" You've been teleported to North America "
A personnel came into the room and said.
Slightly surprised, because of the time, the teleportation took Leo stood up and left the room following employees lead. Leo threw a glance towards a blue-eyed girl who stood up as well and followed them.
They were led to another room which had three chairs and one of them was occupied by a man wearing what looked like a military uniform.
" Take a seat "
A man said before starting talking about the Base and things surrounding it.
It turns out that this man's name was Colin, he was a soldier and one of the personnel responsible for giving information about North America to students from various academies. Colin explained that Leo and the girl are at the Astrum Base or else called [ Starter Base ]. He briefly told them about the forest surrounding the Base and its ecosystem. Student's are meant to hunt only the 1 Rank Beasts. The strongest being in the forest is a Monster Rank beast, but it has a lair to the North, so if one is careful it's easily avoidable. Colin also mentioned that there are various undiscovered treasures and places inside the forest. After telling them everything that should be known about the forest he assigned a room for each of them for the upcoming week and let them go.
Throwing one last glance towards the girl Leo took off to his room. While unlocking the door Leo felt a gaze on his back. He instantly tensed up, but feeling that the gaze didn't carry any malice or killing intent, he relaxed a bit. Slowly turning back he saw cyan color hair disappearing behind the door before his room.
Lost in his thoughts Leo entered his room and saw a humble 3 room apartment with Bathroom, kitchen and bedroom. After checking all the rooms he exercised before showering and making himself a meal. After doing his usual routine he locked the apartment door and left for the forest.
Astrum base was a huge construction which looked more like a castle than a modern building. There were a lot of huge halls, corridors and towers. After a good 5 minute walk Leo left the base's area and saw a huge forest. The forest was covered in almost tangible fog. Entering the fog Leo felt that mana density in the forest was at least 1.5 times higher than in base or academy.
Walking deeper in the forest Leo heard various roars and sounds which made a shiver run down his spine. After some time walking Leo came across a clear area and saw two beasts fighting each other. Leo felt that both beasts were 1 Rank Magical Beasts by the Aura they released.
Both beasts looked like wolves, but had different fur colors. One of the beasts had a black fur which seemed to devour light and the other had beautiful golden fur which reflected light.
They both were injured and looked to be evenly matched, but after a few minutes of fighting both beasts' bodies were covered in deep wounds. None of them had any intentions of backing down. Finally after half an hour a golden wolf was defeated. The other wolf who bled profusely also fell.
Leo, who spectated the whole fight, slowly crept out of the bushes and approached both wolves. After making sure both of them were dead, he carefully collected their teeth and ran away from the area. He knew that the sounds of the fight and blood will attract other beasts, hence quickly moved out of the vicinity.
After running a bit and happy with his progress he put the teeth into the Inventory to check his mission progress.
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Missions:
Starter Mission:
1. Awaken Mana and evolve to Awakener Rank [ Completed ] ✔️
2. Travel to the Outer region Of North America ( Current Magical Beast territory ) using a Teleport provided by the academy. [ Completed ] ✔️
3. Kill 20 or more predatory beasts and store 1 tooth from each beast in the inventory. If a student is caught with more than 1 tooth from the same beast, he'll automatically fail and his score will be 0. [ Beast teeth - 2/20 ]
4. Your achievements will be graded on the first day in class.
Failure Penalty [ Expand ] ⬇️
Reward [ Expand ] ⬇️
Time Limit:
6 Days 06 Hours 23 Minutes 04 Seconds
Students must be in the classroom when the time limit runs out.
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Leo still had more than six days to collect 20 teeth, but he was aiming much higher - he wanted to at least double the amount of teeth one has to collect. At first his goal was much higher, but after a lot of thinking he didn't want to be the first one and receive too much attention, it's enough to have one of the rarest affinities in his arsenal. Little does Leo know even collecting 10 teeth is commendable.
Today Leo planned to collect 5 more teeth and retire home. He again carefully stood up and started roaming around the forest searching for easy prey. He spent a few hours not finding anything and finally decided to follow one of the roars in the distance.
Roarrr....
A roar resounded to his right. Leo took out the black daggers out of his Inventory and started slowly walking towards the sound. After a few minutes walk he saw a Magical Beast looking like a turtle chasing after some rabbits. Usually turtles have teeth, but this one had a lot of them. They were all shaped like nails and were yellow in color.
Leo hid in the bushes and waited for the turtle to chase one of the rabbits towards him. A few minutes passed and finally a rabbit started hopping his way. When the rabbit was near him he threw one of his daggers and the rabbit and dashed towards the turtle. The rabbit died instantly and Leo's eyes turned joyful, because of an easy victory, but the turtle had other plans. Before Leo could strike its neck it tucked its whole head inside the shell making Leo badly hurt himself by hitting its side.
" Aghhh! "
Leo shouted in pain before making some distance between himself and the beast.