Pillars of Ita

In a blink of an eye, he stayed in Bavarian for more than half a month.After the four rounds, the day to return to Einbroek is approaching.

This city on the border of the empire has beautiful scenery, and humans and lizardmen live in the city mixed together. It has a completely different cultural style from other parts of the empire.Bavarian is adjacent to the Tequila Forest. It is less than a hundred miles away from the urban area. Through the southern part of the forest, you can see the scenery of the legendary Great Rift Valley. The famous Pistoia Monument Waterfall of the Empire is located here.

This nearly three-kilometer-long sea of ​​clouds waterfall was discovered by the imperial adventurer Pistoia Reynald, and it got its name from it.It is also a well-known landmark on the Far South Route. There is an endless stream of tourists visiting here every year, and it is given another name, 'The Brocade of Mamir, the God of Love and Beauty'.

Because the surging sea of ​​clouds pours into the Great Rift Valley from here, the waterfall reflects colorful brilliance in the sun.

This area is rich in amethyst, and there is a huge amethyst mine located deep underground.The amethyst mined from the local area has a weak element of wind and thunder, which is an indispensable type of raw stone for low-level alchemy, and is exported to various places together with Bavarian's fluorescent ink.

However, people prefer to give this kind of bright and beautiful purple spar another meaning.

"How much is this crystal?"

Fang Plover stood in front of an elderly lizard man.

On the opposite stall, there are several types of amethysts, large and small, some of which are of outstanding quality.Fang Plover picked up one of them and looked at the sunlight. The crystal was shaped like an olive. It was cut by a skilled craftsman and emitted charming light from different facets.

The contestants stayed in Bavarian for half a month, but they hardly ever went out, except for a few who couldn't stay idle—such as Xiaoyao and Mu Lan, who just took a stroll around the city.Others were either staying in hotels or on their way to the arena.

The south is warm and humid. After staying for more than half a month, everyone felt a little moldy on their bodies, and their game status continued to decline.After the four rounds were over, and seeing that the last match in Bavarian was approaching, under the permission of the soul fingerprint, Ms. Ming gave everyone a holiday with a big wave of her hand.

So the Goland delegation ushered in their first collective activity in the empire—the trip to the Pistoia Monument Waterfall.

Speaking of cards, Ming and Virus traveled with them in order to prevent the players from having any accidents.A mere craftsman competition delegation was traveling, and there were actually two pseudo-dragon knights escorting them on one side, which was considered a spectacle in the first world.

The lizard man in front of the square plover was wearing a long robe, with black patterns growing on the wrinkled skin, it was a typical night lizard man.It taciturnly raised three fingers to Fang Plover, "Three thousand lisael?" Fang Plover was startled, thinking how expensive it was, but subconsciously paid for it.

However, Shui Wuming came over and knocked off his hand, "Are you stupid?" the Elite general said with a look of hatred, "as much as it says? It said [-] risels, are you Pay too?"

Wouldn't it?
Fang Yan wanted to say that the purity of this crystal is very high, and the naturally formed crystal has so few internal horizontal cracks, which is a very rare thing in nature, and it is also the best quality among this pile of crystals. Class, it should be worth the price.

He is not a fool, so he will pay the bill only after seeing the value of this crystal.But Fang Yan remembered the experience of being scolded by Tian Lan last time, he opened his mouth and chose to shut up—remember that was also the only time Tian Lan failed to negotiate a price.

The businessman used his reasons to block Tianlan's mouth, and explained the truth clearly and logically. In the end, the little girl was so angry that she didn't speak a word to him for a full week after returning to the Seven Seas Traveler.

Fang Plover regretted it when he thought about it, he should have collected the copyright fee from that merchant.

At that time, Luo Yu was also unlucky.

Because Luo Yu also chimed in.

Shui Wuming didn't go up to help him negotiate the price, but Luo Wei stepped in.In Fang Plo's view, senior sister Luo Wei's bargaining style and Tian Lan are in another direction.Tian Bluetooth has a sharp mouth, likes to bury some traps in words, and often makes vendors speechless.

