165 Artifact Forging (2/2)

He stopped for a moment after failing once. He can't just repeat the same process. He had to do something different on the second try.

He contemplated for a while as he realized his weakness.

”Multitasking is tough. If only my brain capacity was better than now... oh.”

During the critical part of the forging process where he had to refine the steel and wood to make the knife form, his brain had to process a lot of things and he couldn't take all of it so he could only fail.

As a magician, their brain intelligence were already high above compared to non magicians. Unfortunately, the difficulty of the process seems to be set too high even for him unless his senses was further improved from his current capacity.

Wallace could only pull out his pocketwatch this time.

'Well, he said that we can use whatever trump card we have.'

He checked it's details before activating the artifact reward by the Pathfinder. He never really planned to use it at first as he wanted to save it in case of emergency or something like life and death matter but he had no other choice at the moment.

[ Fervor Timepiece ]

A pocketwatch containing mysterious energy.

Effects: Protects user from magic that affects human mind.

Skills:

Brain Burst -  Allows the user to accelerate brainwaves for 15 seconds.

Cooldown: 24 hours

Physical Burst - Allows the user to accelerate physical activity for 15 seconds.

Cooldown: 24 hours

Dual Burst - Allows the user to accelerate both brainwaves and physical activity at the same time for 10 seconds.

Cooldown: 48 hours ]

[ Due to the manner that the mission was completed before, the user still has 2 usages left for Dual Burst which can be used without affecting the cooldown. ]

Wallace started again with the second set of materials, the previous materials had been corroded by his Spirit Flames, although he could still use the materials since it hadn't completed it's form, it would still take an hour for the corrosion to be removed naturally.

'Mhm... I must aim to succeed in this second attempt.'

[ 24 minutes left. ]

”Don't remind of time until 1 minutes was left.”

”[ Affirmative. ]

He couldn't be disturbed during this 2nd attempt.

A few moments passed and he was already on the part where he failed the first time.

But as soon as he reached this part, he activated the Dual Burst, it would only last for 10 seconds but it was more than enough.

The world slowed down and he could clearly see the minute changes of the two materials in his hands.

He carefully molded them and realized that the materials has a very tiny foreign energy within causing chaos during the forming process. The energy was purple in color and it doesn't seem to be harmful to people. It effects seems to only affect materials. Wallace then realized something.

'Right! Is this the mysterious energy? Did they placed this? Didn't they want anyone to pass the examination?'

Wallace thought quickly. He was amazed that Sir Slaine or Clyne would still place this hurdle to them. His Divine Sense was not able to detect this miniscule energy before, so it was a bit tricky.

For now, since he was still in the dual burst mode, he carefully isolated the foreign energy and placed it outside his Spirit Flames. It then dissipated like it was never there.

'Success!'

Not only was the foreign energy causing problem has been resolved but also the knife form itself.

Only one last step was remaining, Spirit Channelling.

He took a deep breath and started to apply the magic spell to his knife.

[ 1 minute left. ] Avalon reminded but it doesn't matter now.

”Done!”

Wallace completed his very first 6th generation Mana Artifact.