Dragon, choose cultural victory to make money

Chapter 179 Sword Forging Competition
"All right," Baines said nonchalantly.

Don't lose face in front of the young dwarf.

"Why don't I see our opponent in this competition?" said the leading elf Antinoya.

She told a classic but effective little joke about dwarves.

Theoretically, this verbal attack will not only hurt dwarves, but will also AOE gnomes and halflings, but only dwarves really care about height here.

In fact, what they care about most is not height, but strong physique.

A taller height means a larger frame, which means you can put on more flesh and thus achieve the goal of being stronger.

In their eyes, any race taller than dwarves who choose to lose weight is a waste of talent.

All of the elves are tall and thin, and are simply "extremely evil".

Fortunately, there are no hormonal drugs now, otherwise these dwarves would have to train their heads to be pointed.

"Why are you pretending? You are not very old, but your eyesight is not good!" Barn jumped back and retorted.

Antinoya smiled contemptuously, "Hey, isn't this the furnace? It doesn't seem to be the furnace I know. Which generation are you? Is this how the younger generation talks to the elders? I am almost the same as your great-grandmother, right?"

Ethical jokes, they are ethical jokes!

Drogo never expected that the elves, who seemed to be elegant, actually liked to take advantage of their age and seniority.

never heard of that!

"You!" Barn was furious and could only use the most traditional dwarf verbal attack method, with his parents as the center of the circle and relatives within three generations as the radius, randomly arranging and combining within the range, combined with reproductive-related behaviors.

The common language still limited his performance, so he used Dwarven, and believed that the old woman on the opposite side would definitely understand it.

"Okay, okay, the director team, please send the script to these two."

Drogo quickly interrupted, saying that if the situation continued like this, the two sides would start fighting.

"Where are the four contestants from the first show?"

Two people walked out from each team.

The players on the dwarf side all seem to fit the stereotypical image of a craftsman.

The elf players are completely different. They are obviously ironworkers, but their style is like those exquisite fake posing artists on Weibo.

And one of the guys didn't look like an adult.

There are only two periods when the elves can judge age by appearance. One is the final stage of life when one is about to die of old age, like El, who is very old and frail.

The other is the immature stage. These two periods together only account for more than a hundred years. During the remaining hundreds of years of life in between, there is almost no visible change in appearance.

This elf has blond hair that is so light that it almost looks bleached. He looks timid, roughly the equivalent of a human boy of 15 or 16 years old who is not yet fully developed.

"Ha, are you looking down on dwarves by choosing a little brat whose hair hasn't even grown out yet?" Barn mocked directly.

Antinoya said lightly: "Time does not shorten the distance between mediocre people and geniuses, does it?"

"Executive Director, take them away to review the script." Drogo called over a young man who was also young.

Except for the goblins who provided technical support, the other staff members on site for the filming of this program were basically newcomers with little experience.

The clever girls and boys recruited from the streets are trained as the initial team for the variety show. After the sword-forging competition, they will lead the newcomers to produce other programs.

In fact, most jobs in the world can be done by learning at the middle school level.

As for the situation where not many professional skills are required but a high educational qualification is required as a threshold, there is no way to force the creation of screening conditions as there are too many people and too few vacancies.

"Script, what script?" Baan asked in confusion.

Drogo explained, "It's about the general components of the show, and what you and the elf lady will be responsible for as judges."

Antinoya is also an experienced and excellent craftsman in the Silver City-State, otherwise she would not be the leader of this elf team.

Originally, Drogo was worried that if he put the elf on the jury, he would not be able to say anything for a long time.

I felt relieved after seeing her bickering with Barn. With these two serving as judges together, the show should be pretty good.

"With her? I don't want to be a judge with Pointy Ears."

Before he finished speaking, Baan's eyes rolled and he suddenly changed his tone, "Not that I can't. I will definitely fulfill my duties as a judge conscientiously."

"Hehe, I'm afraid someone is going to use the status of a judge to suppress the elf contestants." Antinoya said.

Baines immediately retorted: "Impossible. Am I such a dwarf? As a judge, I will be fair and strict."

"Then you swear on the honor of the Crucible Clan." Antinoya went straight to the point.

"Do I need to swear? I am a fair dwarf." Baines avoided the question.

