Grey woke up at time that gave him enough time to get freshened up, he knew once the war started he might not get the chance to do that. After he was done with that he put on his military mage combat uniform.
When compared with his normal uniform this one was made from magical creature parts, making it very strong and resistant. Bon and Grey left their room at the same time when they were done with their preparation, they went to the place that was decided upon yesterday.
As they were going to the meeting place, the military camp was already awake with many people going around to have exercises. They even saw other mages who had arrived yesterday from other military mage academies.
They did not take a long time to find the place they were looking for. There, they found 1st Lt Percival Elrod waiting alone. As the commanding officer, Percival felt it was important to arrive much earlier than his subordinates.
"Good morning Meyer, Gram."
""Good morning Sir.""
Grey and Bon greeted him together at the same time, there were no words spoken between the three males after that short greeting. Two minutes afterwards the duo of Ilse and Sharon joined the three males.
"Good morning Sir."
Greeted Ilse.
"Good morning Louis, Mountain."
"Sir you can call us by our names."
Sharon asked, it seemed that she did not like being called by her surname, she could not be blamed. The people who named her were just too evil to give her a surname like 'Mountain'.
For a pretty girl like Sharon to be called 'Mountain' is a slight on this pretty girl.
1st Lt Elrod was slightly awkward when realising that their surnames were just too bad for girls, though he did not agree to their request, his silence was enough of an answer.
Realising that their request failed, the two girls went back to their conversation as they waited for the rest of their squad, they did not greet Grey and Bon, the four people only just glanced at each other. Makes you wonder what type of relationship they have.
After the two girls arrived, 2nd Lt June Marion arrived with a wide smile on her face a few minutes later.
"Good morning recruits. Hey Percival where are the rest?"
"The appointed time for our meeting has not reached."
Percival said with some annoyance when looking at June's smug face, yesternight they had bet whether the civilian recruits would arrive before June's arrival. They were more sure about the recruits from the military academies as they were like them and had had the same training. Thus Percival had hoped that the civilians would arrive before June.
'This 2nd Lt feels like as a trouble maker, she is even calling the 1st Lt by name in front of us.'
These were the thoughts of the four recruits looking at the exchange between the two lieutenants.
The civilian recruits arrived a few minutes later with Ross coming first, Alice and Grant came together and the last one to arrive was Sheryl, she only had 2 minutes before she could be considered late.
The smug face on June's face was more obvious, which made Percival very annoyed.
"Good morning everyone, thank you for arriving on time. We will first do an introduction before we start the activities of today."
The recruits all had neutral looks as they listened.
"I will go first, I am Percival Elrod and I can use the elements of Earth, Water/Ice and Wind."
'It seems that he only wants our magic elements to be known by the rest of the team members.'
Thought Grey as he looked at Percival introducing his magic elements, before anyone could introduce themselves, Percival gave June a look.
"Ah… I am June Marion and I can use the elements of Light, Fire and Lighting."
'A full destruction combination holder huh?'
Grey thought to himself as he looked at June, the elements of Fire and Lighting when added together with either Darkness or Light, was called full destruction combination. Because those elements were just mostly focused on offensive power.
"I am Sharon Mountain and I can use the elements of Light, Water/Ice and Earth."
Sharon introduced herself first because she was called first during the assembly yesterday, thus she felt there would be no problem with that.
'She could have been a wood magic user if she had a life special affinity.'
Thought Ross as he looked at the pretty girl introducing herself.
"I am Bon Meyer and I can use the elements of Water/Ice, Fire and Darkness."
"I am Grey Gram and I can use the elements of Wind, Light and Fire."
"I am Ilse Louis and I can use the elements of Wind, Earth and Water/Ice."
The military academy recruits introduced themselves, then it was the turn of the civilian recruits.
"I am Alice Whitlock and I can use the elements of Wind, Lighting and Fire. I am from the Whitlock noble family. The matriarch of our family is my grandaunt…"
"Recruit Whitlock we just wanted to know your name and your elements, you can stop."
