124 Appraisal Part 2 (1/2)

Wallace tried to recall this little girl in front of them. Erza has long red hair tied at the back of her head. She wasn't wearing their Zairus uniforms and was instead wearing red flowery dress matching her pale white skin.

She appears to be around 12 or 13 years old and seemed to be having a vacation in this island country.

Now that Wallace had thought about it, he was quite curious about this little girl who seems to be acquianted with Shirley.

'What's the identity of this girl anyway?' He thought briefly before sending his Divine Sense to probe the girl. Very well, she's a genuine young girl unlike the other. But if that was the case, how could she help them evaluating the Mana Artifact?

”Hello Uncle Troy, you called me?” The girl said after seeing Troy Webb. The two students never had an idea about her identity and Van was only aware that Erza was connected to Ministry of Magic Education. Aside from that, he know nothing else as he didn't bother to dig deeper.

”Right, these students here wanted to appraise a magic structure stone and I couldn't properly evaluate the grade of this artifact, so--” Troy said as he gestured to introduce the two students but Erza seems to be excited to speak.

”What? Something that you couldn't grade? Then that should be amazing.” The girl was curious about anything that would trouble her uncle. It wasn't easy for someone in his level to be stumped on something.

”Correct. So you check it for me.”

”Eh? How would I grade it if even you, Uncle, were unable to appraise it?”

”It should be easy for you...”

”Really? But I haven't finished learning from my master yet...”

”That should be enough. I know you can do it.”

Troy said as he tried to convince the girl to start appraising the stone.

He handed over the Basilisk Stone, now vessel of a Magic Structure, to the girl and waited for her to start appraising it.

”Who made this?” The girl ask after checking the Basilisk Stone visually.

”I'm Wallace. I made it just now.” Wallace stepped forward and smiled at the girl.

Erza seems to have given up as she nodded at Wallace and started fulfilling her uncle's request. Although she doesn't feel that confident since even her uncle was unable to grade it himself, she could only try and see.

Wallace observed the girl as she starte pouring her Mana into his magic structure. He was a bit skeptical at this girl's ability but since the Peak Adept Mage had trusted this girl, he didn't dare to say a word and just silently waited for the results.

Anyway, they wouldn't lose anything if the girl was attempting to appraise it carefully. There could only be some problem if ever she had failed to identify some formulas and the girl tried to push herself or exerted a lot more Mana just to further evaluate the magic structure within the stone. He believed that when reaching that point, Troy would know what to do.

There are cases like these were the structure would be slightly be damaged or even be wasted completely if it was not handled carefully.

Just like whenever Yumi tries to dig deeper at Wallace's Magic Jammer Canceller, the Jax Stone would always shatter as it couldn't handle the burden of Mana that was constantly interfering or going around in it's core.

”Brilliant!”

A few minutes had passed as Erza finished evaluating it. A look of surprise can be seen on her face as she realized the surprising capability of the magic structure she's holding. She couldn't help but praise the stone and have another look at Wallace. She actually had an impression to this Mana Technician because he was the same person who made Shirley's Mana Artifact during TMAC.

On the other hand, Wallace was also surprised to see that this girl did something similar to Arcane Link.

'That felt like Arcane Link. But it has a different feel to Troy's method.' Wallace thought suddenly but he could only put this at the back of his mind for now since the topic was still completely foreign to him. He can think about it later after this whole competition.

Wallace showed a visible smile after hearing Erza's but didn't say a word while Van at the back clenched his fist. Although he tries to hid his worry, Wallace had clearly felt Van's aura. He was surely starting to lose his confidence on his own Magic Structure and only with his pride as a senior made him stood proud and look undisturbed.

After all, there's a professional young magicians girl here so he had to show the professionalism of a 3rd year student as well.

He was waiting for Erza's evaluation but it sounds similar to Troy.