I spent the last few weeks practicing my rune engraving skills I managed to create my first functional rune before my second rune creation class, but this was only the first step in creating the set of runes so that I could produce the explosive mines the theoretical part and I've already learned the necessary items for its production I'm already accumulating them now I just lack the ability to record five main runes in sequence and this proved to be difficult.
Each rune added increases the engraving difficulty and for me to achieve success in making runes, it is necessary to practice.
Since the beginning of the classes I have accumulated points from the institute my expenses have been small and my earnings from the harvest of herbs cover them, but with my small fortune I tried to spend it on my runes learning I decided to spend three quarters of my points on the purchase of a high-quality engraving knife and with its own set of runes engraved on it, the runes aim to improve communication with nature's mana.
After trying my new blade I not only felt an improvement in the quality of the rune, but my biggest improvement was that I felt my desire in the blade had an increase in quality.
This showed me the advantage of having a good tool, but I believe that at this stage of my training the use of this blade will only hinder me. I should continue using a normal blade to train my will, I will only use the high quality blade when the test date survival approach .
The rest of my survival points I bought a special ore and two elemental flowers, the ore has the property of attracting mana from the environment and the flowers are roses from the fire element and one from the wind element they retain a lot of energy from the elementary, but the reason for me to buy them was that they disperse their elemental energy in the air.
I decided to leave the ore on the table that I use to record runes and one day I intend to buy a table that specializes in engraving runes, but it is a long way from my financial capacity.
I planted my fire element rose in a earth pot with volcanic ash and elemental stone fragments of the fire attribute. This combination will nourish the rose and allow it to continue releasing its elemental energy into the air and then I did the same with the wind element rose. of course I used ingredients compatible with the wind element.
Now with the elemental roses planted in my room I will have created an environment with a greater concentration of the element of wind and fire.
With a richer elemental energy environment compatible with my elementary seed, it had grown stronger faster.
I found out that training my elementary arts in my current room I have a faster advance speed in them than in the training field unfortunately I can't practice my movement arts in my room because I lack space, but my fist and blade arts I can measure them in the bedroom, but I have slightly damaged the walls of my bedroom .
With the test of survival coming with each passing day my need to become stronger becomes evident to my teammates I have spent every free minute practicing runes or my elemental arts.
I decided that my team would have two training sessions a week to improve our coordination during the test.
With each training session I get to know my teammates better .
Torris is a very calm and helpful person, but his personality problem and his pride I admit that I am a proud person, but I do not let him be a weakness like Torris he still tends to underestimate the enemy even after his defeat in the my hand and acknowledge his mistake he still has not managed to overcome that failure.
I know that everyone has their flaws, but I don't want a shield warrior who has the ability to underestimate the enemy's attack .
Ingredi has shown herself to be a very versatile and creative magician in the use of her magic despite not talking much with the other members she ends up opening up more when the conversation and on an academic topic like runes I even saw Sten talking to her more than once Professor Frey's classes.
Erick improved his speed and accuracy ten of the last test of survival plus his cheerful personality remains the same his most striking advance was his advance from the basic level to the intermediate, but even though he was the last of the team to reach the intermediate level he did not show emotions negative about his situation, I don't know if he doesn't really care or if he can hide his frustration well.
Raziel is the most focused team member during team training, but this is because of his fighting style as I suspected before he joined his style and closer to an assassin than a light warrior.
Even the silent Sten became more social with the team members I felt that the team's rapport reached a good level and with it our teamwork was organized and efficient.
When we discussed our plans for the upcoming test I told about my progress with the explosive mine and to my surprise the rest of the team already had their own manufacturing project with the team members working in a group they were making some useful items for the test.
The list of items consisted of basic healing remedies, smoke bombs , poisons, and basic equipment with simple runes engraved on them.
I was very upset with the last items so I found out that Ingredi and Sten went after Professor Frey and asked if they can burn runes on the equipment we would receive for the test and he supervised their engraving process.
Ingredi and Sten used simple runes to record the equipment, most of them received the durability rune and few received the sharpness rune the arrows that our group will use are engraved with the penetration rune.
It had taken many days for both of them to burn runes on the team's equipment and with that I feel even more proud to be able to burn the set of runes to create the explosive mines as a leader. I must show my skills if I cannot end up losing my leadership position this is because i wouldn't accept being led by someone i play incompetent i believe my team has the same criteria for a leader as me.
With the weeks passing we received the announcement of the date of the survival test and their rules.
The test rules are no different from the rumors and the confirmation that I had received from the teachers the equipment that we will use in the test will be provided by the institute, but the rule that I did not know was that the test will not only have the points system like the previous one each The team will be given a task to carry out in the forest. It can be about hunting a rare magical animal, locating and harvesting a specific forest resource and even tracking an object planted by the examiners in the forest.
It seems that each team received a task specifically done to test their group. I wonder which one will be ours, but the task will only be revealed on the day of the test.
I believe that this is done to create a feeling of fear and anxiety in the students and from my observations I saw that they were successful in this.
The atmosphere of the classes has become heavier and the students have shown more dedication to training for my suppression. I no longer felt a negative change in my team, in fact I felt confident in our ability to pass the test.
We have weeks of preparation more than our colleagues Ingredi and Sten have completed their project of engraving runes on the equipment that we will use for the test. I can already create the runes used in it, but I still haven't been able to record the five runes in a row. My record was four runes.
But with the help of the high quality blade I bought from the academy I am confident that I will be able to produce some explosive mines to use in the test.
I have achieved a much greater mastery of the elemental arts that I practice my arts of movement of the wind element I have reached the high level of proficiency in them, but I still feel that to reach the perfect level I still lack understanding of the essence of the arts.
My offensive arts I have not yet reached the same level as the movement arts but I still have made great progress in them my Flaming Fists have reached the average level of proficiency in it as well as in the Transparent Blade art I can not only create a sharp wind flow in the my sword as I can already create it without the use of a weapon.
The art of the Red Blade that I stopped practicing is still at the same level although my control over the heat manipulation technique has improved without returning to training it will not know at what level I can use the Red Blade.
With the test preparations almost finished I started to focus on making the explosive mine only when I managed to create the five main runes at once I could record the connecting runes calmly one at a time and thus complete the making of the explosive mine .