One month after the cult incident.
"You are doing well, I don't know whether that would be enough for winning the festival. At least you can survive with this" (Hana HOD of Combat division)
"Thanks Hana"
Hana has been helping me to learn to fight for the past month. She is good in teaching for close combats. We figured out that I am able to emit light element for a certain extent because I was able to use it while defending Christe and when saving him. But mine is white light. Enigma is golden light. I didn't tell her about omnipotent element and all, she also doesn't mind it and taught me how to use that.
"Alright, you are graduated from training sword. I asked my dad to specially create a sword for you. That's my gift for you to ace the festival, here"
It was a long flat ended sword with black color. it looks like an ultimate version of butcher knife in my world.
"Ah, I don't know whether to call this as sword. Shouldn't sword have sharp ends?"
"How rude, it's true my dad never gets an order for enigma users but that doesn't mean he can't do it. Once the world acknowledges you, his business will boom" (Hana)
Did you used duchess money to put an advertisement for your father.
"When I explained your condition to him. He went to his basement and took out some drawings carved in wood and said that he knows what kind of sword is needed. This sword is definitely his masterpiece, believe me. He worked day and night to forge this, do you know how much he travelled to get materials for this" (Hana)
"Alright, Alright. I will take it" I hope it doesn't break like those training swords which broke after every time I emit light.
After saying farewell to her. I went to our meet up place to get ready for festival's first competition
Christe and Claude were sitting with three other students.
"Alright guys, I wasn't able to help you scout members. Well, I hope we have a solid team."
"OfCourse, let me introduce them. She is Olga, lightning element. She can cook fast" (Claude)
"EH"
"He is Igor, wind element. he can fly fast"(Claude)
"EHH"
"And the last but not least. The coolest member in our team. He is Boris, Ice element. He can drink water and spit Ice cubes very fast"(Claude)
"Christe, you seem to hide things from your mother."
Christe looking at sky, pretending to not hear anything.
"I know you are very proud of me. The Aqua clan is known for its scou...." got punched in his stomach.
"I hope you are not making fun of me. Let's forget about those two for now. What do you mean by spitting ice cubes, why we need ice cubes for god's sake"
"Well, I planned this team with our upcoming competition in hand. First, they won't reveal any participants and their team members to others. Second, the first competition is survival in forest, where they would give each team a fragment stone. The stone attracts monsters, and you have to defend it from being destroyed. Each stone is 10 points. The more stones you have, the more monsters you attract, and you don't know many teams are there, who are all teamed up. They would just fly us to middle of forest and drop off and we have to be in the forest for 10 days. The competition can be cleared if you survived with just one stone at the end of the last day and bring it back to the arena"(Claude)
"Hmm, so even If you didn't aim for the first place, still you can play safe and go to next competition uh. Wait, you still didn't explain about why you picked them"
"In 10 days of surviving, Olga can cook for us, Igor can collect ingredients and Boris. As I said, Boris is a cool guy" (Claude)
"I should really kill you"
Just as he said, they just gave a stone and dropped us off in middle of a dark forest with no instructions.
"Alright, Move on. We have to find a base for ourselves before it becomes dark and attracts monsters. Igor, it would be better if you fly and find some place. Don't go too far and lose yourself"
After a while, we found a cave with the help of Igor to settle in.
"This cave has only one entrance, won't we get trapped if too many monsters came in" (Christe)
"Better than getting attacked all sides"
"Igor can have the stone, if things go wrong. He can at least fly and buy some time"
"Uhm, Can I start cooking dinner with what we brought?"(Olga)
"Yes, let's eat before something comes"
After eating we all chatted for a while, and they are all asleep already
Carefree kids, I was also one of them. Don't know whether it's because of reincarnation. I am more and more becoming Isagi every day. Maybe I already adapted to this character?
After some time, I heard some growling noises. Monsters started coming for the stone. I took out my sword and went to entrance.
Not just one, there was a wave of monster's crawling to the cave. They are not emitting any dark element like demons but still to think such creatures live outside of people lands is terrifying. Let's just implement what I learned. Calm your senses, breathe deeply, feel the flow in you and release them to the object you are holding.
A white glow of light appeared on the sword.
Alright. For now, I can only cover the white light this much. Swinged the sword diagonally and a flash of light passed through the forest destroying everything in its way.
Coughing blood. I couldn't control it properly. it took more element energy than expected.
The monsters started to swarm around. I have to try again.
Suddenly a ring of flames burning the monsters. "Are you alright, Mom?" (Christe)
But the monsters are not reduced and keep coming again and again. Maybe we have to make Igor fly away till dawn? but he is just a boy. He can't handle that much time in air and there are flying monsters. What should we do
"Everyone, move out of the away." (Claude coming out with Boris)
He gathered all water in surrounding to him. "Take everything in, Boris" Pushed the water inside his mouth
How can he consume that much water?
In the next moment, Boris spitted ice cubes at the monsters, Ice cubes which can freeze them. In a few minutes, he froze all the monsters in that surrounding area. But he became extremely exhausted, unable to stand anymore. We have to evacuate this place. Any more of this, we are done.
But I have to say, Boris really a cool guy!