"The Craftsman's Hall is the first of the six levels, and it is also a must-have level in all previous Spire Trials. This gray round hall was modeled after the original workshop of the great alchemist Ed, hence its name. The basic materials and tools inside are all products of that era." Wandering Ma had obviously done his homework early, and as soon as the screen came on, he started to explain clearly.
Due to the nature of the mainland league, not many people understand these allusions. The live broadcast room immediately became quiet. Wandering Ma glanced at it before continuing:
"The contestants need to take a crucial step here to create their own magic furnace. As we all know, this competition space is a special space constructed by the occultists of the Silver Tower. The contestants can freely create things in this space, but still We need to rely on the foundation of everything - the magic furnace."
"Everyone, mortals in Aitalia have no magic power of their own, so the magic furnace is the greatest invention of mortal alchemy."
Some words praising the great alchemist Ed floated in the barrage. It was obvious that the audience who paid attention to super competition were mostly familiar with the famous history of that world.
The situation of each team appears on the screen. Since there is no magic furnace, the first step for contestants who are equivalent to ordinary people must assemble the first magic furnace manually.
Just as history repeats itself, the great alchemist Ed also created the prototype of the first magic furnace under almost the same conditions.
"This is quite a test of basic skills," Wandering Ma'er glanced at his live broadcast script and extracted the key words from it. "Most of us recruiters are used to the convenience of the system, but for craftsmen, manual assembly is also a challenge. A very important part, especially when starting from scratch. Magical skills are a system that must be reproducible, not a castle in the air."
The organizer of the event - in fact, the Super Sports League Continental League Division divided the live broadcast of the game into many parts, with fourteen teams appearing above the field like a monitor room screen.
The wandering horse manually switched. Although he cared about one of them the most, he still switched to the empire side first due to the professionalism of the anchor.
The first thing he looked at was the Imperial Twin Stars team. After one glance, he couldn't help but frown and explained: "The players in the Imperial Workshop delegation have very solid basic skills. Not surprisingly, they chose the method of division of labor and cooperation. The core crystal part of the sword was completed by 'Black', a crystal craftsman and free agent in the team, while others were responsible for other components."
"By the way, there are actually no crystal craftsmen in the Imperial Workshop delegation in the true sense, because except for the plug-in craftsman Helium, the magic craftsman Helium and the elf user, almost everyone in this team is relatively versatile. Players can take over each other's work, which is a terrifying advantage in the Spire Trial."
"However, the main group of Oshu has been like this for almost all years. This can be regarded as one of their traditions. The empire's magic technology is unique in the world. This is also a fact recognized by the world. Let us take a look, the crystal chosen by the empire seems to be It’s fire-attributed, so not surprisingly, their first magic furnace was given to Juno, their captain and one of the Geminis.”
Wandering Horse has done enough homework, and this is not the first time he has commented on the craftsman competition, so he is quite familiar with it.
He said: "I guess they will give the elf user Trixis the second magic furnace. This is as it should be, because a battle may break out after leaving the craftsman's hall, and the elf user is responsible for combat effectiveness in this trial. I wonder if the Imperial people can assemble the third magic furnace. It depends on other teams’ ban on materials——"
He looked at the other teams in turn. The other two teams of the Imperials were only slightly slower than the home team, and they also showed considerable strength.
On the other side of the Giant Tree Hill, Forin's team is also making steady progress. It seems that there are very few mistakes. Relatively speaking, the players from the White Tree Society also show extraordinary compatibility. It seems that this level is their strength.
There is a clear gap between Lotao's two teams. The level of the main team is almost as good as that of the Imperials, but the Pillar of Stars team is much inferior.
The wandering horse looked at the outer sea and the selection teams again, but they were all quite satisfactory, and there didn't seem to be any dark horses. However, he took a look at the options of each team on prohibited materials, and couldn't help but let out a slight sigh.
"Let's take a look at the situation on the Kaolin delegation's side..." Wandering Ma said to the audience, while cutting back to the scene of the delegation from the Grand Craftsmen Association.
A white light flashed in front of Fang Yu, and he appeared in a gray round hall. This hall occupies a large area, and is almost twenty meters long and wide from one end to the other.
He looked back and saw that the other team members had long since disappeared, leaving only nine members of their group.