"It's all right," Drogo said.

"Look, the production team said it's okay, but you, an old woman, are the only one who doubts me!" Barn seemed to have found a backer.

Drogo added: "I mean it's okay if you suppress the elf players."

Baines' eyes widened. "You don't believe me either."

"Haha." Antinoya couldn't help laughing.

"I just believe that you will belittle the elves, just as the elf judges can belittle the dwarves."

"I won't do such a despicable thing." Antinoya said.

Elves are still very naive when it comes to lying.

Drogo could tell that Antinoya's heartbeat quickened when she said this, but look at Barn, he was talking nonsense but his expression remained calm and his heart rate remained steady.

"The judges are only responsible for commenting on the contestants' on-site performance. The judges do not need to participate in the test scoring process that ultimately determines the winner." Zhuo Ge said.

"Why? Then what's the point of me being a judge? Is there anyone more suitable to be a judge than me?" Barn asked dissatisfiedly.

"You'll find out who's going to give the score later."

After sending these two enemies away, Drogo began to think about how to deal with the two groups of dwarves and elves who followed him unexpectedly.

After thinking about it, I decided to just be the second audience. After all, they are all in the craftsman industry, so they will be able to understand the contestants' operations and not be too bored. They can also give some feedback.

When variety shows mature in the future, we will have to pay to hire such professional audiences. Now, while it’s free, we can make full use of it.

However, since the original plan did not include an audience, the studio could not accommodate so many seats, so they had to find another open space.

The recording location is in Shudian, and there is still plenty of vacant space on the island.

Transmit images from several fixed camera positions in the studio to the screen at the second scene.

It's divided into several sections to watch together. There's no other way because there is no position of live director yet.

"Come on, everyone applaud."

"Very good, smile again."

"Annoyed. Find the feeling of being annoyed."

"It's unbelievable. It's not a good performance to shoot an unbelievable video. So, imagine that you come home today and suddenly find out that your son or daughter has eloped with a dwarf or an elf..." Drogo directed the audience to record several reactions for later editing.

The real-time feedback from the audience is difficult to control, and because the recording time is often very long, it is easy for the audience to not have the energy and strength to react and just want it to end quickly.

Therefore, the practice of recording the audience reactions first and then editing them in post-production is very common in variety shows.

After all, it's a show, and everything has to give way to the final show effect.

As for the authenticity, they are basically just promotional slogans put out during publicity.

As a student who graduated from a media school, many of Zhuo Ge’s classmates went to work in TV stations.

As far as variety show scripts are concerned, according to my classmates, the most detailed ones can be accurate to every action and line in all aspects.

After recording the audience reactions, a magic contract was signed with everyone present, prohibiting the disclosure of competition details and results before the show was officially aired.

Magic is convenient. It can directly punish people when they reveal content that is prohibited by the contract, and it can also locate the leaker.

Therefore, unless some audience members spend a huge price to forcibly terminate the contract, the sword-forging competition will not have spoilers spread all over the Internet right after the recording.

Everything is ready and the program recording officially begins.

"All departments in place, ready, 3, 2, 1, power on." Drogo's orders were transmitted to all staff present through voice transmission magic.

The lighting system lit up instantly, and the 400-square-meter studio was arranged in a workshop style.

Four sets of furnaces, impact enchanting hammers, manual shears, grinders are neatly arranged, and all kinds of tools that may be used for forging, such as hand saws, grinding wheels, pliers, etc., are available.

Magic technology, traditional and modern equipment are all included. No matter what the players' usual working habits are, they are guaranteed to find the right tools.

As the first officially launched variety show of the Zhuoge Group, it highlights its wealth and full funding.

All the tools that could be brought to the site were top-of-the-line. Even Barn was amazed when he saw them, saying that they were no less than those in his workshop.

Drogo said that was nonsense, it was just a replica of his workshop.

"The host is here."

After the show shot was filmed, Drogo began to follow the process.

In order to ensure that the host is not biased, the host is indeed an individual.

The host in work clothes walked in front of the camera.

"Welcome to the first Sword Forging Competition sponsored by the Drogo Corporation. Do you want to see the best weapon forgers? Do you want to know the process of creating a magic weapon? The Sword Forging Competition will give you the answer."

