The start of school was about to start when the lucky young magicians received the VR Pod to be a beta tester. It ans that they only have a few days to play it full-ti.
Hilda, one of Wallace's junior in the academy, has luckily beco a part of the beta testing. She was very excited about operating the device since this was sothing that her senior made. The very sa senior who originally made the Traceless Oscillation and modified Infrasonic Ray. That two spells had helped her easily win the competition in her bracket.
Now, the current device in front of her was sothing even more amazing.
This is the second day that she will be playing the ga and she couldn't wait for the server to open. Due to so reasons, the ga could not be played 24 hours a day as the system had to do maintenance for at 3 hours every day.
'Five minutes more... Why is it so long?'
As she waited for the ti, she received a few ssages from her friends.
[ Its about ti. Are you ready? ] - Shirley
[ Are you done eating? We need to complete the quest this ti. We need you... I think. ] - Escanor
[ Hello, Hilda. This is , Ray Penber. I will be waiting for you at the sa spot. Take care. ] - Ray
[ Hey! The server is about to open. I'm just reminding you as you requested. :) ] - Lina
Hilda replied to all of them.
The five of them including Hilda had t in the virtual reality ga since they were all sent in the sa underground base, one of the last bastions of the Sevens or the natives of the world.
Studying at the sa academy, although different academic years and different magician's path taken, they easily got friendly with each other as they are familiar with their faces.
They've all fought and won the TMAC.
On the first day of their ga, the five of them had the very first offensive mission against a group of invaders.
A 10-man patrol team from Dorssian Empire equipped with high-tech guns, scanners, and a two Assault Gears ( Designed similar to redith Empire's Marauder Gears ) had discovered a group of fleeing Sevens and they were about to kill everyone. The five of them received a mission to rescue the fleeing NPCs.
The mission was quite easy considering the fact that they received assistance from powerful NPCs stationed within their current. underground fortress. It seems that they were just being readied about the fighting thod of the invaders.
The enemies doesn't need a long casting ti, no unusual phenona like during their magic invocation, and no mana disturbance or chaotic movent of mana during the enemy's assault. They only possess pure and simple destructive weapons. They only had to trigger their gun and a powerful beam of light almost similar to Wallace's Laser Focus would fire. Only the color was different as they are firing blue light instead of Wallace's red beam of light.
Aside from that, the others also possessed sothing similar to the guns they're familiar with but their bullets seems to be so strong that their Mana Shell was like a fragile glass in front of it.
Even if they had a chance to return fire at them, these invaders also possess sothing similar to their Mana Shell, but it was called Energy Armor. There was also the problematic Assault Gear. A floating machine or drone that could carry one person to launch an assault from the sky.
Fortunately, a strong NPC joined in their mission. It was Arthur, the current base commander of their underground fortress, he possess a powerful weapon that disrupts the Energy Armor making it useless whenever he fired his magic spells. He also possesses powerful magic that could petrify the machine making the device useless.
"I want to learn it!" Is what all they said. Unfortunately, within their current group, only Escanor had learned things about the Artifact Forging. The other guy and girls were Combat Magicians. They have a good sense of combat tactics, calm and broad mind during battle, and amazing weapon utilization, but forging this weapon was not their forte.
Unfortunately, during this virtual ga, they had to study this in order to battle against the small fries of the Dorssian Empire.
How could they defeat or fight against the large number of humanoid machines, floating castles, high-speed airships, army of full-body armored soldiers if these weak patrol teams were already giving them headaches?
***
Hilda looked at her wristband mana artifact placed on her bed before entering the virtual world.
Her VR Pod was conveniently placed in her bedroom beside her bed as she felt that its better if she have quick access to the device.
"Start Link!"
As she selected the Adventure Mode, she disintegrated to many orbs of lights and reford in her last location when she ended the link before.
She was in the hallway going to the training hall in the underground fortress. Then, other lights appeared as her friends started their link into the ga.
"Hilda... Can you still use that amazing magic spell here?" Lina asked after she suddenly appeared.
"You an that oscillation?"
"Yes.."
"I can't..." Hilda shakes her head as she continued to explain. "That magic spell was created by Wallace. Although I know how to cast the spell, it's in the premise that I have the artifact in hands."
Hilda said as she showed her empty hands.
After entering this ga, they were all surprised about how they can still feel mana and control it in the sa level from the real world. It was not sothing that exists in other simulation gas.
This made them sing praises to the creator and easily got addicted to the ga. After all, there is also a training ground here where they can borrow so standard Mana Artifacts and they could just release all their power without caring in the surroundings.
Hilda was one of the magician who benefitted a lot in these perks. She was the strongest first-year student in the twelve academies during TMAC's month. Her power could not easily be controlled so she had to be very careful whenever she uses it.
Wallace had noticed this situation before so he created a wristband Mana Artifact for her that can perfectly take advantage of her almost overflowing mana reserves.
"Why did you ask?"
"Nothing... I'm just thinking that since the realism of this ga was almost 100%, maybe soone here can make a mana artifact that we desired to have."
"Well..." Hilda looked at Escanor. He was the only man capable of artifact forging in their group.
"We're only on the second day of the ga, we can still explore a lot of things here. Who knows, maybe there's sothing more impressive here than what we know in the real world."
"Haha! That makes sense. This is just ga, after all."
The five then went to the base commander.
"Sir Arthur! Please teach us the thod to destroy the enemy's Energy Armor..."
"Of course! You bravely joined and fought together with against those invaders. You all must learn this..."
Ding!
[ You have gained enough recognition from the Base Commander. ]
[ You have received a copy of Energy Armor's blueprint. Thanks to Freya. ]
[ Energy Armor Orb - Grade B
An armor made of pure Vers Energy. It is a source of power unknown to this planet.
Not compatible with Mana Users. ]
[ Learn how it was made to learn how it can be destroyed. ]
"Right... Since you are all trustworthy and hard-working magicians... 5 hours from now, another group of invaders would visit the Lagune Lake to survey the surroundings. It is far from our current base, so I will give all of you three hours of ti to study the blueprint. I will send soone to help you fight against the enemy's Assault Gear.
[ 2 : 59 : 58 ]
It is also the start of the five's dream to materialize this Energy Armor Orb in real life as soone suggested to try a different source of energy.
They were planning to use so Mana Beast's Cores instead in exchange to the missing Vers Energy.
***
Wallace was already on his way ho. He got the Zen coins, the sack of tal fragnts or a destroyed Cube of Paradox with him and his reward, the Celestial Fragnt.
He had made a good deal with Drake. The squad seems to be quite humble and trustworthy so he didn't mind having an honest and expensive transaction with them.
After a few more Void Phasing Steps, he quietly arrived in his Workshop.
"What did I miss?" Wallace asked Avalon.
[ The popular rookie idol, Miya Linus, will continue her study while being an idol. ]
[ The most influential Grand Arcanist has revealed to the world that before he went to the northern continent, he accepted an outstanding apprentice that would surpass his achievents. ]
"Eh?! But... I'm not really asking for so news updates... Sigh~ Anyway, I rember that I said to only give news related to or sothing that would affect . So what's with the idol news?"
[ Miya Linus decided to enroll at Leonhearts Academy. ]
"Eh?" Wallace rembered the charming lady he t in the town. He was rightfully accused of peeping on her due to his careless usage of Divine Sense.
'Haa... Soul Arts user, huh.'
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