It's been a week after they're summoned.
Because of yesterday fight, they call Shizuku incompetent by the local noble because she loses in a match where her specialty lies. But Shizuku didn't seem to be worried about it, she shrugged her shoulder. Because in fact, she loses.
By the time the talk about Shizuku reached Runa ears in the morning, she immediately went to her room, and apologize to her, because at the time she loses herself to the situation and become the winner of the match. But the response she got was a bitter smile and "Don't mind it, I actually lose anyway.". Next, she had a serious expression on her face and say "I won't lose next," that made Runa smile wryly and said to her that she can challenge her anytime.
The next day, all the heroes are called and they're asked to assemble at the training ground. The moment they saw Brian, they're about to say hello to him but. The voice didn't come out because they saw a monster locked up inside a cage right behind him.
"Today, we will start the actual training."
It was Brian with a serious face, it seemed like it was for leveling purpose, the knight deliberately caught some monsters and locked them inside a cage for the Heroes to kill. They'll acquire combat experience while under the knight surveillance. It was a safe way to level up until a certain extent, they postpone the plan for the heroes to explore the dungeon and leveling up there.
It was because of Brian himself requesting the king to do so. After hearing his premise, the king approved his request. And so within a week, they'll increase their level inside the castle training ground. Maybe it was his way of doing to show the noble that Shizuku is not an incompetent person. The other reason is, to gradually teach them about combat and what it means to kill.
At first, the knight released a goblin to fight for each of them. As expected, a mere goblin isn't equal to heroes but Brian chooses it because they're a bit similar with a human. At first, they take things lightly, but the moment blood splatter out of the goblin and came in contact with their skin, they start to realized, that they're about to kill a living thing.
It was because the goblin has the same blood texture as human. And because of that, they start to recognize them as a "living thing" and not a "Monster". They're hesitating for a while, but with Brian encouragement word, they're able to finish them off.
Brian is already a big brother-like existence to them.
The next day, Brian choose a rabbit.
At first, they're asking themselves, Why a rabbit? It was natural for them to have such a thought. Because the appearance of the rabbit is not a monster-like at all. For them, it was just a normal rabbit.
And Shizuku who loves cute things couldn't hold her desire to caress the smooth and fluffy fur of the rabbit. But she's stopped by an electric strike that came out from the between of the rabbit ears. That made her came back to her sense. Next, the rabbit used her electric power to make Shizuku's sword fly with electromagnetic.
This rabbit is known as a clever monster, even the knight only able to capture some alive. But Runa already knew this rabbit specialty from the book she read on the library, the book is about the knowledge of the monster in this world. So without letting her opponent use their ability, she finishes off the rabbit with no mercy.
There is a sign of tears at the tips of Shizuku eyes when they're done killing the rabbit. After that, they got a lecture from Brian. First, He told them to not judge the book by its cover. In this world where monster and devil exist, that kind of thought is called foolishness.
And the last lecture they got from Brian that day was, power is not always about strength. It was about how you use it as effective as possible. People who have this way of thinking will live a longer life than those who don't.
The next day was a slime,
Why a slime you ask? It's because the slime is 10 meters large. The purpose of this training was for their teamwork, there is always a limit for a single person. But with a team, they can cover each other lacking part.
But as expected, killing a slime with 10 meters large with a moving core is not an easy task, because physical attack won't work against slime. The only way to defeat it was to destroy its moving core. The core is about 30cm in length.
In this world, there is 2 kind of monster, it was a demonic beast and a wild beast. Goblin is an example for the wild beast who lives in the wild. But the demonic beast is a monster who born from a lump of mana inside the dungeon, the deeper the dungeon the thicker the mana gets, and the stronger the monster is. The rabbit and the slime is a good example of a demonic beast. But no matter how strong they are, they have a core, and if the core is broken they'll die by all means. But the system of a dungeon remains unknown even now.
Knowing they won't get anywhere without working together, Arata act as the leader and he's the one in commando. Their strategy is simple, While Arata chants his magic, Shizuku, and Yamato will keep them busy, and Runa will take their moving core to a certain coordinate and then after Arata's done with his chant, he will finish off the slime.
The first one to open the battle was Runa with his bow.
"Go forth, Wind Arrow."
She used an elementary grade wind magic endlessly while aiming at the core as she tried to lead the core to a certain coordinate. The place is where the horn-like form is there, the moment Arata is done with his chant, he'll fire the magic together with Runa intermediate magic to destroy the core that has nowhere to run. She keeps firing her missed arrow magic with her best. Luckily, Arata finished his chant and ready to fire his magic at the same time as Runa is able to lead the core to the coordinated place.
"Open the path for me and my comrades. So we can go to the right place "Almighty Light!"."
A faint light is coming out of Arata's spear as he finishes his chant. After confirming the core is at the coordinated place, he looked at Runa who's ready to fire the finishing blow. at the same time they fired off the magic with full of confidence it will hit. And, Zwuuungg the spear hit the core and broke the core to pieces. After the core is broken, the slime is exploded to his surrounding that made the girls is sticky with something slimy. And that made them cover their seen through clothes while feeling disgusting from the slimy sensation all over their body.
At that moment, Arata is feeling slight gratitude at the slime for exploding his slimy body. And then he prays for his happiness in the next life.