competition in Bavaria was approaching, with the permission of her soul fingerprint, Ms. Ming gave everyone a break with a wave of her hand.
So the Grande delegation ushered in their first collective activity in the Empire-a trip to the Pistoia Monument Falls.
Speaking of cards, in order to prevent the players from having any accidents, both Ming and Virus traveled with them. When a delegation participating in a craftsman competition was traveling, there were actually two pseudo-dragon knights escorting them on one side, which was considered a spectacle in the first world.
The lizard man in front of Fang Plover was wearing a robe, with black patterns growing on his wrinkled skin. He was a typical night lizard man. It silently raised three fingers to Fang Plover, "Three thousand lisels?" Fang Plover was startled, thinking it was expensive, but he still subconsciously paid for it.
However, Shui Wuming came over and knocked off his hand. "Are you stupid?" The Elite general said with a look of hatred, "It means how much it says? It says thirty thousand lisels, are you?" Do you have to pay too?”
That won't happen?
Fang Yu wanted to say that the elemental purity of this crystal is very high, and there are so few horizontal cracks in naturally formed crystals, which is a very rare thing in nature. It is also the one with the best quality among this pile of crystals. Class, it should be worth the price.
He is not a fool, so he will pay the bill only after seeing the value of this crystal. But Fang Yu remembered the last time he was scolded by Tianlan, opened his mouth and then chose to shut up - remembering that this was also the only time Tianlan failed to bargain.
The merchant used his reasons to stop Tianlan's mouth and explained the truth clearly. The final result was that the little girl was so angry that she didn't say a word to him for a full week after returning to the Seven Seas Traveler.
Fang Yu felt regretful when he thought about it. He should have collected the copyright fee from that merchant.
At that time, Luo Yu was also unlucky.
Because Luo Yu also helped.
Shui Wuming did not go up to help him negotiate the price, but Luo Wei took the initiative. In Fang Yu's opinion, Senior Luo Wei's bargaining style is in another direction than Tian Lan. Tian Bluetooth has a sharp tongue and likes to bury some traps in his words, often leaving vendors speechless.
But she will show a tendency to buy, so that the merchant will not be disgusted and regard her as a troublemaker. This approach is often successful, and in the end both parties compromise and reach an agreement. Tianlan also said that this is her tried and tested strategy.
But when Senior Sister Luo Wei reasoned, her voice was soft and methodical. She was not anxious or sophistical, which only made people unable to resist. To Fang Yu's surprise, Luo Wei also understood the language of the snake people, and she understood the culture of the lizard people very well through her words. She soon started chatting with the old lizard person.
In the end, the other party was sincerely convinced, and as if they were in a good mood, he gave Fang Pultru and his party a thumbs up. However, in addition to Fang Lu spending 1,500 Lisels to buy the crystal, Luo Wei also bought a few of them herself.
"Senior Luo Wei didn't need to buy those crystals," Shui Wuming frowned, "It seems like it gave us a discount, but we don't necessarily make money. To put it bluntly, these crystals are everywhere around here. For It’s worthless to a lizard.”
Luo Wei smiled and said, "It gives us a discount because it is friendly to us, and kindness is worth responding to. Besides, these crystals are not of much value to the lizard people, but they are of great value to us. We are completing When making a transaction, you are actually just choosing your own definition of its value, and it doesn’t matter whether you made a profit or a loss.”
Fang Plover nodded repeatedly as he listened.
He was more willing to accept Luo Wei's statement than Tian Lan.
"I can't say anything about you, but you are the only one who has more principles." Shui Wuming shook his head, a little helpless about this. However, she looked at Fang Plover and asked curiously: "But why do you have to come here to buy this thing? This kind of thing is everywhere in Bavaria, and it is much cheaper than here."
"I think the one you have is of good quality, but it's not worth fifteen hundred lisels. It's so expensive, it's enough to cost me half a month of cosmetics." She looked at the endless stream of people in the distance. The tourist said, "You are different from those people. You are not superstitious about the other effects of this crystal, right?"
Fang Plover blushed a little.
He covered the crystal with his hand and carefully put it into his purse.
"Oh?" Shui Wuming glanced at him meaningfully and let out a long sigh, "Don't you want to give it as a gift? The crystal of the God of Love and Beauty, you actually believe in this, who is it? ? Senior Sister Luo Wei, no, no, no, you and Senior Sister Luo Wei have only known each other for two days."
Luo Wei glared at her angrily.
