Pillars of Ita

Time Traveler returned to the players' rest area with a dark face.The others all looked at each other in blank dismay. They thought that even if the opponent couldn't secure a victory over the Colin-Ishurian dragon alchemist in the city barrier, at least they could pull back a little point.

Who would have thought that the Grand Craftsman's Association didn't let Fang Yan play at all, but lined up an unknown player, and even drew with Time Walker.Of course, it's not really unknown. The analysts also introduced this player to them in advance. He is one of the three main generals of the Grande Craftsman Association. He is also from Silver Wisland. Won the leader in a game of gram.

The chief general of Silver Wisland should be valued no matter what.

But in terms of popularity, the latter is still not as good as the dragon alchemist.Weiyu became famous earlier, but most of the fame was limited to Kapuka, Colin-Ishurian's Chosen, and Fang Plover's reputation outside the kingdom can be regarded as some coincidence, which is difficult for others to copy, mainly from In the spread of the Southern Territory Contest and the Gray Wanted Order of the Ultra-Sports League.

However, the other players of Nottings' Boat didn't complain, and even comforted him a few words.

The team leader pulled Time Traveler aside nervously, and asked, "You didn't try your best, did you?"

Time Traveler couldn't hold back his face, and shook his head with a dark face.

But he wasn't telling the whole truth.The whisper aroused his competitive spirit, he tried his best in terms of speed, but he was still slightly inferior to his opponent.It's just that he still has reservations about craftsmanship, precision and material handling.

"That's good," the team leader breathed a sigh of relief, "The score in the first game is not important, we will definitely make it to the third round. The key is the choice of the Holy King. Don't expose your strength too much in this round. There are many similar painful lessons in the past, as long as you understand."

"Nakula?"

"It's hard for us to win this game." The team leader shook his head, "His opponent is the dragon alchemist, no matter how powerful Kura is, he should not be able to score 7.5 points from the opponent, then we have to change our strategy, I will Let Kura not show too much strength in the game. I didn't expect that the home team of Colin-Ishurian was so good this time. They lost consecutively in the second world. Interesting role, could it be that they have changed their training strategy for elites...?"

Time Traveler is not interested in these, the competition between the second division and the third division is too far away from him, and he is not even considered the management of the Nottingham Boat Guild.However, after sitting on the bench for a while, he finally adjusted his mentality and looked at the rest area of ​​the Grand Craftsman Association.

Indeed, the boat of Nottings will definitely be able to enter the Twin Towers Trial, and there are still many opportunities to compete with the opponent.

Not to mention that Time Traveler reached a settlement with himself here.The leader of the boat of Nottings went to Kura to give some instructions.On the side of Galante, Virus, Ming and Soul Fingerprint were also pulling Fang Plover aside for questioning.

"Wind element recovery net, this is the topic you chose. This thing is indeed not the most out-of-the-ordinary type of equipment on sailboats, but it is also rare on small airships. If I remember correctly, your Is the ship a caravel?"

This is Ms. Ming speaking.

However, she doesn't know much about the construction of sailboats. Virus is not the same. The latter is a professional shipbuilder, and he also met Fang Plover during the Northern War, so he probably knows something about the experience of the Seven Seas Traveler. .

She opened her mouth and asked, "Do you have an air battle deck on your ship?"

Fang Plover nodded.

He set up a small hangar in the middle of the lower deck of the Seven Seas Traveler, and when the side hatch door is opened up and down, it can be used to drop the construct for combat.

The efficiency is not high. Under normal conditions, four constructs can be placed in one round, and the setup time is about 5 minutes.

But in the recovery state, only one hatch can be used for launching, and the attack efficiency has become half of the original.He and Miss Tata divided the Lancer structures on the ship into three combat groups, each with about twenty flexible structures.

The advantage of this is that a team can always be engaged in combat between the attack state, the readiness state and the recovery state during combat.

At present, what restricts the attack efficiency of the Seven Seas Traveler is mainly recovery.

There is a small wind element rope on the starboard side of the Seven Seas Traveler, but only two flexible structures can be retrieved at a time. If the speed of recovery and release is the same, it will take an hour for the Seven Seas Traveler to release a group of [-] combat structures.

In other words, the interval between each attack wave of the Seven Seas Traveler is one hour, which is still too long.And when the recovery efficiency is doubled, the delivery efficiency of air combat can be increased by more than one-third.

