Standing at the very edge of the platform, Al spoke slowly.

"Strength is the most basic guarantee for us to walk on the Siti continent, and as a blacksmith, the mastery of blacksmith forging skills represents our strength, the first test item is to identify forging materials, which is the basic skill of being a blacksmith, and you as recommended by various branches of the Molten Blacksmiths Guild, the outstanding young blacksmiths who came to participate in the guild's internal competition should master more knowledge of forging materials, but if you can't pass the first round of tests, this identity introduction is useless. ”

"In my opinion, people who can't even pass the first round of tests don't have to let everyone know who you are, and we can't remember you anyway. ”

"So hereby I announce that the first round of the test competition will start directly, and when the second round of test projects comes, I will personally introduce you to everyone present!"

"Come on, guys, I'm waiting to remember your names!"

With that, Al stepped down from the high platform again, and after signaling for the host Tyke to continue, he returned to his seat behind the high platform and sat down.

Al's words aroused a long applause and cheers from the audience, including the contestants, they all felt that there was nothing wrong with Al's words, he was right, strength is the root of everything, and as a blacksmith, if you don't even know the forging materials, it is better to go home early and learn from the teacher, it is a shame to be recognized after being introduced.

"That... So, let's start the first round of testing projects and identify forging materials!" As a professional host, Tektronix quickly calmed down the disturbed mood of El.

"Now, please look behind you of all the excellent blacksmiths present, there are 200 anvils and magic simple calciners that have been set up, each with a number plate on it, please stand in the corresponding competition position according to the number plate you received at the time of registration. ”

While everyone was starting to look for their position, Daria ran over to Zhang Ye and asked, "Andre, what are your numbers?"

"I'm number 169, what about you?"

"I'm 17, wow, we're so far apart. ”

The staff next to them kept urging them to find their place quickly, and Zhang Ye hurried up and said to Daria: "Daria, go to your own location, come on." ”

"Mmmm, you have to come on, Andre, don't be eliminated in the first round, haha. The heartless girl walked away briskly to find her place.

“。。。。 Speaking of which, Zhang Ye's foundation is actually relatively poor, after all, he has only been a blacksmith for less than a year, but in the project of identifying materials, he has the cheating weapon of "Eye of Discernment", even if it is a material that he doesn't know, it will definitely not go wrong under the identification of the system.

When he walked to the last few rows, Zhang Ye found his position, because the position set by the competition was much larger than the number of participants, so there were only people standing on the right around him, and there were at least one race seat on the left and before and after.

After everyone stood still, and a few staff members quickly confirmed whether anyone was standing in the wrong position, Tek spoke again.

"Let me tell you about the rules of the first round of testing. ”

At this time, a lot of staff poured out of the staff passage, using a cart to pull the boxes that Zhang Ye saw when he came before, and walked to the competition venue, and every person who passed by, he took out three boxes and a strange-shaped key from them, and placed them on the anvil unique to the contestants in turn, and there was a number on the side of each box, but the number was not in order, and it seemed that it had been disrupted.

"In the boxes in front of you are the forging materials that need to be identified by the contestants in this round of testing, and each contestant has three boxes. ”

Speaking of this, Tek saw that a few anxious people had begun to fiddle with the box in front of him, and hurriedly stopped him:

"Oh, until I announce the start of the game, please don't touch this box yet, or you'll be eliminated. ”

The few people who were fiddling with the box immediately withdrew their hands and placed them on their laps when they heard Tek's words.

"Very good, then let's go on, in order to ensure the fairness of the first event, the boxes in front of the players are all using the method of suit boxes, as the name suggests, the suit box means that in addition to the first layer outside, there is a box inside the box used in the competition after opening, and the staff who fill it with forging materials for the competition and the staff who carry out the second packaging, as well as the number written on the box, are completely different three groups of people. ”

"These three groups of staff have been separated and quarantined in Sleepless City, and after the first round, they will be able to come out. ”

"The only person who knows what forged materials are in the box in front of you is Mr. Krel, the head of the adjudication department of the Molten Blacksmiths' Guild, who has monitored and recorded the packing process throughout the process. ”

"As for how to open the box, I believe all the contestants should have got a key, right? ”

After waiting for a while and seeing that no one spoke, Tyke continued: "It seems that it is all right, very well, that key is the key used to open the chest, and the keyhole is at the bottom of the chest, and we would like to thank the famous lock master Locke for the transformation cylinder specially designed for the internal Dabi of the Molten Blacksmiths' Guild." ”

"Each player's key is a different structure and is randomly distributed, and when the deformed cylinder is inserted, the inside of the cylinder automatically adapts to the shape of the key and the box is opened, after which the inside of the cylinder is permanently fixed. ”

Zhang Ye looked at the key placed next to the box, and thought with emotion in his heart that Al had really put a lot of thought into this internal competition, and the preparation for this first round of projects was very complicated.

