Our third day in the emerald forest started very well to have meat of a magical beast of the element life for breakfast and a luxury that I never had in reality and the first time I eat meat of magical beast even though Sten is not a great cook he and the best we have.
The meat is delicious it almost made me forget that I almost died in her guards eating meat that contains elements and something risky because the elementary energy has the characteristics of the beast and that can be harmful. We are eating it without reserve because its element and life which is the most benign element to consume even without having an affinity with it.
At the institute I had already seen to buy a meal made with elemental materials, but it is extremely expensive and my savings would disappear in the blink of an eye, but for a person with two elements to have the best gain I would have to order a meal that harmonized the element wind and fire and that would only double the cost.
We were lucky and unlucky to get a beast of this size with this amount of meat, the good point and that it will help the whole team to strengthen the bad and that we will have to carry it even dividing it in four parts will still slow our speed by this we decided to eat as much as possible with each meal.
When we finished packing all our luggage, we went into the forest.
That morning I found many more herbs on the way. I found two elemental herbs, one from the wind element and the other from the water element. Our encounter with animals diminishes it today, but the strength of magical animals has increased almost everyone we kill that morning can be considered at the peak of level one I'm afraid if we continue to go into the forest we will have to fight with level two beasts .
With the hours passing the morning came to an end, but for our luck or bad luck the mana in the air is normal I didn't even notice an abnormality in it so I don't think we will suffer an attack like yesterday, but even so I decided to postpone lunch so as not to risk it.
When Sten was preparing lunch Torris started to scream.
"Hey guys, look at that rock over there!"
Looking at where Torris had pointed I was already holding my swords, but when I saw the rock I didn't find anything different even using my eyes I didn't even have a mana or elemental energy towards the stone.
" Where's the enemy Torris ?"
"I didn't even see a magical animal that mattered and that rock looks at it!"
Well Torris went crazy and made the test price too big for him and a shame.
"It is a common Torris stone, the forest must have several like it."
"Get the Ulric map, I remember seeing a stone with the same shape and mark on the map."
" Really ?"
I checked the map to see if Torris was right. I studied the map in a very detailed way and I don't remember this rock. It has very striking features on its surface, it looks like someone uses it as a target to practice his sword art.
Looking at the map fragment I try to find the purple one.
"There! Ulric in the right corner of the map, she is saved in the far corner and she is there! "
Looking at where it was indicated I actually saw a drawing of a purple one that has the top similar to it but the bottom part is missing the map and torn right there, but it seems that Torris is right and with that we can find the magic tool .
"Well, let's finish eating and then explore the region around the stone to find more landmarks on the map so that we can trace a route to the magic tool."
After lunch we explored the forest and covered a radius of one hundred and twenty meters from the rock to find another point of reference on the map.
Raziel was lucky and found a twisted tree that looked on the map next to purple and with these two points we were able to trace the direction marked on the map if the scale of the map is correct it should take us about three and a half hours to reach the magic tool.
"We located the magic tool more when approaching it, be careful, maybe there is a guardian or trap around the tool, I doubt that the teachers left the tool without protection."
The closer we got to the tool I was using my eyes to look for any change in the environment in the early hours had not even an abnormality more when we were very close to it I could see power lines shadow element in the air.
"Be careful the tool is nearby."
When we reached sixty meters from it, the shadow element was scattered throughout the region around the tool.
I made a signal for the team to stop I noticed some figures in my aria impregnated with the shadow element without using my eyes I could see that this part of the forest was darker than normal even though it is an aria that is already darker due to the large amount of large trees the luminosity was very low if it got dark it would seem that there was no sun in the sky .
"We have company later on, let's set up an ambush and lure the enemy in. I'll serve as bait since I'm the fastest team."
I looked for a good place to prepare an ambush. I found a place that had a more unobstructed path to the dark region of the forest. I prepared some mines along the way and asked Ingredi to create a ditch between two large trees.
In the fight with the magical beast the ditch helped a lot so I thought to resort to the same trick even if I don't have a magical beast or level two magical animal there will still be the last one as a barrier for my team to attack from a distance.
With our ambush ready I go alone towards the magic tool using my eyes to be able to find any magical animal that can ambush me.
Holding my bow ready, I approach the first aura that I find in my path. I move as quietly as I can month away from your field of vision until I reach a position that has unobstructed vision of my prey.
