Grey arrived in the Magic Ring Design class teaching building, the building was not really big, only two stories, but the was a certain charm to it that made people look at it with respect. As he entered the class he met Flynn at the door, the two were no longer friends but at least they acknowledged each other by nodding. One thing to point out was that Flynn was no longer wearing glasses, this was the result of reaching tier 0, the awareness and perception was increased thus there was no need for glasses.
The fellow look slightly handsome without his glasses, but that could not change that his face was only slightly average.
Grey and Flynn had known each other for five years and they knew each other's aspiration for Magic Ring Design, so they were not surprised when they so each other enter the same class. The class they entered was small with only a few seats in the class, in total there were only 10 seats. In front was a holographic projector.
The two went to seat in the front row of the class as they waited for the rest of the class and the instructor of the class to arrive. After a while a girl wearing glasses without the lenses came into the class, she too clearly did not need the glasses, but clearly could not feel comfortable without them.
The girl was one of the tier 3 talents from Grey's previous class that was headed by 1st Lt Finn Miller, her name was Christina June, the girl was slightly pretty but she would not topple kingdoms with her beauty. The girl had black hair that only reached to her neck and she had green eyes.
The girl gave off the feeling that she was a nerd and a complete book worm.
Grey glanced at her, he knew her by name and face, but did not have too much knowledge about her, she definitely did not stand out in class, such that he did not know she was interested in magic ring design. Flynn also glanced at her, he had the same thoughts as Grey.
"Christina, I did not know you were interested in magic ring design?"
Flynn started the conversation.
"Oh, Hello... Flynn, Grey, I have always been interested."
"I did not ever see you have any discussions about the topic with anyone in our five year history, I guess you just preferred your space."
"Ah… Yes… I did."
The two males in the class did not believe her, from what they can see, this person is just too shy and does not have a lot of social skills. They did not talk much afterwards.
Another person can into class, this time it was a male with the name of William Schulz. This person the three people in the class were sure that he was into magic ring design. Willian was a tier 3 talent like Christina, this fellow was moderately talented in the topic of magic ring design, Grey was sure of it. William was a slightly cunning person and had a manipulative talent, though most of the time he could only manipulate tier 1 talents. He was slightly handsome with his blond hair, blue eyes combination.
"Hey fellow classmates, Grey, Flynn… And Christina, I did not know you were into magic ring design."
"I am…"
The girl was really shy, but that did not mean she was an idiot, she knew of William's manipulative ways, thus she kept her guard. William also glanced at the other two males, they just shrugged.
The four people waited until it 08:00, at that time a middle aged woman who appeared to be in her 40s appeared at the front of the class. The woman had blond and she had black eyes, she had a neutral face when she came into the class, but you could see that she was still slightly pretty even in her age.
"Good morning young mages. Only 4 chose this course, well I guess it happens."
The young mages, reciprocated her greeting with their own greetings.
"My name is Hilda Higgens and I will be your instructor for this course, my military rank is that of Captain."
After she finished her introductions she took a pause, then she continued talking.
"Let's get straight to the business shall we."
"You have taken this course because you believe that you have the ability and the talent to design magic rings. It is good that you believe that, confidence is important."
"Magic rings as you have learned by yourself or had Finn teach you is a system that uses the natural phenomenon of ring development as a result of magic tiers increasing in mages."
The young mages all had understanding looks on their faces, even the shy girl Christina had a look of fascination on her face, it really looked this girl was into this type of work such that her shy personality would disappear when learning about it.
"The magic ring have a special ability to strengthen what is engraved onto them by a certain theoretical value. You should know that it starts from 10% for tier 1, 50% for tier 2, 200% for tier 3, 450% for tier 4 and 800% for tier 5. I will not tell you about the Arc Mage range, that is a secret for now."
The young mages, were surprised about the numbers she just told them, all of them only knew of the strengthening value up to tier 2, other values could not be found in the library.
Hilda saw their surprised faces, but she did not comment.
"So you must understand that mages after tier 2 are very dangerous, that is because that is where magic gets highly destructive. You all should know of tier 1 and tier 2 magic ring designs, tier 1 rings are mostly not very useful and tier 2 rings can only be slightly be helpful. However looking at the percentage difference between tier 2 and tier 3, it is obvious to see where the powerful magic comes from."
The young mages listened and understood the implications of her words, it is possible for a tier 1 mage to have a chance at winning against a tier 2 mage, however it is pretty much impossible to win against tier 3 mage if you are a tier 2 mage.
"Christina can you tell me what is required to make a newly developed magic ring, have strengthening abilities?"
Hilda gave a question to Christina.
"Mam, a strengthening engravement must be engraved on the ring with the engravements of the things that have to be strengthened, an example would a tier 1 ring [Strengthened Wind Steps], when the ring is made, the spell structure of [Wind steps] is engraved on the ring with a strengthening engravement."
Christina answered with a lot of confidence that was not shown before, it was like she was a different person, this made the three males look at her, when she saw the attention, she went back to her shy self, weird shy girl.
"What you said is correct, it is called Activation, it you want the ring to strengthen something it must be Activated with Strengthening engravement."
'If you can choose to Activate strengthening, does that mean you can choose different Activations?'
Grey thought to himself, as if Hilda had read his mind she continued.
"The Strengthen Activation is the most simple, there are others out there, I will give you an example of the Record Activation."