The Rune Knight (Monster Tamer)
CHAPTER II Inter-Academy Tournament
2.7 Value of Experience.
I was in the middle of a crowd of Mustangs that were sized like adults. They surrounded me and beat me brutally. Luckily I jumped into the air. Then Escanor jumped up to me, I rested on Escanor's human right hand and was knocked down. Escanor slammed me with her hand. Yes we use our combination skill which is dragon slash.
With extreme speed I drove straight to Razer. I threw the knife in my left hand. When the knife hit Razer's right shoulder, I saw his shocked expression. Razer seemed to be in pain.
I got closer to Razer and she brandished her sword. With his right hand he pointed his sword at me. I attacked the sword in front of me with a knife. The slash from my right hand broke Razer's sword.
The piece of sword was floating and stuck right next to Razer's two friends. After that I turned around and kicked the knife that was stuck on Razer's shoulder so that the knife stuck very deep.
I finally set my feet on the ground. While Escanor I noticed was still busy fighting the Mustang. Escanor seemed to be in trouble due to the considerable number of Mustangs and her extremely hard body.
"So how does Razer still want to continue?" I asked Razer who looked very sick.
"That's enough," suddenly two red-haired women were in front of Razer.
"Alright," I said as I sat down to the ground feeling satisfied.
Razer, who was behind the two women, tried to remove the knife that stuck to her right shoulder. After he managed to take it off, he immediately threw the knife back at me.
I caught the knife. While Escanor and Mustang had already stopped fighting. Mustangs disappear by merging with the ground. While Escanor disappeared by flying into the sky.
"This is exactly what Razer promised," said the red-haired woman who was taller than the woman beside her.
He threw a black bag at me. I opened the bag and saw six crystal balls inside. While the other red-haired woman cured Razer.
"It's a great fight, I'll be more earnest in the next fight" Razer said, trying to stand up despite the recovery from a colleague.
"I will definitely beat you again" I replied to Razer with great confidence.
"Lisa, Misa let's go" said Razer, who had recovered from the wound I gave her.
After Razer, Lisa and Misa left, I immediately rushed towards the ruins. It was really dark when I returned to the ruins. Arriving in front of the ruins, I came out of the dense trees and walked into the ruins.
"Where have you been?" ask a woman who is waiting in front of the tent.
"Eh Nadha why don't you rest?" I was surprised because Nadha was standing in front of me.
"The answer was my stupid question" said Nadha looking very upset and then hit me on the head.
"Waaa, yes yes. I'm from staking around here some territory" said I, who felt pain in the head after being hit by Nadha.
After that I showed the pockets I got from Razer's team to Nadha and Robin. The three of us took out the bag. Robin and Nadha were shocked to see the contents of the pouch. They were shocked because I got six crystal balls.
"Where did you get this crystal?" robin asked, checking the authenticity of the crystal.
"Well good luck," I said I didn't want them both to know if I had fought.
"What kind of luck?" nadha asked in surprise with my answer.
"There's a bird dropping it just like that in front of me," I said lying while holding back a laugh.
"Haaaaaa, how could I believe it to be stupid," said Nadha and hit me in the head again.
"Sorry kidding. I ran out of a duel with someone so by chance won and got a prize from him," I said while feeling sorry to have joked with Nadha.
"Eh Nadha are you better?" I asked Nadha again.
"She, why are you worried?" nadha asked teasing me.
"Ehm, yes I'm very worried about you know. So now you rest until there is an announcement of the closing of this challenge," I said as I forcibly lifted Nadha into the room.
As usual Robin just laughed at the behavior of the two of us.
"But Robin, I want to put the princess to bed" I said, looking at Robin.
A very loud slap hit my face.
"What are you doing Nadha?" I said after the pain was slapped.
"Salah herself called me princess" said Nadha with a sullen face after thrashing to be let down.
Finally we both arrived at the room that Zaryusu used to use. I opened the door that was not tightly closed with my feet. Then I put Nadha slowly on the bed.
"Have you rested first, later if the time of announcement has come I will call you," I said after that I stepped up to leave Nadha.
"Before a minute, come here" said Nadha looking shy.
I followed Nadha's orders. After that Nadha held my face with her very soft right hand. My face turned red and was very confused by what happened.
"Deg deg deg deg deg," the sound of my heart skipping a beat and I was well aware of it.
"Heal," said Nadha casting healing magic at me.
