[[[CP|W:800|H:600|A:L]]] A few days later, on September 10th, the Alchemy Contest in Arrant City officially began. All the outstanding alchemists from all over Shijie gathered in this city, and they were already waiting in front of the Alchemy Guilds in Alante, waiting for the people in the guilds to present the preliminary exam questions.

The requirements for the preliminary round are very low, as long as you pay an entry fee of ten gold coins and know alchemy, anyone who meets these two requirements is allowed to participate. Of course, only those who pass the preliminary round are eligible to participate in the next round of semi-finals.

Alice also gathered in front of an alchemy union early, and through these few days of temporary study, Alice, who is familiar with magic, has also learned a little bit of alchemy, and she didn't know that she signed up for it.

At 9:10 a.m. in the morning, the twenty-one alchemy unions in the city posted the test questions for the preliminary round of the alchemy competition at the same time.

"What? just kidding, it's just a preliminary round, so you don't need to come up with such a difficult question!"

As soon as the question came out, almost all the outsiders who participated in the Alrant Alchemy Tournament for the first time shouted.

Some local half-year-old looked at those outsiders with mockery and said, "What's all the fuss, in the alchemy competition in Alante, do you think that anyone can pass casually?"

"What do you mean?" said an outsider, dissatisfied.

The locals laughed and said, "Stupid, so many people participate in the competition, if you really want to test what you have refined one by one, when will it be?" It is said that the preliminary round, in fact, the preliminary round has already entered a 'battle' that is difficult for people in the first game, so that 90% of the participants are eliminated or given up. As for Weishenme, the threshold for the preliminary round is so low, in order to earn the registration fee of ten gold coins per person, which is a lot of money. ”

"Damn!" said an outsider, gritting his teeth in hatred.

The alchemist of the Alchemy Guild read it and posted it on the bulletin board: It is required to forge a magic cloak, and the conditions: 1. The length must be within 1.4-1.5 meters, and the weight shall not exceed 2.5 kg;

2. There is a certain amount of magic resistance, and the resistance requirement is 3+3, that is, the ability to resist more than 3 kinds of elemental and non-elemental magic reaches the third level (third level: the resistance to intermediate magic reaches 60%, and the resistance to high-level magic reaches more than 30%. ）；.

3. Resistance to physical damage reaches level 2 or above, and resistance to magic damage reaches level 4 or above. That is, it is required not to be easily damaged by swords of a normal nature, and not to be damaged by magic with an elemental affinity of less than one hundred and a magic strength of less than two hundred and forty;

4. The magic resistance effect will not affect the owner's normal magic casting, and can be used by all professional groups.

5. Rune stone liliang shall not be injected to meet the above conditions;

6. The time limit for completing alchemy is three days, and before 5 p.m. on the fourth day, please hand over the finished products to the competition inspectors of the alchemy unions for inspection, and briefly describe the refining process. After the finished product inspection, if it is found that there is cheating or buying the finished product, the participant will be disqualified immediately. Those who pass will receive a qualification certificate for the semi-finals.

After reading the alchemy requirements and conditions on the bulletin board, the alchemists of the Deep Sea Mercenary Group said, "Okay, brothers, let's go back and prepare the materials, and we must do our best to make this anti-demon cloak well." ”

"Yes!" the people of the Deep Sea Mercenary Group responded in unison and immediately left.

When a person next to him heard the words of the Deep Sea Mercenary Group, he secretly sneered: "Cut! If you have to use all your strength at this level, you don't have to count on the rematch." ”

Maha Lud, who was dressed in a red cloak, muttered: "The review of the preliminary round is still very loose, and there is still a possibility of cheating if it does not require on-site alchemy." ”

The person next to her said disdainfully: "Seeing this question, those who want to cheat probably won't cheat." Because even if you are lucky enough to pass the preliminary round, you will definitely not be able to pass the semi-finals, so why be embarrassed in public. ”

"Let's go, I'm going to make this thing tonight. Wait until the preliminary round to see how many people will stay. Maha Rud put on the hood of his coat behind his back, turned around and disappeared into the crowd.

In front of an alchemy union on the other side, some alchemists of average level looked at the question with great distress: "The 3+3 magic resistance requirement is a bit too difficult." It's not easy to make such a high-resistance cape. ”

Hurington stepped out of the crowd and gently rubbed his nose, which seemed to have healed in the past few days. He turned around and glanced at the worried alchemists who were gathered in front of the competition question, and smiled to himself: "These people can't pass the preliminary competition, and they don't even see the difficulty of this competition." Obviously, the most difficult part of this topic in the preliminary round is not in the second article, how to achieve the 3+3 magic resistance, but in the fourth article, which will not affect the owner's magic casting. Because the most haode magic resistance materials are those that directly interfere with and block the magic power, and in this way, for the caster wearing the cape, his own magic will also be interfered with. Therefore, how to resist the damage of external magic, and at the same time eliminate the impact on one's own magic is the most important, without solving this difficulty first, no matter how good the cloak is, it is useless. ”

After the contest was announced, almost all of the participating alchemists returned to their rooms and began to think about how to craft a cloak that met the conditions of the competition.

