After my meeting with the master's cousin which was a shocking surprise to me, the master didn't tell me anything about her family and from the way the mage Medri started the conversation they might not be enemies but they are not on very friendly terms either.
But in the end, he was still nice enough to warn me to stay away from the incomparable genius Liam, and I hope to be able to do that during the next phase of the test, but unfortunately it will depend a lot on the person who is placed in the lead of the team.
Tomorrow the provisional teams assembled by the examiners will be formed and a new wave of missions will appear on the mission board and also hear some rumors that there would be challenges to test the teams in several unusual ways.
I made my way to Hilda's tent, but luckily Amael's tent is right next to her so I think it is a good idea to stop by to tell him about my meeting with Medri and the other water magician who I was terribly angry
As I made my way to Amael's tent discreetly and watching the students who were too prey I didn't even find a stalker, I hope to keep myself hidden for a long period of time because getting into trouble and fights with other students now will only hurt me. , despite Medri's telling me that he won't let an examiner use his authority to screw with me, the chance that I end up on the team with some student who hates me or that I got into a fight over the sudden acceleration of the test I got. coupon is pretty loud, and I can only blame my shitty luck for that.
As I approach the tent, I can see Amael's mana and elemental energy, it looks like he's doing maintenance on his armor and staff which doesn't particularly need much because he doesn't use it as a club after all, but as a mage of close combat your healing armor always ends up damaging slightly and to keep its hide in good condition it's always good to clean and use repairing oil on the magical beast hide.
Entering silently Amael doesn't notice my presence until I sit on the side of the tent noisily. Amael turns quickly towards me with her staff being powered by her mana.
"What the fuck are you doing?! I could have hurled a fireball at you right now."
"In my current situation, the less attention I draw the better, the same goes for you so you'd better follow my example. I came to tell you about my meeting with the examiners, it was quite different from what I expected."
"What happened? Have you at least figured out the reason our quest has become a five-star rated quest?"
"Yes, the reason for that is because they changed the last guardian, the magical beast we killed was a sxest and that is the cause of the change from four stars to five stars."
"Sxest! Isn't that a legendary monster? How do we kill a sxest?"
"Not the need to scream Amael, to be exact the sxest we faced I was modified to be weaker if it was a normal sxest she would not have died so easily, she would have made her way out of tune and we would have had to fight her directly from the outside, even if she was still weak, it would have been a very difficult fight for the three."
"Our mission turned into a kind of experiment to test the modified sxest, but with such an anticlimactic and stupid ending that the sxest we killed had, obviously these episodes had a very negative effect on the opinion of the people involved in the project, due to a failure of instinct the modified sxest it basically drained itself to death to give birth to more offspring that died in the hole from the smoke."
"Is this going to cause problems for us?"
"Not much else is nice to be away from Liam Vastri he might test a little irritated with our performance, but the focus of my conversation with the examiner is that we're going to get a lot of extra points for killing sxest and getting a weird gift, but unfortunately he is going to his family and only after this testing phase is over will we be able to receive this reward."
"Is Liam Vastri not one of the capital's incomparable geniuses?"
"Yes, he's a direct relative of some of the researchers who modified sxest, he might be irritated by our great success over sxest, but his family or others involved in this project wouldn't go against us, they wouldn't stoop so low to attack young people like us, so you don't need to worry about being targeted by them."
"But it's still pretty shocking to know that we kill a legendary creature like a sxest even though it's one of the weakest examples of its kind, I've only read a few things about them in history books, but I'm not ashamed to admit that I still have Afraid to imagine the power the swarm queen had, she slew a ridiculously high number of warriors and mages with her swarm and several legendary figures were slain by the queen's blades when the heroes of that time slew her. The writer of the book may have tried to make the fight a legendary event, but I can't get carried away with this story of a team of heroes killing an evil monster, the description of the swarm gave me nightmares for a long time when I was a kid."
"So sxest was used for a heroic tale? I have never read or seen a book that mentioned sxest in the institute library, but I also focused on studying practical things and not fantasy stories or maybe I had read about sxest. But now I understand a little more why a bunch of idiots came up with the idiotic idea of playing around and modifying a sxest, they probably see it as an element of fantastical stories since they've only heard a swarm queen a long time ago and the chroniclers did your story turns into a tale of heroics and fantasy, but none of this affects our current reality we were used to test a failed experiment and we killed it earning a good reward, I don't think we should worry about the possibility of the kingdom continuing these experiments, it's not up to we decide that kind of thing."
"I see, I didn't think we would get in so much trouble or get involved in something like a sxest, but I'm glad nothing serious has happened or is going to happen to us and we should focus on the present and not the bullshit they're doing. Do you have any idea what kind of reward will be sent to our families?"
"It's probably some very rare and high-level material that should very compatible with our fighting style and elements, this is the kind of item that best fits the given discretion of valuable, useful, custom and that we can't use now and then it must be sent to our families."
"It makes a lot of sense and it's great news for us, as many weapons or armor sets need a very special and valuable core component to make, if we're given the hardest material to find to make epic-level gear or legendary that we can only sweat a part of their power and really a very valuable reward for the kingdom to give us, it's almost a little strange that they give something so valuable like that normally these types of people try to avoid this kind of expense especially when a war is on For starters, these subjects always have many uses and being a component for a mighty weapon for the realm or for a large rune matrix, I thought the realm would be storing this kind of material now instead of giving it to students like us who might end up dying at the beginning of the war or even before it."
Amael is quite right with his analysis, but the items we are getting is a small drop in a huge bowl that is being filled, it may be a precious and shiny drop, but for the realm it is still a ridiculously small number of resources that they must have already gathered a significant amount to use during the next war.
"This is a realm problem we should focus on getting stronger so we can survive the war as we're going to have to do some pretty dangerous missions for us before the war breaks out and at the beginning of it, in the end our combat power shouldn't help us as much as surviving it may be more effective to pray to a god not to encounter a high-level fighter or mage from the enemy realm in the middle of your missions. I'm on my way, if you need something, text me and I plan to stay in Hilda's tent because mine might be under surveillance and I don't want to pick a fight with several students because I might end up having to team up with them later."
"Okay, I'll also avoid picking fights and you can leave it to me to tell Vali about your meeting and the examiners' rewards."
I make my way to Hilda's tent only to find it empty, she must be focused on doing missions to try and gain one last boost to raise her rank.
So, I am going to rest here, I take off my gear to maintain it and then I crawl into bed for a bit of sleep, I have a bad feeling I might still run into problems before the teams are formed.