Ice Dark is a level 40 monster, it's spatially chosen by Academy for its Ice attribute why?
Because of the geography of the area where the second part of the exam is held,
the low-level zone is volcanic reason with a few patches of forest,
the high zone is a forest with Lava Rivers passing through it, and dividing it into two separate parts.
And mid-zone which has the highest monster density of all three, is a mountain range with rivers of lava circulating one specific mountain, which doesn't have pick which is covered in greenery but in ice,
The perfect prison to imprison a monster with ice affinity.
"What a strange environment," said Leo scratching his head.
"Yeah, it is artificially made by academe for birding monsters," said Rin.
"Now where are we going to find John?"
"Let go to the middle where monster density is highest," said Ryan.
They started to walk in the diction of the mountain range; it will take half a day to reach there, however.
"Roooooarrrreeeaarrrrr"
"Oh!... I got too tired, I'm now seeing John running toward me, with ice drake on his tail~"
Leo turned his head to look in Rins direction but, she was not there! After a few bets, he finally found her
She was running with Ryan in the opposite direction!??
"Don't look around and start running you fool!" John shouted who was running in his direction.
Leo sub concisely followed John's command.
"www-att are you doing here?" Leo was breathing heavily.
"It's a long story," said John who also had time breathing.
"You! Then tell it in short" Both and John heard voices from the front it was Rim this time~
"Can you see restricting artefact on the neck of the ice drake and the colour of its eyes?" John asked.
"No there is no restriction artefact and it's eye colour. . . . FUCK!!!" Ryan shouted running even faster.
"It's the same reaction I had 10 minutes ago, haha~
I was hunting some monster and he was attacked by that ice drake.
and who are you again?"
"Ryan Harrison"
After a few minutes of running, they found a cave beside the lava river.
"hurry up inside the cave" Ryan said destroying rocks in their path,
All four of them entered the cave.
ice mountain.
Nill Alford was sitting on an ice-blue rock, which has some deep blue scale-like pattern
like a king resting on his royal throne with a proud look on his face looking down on his enemy on the ground.
if someone observe his throne they found it moving like it was alive and, breathing!?
Yeah, it was ice drake, which was traumatized from Nill, still alive and breathing like others but unable to move even his eyelid.
"It was a good idea to remove those dog collars, or I might have died of boredom haha~"
"I wonder what those nobles are doing, even the kingdom is not caring about their useless lives, they attend the academy at the worst time possible,
at this rate, all low-ranking nobles and their hires will be dead in a few months, as expected by that useless king'
'Why do I care? it's a good thing for the world if nobles cease to exist, after all,
to remove diseases called nobility from Easter, and to unify this world,
someone needs to dirty the hands
at the end of the day, I can always help my father with his 'purification quest of the world, by taking care of those hires.'
Nill studded up from Drake and started walking towards West, where he could sense the mana of some low-ranking nobles' hires. He saw it during the first test.
Inside a cave in the third mountain.
"Why is someone targeting us?" Leo said with a confused expression on his face.
"I don't know if someone is targeting us or not but, it's only a day and all the strongest monster in the zone is on a rampage, maybe it is someone's doing after all," said John.
"We can't stay here too long, toxic gases coming out of the depth of the cave will kill us," said Rin with a worried tone.
"We need to kill that ice drake first, which is standing at the entrance of the cave," said Ryan.
"How are we going to kill that thing, it's fucking level 40 monster," said Leo hanging his hands to the side.
"Who said we going to fight that thing, this cave is near the lava river," John said taking out a mana core from his storage ring.
"And we going tack advantage of this," said Ryan.
"You know you might die if that mana core blasts in your hand during overcharging," Rin said watching John injecting his mana inside the mana core.
"No, I had done this in the past," John said with a small smile on his face.
"let me do this as well," Ryan said taking out mana core from his leather bag. he also starts overloading the mana core with his mana.
Now whose going to be bait?" Rin asked
Instead of answering John and Ryan looked in Leo's direction haha~
"nop I'm not going to. . . . OK ok, I will do this" Sigh, he said letting out a slow sigh.
he was going to deny this but he saw Rin's hand moving in the direction of his ears~. Also, he knows if they want to survive someone needs to be a decoy.
All four of them walked toward the entrance of the cave,
"Rin makes a barrier using water magic, Leo distracts Drake with wind magic and you Ryan support Leo with your light magic," John said.
all three of them did their respective work. and John trowed mana core.
it pass from on top of Drake's head, because it was focused on Leo, and dropped into the lava river behinDrakeke.
. . . . .
"hu!... did you overcharge that mana cor-" Rin said with a confused tone but she was never able to complete her sentence.
"BOOOOOOM"
The wave of hot lava rushed towards the cave, ice drake which was sitting at the opening of the cave tried to avoid engulfing in the lava,
However, hot lava was coming from almost all directions. All of its efforts were fruitless
"you need to pure mana at exact blow point, where even little bit of mana can explode it, in short, if you want to overcharge don't really overcharge it," John said.
