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As Professor Bixby reached the first table and picked up a shield that my classmate chose as a base, I noticed an incredible flaw.
“Hmm…Decent rune placent and spacing, neat and tidy tracing, but there is one major flaw. Can you tell what it is?” Professor Bixby asked as he rotated the shield around.
The poor boy looked at the gno holding his shield with a confused look as he tried to figure out what he did wrong.
“No? Then allow to demonstrate.” Professor Bixby passed the enchanted shield to the boy and asked him to activate the enchanted shield.
Once the enchanted shield was activated, it glowed as the runes, glyphs, and traces lit up on the face of the shield, and if I am not wrong that is the Impact Barrier enchantnt that adsorbs a large chunk of kinetic energy from anything striking at the shield before it actually touches the shield.
Professor Bixby then drew a knife and slashed at the shield. As the blade ca within a few inches of the shield, the blade slowed down as if it were fighting through thick mud, losing a lot of its montum, but nevertheless, the blade did reach the face of the shield and he dragged his blade across the traces of dried mana conductive ink, in the process of doing so, scraped tal off of the face of the shield where one of the traces were painted on, thus breaking the panted on mana traces.
Once that happened, the enchantnt sputtered and died, “Now do you understand? You were enchanting a shield, shields get hit and damaged, you should have done the enchantnt on the interior of the shield.”
The mont he said that I heard one or two people sowhere in the class cuss to themselves, one of those people that I noticed enchanted a breastplate… on the outside. It was at that mont, he knew he fucked up.
Soon after that, Bixby went around examining, testing, complinting so, and roasting other people’s work, and soon it was my turn.
“Luke Ironcrest… I noticed you decided to take quite a bit of risk. Let us see if it paid off.” he said before picking up the shortsword to inspect it.
“Hmm… never seen this style of tracing before, looks clean and neat, and I can see the potential for improving on this design. Now let us see what you enchanted this sword with.” Professor Bixby said as he traced his fingers along the inlaid mana copper.
“Let's see here… you have two enchantnts going on here, a sharpness and light illusion enchantnt.” the gno then poured mana into the shortsword and did a few test swings at the open air, after doing so, half a second from the first swing, what looked to be a copy of the shortsword swung at the sa area but from a different angles.
Then Professor Bixby did sothing and the illusion shortsword struck out without the real sword being swung, he then followed up with a swing of the real sword which was followed by the illusion sword.
He then took the pencil from my table and lightly tapped the shortsword on it, but despite the limited strength used, the top part of the pencil fell to the floor, when I looked at what remained in Professor Bixby’s hand, I knew my sharpness enchantnt worked, the place where he tapped the pencil was a clean cut surface.
“Well done, besides a bit of mana leakage from your runes, This is a well-enchanted Mirage sword, and the choice of using mana copper wire was a good one, even if the sword gets a bit scratched up, the mana copper would be able to take more of a beating than mana conductive ink. The only downside is that you used mana tal enchantnt on a non-mana tal base.
If you had used mana-conductive ink, it would not have been as mana-conductive as mana copper, but it would not have been as stressful on a non-mana tal base, leaving you with a sowhat serviceable weapon even as the enchantnt fails. But since you used a mana tal enchantnt on a non-mana tal base, the non-mana tal base would most likely be the first to degrade and crumble, leaving you with no weapon at all. But other than that, you did good work on your enchanting and I can see you are forming your own style. I will give you an A- grade. If you had taken into account the base you were enchanting on and provided a stable enchantnt within the limits of the base material, I would have given you full marks. At the mont, this weapon is only good to be used as a disposable weapon.” Professor remarked and moved to the next workbench as the invigilator wrote on his clipboard.
Once Professor Bixby was done with the grading of our enchantnts, we were dismissed. That was when I was approached by so of my classmates to ask what exactly I did for my enchantnt, so I stuck around for a while to tell them of my work process.
Of those who approached , there were two of them that I recognized from my blacksmithing class, and they asked if I could show them how I did the wire inlaying, and I thought ‘Why not, after the exams there is a one-month school break, so I got ti.’
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After showing those in my Enchanting class how I did my mana copper inlaying, the lunch bell rang and I politely excused myself, there was food to eat and I was a growing boy.
After going to the canteen and loading up my plate, I ran into Dave and Sam who were also about to have lunch, so we ended up sitting together.
“So, you going anywhere during this school break?” Sam asked .
“Nah, my ho is at the kingdom’s border, too far, I will most likely only go ho during the end of year break. How about you guys? Going ho to see your family?” I asked in return.
They shook their heads, “No, we are in kind of the sa boat as you, while our ho is not as far as yours, it is kind of not worth the trip. Once you minus the travel ti, we will most likely just be ho for a few days before we need to start heading back here.”
I nodded my head in agreent and asked, “So what are your plans?”
“We plan to earn so extra pocket money by doing so jobs from the local Adventurer's Guild during this break.” Dave said.
“Wait, when you say Adventurer's Guild, are you referring to the place that is full of people who kill things for money? Don’t they have an age restriction for that or sothing? We are still in school.” I asked.
Dave shook his head, “The Adventurer's Guild does a lot more than just killing stuff, they do requests posted in their hall, but for us, we can only do nearby resource gathering missions, we will only be able to get a proper Adventurer's Guild license when we are 16 years old. Until then, we are stuck with probationary licenses, or Junior licenses as it is more commonly known.”
The both of them reached into their pockets and pulled out a wooden token with the Adventurer's Guild crest on it.
Seeing the Adventurer's Guild tags, a smile crept onto my face, and I took a deep breath, it slled like adventure.
Giving Dave and Sam my best smile, I asked “So, where is this Adventurer's Guild and how do I get myself so tags?”
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