"Are you ready?" Ander-Uriel asked.

Sylvid held the crystal in her hand, felt it, and nodded. Although she is not an alchemist, she was born in such an environment, and she is familiar with it, and she is no stranger to the magic furnace.

"Old bronze-nose," said And-Uriel, "our little princess is almost ready, what about you?" ”

"Here it is," Sonam replied in a rough voice, a little dissatisfied, "What are you anxious about?" ”

"I'm not in a hurry." Ander-Uriel chuckled.

The dwarf snorted heavily when he heard what he meant.

The two of them fought against each other again and again.

Vikki was following his companion through the hall, and the two came to the bottom of the platform in the center of the hall, and the boy was about to climb up, but Vikki grabbed him from behind. "Wait." She shouted. The boy paused for a moment, and looked back at her.

"Li Yuhao, you can't lose." Vikki glared at him and said seriously.

The young man was stunned, and reached out to help his glasses: "But the coach said ......"

"A coach is a coach, a game is a game, you have to have your own ideas."

The former thought for a moment before nodding seriously: "You're right, Vikki, I listen to you." ”

Vikki smiled and gave him a thumbs up.

The boy blushed, turned and walked through the railing to the stage. Sonam Steelbrow glanced at the ordinary boy, and complained with the impatience characteristic of dwarves: "It's so slow to come." ”

"I'm sorry."

"If you have time to talk about this, you might as well get ready first." The dwarf handed a crystal to the other party: "Take this crystal, ready to speak." ”

Li Yuhao took the crystal, held it in his hand, only took a light breath, and then nodded to Sonam: "Mr. Sonam, I'm ready." ”

"So fast?" The dwarf gave him a surprised look.

On the other side of the crystal, Sylvide and Ander Uriel also got the news that they were ready here, and after the two sides confirmed, the match officially began.

Stellar Ball solo races are very different from team races in that they don't need to fill the entire sphere, but rather choose one of the five starting points below the Stellar Ball, with the first to reach the top finish.

The rules of the game are simple and straightforward, and they are not complicated, after all, there are not many freaks like Fang Yuan, and most people can't reach the five-way parallel.

It's just that since there is only one end point, the opponents will inevitably interfere with each other during the competition, and even the rules allow the destruction of the structural points that the opponent is preparing to build bridges. In this way, although the requirements for the craftsman base in the confrontation process are much lower, it is more of a competition of pure computing power.

Sylvide's starting point is A5, which is a good starting point, but as soon as she gets started, Ander-Uriel and Fang Ou on the side find that she is not fast compared to her opponent.

Sylvid held the crystal, visibly rusty at first, until it reached the fifth point of the structure, and its movements gradually stabilized, and its delicate calculations began to kick in. But at the same moment, Fang Yu looked to the other side, and his opponent had crossed the ninth structural point and came to a fifth of the total schedule.

In the hall—

Li Yuhao was also nervous in his heart, and his hand holding the crystal was sweating.

As a substitute in the team, he didn't have many opportunities to play, but the other main player hadn't arrived today, and the coach didn't plan to let Vikki be the first to play, so he remembered the existence of an almost transparent person like him.

The coach told him to find a way to lose to the native, but Vikki's words gave him a wake-up call.

Although he is a substitute, he is also a call-up and is here to play.

The young man made up his mind, although he thought that he was not as talented as the main players in the team, but when he was learning the art of the Talen Craftsmen's Association, the taciturn old craftsman was also quite optimistic about him. The old craftsman was not a talker, and whenever he encountered any setbacks, he would only pat him on the shoulder.

The strict selection of trainees has been until today, although I stumbled all the way, but finally came to this place.

He remembered that when he was in the training camp, his mentor had said more than once that his biggest problem was nervousness, and when he came to the field, he only showed strength two or three times out of ten. Failure to overcome this is a fatal flaw for professional callers.

However, Li Yuhao knew in his heart that at least until today, he had never overcome this.

But today he was clearly in good shape.

He connected quickly, and even Vikki, who was watching below, was a little surprised, and the old dwarf was even more stunned, and couldn't help but take one more look at the stellar orb, and then look at the young man, and nodded.

But when he connected to the seventeenth node, his opponent was coming to the eleventh node.

Ander-Uriel, who was watching this scene, couldn't help but curse secretly. I thought that this damn old copper nose really didn't give face, knowing that it was the little girl from Albert's family, and still looking for such a powerful opponent. The level of the other party, in his opinion, is the best group of young people in the Southern League, and that's it.

Does this old thing really want to win?

He couldn't help but get a little annoyed.

But it was at this time that Fang Yu frowned slightly.

He saw that Sylvid had chosen to take a very unusual route after the eleventh node, and she connected horizontally to the twelfth node - in general, in a sprint race, the best connection point is vertically upward, followed by various diagonal upward paths, which are also the key nodes that opponents compete for in the race.

