The Ice Sculpture Kingdom's Alchemy Guild set the second assessment venue for the Warm Snow Cup inside a duel arena.
I didn't expect so many people to participate in the second assessment. The dragonman youth glanced around slightly. Aside from the spectators who paid for tickets, there were fully a thousand participating alchemists.
This number was massive!
Keep in mind that for those advancing to the second stage of the Warm Snow Cup, Black Iron and Bronze-level had vanished entirely, and the lowest transcendent tier present was Silver-level. There was also no shortage of Gold-level alchemists, sitting outside the arena where almost every single one was surrounded by an entourage.
This was a world of the strong, and alchemist mages were no exception.
The vast majority of alchemy blueprints demanded transcendent tiers. If a transcendent tier was too low, sometimes even observation and experimentation were impossible.
"This is still after a portion of the contestants were weeded out in the first round. With this many remaining... they truly live up to their reputation as a top-tier alchemical powerhouse in the prime plane."
Sitting beside the dragonman youth, Cang Xu transmitted his voice quietly at that moment.
"In terms of territorial area, the Ice Sculpture Kingdom is merely a speck of a nation compared to most land-based kingdoms. But its alchemical strength is extraordinary. Coupled with a fierce folk ethos and the large-scale military it has consistently maintained, it is a military powerhouse in every sense of the word."
"This country's shortcoming is its barren resources. It has only a single super resource point, and most of its resource points are heavily concentrated in the ice-snow element and the water element, making it a rather severely lopsided nation. However, relying on a developed export trade and selling vast quantities of high-quality