With a prepared arrow I step out of the shadow of a tree and aim at my target and to my surprise my enemy and a wolf, but I noticed that he had a shadow element inside his body but it was not like the magic beast of last night it was as if the shadow element was contaminating it instead of being part of it.
Firing my arrow, I hit the wolf's skull, killing him without difficulty.
I approach to recover my arrow and to be able to see the wolf's body better I notice when I touch the wolf that his body looks thin compared to what I found before lunch it seems that the shadow element is harming the magical animals that are close to the tool.
Good news, perhaps the ambush will prove unnecessary, but I am surprised by a howl that was born close to my position.
When I looked in the direction of the howl I saw the mana of several wolves moving towards me.
I wrapped my body with my wind element and used my art of movement to the fullest in the direction of my team.
When I moved to the ambush I could hear the wolves behind me every step I took I could hear them louder they were gaining ground even when I was using my maximum speed when approaching the mines I plant I realized something was wrong with the wolves the wolf he had killed had a weak physique because of the shadow element as and that the wolves behind me were faster than normal.
With no time to reflect I pass the explosive mines without triggering them and approach the ditch that Ingredi created when I was jumping over the ditch I heard the explosions.
When looking back I saw part of wolves scattered on the ground and some injured wolves, but they don't seem to have been affected by the wounds on their bodies behind the wolves that were hit by the explosion I can see the wolf pack that was chasing me number was not shocking, but I can see that their mana was in a chaotic state somewhat reminiscent of the berseker state that the magical beast entered just before it died.
With about thirty enraged wolves coming towards me I gave a command to ingredi that was hidden near me.
"Wall!"
I created a dirt wall at the edge of the ditch when the first wolf had jumped.
With the wall rising I could only hear the sound of the wolves hitting it and falling into the one meter long ditch.
When the sound of the wolves hitting the wall stopped, I gave Ingredi the signal to tear down the dirt wall above the ditch and bury the wolves.
With the fall of the wall, only 4 wolves were left in front of me, the rest were buried in the ditch.
"Capture the wolves, I want them alive!"
Despite being surprised by my order the rest of my team come out from behind the trees and attack the wolves.
Memo trying to obey my orders one of the wolves ends up dead only leaving three wolves alive working in pairs we managed to tie the wolves.
" Ulric because you want these wolves alive they are worthless."
"You're wrong, Erick, I think they might be worth a little bit."
I begin to study the wolf's mana, its internal mana and even its core is contaminated with the shadow element, it seems that the vital force of the wolves is burning. This explains the contradiction of their bodies' fragility with their abnormal speed and ferocity .
" Raziel, can you feel the shadow element inside the wolves?"
Getting a confused look from Raziel.
"I can try."
Giving Raziel space I see him placing his hand on the wolf and closing his eyes after a few minutes he finishes.
"I can feel a little bit of the shadow element in his body, but I think it must be killing the wolf."
"I want you to inject your shadow element into the wolf as much as you can before the wolf dies. I'll explain it to you then do it now."
Seeing Raziel forcing the shadow element into the wolf I see the shadow elements struggling within the wolf it didn't take long for the wolf to be killed by the shadow element.
"Try to do the same with the other two wolves, but lessen the amount of shadow element you inject into their bodies."
A few minutes later I have another dead wolf and one on the verge of death.
"Stop!"
"Let the last wolf live I want to see how long it can still resist."
When I am studying shadow behavior I am Isabel's target.
" Ulric what the fuck are you trying to do if you want to do animal experiments do this in your own time not in my school test and you and only one student what do you hope to find out by doing this?"
"Calm Ingredi, I'm just trying to test one thing, the wolves were infected with the shadow element of a magic tool. I wanted to see how they would react to having more shadow element in their body."
"They are going to die Ulric you think no one has tried this before."
When the irritated Ingredi continues to question my actions, the last wolf died, but I managed to complete my goal despite not being very useful, I managed to get the energy of the shadow element to penetrate the wolf's body completely by studying one of the claws closely. of the wolf I got to see a little bit of element left inside the claw.
It must be less than it would have been in a claw taken from a magical beast of the shadow element even more and better than nothing now and just save it to see if the shadow element remains inside the claw.