Dimensional Descent

Jac's face turned completely ashen. The crowd on the outside hadn't even gotten to say a thing when they noticed his uncontrollable trembling.

However, the process had already begun.

Elder Beinala's badge, which was still on the ground beside Leonel's Force Crafting glove, suddenly began to glow. With a subtle sweep, a gentle energy rose Leonel's short sword up to meet Jac's knife.

Jac gripped his fists, calming his breathing.

Polished Glass was used to refine edges of blades, normally. As a result , it was known for its sharpness, but lacked in other important qualities like ductility. Due to this, it could become extremely brittle when used in large quantities.

As an expert Crafter, Jac, of course, knew this. So he tried his best to limit the size of his Crafts.

When he saw that Leonel had made a short sword, he almost snorted in contempt. In fact, he would have had he not instantly been shocked by Leonel's staff.

But at this moment, he couldn't find the heart to sneer.

The gentle energy exuding from the badge rose up both short sword and knife. Soon, both weapons began to tremble.

The weapons medley tests all came in two parts. The first testing the structural integrity of the Craft while the second tested its strength. This trembling was a part of the first test.

Different frequencies of energy would be poured into the two weapons at varying speeds. Gentle and long streams of Force, fast and choppy, large and abrupt…

The integrity of the blades would be put through a gauntlet. However, this gauntlet was only a preliminary test. The threshold that needed to be met would be decided by the level of the badge of the Craftsmen. As such, both Leonel and Jac were being tested by the standard of a Tier 9 Crafter.

Unfortunately, for Jac, this round was nothing short of torture because he knew that the true test was only coming.

moment, the trembling finally came to a stop. Jac felt his heart was in his throat as the two weapons were raised

Then… They collided.

CLANG! CRIP! TSSS! DING!

felt as half a blade clattered to the ground. Jac watched on with a vacant expression as his knife was sliced through.

audience looked like they had seen a ghost. Many had

short sword to fly

*Bloop* *Blip*

"Yes, yes.

Tha… That… Metal

in the flesh, he had more knowledge. There was not a single doubt in his mind

through his body. Astonishment.

it worth? If he had it and sold it, let alone enough resources to enter the Bronze Grade, he might not have to worry for

Whether or not he still had the talent to become a Silver Grade existence was still unknown, yet he was counting his chickens before

much of anything, though, their two swords rose out as one. They began to tremble just like the others but soon stopped

CLANG! CRIP!

only lasted two

DING!

only

DING!

managed to

rose into the

was Leonel's double helix encased structure. On the other, there was Jac's cut out spine design. Much like each of the

his spine structure crack. The sound was so jarring that he felt for a moment as though it was his own

strike bent Jac's staff out of shape. If it wasn't for his spine structure, the weapon itself would have already long since