It was a quieter meal than I thought it would be when the matrix portal opened, I thought I'd be fighting or lying to some target and maybe that would spoil the taste of my meal, but now I'm sharing my meal with Hilda while she eats me. tells how fun it was to go through the rune matrices in this maze, she has a very particular taste when it comes to entertainment.
When everyone was basically finished eating our sleeping guest woke up really excited, I think seeing her surrounded by men was something that contributed to her anger and harassment. Only after a full minute of screaming did she finish her presentation to the group, but she was still pretty pissed off, I could see the electricity passing through her eyes, she was just a movement away from becoming a ray bomb in my group.
This is the biggest danger of this element, it has an even greater explosive power than the fire element because the lightning element can be released even faster than the fire element, but it also means that Vanessa runs out of fuel faster than a fire element warrior at the same stage and who has done nothing to change the quality of his elemental seed.
This is one of the better-known disadvantages of the radius element.
"Good morning, Vanessa. I'm Ulric the leader of the black team and I'm very happy to have you on my team, I hope we can be friends or at least not enemies until the test is over, it's so that you are aware of the current situation the examiners have already accepted you as member of my team, so there's not much you can do that wouldn't hurt your test too much."
Vanessa's gaze intensified even more, the purple electricity coming out of her eyes. I've read before but it's quite fascinating that the lightning element has such a visual effect when its user loses his temper or uses a lot of its element to strengthen his body, but I have to admit it's quite striking and intimidating but also has its weaknesses, in the dark and basically turning on a flashlight and revealing your position.
"I can still attack you all and end your test."
So she is that kind of person.
"But that would end your test too, I prefer to choose more profitable paths even if I have to make some compromises to succeed. You may not have noticed it very well, but everyone here has gray level cores at different stages and everyone has seed elemental, this is not a weak group Vanessa."
"Would it be so bad to be part of my team? With a little more luck, we can form an almost complete team with strong students, this will give us a huge advantage, and seeing how things are progressing this test will be longer than we imagined, it should only be a few more hours before sunset and I doubt all teams are complete."
"You may be right about being the most logical attitude I can have and accepting my entry into your group, but I still want to spank Hilda. This time you won't have the advantage of hitting me in the back, I'll give that cute little face a good spanking."
That's a different way of threatening someone, and a part of me is saying that Vanessa can be a dangerous person to have around.
"How about leaving a fight between you and Hilda for after the test, I promise to build a good ring so that you can fight each other for as long as you want, I can even sell tickets if you like that kind of attention."
From her reaction she liked the first part, but was offended by the last one.
"Okay, I accept this deal, but I want to hear Hilda's confirmation. She wouldn't have the courage to run away from the fight with me after that."
This last comment ended up offending Hilda a little.
"Do you think I would run away from a fight? Like you? I'm much stronger than you Vanessa, after the test I'll spank you and use your face to mop floors."
"If that rope wasn't keeping me from frying you, I would have already finished your race."
Is she really stuck? I thought Hilda had only tied her with a simple rope so she could drag Vanessa through the rune matrices, but it looks like this rope is special. I decided to give the rope a better look and using my eyes I could see that the various runes etched into it and it was absorbing some of Vanessa's aura and elemental energy, this must be a pretty tough rope.
"Let me help you with that rope, Vanessa."
But before I reached her, Hilda got up and gave the rope a yank causing it to let go of Vanessa, but it didn't just unwind from Vanessa. Vanessa was thrown by the movement of the rope and almost hit the fire still lit, Vanessa's hair almost caught fire.
"I'll kill you, Hilda!"
But when Vanessa jumped on Hilda, Amael intercepted her in midair. He held her against his body, even when Vanessa struggling with considerable force for a wizard Amael is quite physically strong, preventing Vanessa from attacking Hilda must have been a difficult task for him, even if Vanessa wasn't using her aura to strengthen your body.
"You can try."
"That's enough! You two are prohibited from talking to each other, you shouldn't even be close to each other so that you don't fight anymore."
Suddenly they both calm down and look at me like I'm crazy.
"Who are you to boss me around."
"You have a lot of courage to try to boss me around, Ulric."
Shit.
"You'll get me wrong, I just meant it's better not to fight anymore."
The two hot-headed idiots have already started to back away, clearly showing that I'm alone. Traitors. More to my luck both Hilda and Vanessa won't attack me, they will just ignore me and they sat at the fire again, Vanessa took what was left of the food and started eating while she is Hilda started complaining about the whole test.
While Vanessa ate, she turned to me and made my day even worse.
"You are Ulric, aren't you?"
"Yes, why the question?"
"I was wondering how you managed to piss off so many people?"
"You must be talking about the elves, this happened because one of the examiners screwed up on the last test, so because of that mistake I caused a little problem for the Eliure family and it seems that some member of the Eliure family got angry and decided to send the elves spanked me during this part of the test."
"That explained why the elves will ask about you, but because Borkk and Sindri are after you too, how did you manage to annoy the dwarves?"
Dwarves?
"Vanessa is right, when we ran into Sindri he was looking for you because his older brother Borkk told him to do it, he may not have said why he's looking for you, but Borkk is not famous for being friendly, he probably wants to fight you or get revenge on you."
"I don't know either of them, and I don't remember offending a dwarf, there's no reason they're chasing me like the elves."
Vanessa was still suspicious of me.
"Normally I would say that's your problem and I hope you get screwed, but since I agreed to be part of your team, I'd prefer you to be honest. Borkk can be a violent guy, but he wasn't going to dry you out during the test just to challenge you, when I met him before the test, he didn't give me the impression of being a crazy berserker, he would wait to leave the test to go after you. So, what did you do to piss him off?"
I really can't think of a moment when I've caused a dwarf trouble, can't think of how I could have offended these dwarf brothers.
"I don't know why they're looking for me, the headmistress just warned me that the elves would want to get in trouble with me, she didn't say anything about dwarfs. In fact, I don't even know much about dwarfs."
"Okay, I believe you, but I still think you should be to blame for not being chased by the dwarves. You don't have a good reputation, a lot of people in trouble with you."
"They have? Why is my fame so bad? And how come I've never heard about it?"
Is Vanessa telling the truth? Because I would have such a bad reputation, I got into some trouble, but I never did anything that would mark me as a public enemy, I admit that I can be considered an enemy or even a pest for some family members, but for this to spread and exaggeration.
"What exactly do people talk about me, Vanessa?
A smile appeared on her face, and it made me think she might be overreacting a bit just to get back at me.
"That you are a magnet for confusion and were the culprit for the destruction of several nobles, and you didn't earn a point with the circle of nobles when you won the first fights you had in that fight club, many colleagues and nobles lost money for because of its performance. And to finish you are very close to Hilda, she has many admirers who would love to kill you."
"Not listening to her. She's doing this just to piss you off and make you paranoid, don't let her mess with her head, Ulric."
"I'm not lying Hilda; he has a bad reputation and is the target of a lot of rumors. He even has a fan club of people who hate him because they you are strangely close, you were the target of many nobles, but since neither of them had a chance with you, it's normal for them to turn against Ulric."
I decided to ignore Vanessa for the moment, that she's getting even with Hilda teasing me is a fact now but I have to admit this conversation made my day worse, and to make matters worse I still have no idea why the dwarves are after min?