He himself comes from Elite's Shui Wuming, or Weiyu, Wucun, from Ragnarok's Mulan, MTT, Guland, Godkiller's Luo Wei, and Silver Vislan's Xiaoyao.
Surrounding the hall is a circle of display cabinets like booths, with various raw materials placed on them, some of which are gray, indicating that they have been banned.
According to the rules, each team can ban two materials, two structures and basic components. This is to limit the choices of other teams.
In essence, the Spire Trial and the Continental League are both testing the overall level and breadth of knowledge of a region's craftsmen. This allows individual craftsmen who specialize in a certain field to shine, but it also places requirements on the overall depth of a team. .
"Let's go see which materials are banned first." Shui Wuming was the first to say to the others, and then walked up first, preparing to check the status of the raw materials on the display cabinet.
"Let me check the structure and basic parts list." Xiaoyao said. He is a crystal craftsman, which is his area of expertise.
Weiyu turned around and took the initiative to say to the other party: "Ed, you can take charge of the overall situation."
Fang Plover nodded and did not refuse.
Shui Wuming had already checked the materials over there and looked slightly surprised, "The prohibited materials are still the same, either to prevent us from making the advanced configuration of Kingfisher Workshop, or for the central nervous system or the White Tree series."
She was talking about high-end magic furnaces from various continents. The craftsmen's associations from Xinta'an, Giant Tree Hill, and Kaolin-Ithurian have been competing with each other in the continental league for many years. Regarding their respective technical standards, it is forbidden to The special materials are designed to prevent the opponent from getting high-end magic furnace configurations in the first round.
Xiaoyao seemed to have encountered some trouble. When he walked back, his face was a little dark, "The Empire banned crystal grids, adjustable radiators, and even basic things like node devices and four-style magic circles. ”
"They certainly can't ban so many things. Most of these are aimed at us. Most of the teams from overseas and the selection team are with them."
"If this continues, we won't even be able to complete the AE-type magic furnace," Xiaoyao said with a serious expression. "The Empire people must want to use the tower-type magic furnace. Maybe they have shared some of their technology with others."
"Then we ban vertical series structures and twelve-type crystals," Fang Pultru said without thinking. "The materials ban pure iron and purple-grained rhombic crystals."
Xiaoyao almost jumped up, "You dug up the roots of the tower magic furnace. The Imperial people are right, but we can only use the AA magic furnace?"
"And why should we ban basic materials such as pure iron and purple-grained orthorhombic crystal? That would make it very troublesome for us to make the magic furnace. Isn't this harming others and not benefiting ourselves?"
"We are all the same, aren't we?" Fang Yu smiled, "We are in trouble, they are in trouble too, and you all have a solid foundation, but that is not necessarily the case for those overseas teams. Delay their progress, so as not to hold us back later. .”
Xiaoyao was stunned for a moment, and then he showed a look of surprise. He said happily: "Yes, I'm so angry. I asked these guys to unite the empire to stumble us."
Mulan couldn't help but look at Fang Plione a few more times and said, "Ed, I didn't expect you could be so bad."
"This is not called evil, it is called strategy," Fang Plover shook his head. In fact, it was not that he was too narrow-minded, but that the entire technical system was clearly visible in his mind like a tree diagram.
Those gray areas made it clear to him what the Imperial people's intentions were. He would cut off a few more roads up there. If they wanted to play, he would accompany them.
"Okay, Xiaoyao, you will be responsible for the structural part, and I will be responsible for the crystal part. As for the plug-ins, some common parts, and the shell, I will leave it to you." He said.
Weiyu was the first to nod and took over the most complicated basic part besides the main core part. The others did not need to say anything and each took their own tasks.
Since there is no magic furnace, they all need to use the most basic workbench to get started by hand. Fortunately, as Fang Piao said, everyone has a good foundation and there are no stumbling points in doing it.
Of course, these primitive workbenches were even more familiar to him, just like when he returned home. Many people would no longer use these things after leaving the novice training camp, but he continued to use them until the end of the July War.
Fang Yu picked up a pair of needle pliers, and the feel was as familiar as touching a lover's skin. He took out a core in three strokes, while Xiaoyao looked at it and his jaw almost dropped to the ground.
"Holy shit," Xiaoyao almost blacked out and couldn't help shouting, "Ed, are you a watch repairman on earth?"