The soul fingerprints became more and more wrong the more I listened to it.

She is well versed in this little guy's personality, and couldn't help but ask: "...So, don't you use this project as a practice, to try whether the wind element recovery net can be installed on your boat?" ?”

"what happened?"

Fang Yan was taken aback, "Can't you do this?"

He looked at his soul fingerprint with a strange face, and suddenly realized that something was wrong, and asked nervously: "It should be possible... right? Is it not allowed by the rules of the game?"

There is a black line on the soul fingerprint, "You don't think you can still take the finished product away, do you? Whoring the organizer's materials for nothing, your idea is really good?"

"But……"

Fang Plover is a little innocent.

The Elvendor Council also let them take away the work in the Southland Contest?The arm armor he made for Nini, as well as the goblin doll, were taken away by the contestants in the Southern Territory Competition.He thought the Imperials would do the same.

"That's an exhibition match," Soul Fingerprint sighed, knowing that no matter how much he emphasized, this guy would also have these oolongs, "Allowing players to take away their own works is one of the rewards given to players by the Elvendor Council. "

"The imperial people are too stingy," Fang Yan couldn't help complaining, "Are they still short of such materials?"

"That's not true," Ming said with a smile, thinking that this little guy is very interesting.

It is rumored by outsiders that Fang Plover is like Loofah before he became famous, but she thinks this little guy is very similar to herself before becoming famous. She was so preoccupied at that time, so that now Odin and Chen Xi are still subconscious when they see her He backed away.

Of course, it was someone who cheated her the most.

Virus noticed the latter's gaze, and only gave him a cold look.Then she turned her head away, out of sight and out of mind.

Only then did Ming explain with a smile: "The people of the empire don't like this material, but these works are commemorative. After the competition, the Austrian people will display them in a special museum. Every year, the contestants, Hundreds of works will be placed there to record this commemorative competition."

"However, there are exceptions, but those will be understood when you get to the Hall of the Holy King. The imperial people will naturally explain the rules to you at that time, and it is meaningless to tell you these things now."

It turned out to be the case.

Only then did Fang Zhi understand.However, Ms. Ming had already encouraged him a few words, and the soul fingerprint seemed to want to say something more, Ming also interrupted: "Okay, it's useless to say more. Although it's impossible to prostitute for free, it's also good to use official materials to practice your hands." OK."

"Practice hands, don't reveal too much strength." Soul Fingerprint was still worried, and repeatedly urged.

Fang Plover nodded.

He naturally understands this.

At this time, the referee team has already rang the small copper bell to remind the contestants of both sides to enter the arena.Only then did Fang Yan bid farewell to the crowd, walked out of the rest area of ​​the contestants on the Grande side, and walked up the field.

At the same time, he saw that the contestant of Nottings' Boat was the young man of North African Berber origin named Kula.He thought of something, and subconsciously stretched out his hand to hold the ring of golden flames on his chest, but the golden ring that had been effective in the past seemed to be out of order this time, and it was cold.

Is it really an illusion?

Fang Yan looked at the other party and thought.The boy had already stood still in front of his workbench, and there was no unnecessary interaction between the two of them. Instead, they exchanged a salute according to the etiquette of the players, and then took their positions.Although there was no tit-for-tat as imagined, the enthusiasm of the audience was very high.

His reputation seems to be really high among the chosen ones, especially the alchemists among the chosen ones, and the waves of shouts are higher and higher, which is actually a bit deafening.The final round of four games was going on at the same time, but more than half of the audience's eyes were focused on this one instead.

It’s just that the contestants on both sides of the competition seemed to be unaffected at all. The Berber boy lowered his head to sort out the tools, and then sorted out the materials and components. His eyes were focused, and he was completely immersed in his own world.Fang Plover also checks the tools he needs, the magic furnace, the element tester, sailboat construction is the crown above large equipment, and one of the three prides of alchemy (the other is the magic furnace and dragon knight), It is also the most sophisticated field of magic arts.

However, the Imperials are really rich, and they have all the equipment, which is much more complete than what he has seen in the Tansnier Shipyard.There are also some tools that the plovers can’t even recognize—the Oshu people are really rich, and he couldn’t help but sigh in his heart when he saw these latest models of instruments.

Regardless of whether the players need it or not, the organizers will put them here first.

