Samael smiled relievedly, 'Egor did it.' he thought.
Sami knew about Egor's physique before hand however he was still quite worried as he didn't know how the point system of the Alchemy contest would work. For example even though Egor can refine pills with small amounts of impurities, the Alchemy Trials did not look at that leading him to be placed into the Mortal Classes.
(It may sound kind of stupid, but it's probably the same reason he was rejected by Brahma Valley)
Egor's physique is called The Flawless Dan King Physique, it gives the user a 300% affinity in the Wood and Fire elements.
(The reason you need both wood and fire as alchemist is because to control the herbs better you need the wood element and to obviously fuse the herbs you need fire.)
The reason it is called flawless is because Egor has absolutely no impurities in his body, even though Sami has no impurities in his body that is due to him devouring everything and feeding it to his stars leaving him flawless as well.
The way Egor's Flawlessness works is that, his body routinely eradicates the impurities in his body, this increases his affinity, strength and comprehension, Egor's comprehension is so insanely high, that it makes it overly easy to understand techniques, pill recipes and spells.
As mentioned before it increased his affinity this raised his affinity with Wood and Fire to 350%.
Samael's flawlessness does not do this and he still only has a 100% affinity in every element and 300% in Aether.
A technique Egor received from his body is the Herb Cleansing Technique, it uses the same energy in his body to eradicate the impurities in the herbs, leading to a better pill in the long run. This why his fingers are so slender and smooth.
(It's like making supermarket beef into A5 Wagyu).
And Egor's bloodline was even more surprising, it is called the Primal Jötunn Bloodline giving Egor a 250% affinity in the gravity element, (that extra 50% is due to his physique.)
(I also wanna say the extra 50% doesn't give him an affinity in every element, it just improves his previous elements. You could say it 'purifies' those affinities strengthening them. Confusing I know.)
When Samael heard this he was shocked, especially when Egor mentioned his Bloodline, as it would mean he would be in a very superior Titan Family as the gravity element is only in a few titans and Titans with the gravity element are seen as the perfect beings.
Egor didn't explain any further so Sami restrained his curiosity and decided to believe in Egor, Samael trusted that the Titan would win and redeem himself.
Back to the present, the other contestants heard the commotions from the crowd, when their eyes fell onto the beautiful pill, clutched by Egor's pale blue hands, they were astonished after all they thought they knew every single genius in today's competition.
The others stared closely at the Titan and saw the Void's Owl insignia on his chest and quickly realised where he was from.
'Why does The Void's Owl have so many dark horses yesterday it was Nyadi and today it's Egor, WTF is this?' many of them thought after all they knew some of the geniuses in The Void's Owl already but they never knew about this guy.
Han Moxie was breathing heavily, it seemed that this had a huge affect on him as Brahma Valley had rejected Egor. He felt immense regret because Brahma Valley could have had another heavenly genius in their guild.
Moxie slowly calmed down, 'If his genius is not serving me, it will serve no one!' he thought. And as he remembered the plan he had crafted he slowly smiled, he looked thrilled as he imagined the outcome of his ploy. The guild leader of Brahma Valley brushed his silky long hair away from his face revealing his eyes that were filled with sadism and excitement.
"Em, I forgot to mention you only have until sunset to refine as many pills as possible." Albert sheepishly said.
The participants glared hatefully at their teacher and hastily went back to refining, it was winter and sunset arrived around 16:00. The started at midday meaning they only have 4 hours in total and it's already 13:00 meaning they have just 3 hours left!
Luo Bing had soon refined another set of pills gaining her 3 more points, this time her pill had 23% she is slowly but surely getting better at refining the Mortal Moulting Pill. She glanced at Egor, gritted her teeth and grabbed another set of ingredients.
Egor had just finished kneading the herbs and quickly placed the Five Flamed Obliterating Flower and Netherworld Anise into his cauldron. Fire aura quickly spewed from his hands, wrapping around the metal furnace heating it up.
Inside the cauldron the herbs slowing turned into a pasty substances, one of them was a maroon red and the other was a very dark navy, almost black. As they began combining, the two substances reacted violently, bubbling and releasing purple gases.
Egor began focusing adamantly, his slender fingers once again moved gracefully, whenever the Titan was refining it looked like a symphony. He soon added the Shedding Mortality Fungus it was a fir green mushroom, when it fell into the dark purple paste it quickly melted into it a liquid, the flames on the outside baked the furnace leading everything to fuse.
Egor now had to use his spiritual sense to squeeze the paste together and form a sphere. Before long, the Titan opened the lid on the cauldron and revealed another pristine pill, it was 5% impurities. He has improved! The pill he made has gained him 11 points.
Pushing him into first place. The Void's Owl guild members were screaming in the stand giving their friends in the arena a huge boost of encouragement.
However this happiness didn't last long as a sunny looking teen revealed the pills in his cauldron, yes pills, there where five pills in his cauldron. The had anywhere from 24 - 19% impurities gaining him 17 points, making him draw with Egor. The insignia on his clothes depicted a rose. The thorns on the rose seemed to penetrate through the picture and into the real world, the teen was part of Luxure.
Marianne in the stands looked towards the boy and whispered, "Well done."
The boy seemed to be filled with energy, even though Marianne was whispering he looked like he heard it and as if he was a dog he began drooling excitedly, quickly going back to refine more pills.
Egor glanced at the five pills the boy held and frowned worriedly, he looked up to suddenly lock eyes with Samael and his encouraging gaze. Egor clenched his fist and grabbed and a 3 sets of ingredients, 'go big or go home right?' he thought.
Seeing the titan grab 3 sets the sunny and kind looking boy smiled confidently grabbing 8 sets of ingredients.
Luo Bing looked irately at both of these freaks and went back to refining, in the time Egor was making pills, she had refined 3 more and one of them was under 21% of impurities gaining her a total of 10 points cementing her place in third.
Egor and that confident boy got to work, it was pretty much a battle between the two, if Egor can get 3 pills with under 6% impurities he will gain 33 points giving him a total of 50. If the boy gets 8 pills with less than 21% impurities he will get 32 points, he will need to get one pill with less than 11% impurities to match Egor but this will be very difficult as he is refining 8 pills at once.
It is currently 15:15 this is pretty much the final stretch.
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Info of the day - The many wars fought with the abyss.
For as long as remembered the abyss has been in a ruthless battle with the Verus World, the Malum Realm and the Sanctus Realm, however no one has one so far and many people have died.
As I mentioned before it has been 7021 years since the last war. That war was probably the most devastating event in all of history, it lasted a millennia and in that was the war where the original Morrigan died.
It was also after said war that the Britannia Empire was founded, it was build on the remains of its predecessors.
Many races have been driven extinct by these wars such as the cthullons huge tentacle and octopus like beasts than were highly talented in curse aura, space aura and the art of mind control. They were even taller than Titans, the only thing stopping their road to hegemony was their very weak bodies for their size.
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