"Of course not, what kind of strange metaphor are you talking about?" Fang Yu looked over in confusion.
"You're going too fast..."
The so-called solid foundation for the selector is nothing more than the ability to operate without bumps and bumps, but it is difficult to be as precise as a real craftsman. It is accumulated experience over time.
How could it possibly be achieved in just one or two months of training in the training camp?
Besides, most of the selectors don’t need such skills. As long as they get the magic furnace, the rest of the process is a process they are familiar with. As for whether the accuracy of the first magic furnace is consistent, and whether the outer shell is cracked or not. , actually it doesn’t matter.
Xiaoyao boasts that he is quite familiar with this set of processes. At least he won't get the tools and not know how to use them, or he doesn't understand the internal assembly of the magic furnace at all.
Being able to smoothly assemble a magic furnace without wasting time is considered a 'solid foundation' for the selector.
But Fang Yu didn't say that he acted like an old craftsman, but at least he could tell that he had spent a lot of time on it. Just look at his movements and you could see that he was as experienced as those in the streets of Etalia. A repairman who has been repairing various mechanical parts for many years.
Those people were not even true alchemists, but they were quite experienced in the craft.
Fang Yu took out his hand hammer and knocked on a copper plate, easily rolled it into the shape he wanted, then threw it to Xiaoyao and said, "Stop talking, work harder."
"Wait a minute," Xiaoyao watched him pick up a piece of crystal and said hurriedly: "Ed, are you really planning to make an AA-style magic furnace?"
The Kingfisher AA-type magic furnace is the most basic type of all magic furnaces. Only newcomers will use such magic furnaces. In the eyes of professional selectors, they are no more than toys.
The Empire banned most of their options, and Fang Plover dug up the roots of the tower magic furnace himself, but in fact, in Xiaoyao's opinion, they still had some old-fashioned magic furnaces to choose from.
Although those old-fashioned magic furnaces are old models and have various problems, at least their magic power reserves are much stronger than AA-type magic furnaces. The AA-type magic furnace is not good enough. It may use up its magic power after making a few gadgets.
He felt that this might be a trap, and the Imperials might have taken advantage of their inertial thinking.
Fang Yu shook his head. Why didn't he consider this? Do the people of the Empire really care about the Tower Magic Furnace? The discoveries under Nozpitz showed that the other party had gone a long way on this road.
They deliberately left this technical route, which is suspicious.
The vertical series structure and the twelve-type crystal may not be the limitations of the tower magic furnace.
But no matter how far the Imperial people go, they can't completely understand the teams in the outer sea. They may have taught those teams some basic things, but they themselves are taking another technical route.
But that's okay.
What he wants is to ban the most basic things, just like the idea of pure iron and twill amethyst. His initial target was not the Empire, but an indiscriminate attack on all other teams.
The less technical reserves there are, the more uncomfortable it will be when basic materials and structures are banned. This may only cause a small trouble to the main groups such as Tree Hill and Lotao.
But for those teams outside the sea, it might be a natural chasm.
But since they chose to join forces with the Empire, they should naturally bear all the corresponding costs.
This is a matter of course.
As for them——
Xiaoyao looked at the crystal in his hand, "But if it's not an AA-type magic furnace, then you are..."
Fang Yu pondered for a moment and did not answer. So he raised his hand and carved the first magic circle on the crystal.
…
Seeing this stage, Ma'er found that he couldn't understand.
He has done enough homework, but when it comes to highly professional aspects, he can only see a rough outline. This is one of the reasons why few people watch professional games.
What technology the craftsmen used, what kind of magic circle they carved, and the standard differences between different technical categories are knowledge that most people cannot understand.
Fortunately, there are some professional fans in the live broadcast room, discussing with each other the ongoing work steps among the players of several teams.
There are many people who don't understand.
But this does not include the organizer’s explanation, which is obviously much more professional in this regard:
"The Imperials are obviously doing something very new."
The official commentator was actually a retired player and an alchemist who had participated in the Continental League before, but he was still a little confused by the operations of the twin stars Juno and Geogiffin.
The magic furnace of the Imperial Workshop has entered the completion stage, and the main structure and core crystal have begun to take shape, but that structure is obviously something that many people have never seen before.
"It's very interesting," the commentator couldn't help but say, "Generally speaking, in the past, each team would put the banned selections on the magic furnace and the fairy doll respectively, because both of them were the first The most important thing to do.”