But Fang Plover didn't look at those instruments first, but put his hand on an elemental crystal.It was a square crystal, which contained the power of the wind element above the sea of ​​clouds. The crystal showed an azure color, and each side bloomed with dazzling brilliance.

Storm crystals, the highest quality wind element crystals mined under the wind element layer.As early as 400 years ago, the Ossurians were extracting the purest wind element from this type of crystal, and Fang Plover had never been in contact with this level of elemental crystal before.

He carefully felt the cold touch from the palm of his hand, as if he had abandoned all external disturbances, cheers, whistles, and all the noise had nothing to do with it.

He only saw the world of alchemy in his eyes.

Holding the crystal in his hand, Fang Plover seemed to be holding a world, which was a real world that he could perceive.

Starlight's world——

And those words were echoing in his ears:

'Everyone, do you want to know why ancient alchemy was born? '

There was a little silence on the field.

Mu Lan stared nervously at the direction of the field. She wasn't worried that Fang Plover would miss, but she couldn't help worrying at this time.On the contrary, when she was on the court, Mu Lan was able to let go and face every game of her calmly.

Shui Wuming poked her on the back with his finger, "Mu Lan, you are familiar with Ed, do you know what he said earlier?"

Then Mu Lan withdrew her attention and asked, "What do you mean?"

"It's what he said to you, MTT and us," Shui Wuming replied, "Have you forgotten? He seemed to appreciate Wucun very much, and he praised Wucun, and then he said that He said that ancient alchemy does not mean complicated, but that Cui Yu and Dill did not have enough proficiency at the time. He did not think carefully at the time, which made ancient alchemy leave such an impression on the outside world. "

Mu Lan was slightly taken aback, and then recalled, she couldn't help but nodded, "Ed did say that, in fact, MTT and I have also discussed it in private, ancient alchemy is very complicated, but it doesn't necessarily mean procrastination Lengthy. Repeated training can effectively improve, as you can see, Wucun is much better than Cui Yu and Dill's performance at that time."

"But Ed asked us, what kind of art is ancient alchemy...?"

Shui Wuming frowned, "I always feel that there is something in his words, isn't that the alchemy of the Numelin elves to purify materials?
"I don't know about that either," Mu Lan also felt a little strange, "Sister Luo Wei, can you see it?"

"I don't know much about ancient alchemy either," Luo Wei shook her head, "but Ed should have his own ideas. I don't know about ancient alchemy, but I finally know something about multiple parallelism. The technique of multiple parallelism... ...and the purification material, there really isn't much logical connection."

"Even though multiple parallelism has certain applications in purifying crystals, that's not actually its main application direction...Multiple parallelism, as you can understand from the name, is a technique to forcibly reduce calculation time by using computing power."

"And you know, my teacher..."

"That's right," Mu Lan realized, "Ms. Ming..."

Swift Tactics was originally a skill extended from multiple parallel ideas.

If anyone in the second world knows more about multiple parallelisms, the Construct Queen must be one of them.It's a pity that she is a battle craftsman, otherwise she would definitely have very profound attainments in alchemy, but even so, it is enough to make her proud of everyone on the way of flexible construction.

Otherwise, the third division will not allow her to serve as the head team coach.

Luo Wei nodded, "The teacher also said that Ed's talent in multiple parallelism is unmatched by anyone in Atalia."

No one can beat that.

Everyone couldn't help but looked at each other in shock.

Mu Lan opened her mouth, "I seem to understand a little bit," she said, "Why do Ragnarok, Elite, and Silver Wislan value him so much? If so, why did the former alliance want him before?"

"If you can't get it, destroy it," Xiaoyao shrugged, "Isn't that hard to understand? Isn't this their consistent thinking over the years."

"It's funny to say," Shui Wuming's mouth curled up, "Ed had worked with the Jefflet Redcoats before, and even participated in the July War, but unfortunately, the Jefflet Redcoats were blind. You let him go so easily."

Ms. Ming finally couldn't bear it any longer, she taught from the side: "Watch the game carefully, don't whisper."

Shui Wuming was speechless.

Behind the godslayer is the former alliance, and the former alliance is the big backstage of BBK. The Jefflet Red Team is the guild of BBK, and Ming's trip to the empire this time can be said to be for Jefflet. Redcoats wipe ass.

She almost forgot about this relationship.

Virus looked at Ming, but rarely said anything.

But what exactly was ancient alchemy?

