Over time everyone calmed down and covered up, without the distraction that Gloria caused the two excited teenagers, between the two Alice recovered first and it wasn't hard to see that she was very embarrassed about how she reacted during the episode.
That was a pretty drastic change, Alice seemed to be very open and excited, but now that she's embarrassed, she's been a lot quieter. Hope she gets back to normal later.
"Well, since we all know each other know I think we can finally discuss what we're going to do during the next test. I think our team's type is clear to everyone or is there someone who hasn't noticed yet?"
Hilda and Gloria seem to have no problem with my initiative to start the discussion, Alice seems a little confused by my statement and Zephyr is stoic, he's been keeping that face since Gloria wore her armor looks like he's normally like that or that's a facade he put up because he's embarrassed like Alice.
"Could you explain to me what kind of team we are? I think I missed some information here."
Before I could answer her, Gloria took the initiative to explain it to Alice.
"We all have a common element, Alice; this means that our team was formed with the intention of being a team with great movement capabilities. Considering our size, which is considered small for a military unit, we can easily travel across kingdom territory and invade neighboring kingdoms without drawing too much attention."
"Glory that's right, but even though the wind element is something we share, the combination with the other elements and abilities that gives our group its greatest characteristic which is the ability to track and eliminate targets in a stealthy way. Its shadow element and my tracking skills allow us to do the elimination missions without major problems."
"But I can at most hide a small area with my shadow element, hide an entire formation and it's a little difficult for me to do especially in the open field, even at night and it's pretty hard to hide lots of people."
"Alone yes, but we can always resort to the aid of magic tools from the shadow element or those who can improve their abilities, Alice. If we went in an economic direction, we can use the concealment type ferment which needs to be recharged by the shadow element in a short period of time, this can drain some of its elemental energy, but it is the easiest solution to get around the lack of concealment capacity of several people you have Alice."
Hilda and Zephyrus seem to like my idea of focusing on elimination missions, but Gloria isn't that excited. Alice is still processing what I said, I think ward doesn't have a lot of confidence in using her shadow element so probably she hasn't trained very much in this type of use or she has bad experience.
"I think it's a mistake to focus on just one type of mission, our group may have a good background to do this type of mission, but that doesn't mean we don't have the ability to do another type of mission, our biggest advantage is still our mobility and I think we should research what kind of missions that require traveling a long way, they should be worth a lot of points and we can take more than one mission to do them on the way to accumulate more points."
Gloria may have come up with a good idea for a bad reason, as she only did it to try and claim more political capital to become the team leader. Not that there's anything wrong with doing this, I'm doing the same, but she made a mistake with her strategy.
"That's a good strategy, but there's a small problem with it Gloria. We will only be able to deliver the side quests when we complete the main quest which should take a long time, during which time another group may have completed and turned in the quests we took with the side quests, we may run out of quest rewards and have wasted the effort and time that we spend on missions that we won't be able to deliver."
"But that might not happen Ulric, we don't know if more than one team can take the same mission, if each mission disappears after being taken, my strategy can reduce the missions that other teams can take."
Gloria has already raised the tone of her voice, she was irritated when I exposed the flaw in her strategy, but I didn't even need to defend myself now because Zephyrus made a great contribution to my cause.
"This test is a competition after all Gloria, even though the examiners said that the missions only belong to one team I wouldn't be shocked to find out they lied, resource missions or killing animals and magic beasts can be done in different places and being posted more than once with different text and we wouldn't even notice."
"I think it's very dangerous to think that this competition was fair, the examiners have already backed off with their words when they advanced this part of the test, even without knowing Ulric well I'm sure he was only used as a decoy by the examiners so that a good grip on students don't think too much about them changing their exam dates. During the previous batch of quests, I have seen more than one discrepancy which indicates that the examiners tampered with the content of the quests after they were picked up by the students."
"We cannot trust the words of the examiners."
I couldn't have explained better those examiners are unreliable. It seems that my team was not the only one used for experiments or some of the examiners were just left in order to make life a little difficult for the students.
"Zephyrus is right and thank you for not thinking it's my fault that the test time has decreased, including the reason I completed a mission with five-star difficulty and why the examiners decided to change the last enemy my team had to kill, with a stronger enemy than the original the rating went from four to five stars and they used that as an excuse to distract students from the fact that they are unreliable."
Hilda is tired of standing still so she decided to change the direction of the conversation.
"I don't think it's too bad to be discussing the minutiae of the rules that we still don't know, they just told us that tomorrow there will be new missions and not what new rules they will make because the missions are no longer just here in the forest. Maybe we should get to know each other better and maybe even train a little, and when I say get to know each other better I don't mean to get to know each other's bodies but rather our elemental and aura abilities."
The animated bunny returned to function normally.
"I agree with Hilda! I have two elements as you all know and my main weapon and spear just like Hilda but my style is a little different and I don't have a movement with her like the ice storm Hilda used before but I'm very good at ambushes with my silent spear."
"I also use a whip with my shadow element to tie my enemies down because my shadows have great elasticity and toughness, but it doesn't have a corrosive property. My wind element is most used for movement and flashy piercing attacks when compared to a silent black spear."
Interesting that the two attackers on the team have restrictive abilities, but the advantage of this is that one of them affects more the inside of the target's body and the second is more focused on tying the enemy's body with black ropes. A combination of the two even a strong level three magical beast can be completely subdued.
"I think the next one will be me since the other two warriors on the team don't need a lot of words, I unlike you guys only have one element. Unlike most other friends of the wind element, I don't focus on offensive spells but defensive and supportive spells, I still have the ability to do decent offensive spells, but that's not my focus so I hope you don't expect me to contribute too much. with direct spells like a wind blade."
"I believe that because our shield warrior is quite offensive, I will be able to complete our defense with my wind shields and wind barriers, but I believe my biggest contribution to the team is my support aria spells thanks to the very rare attribute that my elemental energy has, I can sustain and use aria spells with a lower amount of mana and elemental energy and without getting so tired."
"The spells I have the most proficiency are three, the first and the Speed Charm that I can use the entire team to speed up all of us and it can easily join the wind element that you usually already use to speed up, the second magic and the isolating barrier, it serves as both a sound and a smell barrier and it is also invisible and a great stealth magic, but a tracker can figure it out but it's not so easy as they can only track us using their floor tracking skills."
"My last main spell is the tornado that I believe everyone here will love it, I basically create a big air current that drains the wind element from the region and concentrates it in a small aria, I'm basically able to create a big aria concentration of the wind element which can strengthen spells and skills and elemental arts of the wind element, but it also serves to weaken other elements by taking out the fire element which can also be strengthened, but it depends on the fire element user if he is not competent he can end up getting weaker than stronger if I decide to make his life difficult"
With these two introductions I know a lot more about the combat capabilities of the last two team members. During the rest of the afternoon, Hilda and Gloria and I also explained our combat skills in detail, even though they've both done a good demo before and it's good to hear the skill owner's explanation rather than just relying on their perceptual abilities.
I not only focused on my physical and elemental skills, I also told them about my skills and studies about runes, materials and my survival skills. Gloria wasn't the least bit happy when I said that in addition to my tracking skills, I was also a good hunter of natural treasures.
And so, we ended up getting to know each other better and I believe I have a great chance to be the leader of the team, Gloria hasn't given up yet, but I feel like I'm the favorite candidate for the job.