"All right now, please gather up!"
Along with many, I stood midst of them the herd-like students were annoying I wondered if it was because I hadn't fished out atleast one friend yet but that wasn't a concern.
"Please listen carefully! We will now use teleportation to reach the outer woods of the black mountain range, once we are there you are free to explore till the grounds marked by us, in case of danger simply wave your card high in the air and we will be there."
'This is an opportunity...'
This world, not only had humans that can manipulate mana even the animals did so, but unlike us, they store their mana in a solid form which left the formation of mana crystals in their hearts and they are pretty valuable.
'Just how many times I had farmed these monsters to buy tickets and proceed to the next part of the story, only I know sigh...'
"There are 10 camps located in the mountain range, with the 1st being the outermost and the 10th being the inner one, you can go there once you feel like you need a rest. The trip will be of 3 days, and I hope you will gain something from this!"
Once he had finished giving out the instructions all of us were urged to quickly move onto the teleportation circle and guess who appeared before me, "Bryna."
"I had little change of plans, Mr. Soulteraut..."
"All of you brace yourselves, you may have slight dizziness once you reach the other side."
The white trance of lights blocked my vision it was very bright to the extent my body felt like melting however the next second I found myself before the sky soaring with trees all around, with the same number of students from before even Bryna was still there.
"Are you feeling, okay?" I said, "Please hold my hand...I am feeling a little dizzy."
I held her hand and guided her to the huge camp before us and we sat at a location, 'Is the teleportation causing more side effects to women than men? Or is she just putting up on airs and secretly liking me.'
"Hey, don't think about weird stuff, I can see it all on your face."
"Oh, Ms. Bryna are you alright?"
"I am fine, I was just feeling dizzy due to the teleportation magic, you probably wouldn't have felt it, thanks to your huge mana pool."
"Well, you talked about the change of plans."
"Regarding that, we are departing now for work not 8 pm in the evening, let's go!"
"Where to?"
"To finish the job!"
Bryna's hand was instantly equipped with a bow and a bag of arrows on her back, "Why aren't you summoning your weapon!"
"Actually, I don't have one."
It was true, although I made plans to buy a sword or staff before entering the academy I dropped the idea thinking why I would require a weapon inside the academy, "Wait for just a second, I will go to the arsenal room and quickly grab one."
I just sprang up and took 2 steps before halting in my steps due to hearing Bryna's voice once again, "Wait, there!" She threw a sheathed sword at me which I barely catched upon with these fat arms, "Do you think the weapon they provide will be strong enough for our work? Use this for now."
We both exited the camp and started heading deeper for what all I know, Bryna seemed pretty well-versed in the directions of this place and I doubted that this the first she had came here, "Are you familiar around this area?"
"You can say so-watch out!" Bryna shouted as I turned my head around and what had greet me was huge bear like monster but not fully the same, moreover it's head was blazing with fire, "Move Quickly!"
Bryna was fast in loading her arrows in the bow however I know, I will be pretty much dead before she takes the aim and shoots.
"It's now or NEVER!"
SLASH---
The paw of it which was pouncing for me got cut into two and the arm without the latter half spurred blood all over me, 'Ah...blood, did I do the right thing?'
WHOSSH-- WHOOSH--- WHOSH--
Three arows that penetrated the creature head right after other, which made even more blood to lash out and I, who was below the area got a complete red stain on me.
"That was unheard of. I didn't you also learned the swordsmanship."
"I just learnt it to some extent."
"As expected..."
"What?"
"Never mind. You stand guard, I will dug out it's mana crystal as quickly as possible."
"Mhm."
Mardani Khel.
A sword fighting style that I had learned during my previous, I was hesitant whether I could outperform those techniques with this fat body however it went well.
'I never though that, something I had learnt out of curiosity will save my life one day.'
Althogh I was instructed to watch out for monsters my eyes were all on Bryna no, to be precise the dead monster. 'If I assume right, it's the [Fire mountain Bear] Thanfully, they don't live in groups or else it would have been disaster!'
Bryna as said, finished digging out the crystal within some minutes and we continued the way she lead us, along the track there were many monsters to deal with regardless we weren't caught off guard like the earlier one, 'Not to mention her arrows are as fast as lighting.'
"Here we are!"
"What's this...there is nothing but a bamboo forest?"
The forward path was concentrated with bamboo trees and it was difficult to even see what will be in the front, "From now on please supply me with your mana."
"Huh? You mean I should transfer my mana to you directly?"
"Yes."
"No. That's too risky if I went out of control you may die."
"That's my problem, don't worry even if I end up dead you can reach the camp safely I have left marks along the path for you to follow ahead and...my family won't come after you."
Her tone was solmen so did her expression, she knelt down and started to drew something through her arrow and it seemed like I am supposed to provide her with my mana once she runs out of her, then abruptly I had an idea.
"Hey! Let's do it like this, I will supply the mana to the crystal we got from the bear and you can absorb it continuously from the crystal while doing so even if I my mana end up going wild only the crystal will be shattered, what do you say?"
"I won't object a nice plan. Let's proceed with that."
"It's decided then!"
As planned, I supplied her mith my mana and she finished drawing her magic rune around a duration of 2 hours.
"Finally, you had finished."
As I plopped down from all the energy spent something unbelievable unfolded before my eyes, "What's this...why are those bamboos disappearing...?"
"Move along, the main deal starts from now onwards." said the arrow girl, as I stared at her belwildered.