"But this year is different. Everyone chose the Magic Furnace unanimously. The Empire banned the Kingfisher Workshop series, the White Tree Society banned the Central Nervous Series, and the teams outside the sea banned some basic models. This resulted in everyone seemingly having nothing on hand. There are so many options to choose from.”
He commented: "So you can see some teams choosing old-fashioned models, and some choosing AA-type magic furnaces. I hope they won't regret it. As for the Kaolin people... The Kaolin people are very interesting. The tower magic furnace is banned. If I read correctly, what the Empire people are doing is related to the tower magic furnace, and it seems that the Kaolin people have some precautions against this."
"But it's not completely consistent." The commentator seemed to have never seen such an interesting scene. "The Empire seems to have taken a new path, an unprecedented technical route. Although it was derived from the tower magic furnace, It’s not limited by a tree-like series structure. It’s unprecedented to show a new technology in the continental league.”
He praised highly: "It seems that the Empire has predicted the Kaolin people's predictions. They have made a better move, so they should get a certain advantage in the next game. So let's take a look at Kaolin next. How would people respond?”
Taking advantage of his assistant, the assistant commentator on the commentary stage was explaining to the audience what the tree-like tandem structure is and its technical connection with the tower magic furnace. The veteran pro player cuts to the side of the Grand Craftsman delegation.
Then--
Then he got stuck.
There was an uproar in the arena.
In such a professional game, they have never seen such a big mistake on the commentary stage. They actually got stuck during the commentary of a game?
"So how did the Kaolin people deal with it, you can tell me?"
"The Riddler, right?"
The barrage officially took off.
Even the assistant on the side couldn't help but look in this direction, wondering how his old partner could make such a big mistake.
But when he saw it, he couldn't help but feel stuck.
There was silence on the field for a moment.
The wandering horse also had a vague understanding of it, but he could still understand Fang Plover's flowing movements. The live broadcast room was full of uncultured barrages at the moment.
If the basic level of the Baishu Society they had just seen in the Empire was impressive, then what Fang Plover showed at this moment was true professionalism.
He seemed to have returned to the time when Dawn Star inspected the magic tools for everyone. It didn't take long for the magic tools to shine again after passing through his hands.
Miss Scarpet must have seen how other alchemists repair magic devices.
Knowledge she never told him the truth.
Among the Chosen craftsmen she had seen, he was also the most unique.
"You know what, Quelord?"
Scarpe would occasionally communicate with her lover in private like this, "That child Ed reminds me of the craftsmen I saw in Lothar Tallinn, of course not his age, but those older... …”
The tall man just nodded silently.
"But that's not necessarily a good thing for him."
Fang Yu put down the magic furnace in his hand and realized that everyone's eyes were focused on him.
"What's wrong," he asked, "Don't waste time. It's not like you haven't seen me assemble the magic device before. Take your time and put the crystal in."
"Ed," Weiyu asked, "What kind of crystal are you?"
Fang Yu looked at the other party and did not answer.
He believed that these people would understand.
A glimmer of light flashed in Weiyu's eyes, "So this is...?"
Fang Yu nodded, took the crystal clear crystal without any properties from Xiaoyao's hand, and gently inserted it into the magic furnace.
The crystal glowed brightly.
Those restricted routes no longer have any restrictions. Technology has advanced by leaps and bounds on the obsolescence of the past. The pioneers have always traveled the most difficult roads.
And from among the thorns, we can conclude everything in the past. When a new world appears in front of people's eyes, it is sometimes subtle and silent.
Just like this moment.
The vast world that everyone sees is revealing its magnificent corner in front of them.
The echoes of many eras ago have finally come to the moment where they belong.
"Zero...Crystal!"
There was chaos in the Silver Tower.
The occultists seemed to have recovered the secret that had been lost for so long. Some even bumped away from their seats and stood up, watching this scene with some gaffes.
That legend from long ago.
Now it has become a reality.
The inheritors chosen by 'them' will bring the stories of the past back to the present.
Fang Yu gently placed his hand on the magic furnace and stared intently at the crystal that shone with infinite brilliance, so he chose to let it reappear in this world.
That was his promise to Hain and every sage who had struggled on this technical route.
It's so bright.
Therefore, it will not be covered in dust.
…
(End of chapter)
