Sounds of the storm a combination of the wind displacing the water falling on the ground through the trees and the howling of the animals killing themselves was the theme of that night.
Because of the magic of Ingredi, our shelter is not being flooded by rain, but we are still targeted by rain. The barrier we created using tree trunks perfectly suited us to camouflage the animals in frenzy.
I knew that this shelter was risky and if it had gone wrong it would be very complicated to deal with the consequences because in the end it is just a hole in the ground that the only entrance is blocked with wood .
As the hours passed, the storm showed no signs of diminishing. In reality, it became stronger during the night. I was afraid that Ingredi would not be able to keep the shelter from flooding the ground. uninhabitable .
With dawn approaching, my team members were unable to rest much tonight, the constant threat of being filthy or attacked by magical animals disturbs sleep a little.
The rain slowed him down when the sunlight tried to break through the storm clouds, but he had very little success with that to my disappointment.
Unfortunately, we still had to cover a reasonable distance today to be able to leave the forest before the end of the test.
"Well although I would like to wait for the rain to end, but we cannot take the risk of not reaching the exit of the forest before the final test period, so we will have to face the storm, but as you can see the rain decreases it for our luck."
"How 's your Ingredi mana pool?"
"I have a little more than half my mana."
" Unfortunately or maybe you liked it better I will have to carry you again Ingredi because if we don't accelerate we won't be on time, ok?"
"Okay, but if any of you tell someone that Ulric carried me, I swear I'll use the gossip as a target to practice my offensive magic."
"They will understand!"
Receiving a silence from the rest of the team.
"So who's going to take the urn and who's going to help move the trunk that is blocking the entrance?"
"It is Raziel's turn to take an urn and Torris to move the trunk."
Well it looks like Sten is excited to be out of the forest. He's talking a lot.
"So Erick and I will go out and kill any animals that are near the shelter."
Everyone getting ready to leave the shelter.
Raziel carrying the urn uses his knife to cut the rope that holds the logs and Sten and Torris push the trunk off the edge opening a small entrance for Erick and I to get out of the shelter .
With an open passage I go out to face the rain and wind with my blades in my hand I search for any enemy in the vicinity not seeing even a visible enemy I am surprised when a wolf leaps from the tree trunk against my back, but unfortunately for him leaving from the shelter Erick is positioned to attack him from behind just as he tried to attack me by preventing the wolf from attacking me Erick kills him .
Moving away from the shelter entrance, Erick and I are attacked by some wolves, not even one of them and a challenge for us .
"We've cleared the entrance so you can leave now!"
Given my signal I approach to help Raziel and Ingredi get out of the shelter and then we push the trunk out of the hole and Torris and Sten leave with my team together we are ready to make our way out of the forest.
Carrying Ingredi on my shoulder we formed the same formation as yesterday with a good speed that we have now I believe we can get out of the forest before nightfall.
Using my eyes to see the mana in the environment, I try to look for any threat to my team, but unfortunately the air had a very large mixture of mana and elemental energy. this interference my vision loses half of its original range maybe using my ability to see mana and elemental energy in a situation like this is not very useful to identify something small like the mana of a level one animal since I haven't seen an animal yet level two can not be sure if and more easily see their mana.
Although I have to concentrate on our path, I still try to study the elemental energy around me. The clouds are not different from the storm in the last test, but the wind current is just like yesterday, it is going in one direction only, which is from the center. from the forest out of it during the last test the wind was spinning through the entire forest.
I wonder what causes the wind element to behave like that, is it some magical treasure or beast in the center of the forest that causes this or maybe this is just a natural phenomenon.
But to find out, I would have to be there or ask Professor Liv and hope she gives me a sincere answer.
With each passing hour we found several animals in small groups and the majority already is with some injuries or simply tired.
The rain may have subsided, but the wind is becoming stronger for our luck. We are moving in favor of him because if we were going against them we would be suffering a lot.
I had no intention of stopping for lunch better to force our friend as fast as possible out of the forest. My instincts are screaming to me that the current of wind is increasing and a bad signal.
To my day I heard a roar different from the forest I feel that it came from a big animal and not from the common animals of the forest.
Fortunately, the closer to the exit of the forest we are, the lower it becomes, but I realize that despite the speed we are moving, the roar is not decreasing as it should.
We are being parched for what is creating this roar and I have no intention of finding out what it is.
Using my normal vision I could not identify our stalker and when I use my ability to see energy I can barely see a spot that may be the stalker's mana it is brighter than other animals, but not as colorful as the magical beast then maybe it's from a level two animal .
But I have no intention of staying and fighting with her.
"We are getting close to the end of the forest. We have to accelerate more now, use your aura to the maximum to increase the speed!"
Even carrying the Ingredi I still have to adjust my speed so as not to break the formation as I have the wind element to help me move better than they do, but unfortunately I do not have the ability to use my wind element to help them.
With this new increase in speed, I have more confidence in running away from our stalker since the closer to the edge of the forest the fewer animals in this aria of the forest.
Seeing the forest become clearer as the exit from the dala approaches, our stalker seems to have given up on us. I just hope he doesn't find another group of students. easy after spending so many days in the forest.
When I saw the end of the forest it was still a few hours before dusk, but my group must have already exhausted more than half of the aura with our sprinting.
Looking back I see that the storm is growing more and more even the rain that had stopped is increasing and the thunderstorms are getting more frequent.
Soon this storm had lasted for a whole day and despite the fluctuations in its intensity I feel that it has not reached its peak.
But this is no longer important to me since my team is leaving the forest, but I am not very happy that I had to choose to run from an enemy if I had my team with our personal equipment instead of the basic equipment of the institute I would have opted to ambush to kill the level two magical animal .
Leaving the forest I see a very large tent set up in front of us I see some teachers and two groups of students that I unfortunately recognize neither one of them and Hilda's group.
Going in the direction of the tent I am hit by an elbow from Ingredi .
" Put me down!"
"Calm!"
I drop it on the floor in return for the elbow from before.
"Hey! Be more careful! "
"So don't struggle like a wild animal, just ask me to put you on the ground."
"Let's go to the tent and finish with the test."
" I seriously thought you would want to go for a walk in the rain before dark."
" Quar of your pathetic attempt at sarcasm Raziel ."
Just get out of the danger he already starts with his sarcastic and inconvenient comments again.
When we enter the tent I feel that we have passed a barrier and the wind and rain cannot pass through it.
It looks like the tent is a kind of magic tool or is it some teacher who made that barrier? "
Professor Balder is close to us .
"Congratulations on finishing the survival test in advance, I look forward to seeing your harvest in that test."
With the entry into the tent the second survival test comes to an end.