154 The Peak (1/2)

Wallace read the qualifications that was set by the magic craftsman himself.

After understanding the content, he was sure that he was qualified to take the examination. Anyway, even though he doesn't have a recommendation letter, he was confident to pass the first level of examination.

”Well... as expected of Grand Arcanist, huh. He would accept even those without Arcane Link... I should have an edge in this examination.”

Wallace muttered softly after he checked the requirements. Of course, the succeeding examinations may not be as simple.

He was expecting more 5,000 magicians to apply in this apprenticeship. Anyway, he believes that he possess a solid foundation and talent in crafting so even though a lot of young Mana Technicians would take the examinations, he surmised that he had a good chance to be selected in 5 slots for the apprenticeship. But he can't be too complacent as there would surely be many hidden elites amongst the candidates. After all, the Grand Arcanist did not limited the qualifications to only citizens of Zairus. Most likely, allied countries would use this opportunity to send their own elites.

'Urgh... I might actually meet familiar people...'

Wallace thought as remembered the other talents in the three allied countries.

Also, he will be turning 16 this year so those 17 or 18 yrs old in higher education would surely dominate at some point, he had to be serious about this.

He looked at the information of the Grand Arcanist gathered by his A.I. and recalled the details he learned about the magic engineer's path.

The Engineer's path would start on becoming a Mana Technician, then being licensed as Magic Engineer. After learning the Arcane Link and pass another examinations, the Magic Engineer can be promoted to an Arcane Artificer. Once the Artificer reached a specific amount of accomplishments, they will be called an Arcanist and the peak of this was called Grand Arcanist, these were the people who had received a national level accomplishments. Currently within their country,  there were only 3 living Grand Arcanist.

Although Aeolia didn't officially received the title of Grand Arcanist during his days, he was acknowledged as the first Grand Arcanist of their nation. After all, the official titles was only made 50 years ago to differentiate the level of accomplishment of the Magic Engineers.

Magic Craftsman was a title given to address an Arcanist and Grand Arcanist in a certain extent. It was because of it's history prior to the creation of the official titles.

Wallace was quite excited to visit the capital and take the examination. He wanted to meet the so called peak of the Magic Engineer's path.

He also recalled that these Arcanists had great differences with the Arcane Artificers because the field that they cover were no longer just in the creation of Mana Artifacts, Magic Structures, Formations or Arrays but also----

Wallace thoughts were interrupted when his mother called out.

”Wallace, I need your help here.”

The obedient son immediately went to assist his mother.

Elaine was managing the sales of Wallace's Float Drive System. After he retrieved the Avalon in the Island Nation of Montego, all his succeeding creations were managed by him and his exclusive artificial intelligence.

Only the manufacturing rights of this float machine was left to be handled by his mother.

Currently, orders of the main magic structure crystal of the float drive system were still being received. So he was still selling them creating significant amount of income.

This also lead him to be connected to Gordon Iron and Steel Group, this state owned enterprise was headquartered in Stella Region.

The capacity of this company reaches 7 million of tonnes of steel per annum, making the company the largest steel provider of Zairus.

The company produces steel products such as special steel, stainless steel, carbon steel that was also being exported to other countries. It supplies for areas like petrochemical, transportation, household appliances, metalwork, energy, manufacture of machinery and electronic instruments.

His connection with this company would allow him to easily acquire one of the important resources that he needed, the supply of steel.

At the moment, they were considering whether to sell another main magic structure of the Float Drive System as the representative of Gordon Iron and Steel Group notified them an order for 50 magic stucture crystal. Wallace wasn't against the idea as he could easily make the magic structure crystal already.

It's just that 50 crystals in a single order was quite high considering his previous productions. The total sales they had for the main magic structure only reached 65 pieces. For the manufacturing rights, a total of 6 companies had purchased it including Gordon Iron and Steel Group.

”Why do they need a large number of this magic structure crystal so suddenly?”

”They said that it helps them in one of the productions of their steel. It seems that they didn't use the magic structure to float a suit but a machinery.”