The host had a deep voice, but was a little reserved. He used to be a wedding emcee, and had never seen so many cameras.

“Each game will have four contestants participating, and they will use the materials provided by the program team to make the corresponding weapons according to the knife-shaped questions.

"The competition consists of three rounds, namely making a knife blank, repairing and enchanting, and the final one-week weapon customization. One contestant will be eliminated in each round, and the champion will be decided after three rounds.

"Of course, at the end of this season, all champions will compete on the same stage to win the title of King of Sword Forging. The winning works will be collected by the program team, and the knife racks that will be used to display the collection will be made from the works of the defeated opponents!"

I learned this rule from a bunch of my friends who are the richest people in the world with only a piece of cloth on their heads.

To be honest, although the technical conditions for these guys to organize the competition were poor and hardware problems occurred all the time, the show effect was still very good.

The winners severely humiliate the losers, effectively increasing the tension.

“Then, let me introduce the judges of the competition.

"From the Twin Towers, Forge Castle, the representative of dwarven craftsmanship, the successor to the title of Forge, one of the makers of the game console, Barn Forge Master!"

The camera turned to Barn in the judges' seat. He walked to his seat, hammered the clan totem on his clothes with his fist, and then raised his arms high with great momentum.

While watching the surveillance footage, Drogo always felt that there was something strange about the old dwarf, as if he couldn't walk very well.

"Did he fall or something while rehearsing the script just now?" Drogo asked the executive director.

“No, but he put several layers of insoles in his shoes when he was putting on makeup,” the executive director replied.

Drogo took another closer look and almost couldn't hold back.

Barn's heels were almost popping out of his shoes. He didn't expect that he was such a face-saving dwarf.

You want to pad the inside to increase height, right? Why bother? With all this padding, it won't reach Antinoya's chest.

If the two judges want to look at each other at eye level, either Antinoya has to squat down or Barn has to stand on stilts.

"Why isn't he wearing heels?" Drogo asked suddenly.

Nowadays, high heels are not exclusive to women. Although there is a trend towards that, there are still many men who wear them and are quite obsessed with their height.

Since your instep is almost exposed, you might as well just wear high heels.

"Well, he tried, but the heels didn't hold him up. There are several pairs of shoes with broken heels in the dressing room right now."

"Okay, remember to make him pay."

A good red dragon is one who is thrifty and manages the household well.

After Barn sat down, the host also introduced Antinoya.

However, this senior craftsman of the Silver City-State had never done a job as well-known as the game console, so the title was a little empty when introduced.

But it doesn't matter. Drogo believes that with that face of hers, he will win a lot of supporters if he releases her to the public.

Given that the elves have always looked down on other ethnic groups, they can still obtain a lot of "spiritual elves". It can only be said that the world is a huge face-licking dog.

In history, there have even been cases where a large group of people jointly requested a reduction in sentence for a criminal just because he was so good-looking. This is a bizarre incident where one's worldview is dictated by one's appearance.

“Finally, there are the referees who will be scoring this match.

"The orc warrior in charge of strength testing, Battle Axe!
"The engineer of the Drogo Group responsible for verifying the process from a scientific perspective, Xin 104!

"And the drow priest who is responsible for judging the effect of enchantment, Hadarai!"

As soon as these three appeared, the atmosphere became serious.

Orcs, goblins, and drow are races that are truly "famous far and wide" and very characteristic of the Drogo Group.

They were here to judge the scores, and had been carefully selected by Drogo.

Not to mention the battle axe, he is proficient in all kinds of melee weapons. In the group, his strength level is in the first tier after Drogo, making him a perfect candidate for strength tests.

Xin 104, as one of the earliest goblins to switch to engineering, now specializes in materials science and mechanics. He can provide a very professional and impressive perspective that may be difficult to understand but feels very powerful.

As for the last drow priest Hadarai, there is nothing special about him. He is from the enchantment school and has learned some craftsmanship.

The main reason for choosing him is that, as a drow, he hates dwarves and elves equally.

Absolutely fair!

"The sword-forging competition is now officially starting—"

The host played a long note that made people feel suffocated, and sparks spewed from the four furnaces, and everything was ready.

(End of this chapter)