I immediately felt better than before and some of the injuries I received during the duel with Razer closed.
"Have gone" said Nadha after healing me.
***
I sat next to the fire burning wood and looked very neatly arranged. While looking at the dark sky illuminated by the moonlight and stars came the sound of many people talking.
That voice came from a bunch of lizardmen and hell hounds accompanying me outside the ruins. Zaryusu was also seen chatting with Robin very familiar. Nadha was stroking the body of Solus who was asleep beside her.
Finally this challenge has ended I said in a heart that felt very relieved.
We all gathered in front of the ruins to celebrate our farewell party. A few minutes ago after we checked the total points on my crystal, Nadha and Robin wanted to say goodbye to these mythical monsters. But they forced us to wait and do a farewell party.
They were very busy preparing this impromptu party and locked us in jail a while ago. Maybe they're afraid we'll run before they set up this party.
Finally we were taken out of prison and enjoyed the party prepared by the lizardmen and hell hounds.
"Hey boy, I want to thank you," said Razor who suddenly approached me and stroked her head at me.
"No need sir, I'm just doing what I have to do" I said to Razor who was stroking her head at me.
"Accept this, you can't refuse" said Razor, who pulled a tooth-like object out of her mouth.
"Eh, what is this.... fangs?" I said surprised by the thing that came out of Razor's mouth.
"Yes that's my fang, fenrir fangs are great for making weapons. Moreover, I know that you are a snowman," Razor whispered after that she left me.
"Master, thank you," I shouted to Razor while bowing which made the atmosphere of the party rame suddenly fall silent.
***
As the morning sun began to shine through the forest, we ran towards the gate where we had previously entered the mythical forest. Nadha looks sad on the trip like it was parting ways with the lizardmen and hell hounds.
Arriving at the gate we were greeted by the instructors. When we came out of the mythical forest area, a lot of people gathered outside the guardrail. They are the ones who want to witness who are the participants who managed to escape.
We were the last team to come and manage to survive in the mythical forest. After we walked out, there was a crystal ball checking spot right in the middle of the field. The three of us were directed to approach the place.
After we handed over our crystal ball to the man guarding the place, he immediately checked the total number of points we had.
"Two thousand three hundred and eleven," the man shouted that it was our number of points.
The three of us looked at the scoreboard not far away. There is a sequence of teams with the highest to lowest points.
Razer Team: 2345 (Academy Tower)
Team Reza: 2317 (Waltz Academy)
Memory Team: 2311 (Academy District)
Elric Team: 2310 (Academy District)
Asuna Team: 1750 (Academy District)
Team Mire: 1200 (Waltz Academy)
Ades Team: 750 (Tower Academy)
Team Yuna: 200 (Tower Academy)
Team Doni: 195 (Waltz Academy)
Rena Team: 170 (Tower Academy)
Although the announcement board only listed 10 teams but who managed to survive for a week as many as 11 teams. The rest only survived one person and even like Sirius' team there were no survivors.
We marched back on the field and saw the king of Rohan standing on the podium.
"You have passed a terrible test seven days ago. Be proud that you survived seven days and made it to this field with us. You probably already know there are some participants who are unable to attend at the close of this survival exam. A wide variety of unexpected events occur in the mythical forest. Unexpected things like this will be your experience to meet a better future. Hope you can learn from this experience. Warm greetings from me," said the Roman king giving a short speech.
It seemed that some people were very sad especially the instructors and participants of the Float Academy. Float Academy took the most death toll and none of them managed to enter the top ten on the leaderboard.
"The teams that will continue to the next exam are Razer, Reza, Kenang, and Elric teams. Begged for his presence after this ceremony with his instructors," said someone from the podium where king Rohan was standing.
"Hey how are you?," asked instructor Lina greeting us from afar while walking.
"Instructure," cried the three of us, while Nadha immediately hugged the instructor.
"Thank God you're safe" instructor Lina said as she stroked the heads of the three of us.
After that we immediately gathered with 3 other teams that escaped in a room.
"Introduce my name Makarov, I will explain the rules and the final match system of this tournament" said the person in front of us. He had a muscular body but was very old looking from his face.
The final match will be held in 7 days so that participants can rest. In addition, this match has a group victory points. If everyone in the team loses then it will get 0 points, but if it wins one of them will get 3 points. So if all three win it will be 9 points. Therefore, later these points will be accumulated on the match table.
...Team Match Schedule...
