After holding up the rune and showing it to the people around him, the "Bearded Man" looked at the apprentices in the Foundry Hall with anger on his face, as if he had been treated unfairly.
The expression on the face of the apprentice in the Foundry Hall barely changed. He looked at him coldly and said, "Only six of the seven runes you drew were drawn by yourself. The other one was drawn by someone else. We will never tolerate cheating like this."
Hearing his words, the expression of the Bearded Man changed drastically, like a cat whose tail was stepped on, and he immediately got angry and yelled, "What cheating? I drew these seven runes myself, how can you falsely accuse me
You clearly miscalculated the number of runes I drew before. Now that I have shown them to everyone, you are embarrassed and deliberately accuse me of stealing other people's runes.
Even if you are from the Foundry Hall, you can't accuse others so casually!"
He seemed to be deliberately making a big deal out of the matter, and his voice became louder and louder, so that everyone around him would think that the apprentices in the Foundry Hall were wrongly accusing him.
Pei Ku, who was looking over here, did not show any anxious expression on his face. Instead, he smiled with interest and did not interfere. He just watched the performance of his apprentice.
The apprentice frowned when he heard the "bearded man" yelling loudly, and said, "You don't need to make a noise here to disturb the hall. Since I said you cheated, I will definitely produce evidence. My Foundry Hall will definitely not wrongly accuse others.
Do you think that we can't tell that you stole the drawn runes from others until we catch you in the act
Let me tell you, all the talisman papers you use are made by our Foundry Hall, and they are numbered for this competition.
Each contestant received a talisman with a number from one to nine on it, but you just didn't notice it at the moment.
After you get the talisman papers, you can use them in any order, so the runes drawn on each person's numbered talisman paper from one to nine are different.
The number on the rune paper of your third rune is five, and the number on the rune paper of the seventh rune is also five. These two are duplicates, which is obviously because you took a rune from someone else who left.
Because the other party used the rune paper in a different order than you did, the runes on the same numbered rune paper you both had were not drawn in the same order, and we can tell at a glance."
Hearing the other party's words, the "Bearded Man" was immediately surprised. He looked at the talisman paper in his hand for a long time before he finally found a number on one corner of the talisman paper that was slightly darker than the original paper.
Because the number is written very small and the color difference is not big, you can't see it at all if you don't look carefully.
At this time, the other contestants also noticed this, and they looked at the "bearded man" with strange eyes.
The "Bearded Man" also noticed this. After looking around, he turned his gaze to the apprentice, still with a look of dissatisfaction on his face, and said, "Humph, even if what you just said makes sense, what does it mean that these talismans are numbered
This is entirely possible because you made a mistake in your preparations and mixed up the numbers on the two pieces of talisman paper. When they were handed to me, they were in this state now."
At the end, the “Bearded Man” seemed to think that his words made a lot of sense, and his momentum rose again.
The apprentice looked at him sternly and snorted, "Humph, since you still want to quibble, then I will talk about other evidence.
In fact, we had already anticipated your cheating method of stealing other people's runes, and we were prepared for it.
The talisman ink in the inkstone in front of each of you has been added with a special powder.
This powder has no effect on the efficacy of the talisman ink. It can only play one role, which is to make two talisman inks with different amounts of powder added unable to blend with each other. Different amounts of special powder have been added to the talisman inks of all of you.
You can try it. Take out your two pieces of No. 5 talisman paper and use the talisman ink in your talisman inkstone to apply them to the two runes respectively. I'm sure the talisman ink of one of the runes will not blend with the other."
Hearing the apprentice's words, the face of the "bearded man" who was originally in high spirits suddenly turned red and white, and his eyes became a little withdrawn.
"Why, you don't dare to apply it?"
The apprentice was yelled at by him for a long time and was a little angry, so he continued to force him.
The "Bearded Man" gritted his teeth, still unwilling to believe it, picked up his talisman brush, and applied the talisman ink onto the talisman paper a second time.
Several contestants had already gathered nearby and were standing nearby watching.
Just as the apprentice said before, the talisman ink on one of the two talisman papers was quickly integrated into the previous rune.
However, these talismans were not drawn with spiritual energy, so they could not hold an image and soon dissipated from the talisman paper, leaving only the previously drawn runes.
On the other piece of paper, the talisman ink that was applied later could not be integrated into the previous talisman ink at all. Everyone could clearly see that there was a clear gap between the two ink marks.
“How… How could this happen!?”
When the "Bearded Man" saw this phenomenon, he was completely dumbfounded, and his original momentum had disappeared without a trace.
The contestants around him all looked at him with contempt. After all, they all passed the competition based on their own strength. Now, someone suddenly wanted to use despicable means to infiltrate their group, which naturally made them feel disgusted.
"Now you have nothing to say, please leave here quickly. I don't think anyone here will welcome cheaters."
The apprentice looked coldly at the "bearded man" in front of him and said.
The "Bearded Man" no longer dared to look at the people around him. His face flushed red, he lowered his head, gritted his teeth and walked out of the hall quickly. He knew that he had embarrassed himself today.
After the episode, the other apprentices quickly recorded the results of the first round of competition and then entered the second round.
After Pei Ku gestured to the apprentices beside him, they immediately took out a pile of talisman papers and distributed them to everyone, but this time there was only one piece of paper in front of each person.
Ye Li looked at the talisman paper in front of him. The color of this talisman paper seemed to be much lighter than ordinary talisman paper.
The remaining dozen or so contestants also noticed this and had puzzled looks on their faces.
Pei Ku saw that the talisman papers had been distributed, so he said, "These talisman papers are specially prepared for this competition. They have a special effect, that is, the talisman ink that has not formed a rune can only last for three finger snaps.
Generally, it takes five snaps of a finger to draw a talisman. The talisman paper can keep the unformed talisman ink and spiritual energy for five snaps of a finger.
Now, this piece of talisman paper will give you only three finger snaps to draw an outer talisman!"