you know? a normal person would assume what he's doing is idiotic, for plenty a reasons, its near the test site where the academy clearly searched for anything that may endanger the students.
its safe to assume they may have taken anything in here, on the other hand there is also the fact that an ancient sunken ship in the middle of the depths is still perfectly intact.. so either it was taken down by a beast just as ancient or something worse..
'its curiosity that killed the cat..'
true to the quote, he swims deeper, his feet landing upon the wet, creaky wood of the ship.
'this isn't creepy at all..'
exploring an ancient sunken ship in the depths of the ocean isn't for the weak of heart.
walking into the captains room, he can only find a worn out bed, an empty table worn by the scary power of time though he had found an old key, well what looks like one.. truth be told its too worn out to tell, so he continues his search
'not much time left'
within a matter of minutes he will be teleported back to the academy, so he better hurry.
within the hull of the ship its far more.. impressive than he had thought? barrels of liquor, which he had promptly sent to his storage earring
along with it is what seems like a map, multiple checkpoints crossed, the Large pig x already crossed out too
'maybe they hadn't managed to make it back.. so there could still be treasure'
however, considering a ship of this size and likely considerable power to be searching for such a treasure means it either exceptionally powerful.. or likewise dangerous.
'most certainly didn't have to look for long huh..'
this treasure.. it hadn't been some artifact, weapon or money.. no no no no no. it had been something far different..
'its.. a robot..?'
atleast what's left of one, had it been intact he may have thought it a human, since it looks like a perfectly perfect woman.. with half her face missing.. jugged wires protruding from the missing part, one eye missing the other dead.
'so either there was some super advanced civilization in this world.. or.'
-gift of the craftsman-
description: not the first.. but definitely the best, a genius of your generation, despite having never truly invented anything of your own, you always made the best version of anything. at your time? a rudimentary robot with basic movements and an even more basic ai, but you.. you made it so real it could eat, feel and breath like us.. truly brilliant!
'it was made by me..'
as the description said, that robot Infront of him, intact it may have looked exactly like a human, capable of breathing eating and any other human function.
feeling his body begin to feel a tingle, he swiftly puts the robot back into his earring, suddenly showing up Infront the students.. each and every one of them shook to their core.
after all.. he had a 1 vs 6 against debatably the strongest in the school despite being a production class.. and while he is just a little wet.. he's untouched and uncaring while they.. they are bleeding all over, rugged and dirty infact one of them had been eliminated.
so shook infact not even Delilah had been able to speak.. the wretched silence finally broken by the teachers
"hello everyone, i hope your test had went well. while your specific scores are still being evaluated.. those who have been eliminated will automatically receive a failing grade."
giving a sidelong glance at more than half the elite class, only the prince and the saintess being survivors of the noble classes ambush.
that is to say we had also had some casualty's, such as Elias, the son of a wealthy county, he's quite timid and overall not proficient in combat, while he does have a blessing it wasn't very effective for their situation.
alongside Caster, while being among the most powerful of the Noble class his main advantage is his familiar, but they had fought in a forest, not the best place for a huge shark innit?
but overall it is safe to assume the Noble class will very likely receive incredible grades considering they had very much thrived in that island.
"as for those of you who did pass.. while i cant determine your grades and specific rankings for this specific test i will say that a certain student will most certainly be getting the top spot.. and maybe even a higher rank among the students."
it goes without saying this student is Cain, after all it was him who had set up the base, scared them off during their first ambush and derived and executed their strategy on the last day. it was safe to assume he had very literally carried his class on his back single handedly.
'alright enough with the self glazing.. mamma needs her reward.'
due to this being their first test, as an incentive to do good the top five will be given an artifact from the academy's vault, which may not sound like much to Cain who is able to make artifacts on the same level, that only applies to him.
students cannot bring external artifacts to the academy aside from ones that are soulbound or made by said student. thus an artifact this early into the academy is an incredible boon.
'and the students get to pick their rewards first depending on the ranks.. so i get the first pick.'
artifacts are rare, some rarer and more useful than others and there are never two of the same artifact for the truly powerful of them. so its safe to assume anything useful would have been taken had he scored lower and was why he had revealed so much of his cards, he couldn't afford to pass up this artifact not when it would have gone to the other reincarnates otherwise.
-1 DAY LATER-
it wasn't difficult to know which students would get the artifacts, like himself, Delilah who had played a crucial role in the final battle of the test, the Crown prince who had led the elite class, the Saintess who had mitigated alot of damage on her side and had made the final battle far harder to win at.
and lastly, Sophia.. one of the Reincarnates, being one of the mages. seemingly the weakest of them he truly hadn't expected her to be here.. but he is from the noble class, its not like he can find out why.
going in first he can see an assortment of items, from weapons to armors and martial arts techniques, all equally valuable, however what had truly caught his eye had been a very specific item, not an artifact a weapon or a technique.. its far rarer, but it hadn't been picked by any other student. since there had never been a use for it.. until now.
'there are two types of mana stones, well three.. but two function the same. the first two are ones you find in monster corpses and mines, simple stones containting an amount of mana, the second however are far rarer..'
these ones are mana stones that can be recharged, their incredibly useful. it goes without saying and are usually quite small, but even the smallest one would cost millions. but its not what he had found here.
'a rechargeable aura stone..'
this is a stone that can only be dropped by one being.. a martial artist human of minimum a master rank, since a persons aura core only becomes large and potent enough to have a physical form at that level of mastery.
even then a rechargeable one is exceptionally rare, especially one of this size..
sadly however, its useless.. a use for such a thing has yet to be found for anyone.. we know how to charge it but not use it.
well anyone but Cain of course who has one very.. very big plans for this bad boy
reminded of what he likes to call his baby back in his work shop, this is the very center piece of it. its main source of energy you could say
'oh how i look foreword to you my baby..'
coming out with it safely in his storage earring, Delilah goes after him, coming back with a martial arts technique, after all any weapon artifact and the such can be easily made by him. so this had been the smarter choice.
the prince seemed to have chosen a storage ring, knowing how important it is seeing Cains tents and supplies back at the exam.
the Saintess chose a glowing golden apple, known for permanently boosting ones holy power capacity 'her capacity is already monstrous enough? what more does she want..'
a persons holy power capacity unlike mana and aura cores cant be expanded, the only way to make it bigger being artifacts like this.
and lastly and most interestingly had been the reincarnator.. who had came out with what seems to be a worn out dirty book.. for whatever reason.
'what is your plan i wonder..'
-CHAPTER END-
sorry for the late chapter, i was busy over the weekend and this chapter really did stump me, ws thinking of what to do for the ship, but i think I'm satisfied with what i wrote for the larger part of it.
now as for the chapter note its simple really, just read your own damn novel, please.
writing is very different from reading, and what you may write can look better to you than it would to a reader so after you publish your novel read it, this will help you understand your own writing from an outside perspective and also see your own writing mistakes, you sometimes don't notice your misspelled words so reading it helps with that.
oh btw chapter length is shortened to 1500 words rather than 2000 since i find it more comfortable.
peace!