Pillar of Yita

After obtaining the order, each party immediately began selecting their subjects, and it didn’t take long before the five topics appeared in the projection in the sky.

However, upon seeing these five topics, the square immediately erupted into a hubbub.

Among the five topics, the Ancient Tower People’s choice was rather conventional, plugin manufacturing — All-Seeing Plugin.

According to Liuli Yue, the Silver Forest Spear people took their strongest field, crystal making — Main Core Crystal.

Following that, it was the turn of Team Ragnarok, who under Fang Hong’s leadership, without hesitation, once again chose Magic Potion — Total Dissolution Elixir, naturally prepared for Dill.

But these three topics were nothing.

The real shock to all the spectators in the square came from the topics proposed by the Shadow Throne and the Elfendo team:

Shadow Throne, large Magic Guided Conductor, dual-use Magic Furnace.

Elfendo, Fairy Master, Flame-Type Construct.

As soon as these two topics appeared, the teams of the Ancient Tower People and the Golande Artisan’s General Guild simultaneously stood up from their seats, looking somewhat serious at this scene in mid-air.

Meanwhile, the live streaming room was in an uproar:

”They’ve pulled out the big guns!”

”Whoa, a large Magic Guided Conductor!”

”Fairy Master!”

Wandering Horse’s heart skipped a beat.

Generally speaking, in the Continental League, most of the participants from both sides are young people, so it is rare in the competition to see areas involving Fairy Master, Dragon Knight, and large Magic Guided Conductors, which are rather niche fields.

The participating teams generally compete in other more common fields for basic skills, such as crystal, Magic Guided Conductors, Magic Potion Studies, plugins, and Flexible Constructs, but there have indeed been precedents for such cases.

Historically, there have been several such instances, known as ’big move flow,’ because once used, it is meant to strike a critical blow. Teams proficient in any of the three areas: ’Dragon Knight,’ ’Fairy Master,’ and ’large Magic Guided Conductor’ have most likely spent significant time on it, once presented, under the official competition’s ban and selection rules, it’s usually unseen in the next event.

Therefore, such competitions usually appear in the finals. But throughout the history of the Continental League, aside from any fakes, true ’big move flow’ is actually rare. After all, these three areas are incredibly profound, and it’s tough for an average team to achieve anything in any one of these fields.

Historically, teams that have ever pulled out ’big moves’ are often themselves top-tier teams. The last time Colin Ishurian used a big move flow in the Continental League was at least ten years ago.

And historically, the team that most frequently used the big move flow was actually the Osh Empire’s team, which would often have such a team sweeping the competition with overwhelming power, winning the championship every two to three cycles.

And people, including Wandering Horse, never expected to witness the appearance of the big move flow in such a final of the selection competition.

And two times at that.

Fairy Master and large Magic Guided Conductor.

People almost instinctively realized that if the Shadow Throne and Elfendo team weren’t faking it, the remaining three teams would basically be out of luck in such a competition. At this moment, most people in the live streaming room couldn’t help but think:

”Could the official competition team really lose...?”

”No way?”

In the team Ragnarök, everyone’s faces looked even darker.

The so-called Dual-Use Magic Furnace VII type actually refers to the short for ship/massive equipment-use Magic Furnace, and this massive equipment-use Magic Furnace specifically refers to a very special type of Magic Guided Conductor — the Dragon Strike Gun.

The Dual-Use Magic Furnace VII type is actually one of the dedicated Magic Furnaces for the Dragon Strike Gun, except for the limited number used on Level 7 Floating Ships; its only purpose is to make Dragon Strike Guns.

But for these alchemists, who could ever have the opportunity to even touch something like a Dragon Strike Gun? Not to mention touching, few have ever seen one.

Almost everyone thought of one person at the same time.

That is Elfendo’s genius alchemist, the renowned Dragon Slaying Hero, Rolin.

”The Shadow Throne is definitely problematic,” Hawk-Beak Bean said gloomily, ”we encountered this team in the preliminaries, and they can’t do a Dragon Strike Gun; this topic is basically set for those people in Elfendo.”

Soul Fingerprint said nothing, only looking at Fang Hong with some concern.

Fang Hong merely took a look at the arena, his heart more or less determined that his teacher’s judgment was correct, that Shadow Throne and that Rolin were indeed on the same side. Seeing him deep in thought, others assumed he too didn’t know how to make such a Magic Furnace, and their hearts weighed even more heavily.

Yet they believed they couldn’t blame Fang Hong because there probably wasn’t even one team in the official competition that could accomplish it.

But only Mulan still maintained some optimism, comforting everyone with one sentence: ”Forget it, nobody knows how to make a Magic Furnace for a Dragon Strike Gun, and nobody knows how to make a Fairy Master either. Their confidence in choosing these two topics must come from certainty of their success.”

After hearing her words, although everyone was a bit aggrieved, they couldn’t help but agree that it was indeed the case.

The Flame-Type Construct is considered one of the more complicated types of Fairy Constructs. If the opposition can make this type of construct, it suggests they aren’t novices in the field of the Fairy Master and can even be called a relatively professional Fairy Craftsman.

”I heard Count Westwood Sibika plans to take Rolin as his student,” Mulan couldn’t resist adding, ”No wonder, the Rose Workshop is known for its Fairy Masters. With this ability, I too could be the student of Lord Earl.”

But before she could finish, she saw Fang Hong stepping forward to Cui Yu’s side, gently patting the latter’s shoulder:

”Cui Yu, take the lead in the first-round plugin manufacturing.”

”Second round, Liuli Yue.”

”Third round, Dill.”

After saying that, he turned around, looking at everyone, and said word by word, ”Try to perform at your best level — I’ll handle the fourth and fifth rounds.”

Fang Hong paused lightly, then added, ”Don’t be discouraged; our chances of winning are very high.”

Mulan stared at him with her mouth agape.

Only one thought crossed her mind:

How can they win?

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