Unlike the chaos in Albania, everything went smoothly in the Hogwarts Alchemy Competition.
After Maka left the field, as many preparations were completed, each of the twelve finalists showed their impressive alchemy abilities.
So far, seven contestants have performed the mysteries of alchemy for the audience.
To be honest, the title of this final was really well chosen. The activation and refining of material elements is not only a very difficult research in alchemy, but more importantly, when this type of refining is completed, it may also bring unexpected surprises and surprises to the modern wizards present. Shocking.
However, in order to achieve this goal, one must have more sufficient abilities. At least... the seven contestants who have finished so far seem to have failed to achieve the results that Hohenheim and Macca expected.
“Ouch—” “Roar—”
In the arena, beast roars were heard one after another, and those who made those screams were the alchemy products of these players in the finals.
In fact, material elements are mixed in a fixed proportion, and then decomposed, transformed, and reconstructed with the help of the power of the formation. Finally, various means are used to activate the constructed new substances.
As long as each step is completed successfully, the alchemist can create plants and animals that are very close to real life forms.
These refining creatures are not only more vivid than the products of transfiguration, but also last much longer than the latter. Even if the alchemist himself dies, the alchemy products will not disintegrate and disappear.
It's just... Of course, because of this, no matter how similar these life-like forms that are the products of alchemy are to the real thing, they can't get away from the fact that they are not real life forms.
Right now, living animals were squatting or lying around the seven players on the field. There are wolves, tigers, and even a whole nest of moles among them, which looks very lively.
However, this alone is not enough.
Because from the appearance alone, they don't look too obviously different from the animals transformed by the transfiguration technique. For the wizards in the audience, it is obviously not exciting enough.
However, the audience is still waiting!
From the beginning of this final, there were three contestants who were obviously very different from the other contestants. They were the contestants from the tripartite delegation of Africa, Mesopotamia and Egypt that Maca was paying attention to at that time.
The old witch in Africa is still stirring the huge crucible, and the wizard in Mesopotamia is still staring at the light spot in the middle of the alchemical pattern column. As for the Egyptian wizard, he is tinkering with gold. The coffin player…
"oh-"
Suddenly, a burst of shouting suddenly sounded in the arena. Even Luna and the Bronze Eagle who were still in the castle heard this burst of exclamation.
At the last moment when the audience suddenly shouted, the golden coffin in front of the thin little Egyptian alchemist began to shake violently. The lid of the coffin seemed to be unable to be suppressed any longer, and it lifted slightly from the top. A large amount of yellow sand kept spitting out from the cracks in the open coffin lid.
"No, the time is not up yet!"
The Egyptian alchemist hurriedly spoke in Arabic, stepped on the coffin lid, and tried to forcefully close the coffin lid.
But no matter how hard he tried, the lid kept moving upwards, and more yellow sand spewed out from the gorgeous gold-inlaid coffin, seemingly endlessly.
"Wait a minute! Wait a minute—"
The skinny alchemist seemed to be a little anxious. He stomped on the coffin lid desperately, but it was still to no avail.
"Wow!"
There was too much gravel near him, and he kept raising his foot and stamping. Finally, his left foot slipped and he sat down in the whole sand with a plop.
And at that moment, the coffin lid was completely pushed away by countless yellow sand, and more sand surged out like a fountain, drowning the alchemist all at once.
For a moment, several other contestants near him took the animals around them and moved away to prevent the sand from swallowing up their participating animals.
"Emergency Team—"
Mr. Hohenheim, who was at the judges' table, saw this and was about to let someone go over to clean up the accident, but a hand suddenly stretched out from the growing pile of yellow sand.
"Uh... bah! Wait... please wait a moment!"
The one who emerged from there was the Egyptian alchemist who had just been buried in the yellow sand. He stopped the jury's rescue operation in English very promptly.
"Give me a little more time, I'll be fine soon!"
After saying that, he immediately touched his hand to his neck and pulled out a pyramid-shaped pendant from his collar. And then, he put the pendant directly to his forehead, and then a series of words poured out of his mouth indistinctly.
