The second part of the competition started shortly after. While Evelyn had not expected to rank sixth out of nine, she was not complaining. In her competition area, there weren't any truly outstanding participants like Master Xian. However, that didn't mean that her competition was easy to face.
For the second part of the competition, Evelyn needed to create a set of clothes from the materials she had seen on the list. Knowing that this part was coming, Evelyn had been inspecting the materials lightly while going through the first part of the competition.
'There are many ice-related materials of excellent quality. I guess I can make something related to that. The garments need to be Transcendence Ranked, so it needs to be something I am confident in doing.'
Her eyes scanned every single material slowly, not rushing to produce anything yet.
Meanwhile, the other Masters had already asked for their materials and started working on them. The materials they got were honestly odd if one was speaking about tailoring.
After all, the raw ingredients for their threads came from lumps of metal, flowers, and other completely independent items one would usually not relate together.
The steps to create a garment were first, using a [Threader] to transform the items into workable fabrics. Second, a loom to manipulate the different threads and energy and transform it into another more refined material, and third, manipulate the materials with needles and shears to shape the clothing while using a press that could imprint certain characteristics and also smoothened the clothes to surreal levels.
Naturally, these were the minimum steps, and some tailors could get creative with them.
Evelyn finally decided what to use and called one of the tournament assistants for them to carry the items.
On the stands, seeing that the impressive junior was going to start her tailoring, conversation sparked. "Oh? That junior is finally moving. It has been three hours since the others started."
"That junior is taking her time. I don't see anything wrong. As long as she is confident in finishing all the clothing in time, her actions can be considered intelligent."
"Speaking of which, I wonder what kind of clothes that girl can create? If she comes from the same group as the other juniors, their clothes might be a good reference."
"That's a good point. Their clothes do have some energy traces of Junior Evelyn."
"Hm… But if that's the case, her skills might be lacking. After all, the clothes they are wearing are Quasi-Transcendence Ranked."
"That indeed doesn't make the cut, even though it is already impressive to see such a young and talented tailor."
"That's right. We see Blacksmithing, Formation, and Alchemy geniuses relatively often. However, tailoring geniuses are quite rare. There are few shortcuts you can take compared to the other professions. After all, the threading can only be done by using a certain amount of practice and energy."
Evelyn took out the ice-attributed materials and also got a few of the opposite attributes with other complementary ones. In total, there were over 80 different individual materials on top of her table. Other tailors had chosen around half, so this was very surprising for many of them.
Yasenia couldn't help but smirk when she saw the confusion on the people's faces. 'Hehe, you are about to witness my Dear's grand way of doing things~.'
Evelyn didn't take just one material to the [Threader]. She took five of them! Seeing that action made some tailors on the stands open their eyes wide.
A judge muttered, confused. "Huh? What is she doing? Threading a material is a subtle and impossibly delicate task. A single misstep can ruin the entire batch of materials. Moreover, combining materials when threading can indeed create stronger threads. However, the effects become quite chaotic if you don't have a perfect grasp of each of their reactions!"
Another judge crossed her arms and squinted. "To be honest, even I only use two materials usually, three when I am confident. Why is this little girl so sure that she can deal with so many materials to create thread?"
Not knowing that she was creating quite a commotion around her, Evelyn placed down the five materials: a blue and purple flower, a blue and yellow rock, a spoonful of a gelatinous red liquid, a mud-like icy material, and finally, a tiny seed that emitted powerful heat the size of a finger-nail.
When she placed all the materials into the [Threader], her face turned serious.
A [Threader] was a tool divided into three parts. The first part was a crushing device where all the materials would turn into a thing similar to a homogeneous paste. This device worked with energy, and regardless of whether the materials were liquid or solid, the final substance would always need to have that bouncy but also watery consistency.
This first step could go wrong if the materials chosen reacted violently with each other.
When they saw Evelyn pour all five of them in confidently, the eyes of some people widened. Similar to Alchemy Cauldrons, the crusher part of the [Threader] could explode quite violently if one was not careful!
However, seeing Evelyn turn around and pay no attention to it, their mouths dropped open, and their eyes almost popped out. 'So confident!? Isn't she afraid that it will explode?'
