183 Beta Tes (1/2)

The start of school was about to start when the lucky young magicians received the VR Pod to be a beta tester. It means that they only have a few days to play it full-time.

Hilda, one of Wallace's junior in the academy, has luckily become a part of the beta testing. She was very excited about operating the device since this was something that her senior made. The very same senior who originally made the Traceless Oscillation and modified Infrasonic Ray. That two spells had helped her easily win the competition in her bracket.

Now, the current device in front of her was something even more amazing.

This is the second day that she will be playing the game and she couldn't wait for the server to open. Due to some reasons, the game could not be played 24 hours a day as the system had to do maintenance for at 3 hours every day.

'Five minutes more... Why is it so long?'

As she waited for the time, she received a few messages from her friends.

[ Its about time. Are you ready? ] - Shirley

[ Are you done eating? We need to complete the quest this time. We need you... I think. ] - Escanor

[ Hello, Hilda. This is me, Ray Penber. I will be waiting for you at the same spot. Take care. ] - Ray

[ Hey! The server is about to open. I'm just reminding you as you requested. :) ] - Lina

Hilda replied to all of them.

The five of them including Hilda had met in the virtual reality game since they were all sent in the same underground base, one of the last bastions of the Sevens or the natives of the world.

Studying at the same academy, although different academic years and different magician's path taken, they easily got friendly with each other as they are familiar with their faces.

They've all fought and won the TMAC.

On the first day of their game, the five of them had the very first offensive mission against a group of invaders.

A 10-man patrol team from Dorssian Empire equipped with high-tech guns, scanners, and a two Assault Gears ( Designed similar to Meredith Empire's Marauder Gears ) had discovered a group of fleeing Sevens and they were about to kill everyone. The five of them received a mission to rescue the fleeing NPCs.

The mission was quite easy considering the fact that they received assistance from powerful NPCs stationed within their current. underground fortress. It seems that they were just being readied about the fighting method of the invaders.

The enemies doesn't need a long casting time, no unusual phenomena like during their magic invocation, and no mana disturbance or chaotic movement of mana during the enemy's assault. They only possess pure and simple destructive weapons. They only had to trigger their gun and a powerful beam of light almost similar to Wallace's Laser Focus would fire. Only the color was different as they are firing blue light instead of Wallace's red beam of light.

Aside from that, the others also possessed something similar to the guns they're familiar with but their bullets seems to be so strong that their Mana Shell was like a fragile glass in front of it.

Even if they had a chance to return fire at them, these invaders also possess something similar to their Mana Shell, but it was called Energy Armor. There was also the problematic Assault Gear. A floating machine or drone that could carry one person to launch an assault from the sky.

Fortunately, a strong NPC joined in their mission. It was Arthur, the current base commander of their underground fortress, he possess a powerful weapon that disrupts the Energy Armor making it useless whenever he fired his magic spells. He also possesses powerful magic that could petrify the machine making the device useless.

”I want to learn it!” Is what all they said. Unfortunately, within their current group, only Escanor had learned things about the Artifact Forging. The other guy and girls were Combat Magicians. They have a good sense of combat tactics, calm and broad mind during battle, and amazing weapon utilization, but forging this weapon was not their forte.

Unfortunately, during this virtual game, they had to study this in order to battle against the small fries of the Dorssian Empire.

How could they defeat or fight against the large number of humanoid machines, floating castles, high-speed airships, army of full-body armored soldiers if these weak patrol teams were already giving them headaches?

***

Hilda looked at her wristband mana artifact placed on her bed before entering the virtual world.

Her VR Pod was conveniently placed in her bedroom beside her bed as she felt that its better if she have quick access to the device.

”Start Link!”

As she selected the Adventure Mode, she disintegrated to many orbs of lights and reformed in her last location when she ended the link before.

She was in the hallway going to the training hall in the underground fortress. Then, other lights appeared as her friends started their link into the game.

”Hilda... Can you still use that amazing magic spell here?” Lina asked after she suddenly appeared.

”You mean that oscillation?”

”Yes..”

”I can't...” Hilda shakes her head as she continued to explain. ”That magic spell was created by Wallace. Although I know how to cast the spell, it's in the premise that I have the artifact in hands.”

Hilda said as she showed her empty hands.