35 Preparation (1/2)

Instructor Jake is a full-time instructor in the academy and one of the combat magician experts stationed to teach 3rd years for some practical combat techniques. He is a retired veteran from the military that has found joy in teaching this budding magicians.

He has a black hair, tanned skin with a very fine build that could be recognized even if he's wearing a coat.

Instructor Jake stood in front of the students as his keen black eyes swiftly glanced at each of them. After having a look at them, he started to explain the rules of the competition.

”I believe you are aware of last year's competition... or some of you.”

He looked at the 8 first year students on the latter part of his words, as they may not specifically aware of the rules last year.

Upon noticing this, the first year students nodded maybe to indicate that they know the rules last year or indeed not. Instructor Jake continued.

”Last year, the competition for combat magicians and mana technicians is a separated round robin between the 12 Academies, but this time, the organisers decided to merge the both of them.”

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The students reacted at this as they doubted what they've just heard.

”Merge? Will we be fighting alongside technicians?

A female third year student from Sun Class asked. She has a long black hair, pale skin and her almond eyes was staring back at the instructor. She is Vera, one of the outstanding combat magician who participated in the competition since her 1st year.

”Well, in a sense, yes. Unlike like last year, the two classes will have to cooperate now to win the competition. The competition will start with mana techinicians creating a mana artifact. They could only use the available resources provided by the organisers. So these mana technician has to have wide range of knowledge in their field or they should be someone who could improvise with whatever resources they could get.”

The students in Sun Class looked at the Moon Class students. They seem to be aware of the next words of intructor Jake. If that is indeed the case, their combat strength will be greatly affected depending on the abilities of the mana techinicians who will be making their mana artifact. Instructor Jake continued in his explanation.

”Then the 5 combat magicians would have to use the artifact they created. Of course, you should be aware that the selected mana technicians has the capability to provide you suitable mana artifact. They just have to at least be aware of your quirks or campatibility so they could make considerations when making an artifact.”

It was indeed as what they have thought. There were still several rules in the competition and after about half an hour of explanation, Instructor Jake ended his part.

”That's all the rules you have to keep in mind. Any more questions?”

Another female student raised her hand asked a question, but this time, it was Mei.

”Why the change?”

She asked this because it seems that it has gotten complicated with these new rules. The competition before was more straight forward after all.

Instructor Jake nodded at this, it seems he expected that someone would ask this eventually.

”One of the reasons that I'm aware of is because of evaluation difficulty. The created mana artifact by the talented mana techinicians are getting harder and harder to evaluate it's potential or value.”