But Shui Wuming didn't care, "It's still that little girl from Ragnarok? It's still Bai Xue, can't it be Bai Xue? What about you and Sophie?"
Fang Plover was speechless.
The two had not had much contact with each other during the Southern Region Competition. At that time, he did not expect that the leader of the Elite would have such a temperament, and she would be in the south and north of her teacher. But Fang Yu also deeply admired the other party's ability to associate, and none of his guesses were reliable.
He actually just wanted to use this crystal to make something.
But Shui Wuming thought about it carefully and suddenly realized, "You must have fallen in love with my teacher, right?"
"Pfft -" Luo Wei, who was drinking water at the side, squirted out a mouthful of water and choked and blushed. She raised her head, coughed and said, "Wu Ming, you are getting more and more outrageous."
"A reasonable guess," Shui Wuming said seriously, "The teacher is only four years older than me. There are many people in the community who like the teacher. Doesn't this mean that Ed has good taste?"
She turned around and said to Fang Plover, "Really, Junior Ed?"
But Fang Plover looked in one direction.
He was suppressing his blush and didn't dare to say a word.
Shui Wuming was stunned, suddenly feeling a little bad. When she turned around, she happened to see Ming looking at her with a smile, and Virus happened to be standing next to the latter with a straight face.
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There is no need to mention what happened after that. Anyway, no one in the delegation saw the Elite general, not even Ms. Virus, for several days. According to Minghe's soul fingerprint, it is said that the latter is receiving special training.
The reason was poor performance in the previous round.
This reason makes sense.
In fact, they encountered a lot of trouble in the fourth round. In the first half of the fourth round, they met the last-ranked team in Tree Hill. It was expected to be an easy game, but Soul Fingerprint did not allow Fang Plover to play in the starting lineup.
The opponent rarely chose a fairy class, and they responded with a city barrier.
But Soul Fingerprint did not let Luo Wei play, but Shui Wuming took over the role of Luo Wei. In the end, Shui Wuming and Weiyu both won each other, but Gu Lande suffered a big loss in that one.
On the one hand, the competition has a rule that you cannot have two consecutive byes.
And considering the impact of players' personal points, generally speaking, the coach will let the players in the delegation take turns to play, not to hide the ultimate move or to deliberately hide the players.
But in order to hide Gu Lande's talent in potions until the end, in this round, the soul fingerprint still identified the plug-in category for the young man from Yasha, and asked him to replace Wu Cun.
His opponent was not a player who was good at this category in previous games, so the analysis team didn't have much to worry about.
Unexpectedly, the people from Giant Tree Hill actually hid a secret. In this game, their opponents showed extraordinary talent in plug-ins, causing Grande to lose a lot of points in this area. In just one game, Open up as many as eight points for the opponent.
Later, MTT failed to recover the point difference when they came on the court. Grande always lost to its opponent by four points, which was regarded as a minor upset in this round of competition.
This game caused a lot of criticism for Soulprint in the community, and the main criticisms focused on a few points. The first is why not let Luo Wei, who is a goblin craftsman, play the role, but let Shui Wuming take over?
Considering the relationship between Elite and the God Killer, as well as the rumors about the discord between the Construct Queen and Virus, many doubts have even turned to conspiracy theories. Was Luo Wei hidden by the coaching staff?
Fortunately, Ragnarok and the Godslayer were both members of the former alliance. The idea that Elite teamed up with Ragnarok to target the Godslayer sounded unreliable, so such rumors did not spread.
The second question is who selected Guland. From all aspects, the performance of this young man from Yasha in the previous games was only average, but compared with some of the unsuccessful contestants, he was still There are many disadvantages.
Not to mention that in this game, he lost a lot of points at the hands of the opponent.
As the leader of the Grand Craftsmen Association, Soul Fingerprint is obviously responsible for this.
Finally, there are some criticisms about why Fang Pultru did not play in the starting lineup, but the rhythm is not big. After all, most people who can pay attention to this game will not understand the competition system. Fang Lu either plays in the first half or the second half, and appears in every round of the game.
As far as the competition system is concerned, whether or not he starts the game is of little significance. It is nothing more than a tactical arrangement.
However, in the second half of the round, Soul Fingerprint finally changed the reputation in one fell swoop. In the second half of the fourth round, the Grande Craftsmen Association met the second-ranked delegation from Lotao, the Holy White Wild Craftsmen Association.
This is a craftsman association with a long history.
