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.

stop. Jac felt his heart was in his

Then… They collided.

CLANG! CRIP! TSSS! DING!

a vacant expression as his knife was

others were at a loss for words. Let alone them, every member of the audience looked like they had seen a ghost.

palm, allowing his short sword to fly

*Bloop* *Blip*

chuckled. "Yes, yes.

Tha… That… Metal

flesh, he had more knowledge. There was not

through

Spirit, just how much was it worth? If he had it and sold it, let alone enough resources to enter the Bronze Grade, he might

not he still had the talent to become a Silver Grade existence

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

CRIP!

sword only

DING!

only lasted

DING!

ax managed to

staffs rose into

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

sound was so jarring that he felt for a moment as though

it wasn't for his