Episode 137 – Clay Mines (2/2)

However, some materials had a different behavior if their hty resistance to preventthat theirit incredibly difficult to go above its tolerance However, if one still ed to increase the density, such materials would cru up a final struggle before death

However, thanks to this property of the clay, Kiel would feel when his enchantment reached the required mana density This was probably the reason why they used such a material in this exam – they wanted to make it easier for Kiel, intuitive even Or perhaps they wanted to limit the density of his spell so that he wouldn’t waste tiher level

“This time, you should concentrate on speed over accuracy Enchant asas the shape is good enough for the spell to forrandma elaborated “And, of course, try not to lose a lirand him real Clay Mines… were they? Surely, they wouldn’t use soned an agree that any injury or death was not to be blamed on the university… but that was just an insurance in case of accidents such as exa down the stairs The exaerous!

Kiel squeezed out a mirthless smile and waited for the assistant professor to deliver the briefcase to his desk He was overthinking things, of course, they wouldn’t give hi normal clay, just like his old teacher did in class

He stared at the opened briefcase that was just placed in front of him

Yeah Just like his old teacher did in class… Kiel’s smile froze on his face He re and wanted to create the highest quality of enchantment possible When he presented the clay to his teacher, he praised hienius

But he also told him that his enchantment wouldn’t be able to reach such density if they werereal Clay Mines For explosive clay was one of the h resistance once the mana density reached its threshold

After a lanced towards the professors who seee of their seats, their aura flaring in preparation of casting life-saving s are real Clay Mines!!

Needless to say, it took Kiel soain his perfectly cal them waste their time?? Vicious! Petty!!)

In the end, his reason won over his emotions If handled with care these erous

After all, while not enchanted, these clay pebbles could be thrown around and stepped on as much as one wanted without worry They would only explode if they were set on fire, however, they wouldn’t combust on their own under normal room temperature

And even after they were enchanted and turned into Clay Mines, they would still not explode so easily He reers where Clay Mines were ered by pressure It included detailed calculations of the force exerted by a foot of a walking person in relation to their weight and walking speed and how it is relevant to pressure triggered enchantht, Clay Mines could even be thrown at high speeds without worry of an explosion Thus, as long as he didn’t end up dropping one and stepping on it, he’d be safe

And so, Kiel didn’t touch the clay pebbles at all and chose to enchant the inside the briefcase

Due to his high spell casting speed, it took less than a minute to mass produce a briefcase filled with Clay Mines And the enchanth quality When one reached his high proficiency in , it was actually impossible to do a sloppy enchanth this task wasn’t hard for Kiel, beingup much less time than the previous, complicated enchant down Kiel’s forehead was in no way inferior to the drops sweated during the previous task

The professors, also for obvious reasons, didn’t start testing his previously enchanted h explosive to blow up the entire rooain, securely seated on top of their desk

Kiel could swear that they let out a collective breath of relief when the briefcase was closed One of thehed to mask his exhale, another one casually wiped the sweat frorand back in her chair and relaxing her aura

After that, she gave a signal to the youngest a them, oke up from his daze and pulled out another apparatus from the cart It was a metal sphere with a flat bottom and a star-shaped hole in the ned to show the result of the measurement

What folloas a process almost identical to the process that the professors used to test his cogs They would place the star in the hole and note down the displayed result on the meter

This time the professors didn’t explain the purpose of the enchantment on the star, however, they did explain the purpose of the apparatus, which was to measure ive theher the level of the spell, the higher its stability and its mana efficiency This meant that less mana was required to sustain the spell and lesser aer effect than lower leveled spells It also meant that the spell was harder to break, less affected by spell interference and had a faster spell regeneration

Out of all the effects, mana efficiency and effects of spell interference were easiest to measure so they were usually the ones athered from all the information that they revealed so far was that the professors were interested in his spell weaving and the quality of the spells he could produce However, although the density ofwas also considered a part of spell weaving skill, they didn’t seem to be too interested in that

So since the density of the mana used to weave the spell affected the spell level they needed to reave him artifacts whose materials imposed a limit to the density of mana he could weave

This also allowed thehest quality that they thought was producible as a comparison to his own artifacts

Author Note

I wonder, when you guys read the title of the chapter, how many did you think about clayclay?