Chapter 192 – A new Trial a new test.

“This place is a lot larger than I expected…”

Roland was looking at the high ceiling of the storage facility he was walking around. After going through it he realized that it was probably the size of an airplane hangar. There were rows upon rows of shelves and racks.

On them were various items, some out in the open while others were in cardboard boxes. Everything was somewhat organized and there were even labels on the boxes along with sections dividing the various materials by type and use.

After going around the place a few times he did discover a few other interesting things. One of them was an area that was clearly meant for crafting. It was on the far end of this large storage space.

It had it all, a large smelter that had a somewhat similar design to the one that he worked with. Not far from it was a nice workbench along with a forge, it was a nice smithy that every blacksmith would be familiar with.

This wasn’t all as right next to this place was some kind of office. In it he found a whiteboard with a set of markers with which he could write on it. There were also many sheets of paper of various shapes and sizes.

It looked like some kind of space where he could create schematics for items. This somewhat gave him an idea of what this test was about but there were far too many materials. He would probably be able to make a small battalion of golems with everything here as golem cores were amongst the items scattered on the shelves.

There was one peculiar thing about these items, not everything was just raw materials. Some items were out of place as he even spotted complete joints that would fit on some golemic creations. It was as if instead of making something from scratch he was supposed to assemble it from the parts scattered around this place.

“Maybe the raw materials are only there to fill some gaps?”

Roland spoke out but no one replied, after examining this section of the area he decided to go towards the other end. There he found something peculiar that made him think that it could be used for the coming trial. Various boxes made from some transparent material were lined up. After giving them a knock he realized that they were made from something similar to plexiglass from his old world. What made these strange were the handles on the front through which he could open them.

‘Do I need to place something into these?’

These glass containers gave him that impression. It seemed that the test would ask him to make something and then place it inside of one of these transparent cases. They all varied in size, the smallest one was around half a meter in length and width while the largest could fit a whole car into it.

Behind these transparent containers, there were some peculiar features that he was familiar with. One of them was a timer, this one was a more modern one. It was divided into six sections that were probably for hours, minutes, and then seconds.

This reminded him of all the previous timed trials that he took. It was clear that he would have some kind of time limit to produce something and then perhaps place it in the glass object. Then below it was something more interesting, it looked like a big flat TV screen. But just like the clock, it was turned off.

The screen had no buttons nor could he see any remote control to turn it on. Then to the side of this screen, there was some kind of rectangular slit. It was quite narrow and it was not letting any light through it which made it seem that there was nothing on the other side.

‘I read about some of these tests but none of them were like this one…’

Roland made sure to study up on all the possible trials that could come up. Normally when it came to crafting classes they would only need to create an item that would be graded by the system. Then when battle classes were involved they would mostly just need to defeat a set amount of enemies.

The places that these tests took place were more in line with the world outside. But for him, there was a mix of old and new technology. Even the VR headset and his old room were something that was never recorded by anyone else. This place that he was in also looked like some large company storage from a shipping company from his old world.

‘I guess these tests take into account the life of the person taking the test? This only makes it more difficult to anticipate them in the future…’

His old life and his new one were beginning to mix together. The old trials seemed more in line with the new world he was in but this one did look different. But what was he supposed to do here, there was no writing on the wall and no indication of what he was supposed to build.

“…Brrrp…”

While he was looking around for more clues he heard a strange sound coming from the slit in the wall. It sounded strangely similar to an old printer that he once had and to his surprise, a white sheet of paper started to come out of that narrow opening.

He could clearly see that there were words being printed onto this white paper. This was probably a clue to what his task would be. Roland thus quickly moved over to the piece of paper to grab it before it was dropped onto the floor.

“This is… instructions for manufacturing?”

What Roland was holding was probably the item that he would be building. The words looked to have been printed with an ink printer and as he was going through them he also noticed that one of the glass containers started to change. The metallic part produced a glow while the others remained the same.

“I guess it wants me to make this and then place it into the glowing glass container?”

Roland scratched his head a bit after going through the piece of paper. The instructions were kind of vague so he wasn’t sure what he should make of it.

Requirements:

*Between 300 to 600 luminance
*Give out a warm glow
*Resistant to minor shocks

The list was quite small and also included a luminance factor in it. Thanks to Roland’s broad knowledge he knew what it meant. Spells that produced light were counted in that measurement scale. He had already created runic lights and even configured them to produce a specific luminance rating.

“I see…”

There was also another change in the environment, besides the now glowing glass case the large clock on the wall started glowing. A number appeared in front that showed twelve and it was followed by more as the time started to pass.

“Twelve hours?”

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From how fast it was going he was assured that he had half a day’s time to complete this project. The first test for him would be to fashion some kind of lamp that could take some hits without breaking.

Twelve hours didn’t seem like a lot but there were various items around these shelves that would make the process a lot faster. He would obviously not need to create everything from scratch as he just needed to find some parts and combine them.

There were also no real limits of the shape or size. At most, it needed to fit into the half-meter tall glass box but besides it he was not limited in his design. But was there something more? Did he really only need to look at these three points and fashion it accordingly?

“The lumination factor won’t be hard and this warm glow, I can just use a fire-based rune though it didn’t put anything specific about the heat…”