Inside the orbment factory, Scherazard stood beside the factory owner's nephew and said, "Here are twenty water sepith. Please synthesize an HP 1 for me."
The factory owner's nephew handed the HP 1 to Scherazard. At the same time, the factory owner stood nearby and laughed. "Scherazard, you're taking on apprentices again, huh?"
Scherazard smiled faintly. "Yes. It was just as hard when I was guiding Rigel back then, but thankfully, I had your help. Us bracers depend on weapon shops and orbment factories, after all."
The factory owner burst into hearty laughter. Scherazard was one of his old customers, and today she had brought two apprentices with her. Clearly, once the two of them passed the bracer exams, they would need to come to his factory to open slots and change quartz circuits. To an orbment factory like his, that was a steady stream of income.
"I wonder what kind of chains these two children's orbments have?" the factory owner asked.
"Estelle's chain has an unrestricted central slot, with three slots on one side and two on the other. Joshua's chain has a time-element restriction on the central slot, with four slots on one side and one on the other. Among the chain of four slots, one also has a time-element restriction. Slots like those are better suited for time-element arts."
The factory owner pondered for a while before saying, "In that case, Joshua's chain isn't bad. But unfortunately, it has too many time-element restrictions, and the time element doesn't have any particularly good offensive arts. The best is probably Hell Gate, a medium-area attack. Although it is an area spell targeted at a designated location and can hit more enemies than a center-based area spell, its range is simply too small, which really limits its potential..."
At that