"I'm now more confused than before," Leo said in a confused tone and raised his solder.
"So it absorbed mana from the lava river and finally overcharged?" Rin asked
"Guys, drop that mana cores shit!,
There... there are more of those?!!!" Ryan said with a low voice, almost like mumbling.
Mana fluctuation of blasting mana core picked the interest of almost all nearby ice drakes even other monsters of mid-zone. in a few bets, the whole area was felled with thousands of monsters.
"what's happening, I had hunted monsters with this technology in the past, but it never attracted nearby monsters???" John said.
at this point barrier made by Rin and Leo was depleted. They are wide open, to be devoured by monsters.
"use the remaining mana cores that you overcharged as a decoy, maybe we can still make it out," Rin said.
"Ok, run in the east, when I throw mana core," said Ryan.
"Now!"
He towed mana core in the lava river and start running in the east with others.
after a few hundred meters of running they heard the loud noise of blasting mana core but they never looked back and used all of their focus on enhancing their legs with mana.
some monsters jumped into a river, some devoured in blasting mana core and some were killed in lava which flew in all directions. Almost all monsters have died.
"monsters are behaving so strangely!, I have never seen a monster throwing itself in hot lava like this," Rin said looking seen behind them.
"monsters are not famous for their intelligence, still they can never behave like this, it's like some on or something affected their mind?" said John
"Swwwwssssh"
The icicle size of the car landed exactly in front of them. Blocking their escape route.
When they turned their head back, they saw an ice drake which was the almost doable size of others about to shoot another icicle at them?!!
Leo formed a shield with his compound magic, which contain water and wind mana, it was able to slow down coming icicles,
Johnn tack out his sword and enhanced one side of the edge and slashed the coming icicle with it,
"Nice work Leo" if not for you we were dead meat," said John trying to help him stand on his foot.
Leo never replied he used his half of mana in one spell, and now he having a hard time even standing on his feet.
Drake opened its mouth again and was ready to release another icicle.
But the next thing they saw shocked them from the core; the ice drake they were running from was devolved in black flame,
After a few moments they saw a boy with black hair coming in their direction, he was Vernon von D'achille.
A few moments ago,
POV: Vernon
After only a day, Vernon killed all monsters in the northern part of the higher zone. He was resting in on cave.
"Beep!"
he heard a sound from his communication device, three was a special letter on the screen of the communication device, 'K',
"His too early?" Vernon said to himself, thinking about the person who was on another side of the communication device.
before starting the entrance exam his father Kristopher von D'achile, 'the vampire duke' gave him the command to obey all things asked by this person, after all, he is the husband of their vampire queen.
"Meet me at the second tallest mountain of mid-zone"
(communication device disconnected.)
Vernon spread his bat wings which were well hidden inside his skin, and flaw toward the second mountain, with his mana-enhanced speed it only take him a minute to the rich second mountain which was at the border of the mid and high zone.
he saw a boy with black hair and black eyes, he was wearing battle armour made of monster material.
he was Levi Scott, and at least, he's using that identity in the academy.
"I need you to save them, also killing him is not a solution, at the list for now," Levi said showing a few images of 'what happening in mid-zone to Vernon.
Without any further thought, he rushed toward mid-zone.
Present.
pov; Leo
I was running with others, suddenly an enormous icicle landed in front of us when I turned back, I saw a 10-meter tall creature, that look like a dragon without wings, blue scales like the coldest ice and its yellow vertical iris was focused on our every move!.
It was an ice drake about double of size as privies that we saw.
despair, fear and anger all feeling bubbled up inside my heart, when I saw it opening its mouth I somehow instantly used my compound magic and made a shield with wind and water mana.
It slowed down the coming icicle and John did the rest of the work, slashing it with his sword.
But it was not the end of our horror, Drake opened its mouth again, I used my half of mana in the previous attract so now I'm like sitting Duke waiting for its death,
'Is that how I will die? , no I can't give up like this, I gathered most of my remanding mana and was about to attach Drake with fusion wind and water magic.
However, I saw Drake burning in black flames. It was flames of destruction!!.
A few miles away Neill was watching all this he had a small smirk on his face suddenly he saw ice drake burning in back flames?!!
Neil saw Vernon killing ice drake from a distance, he had supreme fire affinity but,
he can't tack on a monster like Vernon, at least for now. So he ignored those low-level noble hires.
'I have four years until I graduate from the academy, to clean some trash' Neil thought and waked in another direction, toward the particular boy who picked his interest.
Vernon saw Neil living with his mana vision.
'I have orders to not kill you, only 'not to kill you'. It was a good thing that his highness contacted me, or I would have done something crazy like him haha~'
But now, I have something to entertain myself' Vernon thought looking at Neil who was moving in the direction of the high zone.
"thank you for saving us," Ryen said with a still complicated expression on his face, he don't know how to approach the boy in front of him.