After going back to my tent and having a bad night's sleep for obvious reasons, I really couldn't help but feel heavy or remember the wonderful feeling I had 'enjoying' Hilda's glass, but the main reason for my difficulty sleeping. I was the promise of our possible meeting in case we managed to get to a place that was minimally clean and not surrounded by several hundred other people like your tent is.
As the sun rises in the sky a new day begins and it's only a few hours before the examiners will announce how the next phase of the test will take place and its rules, I'm more interested in finding out what kind of group I'm part of and who will be my new group mates.
But before the examiners make their statement the mood at camp is pretty heavy so I won't be an idiot to show my face in the face of a handful of dispirited students and probably a huge amount of anger and resentment that I'm not performing well. on the test I must be ready to burst into pure violence, as my presence can be a trigger to eat epic sized bar brawls among the students, I'll be eating beef jerky hidden inside my tent during the morning relaxing and enjoying the last mementos of peace and silence that I will have.
Even though I'm almost praying to any god who can help me to have a good team I'm absolutely sure that even if I have a good team a new wave of problems will come with them and match the challenges that the test gives us. I'm sure that at some point my new colleagues and I will fight I just hope that nobody ends up dying or seriously injured because of this kind of inevitable problem.
Time went by faster than I would have liked just after lunchtime that by the sounds I heard I was extremely 'excited' a bell rang waking me from my lovely comfy cheap bed and time to go and face my new problems, but i think i will call them teammates and not problems, i think some of them might end up taking offense.
I made my way to the mission center because that was where one of the examiners would give his speech today, on my way I found that three teams of idiots started fighting over lunch because whatever stupid reason and two unlucky students ended up with serious injuries, one of them ended up losing an arm because I wasn't fast enough to dodge an elemental blade from one of the idiots I was fighting.
It looks like they didn't even need my presence to start fighting each other that ended up affecting several other innocent students. What a bunch of predictable idiots.
As I saw no reason to hide my identity anymore, I was very close to the examiner to hear his speech, it didn't take long for some friends to position themselves close to me and Hilda already threw her arms over my shoulders, she rested her chin on my shoulder.
"Good morning. You disappeared, where were you?"
"Resting. I have a strange feeling that the last few hours were the last opportunity to rest peacefully."
"I thought you would come visit me at my tent."
"Was I welcome?"
I don't even have to look back to know that Hilda's pretty face must have a wild smile with a hint of mischief.
"Why wouldn't you be welcome? Did you do something wrong?"
I won't fall into that trap even if I don't know exactly what your plan is.
"The examiner will start his speech."
I could feel Hilda puffing out her cheeks in a cute way because I avoided falling into her trap, I was tempted to turn around to see her face, but the examiner really started his speech now.
The water element wizard who was in the tent with Medri yesterday appears to be responsible for communicating the new rules of the test to the students.
"I think all of you are very happy with the end of the first wave of missions in this test phase, you hear many students who performed great doing the simple missions that we made available to you, but one of your students performed so well that we resolved speed up the testing schedule as it seems the missions weren't too easy."
Lying son of a bitch, the bastard actually blamed me in front of all the students just so they wouldn't focus their anger on the examiners who were already planning since the beginning to screw the students up with this part of the test.
"But let's not waste our time with the past, all of you must be very excited to do real missions across the realm and maybe even beyond, but to be eligible for this type of mission your group needs to perform well. some simpler quests first."
"The new groups were not organized to be just a team of novices to do missions, among the groups formed we can classify them into two simple types, the first type of group is a specialized group that has unique characteristics to do special missions and the according to the default group. The standard type groups are not something new for you, it is formed by attackers, defenders and a tracker, while the specialized groups can have a formation with very different numbers of members than normal and some of them can have a simple characteristic that all the Team members have very high direct combat ability, speed, terrain modifying abilities and numerous other characteristics that can be very useful to carry out difficult missions."
"My explanation might be pretty vague because I don't want to spoil the surprise you'll feel when you meet your team members, so let's get right to that part. Each of you will receive a ticket with a color and two numbers, the black number on the card and its color will be used to demonstrate which group you are part of, the second white number represents where you should go to meet with your group, a map of the aria surrounding the camp divided into several numbered zones has just been placed on the quest board which will be empty until tomorrow morning, you must use the aria assigned to your group to train, get to know your new teammates better or anything else you want to do. I advise you all to spend your time in a very constructive way and prepare yourself because tomorrow the points race will start again."
With that a sea and students who had gathered here were attacked by a white wave of killer papers, I think I even heard one of the students moaning in pain because one of the killer papers hit his eye when the papers attacked us, My role was a black plane that actually tried to hit one of my eyes but I managed to intercept it and surprisingly the paper turned my skin as I held the little paper plane, this thing is really sharp I think the student who got hit in the eye might have stayed blind because of that role.
"What is your group, Ulric?"
I look at the paper I unfolded to see the contents of it, it looks like my team is black team three and the zone I have to go is thirteen. For some reason I felt like I didn't have much luck with the numbers or color of my paper.
"Black team three, what about you?"
Hilda, who had stopped leaning on me to defend herself from the killer paper of eyes, hugged me even harder when holding a black paper.
"We are on the same team!"
"Really?"
But instead of getting an answer I get Hilda's lips on mine; I love it when she does that. I move Hilda who's been burning my back to my front and take the crumpled paper she's holding just to confirm we're on the same team.
"We're really on the same team, I think I'll have Medri to thank when I meet him again."
"Do you think he did this?"
"Darling the chance that this happened without anyone's interference and very small, I'm absolutely sure Medri has made both of us on the same team, I just hope that by doing that he doesn't upset the balance of the team."
"Why would it harm? You are not weak enough to pull the other members of Ulric down. I'm going to send a gift basket to the Medri Examiner for being so nice to us."
"We'd better go see where this aria thirteen is and go find our new teammates, do you think our group is going to be big or small?"
"I have no idea Ulric, but I believe the team won't be very big probably five or six people, we both have the wind element so maybe our team is a team set up to have good speed, so the ability to march of the team can be one of the strengths of the team, this type of team is very difficult to be big because it is difficult to find so many people who are fast and have enough secondary skills to form a balanced team, I think I only saw a defending warrior once. that was fast."
"That would be an interesting team to be a part of, but I doubt that's it. I think the chances of falling into a standard team are far more likely."
"The garbage teams? You're a good tracker and I'm a strong striker, fast and with skills to weaken my enemies, not like the two of us stay on one of the junk teams we're going to be one of the elite teams."
"A standard team is not a trash Hilda team, it's just a team that has a balanced formation that is used a lot, and that's because this formation time works well, Hilda."
"Okay, but I still prefer to be part of a special team, I think the missions available to these groups can be more fun."
And so, the two of us passed through a crowd of students and after finding out where aria thirteen was we went there.