Caesar is one of the most famous alchemists on Shijie, and his manor is naturally equipped with all the equipment and materials for alchemy.

After Alice copied down the six conditions of the competition, she immediately returned to Caesar's alchemy room, trying to refine and forge a cloak that met the requirements, and also pulled her master Bing Zhixiao to help.

Bing Zhiyi also wanted to take advantage of this time to learn more about the art of alchemy.

Alice stood in front of the stone table full of utensils, opened the book and read, "Wash your hands before the first step of alchemy." She looked at her freshly washed hands: "Well, it's already clean." ”

She looked at the book and said, "The second step is to figure out what the items to be refined. Well, what I'm going to refine is a cloak, what can I resist 3...... 3...... , oh cape that resists 3+3 magic. Then, the materials are selected according to the items to be refined. ”

Next to Caesar's underground alchemy room, there were several large warehouses, and Alice looked at several warehouses, what ores, plants, soil, animal bones, all kinds of different materials, each type had hundreds or thousands of kinds, and she was dazzled at that time. ,

"Wow, there are so many, a lot of material I don't recognize. Bing Zhixiao said on the side.

Before she could start refining, Alice was stumped.

Bing Zhiye sighed and said, "Alchemy is not done by you, the first step of your method is wrong. ”

"Is it wrong?" Alice ran back to the stone table in the alchemy room and looked at it: "That's right, the book says that the first step is to wash your hands first, and the purpose of washing your hands is to wash off other foreign objects on your hands, so as to prevent the alchemy process from affecting the materials." ”

Bing Zhiyi shook his head: "That's the first step in the refining process, but first you have to think about how to refine it and what materials to use to refine it." ”

Alice thought for a moment, nodded as if she didn't understand, and asked, "What do you mean?"

Bing Zhi said: "A professional alchemist, before he refines gold, he will definitely think about the entire refining process. For example, forge a magic-resistant cape. First of all, he will think about what materials can resist magic, what materials are suitable for making a cloak, and then he will think about whether there will be any conflict of properties between these materials, for example, if some materials are mixed, it will produce a bad effect, zuihou, he will think about what auxiliary materials to use to reconcile the conflict between these materials, or what materials to find instead. Roughly, there are three steps before alchemy. ”

Alice was puzzled: "But...... But I don't know any of those materials, so what should I do?"

Bingzhi said: "The premise of an excellent alchemist is that he must have profound knowledge, not only magic knowledge, but also try to understand as much as possible about the various substances on shijie, and understand the characteristics of these substances, so as to be more alchemy, which is an indispensable condition." ”

Alice pursed her lips and said, "I still have to know so many things, so I can't refine it this time?"

Bingzhi smiled evilly: "Not sure." No matter how good a person is, it is impossible for him to understand all the things of Shijie, so some alchemists often hire some relevant people to supplement their deficiencies. ”

Alice suddenly clapped her hands and said, "Ah, it's like Toby's father, hired by some alchemist." ”

"Exactly. ”

Alice smiled, "Then master, you can help me." ”

Bingzhi said evilly: "Am I not helping you, but I can't do it alone, although I have also helped others repair equipment and weapons before, but I have never refined a decent thing." An 'alchemist' like you, who learns while reading books, has to find a professional alchemist to help you. ”

"You mean Uncle Caesar?" said Alice, "but he seems to be very busy these days, and he has been out again early this morning, according to his servants." ”

Bingzhi said evilly: "Isn't there another person?"

"Who?" asked Alice.

Bingzhi said evilly: "It's the duke's son, the one named Wright." ”

Alice said, "yes, he seems to have participated in this competition, I'll go find him now." ”

Bing Zhixiao grabbed Alice's back neckline: "Stupid, you are a princess of another country, how can you go to the duke's house in this country casually? Not to mention that this duke also has the royal blood of Golusia." ”

Alice reacted immediately, broke out in a cold sweat, and patted her heart: "I almost forgot my identity as a princess." ”

This kind of thing is indeed very taboo between countries. Duke, means noble status, royal blood means inheritance, as a foreign princess, if you visit the imperial duke's house in Golusia privately, this will cause great suspicion of the ruling royal family.

Alice said, "Then I want to be a housekeeper and call Wright in the name of Uncle Caesar." ”

"You know this better than I do. "Bing Zhi Evil Dao.