Andar's next stop was towards the Introduction to Puppet Creation test. This class was the least popular amongst the Acolyte because of the sheer difficulty and the monotony of memorizing billions of parts and manuals for even the low-level puppets, which was just the barest minimum needed before a Puppet Creator…
Puppet making was also subdivided into many different sections from Humanoid Puppets, Beastial Puppets, Puppet Structures, and Vehicular Puppets, and as always Andar disregarded all the different departments under Puppets Creation and learned them all, this would make his testing even harder.
It should be noted that a large portion of a Mage's Tower construction fell under the Art of making puppets, but every Mage Tower was unique especially when it was an Archmage Tower. The small cottage of the Steward that Andar visited was a Mage Tower, but one that was far ahead in its evolution it could no longer be called just a building, but rather a life form.
What Andar had accomplished in the Basic Formation tests had already reached the ears of those here for the Puppets Creation test and also the other Acolytes and mentors in the Body Farm who were not taking part in the tests.
They all rushed down to see what he would accomplish on such a complicated test like Puppet Creation, and if his genius was unlimited like they suspected it to be.
Andar reached the test area to see hundreds of Acolytes and Mentors had already gathered and from the Incoming stream of lights coming from afar, there were more on their way, shaking his head at the spectacle of it all, Andar proceeded to land at an open area filled with millions of parts from puppets scattered chaotically.
He should be performing part of his master's wish for him to shine brighter than the stars, yet what Andar really craved was the challenge.
The test was straightforward, it was to clean and assemble as many fully functional puppets from the mountain of scraps laid out before the Acolytes.
There were various mounds of parts spaciously laid out, and each Acolyte would proceed to the mound they felt they could tackle and begin to assemble their puppet. To pass this test you needed to fully use every bit of parts in your mounds, also the size of the mounds selected would determine your final score.
Some of the mounds of parts were the size of a small basket, and the largest was the size of a house. No one in living memory had gone for that mound in the Introductory tests, it was generally accepted that only mages could tackle that challenge.
This test would push your knowledge and ingenuity to the limits, but this was the sort of test that Andar preferred, as it was the right choice for his Gray Will talent. Andar went and stood before the largest mound, and drove away the whispers carried in the breeze as the entire Body Farm was becoming enveloped by mania.
Scattering the triangular-shaped piece of dust inside his Spirit Matrix, Andar's silver eyes rapidly began turning gray as he pushed his computational prowess to its limits.
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