When making a puppet, the most important part was adding multiple forms of attack, defensive and versatile movement. With only an hour of time, Villin didn’t have the time to do any of this.

The small action figure was designed to do only two simple things. Run and turn. Other than this it had no other capabilities.

Now, one might wonder what help it would be to sabotage others if it couldn’t even grab or attack. The answer was simple. It was meant to be a diversion. Villin guessed that nobody here has seen a puppet like this before, because of this they would likely put a lot of their attention on it if it approached.

Thus far, only a few of the contestants had really tried to sabotage others, enchanting took time, spending time to make something that would probably be destroyed anyway wasn’t worth it. Even if they got some points in the third mission thanks to it, they would be forfeiting the second one, the one most deemed as the most important.

The few that did try to sabotage others, all did the same thing. They used some enchantments to allow a certain object to fly, then they would attack another contestant with it. The problem was that the objects weren’t all that sharp and controlling them was extremely difficult, nobody would be able to accurately control it from a distance.

Now Villin was of another mindset. He put the action figure on the ground and used a couple of strings of his magic power to control it. Obviously, he used the technique he had gotten from professor Crumb to make the link more durable.

Once he had control of the magic puppet he took out his wand and pointed it at the object before beginning a fake chant. After chanting for a few seconds the puppet began moving forward. 

Now, Villin had to decide on a target. He had four neighbors. These were Ruby, one of the purple robes, someone of his own age wearing a grey robe, and someone that seemed to be around sixteen years old.

After thinking for a moment, Villin decided to go for the person he saw as the weakest, the person of his own age who was an apprentice of a runemaster. His puppet turned toward the edge of his area, at this point, the student had noticed the action figure that was moving toward his area and thought of what to do, putting down his enchanting pen and taking out the wand he had gotten earlier.

The student looked at the puppet and Villin vigilantly as he moved closer to the edge of his own area at which point the puppet was barely a meter away from him.

Suddenly, the puppet sprinted to the side. The student thought it was trying to go around him so he jumped to the side, he didn’t realize he was getting further and further away from his stuff.

At this point the student was still extremely careful, he didn’t know what the puppet could do, he decided that as soon as it would come through into his own area, he would kick it as hard as he could, it was only a simple action figure, even if it was enchanted to be heavier he still shouldn’t have too many problems kicking it into the air.

In reality, this plan probably would’ve worked, the problem was that Villin never intended to have his puppet cross the border. As his puppet continued to turn and sprint in one direction for a meter or so, seemingly trying to duke the student so that it could pass and cause whatever damage it wanted to, Villin’s wand was no longer pointing toward the puppet.

Instead, his wand was pointed at the bowl the student had been enchanting. As for the student himself, he was too busy keeping up with the action figure’s movements to pay attention to Villin.

Normally he could’ve since, well, the action figure wasn’t exactly the fastest, it was just that he was quite afraid the puppet would be able to sneak by if he didn’t pay attention. As for Villin himself, earlier he saw that he needed to control the puppet with his wand, there was no need to fear him.

For the student, the situation remained like this for two full minutes, at this point the student felt stumped. How the hell did Villin still have magical energy to keep controlling this thing, it was as he thought this that he quickly glanced at Villin.

A second later he looked again, Villin wasn’t pointing his wand at the puppet, he was aiming at the pile of stu-

He looked at the center of his area where he previously had a number of items, these were an enchanting pen, and a backpack with a number of items. One of these items was the one he had been working on, a bowl. He had been enchanting the bowl trying to make it capable of surviving a decent offensive spell.

But when he looked at the center of his area, almost nothing remained. The bowl and enchanting pen were both gone as well as the backpack and most of the things inside of it, the only exceptions were a few of the items that had fallen out of the backpack.

Meanwhile, Villin was sweating, he noticed ‘vococito’ worked a lot less well than it should. As soon as it got out of his own ‘area’ it weakened by nearly eighty percent, this made it a lot harder to get the items to him. Luckily the student only noticed his intrusion after two whole minutes had passed, at this point he had lost almost everything.

When the student looked at where his items used to be he felt empty, he had only just been accepted as a disciple by a runemaster and he already messed up in such a way.

When he looked at the stands he noticed a certain man staring at him with a livid expression, it seemed he wouldn’t be a disciple for much longer.

Even though Villin didn’t know any of this and didn’t care about the boy, he still didn’t want to take all of the points away. He intended to spend the final few minutes weakening the enchantment on the bowl before giving it back to the boy, that should give him plenty of sabotaging rounds.

It was only when Villin turned around from his target to look for his own items that he realized he fucked up.