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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 topic of this final is 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

It will bring unexpected surprises and shocks to the modern wizards present.

However, in order to achieve this goal, one must have more sufficient abilities. At least... the seven contestants who have completed it so far seem to have failed to achieve the results expected by Hohenheim and Maca.

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"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, then decomposed, transformed and reconstructed with the help of the power of the formation, and finally, various means are used to activate the constructed new substances.

As long as each step is completed successfully, the alchemist can create animals and plants 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 alchemical 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 escape the fact that they are not real life forms.

Right now, around the seven contestants on the field, there are some living animals squatting or lying down. Among them are wolves, tigers, and even a whole nest of moles, which looks very lively.

However, this alone is naturally not enough.

Because from the appearance alone, they do not look too obviously different from the animals transformed by the transfiguration spell. For the wizards in the audience, it is obviously not exciting enough.

However, the audience is still looking forward to it!

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.

And just at the last moment when the audience suddenly shouted, the golden coffin in front of the thin and small Egyptian alchemist began to shake violently, and 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 has not come 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 lifting up little by little, and more yellow sand spewed out from the gorgeous gold-inlaid coffin, seemingly endlessly.

"Wait a little longer! Wait a little longer—"

The skinny alchemist seemed a little anxious. He was seen stamping on the coffin lid desperately, but it was still of no use.

"Wow!"

There was too much gravel near him, and he kept raising his foot and stamping fiercely. 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 in one fell swoop.

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 treatment 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 and I'll be fine in no time!"

After saying that, he immediately put his hand to his neck and pulled out a pyramid-shaped pendant from his collar. Then, he put the pendant directly to his forehead, and then said a series of words

It came out vaguely from his mouth.

But the strange thing was that as he kept reciting the syllables, the yellow sand was swept up by a whirlwind, and he was wrapped 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 became quiet!

Because they saw that among the pile of gravel, a humanoid monster nearly two meters high actually stepped out. Its whole body was composed of yellow sand, and it had no facial features or other detailed human features. Even its limbs were

Barely looks 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, walk at night and rest during the day. 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 the

this rule.

However, the alchemist in front of him did it with the help of that wonderful alchemy formation.

"Sandstorm!"

The Egyptian alchemist happily issued 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 formation with six stone pillars, the light spot at the beginning suddenly began to grow in size, and the faint silver light it released also became stronger and dazzling moment by moment.

It's almost impossible to look straight at it.

But the wizard still stared persistently. 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 confused as they wanted to see but found it 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 glowed, it still reflected the bright golden light under the sunlight.

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"Huh? Look... is that ball slowly turning golden?"

"Nowhere! It's just the sun's rays."

While observing carefully, some viewers could not help but discuss in low voices. Those wizards who only noticed the change in color were 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,

That's no joke!

However, as one of the greatest achievements in Nico Flamel's life, how can it be reproduced so easily? This is of course not made of gold, but...

"It's moving! It seems to be moving!"

Just for a moment when a few good-eyed spectators let out a low cry, the thing that looked like a mercury ball began to deform. Some parts of it were shrinking, and some parts were elongating. It could soon be seen that

, it is shaping a specific creature on all fours.

Not long after, a creature that looked very much like a young horse fell to the ground. It was covered in fine, golden fur, which shone in the afternoon sun and looked 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 the sand corpse with extremely single material elements, the difficulty of making this unicorn is obviously much greater - didn't you see that Mr. Hohenheim's eyes widened at the judges' table? He looked like

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 disturbed the old African witch on the other side of the arena. 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 give the majestic magic power some support..."