Still, as Evelyn had expected, the items didn't explode and successfully transformed into that watery but muddy paste. Evelyn returned with a green lotus and approached the second part of the [Threader].
Once that the substance that would later transform into threads was created, the tailor would need to refine it and make the first softening. For that, they needed to use their hands and the machine to knead it as if it were dough.
However, some judges noticed something. "That [Thread Mass]… Isn't it a bit too unstable? It feels like the faintest reaction will make it explode."
"Indeed. Is it because of that fiery seed she added? After all, it feels like she is creating an icy garment, so that seed is completely out of place."
"I wonder how she will use that [Sweet Green Lotus]."
When that third judge stopped speaking, Evelyn unceremoniously crushed the lotus in her hands, making many people's hearts twitch with pain. 'Girl! That's a Sixth Realm material that's so rare some people refuse to sell it! What do you think you are doing!?'
However, Evelyn paid no attention to them and continued crushing the item as if she wanted to turn it into powder. Of course, powder was not her objective.
After a few seconds, Evelyn's hands were coated in a green paste. With her hands like such, Evelyn pressed down on the unstable [Thread Mass]. Hearts jumped in fright, and some judges almost rushed forward to save the stupid girl.
Nevertheless, the explosion that many were expecting didn't occur. Instead, everyone heard a "puff" sound as some gasses came out when Evelyn pressed onto the [Thread Mass]. Without that explosion, Evelyn used the tools on the [Threader] to knead the [Thread Mass] for almost two hours.
Evelyn smiled and nodded when she was finished with this step. "Great."
'Great, your sister! What the hell did you do!? Why did it not explode!?'
Not knowing that many people's hearts were itching to look into her brain to see what she was thinking, Evelyn moved to the next step. On Yasenia's side, the tailoring maids were smiling wryly. "To think that Lady Evelyn noticed that an extra ingredient can be applied when amassing the [Thread Mass]. It is a surprisingly simple but obscure discovery that Lady Evelyn had."
Yasenia chuckled and asked Tatyana. "What did the Tailor Masters back in the Sky Continent say when they heard about this?"
Tatyana rolled her eyes. "You've already asked one hundred times. Do you really want to hear it one more time?"
Yasenia's golden eyes shone with light, and she eagerly nodded. "Yes!"
Tatyana smiled helplessly and sighed. "They said that Evelyn's method might revolutionize tailoring as it is known. It is a discovery that might leave her name imprinted through the ages."
Yasenia's smile widened as proudness emanated from every pore of her body. If she could, she would probably be shouting. "My Dear is the best!" As loud as she could.
Meanwhile, Evelyn moved to the final part of the [Threader] where the kneaded [Thread Mass] would be softened and sliced by very thin needles and then re-kneaded once more. It was a step that was not too significant but made it easier for the loom to craft the thread later.
Evelyn did this for almost five hours, completing the whole [Threader] machine process in around 12 hours. It was a methodic and somewhat repetitive process looking from the outside. However, while doing it, the Spiritual Tailor would be able to see how the material changed and all the intricacies, so it was quite fun.
Like seeing a new substance come to being through their hands.
The Spiritual Loom could work as a normal one for mortal robes, but the way a Spiritual Tailor needed to use it to create Transcendence Ranked clothes was a bit different.
Leaving the [Thread Mass] behind, Evelyn activated the loom without anything on it. Then, she started working as if there was a mass to transform on it. This step looked like a crazy person doing nothing but waving their hands in the air, but what Evelyn was doing was linking the loom with the energy around her.
As time passed, an invisible yet somewhat material substance started flowing through the loom, transforming into something called [Transcendent Thread]. This thread was the foundation to create a thread that, when weaved with the needles, could create Transcendence Ranked clothing.
Evelyn stopped and went back to get her [Thread Mass], placing it on the loom and starting the real refining. The material quickly transformed and became stretched. The process of transforming the [Thread Mass] into pure thread that could be worked with was time-consuming. Only a week later did Evelyn finish the process.
Evelyn stopped for an hour to clear her mind, and then she got to work. It didn't take long before she finished sewing the dress with her needles and imprinting a few energy circuits through the press.