Ryu indifferently moved to his spot. He was skeptical about trusting the Heavenly Dew Pavilion in this matter, but if it came to it, he would just have to use his own ingredients. Although doing so would shave some time off his concoction period, it was better that than dealing with faulty ingredients. In fact, concocting with ingredients that were a bit immature would be far better than ones that were rotten or poisoned.
Ryu sat on a platform meant for alchemists. They were all spread out and the crowd could see each one of them clearly. Down below, the combatants of the combat stream were ready and waiting, but what was interesting was that no one seemed to know who would partner with who yet aside from some very obvious ones like pairs that happened to be soon-to-be Dao Companions.
This secrecy was likely to be part of the games.
