The image of Fat Orange once again came into the field in person, first conjuring up the long knife chosen by Jacques.

The blade is about two feet long, straight, the tip of the blade can be pierced, and the peculiar thing is that the handle is extremely long, longer than the blade, about three feet. The longer hilt allows for one-handed stabbing and two-handed chopping.

Then Fat Orange transformed the shield, the shield shape is somewhat like an inverted triangle, which can protect most of the body, large and small, and can also be used when riding a horse, fixed on the forearm with the arm grip.

Jacques made some tweaks to the appearance of the long knife and shield, although Fat Orange thought this combination was a bit strange, but it couldn't stop Jacques from liking it.

So, Jacques' weapon was finally decided, and the next step was to make it.

Now Jacques was finally able to sleep peacefully.

The next day, Jacques found Lily and taught her the secret of quickly becoming the pinnacle of the Sculptors, and Lily suddenly saw hope and was excited.

On the third day, the Mithril Workshop.

Twenty-three was even more excited than Jacques when he saw Jacques's sword and shield drawing, and immediately discussed the details of the production with him.

"Iris, that's a good name, you see if you add a handle and a strap here, you can ......get off the horse and hold it upside down."

"The shield can't be all metal, it's too heavy, you can't do it with a lot of strength!

"You still want to smash people with a shield? Then you can't be all-metal, wielding it is laborious......"

"Pu Dao, what is this broken name......"

"The hilt of the knife is so long, it is inconvenient for you to wield it when you hold the shield, so you can only use it as a spear to stab ......"

"Do you want to do it for so long, I'll ask you, what about the scabbard, you show me a knife out of the sheath!"

"Of course the axe is unsheathed! Your Pu knife is a knife, right?

"You're like this, the scabbard is connected to the back of the short handle, and the handle grows, what do you think of my creativity?"

"Your twenty-third uncle is a genius!"

......

In this way, Twenty-Three led Jacques and Sammy, two Mithril forging apprentices, to work.

Two weeks later, Jacques' ostentatious version of the sword and shield was released!

The Pu Knife and the Iris Shield are all made of Mithril, and of course the weight is not light, but due to the tempering of the Eight Winds Refining Body for a long time, Jacques has amazing strength, and it is easy to use.

The Pu knife has been changed a lot by Twenty-Three, and the scabbard can be put into the handle of a one-foot-long blade, turning the short handle into a long handle, which is convenient to switch between long and short, and the tactics are more flexible.

The shield surface of the iris shield has a raised arc, and the length has been shortened to two feet, and the protective area is a little smaller, but it is more flexible to use.

The scabbard and shield were painted black, so that it would not look so "silvery" and shiny, and it was much more low-key.

Twenty-three also carved a long-tailed bird pattern with wings spread on the shield surface, saying that it was an "immortal bird", which was the logo of the Burning Flame Valley.

All the information about the sect has been deliberately concealed by the Empire, and after thousands of years, there are only a few people who can recognize this pattern now, and Jacques can use it with confidence and boldness.

......

After the forging is over, Jacques can't continue to take leave, and has to take a final exam.

Back at the Academy, the news of Lily's engagement to Robert, the son of the lord of Baptiste and one of the five auxiliary magistrates of Castile, had already spread throughout the Academy.

The master is going to marry such a powerful and promising Robert, and when Jacques graduates, he will naturally be able to get a half-official position, and in a few years, maybe the chicken dog will ascend to heaven and become a real official. Therefore, many students appeared at Jacques's side, either complimenting or showing favor, wanting to maintain a good relationship with this potential stock first.

Jacques's personality has always been calm, even if he is unhappy in his heart, he has a smile on his face, and he does not refuse to come, forming a good fate.

The agreement with Lily is also quietly being carried out, and Lily has already improved her strength according to the method left by Jacques's mother Yelena, planning to reach the peak of the Sculptor in half a year and spend two years to impact the Grandmaster.

As for the conditions for early graduation, after Jacques and his friends from the Minority Alliance talked about it, unexpectedly all of them were willing to participate in the Misty Forest Challenge.

But the question of the sixth person is very difficult to solve.

The sixth person must first be able to make everyone trust, this one stumped everyone, Jacques has some source energy skills that cannot be disclosed, and others don't have some means to press the bottom of the box. The current team members have all experienced life and death crises together, can they rely on each other, and if they are a newcomer, can they tell everything out?

Thus, the sixth person remained vacant.

With a year and two months to go, we are already feeling the urgency.

First of all, there is one less team, which means that it is a five-on-six situation against other teams. Secondly, by next year, four out of five will be fifth-graders, and there will be an age disadvantage. The most important thing is that the conditions given by Lily are the top ten in the country, and among the participating teams of Eve Academy over the years, the best result is Lily's team, which is second in the country, but they have plastic power!

It's a lot of pressure!

Luckily, they still had a year to go, and Jacques promised the four friends to find the right source skills for each of them and perfect each person's skill set, leaving this job to the erudite Fat Orange, of course.

In addition to the source energy technique, equipment is also a very important part, if all the members wear Mithril armor and hold Mithril weapons, the increase in combat power can more than double, so the local tyrant Jacques has contracted the task of upgrading equipment for all members.

For this reason, he gave up the opportunity to participate in the training camp of the Transcendental Tournament in the summer and concentrated on building weapons and equipment, Jacques believes that building it himself is an opportunity to improve his skills, and the equipment he makes can be more in line with the habits and characteristics of everyone.

The old man in charge of the training camp, the same one who said last year that Jacques "can't do anything but have great strength", personally came to the academy to invite Jacques to participate in the training camp, but unfortunately he had to convince Jacques again.

Jacques explained to Lily that he would not attend the training camp until the Misty Forest Challenge, and that Lily could only help the old man, telling him to wait two more years.

Even though he was busy forging equipment, Jacques still summoned war horses every day, practiced combat skills, exercised source energy control, maintained the Eight Winds refining body, and studied source energy skills.

Although he has always hoped to be able to create a new skill again, the luck of the spearman is generally not considered to be high, and Jacques, who plays with a lance every day, can also be regarded as a spearman, so he has never been lucky enough to get a new source of ability.

After the summer vacation, the members of the Minority Alliance each received a set of Mithril equipment, as well as a booklet for each of them to record several source skills and related usage experiences.

Fabian was also unequivocal, convincing Gali to lure his brother Koyatl, and he came forward to organize a team of sixth-year cadets to train against the minority alliance team.

......

Autumn, winter, spring and summer, a year has passed in a blink of an eye, and it is finally time for the Minority Alliance to board the train to the imperial capital and participate in the Misty Forest Challenge.