But she will show a tendency to buy, and the merchants will not be disgusted, and they will regard her as a person who finds fault.This approach is often unfavorable, and in the end both parties compromise and reach an agreement.Tianlan also said that this is her tried and tested strategy.

But Senior Sister Luo Wei spoke softly and methodically when speaking the truth, and she was neither anxious nor sophistry, which only made people unable to resist the mentality of confrontation.To Fang Yan's surprise, Luo Wei also understood the Snakeman language, and understood the culture of the Lizard people very well, and soon chatted with the old Lizardman.

In the end, the other party was convinced, and with a look that they were in a good mood, they gave Fang Plover and his party a half discount.But besides Fang Plover who spent [-] lisell to buy the crystal, Luo Wei also bought a few of them herself.

"Senior Luo Wei didn't need to buy those crystals." Shui Wuming frowned, "It looks like it gave us a discount, but we don't necessarily make money. To put it bluntly, these crystals are everywhere around here. It's worth nothing to lizardmen."

Luo Wei smiled, "It gave us a discount because it is kind to us, and kindness is worth responding to. What's more, these crystals are of little value to the lizardmen, but they are of great value to us. We are completing When a transaction is made, it is actually just choosing the value definition in one's own mind, and it is not a matter of making a profit or losing money."

Fang Plover nodded while listening.

Compared with Tianlan, he is more willing to accept Luo Wei's statement.

"I can't say it to you, but you have a lot of reason." Shui Wuming shook his head, feeling a little helpless about it.But she looked at Fang Plover again, and asked curiously: "But why do you have to come here to buy this thing? This thing can be found everywhere in Bavarian, and it's much cheaper than here."

"I think the one in your hand is of good quality, but it's not worth fifteen hundred risels. It's so expensive, it's enough for me to spend half a month on cosmetics," she looked at the endless stream of people in the distance. tourists, "You are different from those people, you will not be superstitious about the other functions of this crystal, will you?"

Fang Plover blushed a little.

He covered the crystal with his hand and carefully put it into his purse.

"Oh?" Shui Wuming glanced at him meaningfully, and let out a long cry, "Could it be that you want to give it away? The crystal of the god of love and beauty, you also believe in this, who is it?" Senior sister Luo Wei, no, no, you and senior sister Luo Wei have only known each other for two days."

Luo Wei glared at her angrily.

But Shui Wuming didn't care, "It's still that little girl from Ragnarok? It's still Baixue, can't it be Baixue? Then what about you and Sophie?"

Fang Plover was speechless.

The two of them hadn't had much contact in the Southland Contest. At that time, he didn't expect that the master of the Elite would have such a temperament, going south and north with her teacher.But Fang Plover also expressed deep admiration for the other party's associative ability, and none of his guesses were reliable.

He actually just wanted to use this crystal to make something.

But Shui Wuming thought about it carefully, and suddenly realized, "Could it be that you have a crush on my teacher?"

"Pfft—" Luo Wei, who was drinking water at the side, spat out a mouthful of water, blushing from choking.She raised her head, coughed and said, "Wu Ming, you are getting more and more outrageous."

"A reasonable guess," Shui Wuming said solemnly, "The teacher is only four years older than me. There are many people in the community who like the teacher. Doesn't this mean that Ed has good vision?"

She turned her head and said to Plover, "Really, Junior Ed?"

But Fang Plover looked in one direction.

He was blushing and didn't dare to say a word.

Shui Wuming was startled, and suddenly felt a little bad.When she turned around, she happened to see Mingzheng looking at her with a smile, and Virus happened to be standing beside the latter with a straight face.

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There is no need to mention what happened after that, anyway, the delegation has not seen the Elite leader, including Ms. Virus, for several days in a row.According to Minghe's soul fingerprint, it is said that the latter is receiving special training.

The reason was poor performance in the previous round.

This reason is also plausible.