Everyone is a little curious.

However, in fact, the game itself was not as exciting as people imagined.

It can even be said to be a bit boring.

Compared with the previous game, Whisper and Time Walker faced each other from the very beginning, and both contestants showed extraordinary strength.The audience couldn't see other ways, but at least they could see the smooth assembly speed of the two contestants.

Watching an alchemy work seem to be speeded up, like adding bricks and tiles to perfection in front of him little by little, during which every step is extremely smooth, that kind of sensory enjoyment is undoubtedly pleasing to the eye.

At that time, the speed of whispering was astonishingly fast——

But on the other hand, Time Walker didn't slow down much either. The two contestants raced against each other, exaggerating the tense atmosphere of the game at that time.Coupled with the commentary adding oil and vinegar, everyone felt that they had experienced a big drama of fighting between dragons and tigers.

People who didn't know the inside story thought that it wasn't the first round of the main competition, but the finals held in the Hall of the Holy King.

But in comparison, the match between Fang Plover and Kura was much more dull.

Kura is okay, the assembly speed is not faster than Whisper and Time Walker, but at least it is not much slower, and the other party seems to have a characteristic, that is, the hand is very steady-general players often need to Confirm again and again, but he can often complete it only once or twice.

There is hardly any hesitation in the middle.

The narrators seemed to have noticed this too, and passed it on to the audience after rendering it, which attracted bursts of admiration.What the audience likes most is that each player has his own unique skills, and players with different strengths compete on the field.

Can be on the other side.

The commentators didn't know how to describe it.Atalia originally did not have a commentary position, which was also a new thing brought by the selectors, and the main game commentators of the Super Sports League were almost all professional commentators sent by the league.

There is no doubt about the professionalism of his commentary, and he even knows some related analyst talents and some related professional skills.They can say that they understand alchemy more or less, but they really lack understanding of the new thing of ancient alchemy.

There are many ancient alchemy techniques. They may have seen other ancient alchemy techniques in other competitions, but they have never seen Fang Plover's current one.

In their eyes, Fang Plover's movements are slow.

Yes.

slow--

As mentioned earlier, among the large-scale alchemy devices, there are four main fields, the floating ship, the dragon knight, the magic furnace and the city barrier.Although the four fields are different, they all have one thing in common, that is complexity.

A large-scale installation is a complex and long-term project, so in general competitions do not require contestants to complete the work completely, as long as one part or the core part is completed.The completion of the work is also one of the keys to scoring.

Because of this, in such competitions, most of the components used by the contestants are finished components, and the material processing is generally not involved, and the referee team usually gives the contestants a basic material processing score.

It is usually the average score of several other scores.

Kura is like this. The components have already been prepared. He only needs to borrow the on-site instruments to determine the magic power, attributes, and elemental properties one by one, and then assemble them with magic crystals, circuits, and components to build what he needs. s work.

Among them, the biggest test for the craftsman is the assembly accuracy, and the second is to use the craftsman's ability to repeatedly check and communicate the nodes on the circuit, especially the latter is the most important.

The Berber boy was methodical, and soon a frame appeared in front of him.

But on Fang Plover's side, the other party seems to be equally unhurried——

In the eyes of everyone, this dragon alchemist not only did not start to build the framework, but slowly fiddled with the crystals and raw materials, but the other party's movements were very weird, unlike ordinary alchemists who described the magic circle and then purified the materials.

He just picks up something, gives it a light grip, and puts it down.

The sharp-eyed ones saw that the moment the other party picked up something, there seemed to be light flashing on the magic glove, and the material changed shape accordingly.

Just like that, one piece after another was stacked up in front of Fang Plover.

"What is he doing?"

There was a whisper in the audience for a while.

"That's ancient alchemy, I heard that ancient alchemy is like this, complicated and procrastinated."

"But isn't there a ready-made component that doesn't need to process materials?"

"Yes, I heard that ancient alchemy has expertise in purifying materials, but naval equipment is a big project. If the progress is too slow, the score advantage in materials alone will not equal the loss in other aspects... "

"Is he the only one who knows this?"

Most of the audience present had never experienced the Southern Territory Competition, so they had different opinions.

But people who can really understand.

In fact, only members of the Kaolin-Ishurian delegation were present at the scene, especially those contestants who had personally experienced the Southern Territory Competition and learned ancient alchemy from Fang Plover.

