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.

heart was in his throat as the two weapons were raised against

Then… They collided.

CLANG! CRIP! TSSS! DING!

expression as

loss for words. Let alone them, every member of the audience looked

allowing his short sword to fly back to

*Bloop* *Blip*

yes.

Tha… That…

was unlike his wives. Not only was he personally here in the flesh, he had more knowledge. There was not a single doubt

sorts of emotions shot through his

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

still had the talent to become a Silver Grade existence was still unknown, yet

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

CLANG! CRIP!

only lasted

DING!

saber only lasted

DING!

battle ax managed to

rose into the

side, there was Leonel's double helix encased structure. On the other, there was Jac's cut out spine design. Much like each of the clashes before, Jac's weapon was only a fraction the weight of Leonel's…

strike, Jac already heard his spine structure crack. The sound was so jarring that he felt for a

for his spine