27 New Mission (1/2)
Wallace tried to plan his new magic structure that evening. He was aware that his attempts to gain enough reputation to participate in the competition hadn't gone unnoticed to his classmates.
He purchased a bunch of alloys and ores as his new mana artifact design requires a better quality equipment.
Only 29 days left until the selection for the competition on the last month of the year. Once a participant was selected in their academy, they would still have a month of preparation before the start of the competition, they will receive special training and privileges during this time.
If the academy will select the participant right now, no doubt that Wallace would be selected. But there are still remaining days left so he can't be relaxed and has to maintain a good performance.
Wallace entered his new workshop that is connected at the left side of this house. The interior was painted white and gray at the edges. There were stacked boxes and piles of metals on the floor.
Wallace created a space at the center table and put the artifact forging box on top of it. This forging box was an old one inherited from his father. Unlike the school's box, this one was an older design but was well maintained by Wallace.
”Should I first create a much better mana stabilization array?”
Wallace pondered a bit. His mana affinity has increased a bit thanks to the first reward he received before and felt that he was able to control larger amount of mana. And maybe due to the changes on his body, it continued to affect his improvement in mana affinity.
Due to this, he needs to adjust his own array. Although any mana stabilization array out there would control the flow of his mana to the forging box, just like Gilbert told before, it would be better to use your own array due to compatibility reasons.
Of course, it doesn't mean you'll be able to perform to the best of your ability as those professionally made array can be found to be better that what you can create. Not all rookies were like Wallace who has a good grasp on this array.
Wallace started adjusting his array and mana gathering formation to better suit himself before he started the forge.
***
A week has passed and some changes occurred as Ross introduced his newly created mana artifact and was even published at the local newspapers. There were several articles introducing the new mana artifact.
”A top student at the Leonhearts Academy, a descendant of a legend, Ross Schien has submitted his new mana artifact at the NMTI. Another 5th gen artifact that has a grade rating of A...”
”Arcane Sword - A new mana artifact designed by Ross Schien, an uprising star in the field of artifact forging...”
It's unusual to have a second year student in school create their own original mana artifact and magic structure. At most, students and newly graduates are expected to only be capable of replicating a pre-designed mana artifacts. So this news was immediately noticed by many people.
Although it was surprising to many, after they learned the person's background, they attributed it as him being a descendant of Aeolia Schien.
***
Wallace got a hold of the news as Gilbert told him about it this the morning on their class.
”Isn't Ross amazing? I wish I could accomplish that as well. Someday, I'll make my own.”
It was Gilbert, he was referring on making his own artifact. He was chatting with Wallace as they have free time between their subjects.