As we started to make our way through the forest, I felt three different pairs of eyes watching us leave the camp, this is something that bothers me a lot and it is very unpleasant to be watched by other people. But unfortunately, there's nothing I can do to change that, and to my surprise neither Vali nor Amael felt the examiners' eyes focused on us and when I complained that the examiners are annoying for watching us all the time Amael told me something that caught me off guard.
I know I pretend to be a tracker type even though I technically am one, but I was pretty shocked when Amael told me that feeling a person who is much more powerful and skillful than you've been watching isn't normal for trackers, but he has one. uncle who has the same talent. I was pretty surprised by that, but considering that with so many different talents than stars in the sky, it's normal to have talents that you don't realize it's talent until someone points out that it's abnormal.
When we made our way through the forest, we avoided most of the confrontations and stopped just so I could pick up some expensive resources so we didn't waste a lot of time traveling, the sun was still shining in the sky as we started to get closer to the last aria of ours. mission.
I figured we'd spend a few more hours and only get to that spot in the woods when the sun has started to set, with this sudden time savings I think it's possible that we don't need to spend the night in the woods. If we kill quickly and without sustaining even a serious wound the last guardian, we can arrive at the camp only a few hours after dark.
As we approached the final location the animals and magical beasts disappeared and a strange silence engulfed the forest, but this is strangely comforting now it's basically an announcement of what's going to happen routine is always comforting and makes me feel like I'm going to survive again, the only place that was an exception to this phenomenon of silence was caused by that damn noisy monkey that was drumming in the trees all the time.
We went to face the guardian and after a few meters a light came on behind my back, trying to cover us with the light from the magic tool because this thing became annoying, but unfortunately a cloth or even the backpack that the magic tools came from is able to prevent let the red light go out.
What's most surprising to me is that neither one of the guardians seems to be able to see the light of the magic tool and I'm really curious how they do it, but I'm the only one even though Amael and Vali are mages they focus a lot on the practical part of their spells rather than academic arias. I was quite surprised when they admitted that they barely studied enough runes to identify the runes on their staffs or even something simpler like the nature of mana which is a basic material for all mages.
These two should have awakened a core of fighters rather than mages, their mindset should be of great help in mastering aura.
With the red light intensifying as a signal that we are approaching the final location I focused on finding our last enemy and to my surprise he still hasn't appeared, but I could see a blur of motion at the edge of my field of vision. It looks like the enemy this time is not a very large magical beast which is a bad sign when combined with his frenzied nature.
At the end of my vision, I see a distortion running back and forth, up and down the trees. It's going to be a boring fight.
"Looks like we're going to hunt down an enemy fast. Let's use the usual strategy, Amael be careful not to be attacked while Vali and I surround the magical beast."
After traveling a few more meters I notice that the more than one distortion moving through the forest, the closer we get to our enemies the more I can see that our enemy is quite different this time.
First of all, it's not one enemy but several, I can see at least five enemies moving through the forest. They seem to be completely crazy, one of them was even running around in circles, what's wrong with them?"
Their bodies are full of mana that move chaotically without even a pattern, denouncing that they are not golems or monsters, but I could only detect a very small amount of elemental energy to be exact some of them carry the element wind or shadow, neither one of them has two elements and this is the first time I've seen a magical animal with such a small amount of elemental energy, I've seen several magic tools that have more elemental energy than them and by the amount of mana their bodies have I would put that they are strong level two magical beasts.
But I have no idea what kind of magical beast they are, I don't remember even a magical beast that has that kind of characteristic.
When we got very close to our enemies they stopped moving frantically through the forest and started running in a straight line that pointed directly at the red light that is glowing at my back. Why does the last enemy have to be so different?
"They are coming, many enemies! Amael set up a defense for us to use as a barrier so we don't get attacked from all sides, these things are fast."
A thorny stone wall arched in front of us and another one appeared three feet away from our back, they are circular and not straight. This shape helps keep us from being attacked by projects, and as a trap for idiots who think it's easier to climb a curved wall, her thorns aren't ornaments.
Finally, we can see the appearance of our enemies, they were humanoid in the sense that they had two front legs that resembled arms with claws like a werewolf that were quite different from the hind legs that have a hoof that resembled a goat.
Their fur was dark and their heads were well deformed like that of a werewolf but without a long snout, but some of them were a little reddish and the number of enemies had stopped increasing, as in addition to the five beasts that are attacking us now more three of them are approaching from afar and one of these has the glow of the fire element inside its body instead of the wind or shadow element.
The mini goat werewolves didn't scale the walls with thorns but skirt them and veer fearlessly through the defenseless aria, but on one side Vali had already prepared a shower of wind blades and on the other I was ready to impale two of these idiots with my blades.
The five magical beasts died without causing a problem for us, Vali cut the three that attacked from her side and I nailed the two that came from my side in the ground, they are very weak and light I didn't even feel resistance when I pierced them, even though I was using aura and my elemental wind energy so that my blows had good piercing force, but I didn't expect it to be so easy to kill them, this garbage died very easily.
There's something wrong here.
I look at my teammates to see if they've noticed anything wrong or know these enemies.
"I don't know this magical beast, do any of you have any idea what these things are?"
"No."
"Aren't they too weak?"
When I was about to answer Vali's question, I saw the bodies of the two monsters I had killed dissolve in a black wind and fly in the direction they came, when I looked at Vali, I saw that the three shredded bodies that were in front of him had fallen apart. turned into a black wind too.
Two wind currents spiraled into the forest as three other beasts were almost upon us, my concentration broken as Vali made the dumbest statement he could make right now.
"They weren't dead? I've never heard of a magical beast that is capable of turning black wind!"
It seems that this guardian is much weirder and more unique than I expected, the examiners must have put a real effort into making things difficult for us today.
"Let's move forward, try not to waste too much mana I unfortunately think we'll have to kill these monsters many times before we can finish this mission."
I led the charge against the three beasts coming towards us, Vali and Amael will follow me very closely our formation was very close to concentrate our firepower in a straight line, I feel the only way to end these magical beasts at once and discovering where that black wind ended up.
The three magical beasts that came directly at us released various elemental designs from their mouths, they literally spit out two concentrated wind balls and a concentrated fireball. These projects were quite small because they were not only concentrated but had little elemental energy in them the only advantage of that is that these projects were faster than basic spells and level two, but for some reason I felt that these attacks barely have the power. of a level two spell are the most powerful weapon of these beasts, i can even see an image of a small army of them firing their blows at the same time.
Amael fired three fireballs with a power slightly greater than the magical beasts that were hit by Vali's three wind blades, from the combination of six basic spells three extremely fast projects were launched by my team.
The attack of the magical beasts was nullified when coming into contact with the cooperative magic of Vali and Amael did, the three blades of wind and fire pierced the three magical beasts that had enough time to dodge the attacks, they didn't even try to dodge.
The shattered glass of the magical beasts didn't even hit the ground before turning into a black wind that rushed into the forest, but in addition to the black wind that moved into the forest there were eight of these magical beasts coming towards us.
At this point I would much rather face a level three magic beast than an army of level two magic beasts.