Finally, the day of the first part of the deadly challenge elaborated by the director of the institute, Professor Frey told me yesterday that a letter had arrived from the royal family for the director and she had shared it with the teachers. In the letter, the director was praised for her creativity and performance on her project. The royal family was very pleased with the deadly challenge created by the director, but they said she ended up exaggerating the costs a little, the budget for the director's deadly challenge was more than triple that of the other regions.
The headmistress was very angry with this last part of the letter, she showed this letter to the teachers so she could insult the idiots of the king's city, like a bunch of niggards who are complaining about her because the southern region did a much better job than they did. , according to Professor Frey the headmistress spent more than an hour screaming how the idiot who is the director of the royal institute in the king's city is making up lies and making several officials who handle kingdom finance support her lies, the criticism of her because of the expenses, was born because of the actions of this idiot, those were the words of the director during the meeting.
According to the director this was not the first time this has happened, she is the best director and the only reason she is not the director of the royal institute is because the sycophantic idiot is from a family that is connected to the royal family through marriage, if it weren't for him to beg the current queen he would never be placed as director of the royal institute, and every time she succeeds, he gets jealous and tries to denigrate her margin.
But left aside what doesn't affect me, I prepared myself during the morning and met the remains of the students in the institute's dueling arena, the arena is crammed with students, barely making room for everyone. In mine from the arena Professor Balder appeared, which I found strange as I was expecting the headmistress' appearance, she must have been very excited to explain the rules of her beloved audition.
"Good morning to all students. I will explain how the first part of the deadly challenge will be, in place of the director she hears an urgent problem that demanded the attention of the director today, so unfortunately she will not be able to come to explain the rules and wishes them success in this first test."
"As all of you may already know the first part of the deadly challenge will take place in an illusory matrix, yesterday several training camps were closed to be used as space for the illusory matrix to be formed. You will be organized into groups of five to eight people, the groups were planned to have so many students with black and gray core of different stages, the groups were made for the average power between them to be equal or very close, this was made so that nor does one group have an advantage or a disadvantage because of the strength of the students' core."
"In the illusory matrix you will face a series of tests set up to challenge in different ways the team's ability to stay alive, cohesive, each member's individual capabilities and how they are able to work as a team with people they don't know. The test result is not entirely based on the test success, the most important factor and how you manage to solve the problems that will arise within the illusory matrix, but if you fail in the main objective of the challenges, you automatically fail."
"Each of you will receive an envelope telling you which field you should go to meet the other members of your team and what is your team's number, after meeting with your new teammates, you will have five minutes to prepare to enter. in the illusory matrix and meet your new colleagues. I hope all of you can work together in harmony because if you can't do that, your chances of surviving the matrix will be halved."
"You will be able to take to the magic matrix this time not only your weapons and armor, but you will also be able to take some emergency rations, low-level magic tools and some specific equipment that must have already been verified by one of the professors at the institute. I must remind all of you that using a magic tool or any other type of tool or artifact that has not been allowed by one of the professors or that its power is higher than level three, you will be expelled from the institute."
"When you enter the illusory matrix, not even a teacher will be able to help you within the matrix, but remember that you will all be under surveillance, any action of a vile nature to intentionally harm a member of your group or sabotage the test of the entire team of an intentional way, the cheating student will be punished not only being expelled but executed for min. The traitor won't even have a chance to leave the institute, but I'll make sure to keep his corpse intact so his family can bury him properly."
I didn't expect this one, it's her face and aura that Professor Balder is going through I don't doubt he's telling the truth. He's really going to kill the student with his bare hands today.
"I hope everyone has prepared to enter the illusory matrix, I preferred you not to die today, but if you meet your end today, try to die in a non-shameful way, try to die saving a teammate or completing the mission. Don't be a shame and a stain on your family or the institute, you can go now."
The mood is really heavy today, not even a professor who is humorous like Professor Balder is serious today. I hope I don't have big bad luck and so I get a problematic team, by wetting it into the envelope that was given to me, I find out where I should go and that I'm part of team fifteen.
As I move over there, I see that most of the students are looking like expressionless statues at all, it seems they are all repressing their fear or excitement, but always with exceptions like Hilda who I saw and heard from afar, she was smiling like a crazy as she ran to one of the training grounds.
When I arrived at the training field, which was a plain, I see that the three groups that are being formed and I don't even know one of the students, I recognize some of them, but I never got to talk to them much. I never saw the need to get to know all my colleagues well, as most of them will die or I will never meet them again in my life after leaving the institute.
I join what I believe is team fifteen since on the floor next to me there is a sign with the number fifteen, it has to be really stupid to have a different number of fifteen and still be here. I see around me three warriors, a warrior is a wizard.
The mage was a late-stage gray core mage, he is probably a student who must be two years older than me or more. Hope it's less, that would mean he's one of the most talented mages of his no, his element and wind is due to his combat cloak and light staff with a blade, he must be a close combat mage, this is a used style by certain magicians of the wind element, who seek their magic to be lethal is quick.
It's great news to have a strong mage like him who won't hinder the team's mobility, depending on the test we face mobility can be a factor that determines the team's victory or defeat. Unfortunately, certain wizards who end up not being important in strengthening their bodies at all and end up being very vulnerable and without the ability to move on the battlefield, this type of wizard ends up being called scholars is very rare here at the institute, they end up being quickly eliminated at the institute.
The warrior has an early-stage gray core like mine, I don't remember seeing her before so I believe she is not part of my year. She has the element of water and how she carries two thin, personalized swords with a lot of elemental energy. She must be a duelist or a warrior who is interested in this style, fast fighting, it takes a lot of aura and elemental control to follow this path.
The three warriors end up being more common compared to my other two companions, the two in the middle stage of the black core, both have the fire element. The last one is a dark core warrior in the final stage who doesn't even have an element.
They are all equipped with common weapons like swords and shields, only one of the warriors with the fire element is using a simple two-handed sword, a clear difference in the quality of our equipment. I hope the teachers took this into account.
When what I believe to be the entire group is gathered around the numbered plaque, the wind element wizard has a smile that gives me the impression he's an arrogant idiot. I had a bad feeling as the mage prepared to speak.