Slashes and craters littered the ground. Yamino was still standing, infact the maid uniform was not even wrinkled, it was as if she was never in a fight.
Mandi on the other hand was lying in a crater, the suit was cracked and nolonger running. One could see her heaving chest even through the suit.
The fight was really one sided, he had already expected that though, he was just testing the limit on the suit and Yamino had really pushed it to that point.
Yamiko was now standing next to him with a flat screen, recording the parameters of the suit. Physical strength: early master realm, durability: late master realm, speed: mid master realm.
Energy conduction: excellent, perception enhancement: 340%, can improve spells and techniques by atleast 20%, possibility of further improvement if the suit I'd tailor made for pilot.
Thank you Mandi, he said to her. You can go now, I'll call you if I need anything else. Thank you sir for this opportunity, she said bowing slightly.
Let go, he said to the twins. They went back to the village. The Colosseum was coming up fine, it was large, really large, Balga and the others had been working hard for the past 2 weeks.
He expected it would be finished within 3 days. They already had the number of applicants and how to arrange the competition.
To save time, the crafters competition and the strategists competition will happen at the same time, they will be broadcasted of course and people can watch what they want.
The day of the tournament came, the entire village was excited, infact somebody, nobody knows who,had started gambling and drawn othera as well.
Fabro had an idea but he was not going to say anything. The craftsmanship competition began early and so did the strategists competition.
There were 780 craftsman divided into 620 smiths, 134 enchanters and 26 alchemist, people with a nack for alchemy were rare and unfortunately nobody in the village was both a smith and enchanters.
A few like Rove could use runes but they barely counted as enchanters, even as an acolyte he could only draw mortal grade runes.
On the first round, the smiths were given the same material and required to make their best weapon. The same went for enchanters, they had to inscribe weapons of the same quality with the best enchantment they can.
The first round was a farce to be honest, it was to weed out the initiate who wanted to try out. The competition took hours, by the end the top 50 smiths were chosen.
20 enchanters and 5 alchemist were left, 56 strategists had entered the competition. Theirs was special, it was playing a game of kings, it was chess like game but more complicated.
Not because it had harder rules, the opposite actually, there were barely any rules, the movement of the pieces depended on the intelligence and charm stat of the player.
The charm stat makes one more charismatic while the intelligence stat gives them computational ability of a supercomputer. Mages use the stats to cast spells faster so their intelligence is usually higher.
It was a one of one game, each game not lasting more than 10 min, atleast not the first round. Competitors were eliminated until only 7 were left, since the number was uneven they had to take lots.
A guy called Sam was lucky to pass that round without competing. The remaining six had to compete until the last three. Those games took much longer than the earlier one, the opponents were nearly equal but there must always be a winner.
By the end 2 women and 2 men was left, women tend to have a higher intelligent stat that why there were more female mages than male ones.
They continued with the competition and by the end only Sam and a woman called Suzie were left. The finals were going to be tomorrow.
The following day came, Suzie and Sam had their bout and Sam ended up winning narrowly. Suzie looked disappointed but after a few encouraging words from Sam she was smiling again.
The second round for the smiths was a bit different, their task was a bit hard, they had to craft a weapon with magical effect without using rune inscriptions and they had to do so using low grade material.
Fabro had personally designed this one. For one to be able to do this they will a high will stat. The will stats is different from the acolyte will, that will is infant form of intent which in turn is like a diluted law.
The will he speaks of is the will of the mind, the one shown on the stat panel of the board of self. One had to actually will the effect on the weapon, that technique really had nothing to do with science.
For smiths who had learnt about science from him this might be hard as it defied everything they know, it an ability that made no sense but they needed versatility, they shouldn't depend on a single way to craft.
Once they are done a top 10 will be chosen, the number 1 will be the head smith while rank 2 and 3 will be assistance head Smiths. The others of the top 10 will also have more authority than other smiths but no real position.
They began, their crafting methods although had similarities and resemblance to his they were also different, it seemed they had modified the way he taught them to fit themselves.
Presumptuous, how dare they not appreciate his magnificent way, he thought, with anger that was not actually anger, he was proud actually.
He correlated their ingenious to his teaching, of course he was a great teacher, he thought with a smug smile. Why you smiling like an idiots? Asked Yamiko, he's probably taking credit for others work to praise himself, replied An.
Yeah that sounds like him, said Yamino. He felt his lips twitch. Anyways, enough about the mean girls, after a few hours the top 10 were chosen.
Only four people were able to achieve what he wanted fully, there were 8 others who were able to use will to an extent but could barely qualify.
The top 10 were, Rove who willed the simple will of sharpness into it, making it much sharper than a weapon made from that material has any right to be.
Second was Lucas who made boots and willed wind to them, they release a small gust of wind to increase speed. Third place was Mark who made knuckles with lighting will in them..
Fourth was Pinky, the name did not fit the character, she was tall, for a woman and muscular.
As an acolyte realm awakened she was extremely pretty but still did not look like a Pinky person. Fifth was Marcus, younger brother of Mark, sixth was Cain, 7nth Karl, eighth was Beel, he was a really big guy.
Ninth was Viola, the only other woman in the top 10, she had a really petite figure and did not look like a smith, tenth place was a guy called Spiky, he had pointy spiky hair, he looked comical.
The other two who were able to use will were Alex and Mate.