Wuling City/Craftsmanship Contest

## Description

The **Craftsmanship Contest** was a hot topic throughout the Eastern Continent. It was not an event the Sky-sea Pavilion had organized on the spur of the moment but one that took place every few years. It was hosted every few years to recruit the best craftsmen in the East Continent.

The contest always attracted a large number of craftsmen from over a hundred domains to Wuling City. Anyone regardless of their sect could take part in the Craftsmanship Contest, as long as he was at least a Lv 4 craftsman. All these craftsmen had come with the sole aim of becoming one of the Sky-sea Pavilion’s honorary craftsmen. Being one of the Sky-sea Pavilion’s Honorary Craftsmen signified unimaginable fame and fortune. Countless craftsmen longed to be one.

## Rewards

There are no rewards, but the top 10 contestants will become the Sky-sea Pavilion’s Honorary Craftsmen.

Once you become a Sky-sea Pavilion’s Honorary Craftsman, you’ll enjoy a 30% discount on any purchase from the Sky-sea Pavilion. You will also enjoy tremendous benefits from the Sky-sea Pavilion if you sell or auction your treasures or weapons you’ve crafted here. You may even get to attend the lecture conducted by our pavilion’s master craftsman.

## Details

* The Craftsmanship Contest would be held at the Craft Tower (Sky-sea Pavilion's Headquarter at Wuling City)
* There were at least 6000 people participating in this competition, most of them Lv 5 craftsmen, with a few Lv 4 craftsmen. Sky-sea Pavilion’s Craftsmanship Contest was usually for Lv 5 Craftsmen and did not honor anyone lower than Lv 5. On the other hand, there were too few Lv 6 craftsmen, and they did not need to participate in the competition to join Sky-sea Pavilion.

## Rounds

* This Craftsmanship Contest will whittle the contestant pool down to ten people by process of elimination. Then the top ten will undergo a ranking competition.

### **First Round**

* This is a simple identification round, where contestants must accurately identify craftsmanship materials by declaring their name and usage.
* Each contestant has in front of you a different material. These are all materials related to the craftsmanship of Lv 5 weapons. They must present an answer in one minute. Each material in this round was carefully selected. All were extremely rare and seldom used in common craftsmanship.

*The first round eliminated more than half of the participants, with only about 3,000 remaining.*

### **Second Round**

* All participants in this round will be crafting the same weapon, the Lower Lv 5 Frost Saber. You can only pass the round as long as you could craft an Upper Grade Frost Saber within two hours. In other words, you will be eliminated if you exceed the time limit, or fail to craft a Frost Saber of acceptable quality.

*Only 330 odd people had managed to pass the second round. This meant that 80% of the people were eliminated.*

### **Third Round**

* What differentiates it from the previous round is that you will be provided with 105 materials. These materials can be used to refine dozens of different weapons. You may choose to craft any weapon of your choice.
* First, all weapons must be of Medium Lv 5 and be of the highest quality.
* Second, you must complete the refining process within two hours.
* Third, it’s the quantity of material used. The third criteria is the most crucial criteria. In the event that you meet the first two criterion, the top ten would be determined by the craftsmen who used the least number of materials.
* As long as you fulfill all three of the following criteria, you shall become Sky-sea Pavilion honorable craftsmen!

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 605
2. ↑ Chapter 604
3. ↑ Chapter 606
4. ↑ Chapter 609
5. ↑ Chapter 610
6. ↑ Chapter 610
7. ↑ Chapter 612
8. ↑ Chapter 617