The day before the missions were published a rank of the top 100 students was posted on the wall in the center of the camp, these 100 students were chosen using test scores and examiners' opinions. As an example, my knowledge of runes was not tested during the tests, but as I have it on my record, I received extra points from the examiners.
But not everything on student files can be considered true it's easy to lie, but it's obvious that the examiners demanded proof of abilities that the students didn't have to do because my skills and knowledge about runes was already proven in the previous phase of the deadly test. My placement in the top hundred students was forty-two to my surprise, I didn't think it would be that high not that I doubted my abilities, but I'm still in the early gray core stage when I break through to the intermediate stage my placement goes up. for the top fifty.
I think that next week my rank could go up to close to thirty, but that will only happen after my advancement and the results of my missions, each mission will give the group points to exchange for resources, but it will also give points to raise the Student Rank This kind of point will be divided evenly by the number of group participants who perform the quests, so I decided to have a very small group and do as many quick and easy quests as possible to raise my rank quickly or keep it more. less in the same place.
The other students should have their own strategies on how to increase their rank so that they have more of an advantage towards the end of this test phase, we haven't been infamous yet what kind of an advantage the students who had the highest rank will have, but I doubt it's bad have a high rank. Hilda and Ingredi were below fifty, to be precise Hilda is in position sixty-one and Ingredi in position fifty-three have knowledge of runes and something that gives a good number of points, because in their battle capacity they are very similar taking into account that one is a mage and the other a warrior.
But the two weren't the only ones I looked up on the list, I was very interested to know what position Caliban would be and Flora who is considered the strongest mage at the institute in the southern region. Caliban is in position forty-six and Flora is in position thirty-one. She stands out even when compared to the capital's mages, but I don't know if Caliban's aura weaponry affected her grade in a positive or negative way, but I'm sure the examiners took the fact that he has this kind of artifact. to determine your rank.
After reading the rest of the list I saw some names I know like Vali the wind element mage, Sindri, Zen, Soran, Nole, Rys and Amael. There must be some elf names from the southern part of the realm that I don't recognize in the rank, but from the complaints I've heard from the students who came from the western region that has the lowest number of students in the rank I have a pretty good idea how many names came from. from each region, they were very angry because there are only eleven students from their region and they all have a number greater than eighty, so it is quite natural that they are so angry when the examiners say that their best students are the weakest geniuses in all. the kingdom, but if they want to have a better result they simply have to train more.
Obviously, the west region students have a little better than the west region, but their number is seventeen so they don't even have twenty percent of the students that are considered geniuses. The rest of the seventy-two positions were divided into students from the southern region and the capital of the kingdom, we managed to fill thirty-two rank positions and the rest was filled by the students from the capital which has the most vacancies in the rank.
When this number was calculated I was quite surprised with this result. I had already noticed that the difference in quality of most students from southern aria of the kingdom was slightly lower than students from the capital, but I was still quite surprised that the difference between the numbers of students from the capital and the southern region was so small. The master must be laughing like crazy when she gets this news, she will love to rub it in the face of many people who annoyed her because of the institute bills and those idiots who say their teaching methods are too violent and deadly.
But after a day the student fuss ended because we all had to focus on something more important, the missions.
With quite a number of quests posted on the wall in the center of the camp a race to get the quests has begun, the groups that have been formed before have already started to pick the quest they believe is best for them, while the other students who have not. Teams formed still analyzed the missions to try to figure out what seriously the best size for their group, so they can do missions that they think will earn more points in a short time. It's silly to take a difficult mission that will give you a large number of points, but to complete it you will have to spend several days to complete it, finding the balance between difficulty, number of party members and time spent on missions to be efficient it is very difficult and complicated and, in the end, it is simply a speculation of the students, only after doing the missions in person can you know how dangerous this forest is.
On the quest board I found a very large variety of quests and after reading a good part of them as they disappeared because they were already picked up by some student who might end up regretting it a lot, I was overwhelmed by the wide variety of quests and I'm sure that many of them were created by the interference of the examiners or of some team that specializes in doing this sort of thing.
I'm sure of that because there's no way a forest can have plants and mines of so many varieties naturally, missions that have as objective materials of various elements and varied rarities. The forest soil and its elemental energy is not able to naturally create a mineral with the element fire and at the same time create miners and plants that have a large amount of elemental energy from the element water or wind, earth, lightning, ice and probably others elements because to several names I don't recognize.
I think I'm going to have to do some good research on these material names that I don't know about, but the problem is where I'm going to find this information. In the list of items, we can buy with points to various arts or skills manuals like wielding your sword correctly or a more specialized fighting style, but not even a subject book and obviously not a library in my forest so i have no idea where I'm going to get the information about the subjects i don't know since in the quests there isn't even a description of the subjects besides your name.
This should be part of the difficulty of the quests, but for me it might not be a big problem most students to be able to find this kind of material have to know it to be able to locate them in my forest, but I can just find it. your auras and bring any material that stands out in the forest and deliver it to the counter. I won't get as many points because I didn't sin the mission before delivering the material, but I think this can be a great source of income.
I think I'm going to try to find a quest that takes me through a large forest aria in order to find a lot of rare resources, because if I just leave the camp without having picked up a quest and come back with a wide variety of different resources I'll call the examiners' attention, but if I'm doing a quest that makes me run through the entire forest and more likely I'll find different subjects after all I'm a tracker warriors, maybe even gain the expertise in resource gathering and that will make my rank increase.
It's the mission I'm going to get is recognition of four difficulty stars, there's only one star left for it if it's a mission of maximum difficulty, to complete it I'll have to plant a magic tool in several different points of the forest it must have the purpose to test the ability of infiltration into enemy territory and the ability of reconnaissance of students, but the problem of taking this mission that is too dangerous for me to do it alone I will need a team.
But that's another problem I have to solve now, what kind of team do I have to assemble to be able to do this complicated mission? The most common formations are not very interesting because I have to stay hidden and move quickly through the forest so it makes it difficult to carry a mage or shield fighters, whichever is very large and has little mobility is a bigger problem than an advantage when facing the animals and magical beasts that live in the forest.
As I made my way to take the mission that most students are avoiding to get close to it, I came up with a very silly and unique idea, but if I succeed this mission is going to be a lot of fun. I think I will put together a very unique team that should surprise all examiners, now I have to convince two old battle mates that my insane idea is going to be the key for the three of us to climb the ranks.