When Fang Plover picked up the first storm crystal.

Wucun, who watched this scene from a distance, changed his expression greatly. He almost lost his composure and stood up from his seat, rushed forward a few steps, came to the edge of the arena, and looked at the man with almost unbelievable eyes. direction.

"That is……?"

Shui Wuming was taken aback.

In the rest area of ​​the contestants of the Grande Craftsman Association, almost everyone stood up suddenly from their seats. Virus, Ming, and soul fingerprints all showed shock.Although the first two haven't systematically understood ancient alchemy, they know more.

"This……"

Even if he thought about the soul fingerprint in advance, that guy would definitely make some mistakes, but he didn't expect that what the other party said before had such a meaning.

She looked to Virus and Ming aside.But the latter two glanced at each other, then shook their heads.

The commotion in one corner of the arena seemed to have finally affected other people as well.

The commentary desk was the first to notice this scene. They saw the contestants from the Grand Craftsmen Union rushing to the edge of the arena, and then the Kapuka delegation, and several people from the Guta delegation also did exactly the same thing. the behavior of.

"What happened to the Corin-Ishurians?"

The commentators were startled, "Did player Ed make a mistake?"

"No, apart from his slow progress, player Ed doesn't seem to have made any obvious mistakes."

One of them turned around and gestured to the broadcasters, signaling them to turn the screen to the side of the field.It's not clear exactly what happened, but the behavior of the Corin-Ishurians at the moment certainly meant something had happened.

The commentators are all people who know how to create topics.

The picture was quickly passed into the audience's field of vision, and there were buzzing discussions on the field: What happened?Everyone was whispering and discussing the current scene.

But Shui Wuming and the others didn't care about him at all.

In their eyes, the arena has disappeared, and only the alchemy that Fang Plover is displaying remains in the whole world.

"So... this is ancient alchemy?... Is this ancient alchemy?"

Mu Lan was dumbfounded.

Fang Plover told them that ancient alchemy does not mean complicated.

At first they thought that it just meant that after repeated training, they could gradually master those complex magic circles and runes, and try to increase the speed of ancient alchemy in the process of alchemy.

As we all know, ancient alchemy is an alchemy of purifying materials.

It is so outstanding in the way of purifying materials that it is not unacceptable for people to be complicated.After all, alchemy itself means trade-offs.

But what I never expected was——

At this moment, Fang Yan was telling them in person that this was not the case.

What is Ancient Alchemy?
What is its nature?
For the Numelin elves, it is meaningless to use magic power to create alchemy items and purify materials.

The world of alchemy is built directly from the elements, replacing the stars, the elements construct everything in the world, and the art of creation of elves—essentially, it is the process of reproducing the bottom logic of this world.

so……

As Ann Roser said.

'The essence of the alchemy of the elves is simplification. '

Use the most concise formula to describe the essence of this world.Thereby omitting unnecessary processes in alchemy.

So the meaning of ancient alchemy.

It's about simplicity.

It was never a purified art from the start...

but a door...

'Easier alchemy. '

Fang Yan thought so in his heart.

Simple means fast.

What he is showing at the moment is extreme speed.

It was an indescribable feeling, it was the only alchemy world left in his eyes, and countless stars were rising from the sea of ​​ether.

A little bit of starlight is rising from the bottom of his eyes. The craftsman's magic gloves, the crystal in his hand and the magic power flowing in the magic furnace seem to form a whole at this moment.The twinkling starlight in the darkness is the other side of the sea of ​​ether——

The nodes of light expand like prosperous galaxies.

Multiple parallels drive the magic circle of the elves to the extreme.

More than fifteen magic power circuits are fully connected in an instant, and the materials are purified and formed in an instant, without the use of any instruments or tools.All the alchemist has to do is draw the circle in multiple parallels, take a piece of material, and put down the finished component.

When the ultimate step was reached.

Elements are born from the starlight, and matter is constructed from it, thus showing the bottom-level logic of this world.

Although Fang Plover hadn't reached that step yet.

But he understands that that is the highest pursuit of elves in alchemy.

In just a split second, he completes a component and sets it aside.

Off the field, Mu Lan, MTT, Wucun, and Shui Wuming, who have personally studied ancient alchemy, felt suffocated.What they saw seemed not to be a game, but the process of creation.

The stars twinkled and the world was born.

The world behind that door.

finally revealed to them——

……