Trust the Pathfinder

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.

They chatted for a while but this time everyone looked at the forging room's door when they heard it opening. They saw Wallace walking out of the room and immediately asked how he fared.

"I got lucky, that was really tough." Wallace answered as he unconsciously touched the thin necklace he was wearing.

"You really did it? That's awesome!"

"How come I failed if you were able to do it?" Ericka was exasperated as she heard Wallace completing the forge, she expected to be a bit better than him base on the previous occasions.

The result of the exam will still be announced tomorrow but as they have nothing important to do, they waited for everyone to complete the examination and compared their results. Everyone now has a rough idea on those students who had passed the exam.

Many were surprised at Wallace as he was one of the 11 students who were able to complete the forge. It doesn't matter what grade of 5th gen artifact he created, as a 5th gen artifact is still a 5th gen whatever grade it is.

Everyone was still chatting with each other as Instructor Garen came out of the Forging Room.

"Oh, you are all still here? Go home and rest, I'll study each of these and give the result tomorrow."

"Yes, Sir!"

Everyone dispersed and left to have their rest.

***

At the faculty room of the Academy.

Instructor Gilbert was checking carefully each of the bracelet his students made. Although only 11 of this has completed its forge, he must grade the others as well for ranking purpose. Giving a rank to student would normally encourage them to study harder.

It was now Wallace's artifact turn to be checked. We was checking the capability of the artifact and felt weird, he double checked his evaluation as he could not find a flaw.

"That's weird."

There should be a flaw, after all, the Blue Flame Mantra can only exert it's full potential if the material used on the forge came from a star burr. But obviously, he never provided that item and did not noticed a star burr included on the material.

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After 10 minutes of careful scrutiny, the instructor exclaimed.

"Perfect! Such an ingenious way of fixing the flaw, it seems this class has a lot of surprises."

He actually only expected no more than 5 student can complete this task, 11 students completing it was already a huge surprise for him.

Now, Wallace seems to have accomplished something more than what the instructor expected as well.