As Sock explained the rules of the rematch, Rod on the side also noticed the anomaly.

Rod noticed that the rules for the semi-finals were more stringent than the extremely lenient rules of the preliminary round.

In the semi-finals, Sock chose "mental power" as the theme, and the effect of the potion refined by the mage must be related to mental power. In addition, when each mage refines potions, the Ice Blue Spell Academy will provide some materials for the mages to refine.

In the process of refining, the mage must use up the materials provided, and finally obtain a certain level of potion effect before passing this rematch.

In the rematch this time, the quality of potions is required. Sock deliberately emphasized this point, if the mage only made the potion crudely, without any refinement, the resulting potion obviously could not meet the requirements in terms of effect, and it could not be counted as passing this rematch.

In terms of the choice of materials, 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, and the selection of these materials requires a deep understanding of Potions by the mage himself.

Due to the change in the rules, in order to prevent mages from passing the tournament again by observing, the rematch will not last long until all the mages who are capable of passing have passed, and the next round will start immediately.

After the rematch, the next round of competition will be the last match in the Ice Blue Spell Academy, and after the next round of competition, the mages who still pass will go to the center of this academy event to participate in the real finals.

It is foreseeable that after the Potions Contest is over, those mages who failed to pass the Potions Contest but were stimulated by the event will continue to stay in the Ice Blue Wizardry Academy to carry out other activities related to Potions.

When Sock finished explaining the rules of the potions competition, the rest of the surrounding mages immediately took action, and after obtaining the materials provided by the semi-finals, they began to refine the potion.

Long before the arrival of the mages participating in the semi-finals, a large number of the tools needed to refine potions were placed here, and considering that this time the potions competition was more compact than the preliminary round, the arrangement of materials was completed early in the morning.

After showing their strength in the preliminary round, these mages around me also know each other. Whether it is through observation or other means of gathering information, the mage himself knows best what level of his Potions science is and whether he will have a chance to pass the Potions competition.

Rhodes noticed that many of the mages who went on the field to refine potions were the ones that Elon reminded him to pay attention to. These mages who are good at potions, even if they go down to refine first, there will be no mistakes.

Among them, Rod also noticed the man North in the preliminary round.

Since Rod did not complete the crude preparation of potions like North in the preliminary round, North had some speculations about Rod's achievements in potions. Before coming on the field this time, North didn't pay too much attention to Rhodes, but focused his attention on the tasks assigned by the Spirit Club.

For North, even if there are various restrictions in the rematch, there will be no problems with the rematch.

Being able to take over the tasks assigned by the Spirit Club and participate in this potions competition, North naturally has enough confidence.

How to meet the requirements of the rematch is not in North's consideration, what North cares about is how to show his strength and increase his influence among mages.

When North appeared in the venue, there was a commotion around the otherwise quiet venue.

After the preliminary round of the Potions Competition, North already has a lot of influence among these mage groups.

To be able to achieve this, in addition to the fact that North took the lead and showed refining skills completely different from the rest of the mages before other powerful mages even entered the field, North's own attainments in potions were also extremely important.

Because of this, when North appeared in the field, most of the mages watching the tournament around him set their eyes on North, wanting to see how North would perform in this rematch.

Even the mage beside North, who was also refining potions, couldn't help but feel some pressure in his heart after feeling the momentum brought by North, and improved the action of refining potions a lot.

North's behavior in the preliminary round has already had a big effect at this time, and the influence he has created will continue to expand as the game progresses.

If North can make it to the finals and increase his influence in this way all the way, even if he fails to win the championship in the finals, the purpose hoped for by the Spirit Club has been achieved.

Realizing this, Rhodes also roughly guessed why the Spirit Society still achieved the original plan to unite the necromancer and the orthodox mage without winning the Potions competition.

At this time, seeing that the rest of the mages around him had already looked in his direction, North no longer waited, but began to refine the potion.

In the process of the semi-finals, although some materials will be provided for participating mages to refine potions, the types and weights of these materials are different, and the materials obtained by each participating mage will not be repeated.

In this case, materials have undoubtedly become a difficult point in the potions competition, how to use these materials, and match them with the materials provided by the academy to produce better results, is what mages need to consider, and this is also the place that best reflects the strength of mages.

The selection of materials is the most important part of Potions, and it is even more important than ordinary refining methods. The combination of materials with different properties often produces unpredictable effects.

In previous research, the mage was able to find a certain pattern in the selection of materials through a large number of attempts, and knew what nature of materials should be matched and how to match.

The knowledge you know is a good way to help you choose the materials. By reading books on occult arts, mages will naturally understand most of the nature of the materials used to refine them.

Compared to potions competitions that have no restrictions and rely only on the mage's previous research results, these restrictions imposed by the rematch can better reflect a mage's proficiency in potions.