June put a brake on Alice's introduction with smug look on her face that seemed to taunt Alice.
"Yes... Mam."
The girl said through gritted teeth, the girl wanted to start using her family to influence the other recruits as it usually happened with noble scions. Alice was a pretty girl who had black hair with green eyes with a height of 1.6 metres.
In the outside world, when she used the name of her family many people would try to make her happy. The Whitlock noble family was a big family that had the ability to buy her magic crystals allowing her to reach tier 1 at an age of 13.
The currently 14 years old Alice was just used to such a life where noble mages were at the top and highly respected.
The military academy recruits looked at her weirdly as they thought of her behavior, but the civilian recruits were used to such behavior having seen it any times.
Cough…
Percival tried to release the awkward moment by having a cough.
"You may continue recruits."
"I am Sheryl Katz and I can use the elements of Water/Ice, Earth and Wind."
Sheryl did not make the same mistake as Alice, the girl had auburn hair and grey eyes. The girl was average in terms of looks but she had a graceful disposition and a good personality that countered her average looks.
The girl was from a merchant family that had spent a lot of money to send her to an academy to learn magic, the girl was currently 16 years old and had reached tier 1 at the age of 15, the ability to buy magic crystals was not something a merchant family could do.
"I am Ross Nordeck and I can use the elements of Darkness, Wind and Lighting."
Ross was a male from humble beginnings, his family had gotten a large debt in order to send him to an academy to learn magic. The young man had chosen to get recruited in order to deal with the family debt, the 16 year old had a serious disposition because of the weight of responsibility.
The disposition made this blond haired, blue eyed fellow more handsome, with a height of 1.7 metres, he had a lot of male charm. Being a normal citizen did not give him a chance to use magic crystals to get to tier 1 much faster.
"I am Grant Hart and I can use the elements of Earth, Lighting and Water/Ice."
Grant was a male who had average looks with his brown hair and hazel coloured eyes, however the fact that he was from a noble family gave him a stable disposition.
The 15 year old had a straight posture with his 1.72 metres height, the Hart noble family might be small when compared to the Whitlock but that did not prevent them to get a quota of magic crystals. Grant had become a tier 1 by the time he was 14 years old through the use of a small amount of magic crystals.
The introductions of the full team was over and Percival breathed out a sigh.
"Good, now that is over. I want to know your capability on magic combat, to do that I will split the team in two and have a team spar. I will lead one team and 2nd Lt Marion will lead the other…"
"I will lead the military recruits."
June completely interrupted Percival and took command of all the military academy recruits, Percival had wanted the teams to mix and start to have some team work going.
"I will lead the civilian recruits then. After the first spar is done the teams will be reshuffled though."
That annoyed June, it makes you wonder why she dislikes the civilian recruits.
"During the spar we will only use underpowered tier 1 spells that can have low lethality."
"But cause a lot of pain."
Commented June with an evil face.
There was a look of surprise on the faces of the civilian recruits when they heard about the pain. However that was something that military academy recruits normally did, like when Grey was sparring with Scarlet and Miranda.
"We will have the spar in the forest at the back of the camp, my team will start on the east whilst 2nd Lt Marion's team will start on the west."
1st Lt Elrod went on to explain the rest of the rules.
"Civilian recruits, you can follow me to our starting point."
Ordered Percival as his side went away to discuss a strategy and tactics, this left the military academy recruits with June.
"Okay, the strategy is very simple, I will keep Percival busy whilst you completely destroy the rest of their team."
2nd Lt June Marion ordered her team with a serious look on her face.
Grey and the rest looked at her with looks of incomprehensibility, but that did not mean they did not understood their orders. June just had a lot of confidence when it came to the military such that no other strategy was necessary for her to completely destroy the civilian recruits.
'The civilian recruits might have Percival as their leader, however from my observation they don't have much experience in combat.'
June thought as she observed the forested area they were in.
'This person might look like a simpleton, but she is a critical thinker.'
Grey thought to himself as he run through the possible ways the battle could progress.