Nico's group splitted into two groups to traverse more ground, with their combat prowess even with only five people in a group, the outer perimeter won't pose much of a problem.
The group's that were decided before they split, group one, Nico, Mei, Summin, Mika and Judy.
Group two, Sam, Sei, Sai, Damian and Yuki.
They bolted through the dense forestry while carefully scouting the surroundings for beasts and any material that can be exchanged for points.
With Nico's slow speed, he's forced to use his skills to keep up with his group, [Lightning Acceleration] sparks and bolts of lightning swirling around his feet reaching up to his knees.
From the sudden burst of speed Nico almost stumbled but regained his footing before tripping, 'That would have been embarrassing.' Nico said while he chuckled.
'Why did I have to reincarnate in a weak body, this is too frustrating...' Nico complained with a frown on his face.
Because of the skill every step he took created small sparks on the ground that ruptured the grass and the soil.
He who was previously lagging behind barely able to keep up now he's eighty percent faster then before.
[+1 Agility]
[+1 Agility]
[+1 Agility]
While casually sprinting Nico was able to enhance his agility by one point, it may not be much but it once it accumulates it can have a big impact.
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From continued movement they halted before scouting the surroundings to detect any hostilities, realising it was safe they found a good spot to sit down and rest.
On a tree branch Nico was checking the list of items that can be exchanged for points.
Before the combat exam had started yesterday, each student was sent a mail of the list of possible items to be exchanged for points and that included monster cores, herbs, materials, and consumables like fresh fruits and vegetables.
No matter how small each item can be exchanged it would never be ignored by Nico, like a kid picking out new toys Nico was climbing the tree like a monkey and hurriedly cleaned the whole tree of it's fruits placing them on his storage ring.
"Now this is what you call fun." Hopping from tree to tree he happily grabbed everything he could.
Bang... Shake...
"Earthquake?" Nico thought, a moment later the tree he was on slowly tipped to the side collapsing to the ground, before the tree had slammed the ground Nico instinctively hopped over to another tree.
The loud bang echoed through the nearby area which easily alerted Nico and his teammates.
Everyone's attention was on the cause of the noise, it was because of a moose.
A large moose easily double the height of a normal adult human, long and pointy antlers that could easily pierce through heavy tier two armor, it's antlers had a silver colour that shone a white light.
Nico had recognised the moose as 'Iron Plated Moose' named iron plated it signifies that it's skin is not ordinary and is very sturdy, in addition to being considered high quality tier two.
[Lightning Burst] Engulfing Nico's spear are beautiful blue lightning bolts swirling around it like a moth draw to a fire, jumping down from the tree he pointed his spear downward aiming for the moose's head.
His descent appeared as if lighting itself was descending to strike the earth, a meter above the moose Nico held his spear with both hands before slamming the spear's head on the moose's head, 'Don't disturb me while I'm cleary having fun!' Nico said in a angered tone, his brows furrowed and teeth clenched while having a big grin on his face.
Not noticing the incoming attack it was a free hit, upon impact a small dust cloud engulfed both the moose and Nico.
"Wow..." The four were stunned, eyes widened jaw dropped, they had never seen a side of Nico like this, always the reserved type and always tries to avoids combat as much as possible.
Mika was the most stunned out of the four, her eyes sparkled with a big smile on her face, like a fan girl cheering for her idol.
"Is the moose or my spear the problem? Or maybe I'm the problem..." With a clean shot to the head one would expect a clean blow but with Nico's weak mana amount he could barely scratch the moose.
With a fully charged hit on the head the moose had only received a small crack on the skull with blood seeping out of it.
"Eh..." The four were even more stunned, they had expected the fight to be over before they could even start fighting but once the dust cloud had disappeared the sight of Nico's spear barely damaging the moose even with how powerful his strike was.
"My attack looked so good but this is all it could do? Disappointing indeed ha..." In a serious situation like this Nico still couldn't help but giggle at the outcome, his cousins also couldn't help but laugh.
Nico was on top of the moose riding it like a horse, with all the strength he had left he pulled out his spear which was stuck on the moose's head.
"Huh..." Without realising it Nico was already in the air and was being thrown in the air, the moose was enrage and was in berserk mode.
Berserk mode is a mode all beasts are capable of transforming into when enraged or when are about to die in a confrontation
Beasts due to their lower intelligence compared to humans were capable of turning berserk which is something only unique to beasts, humans have yet to acquire this skill and everyday they strive to learn this ability for their own personal use.
With the speed he was thrown it would be a very tough landing, ahead of him were very large trees with wood as hard as steel, crashing in to them would be akin to crashing towards a brick wall, even twice that.
He braced himself, both his legs and arms protecting his front torso while he enhanced his body's bones, muscles and flesh with mana to minimise the damage he would have to suffer.
Meters away from a very thick tree branch he clenched his teeth, what he expected to be feel a second later was unbearable pain but he felt warmth.
While being hurled like a ball mid air he was caught by Mika, "Oh... Thank you." realising Mika had caught him preventing his crash towards the trees he smiled at her making her blush lightly, he couldn't express how grateful he was not to crash onto a tree branch as strong or even stronger than steel.
After landing Mika had let Nico go and he stood upright, "I think it's a high quality tier two!" Summin said in a serious tone, a high quality tier two beast was no laughing matter, even for Mika with her tier three physical combat index and tier three mana amount index scores would have to go all out on this one, but this one is in berserk mode.
"I'll tank it while you guys surround it and attack it's vulnerable areas." Mei commanded, the four didn't hesitate and quickly followed the command and swiftly surrounded the moose in all corners.