Chapter 152 - A new form of magic. (2/2)
Another very positive thing was my dates/teaching sessions with Allessa, our mutual curiosity and pursuit of magic has been making us closer by the day, we have now a lot more physical contact than when we started, it is not uncommon to see us hugging each other or walking handhold with one another. We were able to translate most of the spells I will learn in this first year, it was just a matter of finding the right pattern, it took us some time but we eventually were able to find it. I was thinking of doing all the rest on my own but our dates were something extremely nice and I don't want to mess it all. So I let it be as some sort of couple activity we do together, it's definitely a good way to get closer and know each other better, besides we both enjoy it too so I think there is no harm done.
My wooden clones were very meticulous when they started reading the giant school library, and even using my cheats with Swift Release and khaki to augment my reading speed I can safely say that I have read less than 1% of everything, which is already something astronomical. I am literally pumping up the number of clones every day, I didn't simply make one gazillion clones simply because of the memory backlash, I am literally strengthening and training my brain to become more resistant towards it, making the quantity of backlash bigger by the day so my brain is slowly adapting to it, it has the incredible side effect of making my mental defenses stronger, my mindscape stronger, and my spirit stronger. Definitely a very good decision.
My runes and wards class has been some of the more enlightening experiences I had so far, I was able to progress immensely on my Fuinjutsu, I hadn't seen such fast improvement since I started. but the biggest improvement so far has been the ability to imbue my intent on my seals, something I hadn't thought deeply before and it made the might of my seals skyrocket to high heavens. definitely gonna dome some crazy shit with it in the future.
Herbology was my favorite class. I was literally in my element there, I learned so much bout the different plants their properties, and much much more, the fact that I had my mokuton made my connection to the plants natural and easy, the teacher immediately took a liking to me, I took the course and tests like a fish to water. Definitely approved of herbology here.
Potions were pretty good too, sadly we are just learning the basics, like energetic potions, blister potions, sleep potions, etc. It pretty good, sadly most potions don't work on my body thanks to [Sage Body] so I can't taste the effect of them, thankfully I bet they can be useful in some form or another depending on the situation.
You must be asking yourself, why all this training? it for a test of course. At the end of this moment, we will have a performance test, this performance test happens every end of the month, they are used to see which student team has the qualifications of taking missions. Yes, we can take missions, and said missions can be in or outside of school grounds. Shark girl wanted to pass the test from the start, and I completely agree with her, some missions will do good to get the three of them some valuable experience.
And today on the last day of the month I and the team are here for our test. I direct my speech at an extremely nervous looking shark girl.
”Calm down Elsa you and everyone trained a lot, you will surely pass.”(Aizen).
”I know. It's just that I can't help but feel nervous, you know?”(Elsa).
”I know I was like that in the past, but it only made me do worse in my nervousness. So chill there Big Shark”(Aizen).
”Yeah Elsa, this demon here trained us a lot, it's impossible to fail.”(Rick).
”Yeah, you should believe in yourself more.”(Gwen).
”Thanks, guys the encouragement is appreciated.”(Elsa).
”All team gathers. I will explain the first test parameters.”(Referee).
”Your first test is a simple Fetch quest. In a special forest created for this test, the teachers put Obsidian flowers there. Your objective is to find and collect one of them and finally exit the forest. It won't be easy, as any team can be attacked or killed. We advise against killing because we will collect unconscious and disabled people, but if you kill in there no one would be able to cause trouble for you. Now go.”
It took a little bit of time for the words to sink in, and then people started running towards the portal that will send us to some random location in the testing forest.
Our team in the middle of the chaos that was entering the portable was able to go in. we appeared on some clearing in the middle of the forest.
Our time immediately springs to Action, all three of them entering an absolute alert mode. Me? I am literally in my home here, it is a frigging forest FFS, my sensing ability works even better here. so anyone seeing our team right now would be faced with an extremely strange visage, three extremely tense and alert people while a very tall dude just taking a stroll there with his eyes closed.
Our search for an obsidian flower was well... Difficult. I could easily spot every flower in here with my [Observation Haki] yes. But I won't do it, it's counterintuitive to do this on a test in my opinion. Let my minio- teammates get to work.
After an hour or so we were able to find an obsidian flower. It was a trap of course, even without my [Observation Haki] I could easily spot something like that. Sadly my teammates can't, so imagine their surprised faces when Elsa almost lost an eye to a sword when she got too close to the flower.
A team composed of exactly four people has come forth, they weren't normal people to boot, of course, they have a half-orc, a half gnoll, half treant, and some long-nosed yokai that I have no idea what the hell it is. Let me guess it's gonna be the cliche...
”What a bunch of beauties we have here. I can't wait to stick my nose on them.”(Long-nose).
”Yeah, me likey.”(Gnoll).
”I won't let you touch Gwen or Elsa with your filthy hands and long nose you bastards.”(Rick).
”But I wasn't talking about them. I was talking about you and that cutie over there.”(Long-nose).
With this, he pointed his hands towards me and Rick showing who he was talking about. Ngl I shuddered a bit there. Rick's face was kinda priceless as he was hanging his mouth open in one of the most stupid surprised faces I have ever seen. But something strange happened to the always calm and lovable Gwen, she had an aura that screamed purification oozing out of her.
”Rick's booty is MINE! MINE!!!”(Gwen).
With that she advanced at full speed towards the Longnose, Rick was fighting the gnoll trying his hardest to protect his booty, and Elsa was fighting the half-orc. The treant was running towards me with some surreal speed for a tree. I simply grabbed his face with my hands and sent a pulse of mokuton chakra {Primitive Reversal], he just reversed completely to his tree form fixing himself on the soil and growing well above the other trees.
Looking at the other fights I can see that Elsa is winning, but the Demon and the Angel are losing, not a surprise seeing as Longnose and gnoll were the strongest of the enemy team. Guess I can lend some help to them. With a flick of my wrist, two kunai appeared on my right hand, another flick and the two pointed object travel at an incredible speed and hit the gnoll leg, debilitating his irritating jumping power, and the other hit longnose on his arm reducing a few his strength.
Suddenly a bright light illuminates the whole clearing, Shark Girl has used some of her Storm Release to kill the half-orc. After that with Elsa's help, everything finished rather quickly. They seem pretty surprised with the giant treant turning into a giant tree, but after seeing too much weird shit for a day I guess most of us just want to take the Obsidian flower and finish the second and final test.