8 Artifact Forging (1/2)

Wallace opened the lid of the Artifact Forging Box and placed the bracelet inside carefully. After closing the lid, he placed the first magic structure crystal on top of this lid which created a reaction as blue light emerge from the crystal.

He was now holding on the box though he hadn't yet channel any mana. He carefully sensed the mana gathering formation before channeling his mana to control this, he felt the mana stabilization array activating while he carefully connected to the magic structure crystal.

Wallace immediately felt the difference of using the professionally made formation and array compared to their own. The feeling of smooth and stable channeling worked wonders in this process.

Unfortunately, these things are only temporary as Wallace felt that after 3 or 4 more usage of mana array and it will be worn out. As for the mana formation, it lasts longer as it could normally help magician up to 15 times before you'll notice a decline.

After Wallace connected his mind on the crystal, a gush of information appeared on his mind as the crystal melted, he now has about 15 minutes to inlay the content of the crystal before the structure's content dissipates. Four orb of blue light was now hovering about on top of the machine.

He absorb the information and started to work, it was actually weird that he could easily understand how to inlay the magic structure to the bracelet. The four blue lights represents the innovation of 4 generation in artifact forging, so the information it contain is massive. They have infused these four lights before on the first semester.

Four students worked on infusing the contents of this four orb of blue lights but now he will be working on it alone and after this he would still have to inlay the last crystal containing the Blue Flame Mantra.

Minutes has passed but Wallace wasn't having trouble. He was extremely focused and his mind was clear in all his actions. Once he started inlaying the last magic crystal, although he was having difficulty due to complex pattern in the magic structure, it was only consuming his time to properly infuse it. Even though the memory crystal he consumed has different elemental path, he was still able to use it as foundation to complete the forge. Especially the 3rd memory crystal he consumed, he noticed it will be perfect for this task.

***

Outside the forging room.

Students who was done on their turn formed a group and shared their experiences.

”Ericka, how was it?”

They noticed that Ericka, one of their classmate who was performing averagely in the class seemed a bit down ever since she left the forging room.

”I failed, I was able to infuse the 1st crystal and was doing really good on the 2nd one, but at the last part where the magic structure of that Blue Flame Mantra has to completely fuse on the bracelet, it seems that it rejected the way on how I infused the 1st crystal. Even though I prevented the artifact to be completely wasted, it only turned as a 4th gen artifact.”

”Hah! Are you bragging? I didn't even infused the 2nd orb of that 1st crystal.”

That was sad. Everyone looked at Gilbert with pity as he announced his failure.

”I could have completed it if I used my own mana array just to let you know. I'm just not compatible with that too smooth array. I like it rough!” Gilbert added to defend himself after he noticed the look on their faces.

”Ehem, how about you Kazimir?”

”Mhm, I completed it. But I took too much time.”

Kazimir is a man of few words, he came from a foreign country and was too careful about his conduct. But it won't hinder their classmates to befriend this aloof guy. They were even able to drag him here on their group.

Everyone present was also impressed when they heard that he completed the task.

Apart from the seven classmates they had that was top performer since their 1st year, you could say that he can be the top 8. He was only lacking compared to the seven due to the other's wealth and prominent background who could almost give them unlimited reaources to practice the forging art. Apparently, the top 7 has a group of their own and a bit difficult to approach compared to this foreign guy who couldn't say no.