Versatile Mage: Invincible from the Fire of Disaster

Chapter 112 Light Materials, Shadow Magical Tools
A week passed during Lin Ming's practice.

"Today, the official competition begins."

Lin Ming looked at the date and muttered to himself.

Soon they arrived at the stadium again. This time, there were less than half of the blacksmiths in the auditions, probably only about seventy or eighty people.

The stadium was no longer an open space with grids drawn on it, but had about eighty forging houses arranged in a circle. In the middle of this circle of forging houses were eight more advanced forging houses, which should have been prepared for the finals.

Following the number plate, Lin Ming arrived at Forge No. 78.

This time the forging table is a very advanced one. Even the forging table in Lin Ming’s own forging house is only of this level.

"Now is the official competition of the forging tournament. All the forgers who have made it to the official competition are the best in the forging world and the future stars of the forging world. I hope you can have a good performance in this forging competition!"

The speaker was not Zhan Xingtian, the president of the Blacksmith Association, but Howard, who was flapping his wings of wind behind him.

He slowly stroked his beard and looked at the blacksmiths below with his eyes slightly narrowed.

"Now! I'm announcing the exam question for this year's Blacksmith Competition—Magic Armor!"

The next moment, a huge scale appeared on everyone's forging table, some were pitch black, some were fiery red, and some were khaki.

"I believe everyone should be familiar with the materials in front of you. Now, please use them as the main material to forge a piece of armor magic equipment! The drawings are placed to your right. I hope you can do well!"

Howard laughed heartily, and the wings of wind behind him flapped suddenly!

The next moment, a strong wind blew, and countless drawings flew in the sky, and then slowly fell into the forging house!

"Now, the game officially begins!"

When Howard uttered the word "start", Lin Ming took the forging drawings that floated to the forging room and spread them out on the forging table.

"Something's wrong!"

Lin Ming frowned slightly and looked at the drawing in front of him with some confusion.

The blueprint is not difficult, it is just an ordinary general-level armor magic tool.

Although the armor magic tool is one of the most difficult to forge among all magic tools, it is naturally no problem for Lin Ming to master it with his level.

But the moment Lin Ming saw the drawing, he realized that something was wrong with it.

On his forging table was a golden scale. The scale was huge and was probably half a person's height when standing up.

This is the heart scale of the giant skull lizard.

The giant skull lizard is actually a war general-level giant skull monster. However, after reaching the war general level, each giant skull monster will awaken some elemental powers according to different environments. The scales on Lin Ming's forging table come from a rare light-type giant skull lizard. It can even be said that before seeing this scale, Lin Ming didn't know that there were light-type giant skull lizards!

The optical system is the newest system, and there are not many forging techniques suitable for optical materials.

But what's even more outrageous is that the design of the armor magic tool in his hand is a shadow-type armor magic tool!

Forging shadow-type armor magic tools with light-type main materials?
In forging theory, these are mutually exclusive. If one is not done properly, it will cause the magic tool to collapse! Are you kidding?
Something is wrong. Absolutely wrong.

If you want to forge a magic tool with opposing properties, you must remove all the light elements from the giant skull lizard's scales.

However, a general-level blacksmith simply cannot perform such a profound processing on the general-level demon material!
Even for a commander-level blacksmith, it would be difficult to remove the elements from the demon material without special processing methods!

"No, a question of this difficulty is placed in the first round? The bosses of the Blacksmith Association don't want to hold the next round? Or are there actually many contestants who are commander-level blacksmiths, but just like me, they haven't revealed it yet?"

Lin Ming shook his head and sighed.

There are so many heroes in the world!
Never mind, let’s pick other materials first.

Lin Ming shook his head and walked towards the material library provided by the competition.

The material warehouse is in the middle of the stadium. There is a space array there that can teleport people directly to the material warehouse.

At this time, several blacksmiths discovered that the difficulty of this question was not right.

"No, wasn't this stage the forging of slave-level magic tools in previous years? Why did the difficulty increase this year?"

Someone wailed.

"It's just a general-level armor magic tool. I just happened to have successfully forged it before."

The speaker was a middle-aged man, and he looked a little proud.

However, he obviously did not see the problem between the forging drawings and the materials, otherwise he would not have said that.

"Elemental Clearing?"

A blacksmith who looked to be in his thirties muttered while holding the blueprint.

He wore a headband, his muscles as clear as sculptures, and exuded an aura of iron filings and flames. His strong masculine aura might have made ghosts afraid to approach. "It's unexpectedly a bit difficult."

He is the forging master Fei Yulin.

"Hmm? This seems a little strange."

On the other side, Xing Jianle looked down at the blueprint and kept thinking, shaking his head from side to side.

"Can anyone else handle this level of difficulty? Never mind, a single round will decide the champion."

Finally he nodded.

In the sky, four forging masters floated in the air, looking down at the scene below.

"Huo Hua, the question you asked this time..."

Ni Zhi shook his head and tapped the sitting Feather Demon lightly with the crutch in his hand.

The eagle-shaped feathered demon hummed softly, feeling somewhat dissatisfied but not daring to resist.

"Hahaha, after all, Fei Yulin, a commander-level forging master, is also participating this time, so the difficulty of the questions will naturally be higher."

Howard stroked his beard and laughed.

"Aren't you worried that you won't be able to gather eight people to forge a magic tool?!"

Ni Zhi glared at him and said, the feathered demon under his feet was hit hard by the crutch again.

"Ah~ Don't worry. Although the properties of the magic tool are different from those on the forging blueprint, as long as the elements in the material are purified to only 30%, you can directly use other materials to cover it. Although the elemental power of the magic tool will be reduced, the hardness will definitely increase. This is a very unique forging method. Any blacksmith with a solid foundation in the basic theory of forging should be able to think of it."

Howard shook his head.

"But surely an average general-level blacksmith wouldn't be able to achieve 70% purification? Furthermore, if the elements are mutually repelling, they would have to be completely purified to achieve it!"

On the other side, Lu Qian frowned.

"Eighty percent is the limit for a general-level blacksmith, while seventy percent is achievable with just a moderately skilled blacksmith who works hard. If you can't even achieve that, you won't qualify for the finals."

Howard was a little indifferent, but he immediately smiled after he finished speaking.

"As for the mutual repulsion, don't worry. There are only two types of blueprints for armor magic tools: one for poison and one for shadow. And among all the known species of giant skull lizards, there is no species that mutually repel these two elements! So don't worry."

But before he finished speaking, he noticed that Ni Zhi's face changed.

She is responsible for managing each round of materials and the materials in the material library.

"Your expression"

Howard narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at her.

Ni Zhi on the feather demon thought for a moment and said
"I remember that among the materials this time was a heart-protecting scale of a giant lizard of the light type. I saw it for the first time, so I took a closer look."

"Light! It wasn't included in the materials used by the contestants!"

Howard was a little surprised.

Ni Zhi shook his head
"This is handled by the subordinates. I don't know."

"Hurry up and take a look. This is my problem."

Howard took a deep breath and hurriedly began to look for any light-type giant skull lizard scales in the field.

Soon he found it.

At this time, Lin Ming had already selected the materials and started to clear the elements.

"Found it, number 78. Hmm? Is it the child who died?"

Howard was a little surprised.

But just as he was about to replace the scales, a somewhat rough arm stopped him.

"President."

Howard looked at Zhan Xingtian in surprise. He knew that the president attached the most importance to the fairness of the forging competition, so he personally presided over the annual forging competition.

Zhan Xingtian looked towards Forge No. 78, his eyes narrowed slightly, and the burn marks on his forehead began to ache slightly.

"I probably know whose disciple he is."

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