In fact, they encountered a lot of trouble in the fourth round.In the first half of the fourth round, they met the bottom-ranked team in the Hill of Giant Trees. It was expected to be an easy game, and the soul fingerprint did not allow Fang Plover to play in the starting lineup.

It is rare for the opponent to choose a category of fairy envoy, and here they also reciprocate with a city enchantment.

But the Soul Fingerprint did not let Luo Wei play, but Shui Wuming replaced Luo Wei as the surgeon. In the end, Shui Wuming and Weiyu won each other's two games, but Guland suffered a big loss in that game.

On the one hand, there is a rule that the competition cannot have two consecutive byes.

And considering the impact of the players' personal points, generally speaking, it is not to hide the big move, or deliberately hide the players, the coach will make the players in the delegation play alternately.

However, in order to hide Guland's talent in potions until the end, the soul fingerprint still identified the plug-in category for this young man from Yasha in this round, and made him play instead of Wucun.

His opponent was originally not good at this category in the previous competition, so the analysis team was not too worried.

But I didn't expect the people from the Hill of Giant Trees to hide their hand. In this game, the opponent showed extraordinary talent in plug-ins, which made Grande always lose a lot of points in this item. Open eight out of eight for the opponent.

Later, MTT failed to recover the point difference, and Grande would always lose to his opponent by four points.

This game caused a lot of criticism for Soul Fingerprint in the community, and its main accusations focused on a few points.The first is why Luo Wei, who is a goblin craftsman, is not allowed to play, but Shui Wuming is allowed to act in his place?

Considering the relationship between Elite and Godslayer, as well as the rumors about the feud between the Construct Queen and Virus, many voices of doubt have even shifted to conspiracy theories.Could it be that Luo Wei was hidden by the coaching staff?
Fortunately, Ragnarok and Godslayer belonged to the old alliance, and it sounds unreliable that Elite teamed up with Ragnarok to target Godslayer, so such rumors did not go viral.

The second is who selected Gulande. From all aspects, the performance of this young man from Yasha in the first few games was only quite satisfactory. There are many places where it is not as good.

Not to mention this match, he lost a lot of points in the opponent's hands.

As the leader of the Artisan Association of Grande, Soul Fingerprint is obviously to blame for this.

In the end, there were some criticisms about why Fang Plover did not play in the starting lineup, but this rhythm is not big.After all, most people who can pay attention to this game will not be ignorant of the competition system. Fang Plover will either play in the first half or the second half, showing his face in every round of the game.

As far as the competition system is concerned, it doesn't really matter whether they start the game or not, it's nothing more than a tactical arrangement.

But in the second half of the round, Soul Fingerprint finally reversed the reputation in one fell swoop.In the second half of the fourth round, the Grand Artisan Association met the second-ranked delegation from Rotao, the Holy White Field Artisan Association.

This is a craftsman association with a long history.

It is also the birthplace of the Arch of Stars of the Three Great Schools of the Rotao School, the Second Artisan Association of the Wilderness Kingdom, which ranks second only to the Tanluo Artisan Association in China for a long time.Among the three high-level knowledge required for Fang Plover's magic power recovery, the star network vein is the theory from this society.

But very rarely, the Holy White Field Craftsman's Association did not choose the crystal project that it has always been best at, but chose magic tools and fairy envoys.On the other hand, Grande General Assembly chose a large magic furnace and crystal instead.

Among them, Crystal's game was quite satisfactory, and Xiaoyao was slightly inferior to his opponent, losing by conceding [-] points.However, this result is not surprising at all. The theory of "star network vein" was originally born for the magic furnace, and it is one of the most famous ether theories.

The Holy White Field Craftsman Association has always produced a large number of capable crystal craftsmen, and this is also one of their strengths over the years.

It was the goblin envoy scene, on the contrary, that was the real fight between dragons and tigers, and its excitement surprised everyone.The contestant sent by the Holy White Field Artisan Association is a true genius, although no one has ever heard of the people of the wilderness having expertise in goblin craftsmanship before——

But in the history of craftsmen, there are sometimes such extraordinary geniuses passing by like meteors and leaving a shining stroke in the long river of history.

