Chapter 960

Ten hours later, inside the tree house alchemy laboratory.

Su Xiao sat in front of a workbench, light flickering in his hands. As Mana was consumed, several materials floating between his palms completed their catalysis.

Casually picking up a fire-red wooden block, the prototype of an alchemical raven began to take shape. About ten seconds later, an alchemical raven was successfully manufactured.

This manufacturing efficiency would definitely make most alchemists marvel. Su Xiao excelled in close combat, a field most alchemists were not good at. Close combat required strong reaction capabilities and the ability to adapt to changing circumstances, both of which provided a significant bonus to alchemy.

Because he had manufactured a large number of alchemical ravens, Su Xiao's manufacturing of this type of alchemical creature could be described as effortless. From initially taking 10 minutes to manufacture one, to 5 minutes, after manufacturing dozens of alchemical ravens, his speed reached an astonishing 2 minutes per raven.

Manufacturing one alchemical raven in 2 minutes was not the limit. After manufacturing over a hundred alchemical ravens, Su Xiao's speed reached 1 raven per minute.

As the saying goes, practice makes perfect. After manufacturing several hundred alchemical ravens, Su Xiao's speed reached 46 seconds per raven.

This was still not the limit. Now, Su Xiao could manufacture alchemical ravens even with his eyes closed.

After manufacturing about a thousand alchemical ravens, his speed reached 32 seconds per raven.

Catalyzing materials, constructing the alchemical creature's core, building the core array, final shaping, perfecting, and so on.

The steps seemed numerous, but this was a process of practice making perfect. The accumulation of knowledge was just like that.

At this moment, the Tree Sage was observing Su Xiao manufacturing alchemical creatures through the transparent stone slab. This old man was clearly shocked.

This old alchemist could not understand why Su Xiao could manufacture an alchemical creature in such a short time. What surprised him even more was that although Su Xiao had shortened the manufacturing time, the alchemical creatures he produced were becoming increasingly refined.

"Perhaps this can be considered a kind of talent, but it has no great use."

The Tree Sage lost interest. Speed did not mean high quality; the role of one high-tier alchemical creature exceeded that of tens of thousands of low-tier ones.

Just as Su Xiao was obsessed with alchemy and unable to extricate himself, news came from Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang. Because the distance was too far, communication between Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Su Xiao was not convenient, and it required the consumption of Paradise Coins.

【The second round of drawing begins in 30 minutes, and the second round of matches begins in one hour.】

Su Xiao had about thirty minutes left; the time consumed for teleporting back would be about ten minutes.

After continuing to manufacture a few more alchemical ravens, Su Xiao picked up several materials he had never used before and began to manufacture an alchemical item similar to a "signal receiver."

Soon, a simple "Array Coordinate Receiver" was completed. This item was about the size of a thumb nail, gray in color, and soft in texture. After activation, it had strong adhesive properties.

"This should be fine."

Su Xiao put the "Array Coordinate Receiver" into his storage space and stood up to walk out of the tree house.

Pushing open the door, Lilim was teasing a small tree person, while the Tree Sage was reading a book.

"Tree Sage, can I take away the things I manufactured?"

Su Xiao had a good plan.

"Of course you can. I said before that I would provide you with materials, and anything manufactured with those materials belongs to you personally."

"Many thanks."

Su Xiao turned back into the room and put all the alchemical ravens in the room into his storage space. The number of alchemical ravens was as many as 896. If they were all activated, it would definitely be a dark, overwhelming mass. Unfortunately, Su Xiao had not mastered basic summoning abilities; he could only provide bonuses to one summoned creature and could only control one at a time.

"Your alchemy improved? So fast?"

Lilim stretched, her body curves exquisite.

"Not that fast. That teleportation array should be usable multiple times, right?"

"Five times at most."

"That's enough."

Su Xiao and Lilim walked out of the tree house, returning along the original path to the vicinity of the teleportation array. About ten minutes later, the two returned to the Void Arena lounge.

"Go quickly and return quickly; the teleportation array won't last long."

Lilim was repairing the teleportation array to avoid accidents during teleportation. Su Xiao walked out of the lounge and headed toward the Notary Office.

Precisely because of this, the guests on the first floor of the castle were very likely to break the wooden doors that imprisoned them. At that time, Su Xiao, who was on the first floor, would be affected. He was also trapped on the first floor of the castle now. According to the normal procedure, he needed to obtain the "Game Winner Badge," which meant he had passed the Demon Castle game, and only then could he return to the Reincarnation Paradise.

There were 260 contestants in total. The first round was a 1v1 elimination tournament. Calculating this way, there were 130 contestants who advanced to the second round.

In reality, this was not the case. After the first round ended, only 76 contestants remained. Casualties were inevitable in battle; mutual destruction was not rare. Moreover, some contestants were severely injured after completing the first round, and even if they obtained the qualification to advance, they could not participate in the second round.

If the progress continued at this rate and the battles were sufficiently tragic, the number of remaining contestants might be less than 20 by the end of the second round.

Su Xiao wanted to complete the fifth round of the game, which was to reach the top 20. Once the number of remaining contestants was below 20, he would directly pass the fifth round of the Demon Castle game.

Once the Demon Castle trial was completed, Su Xiao would have multiple choices: either continue to push for the top three, or forfeit and return to the Reincarnation Paradise.

The atmosphere in the Notary Office was somewhat oppressive; this was caused by the cruel rules of the arena. Among the 76 remaining contestants, most were injured.

"The second round drawing results are complete. The arena will reopen in 30 minutes."

The snake-haired woman signaled the contestants to check their respective number plates. After Su Xiao took out his number plate, "17/106" was written on one side, which meant Su Xiao's opponent was contestant number 17.

Su Xiao contacted Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang. About a few minutes later, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang arrived. This guy didn't know which "coal mine" it had gone to; the white fur on its body had been dyed black.

"Did you go to Africa to do business?"

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang looked a bit embarrassed. That little look in its eyes seemed to be saying: "It's a long story. A dog's life is full of hardships. The clients were a bunch of idiots."

Without guessing what kind of "clients" Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang had faced, Su Xiao was more curious about who contestant number 17 was.

After learning the number plate of Su Xiao's opponent, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang took out a tablet computer and played a recording of a battle. Su Xiao was not in the arena, so Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was responsible for helping him obtain information on the other contestants.

"This is... an angel?"

The appearance of Su Xiao's opponent was somewhat special. This was a man with snow-white wings, and combined with a head of golden long hair, he looked very much like an angel at first glance.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's dog paw raised, typing rapidly with its fleshy paw pads.

【Yulu, Holy Wing Race. Born with two wings, excels at flying, flight speed is extremely fast. Weapon is feathers + a certain type of energy. That energy is similar in nature to Nen ability, suspected to be obtained after purifying life force. It doesn't have the versatility of Nen ability, but it can increase the penetration and sharpness of the feathers. After being eroded by that life energy, speed slows down significantly, bleeding does not stop, and it will have a suppressive effect on regeneration ability or energy recovery...】

The information Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang described was very comprehensive. After all, it had fought alongside Su Xiao for a long time. Although it never participated in frontal combat, it still had a good eye.

After Su Xiao understood the opponent's intelligence, he walked quickly toward the arena. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang continued to look for its clients to discuss "big business." Su Xiao seriously suspected that Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was discussing coal business with the other party.