But now that the opponent is far ahead of her, after using up the best nodes, the competition is actually quite disadvantageous for Miss Ship Officer. But no matter how disadvantageous it is, it doesn't seem to need a horizontal connection.

Horizontal connections don't seem to make any sense other than wasting the time of a node.

And in the next thirteenth and fourteenth nodes, Sylvid also did not choose the optimal solution, if the choice of the twelfth node is to avoid the opponent's route, Fang Yu can still understand it.

So he really can't understand the choice of the last two hands.

Fang Yu couldn't help but scratch his head, I don't know if Sylvid made a mistake, or if he didn't understand? However, alchemists' things are really rare at this level that he can't understand.

Not only him, but Li Yuhao is also confused.

To be honest, he also saw that his opponent was a little rusty at the beginning, but the rustiness is rustiness, and the level is actually very high. After the bumps and bumps at the beginning, they quickly caught up a lot, but from the twelfth node, the other party seemed to be lost, and repeatedly circled in the lower floor.

But by the time he was halfway through the race, his opponent was still a third of the way.

However, he only looked at it twice, and Sonam Steelbrow on the side reminded: "Don't be distracted, little one." It's just that the dwarf looked back at Sylvid's point of light, and couldn't help but raise his thick eyebrows, looking at this scene, a faint light flashed in his eyes.

The game was going on in an orderly manner, and it seemed that the results were clear from the mid-point onwards. One side is far ahead, and the other side is in such a situation, generally speaking, there is no chance of turning over.

However, it was Luo Yu who really found the abnormality and was the first to warn him:

"Miss Sylvide seems to have caught up......"

At the fifty-fifth node, the gap between the two has narrowed for the first time.

This is not to say that the speed of Sylvid's connection to the nodes has become faster, in fact, Li Yuhao has connected to the sixty-third node, and the number of leading nodes has expanded from the previous six to eight.

It's a pity that this game is not a comparison of who connects more nodes between the two sides and who can win, but a competition to see who reaches the finish line first-

Although the other party has more nodes connected, the overall progress has become smaller.

"What's going on?"

Li Yuhao himself was also shocked in his heart.

On the same plane, the straight line between two points is the shortest, which is obvious.

While solo racing isn't the main event in most Tinkerer events, like the early days of team games, SOLO was always just a show event. But after so many years, people have long reached a consensus that the shortest straight line in the center of the star ball is the road that soldiers must fight for-

And he has obviously come a long way down this path, and his opponent will not be able to catch up anyway.

If it were someone else, he would definitely restrain his mood at the moment, ignore the others, and concentrate on further expanding his advantages. After all, although the other party is catching up, his lead is not small, but it is at this time that Li Yuhao finds that his old problems have popped up again.

When he found that his advantage began to shrink, he subconsciously couldn't help but nervously check what was wrong.

And as soon as Sonam Gangmei saw his expression, he knew what the young man was thinking, and couldn't help but shake his head. Distraction is a big no-no, both for the contestants and for a professional craftsman.

Craftsman is actually a very autistic profession, and the big thing must be done after the work at hand is completed attentively.

It's not that lessons can't be learned, but that's an afterthought.

Sure enough, Li Yuhao was a little distracted, and his hands slowed down even more, and he watched Sylvid catch up again. When the time came, he was really anxious, and Vikki's voice in the audience seemed to be shouting his name, but it was mixed in the noise of the hall, as if it was far away in the sky.

The tone was very familiar to him, and there was something that hated that iron could not be made of steel-

But the young man took a deep breath, and at that moment he suddenly remembered his last trainee assessment, and somehow his heart suddenly became a lot quieter.

Although he has such and such problems, after all, he has also come to this stage, and the people who can go one step are all very good young generation alchemists, and he is naturally the same.

He hesitated for a moment, but finally saw what Sylvid was doing.

On the other side of the crystal, Fang Yu saw this one step ahead of him.

The shortest straight line between two points.

But the shortest straight line doesn't necessarily mean the shortest process.

The sphere of the star is a sphere, and the distribution of structural points inside it is not uniform, and the closer it is to the center, the denser it becomes. The speed at which two points are connected does not depend on the distance between them.

In other words, there is actually a trick in solo racing, which is to choose a path with as long a gap between points as possible, so that although it looks like a detour, it is actually much faster.

But among the thousands of structural points within the Stellar Sphere, what Elector would have the leisure to find such a path?

After all, in the Craftsman League, there is no title of SOLO King.

It's just in the thousand-year-old history of the Alchemists of Aitalia.

But there have been such people—

Sonam Steelbrow scratched at his beard and sighed a little chagrined, almost seeing Ander Uriel's smug face. He thought that the little princess of the Xilin-Sibika family was just a whim, who knew that the other party actually came, and even learned this hand.

