The Craftsman 36 Duel Of Knowledge

Over these few months Daedalus studied and enjoyed the academy's lively atmosphere, even having lunch with other students in the academy's food hall became commonplace. In this way Daedalus made numerous friends among n.o.bility and common people with talent alike. This all had made Daedalus a well known and well liked prince and completely changed the way most people originally thought about him. Even his father thought that he had done well to create and maintain such a good image, it had even gone so far as to spread throughout the whole kingdom.

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Daedalus was currently sitting at a table in his teachers cla.s.sroom reading through one of his more advanced books on runes and enchanting. However just across from him at the table was Grite his teachers other student who was currently looking at Daedalus' as if he wanted to say something but was having trouble saying it. Daedalus eventually broke the ice by saying "What is on your mind Grite?"

"I uh, I would like to ask if you would have a duel with me in enchanting!?"

"Ok, let's have a duel."

Daedalus and Grite then talked for a while and figured that four hours would be the time limit and they could both chose whatever they wanted to enchant. Daedalus then walked into a separate enchanting room and pulled out his sword.

Then they both set a timer and started. Because Daedalus had decided to enchant his sword he wanted to use something that looked cool but made his deadly weapon deadlier. While thinking about it his mind wandered a bit into the things that he thought were deadly, which eventually lead him over to Lightning. With that thought Daedalus took his enchanting tools and began inscribing the small runes and symbols or words in very well calculated spots so that they slowly began to form into a wolf that spanned the entire blade. Nearly three hours in and the wolf looked nearly life like, it was missing something, then it struck him and he began using his mana in order to make each and every rune line flow into the next until it was a giant web of intricate markings that formed a ferocious lightning wolf. As he finished Void slasher began to spark and a sound like a howl perpetrated the entire academy.

As Daedalus left the room with his sword in hand he was slightly shocked to see his teacher as well as the head master sitting there looking at him as though he was a monster. Dan immediately walked over and said "I knew it the moment I saw the note about your duel and that howl, just wow. Kid you have just made, if I am correct a sword that has at least part of a soul in it!"