At this moment I am sitting on a rock in my forest near the camp with my arms around the waist of Hilda who is sitting in front of me leaning her chest against me. We were both the first of our group to arrive here to my surprise, we actually came calmly to aria thirteen, but when we arrived, I didn't see anyone here yet.
"Why is the rest of the group taking so long to arrive, Ulric? Shouldn't they have come directly here after the examiner's speech?"
"Perhaps they opted to wait after that idiot wizard's speech to avoid having to squeeze in to figure out where the aria they were supposed to go or they might be wasting their time preparing to meet their new mates."
"I think you may be right, but that just means to me that their personality is not good, someone who has to spend so much time getting ready to meet new people, just tells me that this person is weak or insecure."
"But it can also mean that they are forward thinking rather than impulsive people, there are many explanations for why the other team members are taking so long to arrive and each of them can have a positive or negative interpretation of that member's personality. of the team, but I don't think we vamoose going to be alone for long. A warrior is approaching us."
"What else do you know about him?"
"I don't know him how am I going to know anything about him?"
Hilda looked directly into my eyes and started talking very softly just so I would be able to hear her.
"Don't play dumb Ulric, I know damn well you can tell what stage his core is at and what element he has, I won't ask how exactly you can figure this out when they're so far away, because of course you don't want to talk about it, so I'll just put it in your tracker skills even though it's unusual, but I hope you don't lie or hide information about other people from me, especially enemies that kind of information can save our lives during missions."
This is difficult but I can't treat Hilda like I would treat other temporary members; she is very important to me and already knows about many of my secrets even if I haven't explained them to her and as far as I know and hope she didn't tell to learn more about my different skills. The problem is to do this without others having the possibility of causing problems for me in the future.
"I'm not going to lie to you and I'm not going to hide information about other people especially if they're Hilda's enemies, but we need to be careful that others don't find out or I could get in a lot of trouble."
"Thanks, so who's coming?"
"A warrior in the middle stage of the gray core and he has an elemental seed of the wind and earth element, from the way his aura is flowing through his body I can tell he is quite a warrior, but he is not heavy. I think you can be right about our team being set up to be highly mobile."
Happiness overflowed Hilda's face; she was really happy with me now.
"Nice, I didn't think you could say so much about someone who is still far away from us, but now I'm curious what you can say about me when you didn't know me yet."
"I could tell you were a beautiful, intelligent woman who is more concerned with killing her enemy than taking care of your hair during a fight."
"If you weren't my boyfriend I'd hit you for that comment, you make it sound like I don't take care of my appearance and I'm a careless person or that I'm a savage who only thinks about killing."
Before I could answer Hilda, our new colleague arrived and I can already see two more people approaching us.
The warrior who has just arrived is actually quite a big woman, she is a muscular rider, she is not a giant, but she is slightly taller than Hilda and I who are a little above average height among our peers.
The best word to describe her would be big, but not big enough to be a giantess.
She is equipped with thick leather armor, in some parts of her I see she must have an addition of a layer of metal hidden under the leather, the high-quality armor covers almost her entire body, this must be level armor. three manufactured by a very competent artisan.
The medium sized round shield she carries on her back and sword at her waist has the same level and quality as her armor and style.
A pretty complete set and in the same style, it looks like she has plenty of money to spend on custom gear for simple tier three runes like this she must be from a very wealthy family in the kingdom's capital.
the amazon
"Hello, I'm Gloria Lura, I'm a student at the royal school for wizards and warriors in the capital of the kingdom. I hope we're friends and we can work well together, but I must warn you that I can't tolerate being part of a team with weak and unwilling people."
I think she and Hilda will be friends, it seems that Gloria is a very direct person who only respects competent people.
"Hi, I'm Hilda Menfis and this idiot after me and my boyfriend Ulric Fenris. I believe we'll be good friends Gloria because I also have the same opinion as you about incompetent people."
Now I have two crazy girls with wild smiles on their faces, if I hadn't been holding Hilda now, I think the two could already be 'training' to get to know each other better. Gloria drew her sword which had an emerald blade, seems to be an alloy between metal and crystal that I've never seen before, with a shield on her left arm and her sword on the right side and an even wilder smile on her face she comes towards Hilda is already pulling away from my arms, but I pull her back.
"How about we train a little to get to know each other better, Hilda?"
"Hey let me go. Gloria and I are going to train a little now."
But when I don't let go of Hilda's waist, a frown appears on her face, even Gloria doesn't look too happy about my interference.
"I think you two could hold back for a few minutes, you'll have plenty of time to get to know each other later."
Neither one of them is happy with me now, Hilda is about to punch me in the face she just hasn't done it now because she knows I wouldn't restrict her actions for no good reason, but I can still see how much she wants to punch me now.
But Gloria doesn't know me and she's pretty unhappy with me right now, maybe she'll even change her training target for me, just for a chance to teach me a lesson in not messing with her life.
"Who do you think you are to boss me around? You are not the leader of this team."
It seems like she wants to be the team leader which is quite natural, basically most of the students who are still on the test have a very strong spirit to bow their heads to another person their age that they don't know, without not a good reason.
Apart from the famous figures from the camp who can easily take over the leadership of a team, groups will have several conflicts until one of their members is able to take the lead. Gloria is ready to fight with the rest of the group to conquer the leadership of our team.
"I think you're misunderstanding my intentions, Gloria. I have no intention of stopping you from fighting each other, but I think you might want to wait a few minutes to do that."
The two were curious.
"Why?
"The other team members are almost there, unfortunately they are coming very calmly here so they walk will take a few minutes to arrive. Mai, I thought you two would like to meet them before you start fighting as your training can take a long time."
Neither of the two were too happy, but it looks like they'll wait a while to meet the new group members before fighting.
"Okay, but you can let go of me now and next time you do that you'll need a better reason or I'll train with you first."
Hilda slowed down and picked up her spear that rested beside us, just as she caught a cold breath coming out of the spear. She's ready to fight Gloria, but the two just stared at each other as they waited for the rest of the team to arrive.
This should be a good image for when the new members arrive, two members huddled together with weapons ready to fight and a clear battle intent coursing through the air.
"How about we get to know each other better instead of having a staring contest?"
But the only response I got was silence as they were both completely focused on their opponent.