This was the case for the contestant from the Holy White Field Craftsman's Association.

The work that the other party took out turned out to be a goblin doll, which was almost exactly the same as Fang Yan's work in the Southern Territory Contest.The other party seemed to be deliberately provocative, and when he finished the work, he even glanced at Fang Plover from afar - but Fang Pl's heart was peaceful.

He didn't know how to make elves.

But Miss Tata told him that the other party's craftsmanship is not as good as the alchemists of the Silver Tower.It's just that she is only slightly inferior to her.

This evaluation is already quite high.

At least in the southern region, Miss Tata's accomplishments in goblin envoys are definitely among the best. Master Ander told him personally that the level of the inheritance craftsmen in the Rose Workshop is far below Miss Tata.Otherwise, those master craftsmen wouldn't have been so surprised in the Southern Territory Competition.

However, what was really surprising was Luo Wei's strength.

Fang Yan's perception of this senior in the past was probably approachable and amiable.But he never expected that Luo Wei's talent in elf envoy was so high, and Miss Tata admitted that his senior sister's strength was comparable to her.

Luo Wei's works are just very simple fairy gems, a kind of special information crystals for storing fairy structures.

But with this crystal, she defeated her opponent by [-] points and won this round.

Luo Wei's victory obviously had a huge blow to the confidence of the Holy White Field Craftsmen's Association, so much so that their next player performed a little abnormally in the next game.So much so that Mu Lan took a three-point advantage in the field of magic tools.

You must know that Luotao's folk customs are tough, and war tool craftsmen are very popular in the country.And the reason why the other party would take the initiative to choose the magic tool must represent that this item is the traditional strength of the Holy White Field Craftsman Association.

Losing a lot of points in traditional strengths is basically synonymous with a big mistake, either a craftsman's own mistake, or a tactical arrangement mistake.

As for the last game, there is nothing to talk about.

Up to now, everyone has assumed that Fang Plover's strength is roughly equivalent to the first-line players in this competition, the main force among the main players.He is basically a star player equivalent to the Empire Double Star and the player named Forin from the Hill of Giant Trees.

And this game was in his field of expertise. In the end, Plover directly scored [-] points above the large magic furnace, winning the round with a score difference of more than seven points.

But the key to this round is obviously Luo Wei's extraordinary performance in the goblin envoy.

The fact that there is still a top elf envoy in the Grand Craftsman Association made everyone realize at this moment that the Colin-Ishurian people might not be kind this time.

And the corresponding forums in the community were even more heated. The original accusation of soul fingerprints now turned into belated praise.Everyone responded:

If the first round of Soul Fingerprints allowed Luo Wei to play, it might not necessarily be able to reverse the score difference.

But in the second round of competition, they must suffer a big loss.

Who would have thought that the Holy White Field Artisan Association, which has been studying crystals and magic tools in previous competitions, would produce such a fairy genius this year?
Even Fang Plover felt incredible.

After the game, he couldn't help but asked the soul fingerprints, Ming and Ms. Virus: "How did the analysis team know that the opponent had such a goblin envoy? I read from the community that this Rotao player had never participated in any related activities beforehand." the match of."

Both Ming and Virus looked at the soul fingerprint, but the soul fingerprint was very humble, "Actually, Luo Wei saw it by herself. She is also a goblin envoy, and the opponent's contestant participated in a crystal event before. You should know it too." , crystal artisan is the source of all artisans. There is no category of artisans that can be completely separated from the category of crystal artisans, because any type of magic device, plug-in or construction needs the support of magic crystals, unless you directly use finished crystals ..."

"But professional alchemists seldom do this, and he has also participated in crystal production before," Luo Wei also said modestly, "I am also a goblin envoy, and I can see some goblins from his techniques." Generally speaking, a pure crystal craftsman will rarely have other styles, unless he is better at that type of style."