"After the start of the competition, during the time of the three hourglasses, each contestant needs to open the box, identify the forging material in it, and write down the name and characteristics of the material with a pen and paper in the box, each player has three chances to make a mistake, and if they exceed three times, they will be eliminated, and they can only be identified by hand and eye during the competition. ”

This is the end of the rules, and now I invite Mr. Krel, the referee of this round of the project, to announce the start of the competition. ”

The presenter, Tyke, went down, and then a middle-aged man with a gloomy face walked up from the high platform, with a long scar on his face from his temples to the corners of his mouth, and two staff members carried a small wall clock hanging on a shelf and followed Crel to the high platform.

Standing still on the high platform, Krell glanced at the more than a hundred young blacksmiths standing in the center of the venue, and a smile leaked from the corner of his mouth, but this smile was a little terrifying against the background of his gloomy complexion.

"Although you are the hope of our guild, if you do anything in front of me that does not compare with the internal rules, I believe that what will happen after you will not be like what you are facing, I hope you will behave yourself. ”

After "admonishing" all the young blacksmiths who participated in the competition, Krell picked up the mallet that hung next to the wall clock shelf.

"I announce that the first project of the Molten Gold Blacksmith Guild has officially begun!" After speaking, the gavel slammed heavily on the wall clock.

"Bang~~" The small wall clock made a loud sound, and the staff in charge of timing on the side also flipped the hourglass over.

Amid the cheers of the crowd, all the participating blacksmiths picked up the key, turned the wooden box over, inserted the key, and opened the box.

Zhang Ye glanced at Dariya from a distance and found that she had successfully opened the box, so he picked up the key and first opened the box on the left in front of him.

After the two layers of boxes were opened, there were several pieces of paper on the top, as well as a pen sandwiched on the paper, took out the paper and pen and put it aside, Zhang Ye continued to look inside, and saw four metal ingots of different colors neatly stacked in the box.

"It looks like the inside of this box is made of metal. Zhang Ye muttered to himself and took out all the metal ingots in the box.

The four metal ingots were placed on the anvil one by one, two of which Zhang Ye had a rough answer after seeing and contacting them, and among the other two, one Zhang Ye was not sure, and the other he had never seen directly.

"Sure enough, it's still too short a time to do this business by myself, and I don't have a great blacksmith master, so I haven't seen many things. ”

After confirming it again, Zhang Ye had no choice but to open his eye of recognition and look at the first metal ingot.

But this subtle fluctuation of magic power was detected by the instrument in Krel's hand, who was slowly patrolling around the venue, he carefully looked at the instrument in his hand, and the instrument in his hand had no reaction at this time, but Krell was very sure that he had just felt a slight vibration of the instrument.

"I couldn't have felt wrong, there must have been a magic reaction. Raising his eyes and glancing around, he didn't notice any unusual behavior on the part of the blacksmiths present.

"Hmph, little bug, don't let me catch you. With a fierce remark in his mind, Krell raised his vigilance and continued to wander around the venue.

Zhang Ye, who was on the other side with his head down, didn't know that when he used the Eye of Discernment, he had already captured the magic fluctuations by Claire's detection instrument, which would make him stare at the last metal ingot, and let out a wry smile in his heart.

"The other three are pure metal ingots made by simply smelting, but this fourth piece is made of five kinds of metals, and there are two of them that I have never seen, so no wonder I can't recognize them. ”

Looking at the properties of the metal ingots displayed under the Eye of Identification, Zhang Ye wrote the answer on the paper taken out of the first box.

"Multi-metal smelting ingots"

"Introduction: It is made of 13% gray copper ore, 20% Fira iron ore, 50% pig iron ore, 16% silver ore and 1% titan iron ore fused and refined, the fusion formula has great defects, and various materials will restrain each other, which will cause the consequences of the decline of characteristics or loss of characteristics of the finished metal ingots

"Characteristics: It has the characteristics of fragility, high hardness, poor flexibility, and lightning spell bonuses. ”

Among them, he has seen and hammered gray copper ore, pig iron ore and silver ore, but Zhang Ye has never even heard of the other Titan iron ore and Feira iron ore, and the Titan iron ore in this synthetic metal ingot is obviously also a trap, only 1% of the amount, and it is estimated that few people present who get the same metal ingot can answer correctly.

But in order to be sure, Zhang Ye continued to spend 5 silver coins and consulted the system about the respective characteristics of these two forging materials, as for where the silver coins were, his entire net worth is currently in the system backpack.

"Hey, I always feel that it's not good to rely on the system to cheat, but I'm only okay in forging at present, and I must make up for this knowledge in the future. ”

Zhang Ye thought as he packed up the contents of the first box, then flipped the box in the middle over and opened it with a key.