" Students please come forward and take your badges, remember if you face any difficulty that you cannot face you are allowed to back down, the ranking will be of course affected but nothing is more important than your life."
From the expressions on the faces of the demons, Damien could see that these demons would rather die than back down. He turned to look at the tall young demons who were rolling their shoulders and preparing themselves to go on the hunt as they planned.
With just one glance he could see that he was the most average build demon aka human here, even the weak demon who handed him the chips was taller than him.
" Lynch, I will be able to win this right? The treasure is a wonderful one right?" He asked the treasure-hunting demon that was sitting upright now that he knew that there was a treasure that he needed to hunt.
" The treasure is really powerful, if you collect it, you will be able to win this hunt easily," Lynch replied as he looked in a particular direction where the treasure was, seeing him respond in such a confident manner, even Damien was really confident which was why when the line that was moving forward started to get thinner minute by minute, he did not feel as anxious as he did as he was in the morning.
As Damien approached the end of the line, he saw that the teachers were actually handing weapons to everyone as they walked inside the forest.
The teacher who was in charge of noting down the name would ask something about the demons who were standing in the front and then he would turn to look at the hooded figure that was standing next to him and then to Damien's surprise, the man would just lift a scrape of metal from the heap of metal that was lying next to him and then curve that small scrape into such a manner that it will form a weapon, which he will later on hand to the demon who was walking inside the forest.
" Next!" The teacher who was noting down the name looked up from his list and then turned to look at the next demon who was standing three persons in front of Damien.
The thing on which the teacher was noting down the names was flying in front of the teacher and it had a glass plate as a notepad that allowed the teacher to note the name of every demon. Soon, it was Damien's turn and by now he knew what the teacher was asking the other demons because he has heard him ask the demon in front of him.
" So what is your best ability?" He asked him with a gruff voice as he looked up from the thing that looked like a modern tablet.
Damien thought about it carefully before he answered, " I am rather good at aiming things." He was not good with close-range combat but when he was working for the underworld people, he learned how to use a gun and that thing came in handy for him a lot of times.
"I see," the teacher nodded as he nodded his name and other things that he has told him and then turned to look at the man who was dressed in a hood, the man nodded and then picked up the scrape of metal from his side and then went ahead to make a weapon as he had done for everyone else but as soon as he tried to curve the metal into a bow, something weird happened.
The metal that was listening to his master's will very obediently a few minutes ago suddenly became rebellious and ended up exploding because of the amount of heat the man was applying to the metal.
Seeing this happen both the teacher and the man were shocked they looked at the piece of metal that has exploded. The teacher turned to look at the man who was in charge of making weapons and frowned, " What are you doing, Broody? Why did you make such a novice-like mistake?"
The man named Broody looked like he was just as confused by the sudden explosion and said in a wronged voice, " This has never happened to me before! It's such a unique experience for me, Jellal. Do you think I would do something like this while making a weapon? This is just an accident."
But even as he spoke, he eyed Damien with a shrewd pair of eyes and Damien's breath hitched in his throat.
He forgot that he was a human and as a human, he could not get along with the elements of the demon world, was this the reason why this man named Broody was not able to make a weapon for him? Because he was not compatible with this world? That was always a possibility.
" Go ahead and make the weapon again." Jellal waved his hand with an impatient expression on his face as he turned to look in the front, already asking the students who were behind Damien her name. But no sooner did the student tell her name to Jellal, another explosion took place and then another.
" What the fck!" Broody screamed as he threw the piece of metal on the floor and glared at Damien. " What are you made up of? Why can't I make a weapon for you?"
As he said that he eyed Damien like he was hoping to skin Damien alive and see it for himself.
" What are you getting upset at the student for?" Jellal narrowed his gaze at Broody who was screaming at Damien. "It's you who cannot make a weapon for him and now he has to go with whatever is available, strictly speaking, he should be the one who should be screaming at you!"
He turned to look at Damien and awkwardly smiled before saying, " Do you want me to bring a sword or something of the sort? We have a lot of those."
Damien who wanted to leave as soon as possible lest he was dragged by the demon who couldn't make a weapon as an experiment object, hurriedly nodded, anything to get away from here.