First location.
By my and Amael's calculations we are entering the aria that we should put the first magic tool, I'm carrying it on my back, but I've already left the one that has this position marking out, in the center of it to a white gem that turned on a light very faint red. From the description I received when I was given these magic tools and that when we get close to the position that the magic tool should be placed a red light will light up and the stronger it is the closer, we are to the place.
When the tool is placed on the ground in the correct aria the light will change to green and that mission point will be done, only when the eight tools are in the respective points their light will change from green to gold. What bothers me the most about this is that animals are not attracted to magic tools, but humans can interfere with it so if we put the last tool in place and the light doesn't turn golden it means that one of the tools was removed by another student son of a bitch.
If that happens we have to track down the tool and put it in its place again, only when the lights turn golden the mission will be complete, but I had a simple idea to decrease the chances of the magic tools being stolen, after finding the right place I'm going to ask Amael to sweat his earth element magic to sink the magic tool underground, at least six meters below the ground, I think it's going to make it a little harder for anyone to find the magic tool, I just hope it doesn't damage the magic tool or prevent it from transmitting its signal.
With the little red light over my shoulder, I signal Vali and Amael for them to look into the light and stay alert because if any surprise prepared by the examiners will it appear for us in a little while.
I let my way forward as this is the best option I have and with every meter that passed the tool's red light got stronger, at the rate it is increasing we only have to walk another hundred meters for it to be okay strong.
To make matters worse our situation no magical animal in our way, this is obviously a bad sign if even the animals don't want to stay here, I think the wisest decision is not to go any further, but it's a shame we don't have much option to retreat now and the same as failing the entire test a team of cowards would never be chosen to participate in the elite groups that must face unknown and known dangers.
I can't notice anything different in the mana or elemental energy of the environment, but our enemy must be in front of us I just have to calm down until I see his mana. The light coming from behind my shoulder got so bright that it basically turned a flashlight and the green and brown forest in front of me was replaced with blood red which no longer scares me makes the atmosphere around the group more irritating and uncomfortable.
It's not long before I feel like I'm in a cheap earth movie, but to break this earthy atmosphere I see a five-foot-long winged snake above the trees, the mana of its body denounces it as a level three magical animal , but when you add the wind element that is concentrated in her wings she becomes a magical beast and the poison element she is storing in her throat shows that she is a big problem, this poison element and well concentrated that means that your poison is quite deadly and I doubt that common medicines can purify this poison
I stop our march and communicate with my companions using sign language, unfortunately this sign language is quite simple and I can't explain many things in a short time. But when I use the words snake, three, wings, wind, poison, and above to go by, I doubt the two of them didn't understand me well.
Even without having much experience in group fighting, Amael starts using his magic to set a trap for the winged serpent, if it goes down to the ground it must be attacked by a considerable amount of earth, but to make it go down is something that must be done by me and Vali who is mobilizing a large amount of wind element around her staff without creating a strong draft in the forest.
Looks like that's left for me to start the fight and be the bait. I don't like this plan very much.
I advance under the winged serpent and prepare to fire two arrows with the art of the phantom arrow, unfortunately this is my limit at this point it would be much better if I could fire about five arrows at once. I position myself to fire my arrows and take a last deep breath to calm myself and fire two phantom arrows aiming for the part where the main musculature of the snake's wings is, it looks like it's sleeping or just waiting in the treetops.
My arrows are slowly approaching the target without the snake noticing its existence, it looks like I'm in luck, my two arrows were only a few inches from the winged snake when it struggled trying to protect itself from the beasts. One of my arrows still managed to hit its target, but it couldn't seriously injure the snake's wing but it was enough to hamper her willing abilities.
The second arrow pierced the center of the snake's wing leaving behind a small hole in its wing that cannot be seen, but the red feathers show that it was wounded.
The winged snake doesn't even make a sound from the wounds it has sustained, it has simply thrown itself out of the trees and is making a dive towards me. The poison element that is concentrated in the snake's throat is concentrating as it descends towards me, I don't think it will even try to bite me to kill me it seems to be getting ready to spit that venom at me like a jet. Damn snake.
I run towards Amael using my aura and elemental energy to the fullest so as not to give the snake a chance to hit me with her venom. I'm glad Amael wasn't too far from the snake because I barely managed to get close to him before the snake was right on top of me.
When the snake came down to a low, spitting a jet of corrosive poison in my direction that would do great damage to me, but before it could hit me a wall of earth rose between us blocking the snake's venom and also blocking the snake's path.
I kept running as the snake slammed into the creaking stone wall, but that wasn't enough to knock down the snake that only spun in midair once to regain its will skills, but the moment it stabilized Vali hit it right in.
Vali literally turned into a wind element project and hit the serpent's spine with his staff which had a very sharp blade on the tip. The package of the blow, added to the blast of the blade of wind that were wrapped around the staff, shredded the snake's entire back and its wings threw it to the ground.
But this was still a level three magical beast and that means she has great life force, even after having her body pierced through by the blade of Vali's staff she still hadn't completely fallen. With her flexible body she twisted in the air regaining her ability to fly a bit before falling to the ground avoiding the ground and I kept coming towards me ready to fire another blast of poison, but to her misfortune a wall of lava rose. in front of her this time.
Although she hit Amael's defensive magic the same way she didn't stand her ground before this time, her body was burned by the lava Amael had prepared earlier, her body's myriad wounds serving as entry points for the lava to burn. the entire body and wings. The serpent thrashed in her lava prison only to find she couldn't muster enough strength to break out of her prison.
But she did not give up easily and neither did Amael who threw more lava on top of her and made the hole she was in to go further down into the ground, but the vicious serpent refused to die and broke his lava prison, but as his eyesight was impaired because of the lava that still covered her body she was not able to see the attacks that were coming towards her, a blade of concentrated wind from Vali and my three arrows that were going towards the salt head with a vortex of wind at their tips hit the wing easily.
The serpent's head was pierced by my arrows and its neck was cut by the vali wind blade, neither one of these was a weak or completely fatal blow, but because the serpent's skin had already lost a part of its defensive capacity after being violated by lava, our blows caused the serpent's death.
When the snake landed on the lava surface it looked dead, but it couldn't deceive my eyes.
"Don't get close to her Vali! Bury her in lava now!"
With my command Vali who was approaching the serpent jumped back and two lava waves buried the serpent before it was buried and began to struggle against the lava. Snakes are always cunning, but unfortunately for her I wasn't fooled by the fact that she stopped breathing when I fell to the ground blind and with a good part of her neck cut off.
The first guardian was quite deadly, the plants where the snake's venom falls are already completely rotten, even the ground began to melt when coming in contact with this venom. If one of us were hit by the snake's venom, only our bones would be left, because all the flesh would be melted by this acidic venom.
Examiners really know how to pick problematic enemies.