Chapter 2318: Second round of forging

Chapter 2318: Second round of forging



That day Sam is probably the only second grade solo combat participant that was able to relax.

Rest of the city burned with their fights. The Norse academies lamented at their beautiful city being destroyed because of the competition. The process also revealed a lot of their design flaws to the rest of the academy realm.

They need to redesign it and rebuild the whole thing.

When their coin reserves are almost drained, credit to Sam and the Hub, this is another unexpected and unwanted expense. Anyway, that's besides the point.

The next morning, Sam went to the Thor academy once again. To the forge just like they day before. The elders are already waiting for them to reveal the second competition.

After the thirty-two people that passed the exam all gathered here. Apart from the Gambler academy with two candidates, there are only a few academies that had two candidates or

more.

The Viswa Karma academy and Hephaestus academy had three each. They are the most dominant compared to the other academies. There are a couple of academies that had two candidates each.

There is one from Zeus academy and Sam hoped that he could eliminate him in this round.

Sensing Sam's gaze that guy shivered visibly. He just wanted to hide away somewhere. But he knew better than hoping that his wish would come true. As everyone observed their competition, the Elder explained the rules for the second round.

"With thirty-two people here, as many people would have guessed, we are going with a duel route. All participants will be paired. You need to compete with whoever you are paired with. From each pair, only person will be moved to the next round.

As for how that person will be chosen...

He waved his hand a blueprint design appeared on the work tables of the participants.

"Within that scroll, you will find a design of a weapon. The person you are paired with will also get the same weapon design. There won't be a minor change.

Your task is to follow the design to every minute detail and create that weapon. You are not to make any changes to the design. The material weight shouldn't change, the alloy percentages shouldn't change, even the micro details on the handles shouldn't change.

The only freedom you have is with your forging method.

You can use whatever method you are comfortable with. But the end result should look, weight and measure exactly the same as the one shown in the blueprint.

After you are done, your weapon will be compared to the weapon made by your paired opponent. The weapons will be tested in the same circumstances, there will be no difference or bias in the way of testing.

Once both of the weapons are tested, whichever weapon has the better make, durability, lethality will win.

The duration is four hours.

Does everyone understand the point of the competition? Do you have any questions?"

There is only resounding silence from the participants.

"I am glad you don't have any. You can start forging now."

Sam opened the scroll and he is a bit surprised what he saw. The design kind of brought back some memories.

A memory of a really great opponent that he faced when he was still in Mortal plane back in desolate. He could even be considered as one of the biggest opponents he faced at that time. Not in terms of the cultivation level, rather in terms of meticulous planning, intellect and backing.

It seems like he is making a weapon only for the test not for it to last longer for regular use. Sam just shrugged and focused on forging the chain links one after the other. A repetitive action, until he had all the chain links.

Once it is done, he linked the chain together, then linked the counter weight and the blade along with its handle.

Now that the assembly is done, his weapon is ready.

"Time is up." And then came the announcement. Everyone was working until the last minute.

Sam didn't care much for the other people's pass or fail. He only got curious when Manson's turn came. He had to forge a meteor hammer. Two weights on either side with a chain connecting them. Hard to master, but very flexible and hard to forge as well.

He observed the tests carefully. First test is against a training dummy, the second test is against super strong pillar. They need to beat it down continuously until it breaks. Finally, a test clashing both the weapons together, if both weapons survive that clash, then a durability with the formation like they did in Katar restoration test.

Manson's meteor hammer went through all three. In the final test, his meteor hammer clashed head on with the meteor hammer of the opponent.

When both the weights hit each other, a few cracks appeared on Manson's weight, but the

opponent's is destroyed.

He won.

Finally, it is Sam's turn. He looked forward to the test, because just from observing the forging method, he knew what will happen to his opponent's weapon.

The first training dummy test has begun.

*BANG* *BANG

"1234" "1345" Both of their scores came out, and surprising everyone, Sam's chain sickle had less score. Even

the judges are shocked, much less the opponent.

Then they moved to the pillar.

"10 Hits"

"10 Hits"

Both weapons performed equally. Now a clash against the weapons.

*CLANG*

Both the sickles were thrown at the same time. The blade of each sickle went into the chains of

the opposite sickle. Both sides pulled at the same time.

*SNAP*

Just like that, the opponent's chain is snapped. Not at one point. The link at the center where

the sickle is locked, and the joint where the handle of the sickle is attached to the chain.

The opponent who just had some hope fell in despair. So, close. But he lost.