Chapter 417 - Leaving Party (1/2)

Soon, the item behind the cloth was revealed, and in the student's hand, appeared a new pair of gauntlets. The first pair of King Tier gauntlets that Ray had ever seen or set his eyes on. Moving forward, Ray decided to take a closer look, and slowly a smile appeared on his face.

”I like it,” Ray said, ”I like it a lot.”

The Gauntlets were made mainly of three different colours, gold, red and black. The base of the colour was in not too shiny gold, almost looking a little bit of silver. Then between the joints and the palm of the gauntlets, he could see a black underline. Finally, to finish off all, the trimmings were done in a fiery red colour.

The design pleased Ray, as well as spiral patterns of flames, could be seen engraved throughout, filled with the black colour, and the outline of red on either side. Then where the gauntlets ended, just by the elbow, it would slightly extend producing several wavy patterns as if they were spitting out fire like a dragon.

Just looking at them, Ray could feel that it was a King Tier weapon. Picking them up and putting them on, he almost wanted to try them on instantly.

”Are they powerful?” Ray asked as he started to put on the first pair.

”If you are talking about sheer attack power, they're actually the same as your previous gauntlets,” Randin said.

Hearing those words had caused Ray to freeze slightly before he had even put on the second pair.

”I knew you might not be happy about this, but let me explain,” Randin said. ”You see, Gauntlets aren't originally a striking weapon and mainly used for defence. Punching your enemy rather than cutting them has always been a last resort. So when making a pair out of the crystals you gave me, I had to naturally forge them the way the weapons were meant to be. Otherwise, it would have produced lackl.u.s.ter results..

”Now, although the attack is the same, its durability and defence are top-notch. In the tournament you will be facing the best of every Kingdom, it will come as no surprise if they have King Tier weapons, perhaps even better. With these gauntlets on, a King Tier sword wouldn't even be able to put a scratch, it will even be able to withstand attacks from a Tier above.” He continued to explain.

”As for an active skill, I'm sure it has one, well, not one that I could activate. Perhaps it is the same as Martha's bow, and it's powered by magic, either way, I'm sure you will know how to use them.”

It was a shame that the gauntlets weren't able to add to his current strength, but at least this way, he would never have to worry about them breaking if he was to be in a fight. It also just went to show that perhaps, Ray should also start working on his swordsmanship in the future. Although Dragons no longer existed, there were still beasts that he remembered fighting with that were worthy opponents. Their scales and hides were as tough as anything. So just punching them would no longer work, he would need a sword.

He had the Raven sword and had been practising swordsmanship with Sir K, but still, the weight and balance just didn't feel quite right for Ray, so, for now, he would continue to use his martial arts mainly. Perhaps he would try defeating his opponents with the sword first as a form of practice, and if it didn't work out, he would switch to the gauntlets later.

After he was done thinking about everything, he quickly put on the other pair of gauntlets, and just like with the bow, a system message appeared.

[Please input elemental mana to create a shield]

”Oh, now this is interesting.” Ray thought.

First, Ray started to concentrate and activated his fire attribute. Instead of his gauntlets being covered in flames like they usually would, something else seemed to happen. From the side of his forearms, strange red energy started to appear. On both sides, they formed a large semi-circle, which soon turned a circle.

When looking at him, it looked as if Ray had a disk of energy coming out from his forearm. This was the same for both sides of his arm.

Randin picked up a clump of dirt and threw it towards Ray. Knowing what he was trying to do, Ray decided to block it with the red circle part. As the dirt hit it immediately went up in flames.

”A shield of flames, interesting. Try that again.” Ray said.

This time, Randin did the same, throwing another clump of dirt. Seeing how thin the circle was, he had an idea. Using the edge of the circle, he swung his arm, slashing the stone, and it was smoothly cut in half.