What annoyed him the most was that he didn't even know how to do it.

This path is called the 'Rose Path'.

It was discovered by a bored alchemist in a pact with the goblins, and the alchemist spent ten years making the bet. In the eyes of the old dwarf, this was almost the most boring bet Aitalia had ever made, and the other party was really a boring person.

Because the stake is nothing more than an ordinary magic pocket watch.

But this alchemist is famous in the history of Aitalia. Because the other party has a pseudonym, called Luo Zhen.

He is also the founder of the Rose Workshop.

The path is not complicated.

But memorizing the exact location of one hundred and forty-four of these structural points requires an astonishing memory, and not every alchemist in the Sirin-Sibika family remembers this path.

The previous one was Arecio Sirin Sibica, the father of the current head of the Red Rose family and the grandfather of the little princess. And the next one is not even a member of the Sibika family, or even an alchemist.

This made Sonam Steelbrow sigh a little, it also seemed to symbolize the decline of the Southern Alchemist Alliance, which was once the birthplace of the Rose Workshop and the Kingfisher Workshop, and today it is almost impossible to see genius alchemists coming out of here.

He himself is a dwarf, and And-Uriel is actually an alchemist from the north, and Prince Coleman wants to restore the glory of the Southern Alchemist Alliance, but how easy is that?

With a sigh of surprise, Sylvid took another step closer.

Eighty-nine nodes, ninety-seven nodes.

In the hall, people seemed to notice that there was a game going on here, and more and more people gathered around, after all, this place was basically a contestant of the continental league, and they were not particularly interested in the competition between craftsmen.

And they also want to take the opportunity to find out what level their opponents are.

A layer of sweat appeared on Li Yuhao's forehead.

He had already calculated, if he didn't care about it before and only focused on further expanding his advantage, the other party might not really be able to catch up with him, after all, his advantage was too big at the beginning.

But because of his own mistakes, it's not easy to say now-

He couldn't help but feel a little annoyed.

Li Yuhao knows his own affairs very well, and at the last moment, he will almost definitely make a mistake because of nervousness, so if he just maintains this advantage now, he may lose in the end It is probably a high probability.

The boy took a deep breath, his heart growing more and more panicked, and Vikki also stopped, nervously looking at this last situation - he couldn't help but raise his head and look at the other party, an inexplicable thought flashing through his mind.

She must be disappointed, right?

When he thought about it, his hand slipped even more.

And this mistake, the crowd couldn't help but let out a low shout, indicating that Sylvide's light had steadily caught up. When people saw this scene, they couldn't help but be a little curious, the contestants who could get to this point were all the elites of the elite - how could there be such a low-level mistake?

"It's someone from the Guta Craftsmen's Guild?"

"Don't you say that the stick is very good this year?"

"I don't think that's it."

And these words drilled into the young man's ears one after another, making him even more unable to concentrate, and he was angry and anxious below, and finally couldn't help shouting to the people around him:

"What are you arguing about? Can you be quiet!? ”

If it's someone else, I guess I can fight for this sentence. But Vikki clearly has the natural advantage of a beautiful girl, and the person who spoke listened to it muttered a few words in private, but it was not enough to really argue with her in front of the public.

Vikki frowned, and then turned back.

In the sphere of stars, there is only a thin line of light between the two clusters.

On the field, Li Yuhao happened to see the scene where Vikki was fighting for himself, and somehow, this scene suddenly reminded him of the game in the Elpahim Craftsman Association.

It was exactly the same then, they only won by a small margin, but in the end, it was the boy whose name he still did not know who single-handedly tore the whole team to the ground.

He sometimes dreams about that scene, and Vikki secretly cried several times after that match.

He stopped suddenly, a flash of lightning flashing through his mind.

In full view of everyone, the young man stretched out his hand and subconsciously made an imitation action.

At that moment, there was a sudden silence in the hall—

In the basement, Luo Yu sighed softly.

Even Fang Yu on the side couldn't help but be stunned. Because he saw that Sylvid's opponent's point of light stopped slightly, and suddenly split in two, drawing two completely different dividing lines in the stellar sphere.

Bright light, one continues to climb upwards. The other stretches in Sylvede's path.

Multiple parallelism.

Although it is only the beginning of this technique.

However, Fang Yu could clearly see that the other party's skills had a strong style of his own - in the training software that Shana gave him, everyone's technical style was very different.

And his final multi-parallel technique is actually very personal - this technique seems to be natural, and everyone has their own understanding.

But the skill of the boy at this moment was so similar to the scene he showed in Elpahim—just as he had used the technique of multiple parallels for the first time.

Copycats.

A lot of words suddenly came to Fang Yu's mind.

"Arena", "Contestant", "Old Bronze Nose", "Southern Alchemist Alliance", he suddenly realized that it was not the headquarters of the Southern Alchemist Alliance, Van Rik.