"Luo Wei mentioned this to me at the time," Soul Fingerprint said, "I also became suspicious, so I and Bi Fang pulled out the video recordings of the opponent's other previous matches. After several days and nights of research, I finally confirmed it." This guess—the other party is a goblin envoy, and his level is not ordinary."

"Great," Ming nodded, "Ordinary people might miss this detail. After all, the traces seen from the crystal category may not be accurate in many cases. If you can grasp this detail, you can find clues. Ragnarok has a powerful Analyst."

She looked at the soul fingerprint, "KUN was similar to you before, but unfortunately he is not in the first world because of his business, otherwise he would definitely come here this time. That Mister Omniscient might like you very much, after all, you are the same kind of people. "

The soul fingerprint is a little silent, but it can be seen that she is very concerned about this evaluation.

After all, she is the construction queen of the third division, and the KUN she talks about is not simple.The Founder of the Crown of the Silver Forest, the Omniscient, is probably considered the highest evaluation among tactical analysts, right?

But Fang Plover was still a little puzzled, "In this case, why not choose other categories? Crystal has always been the traditional strength of the Holy White Field Craftsman Association. If we replace it with a plug-in, we might be able to recover the points of the two rounds." Worse."

"Scores are not that important now," Bai Xue shook her head, "I made this proposal, mainly to confirm two things. There are some things that Soul Sister knows better than me, but the relationship between guilds Maybe you can see it more clearly than you.”

"First," she said, "is there an agreement between the Artisan Association of the Hill of Giant Trees and the Lotao people? The delegation of the Hill of Giant Trees we encountered in the first round, the elf envoy in the team did not Not particularly powerful, why did they abandon their traditional strengths and choose the category of goblins?"

The female knight raised another finger, "Second, how good is the Holy White Field Artisan Association in its traditional specialty of crystal? The second point determines the judgment of the first point... Although I I have heard that the Holy White Field Craftsmen Association has not produced any outstanding crystal craftsmen in recent years, but I still have to confirm it again and again."

"So what now?" Fang Yan asked.

"The answer seems to be obvious now," Bai Xue replied, "Judging from the comparison between Xiaoyao's performance and that of the craftsmen from the Luotao people, the opponent's so-called traditional strengths are no more than that. The Hill of Giant Trees The people in the city obviously know this, but they ambushed us on the goblins, which only shows that the people in the Hill of Giant Trees and the Lotao people have joined together."

Fang Plover was a little dumbfounded.

Can it still be like this?Isn't this against the rules of the game?

Seeing his expression, Virus explained: "This is also part of the rules. How each craftsman's association arranges tactics is not just a matter of the two halves. You must also consider your opponent's schedule, the craftsman's associations of different continents, Artisan associations in different regions are collaborating vertically and horizontally, which is a common thing in previous competitions."

"But at this stage of the game, it's really interesting..." Ming smiled, looked at Fang Plover and said, "Look at it, little guy, there are many tricks in this game, otherwise we old guys will have to come What are you doing here?"

She shrugged, "But the Continental League is nothing more than that. You won't understand what the real super competition is until you see those super competitions one day. It's a place where swords, swords and conspiracies run rampant."

Fang Plover's heart throbbed slightly when he heard this.

That was not the world he yearned for, but one could imagine its magnificence, no wonder so many people devoted themselves to it.

However, no matter how much information the analysis team got, it could not make up for the fact that they lost points in the fourth round.Although they got back together in the second half, they still lost by one point including the first half of this round.

This is the first time Grand Club has lost to an opponent in the final two rounds. Previously, at most, they lost points in half and then recovered in the other half.

Therefore, Virus' special training for Shui Wuming is justified.In fact, the coaching staff has also started special training for other people, and its head coach is naturally the construction queen who hastily rushed from the godslayer, Ming.That's why she joined the delegation.

The first class she taught.

It is multiple parallelism.

The basis of swift tactics—

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