During the rest of the week the three of us were focused on completing the mission that proved to be much more complicated and difficult than we all expected, it's no wonder that aside from the incomparable geniuses that both set up groups together or with other elites in the capital were the only have the courage to take a mission with the difficulty of four stars.
The two five-star missions remain immobile on the quest board, if a four-star mission already involves strong and complicated level three enemies the five-star mission basically promises an enemy with the power of level four or very close to it and that is something quite complicated because the gap between level three and four is much larger than level one to three.
During the week my team managed to plant seven magic tools in all, now only the last one is left for the mission to be complete, but this is not our only way to get points, in fact we've achieved such a large number of points so far in the team ranks mine is at position twelve, and we haven't turned in a single mission so far.
If we completed the mission today our rank would probably go up to fifth or fourth place, and that gave me a big chance to get to the top five in the rank because it's only three days before the end of this mission round.
With the sale of a few rarer materials, I'm sure we can have a very good result, but very unfortunately I can't repeat the move that gave us more points the charred wood filled with the element of life itself proved to be extremely valuable to the examiners. The wood has achieved a strange preservation ability, it is not only keeping the life element within its body easily, it can be used to store other types of elemental energy, so this wood has become a premium material for making canning boxes. or magic tools that have to hold large amounts of elemental energy.
Examiners may be trying to keep a poker face when analyzing wood, but I'm sure they've already sold this information and this type of tree must be being sought after by several people who must be very excited to dip trees in lava. If they are successful my team may have spread a new method to harvest precious resources and perhaps, we are also responsible for the extinction of this type of tree.
But the tree was the last guardian to die easily the other five that we killed were much more complicated, in more than one fight he heard people injured, Vali was almost torn apart by the claws of a tiger that had the shadow element and lightning in its core the bastard tried to ambush us more with my warning everyone was ready to defend themselves, but when the tiger attacked him like a lightning storm, he was like a giant lightning bolt at high speed aiming at Vali, only a few inches to Vali being hit directly by the claws from the tiger, but it was still close enough that Vali's robed armor was ripped to shreds and her chest suffered four flat cuts.
More to reward Vali we let him have the tiger's claws that hurt him, they were tempered by the element of thunder and are worth a great deal of points to Vali.
I was the most injured during the fights, I ended up having my arm broken twice and a few more broken bones, fighting with tier three magical beasts is not something easy. I was frozen, burned by lightning, cut by wind blades, hit by a wild boar that looked like a miniature mountain when it invested in my forest devastating everything in its path, it had a very tree-like ending, more when the tree toppled into lava the wild boar dove into it without hesitating a bit.
But that damn boar's defense was so high that we had to make him dive into lava three times to get his lungs burned with the lava, we were lucky this boar was too dumb to keep falling for the same trick over and over again.
The worst so far was the ice monkey, he was fast, smart and a big coward who avoided fighting head-on. If we didn't have the advantage of mobility and large amount of fire to attack it, I think the monkey would have escaped us and we trained to leave this place as the last one because if we planted the tool without killing the monkey, I'm absolutely sure it would destroy the magic tool.
But after vali I managed to seriously injure one of the monkey's legs, he ended up turning into a roasted monkey, which was a big mistake, his fur would have earned us a lot of points, I was a great waste, we managed to gain almost no points with that one's body. Damn monkey, but he was protecting a fruit tree that still had a dozen valuable fruits.
Examiners must have used this tree to keep the monkey trapped in that woodland aria, the fruit that goes by the name of golden grapes or grapes of vitality is extremely valuable even if its properties do not influence one's cultivation much. Eating this fruit provides a momentary vitality for any living being, this fruit is extremely popular for women who are willing to consume it or for alchemists who turn it into a cream for the nobles to use on their bodies.
This fruit is basically a main ingredient to rejuvenate the skin of nobles in various realms, but that is not the only effect of the fruit if a person consumes it regularly, its healing properties accumulate in that person's body and are able to heal some old wounds. as well as promoting better health for an orange core fighter or mage, but the more powerful a person is, the more of this fruit he or she will have to consume for the healing properties to work.
For all these factors, this fruit has become a very valuable commodity and the demand for it is always high, even though we only got a few of them because the monkey had already consumed a good part of the fruit that this tree had. We still got a good number of points to split, but it's a shame that this tree won't be able to give even one more fruit before the end of the test, it might need another four months to be able to give another fruit crop.
But after facing several guardians and getting a fortune of points for each of us, which is reflected in our rank that hasn't dropped despite the fact that we haven't turned in a single mission so far and has gone up. My rank which is the highest in the group is already almost in the top thirty which is a great position considering that many people in the top thirty because one of the incomparable geniuses is carrying them to the top of the ranks.
The challenge ahead of us must be the worst we will face during this test, during the fights against the last two guardians I have felt being watched by someone, and as this person is so fucking far away from us, I'm sure it's not a student and yes one of the examiners. And because of that I'm sure the examiners are modifying the last guardian so that it becomes harder to kill.
And this is not a big surprise, during the week there were several students who noticed that the examiners have made their lives difficult, but of course apart from them complaining to other students they didn't do it because that would be useless or would only motivate the examiners to make the missions of them even more difficult. Hilda has suffered at the hand of one of the examiners who loves to attract more animals and magical beasts to the place that Hilda's hunting party is finishing up, there was a day when Hilda had to fight six waves of beasts after killing her targets.
She is irritated to a deadly level because of this, because of the examiner's actions Hilda's team can only do two missions that whole day and this causes her group member rank to drop. They usually manage to finish more than five missions a day and this is showing a very efficient strategy to rise in rank, most of Hilda's team members have experienced a nice increase in the ranks of their students.
I got together with my teammates and talked to them about my suspicions about the last guardian we'll face today, we'll spend a good part of the day traveling to the final location and we'll have to spend the night in the forest again which is already fine. common for us and after spending several nights in the forest we found that this is a very calm forest at night
Apart from a few nocturnal predators you are not in very great danger in the forest at night which is pretty weird. Generally, forest is very dangerous at night and they are very busy.
But in the end neither one of us had a clue about how to prepare for the ultimate guardian who must be strengthened by the examiners, or maybe he's gained some little friends to keep him company.
So, knowing we're heading into a trap set specially to screw with us, our journey to the last mission location began and to show that luck is on our side it started to rain the moment we left the camp.