That's where the last game of the Continental League took place.

He immediately realized who Sylvid was up against, and what a coincidence.

……

The short whispers in the hall died down suddenly.

People were silently looking at the teenagers on the stage. And Li Yuhao didn't say a word, only stared at the final result on the stellar ball in a daze.

Sonam Steelbrow only patted the young man on the shoulder: "It's not bad, it's just a little bit." ”

On the stellar sphere, the highest flash of light shimmered with Sylvede's winding connecting line, starting at the very beginning of point A5 and connecting to the final point. And his light only stayed at the last moment, just one step away.

He took a soft breath, clenched his fists, and repeated the experiment countless times in private—the kind of skill he had ever shown the man perfectly, but in the end he was still a poor player.

Failed.

Vikki was splitting the crowd and ran towards him. Li Yuhao lifted his glasses and subconsciously lowered his head, thinking that he was going to be trained again, but he didn't expect the girl to grab his hand: "Yuhao, you, how did you do it?" ”

"What?"

"That trick."

And the coach had already walked out from behind, separated the two, and said, "Li Yuhao." ”

"Coach, I ......"

"Let's not talk about that," the middle-aged man shook his head, "Next, you train well, and if Eus can't come, you can play in his place." ”

The boy's eyes widened: "Wait, but it'......"

"Nothing," the coach replied, "provided that you have to practice that skill well, and for the next few weeks, practice in closed mode, and let Vikki take care of the outside for you." ”

The girl nodded earnestly.

……

In the basement, Sylvid let out a sigh of relief, putting down the resonance crystal in her hand and wiping the sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand. She laughed and looked at Fang Plover on the side, and stuck out her tongue in a rare playful way: "It's so hanging, your junior apprentice is really powerful-"

"Apprentice?"

Fang Yu thought to himself, where did he pick up this apprentice? He's still a newcomer himself.

But apparently Sylvid also saw who her opponent was, after all, she also happened to be there when she was in Al Pahin and witnessed the game. And he also had a face-to-face with the Chosen Ones of the Ancient Tower.

And over there, And-Uriel was laughing, obviously looking arrogant: "Old copper nose, you actually want to trouble the little girl of the Albert family, have you forgotten who she is?" When his grandfather was studying the Stellar Sphere, you were afraid that you were still breastfeeding. ”

"Fart, I'm a dwarf, and I'm only going to be older than you humans," Sonam Steelbrow almost died of anger: "What are you proud of, old blacksmith, and that's not your student?" What kind of majesty do you have of the little girl of the Xilin-Sibika family, and you are not from the Xilin-Sibika family! ”

He exclaimed, "What about your unsuccessful student? Let him come and compete with the young man on my side, maybe it is not as good as the one just now, have you seen the young man's technique? ”

"Multiple parallels," Ander-Uriel touched his beard, apparently already recognized, "You can't have brought that little one from Elpahim, have you?" ”

Sonam-Steel's face darkened, although he was at odds with the old blacksmith, and the Southern Alchemist Alliance was now at odds with the North, but he was always the alchemist of Kaorin-Ishurian.

Although the boy before was good, he was a Guta after all.

He couldn't help but sigh, the news from Elpahim was just a little exciting, he didn't expect that so soon, there would be a genius alchemist among the Guta people who could perform multiple parallel techniques.

He didn't want to bring up the subject again, so he changed his tune and said, "Less nonsense, old blacksmith, what about your people?" ”

Ander-Uriel then looked back at Fang Ou, and Sylvid gave him a surprise, but because of the previous question and answer, the young man in front of him always made him a little uneasy.

He thought to himself that if the other party had something to do, his old face would have to be explained here.

But the explanation is the explanation, and it was too late to change his words at this time, so he could only reply in a muffled voice: "What's the hurry, he is here, and he will not run away." ”

The old dwarf had known him for many years, so he naturally heard the weakness in his words, laughed, and returned the original words: "This time I'm not in a hurry." And-Uriel's face darkened, and he turned back to see Sylvid hand the crystal in his hand to Fang Yuan.

Fang Yu took the crystal and was slightly stunned.

He clearly felt that there seemed to be a lot more people in the 'magic network' than before, and it seemed that they were silently watching the game.

"Behave well." Sylvid bites his ear.

Fang Yu's face flushed, and he couldn't help but look at the other party, not quite understanding what Sylvide meant by this. However, Miss Ship Officer seems to have been a little abnormal today, and she will never take the initiative to participate in such a competition on weekdays.

But before he could react, a somewhat cold voice came from the other end of the crystal:

"I'm here to play this game, Mr. Sonam."

Hearing this voice, Fang Yu almost immediately remembered the appearance of the Korean style girl in Al Pashin.

Speaking of which, is the other party's name Vikki, or is it called Vici?

……