The headmistress is really a person who kept her word, but I didn't expect to get a warning message from her anytime soon, when the black paper caught fire, I turned to Sindri who was standing next to me and looking at me with a shit face. It looks like he's seeing a wave of shit coming his way, and he's absolutely correct the elves are coming and our group is slightly injured and most of the students have already expended more than half their energy.
The bull may not have been able to seriously injure even a student, but he did more than enough to diminish our group's survivability, with the imminent threat of the elves who probably arrived here shortly, we have to decide what will be our plan to face the new threat. I walk over to Sindri who is still a little sad and starting to get annoyed.
"The elves are coming and probably with them the rest of the students will also come here, even though I think this last group is coming here more to see what will happen than to actually hunt us down. Students without a team are unlikely to become a problem for us in the long run, but the elves will be the majority of warriors and mages have already spent a good part of their energy fighting the bull by now."
"We're going back to the fort, but we must leave a sign saying we went there. This will allow us to buy some time in case the idiot elves get confused by the sign."
This is going to be a fun thing to watch, but it's a shame I won't be able to do it.
"Then let's take refuge in the fort, it's not a bad option, Sindri. But I'm still afraid that the fort intimidates the elves and they don't really attack, to make sure they attack we have to give the impression that our troops are really wounded, now around us the scene shows that there's a big battle but still not enough, to encourage the elves to attack the fort immediately."
"Serious? We have several grid craters, uprooted trees and burnt soil. All that's missing is the remains of a few students to set up a bloody battlefield, how can we make it look like in this matrix there's an even more terrible fight than we had?"
"I'm going to ask them to create some crooked mounds of earth, maybe with some bits missing and a big crater to finish. I don't think you can do much more than that, the lava won't last long and creating a river doesn't make sense, maybe throwing the rest of the broken and damaged weapons near the crater."
"I don't see how this adds much to the matrix's current appearance, Ulric. The terrain here is already all damaged, your changes don't add much besides making the end of the battle a little different, and when I say different the explosion of the bull would have been bigger."
"I think it makes a lot of difference; the elves will find the battle much more exhausting for us if the terrain is messier. I will ask the earth mages for help while you lead the warriors to the fort, Sindri."
I started running towards the wizards who were already gathering towards us, they weren't happy with my request at all, but in the end, they still obeyed and it only took about ten minutes to make the changes I asked for. When they were done and I with the help of a few more warriors we threw the damaged weapons around the crater finishing the landscape montage, as Sindri said before the landscape wasn't much different, but the climate the environment was now was still devastating. bigger.
After I led the last students through the portal, I could see that the mana and energy from the barrier was being moved not only away from our portal, but also seeing several small waves coming towards our portal from all sides of the matrix, it seems that we finished just in time, if we took a little longer the students without a group or the elves could have arrived while we were still clearing the ground. As we approached the fort, I could see that most of the warriors had already received some basic form of treatment for burns and broken bones, but they were looking almost like mummies on top of the fort wall.
I know they want to make the warriors look even more hurt than they are, but they overreacted a little this time. The bandaged warriors look like they've just got out of bed in an infirmary after having their bodies completely burned or broken.
The fort seems occupied by warriors who must be at the end of their useful life by now, but this is not the time for me to criticize the work of others, now it's better to focus on getting the mages inside so they can rest and regain some. of uses mana before the next battle starts.
After everyone was inside the fort, I joined Sindri, Vonin and Vanessa who were on top of the wall waiting for portals to open in the rune matrix.
"How is the preparation of the mummies students. Did we have a lot of injuries or did the students only burn superficially when struck by lightning?"
"Most of the warriors are fine, but there were still a few who cracked a few bones and only one idiot who broke his leg. The idiot broke his leg falling while he was running from the lightning blast, the garbage can't even get away right."
Vonin looks my way while pointing to his burned beard with a sad look.
"The damn lightning has burned a lot of my beard and hair, it's going to take a while for my beard to get regular again. I'm going to find out who was controlling that golem and get even with him for it, my first beard was destroyed by this monster, I look like a dwarf beggar with this beard full of holes."
"Be quiet you melodramatic dwarf, your beard will grow back. I love my hair and I'm not complaining that I lost an inch of my beautiful hair to that bullshit bull."
When Vonin and Vanessa are starting to fight I look at Sindri who is trying not to laugh at Vonin who is all burnt out, but he is having fun with his bad luck because his beard is intact, he must have protected his beard well, no and not a point that it is burned.
"Looks like you didn't take any damage during the Sindri fight."
He starts laughing and stroking his beard.
"I was lucky, my friend. But it looks like I'm not the only one, you don't smell burning either even though you're close to the bull when he exploded."
Before I could respond to Sindri's comment a portal started to open in the matrix. It's whoever is passing through the portal is coming from the matrix that we fought with the lightning bull, I hope it's students and not the elves.
Even though I'm far away I can still clearly see the characteristics of the group that just passed through the portal, to my surprise it wasn't the elves but a small group of students, four warriors, three of them human and the last one being a member of the turtle tribe. This is the first time I see someone from this tribe, their tribe is quite small so it's hard to see them, this is the first time I see one of them.
"It looks like we're in luck, there are students without a group arriving now. Hope more of these small groups will come towards the fort before the elves arrive, among them there is a turtle, you know these warriors I have never met a member of this tribe, but I have read that they are great defensive warriors of the water and earth element."
"This warrior from the turtle tribe is called Taka, even though I am against reinforcing stereotypes he is one of the best shield warriors of the water element in our level. He was very unlucky not to make a team, so we have a good chance of convincing him to join us."
"Well, the fact that he's a shield warrior I don't think can be considered reinforcing the stereotype. As far as I know his tribe's warriors have a much denser body, and have a covering of scales that serve as supplementary equipment for them and able to withstand the work of a defensive warrior well, I believe this is simply them using the strengths of their unique constitutions."
"I still think it's stereotype, just because their bodies have some characteristics that make the shield warrior profession easier doesn't mean they aren't good for other types of warriors."
"Okay, but just don't say it to his face."