Yesterday I had a very quiet day and I thought this would be repeated today as the woods near the city are without resources, but my reality changed when I was eating in the cafeteria and was approached by Hilda.
" Ulric we do n't have much time, pack your gear and find me the gate!"
"What happened Hilda?"
But Hilda was already running out of the cafeteria this is very strange, but I doubt she is kidding me so I better do what she asked me to .
I ran at full speed to my dorm and armed myself as I don't know what awaits me I decided to prepare for the worst.
It didn't take me long to reach the institute's gate only to find Hilda with two horses.
"You took too long, we're late ."
When I got on Hilda's horse, shooting in front of me, she was at full speed, I thought her behavior was very strange , but she 's too stuck so I don't have the opportunity to talk to her.
I was a little afraid that Hilda would ride the horse through the crowded city streets if she did that she would have killed some people on the way, but she took a different path the street was very deserted and dirty.
It didn't take me long to discover our destination we were heading to the east gate.
It only took us a few minutes to reach the gate and luckily we didn't kill anyone on the way Hilda managed to dodge his horse twice and avoided hitting a pile of rubbish and a beggar.
Upon reaching the gate, Hilda jumped off her horse and headed towards a group of four adventurers who were near the gate.
I didn't recognize them but they all have good gear and they all have a gray core they must be a Rank E or Rank D group.
As I approach the group I will finally find out why Hilda is acting so strangely this morning .
"Hilda you are late because it took so long?"
"Sorry I'm late, I ended up taking a while at the institute ."
As the group was moving towards the gate the warrior who had spoken to Hilda earlier turned to me.
"Hilda who is your boyfriend and why did you bring him up?"
"This and Ulric and a colleague at the institute as we are with few people I thought it would be good to bring, but one person."
"But I feel his aura is smaller than yours he's not too weak your boyfriend could end up dead I won't babysit him."
"He is not weak captain he led a team of six people in the second institute's survival test and killed a magical beast that had a skill of Berseker he did not is weak."
When Hilda finished justifying my presence, the rest of the group looked at me for the first time before that, they hadn't even bothered to pay attention to me.
"So he's not useless but today it will still be very dangerous for him and since we're only with half of our members Hilda."
"And from his face he doesn't know why he's here, doesn't he, Hilda?"
"I really don't know what happened or why I'm here."
"It would be great if someone me tell which is the mission that I am participating?"
I'm hit by a punch from Hilda which in turn makes the captain laugh at both of us .
"What a cute couple you'll love to know you've got a boyfriend Hilda, but before that we have an emergency mission to make yesterday a group of adventurers was wiped out in the woods and at dawn an elite tracker explored the woods looks like a bunch of magical beasts level two invaded the grove and killed most of the magical animals in the grove."
"Our mission is to kill as many magical beasts as possible and we have to find out who was responsible for them. The guild suspects that this is the work of some organization so be alert for anything suspicious in the woods, we are not the only ones to do this mission we are the fifth group to accept it and two groups have already entered the woods so we are delaying this and a race who has more results will be able to claim the reward in the guild, the rest will only earn money from the sale of the magic beasts that the group kills."
"Well we're stuck so entering the woods let's run to the center of the woods and hunt as many magical beasts as possible."
When the captain finished her speech we were already running into the woods with the speed of the group, it will take an hour to reach the center of the woods.
When we are running to the center of the woods I study group features the I am making of all four are warriors with elementary seed captain has the Earth element and the shield and complete amadura her she should be a warrior defensive.
Besides Hilda and the captain, there is one more wind attribute warrior who uses a spear and the two that are left are a fire attribute warrior who uses a sword and shield and lastly an earth element warrior who uses a two-handed hammer.
A very strong group wonders what the level will be and the elements of the other members of their group should have at least two more mages.
Before arriving at the destination, it would be good to receive some information about the mission.
"So what kind of magical beast are we going to face Captain?"
"The group of magical beasts are the nocturnal predator type they all have the shadow element, but there are also few elites among them who have an element more than likely and the Wind element their defense is not very high so it won't be difficult for you hurt them, but you should not let down your guard this kind of beast has the tendency to ambush their prey and not fight back and why the guild not sent or a group of dawn and waited to send groups of extermination after dawn ."
Interesting, but also worrisome even though we're not the only group entering the woods we still have a chance of being unlucky and being ambushed by several magical beasts at the same time even with a strong group we're still six people if we're attacked by more than four Magic Beasts I doubt that we can get away without even a casualty even if the Magic Beasts are weakened by the day.
When I'm being an idiot for worrying about being ambushed I realize how stupid and blind I'm being I can easily spot the magical beasts by using my eyes I can easily spot the magical beasts they basically killed every other living thing in the woods so apart from the two groups that have already entered the forest any large aura will stand out as the mana that the trees in the forest are weak will not disturb me much.
As we approach the center of the woods I use my eyes to search for any aura within my reach.
As we entered the woods' central aria the team captain motioned for the group to stop.
The wind element warrior advanced alone and it took her a few minutes to get back.
"I just found a trail that dries straight to the center of the woods."
The captain reflected on the find of the group's tracker.
"Let's go a few more meters into the woods and then circle the center of the woods be aware of anything suspicious no matter how small it may be the mission is not just about killing the magical beasts but I found out who was responsible for releasing them here. "
The group sequio the instructions of the captain did not take even ten minutes I could see two bright spots near our path I expected to approach a little more of them to warn the captain did not want to draw too much attention to find the two very distant beasts of position them .
"Captain I believe there are two beasts to our left they are a few meters away from her."
He gets a weird look from the group's tracker.
" Nirie, can you see any tracks?"
"I didn't find a trace or a sign."
Hilda had to come to my rescue.
"Captain I know Ulric he has a very good ability to sense mana I've grouped with him before and he always got him to sense magical animals that are close to the group."
A complicated look appeared on the captain's face I think she has a hard time believing in my abilities or is she just mistrusting me as a person.
"This is a very rare skill Ulric a sensory warrior and very valuable I would normally doubt his ability but I'm not an idiot to play with my team's life so everyone get ready let's attack this group of magical beasts directly Ulric and Hilda stay find Ron and help him hold one of the beasts."
I'm holding my bow as the best contribution I can make without taking too much risk is trying to mow down the magical beast as I still don't know how strong this magical beast is I'm going to be left behind.
When the team approached the pair of magical beasts they started to move towards us they moved to ambush us from the sides.
I whisper to the team.
"They're coming towards us they're going to hit us from the sides."
Knowing the location of the magical beasts, the team prepared for their ambush .
The team walked calmly forward waiting for the attack of the magical beasts .
It didn't take long for the beasts to attack us even though we were outnumbered .
I really overestimated the strength of this group when the beasts attacked Ron easily intercepted the beast that attacked us from the right the force he used was so strong that he not only had enough strength to throw him to the ground but made the magical beast sink in floor.
Hilda didn't miss the opportunity and stabbed the beast using her ice spear which in turn pierced the magical beast's neck the captain had warned that their defense was not strong , but even so I didn't expect that Hilda might have to cause so much damage to the beast the wound began to freeze .
With the neck wound the beast still got up and attacked Hilda but before she succeeded she was hit in the eye by my arrow and then hit by Ron's warhammer he had created a layer of rock on him.
The beast's skull must have been crushed by Ron since after falling the beast didn't get up again.
When I looked to the left I saw a magical beast that was beheaded I really underestimated this team they should be able to easily kill four beasts at once.
Even taking into account that they are gray core warriors and are with good weapons to kill such a magical beast easily seems wrong the defense of this magical beast and very weak maybe the magical beast that I faced in the survival test was more resistant than this one.