With basically a month until the deadly challenge started, I had to plan very well how to spend my time. Unlike the last time I entered the illusory matrix, the possible restrictions I may face will be of a different kind.
According to the clues and tips that Professor Frey gave me during the times I process the subjects and organize Professor Frey's workshop, because of that I have been kept up to date with the progress of the professors to make the principal's project come true.
I must admit that the headmistress has a very creative mind and is a bit disturbing, she not only decided to create various types of tests for groups of students, she even started researching stories from various realms in search of inspiration in the battles and tragedies that were. registered. She's really pushing hard on this test, and I don't know any more if her main motivator is student safety, I think she's more focused now on fulfilling her fantasies and creating the best method of pushing students to the limit and trying to kill them alive during that test.
I think the headmistress must be having her own challenge, as it prevents her from creating a veritable slaughterhouse for the students, the royal family will regret giving the headmistress an unlimited budget. I would very much like to be able to see the face of the person who will have to pay the principal's expenses, she has even hired two more high-level Runemasters to work with Professor Frey.
The types of tests I can prepare in advance are few, I will obviously prepare explosives, poisons, distractions and traps to use in case I come across an infiltration challenge or its opposite which would be defending a type of base or simply an open site. I am particularly interested in facing the tests that have to do with infiltration, even if it doesn't have the shadow element, I have learned a lot about how to exterminate a base or fort in silence.
My teachers on this subject are Vera and Martin, both are very competent in this aria and have free time to teach me, there had to be an adaptation since I don't have the shadow element like them, but I ended up buying an aura art manual with help from Captain Raven who aims to hide and disguise the aura of a warrior.
The first step was simple because I had already mastered the foundation of the art which was to restrict your aura completely within your body and then within your core. This may seem confusing since low-level fighters are not able to get their aura out of their body, but the truth is that even low-level fighters still emit some aura out of their body.
The first steps of the art consist of trying to hide the warrior from warriors, mages and matrixes with abilities to track the aura, mana or elemental energy. This is not an easy and very safe task, as by repressing your aura and elemental energy into your core your body will be unprotected and weaker this makes the warrior very vulnerable and unable to attack an enemy without revealing your location.
After learning this tricky and risky art to use, I realized that the shadow element's advantage in this line of work is so great that warriors with the shadow element don't have to worry about being fatally vulnerable while hiding and they can attack the his targets with almost their full strength, Martin explained to me how the shadow element warriors hide their aura attacks by overlaying them with the shadow element and using the shadow element to fill the environment, this serves as much of the warrior's concealment against the target as the Combat energy fluctuations for people and arrays outside the room.
Being an assassin and something pretty tricky is that I'll never be able to get to the high leagues without the shadow element, even the magical concealment tools that try to mimic the warriors' concealment skills with the shadow elements are at best useful for ambushing, if the warrior tries to move or attack while using these magic tools, his shadow cloak will lose a good part of its hiding ability.
Martin said he had heard of a shadow element artifact that could boost the power of a shadow element user or perfectly hide a warrior or mage who doesn't have the shadow element of any blue core or advanced matrix tracker, but that kind of artifact is extremely difficult and expensive even for red and blue core fighters or mages to achieve and the artifact becomes useless against higher level fighters and mages, it seems that reaching this level the fighter and mage develop a kind of territory and this allows you to locate even shadow element warriors who have a lower level than themselves.
It's like my financial situation doesn't allow me to buy even an extremely expensive magic tool, I'm going to risk practicing this art of aura, but after studying it I realized that it can be more useful than just helping me and guiding shadow skill Concealment, at her highest level the warrior will be able to make her aura mimic the energy of the environment to camouflage it, but according to Captain Raven it's extremely difficult to master this level of art, basically not anyone she's known. done, but it would also have to be a complete idiot to tell other people that you've completely mastered this kind of aura art.
If it were easy this would be a very precious art and she shouldn't have gotten me a copy of it, actually I was hard to find it because this type of art is very unpopular that's why it's basically out of the common market, I've just been using it a few favors and asking for help from some librarians and archivists Captain Raven got me a complete copy of the art and it barely cost a hundred gold coins.
For a complete aura art, it is a very low price, usually a complete art and I sold it for thousands of gold coins not a hundred coins, only incomplete art is sold for a small amount of gold coins as it is too risky to learn one. incomplete art, because not only will you not be able to fully cultivate it, but there may be a lack of important information in the levels that are recorded in the manual, this could be the cause of the warrior's death or even hidden wounds on your body that could harm your chances of advance in level and stage.
Luckily for the students, not even one test will last longer than five hours, but as there can be up to five tests for a single group, the estimated time for the longest test is twenty-five hours, if I am unlucky, and I do. that to stay a whole day in the illusory matrix I will have to take some provisions as well as I am also taking a thick coat to protect myself from the weather. Professor Frey was extremely annoyed when he had to modify the matrices for some of the tests to have a different climate during the test, like rain is tornado.
I have been trying to get Hilda to prepare more for the test, but as she was already using equipment superior to mine and she is carrying some magic tools to help her face any challenge, she ended up not needing much of my help, but thanked for the test information even though I didn't tell what my source was, but I doubt she doesn't suspect that it was Professor Frey who helped me.
But my biggest challenge was to convince Erick and Sten to take the test, they were already cleaning their room when I stopped them from leaving the institute for a minute, I thought they would do the stupid thing of going to the army, but they were planning to go join a full-time adventurer group that is led by a friend of their father.
I convinced them to keep explaining that the test wasn't all that deadly, and the teachers are making great efforts to keep the tests less deadly, without eating a mistake and avoiding stupid ideas the chance of dying during the test and small, many tests them they simply have to hide and wait for the time limit to fail is to be able to continue attending institute.
Even though they are not chosen to make the elite teams to implement in the war, it does not mean that they cannot continue to be students at the institute. It took a little longer I managed to convince them without having to talk about even one of the conspiracies that are going on.
But this month has passed very quickly for me, I would prefer to have more time to prepare for the test, if possible, I would like to advance my internship, but unfortunately, I still need more time to reach the threshold of the initial stage. The gray core takes a lot longer than I thought it would to advance in stage.