Chapter 266: The Different Competitions (1/2)

From the audience, Alex and the rest could see the different people in the Illusory Formation randomly staring around in different directions.

”Do they perhaps see something different from what we do?” Alex asked. The name Illusory told him that there would be illusions, just not what.

”It's a common rank formation, so I doubt it's anything that impressive. It's probably just a bunch of fog messing with their sense of direction,” Luo Mei said.

Alex kept watching the competition, but at some point, it started to get boring seeing the people at the same place, unmoving.

Alex diverted his attention to the other competitions. The artifact-making competition was somehow the most familiar to Alex. It had a large cauldron on top of the fire, and the participants were putting in ingredients one after another.

The aim of the competition was to make an artifact from the given blueprint as fast as possible. Anything above certain criteria would qualify as having been completed.

The cauldrons the participants used to make artifacts were a lot larger than normal pill cauldrons as the number of materials required in making a simple artifact was must more space-consuming than the ones for simple pills.

The artifact they were making was a simple shield. To make the shield, they needed to make a metal shield itself and a leather strap.

Soon, some of the disciples took the molten metals and started pouring them onto a shield-shaped mold.  The metal cooled down, and it took the shape of the shield.

”Woah, is that how they normally make artifacts? That looks quite easy,” Alex said.

”Nah, normally it's better. They use manual, physical methods to shape the molten metals. But since this is a speed test, they are willing to take the easy route out. After all, they only need to get an Earth Grade shield out of it.

The people quickly finished putting on the strap and the shield was ready. They went to go show it to the host. Alex lost a little interest after learning that that was not the proper method for the artifact-making process.

He changed his attention to the Talisman competition now. The talisman competition was a little different from all the rest.

The disciples were on the ground, continuously mixing various ingredients on a stone slab. The creation was slowly flowing onto a small area where it was getting pooled.

That was what the people were going to use as Ink for the different drawings they made.

Once the inks were ready, they all took out a brush and paper and slowly started drawing onto it.

”So, it's the fastest person to make the talisman who wins right? I wonder who will draw the rune first,” someone in front of Alex asked.

”Hey idiot, just cheer for your fellow disciple who is taking part,” someone else asked.