But the strange thing was that as he kept chanting the syllables, the yellow sand was swept up by a whirlwind, wrapping him up in a sandstorm-like tornado.
Immediately, the dust tornado shrank in size at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Not long after, when the patches of yellow sand were completely condensed into a pile of sand as high as a person, the Egyptian alchemist finally revealed his figure again.
The next moment, the audience suddenly fell silent!
Because they saw that among the pile of gravel, a humanoid monster nearly two meters high actually stepped out. Its entire body is made of yellow sand, and it has no facial features or other detailed human features. Even its limbs barely look like a human being.
"Sand corpse! It's an Egyptian sand corpse!"
Suddenly, several wizards in the audience shouted out, and their voices also inspired others, and the atmosphere in the venue became boiling again.
This is a kind of magical creature unique to desert areas. They move slowly and live nocturnally. During the day, they are just like ordinary sand. It is difficult to distinguish them when mixed in the desert.
But even so, they are still magical creatures recognized by the magic world and are alive.
The reason why the audience was surprised by this is because the transformation technique in modern magic cannot transform magical creatures. Even the famous and difficult branch of transformation – Animagus transformation – cannot violate this rule. One rule.
However, the alchemist in front of him did it with the help of that wonderful alchemy formation.
"Sandstorm!"
The Egyptian alchemist happily gave the order, and the sand corpse slowly opened its arms made of yellow sand very obediently, and a whirlwind similar to the one before immediately appeared around it.
But before the audience's applause could stop, something unusual happened near the wizard who was part of the Mesopotamian delegation, suddenly attracting everyone's attention.
However, they saw that in the center of the forging array with six stone pillars, the original light spot suddenly began to grow in size, and the faint silver light it released also kept getting stronger and dazzling. Almost impossible to look at.
But the wizard still stared persistently, and even though his eyes were filled with tears, he did not turn his gaze away from the silver light group even for a moment.
As time passed, the audience became quiet again. They squinted their eyes and turned their faces sideways, most of them looking like they wanted to see but it was difficult to see.
I don’t know how long it took, but the brightness of the silver light finally weakened.
Only then did everyone realize that it had turned into a huge sphere that looked like floating mercury. Even though it no longer glows, it still reflects the bright golden light under the sunlight.
"Huh? Look... is that ball slowly turning golden?"
"Nowhere! It's just the sun's rays."
While observing carefully, some viewers couldn't help but discuss in low voices. Those wizards who noticed the change in color were actually not mistaken.
At this time, Hohenheim and others on the judges' bench couldn't help but take a closer look, because in alchemy, "gold" is always a representative color that cannot be easily ignored - if it is really made of gold, then No joke!
However, as one of the greatest achievements in Nico Flamel's life, how can it be reproduced so easily? Of course this is not gold, but...
"It's moving! It seems to be moving!"
In the moment when a few good-looking spectators let out low voices, the thing that looked like a mercury ball began to deform. Some parts of it were shrinking, while others were elongating. It was quickly apparent that it was shaping into a creature that was on all fours.
Not long after, a creature that looked very much like a young horse fell to the ground. It is covered with fine golden-yellow fur all over its body, shining under the afternoon sun, and looks extremely beautiful.
And the most important thing is that there is a golden spiral horn on its forehead, which means that it is not just a golden pony, but a young one-horned one under two years old. beast.
Compared with a sand corpse with extremely single material elements, the difficulty of making this unicorn is obviously much greater - didn't you see Mr. Hohenheim's eyes widening at the judges' table? He looked extremely excited!
Because the appearance of the little unicorn was so cute, most of the women in the audience were excited.
There were even a few little girls who wanted to jump over the fence next to the VIP seats and rush over, trying to get closer so that they could see more clearly and carefully.
But none of this bothered the old African witch on the other side of the field. She was still stirring the giant crucible placed on the refining array, and the deep purple smoke had turned it black.
Suddenly, she softly recited a mantra.
"The bones of the fire dragon, accidentally set up, can make the majestic magic have some support..."