After stepping off the ride and coming to Maria's rescue, Milo convinced the group that they should head over to the colosseum to watch the event taking place that day. Unlike most events, this event had a section for both first and second year students. It acted as a way for upcoming equipnt artisans to get their na out there as well as maybe make so custors that they can then make equipnt for during the school year.
It was for this reason that Milo wanted to go, he was hoping he could find soone their age that was good at making equipnt so that he could commission sothing with the unique ranked essence core he obtained on his in-field experience.
After so more walking, the group had finally made their way to the colosseum. It was a huge round building that had entirely glass walls. It looked more like a stadium from the outside, but was called the colosseum because of its use being similar to that of the colosseum in ancient Ro. It was only used on occasions such as this, to host events for the school. Since abilities began to appear, sports and the Olympics began to decline in popularity due to ability users having an extre advantage. Since then, gladiatorial type events grew very popular and the school's combat tournant was no different. It attracted the attention of many, and was even broadcasted out to the world for many to watch. The majority of guilds also used this as a major scouting opportunity as well, sending guild invites to many of the participants.
The equipnt show, while not as popular, had a similar use, the school invited many high profile guests to the event, including the lead artisans at many of the equipnt firms of the world that were known for creating the best equipnt for gatecrashers. The students who created the best gear would then receive invites for internships or even job offers.
When entering the colosseum Milo was taken aback by the sheer size of the building, he had seen it from a distance while walking between classes but had never gotten up close enough to see how large it actually was. Inside the outer shell, there were many different stands and booths selling refreshnts and food for the spectators to eat or drink, and the floor was packed full of people there for the event.
The group made their way around the colosseum checking out all the different things that were for sale, Milo didn't recognize any faces, but other mbers of the group began to pick out different gatecrashers and artisans that they knew. Mark was especially flustered after seeing one of his idols from when he was younger, it was a gatecrasher that used an ability very similar to his.
Eventually Milo and company made their way to the stands where they could watch so of the competitors in action making their equipnt. It looked like a hard job, between the high heat that would be emitted from the forge to the strength and stamina it took to hamr a piece of tal into the right shape, Milo couldn't imagine what kind of resolve it would take to want to do this as a job, but there were people his age right in front of his eyes that were doing it.
Most artisans used abilities to help them with their work, the most common one was the reinforce ability, being able to strengthen one's body was especially useful in a smith's line of work. Other common abilities included elental resistance, tal transmutation, and even the fire ability which Chris used.
Looking at so of the first year students working, Milo began to realize that without his system, he could've ended up out there. After watching the students work, he began to see so of the students finishing the pieces they were working on. This early on, most of the ones finishing were second year students, as they had beco more efficient at doing their work. Once all the students were finished, they would be judged by a group of appraisers before being put out for people to co and look at. Seeing what the rest of the students were working on, there was a wide variety of gear being produced. The most common were swords and chest pieces, the strangest looking piece of equipnt looked almost like the student was attempting to make a crossbow that reloaded with a magazine rather than inserting arrows one at a ti.
After watching the students for another few hours, the competitors had all finally finished their work, and the equipnt was taken to be appraised. Another hour after that and all the equipnt would be on display for the public, and an hour later, Milo and his group proceeded down to the presentation room where all the armor produced by students was put out on display. Looking at all the pieces of equipnt, they all were differing in color and materials. So looked better quality than others, but Milo was able to look at the actual details using his inspect skill.
There were plenty of different ranked equipnt, ranging from common all the way up to unique. While going through the pieces of equipnt they all had different stat boosts, out of all the pieces of equipnt, only 4 of the 28 or so pieces had an attached skill. 3 of which were unique ranked and 1 was at the rare tier. Looking at the different stat boosts between the pieces of equipnt, the rare rank obviously had to lowest. Milo began to wonder what made active skills appear, which made him ask his friends if any of them knew.
All of them shrugged, except for one person, Maria said she wasn't sure what the exact cause of it was, but she heard a story from her brother about it, part of it involved the rank of the essence core that was used; the higher the core's rank, the higher chance there was of an attached skill manifesting. The other part of it involved how the creator made the equipnt, so artisans had better control of their magic power flow and in so cases, the creator would forcibly overcharge the core with their own magic power on accident. She went on to add that her brother said that no one was one hundred percent sure how the overcharging process worked, but whoever discovered it would be soone found in history books 100 years later.
Based on this information, Milo took a look at the stats of the different pieces of equipnt, the armor rating his system applied varied depending on the type of equipnt he was using inspect on, which was expected, a chest plate would obviously have a higher armor rating than a helt for example. The next thing to check was the stat boosts applied by the different pieces of equipnt. When comparing the stat boosts to other pieces of the sa rank, Milo found the first big difference, for so reason the rare tiered piece of equipnt offered higher stat boosts compared to the other rare ranked pieces, where in comparison the unique ranked pieces of equipnt offered a much more average boost. Milo wasn't sure why this was but when doing a bit of math, he found that the stat boosts for the rare piece were about 20 percent higher compared to other rare ranked pieces, while the uniques were around the sa boost in stats as other unique ranked pieces, and in so cases even had lower boosted stats.
Based on this, Milo had found the person he wanted to make his unique ranked piece of equipnt. Not only did they successfully add an attached skill to the equipnt, but their equipnt was much more efficient overall as well. Now the only thing Milo would have to do is find and et the creator in person. Looking at the tag of the entry, the creator was actually a first year student, aning Milo could even commission things next year as well, if things worked out. Finally he checked the na of the creator and took a note of it in his head. The creator's na was Avery Becket.
After picking out the student he wanted to make his equipnt, the group finally decided to take a look at the entry that had won the event. It was a heroic tiered chest piece that was mostly silver in color with a bronze looking trim that made a filigree pattern running down the sides as well. Milo opened his inspect skill to take a closer look.
[Silver Defender(Heroic)]
Durability: 350
Armor Rating: 600
Str 10
Agi 15
Sta 5
Description: A lighter piece of silver armor ant to allow the wearer to have close to full mobility, what it lacks in defense, it makes up for in flexibility.
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Seeing the winning piece of equipnt, Milo realized that the judging was a bit unfair, it looked like the judges favored higher tiered equipnt over the overall quality. Not only this but it didn't seem that attached skills affected their opinion either, that is, if the judges even tested the equipnt for attached skills. The only way one could do this, was by injecting magic power into the equipnt, from there if there was any reaction from the magic power, the skill's effect would then be nad and its effect would be written down. The system streamlined this process by giving the skills effect and na for Milo. In theory, one didn't need to use the na of the skill to activate it, but it took a lot of practice with magic power control.
After the winning piece was announced and put on display, the festival had ended for the day and pretty soon the campus began to be empty again other than the students. Milo and his friends went back to their dorms to sleep before the last day of the festival and what would probably be the most exciting day as well.
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