On the last day of our trip everyone was very excited, even Ingredi, who tries to maintain a facade of maturity and coolness in front of our fellow travelers, couldn't hide a smile of happiness on her face when the capital appeared on the horizon. My surprise and happiness were not caused by seeing a city because honestly it is very beautiful, but I will never get used to the lack of sanitation in cities, the smell of shit and other garbage spoil any kind of beautiful architecture the capital has, which is basically a lot of gold and silver in buildings and mansions.
The reason to be happy is that the trip ended without our group being attacked which is always a good reason to be happy and that during those days I managed to make good friends with Caliban, which is difficult because and he still thinks I was one of the biggest contributors to his family's last test defeat.
And having your younger cousin Leaf always call me a liar and that I was to blame for defeating the elves in the maze of magic matrices, but I managed to forge a more stable weak friendship with Caliban. What can help me a lot in the future that could end up coming pretty quickly, like tomorrow or next week, to be more exact, might be when the interim groups are formed.
With my new friendship I learned a lot about Caliban's family, like Leaf and his cousin and that the elves aren't as friendly as the artisan who created the Caliban shield. It seems to a third party that served as an intermediary between the artisan and the Eliure family. But that was the only thing I could find out about Caliban's shield, it's useful information but not so useful because I don't know the intermediary's name, but with Ingredi's help we managed to talk about several different people like Flora who surprisingly didn't have it. a mortal hatred for me, she just doesn't like me at all and my presence makes her want to set fire to everything around her, it seems my name is enough to awaken the pyromaniac from within Flora.
But that's not my problem, as long as I stay the hell away from her. Which can be difficult during the test, but I will try my best.
When we got close to the gates of the capital, the caravan made a very sudden change of direction, which inside the carriage we were almost thrown all over the place, but both Caliban and I held the mages who were caught by surprise by the violent movement that was made. When I looked out of the carriage I could see our destination, the several large out-of-town stalls that seem to be our target, but I still find it a little weird if they don't even want us to be in town it's not simpler for them to take us to the camp directly.
It didn't take long for all the students to be dumped in my open field with what little luggage we were allowed to take to camp. But before either one of the students could make a fuss about complaining about the treatment, a wizard approached the group and he was really threatening, even though he was smiling, because people who have the death element are so aggressive?
"Well, I'm really glad you guys got here so quickly and without a problem, it looks like the necromancers are getting lazy. Many of you must be wondering why you are here and not inside the capital; this is because you are going immediately to the training camp and not in time for you to hang around in the capital."
I really have no idea what was going on inside the mind of the idiot who asked the next question, and he became very irrelevant to my life because of that question.
"How long do we have to rest before we go to camp?"
A very dumb student actually had the guts to ask a dumb question to an orange core mage who obviously has a cruel personality, the guy is dressed in an elegant black tunic but gives an impression he's a villain because of the red accents. in it.
"You are very tired from your trip and want to rest?"
"Yes sir."
"Someone takes the kid and take his money and guns, it's thrown him in my slums, let's see how he handles that kind of test."
It didn't take long for the idiot to have his face rubbed in the mud, and it's only natural that he's trying to flee two more green core warriors have neutralized him and are now carrying him to town, but I don't think he'll get the experience he was hoping for. in capital. But a part of me thinks that was a little false, I don't think among students there would be an idiot at that level.
But with the exit of the student who is making a big fuss asking for mercy, but the guards didn't care a bit about it and the death element wizard is just waiting for the idiot to back away enough for his anguished screams and sadness do not hinder your explanation.
"Now that we've got rid of the dead weight let's go on your journey, inside the tent to a matrix that will take you to the secret camp, yes secret. I don't think I need to tell you the reason why the camp location is secret, neither one of you will know the camp location at even a moment of the test, you just went in and out of the camp through headquarters so that the security of the camp. camp is maintained."
"Many of you must be wondering how the camp worked, not the need to be nervous about it. All of you are already used to how the camp works because they are basically the same as the institute you study."
"The various classes available for you to take and missions and testing for you to earn points to get resources or pay for specific lessons with the instructors. Easy, isn't it? It's not even a mystery as to how the camp will function so you can go inside the tent with your luggage and once you arrive at the camp all of its wonders will be available for you to enjoy."
This wizard is really brazened, he's not even trying to lie convincingly. It's obvious that he's beautifying the training camp, taking the idiot who must be thrown into mine from the poor neighborhood of the capital to be robbed and suffer a lot, not another student should be buying that the camp is a quiet and easy place where unicorns live in peace.
And I wouldn't be surprised that this wizard will appear in mine at camp just to show his true face and make every student who has survived the beginning of the test suffer even more. When our group passed the mage who was on the way to the tent, he would look at us as if we were nurturing a lamb going to the slaughter, he really doesn't bother to disguise his amusement at all.
When I looked at Caliban and Ingredi they were both really uncomfortable with the death element wizard's gaze that started to focus in our direction, he's really an annoying person, but better not even give him an excuse to make our camp even more difficult for us.
Upon entering the tent, I saw a really large amount of rune arrays that form a very complicated matrix, it was so complicated that it covers both the ground and up forming a three-dimensional matrix which shows how complicated it is to put such a complicated matrix in a space as small as this.
Only a few people can be teleported at a time, and the trip was pretty uncomfortable. It's surprisingly that I was teleported from one white tent to another white tent that is identical to the first one, the person who set up this teleport matrix and a person who has a good eye for detail, I can't even notice a difference between the tents.
I could only confirm that I was in another place because the landscape outside the tent was no longer a plain where the capital was, but a dense and very humid forest, it took a little while to be a swamp and not a forest and as far as I remember not even a forest with these characteristics near the capital. Looks like we've been teleported to the east or west region of the realm.
But we didn't have much time to appreciate the change of environment, like innocent lambs we followed the orders of the camp instructors. Before I knew it, we were standing in front of a handful of crappy tents and a lot of them already have people living in them, I don't think there are many empty tents and as far as I know we're not the last group to arrive here.
I think we're going to have to fight other students just to have a place to sleep at night, which explains why that death element wizard didn't even bother to lie to us properly. His lies are only intended to get us into the matrix without causing problems for him.