Chapter 717

"The so-called alchemy is a long and great knowledge. It was created by our wise ancestors thousands of years ago and flourished with ancient magic in ancient times more than once. Although this discipline is gradually forgotten by many people, I still want to tell you here that its charm will shine again in the near future!"

"In fact, we know that even though many friends don't know much about alchemy, there must be another person who is well known. Yes, he is the last great alchemist in history who refined the magic stone and enjoyed his life for more than 600 years, Mr. Nicole LeMay!"

On the east side of the broad stadium, Mr. hornheim, sitting in the middle of the jury, is standing there now, making an opening speech into the finals with great momentum.

For the researcher who spent half his life as an alchemist, alchemy has become everything in his life. Nicole LeMay has naturally become his academic idol from small to large.

Therefore, his praise for alchemy and Nicole LeMay has always been generous.

"... and today, the twelve contestants who have worked hard in this competition and stood out with their excellent alchemy level are waving to you from the first champion of this international alchemy competition!"

At this point, Mr. hornheim swung his right arm forward, and the amplified voice was full of excitement after the sound reinforcement spell.

"Next, it's time to announce today's topic!" he said in a loud voice. "Twelve contestants, do you remember what I just mentioned? Mr. Nicole LeMay has refined a magic stone that can be called a peak of alchemy! Yes, you must be familiar with the magic stone?"

At this moment, both the players on the field and the guests in the audience were stunned for the first time - what do you mean? Is the final stage of the subject magic stone?

Even joking, I believe no one would say such a thing. The difficulty of making magic stone is naturally unimaginable, which can be understood by some audiences who do not understand what alchemy is.

Fortunately, hornheim didn't pause too long. He soon went on.

"Today's topic is a research topic closely related to the refining of magic stone. The twelve contestants present have exquisite alchemy strength. I think this topic will let everyone show their skills, so next -"

At this time, hornheim finally shouted with great excitement:

"Please twelve contestants show us the active refining of material elements!"

In alchemical theory, matter is composed of various elements. Those elements can be divided into four categories according to their nature and state, namely "Qi", "water", "Earth" and "fire".

It is said that the Sorcerer's stone is a wonderful substance that is refined and synthesized by alchemists and has four characteristics at the same time. Although it is generally called "stone", the specific state can be changeable.

In order to refine the magic stone, the special refining step of "single element activation" has been mentioned in ancient books. Even on the emerald stone slab named "Emerald record" excavated in the secret room of a pyramid in Egypt, a few words about the peak of alchemy and the pregnancy of life are mentioned.

Therefore, this subject has always been an important research direction in the field of alchemy. Although the magic stone can't be made, it can be said that the academic research on the activation of elements has made some progress.

At the moment, Marca is sitting in his seat. He looked at hornheim's cheerful expression, but his heart was still a little restless.

This topic was decided by the jury with reference to his suggestions for the final announcement of Nicole LeMay's heritage. But now, Mingming's players are ready, but he can't pay attention to the game in front of him.

"... is it because NES Taron disappeared for no reason?" while he was paying attention to a series of situations in the game, his mind was still distracted to think about the reason why he couldn't settle down. "Or was it because of the strange prediction in the bald head's memory?"

Today's final question should have been something he was also very interested in, because he has always been curious about how the ancient Summoning Magic gave life to the deformed material. The activation of alchemy should give him a lot of inspiration.

However, he is not interested in this final stage at all.

About Ernst, people have been arranged to search inside and outside the school, and even the Ministry of magic has sent a letter to inform him. As one of the leaders of the event, he can't go away at least in the final stage. It's impossible to help find someone for the time being.

She shook her head gently. Maka put aside her hesitation and paid attention to the players on the field as much as possible.

So far, the twelve finalists have not surprised him. There were three African delegations, three Mesopotamian joint delegations, and the other six were selected from the delegations of several countries with relatively outstanding alchemy history, such as Egypt and Greece.

In fact, the original and Indian magic circles should have enough possibility to participate in the finals. Just because of the bald old man, the Indian delegation completely lost the right to participate in the competition before attending, so people can't judge whether it's a pity.

It was the only individual alchemist who passed all the way to reach the final stage, which obviously surprised many people.

"Mr. McLean, isn't that the player you mentioned on the first day?"

Next to Maka, the Minister of magic, scrimgeor, who also came to watch the final, also found the handsome wizard in Muggle tuxedo. "It is worthy of Mr. McClane. He is not only powerful, but also has extraordinary vision."

Skilinger has hardly boasted about others in most of his life. He used to be the director of Auror's office, but now he has no chance to say such words when he is a minister. Therefore, these praise words are clumsy at present.

"Don't say that. At that time, I just guessed casually. How could I expect that now he will really reach the finals in one fell swoop?"

As Maka spoke, she also looked at the middle-aged wizard in the field. It can be clearly seen from him that the other party seems to be carefully depicting a refining array on the stone slab on the ground.

The initial steps of the players are almost the same, and they can't see anything strange for a while.

"That's why modern alchemy is gradually lonely. Even if you choose interesting competition questions, it's always boring at the beginning. If it's ancient alchemy, it seems that there are wonderful scenes like magic spell duel!"

Maka thought so and waited patiently.

Fortunately, these players in the field are high-level alchemists, and the efficiency of depicting the alchemy matrix is very high. Before long, the unique style of every alchemist has been slowly revealed on the field.

For example, a player in Mesopotamia has erected six stone pillars around his refining array, on which various alchemical symbols and patterns are different. As he placed the stone pillars one by one, the symbols and patterns lit up a faint light in turn.

For another example, the player of the Egyptian delegation placed a suspicious gold inlaid coffin on the refining array, and he came with the coffin on his back before the start of the competition, which made many wizards stay away from it with taboo.

For example, the old witch in Africa unexpectedly got a huge crucible from somewhere, stirred the liquid inside beside the completed strange refining array, and emitted huge dark purple smoke.

These three players can be said to be strong contenders for the championship of today's final.

Maka moved her nose on the sideline, smelled the slightly diffused purple fog smell in the air, and soon couldn't help frowning.

"The backbone of the fire dragon, the stems and leaves of black root grass, the slurry of dead thorns, the living Sahara fire amoeba, a large number of mountain trolls' blood... And the powder of Mandela grass?" he roughly counted the materials he smelled, and then wondered, "what's the use of these things together?"

Because Sarah is still pretending to be injured in the hospital ward today, his question is destined to be answered when the results come out.

Next, all kinds of changes in the field continued, and gradually became noticeable.

The first is the contestant from Mesopotamia. The contestant who erected the stone pillars has lit all the stone pillars. Then, with the visible retraction and release of the space in the middle of the refining array, a mass of silver material that didn't know what it was slowly formed.

In today's bright sunshine, the silver reflects a metallic color and looks very beautiful.

Followed by the "coffin Porter" in Egypt.

He didn't feel so good, because many viewers clearly saw that the coffin in his refining array would vibrate every few minutes, as if something would open the coffin at any time and jump out directly. It was really a little scary.

In addition to the two of them, most of the other contestants also had some strange movements. Only the old witch in Africa and the tuxedo alchemist, one is still slowly stirring the VAT, the other is simply drawing the refining array, so people can't guess what they will do.

"Well?"

It was at this time that Marcello raised his eyebrows and seemed to feel something near the two men.