POV: Ryan
"thank you for saving us," I said to the boy in front of me, If my memory serves right his Vernon. He was the top horse in the first examination.
"Don't mention that it, I was just passing by and saw that ice drake troubling you guys, so I helped," Vernon said with raising his soldiers.
'even if he saved us, he has that dark aura around him. I don't think staying with him for a long time is a good idea' I thought looking at Vernon, who was looking in another direction like he was observing something.
"Is there another dark like this," John asked Vernon, with a rather complex expression on his face.
"no, I don't think there is another dark like that in mid-zone"
"It's good to hear," Rin said.
"ok take care of yourself, the rescue team will come in a few moments, and I have other things to do so, I'm out"
He starts running in the direction of the high zone, he can't use his bat wings in front of them, this early.
POV; iris
We need to be quick there are too many monsters in this area, it is almost five-time numbers than they suppose to be and, in a berserk state.
"HELp-"
I heard the voice of Frome Sky, when I raised my head I saw, a wind falcon, caring a boy in his claws. And flying at high speed,
"Ava can you able to help him"
"uh huh.."
She made black colour throwing object which looked like a boomerang and throw it toward the wind falcon's claw,
I slice through it in an instant,
"You can cache him right?" she asked looking at the falling boy.
"yeah," I used my wind magic and safely landed him on the ground.
"what about that monster- oh! Never mind" I was about to ask her about the wind falcon but I saw it on the ground a few miles away, the lower half of its body was degraded due to black magic.
"Scary" After watching the body of a wind falcon, I spoke out without knowing myself
"Not Fair, it's only affinity, you can't tell people are scary because they have dark affinity"
"Yeah, I know, I'm sorry~"
"Mmmm, yes you are," she said clanging her tongue.
After spending a few days with each other in the academy we became rather close friends.
"Go to the second mountain of mid-zone, and keep this with you, it's a monster replant artefact" I gave the boy a silver colour cube, which was the monster replant artefact, that I had taken from guard in hundreds.
After a few miles of running, we finally reached please where we were assigned in charge of the rescue mission.
"Isn't it supposed to be a monster hunt?"Ava asked with an annoyed tone and stomped on the ground.
In front of them was nothing but hell, about twenty students was inside a place that look like remnants of a city, surrounded by thousands of monster, all of them was black colour insect type monster which the frontal limbs of a mantis, head of the beetle and a scorpion-like tail coming from it's back.
"why they even included monsters like 'terror' in the entrance test?"
"to eliminate as many students from exams but now they are being eliminated from life!"
"guard the student, I can tack care of them by myself," Ava said with a confident look on her face.
"Are you sure about that, there are thousands of them, and terror is the most unpredictable monster even in a normal state."
"you don't have to worry about me, they are too weak so I can handle them by myself"
"if you say so"
'she has dark magic, and powerfully of that, if not for spending these two days with her I would have tagged her as high ranking dark gild member'
I used my wind magic and flew in the direction of students,
on earth, ants can form complex structures like bridges by only using their bodies. bees can coordinate with each other with pheromones at large distances, but what happens if we add mana to the equation?
creatures who can form complex structures by interlocking their body, who can communicate and even think as signal bing, also being insects they can live even after cutting their head, yeah you can say that its absolute 'terror'.
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I saw an enormous structure that looks like the remains of the city, however when I saw it with my mana vision,
"No!" I said in a low voice, but there was no one to hear.
few thousand terrors which I previously estimated, was way too many compare to that number.
With an emotionless face, I riched the city and landed on the ground, the complex structure of the city was too time-consuming to fly over it, so I entered on foot.
I rushed toward the middle of the city where all student was standing on top of the 'building'.
when I entered inside 'the remains of the city, all of sudden like the whole city come to life, tens of stingers and clamps like arme attacked me at the same time,
"swwwshhhh~"
Ava was inside the 'remains of the city' for a long time! fired a beam of black magic from her palm, it was slow compared to the same attack by a light mage, still, you can't even compare the corrosive and destructive effects of black magic to that of light.
a big chunk of the city disappeared in a few instants!
'and there I was worried about her, here I am having a hard time even riching that building'
I again used my wind magic and flew in the sky, but some of those fucking bugs had wings, and some can jump up to a few hundred meters in skay,
so the result of my action was the same, or maybe worse after all, I was flying at 400 meters up in the sky, attacked by terror from all directions and now there was no fucking ground under my leg!