With the arrival of Sindri's group we finally found out what happened to him, and he found out what happened during the ambush is why we built this fort.
Sindri's group was supposed to ambush one of the elves' teams with the collaboration of Nole's team, but he didn't show up yet I managed to do some damage to Galelmar's team who had the misfortune to find him. Unfortunately, Sindri couldn't capture nickel, but I managed to hurt several members of his team as well as they managed to damage their equipment, both armor, weapons and shields were lost during the battle, this was achieved because of the mage with the shadow and water element.
It seems she specializes in corroding her shadow element, the water element is used to manipulate and trap enemies and allow time for her magic to damage their equipment. Her abilities aren't always useful, but on this test she's essential because the life element mage is healing and restoring her elf allies' bodies, the only way we can really get rid of one of the elves is to capture him is to arrest him. it.
But thanks to a magician named Ryas Carter she is from a traditional family of water element wizards, we have no idea why she decided on this type of aria to specialize, but it's not my place to criticize the path that other people take in life, especially when their talent can make such a big contribution to the test that she can be the person who contributes the most to our victory.
After Sindri retreated from his solo ambush, he tried to figure out why Nole didn't show up to help them, but strangely enough they didn't find him or a student coming here. He was quite surprised that Nole and Soran had issued an order that was never given by the alliance for the students to join here, nor did I need to raise the possibility that they had betrayed the alliance.
Sindri was already completely enraged, the joy he had was completely gone when he took out his anger. After recovering Sindri turned to his team and started giving orders, I was surprised by his efficiency, in a short time he not only sent his team members to gather the students so he could make a statement.
When he noticed the look of confusion on my face and Vonin and Ingredi's, he finally told us his objective. Not only does he agree with my plan, he's already willing to start creating the army of students, who are already gathering here.
In front of the non-team students who were in their thirties, Sindri stood up on an earthen platform and began his speech.
"My fellow students, I call you here is now because I have very bad news for everyone, but I also bring the plan that will allow us not only to defeat the elves is to pass the test but to completely screw up the examiners who have done our last days a shit. The time for revenge has come!"
I didn't expect this one, I thought he would focus his speech on the point of defeating the elves, I didn't think he would target the examiners. It seems that even though this isn't the aria with the matrices that are meant to punish the students, the matrices that were here were more than capable of infuriating the students.
"The elves cornered us with their superior number of teams, but the reason they can do this is because of the examiners who chose those four leaders should be elves. Even our attempt to make an alliance between the dwarves, humans and the tribes was destroyed by the cowardice of some members of the alliance, they gave up and united with the elves."
Sindri is really a resolute dwarf, at the moment he thinks Soran and Nole are traitors, they've already condemned them to be enemies of the entire alliance, but it was smart of him not to name names. It's always good to have a plan B if they aren't really traitors.
"But you must not fear the elves and traitors, we will crush them with our new plan. From now on we will no longer follow the rules that have forced us to be victims, to be on the weaker and disunited side of the test, but that's over, we're going to end this test."
"We will unite in one force, a team that unites so many humans, dwarves and beast tribes! A single team to end this test! The rules don't apply to us anymore, let's unite and defeat all enemy teams and finish this test."
"With the dawn of a new day we will begin our march through the labyrinth to recruit all students and defeat our enemies! When it's all over, the examiners will have no choice but to declare us winners."
"Today we celebrate the new alliance, because in the morning we are going to war! Are you on my side or against me?!"
The students who were listening to Sindri's speech were in an uproar with his question, shouts of celebration and war filled the audience and even my team. It seems that Sindri has managed to bring everyone together here, he really is a charismatic figure.
It didn't take long for them to start building a bigger bonfire and start celebrating, it's a shame we only have water, some fruit and plenty of meat to eat during the celebration. The dwarves aren't too happy about it, it seems the stereotype that they're very fond of alcohol isn't fake, but having lots of meat is better than nothing in my opinion.
Over the next few hours most of the students cheered, in a funny way some students behaved as if they were drunk even though there was not a drop of alcohol in that entire matrix. During this time some students arrived at the matrix and came to the fort which was lit up, it seems that even with Sindri's declaration of war the examiners have not made a move to show how angry they can be with our new attitude towards the test.
I thought they would do something with the matrix weather, like lighting it and skipping the night like they did before or summoning a storm to throw rain on us. Not that the last one would work much since we have a lot of water magicians here, they could easily create a dome to protect us from the rain, but in the end, they didn't do anything.
I kept an eye on the matrix just to be alert in case a new team appeared or if the elves made a night attack which is always a good strategy. Here at the matrix, it's even better as most students are very stressed with the test and this always hinders someone's ability to rest, but it's a shame that this strategy doesn't work for our group anymore.
We're basically either a huge group or a small military unit, but no matter how you label that group it's impossible to make it go unnoticed. When passing through the matrixes the portals are opened to transport students into the matrix, the more students, the bigger the portal, a group like the one I lead already caused a great commotion to enter a matrix.
An army with even more numbers the entire matrix wall will light up when the portal opens, no matter how distracted they may be, they will see the portal open as long as they are aware. Students who entered the fort soon joined the party and adhered to the plan to send the examiners to shit.
Great recruiting tactic, I saw some familiar faces like Isabela and Mark who were part of my team during the first test, I even saw a fat warrior who was unarmored and carrying the luggage of two other warriors. It looks like my victim survived during the test by becoming a pack mule for some students, I thought he would have been eliminated by now even if I didn't steal his gear at the beginning of the test, but where did his armor go? I remember leaving it behind because it didn't fit right in my body.
"What are you thinking about my new friend?"
I look back to see Sindri.
"Nothing, I'm just seeing if the elves will attack us at night or the remaining teams will appear first. But I have to admit that I didn't expect you to make a speech like that immediately after hearing our theories and plans, I thought you'd argue a little bit before."
"In our situation discussing the small details that don't matter so much, we need to be direct if we want to win this test, but I'm not doing this simply because I think your idea is good or I want to get revenge on the elves for having gained some advantage of the institute."
"When I heard your plan, I realized that this is not just a way for us to win and a way to stand out in this test. Breaking the rules might be exactly what the principal wants us to do in our situation, I admit I only realized that when I heard her plan, that's the real reason I've already started the plan. The points are just a way of quantifying our performance, the director has the final word and she must love this development."
It seems that Sindri is not only smart, he is very fast, he didn't have much time to reflect during our conversation is his improvised speech.
"The examiners will attack us and make things difficult for our little army, Sindri. But the question is how strong will your dam be, do you think they will try to use the other students or will they attack us using the matrices?"
"Both. They're going to screw us up any way they can without violating the principal's rules the moment we step outside that matrix."
"Don't you think it's better to send small groups out and recruit more students?"
"No, Ulric. It's safer to walk in a big group anyway, we're going to be attacked anyway so it's better to be together to have a bigger advantage against the challenges. I'll send some students to watch over the wall in shifts, and you'd better rest for a while today, as tomorrow will be a difficult day."