Third week of August, one of Belladona Academy's combat rooms, they were in a training session, they were developing well, they were on their way to being a field mastery and trap team.
– Come on boys, you are working hard so I want to see how you are working as a team, you will have to deal with 500 enemies in hordes of 100, use your trap strategies, be smart. – Said Emiliana that activated the digital controls in the room programming the summon of 100 standard magic opponents for them. - Good luck! –
– 500! We can't handle it. – Gale said amazed.
– It's a matter of strategy, friend, creativity. – Sandy commented.
– Come on girls, we can do it, this is a test to see our wit... Let's start with the epsilon training. – Adam said enthusiastically. – We can even get rid of two hordes. –
– I liked! – Said the girls.
Sandy started the work, she conjured a violent sandstorm that she shaped into a sand current that left the 100 opponents trapped in four areas inside the sandstorm, it looked like a window divided into four, perfect from above. Sandy then capped the storm with an inverted tornado with the fine point up and Gale used the inverted tornado as a megaphone letting out a supersonic scream that intensified better and ended up blasting the magic circuits in the heads of the 100 opponents who were separated into smaller and larger groups. destabilized, apart from those washed away by the sandstorm flow from the walls.
– My part is ready too, girls. – Said Adam I know that while the girls were dealing with the first horde he had prepared a trap around the perimeter of the practice that Emiliana had delimited to be used so that the room could be used by others as well. The traps were almost invisible strewn lines stretched across the "entrances" on the four sides, when opponents bumped into them they would unleash a series of daggers, shurikens and even needles that had explosive magic seals[1].
Said and done, when the second horde arrived they set the traps, they were killed at gunpoint.
– That! – They celebrated the three with a collective high-five.
– Don't celebrate yet, you have three hundred more to take care of. – Emiliana laughed almost sadistic, but she also thought how smart they were with this tactic.
The third horde was coming.
– Leave this one to me… Adam hands me the explosive needles… Sandy makes the sand wall. – Gale said confidently.
– Right! – Said the teammates.
Gale used her super speed to run on the sand wall at the top and from there she threw the explosive needles at the opponents, Adam delivered four reels with a hundred needles each reel, she used two of them to throw with her super speed the needles at the 100 opponents .
– Adam, now! – Gale said that he still didn't stop running.
– We're together! – Said Adam that activates the explosive seals that were under his control and blew up his opponents.
The fourth horde arrived, but the group was already thinking of the next strategy, Gale had mirrored 200 explosive needles in the sand wall.
– Now it's my part! – Said Sandy, Gale had left the wall, so Sandy turned the wall into a sea of sand, taking the 100 opponents on it.
– Now it's up to me. – Adam said that he activated the second group of explosives that were mixed in the sand.
The fifth horde arrived, but Adam already had a plan.
– Are we going to the Zeta formation? – Asked the young mage who seemed to be the most leader among them.
– You can leave it to me… Sandy is already preparing the thorns… Adam, do you already have the thread? – Gale said that he went on top of the one hundred opponents, but not trying to defeat them, she conjured kinds of celestial energy spikes with hoops on the tips, she could throw several of these daggers, she had access to celestial magic, but she still hasn't trained it for extrasensorial and transcendental use, he was still at a more basic level, his speed and voice his main abilities.
Adam then took a special long metal wire, it had "absorbing" properties, it created a link between the thread and the pleats forming strong lines that looked like they were made by magic, Adam pulled with all his strength[2] throwing all 100 opponents into the air.
In the air Sandy threw his sand spears piercing the opponents, it was a very skillful strategy, they were taking turns so that none of them would marry that much, varying who was the main player in the round. It had worked, Emiliana was impressed and thought how much Adam looked like Ava. The three mages were feeling tired, they had tried hard.
– My congratulations, you were very smart, and the tactics training drills were fruitful… You will be very well in time for the triad exam… And Adam, your mother would be proud, you are the leader of the three, you guided the girls well... Gale you are the most stealthy of the team, that's good, it's good for quick strategies and situations of need... Sandy you have a versatile approach, you can be both defensive and attacking. – Emiliana said that she was analyzing their performance.
– I'm honored ma'am! – Said Adam.
– Adam is really a good leader, I know we have to work even harder, I have to improve the celestial magic. – Gale smiled.
– This trap team will be the best… Imagine when we have time to make the traps with time and more elaborate… I like this formation. – Sandy said happily.
– You were a very well formed team, I expect great things from this formation. – Emiliana said that she remembered her time as a student alongside Ava and Aron.
A new team of traps was forming and they were skilled, they were an eclectic group, each member had their own personality, but they knew how to make it work in battle.
[1] These needles with explosives is a celestial creation, they were added to the library, adding new weapons was possible, Adam's family was in the arms business, he had almost endless supplies of these explosive needles.
[2] He had backup magic too, but it was secondary.