When moving to the next matrix, I'm Amael did we run into a monster? Inside the rune matrices there should only be animals and magic beasts, but this in front of me is a monster, this is something that came from a dungeon or from the golem workshop.
In mine from the trees a little giant stands out in the forest, he's a little over eight feet tall, but still not tall enough to be ten feet tall, the mana passing through his body tells me he must Being in the level two category is by your body to a lot of energy from the fire element. He may not even be wearing armor, but given the amount of mana he's concentrating on his skin and flesh, I doubt his skin is any less resistant than level two rune armor.
But the advantage of facing this monster, as his mana is focused on his flesh, he shouldn't even have a ranged attack method, even his fire element shouldn't be able to cause much trouble, as both Amael and I fear that element.
"I think we're going to have to kill this monster, Ulric."
"I'm sure be careful because your body must be very tough and strong. How about you sink it?"
When Amael would answer me, the bonds that hold the monster in place will loosen and he wasted no time. He came out in a frantic run, he knocked down trees and with every step he took the surface of the ground broke, he was building his momentum to hit us full on.
Amael swung his staff that was already filled with his mana and elemental energy of the earth element, in a single blow the whole ground between us and the monster was transformed, it was like a shock wave disfigured the ground. That's when the monster stepped onto new terrain, its leg sunk down to its knee, impressive.
I knew Amael had spent a lot of time improving his earth element magic, but this demonstration showed how good he is at controlling his earth element, even Ingredi who has a core almost as strong as his, couldn't do a spell like that. in that short space of time.
This is a clear difference in experience and training time, I doubt Ingredi is less talented than Amael, but if they face off during the test, she shouldn't have much chance of defeating him alone.
Although the ground got in the way of the monster, it keeps moving towards us but now it's slower, but Amael still hadn't finished attacking but unfortunately for us his next spell was a mistake. Amael hit the ground again, but he didn't harden the ground like I thought he would, but turned it to lava by pouring his fire and earth element into the ground.
This lava was not very hot when you compare it to lava from an active volcano, but it is still capable of burning level two and three monsters, but unfortunately for us this monster obviously has a strong body and when facing lava, it not only held steady, as if ignited. He became a monster covered in flames when his fire element covered his body and the temperature of the lava began to rise as did the temperature of the air.
I look at my companion suppressed, and I can't help my next words.
"Did you really have to use lava against a fire giant? Couldn't you have just hardened the floor to hold it in place for a while? Did you really have to attack your fire element in him?"
"It went badly. I'll fix it now."
Just like before Amael uses his magic again, but this time he hardens the lava to trap the giant who is only ten feet away from us, I can't believe this spell will work right now so I'm ready to cut the giant with my new one sword, but i would rather not do that, I doubt this sword will last long against a lava giant. I hope it's tough enough for me to wear it for a while, I doubt that poor fat man would invest a lot of money in his sword since he was a shield warrior.
To my surprise the giant only had the base of his leg locked by Amael's magic and this made him fall more easily since his body is leaning forward when walking through the lava. Upon falling into the lava power, the giant had to face the rapidly hardening lava, it appears that Amael is redirecting the lava's heat away from the giant, impressive elemental control.
Having my prey weakened, I make my move. Like an arrow I move through the newly hardened lava and cut the top of the giant's head, I avoid his neck because I don't have a good angle to cut him, I think I have better chances of success when cutting the top of his skull than I have a good angle, than risk breaking the sword blade in his neck.
My sword is full of aura from my wind element, I create a coating with a great amount and concentration of aura and elemental energy on the sword blade, I do this not only to increase the power of my attack but to protect the blade, I prefer to spend more energy than what is unnecessary is to preserve the blade of the sword. My cut takes just above the giant's ear and goes through his skull tearing a part of the monster's brain, I got a really big scalp from the monster.
Obviously, the monster didn't die from this move, but it's roaring in pain from the damage I've done to it, its body is moving more by reflex than by the giant's real will, but I'm not going to let it die slowly, you never know what might happen, so I punch his exposed brain with a flaming punch and destroy the rest of the giant's brain.
I've decapitated and crushed the heads of monsters, animals and magic beasts, but this is the first time I've punched directly in the brain of a living creature, and that's disgusting, even with my punch covered in fire which prevented me from messing my own hand, I still feel like I've dirtied myself by killing the giant. When looking at the sword I used to cut through the giant's skull I realized that it really was a cheap sword.
Even with all the preparation I had to avoid damaging the sword, its blade already bent a little when cutting a bit of bone from a level two beast, this giant was really a magical beast. By digging his chest, I removed a level two core of the fire element and not an elemental gem, I've never seen this kind of magical beast in the forest before, the headmistress must have compared this magical beast from somewhere far away from the city, maybe even outside the southern region.
"I'm not one to throw mistakes in my comrades' faces, but because you tried to sink a magical beast of the fire element into lava, but I have to admit that you set your trap by dropping monsters. Beast! I got confused, this giant doesn't look like a magical beast to me."
"It was bad, I didn't realize it was a magical beast with the fire element, and I agree with you about the appearance of this magical beast, for me this giant came from a dungeon."
"Since you didn't realize that you were a fire element beast, you are a fire element wizard. Can't you feel the element of the monster?"
"I'm not very good at this, I don't have a good perception of distinguishing energies within other living beings, but I'm good at communicating with the elemental energy of the environment, even if it's not an element I have affinity."
"Can you feel how accurately other elements are, have you ever tried to find underground treasures with your sensitivity?"
"I can only feel other elements at a short distance, just a few meters and the farther away the elemental energy source is, the less I feel it. I don't think it's very efficient to keep digging for treasure, even if I can dig pretty quickly."
"It's complicated to dig, but you should try to train your perception, you never know when this skill might be useful for you."
"It's hard to train and it takes a lot of time. Could you feel the fire element of the monster before it flared up?"
"Yes, I have a very good perception."
"You could have warned earlier."
"I thought you would be able to sense his fire element because you are a wizard with an affinity for the fire element, but from now on I notice the element of our enemies."
With that I and Amael follow our way through the maze, we only need to go through three annoying matrices, to find other students, to be specific two students.