It is also the birthplace of the Arch of Stars of the Three Great Schools of Lotao, the country's second craftsmen's association after the Tanluo Craftsmen's Association, and the Wilderness Kingdom's long-standing domestic craftsmen's association. Among the three high-level knowledge required for Fang Plover's magic recovery, the star-shaped network comes from the doctrine of this society.
But it is very rare that the Holy White Wild Craftsmen Association did not choose the crystal project that it has always been best at, but chose magic tools and fairy users. The Grand Association instead chose a large magic furnace and crystal.
Among them, Crystal's game was quite satisfactory, while Xiaoyao was slightly inferior to its opponents, losing by 0.3 points. However, this result is not surprising at all. The 'star-shaped network' theory was originally born for the magic furnace and is one of the most famous ether theories.
The Holy White Wild Craftsmen Association has always produced many talented crystal craftsmen, and this is also one of their points-earning strengths over the years.
On the contrary, the scene involving the goblin was a real fight between dragons and tigers, and its excitement surprised everyone. The contestant sent by the Holy White Wild Craftsmen Association is a real genius, although no one has ever heard that the people of the wilderness have expertise in fairy crafts before -
But in the history of craftsmen, sometimes there are such extraordinary geniuses that streak across like meteors and leave a shining mark in the long river of history.
This is the case for the contestant from the Holy White Wild Craftsmen Association.
The work that the other party presented turned out to be a fairy doll, which was almost identical to Fang Plover's work in the Southern Border Competition. The other party seemed to be deliberately provoking. When he finished the work, he glanced at Fang Yu from afar - but Fang Yu felt calm in his heart.
He didn't understand fairies in the first place.
However, Miss Tata told him that the other party's craftsmanship was not as good as the alchemists of the Silver Tower. It's just slightly inferior to her.
This evaluation is already quite high.
At least in the Southern Territory, Miss Tata's attainments in fairy envoys are definitely among the best. Master Ander told him personally that the level of the inherited craftsmen in the Rose Workshop was far below Miss Tata. Otherwise, those master craftsmen would not have been so surprised during the Southern Border Competition.
However, what is really surprising is Luo Wei's strength.
In the past, Fang Piao's perception of this senior was that she was approachable and affable. But he never expected that Luo Wei's talent as a fairy user was so high. Ms. Tata personally admitted that his senior sister's strength was comparable to hers.
Luo Wei's work is just a very simple fairy gem, a type of special information crystal that contains fairy-like structures.
But with this crystal, she defeated her opponent with an advantage of 0.5 points and won the game.
Luo Wei's victory obviously greatly damaged the confidence of the Holy White Wild Craftsmen Association, so much so that their next player actually performed abnormally in the next game. So much so that Mu Lan gained a three-point advantage in the magic weapon category.
You must know that the people of Lotao are fierce and fierce, and war tool craftsmen are very popular in their country. The reason why the other party took the initiative to choose the magic weapon definitely means that this item is the traditional strength of the Holy White Wild Craftsmen Association.
Losing big points in traditional strengths is basically synonymous with big mistakes, either due to mistakes by the craftsman himself or mistakes in tactical arrangements.
As for the final scene, there's not much to talk about.
Up to this point in the competition, everyone has already assumed that Fang Plover's strength is roughly equivalent to that of a first-line player in this competition, the main force among the main players. He is basically a star player on the same level as the Empire Twin Stars and the player named Forin from Tree Hill.
And this game was in his area of expertise. In the end, Plover directly scored four points and three points above the large magic furnace, winning the game with a score difference of more than seven points.
But the key to this round was obviously Luo Wei's extraordinary performance as the Fairy Envoy.
The fact that there is still a top elf user in the Grand Artisan Association made everyone realize at this moment that the Kaolin-Ithurians may have bad intentions this time.
The corresponding forums in the community were even more agitated, and the original criticism of Soul Fingerprint now turned into belated praise. Everyone reacted:
If Luo Wei is allowed to play in the first round of Soul Fingerprint, it may not necessarily be able to reverse the score difference.
But in the second round, you will definitely suffer a big loss.
Who would have thought that the Holy White Wild Craftsmen Association, which has been studying crystals and magic devices in previous competitions, would produce such a fairy-wielding genius this year?
Even Fang Plover found it incredible.
After the game, he couldn't help but ask Soul Fingerprint, Ming and Virus: "How did the analysis team know that the opponent had such a fairy user? I read on the community that this Lotao player had never participated in related matters before the match of."
