Getting to the campsite was easier than I expected, but when we got there, it wasn't as much fun. The students' eyes were filled with jealousy, anger and envy.
I'm used to being popular this way sometimes, but I have to admit that I was uncomfortable with all these looks is when I think it's only going to get worse when word of it gets to the other teams that have gone north, I just get even more so. worried about my colleagues.
I'm not the only one worried about this, Zephyr, Alice and Raziel are very worried about this situation. Their family may be strong in their respective areas, but not one of them wants their family to be harmed because a bunch and spoiled brats from the capital are jealous of them.
Zephyr's family is the least to worry about because their business is quite far from the capital, but Alice and Raziel's families might have a hard time because of these nobles' complaints.
I just hope that Raizel's family's plans to move to the capital aren't jeopardized too much by this.
But those weren't the only bad things that happened after we got back to camp, when we handed the dragon over to the examiners, our illusion of making a lot of money selling the dragon's corpse was shattered. According to the examiner who had a smile that should be on the face of a rogue trader is not on the face of an examiner who must be impartial and must protect students, we were sent on a mission to slay the dragon and collect its body to prove the dragon's death, but that doesn't mean the body is ours.
The body must be that of the person who put the quest on the task board, he said it was the royal family, but it was obvious that the examiners would split the money from the dragon body among themselves as a bonus for a job well done, but he it may be being greedy but it ended up not requiring us to give the materials we collected from the dragon's body before.
If he had demanded the materials we've already taken from the dragon as his heart is the essence, my team would have attacked him right there. It doesn't matter if he's stronger or someone who's working for the royal family has a lot of his friends around.
I would attack him fearlessly, but he said we could keep the material pretending to be magnanimous and the excuse he used was that this was part of the mission's mysterious rewards. When I asked about the core, he said we lost the chance to get it when we delivered the corpse, the greedy examiner stamped the mission scroll and disappeared with the dragon in seconds.
The damn fat and greedy examiner are pretty strong, he grabbed the dragon by the neck and dragged him away alone at an unnatural speed.
At the end of the day, we only had the heart and the essence to make a good amount of money that should be divided into two parts, the claws, tail thorns and the small horns are good materials to sell, but they are not so valuable dividing their value by ten ends up being a common amount of money for all of us.
We were counting on making a big profit by selling the dragon bones, many bones are of great value in the market, but this was stolen by the examiners. I hope there are more rewards for completing this quest than points and materials we already have.
There were still a few days to go before the final day of the test as it was very short time neither my team nor Nótt's had any plans to leave the camp, we decided to focus on resting and healing our team members who are still a little injured. Even though they had been traveling for over a week, Gloria and Bougi still hadn't recovered one hundred percent.
As we basically spent the entire day riding a horse which is exhausting for a body with several cracked bones let's take both of us to the infirmary to have a full recovery and cleanse the skin of Bougi that was burned.
Without the help of the yellow core life element mage both Bougi would still be left with scars where the dragon fire burned her skin and Gloria was healed of any hidden wounds that may have been left on her body.
During these rest days both my team and Nótt's got to know each other better, this was caused by Hilda dragging Skald several times to 'train' as they both use spears and the ice element differently. I think the two made good use of the experience of facing an opponent who has so many points in common, but has a different style.
The rest of the team that accompanied the two to keep the training from getting too violent ended up having plenty of time to talk and in the end many members of our two teams ended up having training duels. I didn't gain much, but I found out how shitty it is to be cursed especially when I was hit by the curse of weakness, pain and nightmare, but I was quite surprised when the curse of blindness and disorientation didn't work well on me.
When the test finally came to an end and the groups were disbanded, we had to wait two more days in the swamp before heading back to the capital because the grades of each team and the grades of each student were being calculated and annexed into a report that will be judged by several people that we are not authorized to know their identities.
They are probably very important people from several different areas. When the result came out, I had a big surprise that my team was in the eighth position of the list, Nótt's team was in the eleventh. The points from this last mission must have been a big help to our ranks, the teams that were in a place above mine were the teams led by one of the incomparable geniuses and teams that managed to complete one of the missions on the blackboard.
To my surprise the teams led by the incomparable geniuses weren't focused on doing the blackboard missions, I was quite confused when I found this out, but the part that didn't surprise me was that the mission to kill the wine kingdom official was not completed by either one of the teams is the necromancer escaped after having killed almost all the members of three teams that tried to hunt him down.
Now the necromancer has a big bounty on his head, he already had a value on his death or capture, but after he killed several nobles that empty parts of the groups that went after him the value on his head was increased when several noble families deposited a large amount of gold in the adventurer's guild as a reward for his death, the value on his head quadrupled during the week.
After the team rankings were out, all the students were sent to the capital and from there they all went to their respective homes, during the way back I noticed that the number of students who were returning to the south had decreased a lot.
I'm upset because I feel like I made a lot of money during the end of the exam, but I'm not carrying any of it. The dragon materials stayed with Nótt, she was in charge of selling them in the capital of the kingdom during the next month and would send each of us part through the temple of wealth that worships the goddess of wealth who by the way owns the auction house that Nótt will sell the dragon's heart and essence.
I thought the auction house in the capital should be from the royal family or one of the strongest noble families in the capital, but it seems that in most kingdoms the main auction house in the capitals is managed by the goddess of wealth devotees, I found that weird why the goddess of wealth must manage money is not to manage business or trade by selling or moving goods.
I feel that the goddess of wealth devotees are exploiting a loophole in their doctrine.
The other source of income I still have with me and it's complicated to sell is the elemental fairy I'm carrying with me; I can't do anything with her until I get back to the south and ask my mistress for help. Asking her to help sell the elemental fairy is my best option so I don't get screwed for having a wealth that doesn't match my strength.
This end of the test was pretty boring, but at the end of the day this atmosphere happened because this is not the real ending. The test will only end when the students who performed well are assigned to teams to 'serve' at the beginning of the war and I will only be happy when I have all the test rewards.
The final test prizes as well as the extra prize I won during the test, it was sent to the master and I hope it will be intact when I get there.