With the formation of Wulfgar's core I now have to take him with me to the Emerald Forest when I went to do my missions, but this ends up hampering my ability to complete institute tasks a little, but I still don't have the confidence to leave him alone.
I even pretend to Wulfgar that I left him alone in the forest to create a psychological prey on the little wolf, but I still keep monitoring him from afar using my eyes, even if he has identification, he could still end up getting killed by an institute student that's all. it takes an idiot or someone wanting to harm me for me to lose my mate. That's why I asked for help from Hilda who agreed to spend time with Wulfgar in the forest, obviously I had to pay her some points, she wouldn't miss the chance to extort some of my points, she doesn't have much patience for doing the institute's tasks Hilda prefers to spend her time running through the dungeons that only generate a few points.
The institute may award points for activities they think are useful for student development, but points awarded for activities that are not under the institute's control give a small number of points. Every time I enter a dungeon I get a hundred points, but only if I get past the twentieth floor of a dungeon, I get a bonus of one hundred points.
This is a very ineffective way of earning points, me doing a simple herb collecting quest has already earned three hundred points this time of year, and as I can do almost a dozen quests in a single afternoon that Hilda spends entering the dungeons a single, I end up earning a lot more points than she does.
The institute provides several options for students to earn points without having to do a task directly for the institute or one of the professors, but most of them turned out to be a waste of time with conflict between nobles, one of the easiest ways to put together a hundred points at once was hunting bandit groups or strong magical beasts, but now that the southern region of the kingdom has been cleared and it's with those damn cleaning groups preventing bandit groups from returning to the kingdom and killing any magical beasts that they consider it a risk for merchants who are taking advantage of safe roads to trade in valuable items on a large scale.
Before you only needed to gather a group of five to ten students to exterminate some small groups of bandits, each member of the group would earn more than a hundred points as the points for the bandits' heads were given to all members of the group and not divided between them. It was done this way to encourage the students to have real combat outside the city and help keep the realm cleaner from thieves.
I myself gained over two hundred points by killing the bandit group when I was with Vania's group. After the guild report was made and confirmed real, the institute automatically awarded the points for the achievement of having exterminated the thieves, to all members of the group who are students of the institute. This was the fastest and most effective way I've ever earned points.
But so, I can keep my room saturated with elemental energy and mana, eat food that contains the life element that is available at the institute, feed the new reincarnation of gluttony called Wulfgar, and maybe earn some points to spend on my rune practice. I'm in need of a big and constant source of points.
Even though I go out to complete missions every day to support my tastes I can barely stay in the green, if the pace keeps up, I'll barely be able to collect three hundred points in an entire month, but thanks to my new training and feeding regime I feel like my body and core are being strengthened with each passing day.
Most unfortunately my illusion that I was approaching Hilda and Ingredi's cultivation speed was shattered when they appeared in the middle stage of the gray core, even Raziel disappeared because he was making the last few preparations to advance into the next weekend.
From my observations I still need a month and a half to get really close to the threshold of the early stage, to have a good, safe chance of advancing to the middle stage, the last thing I want is to have a stable core by pushing forward early. of the right time.
I only left the institute aria to find the night owls to enter the dungeons and to attend the club meetings. To have team variations to enter the dungeons, Captain Vera got the help of some adventurous friends.
During the weeks before I advanced in the internship, I ended up making a group with almost a dozen different adventurers, I ended up meeting several adventurers with different styles. As Captain Raven has a good social capital among both adventurers and nobles, I've come to know nobles from several families who consider themselves neutral, but it's obvious that all of them have used this opportunity to enlist the help of the night owls to more easily conquer the basic resource locations.
Even though Captain Raven cannot directly participate in the conflicts because her core is of a higher level than is allowed to compete in low-level or base resource locations, but the rest of the owls have been wasting their free time entering exports from the dungeons, helping these noble families.
With the coordination of the central members of the night owls they formed an extermination unit Vera, Dumah, Martin and Peter that by the way I didn't make much friends as I only see him inside the dungeons which are not exactly places to socialize peacefully. Martin said Peter is a very busy person because he is an apprentice to a pharmacist, which is code for a poison manufacturer.
Not that they can't create medicine, but from Vera's face Peter's master is a poison and wind attribute wizard who is also a master pharmacist specializing in poisons. Even though its core is green it is so scary that even orange core mages and warriors don't have the guts to get in trouble with it.
It seems that the combination of his magic and the poisons he manufactures are capable of giving trouble even to red core fighters and it shows how competent he is as a master pharmacist. Peter is lucky to have gained such a competent master in his research aria.
With the four green core warriors and all with the shadow element, they became a deadly unit by infiltrating the nobles' bases and killing the guards. They have more than once killed basically half the guards at the resource sites.
But it wasn't until I heard Vera boast about how many guards were killed by her arrows that night that I noticed that the death toll happening during this dispute between the nobles is getting dangerously high. It's been months since these conflicts started and the death toll must be getting ridiculous.
Even though the nobles have many recruits among the adventurers and mercenaries to replenish their forces, that death toll must have already passed 100,000. Even groups of mercenaries and adventurers who came from outside the realm to participate in the conflict and earn a lot of money are disappearing over the weeks.
And most of them aren't disappearing because I come home after earning a fortune working for the noble families, the nobles just have to send a basic indemnity to some families that I ventured them or mercenaries were smart enough to claim the indemnity in the magical contract.
If the southern region loses a lot of low-level warriors and mages, neighboring kingdoms may try to take advantage of this weakness, as before the conflict ends there must be a dispute over people who have orange and red core. Only after that can we find out how much the kingdom's families have been weakened by this idiotic dispute.
I think this dispute is idiotic because the warriors and wizards of the realm are killing each other on a large scale, having a few hundred deaths each year in conflict is normal in my opinion, but if you want to kill thousands and better arrange a war with one neighboring country and make a bloodbath involving the entire kingdom at once.
Though I didn't put those words out of my head and not get the attention of others, because a part of me feels there's more reason this war is going on. I used to think that these conflicts would end in two to three months, but as this conflict stops and it will extend even further, I feel that it might be an idiotic way for the royal family to disarm the southern force and make it become a Bait for the realms bordering the realm in the south.
This can be a very bloody strategy to try to annex some territories to the realm, because if we are attacked and end up winning the conflict which is a very likely scenario, as the realms that could attack the south of the realm are not strong enough to win a war alone. Only with the help of neighboring kingdoms could the two small kingdoms have a chance to gain anything.
I feel that the southern region could end up being the scene of even more conflict, and I doubt it will help my life.