With the task of our long group and carrying a good amount of resources harvested from the forest, we now only have to get to the entrance of the forest before the test ends every minute that passes and put the end of the test to the backward group will receive negative points.
The physical and moral state of the team is very good if you take into consideration what we went through physically, everyone is whole. I think the main negative point and the lack of cleanliness the group has stopped to have meals and everyone has a good night's sleep this helps a lot in maintaining the spirit and good mood of the team, but after going through some complicated situations this is not enough to keep morale high.
Not that I can do much the test will end in the late afternoon tomorrow and as all my team members are not stupid everyone is afraid of the possible catastrophe that will fall on the forest in the last days of the test I admit that I have a little bit of fear, but I also have to admit that I'm excited about the possible catastrophe last time I didn't have control or knowledge about the wind element but I still feel that my understanding of the wind element has improved after surviving the last storm of the first test.
It may be weird to think like that, despite the many information I got from using my eyes to understand the behavior of the elements during the storm at the end, it comes out with a lot more questions than answers, but I feel that this will only help me in the future the more I to understand the elements my dominion over them was strengthened.
On our way out of the forest we ran into some problems, but we managed to solve them without wasting a lot of time as we don't have to look for anything in the environment we can focus on traveling a greater distance on our way back, but it ended up being difficult for Ingredi since as she is a magician her physique and the weaker it ended up forcing her physical limit to the breaking point .
"We'd better stop for a while to rest a little and take the opportunity to advance lunch."
"I Can continue!"
Seeing Ingredi's pitiful state has no bearing on his pride.
"You need to rest or you will not warm up until dusk and as we do not know what we are going to face on the last day of the test and better take this chance to rest."
When the team was preparing the early lunch, I went to Torris who was carrying the urn, I looked at it to see if it is still whole and I find that in addition to the cloth we wrapped it acquired a darker tone because of the shadow element that is still there. leaking from her, her cracks do not seem to have worsened. I was afraid that because of the movement that she is having the damage that she has already suffered they would freak out, but it seems that I am underestimating the resistance of the materials used in the urn, but now I am more curious about the that happened to her to become a broken magic tool.
"Erick after lunch and your turn to load the urn and in the afternoon you pass it on to your brother."
"OK."
After consuming the meat of the magical beast I feel the fatigue of my body decreasing consuming this meat in the last meals has helped to strengthen my physique and keep my energy in the peak state despite all the fatigue that is accumulating in my body.
When we started our way back through the forest I felt an abnormality in the mana using my eyes to see the mana in the air. I can see that the mana in the air started to move in a single direction that coincidentally was the direction of the forest exit.
But the problem was not this, but the mana above the trees was becoming more concentrated. This was a sign that a storm is brewing. As I suspected, the end of this test will be the same as in the past. couldn't the school have a new idea instead of repeating the same idea ? "
"It looks like we have a storm coming, we will have to increase the speed to get as far away from the center of the forest as possible last time the animals went into a rage and attacked everything that came into their field of vision and being attacked here we can be unlucky to find another magical beast . "
"But I don't feel water in the air, are you sure?"
"Absolutely not, but I'm sure something bad is going to happen and to apologize in advance I already apologize Ingredi."
"What are you doing ?!"
Before she finished her sentence, I had already put Ingredi on my shoulder.
"We are going to have to accelerate. Erick and Sten are ahead of me with Torris in mine and Raziel protects our backs. "
"If you two encounter an enemy that you cannot kill quickly, move around the target and let Torris take the lead."
"Let's go!"
With the new formation, I reinforce my body with a little aura and a little energy from the fire element. My wind element I use to wrap myself with a thin layer of it. I do this combination not only to increase my speed and decrease the effort carrying a foreign weight, but to control and balance the consumption of aura and elemental energy.
The speed of the team increases since I was not the only one to use the aura to strengthen I just hope that everyone has the good sense of not exaggerating the expenditure of the aura.
Each meter we add between our team and the center of the forest decreases the chance of encountering a level two magical beast or magical animal.
The clouds in the sky start to darken and the wind becomes stronger a current of air formed from the clouds to the ground carrying their humidity through the forest a storm was rising not even an hour after the signs appeared and we can already hear the thunderstorms in the sky .
We didn't find even a pack of magical animals in front of us, we just ran into some solitary animals that were easily killed by the Holt brothers, we didn't have to stop our march, but while we were lucky in that respect we're unlucky in another one we didn't even find a shelter for to protect ourselves from the storm we need to find a shelter large enough for everyone and preferably covered enough so that animals do not try to enter it.
Unfortunately our search continues to be fruitless when the rain started to fall on the team the feeling of urgency increased the storm has already started in the center of the forest and is expanding in our direction I doubt that we can be faster than it.
Fated to be hit by the storm and by the animals that are already going into a frenzy, their howling will already be united to the sound of lightning from the sky.
"We are going to have to create an improvised fight Ingredi you can make a hole so we can hide and then we will need two to three logs to cover the hole to prevent the animals from finding the hiding place, but in order not to end up drowned by the rain we will have to not only make a cover to prevent water from falling into the hole but also make a ditch around the hole to retain water that will accumulate on the ground. "
Starting to build a shelter that can go very wrong, but it's the best idea I have to protect us from animals and rain.
"Tie the change so that it is more difficult for one of them to be dragged by the storm."
We don't have much time to build the shelter, but Ingredi's magic already creates the most important part of it. The only downside is that she must have spent half of her magic just to create a hole big enough to hide us.
With the shelter almost ready the storm has already reached us , but luckily it proved to have a very strong current of wind, but not water, the rain is still very thin.
With the completion of the improvised shelter, we can only wait for the storm to pass.
Entering the shelter I hope it lasts at least a few hours so that we can avoid the worst part of the storm.
"If you want to get some rest, I advise you to risk doing it now because I doubt we'll be able to spend the whole night hiding here."
"What do you mean, Ulric?"
"Well, obviously this shelter will not last until the morning the stronger the rain, but the water will quickly accumulate here and in the short time the shelter will be flooded."
"That's why I say to rest because when we go out I hope we don't find many animals if we're lucky most of them can end up killing themselves or getting too injured to attack us in a very large group."
Well, that was my pretty bad plan until Ingredi saved the group.
"I think I can use my water element magic to get rid of the excess water that comes in here."
" Really ?"
"I guess I never tried to use my magic like that, but to do that and I'm only going to use basic water element control and not a specific spell, I don't know if I'll have mana to last the whole night doing this already my mana consumption It's higher."
"Well then and you better rest now that night we will have to feed on rations not with the flesh of the magical beast so your mana recovery will be slower."
And with this new information, we have a better chance of avoiding confronting the magical animals in frenzy during a storm.