Chapter 193 – A new Trial a new test part 2.

Roland’s eyes were glued to the display screen on which a table appeared. It was similar to a status page but it didn’t have any numbers to it.

“Is this my score? I guess instead of numbers and percentages it went for letters…”

This made him think of a school grading system that some countries from his previous world had.

It seemed that A was the highest grade that you could get from the test. If it was anything like in his old world then F would be the lowest. While he did good on the test there was one that stuck out from the rest, the grade for design. Probably making it just a plain old square with nothing else lowered it.

“Do I need to make it look more intricate and fashionable?”

He pondered this for a moment while looking at the grading system. It was clear to him that the three bullet points that appeared on the piece of paper were the main requirements. In it were some clues for that simulated event that he was now graded on.

Perhaps if he didn’t rush it he could have gotten some better results. It was still a lamp that did its function but perhaps if he altered it to be standing up on something he would have gotten an A in Functionality. The test seemed to be lenient as it gave him a B+ for it anyway.

“Perhaps the other tests will have more bullet points that count towards the grade?”

Roland continued to look at the screen that had given him his rating. There was one small problem, even though he continued to stay there, nothing happened. The timer above it continued to tick down instead of stopping which at first made him quite confused. Did he need to do something else? Was the test not finished?

“That’s not it…”

He shook his head as he was convinced that this part of the trial was over. The small hint of what was happening was the small text under the large table with his grades.

‘Please wait’

The clock above the TV screen continued to tick down and it would take some hours until it reached zero. What was happening was probably due to him finishing up fast. Before the clock counted down to zero the next stage of the test wouldn’t start. This left him with slightly below five hours.

Now if he was correct then spending some time in this hangar to look around would probably be a wise thing to do. There were some sections that he didn’t examine and there was also the lack of proper magical tools that he was used to.

In five hours he could easily assemble some helpful items that would probably help him through the next few tests. This was probably the reward for getting an A in speed, what this trial was testing were his capabilities of assembling. He was given the basic tool for everything but would these be enough for the completion of the later tests?

While he had his theory there weren’t that many indicators that the next test wouldn’t start while he was gone. Thus for the first hour or so he was forced to remain around this area. He continued to peek at the screen while going through the shelves and gathering materials. Luckily for him, there was a section with some baskets and even a cart that was strangely similar to one a person would find at a store.

For the time being, he concentrated on gathering resources that could aid him in further manufacturing. For this, he would first need precise runic welding wands that could help him combine the various premade materials here.

From what he was seeing this was not a test on his blacksmithing skills, it was more of a test of his manufacturing skills. In some isles, he even spotted fully made sword blades that were only lacking a hilt. In another section, there were various hilts that just needed to be matched with the correct blade and correctly assembled.

In his ‘shopping cart’ he had also brought over quite a bit of mana fluid. While he had a lot of mana himself sooner or later it would run out. Crafting simple runes didn’t drain him too much but he needed to see the bigger picture.

Creating a proper power generator was impossible but he didn’t need to limit himself to it. Thanks to the many resources around he did not need to worry about such things. There was no need for him to make a generator of any kind.

Converting electricity back into mana was not needed here as he had enough mana fluid to go around. What he needed to watch out would be to contain all of this fluid in a resistant container through which he could power the tools.

For this reason, he had acquired a large drum that was made from a resistant alloy. It was a mix of some metals that he was familiar with like durasteel and deepsteel which would make it adequate.

This drum didn’t have any sort of openings for some reason but this made it perfect for his power generator. He only needed to puncture the top and then fill it up with Elokin’s Fluid. But before attempting this he would need to inscribe the correct runic patterns on the outside and also check if the drum wasn’t too thick for the runes to work. There was a certain limit at which the runes would be unable to draw the mana from the fluid but in this case, he was lucky and it would work.

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‘I have the container and the fluid, even the cables…’

Roland looked at the precisely created cables through which he would be able to run the mana through into his new tools. For some reason even this was in a section, the more he continued to look around this place the more he concluded that he was supposed to alter this simple workshop.