Both Ming and Virus looked at the soul fingerprint, but the soul fingerprint was very modest, "Actually, it was Luo Wei who saw it herself. She is also a fairy user, and the opponent's player has participated in a crystal event before. You should know it, right?" , Crystal craftsmen are the origin of all craftsmen. No category of craftsmen can be completely separated from the category of crystal craftsmen, because any type of magic device, plug-in or construction requires magic crystal support, unless you directly use the finished crystal …”
"But professional alchemists rarely do this, and he has also participated in crystal production before." When it comes to this issue, Luo Wei is equally modest. "I am also a fairy user, and I can see some fairies in his techniques. Traces of making. Generally speaking, a pure crystal craftsman rarely has other styles, unless he is better at that type of style."
"Luo Wei mentioned this to me at the time," Soul Fingerprint said. "I also became suspicious, so together with Bi Fang, we pulled out the videos of the opponent's other previous games. After studying for days and nights, we finally determined This guess - the other party is a fairy user, and his level is extraordinary."
"Awesome," Ming nodded, "Most people may miss this detail. After all, the traces seen in the crystal category may not be accurate in many cases. You can grasp this detail and then dig out clues. Ragnarok has an amazing I’m an analyst.”
She looked at the soul fingerprint and said, "KUN was similar to you before, but it's a pity that he was away from the first world for something, otherwise he would definitely come here this time. That Mr. Omniscient might like you very much, after all, you are the same kind of people. "
Soul Fingerprint was a little silent, but it was obvious that she cared about this evaluation.
After all, she is the construction queen of the third division, and the KUN she talks about is not simple. The founder of the Silver Forest Crown Throne, the Omniscient One, is probably regarded as the highest rated among tactical analysts, right?
But Fang Yu was still a little puzzled, "If that's the case, why not choose other categories? Crystal has always been the traditional strength of the Holy White Wild Craftsmen Association. If we switch to plug-ins, we might be able to recover the points from the two rounds. Worse."
"The scores are not that important now," Bai Xue shook his head, "I made this proposal, mainly to confirm two things. There are some things that Soul Senior Sister knows better than me, but the relationship between guilds I Maybe I can see it more clearly than you."
"First," she said, "Is there an agreement between the Craftsmen Association of the Giant Tree Hill and the Lotao people? The delegation from the Giant Tree Hill that we met in the first round, the goblin user in the team They’re not particularly powerful, so why would they abandon their traditional strengths and choose the category of fairy users?”
The female knight raised another finger, "Second, how good is the White Wild Craftsmen Association in its traditional specialty of crystal? The second point determines the judgment of the first point... Although I I have long heard that the Holy White Wild Craftsmen Association has not produced any outstanding crystal craftsmen in recent years, but I still have to confirm again."
"So what about now?" Fang Plover asked.
"The answer seems to be obvious now," Bai Xue replied, "Judging from the comparison between Xiaoyao's performance and the performance of the Lotao craftsmen, the other party's so-called traditional strengths are no more than that. The Hill of Giant Trees The people obviously knew this, but they ambush us on the Fairy Envoy. This only shows that the people from the Giant Tree Hill and the Lotao people have united together."
Fang Yu was a little stunned when he heard this.
Can it still be like this? Doesn't this violate the rules of the game?
Seeing his expression, Virus explained: "This is also part of the rules. How each crafts association arranges tactics is not just a matter of the upper and lower half. You also need to take into account the schedule of your opponent, the craftsmen's associations of different continents, Craftsmen associations from different regions have joined forces vertically and horizontally, which is something that often happened in competitions in the past.”
"But when the game reaches this stage, it really starts to get interesting..." Ming smiled, looked at Fang Pliance and said, "Just watch, little guy. There are many ways to do this game, otherwise we old guys will have to do it. What are you doing here?"
She shrugged, "But the mainland league is just that. When you see those super events one day, you will understand what the real super competition is. It is a place where swords are shining, and conspiracies are rampant."
Fang Pultru's heart palpitated slightly after hearing this.
That was not the world he longed for, but one could imagine its grandeur. No wonder so many people were involved in it.
However, no matter how much intelligence the analysis team obtained, it could not make up for the fact that they lost points in the fourth round. Although they caught up in the second half, they still lost by one point including the first half of the game.
This is the first time that Grande has lost to his opponent in the two rounds. Previously, he only lost points in one half and then recovered them in the other half.
Therefore, Virus's special training for Shui Wuming was justified. In fact, the coaching staff has also begun special training for other people, and its head coach is naturally the Construct Queen, Ming, who hurriedly came from the Godslayer. That was her original intention in joining this delegation.
The first class she taught.
It's multiple parallelism.
The basis of swift tactics——
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