During the week that the news that shook the world of most students at the institute was given, there was a drastic change in the institute. First and since more information was given about the deadly challenge, the first part of it will be held in a month and a half and it confused me a little, I thought it would be done during this month.
I thought they wouldn't give the students much time to prepare, but when I took my doubts to Teacher Frey he laughed in my face, he told me that all the preparation to make this deadly challenge of the principal work in a correct and necessary way. preparations. Most teachers are getting a nice bonus for spending their time preparing challenges.
I took advantage of this pivot to ask Teacher Frey about the challenge, he won't even have a problem telling me the truth since we are inside his workshop which is protected by several magical matrices. The Teacher is very suspicious of others and is very afraid that his research will be stolen, it seems that this almost happened in the past, if I wasn't skilled enough to help process the materials used in his research I would not be allowed in here, to do this basic, boring job.
Let's say I have good eyesight and so I'm very good at finding ingredients that are not pure enough or defective, at engraving high level runes failure can be caused by minor defects, from a contaminated environment or a raw material that it is not pure enough and to many suppliers who deliver an altered or inferior product to make more profit, as it is difficult to distinguish this type of scheme.
" Teacher, are you helping with the rune matrix?"
"That's of course, I've been wasting a lot of my time and I had to collect some favors I had from some fellow artisans, this venture is getting very complex and expensive, that crazy exaggeration this time, but I can't blame her motivations, she's right at after all."
This teacher's comment confused me, Hilda told me that the decision to take this deadly test was made by the royal family and even the other institutes will also have to make a deadly challenge for the students. If it weren't for the clear panic and lack of communication among the students of the institutes, they would have already realized that the deadly challenge is not something invented by their respective director.
"So, the deadly challenge was something that came out of nowhere? It seems the principal went overboard in organizing this deadly challenge."
"That kind of little game and childish, Ulric. Are you really trying to get me to admit that the stupid idea isn't the directors? I'm sure the young men of the Menfis family must have already told the truth of the deadly challenge."
"I was just trying to avoid getting in trouble for you Teacher, as far as I know that and my secret. I know this is coming from the royal family, I just don't know why they're doing it now, I've even been forming some theories over the past few days, but I'm not sure about anything."
"I have the same suspicions, this was a very sudden move in most people's view, but as I know some of the secrets of the royal family's plans, I have a pretty good idea of what's going to happen in the future, but I'm impressed that you have noticed that, Ulric. You're not an idiot, but it takes a good political knowledge and a big imagination to realize that hidden schemes are happening."
"What's your theory, Ulric?"
"Why don't you tell me more about the deadly challenge first?"
"No, I'm curious about what kind of wild and crazy conspiracy you think is going on. I'll tell you about the deadly challenge later"
"Ok, I didn't think it's too weird when the determined nobles start killing their men to dispute the resource locations of the southern region, I think it's normal to have this kind of dispute and I think it's cool that the disputes are made by warriors and mages of low level not to anyone with orange or red core massacring the gray or green core warriors, as the use of matrices is prohibited taking away the low-level physical defense ones."
"But after this dispute got really long and the death toll has gotten huge and it still looks like the dispute could go on for a few more months, I started to think it was weird. One thing is to use this opportunity to get rid of the dead-end fighters and wizards who only serve as almost useless expenses for the noble families, but the southern region is getting weak and that makes it a target for the neighboring kingdoms."
"I think the royal family is trying to find an excuse to increase the territory of the kingdom, and as the kingdoms bordering the south are smaller than ours and complicated to attack them without suffering consequences from other powers such as churches and temples that censor and prevent large kingdoms from devouring the smaller ones. I think they do this to prevent a realm from trying to become too big and powerful and trying to replace the role of temples and churches or even trying to replace the gods. Which I think is very impossible for it to happen, but it just needs a crazy motivated and smart enough for a rebellion to be created"
"And basically this, the southern part and a bait of the royal family is when an idiot takes the bait the royal army and probably detachments of troops from the east and west will all march south to defend it, and then retaliate against the countries aggressors. I just don't know how the other allies in these countries are going to do when that happens, I doubt the royal family has no plans to avoid missing the chance to raise the southern aria of the kingdom."
"I think the noble families of the South will be rewarded with more territories, to compensate for the deaths and sacrifices of the South in this entire scheme, which by the way I served as an excuse for him to start and I didn't get anything but an assassination attempt that I was lucky to survive. Am I very wrong or am I close to the truth, Teacher Frey?"
I look at the Teacher waiting for his answer only to find Teacher Frey smiling, which is a rare sight, he seems very happy with my theory or does he find it funny that my theory is wrong and absurd.
"I have some friends who will feel humiliated when I rub it in their face that one of my students is smarter than they are. I'm impressed that you got it right with so few clues, I doubt that the matriarch of the Menfis family has told all her information and theories to her granddaughters."
"I must admit I didn't expect so much of you, Ulric. I thought you would notice that the South would be the scene of an even greater war or conflict, but you must have been about eighty percent right, remember that there will always be schemes and conspiracies parallel to others, as far as I know. conspiracy involves many more people than just those who live in our realm, Ulric."
"It's no longer up to us to interfere in the scheme and conspiracies of people much stronger and more powerful than the two of us, I don't think either one of us wants to end up dead knowing too much, even without having heard the truth from a member of the band or military, so never talk to anyone about it, not even to your girlfriend. If someone thinks you might be a threat to the plans of the nobles and the royal family, simply knowing too much will make you the target of assassins again, and this time you might be less lucky and end up dead, Ulric."
"I promise not to talk about this subject anymore Teacher Frey, even after this is all over."
"Well now let's get back to the deadly challenge as you process the ingredients in that box into a uniform ink, remember not to let your elemental energy circulate through your body, as these ingredients are very sensitive, Ulric."
"I'm going to confine my elemental energy to my core and use a part of my aura to make a barrier so I don't have a chance of my elemental energy affecting the ingredients teacher."
"The deadly challenge may have been the royal family's idea; they probably want to create elite groups with the institute students and implement them at the start of the war. This is quite dangerous since in a war between kingdoms only tactics and weapons that are taboo for the gods are prohibited."
"The death tack will be high for these groups in war, even if commanders and generals are careful when using student groups, because of this the royal family decided to take an exam to be able to create groups with the strongest and most competent students. and that's their strategy to have fewer deaths."
"The crazy headmistress who decided how the audition is going to be done, the royal family just has to make sure the deadly challenge is hard enough for it to have the effect they want. It's funny to see tactful students fleeing to the army to avoid the deadly challenge and dispersal of their families, they didn't even realize that the chances of them surviving the next war elite groups will give them a better chance than being an ordinary member of the army."
"When war breaks out, there will be no political capital that can prevent these young people from participating directly in the conflict. At this point they will realize how wrong their choice was during this week, the principal set up the deadly challenge in a very creative way and which I believe will greatly reduce the chance of students being killed during the test."
"It's because of the complexity of the challenge that the teachers have a ridiculous workload and everything to increase the chance of students surviving and passing the death test, with a good chance that the south has the largest number of students participating in the teams. of elite. Perhaps only the capital has a chance of having more students passing the test, average quality of power and skills of students there and better than our institute."
Over the next few hours Teacher Frey gave me several clues to the possible challenges I might face within the illusory matrix, I now have several ideas and preparations to make before the first part of this deadly challenge created by the principal.