Heart of a Blacksmith
The bulky middle-aged man was firmly standing on the ground with a straightened back, looking over the students who looked at him expectantly awaiting a task to accomplish.
"Dear students of the 6th affiliated Vanguard school, today are the Artisan exams, and I, or rather we, assume that not many of you have ever forged, brewed, or inscribed anything in your life.
If you have….congrats, but that doesn't matter to us.
The tasks we want to give all of you aren't that difficult… For the blacksmith exam, you have to forge a weapon without completely destroying the ores' mana conductivity.
We don't care about the weapons grade, aesthetics, or anything else.
The weapon only has to have a certain degree of mana conductivity and shouldn´t crumble under the pressure while cutting the meat of a low-wild beast. There is no time limit, but if you want to participate in the other exams, you should not waste too much time, as we only test them today."