Chapter 73 - Sneaking out (1/2)

The old man had gone to the other room that was attached to the side of the martial arts hall. The room that since I had been here, assumed it was the toilet due to the bad smell. It turned out that is was actually a storage room. After around ten minutes of waiting around the old man came out and shouted,

”Finally here they are.”

The old man came out from the room holding a pair of fairly large gauntlets. They were red in colour with a turtle-like pattern. The fingertips were pointed like small daggers with black tips.

”Finally, I knew I still had these around here, You can borrow these in the meantime, heck, you can even keep them if you give me what it's worth.” The old man then handed them to me.

As I held the gauntlets in my hand I could feel they had a weight to them. The design made me suspect that they were beast crystal items. Beast crystal items often resembled the animal they had come from. In this case, it looked like it came from a turtle-like creature.

”Well, are you just going to stare at them or put them on.” The old man shouted.

When I put both the gauntlets on they seemed to be a little big for my arm size. Then suddenly, I started to feel the gauntlets grip around my forearm and fingers. They started to reform and shrink down until It was a nice snug fit. It was as if they were hand made for my arms.

”They look good on you boy, unfortunately there only intermediate tier crystal items. If I let you borrow anything higher tier then that, then it wouldn't be fair to the others.”

”Thank you, I promise to repay you for this in the future.”

Although the old man said some might see this as unfair, I thought it was totally fine. There would be many participants at the tournament from all sorts of different backgrounds. Would people think it was unfair of nobles gifting their child equipment? I could understand where the old man was coming from though especially since he was an elder of the academy. They might think he was playing favourites.

With the gauntlet's in my hand, I was eager to test them out. I sparred with the old man while wearing them. It was a shame I couldn't use my full strength otherwise I think the two of us could have had a good match.

The gauntlets were just as strong as when I would use Ki on my hands. If I was to further power the gauntlets with Ki they would become even stronger. The sharp fingertips allowed me to use them as claw-like weapons. And the sturdy ness made them good for blocking as well.

Because of how strong the gauntlets were already, it allowed me to focus my Ki on other areas. Before I could only focus on one thing attacking or defending. Now I could do both.

Now all I needed to do was save up some money so I could get the blacksmith to create a chest piece out of the fanged boar. It seemed like I was would soon have a nice little set of armour for myself.