435 Fall and Rise - VI
"Understand, this is the Second Day, I am sure all of you must want to explore the Capital City," Arman said.
"But that can only happen tomorrow, today we will enter C Rank Dungeons with Hunters here," He pointed at the group of hunters gathered there.
Apart from Alyssa, everyone was going to do the training here, she was told to not join as her health condition wasn't fit to join others.
"Remember, that don't hurt yourself and heed their instructions at all times," Arman said.
"The Trials Ground will open for you guys soon, so don't get injured or do anything that will affect your performance there," Arman warned them.
This was just a light practice for the Third Year Students because this was all they were going to do in the Fourth Year.
Joining top guilds as interns and doing missions and gatherings merits and according to their performance and results, they will graduate.
It was important for them to understand real dungeon raids with experienced hunters where there was a degree of risk, unlike the ones that they had done till now.
"Your ID Bracelet will have your team numbers," Arman said.
"Four of you will join one team," He added.
Everyone gathered there got a notification, as it said their team members.
"What is this group?"
"Yay, we are in the same group!"
"Why did they place me with him?"
The reactions were different for everyone as the teams were created by the World Academy for the optimal composition for a dungeon raid.
Some had the same teams, but some didn't.
"Kevin! We are on the same team," Elena said.
She, Eva, and Amelia were with Kevin as they made a perfect team, and their mentor was a B Rank Hunter who was a sword user and a B Rank Mage.
On the other hand, Damian looked at his team and he was with Sam, Alan, and Gavin.
"What is this?" Damian looked at the names.
Sam was still fine, but Damian didn't like Alan and Gavin much due to their personalities, he had heard Gavin was involved with bullying students but nobody reported him so he was never punished.
And Alan was too prideful and knowing that Damian was Asher's friend, Alan didn't like the match-up much either.
"Isn't it great we have the best tanker in our year," Gavin spoke out.
His sly smile made Damian frown but he ignored the comment as he turned his head and looked at the two hunters that were coming near them.
With the teams decided, the World Association gathered a list of lower-level dungeons that were available for these students to enter.
Halcyon had a lot of lower-level dungeons and most of them were dungeons that had special environments that allowed for the growth of many plants.
This was the reason why Halcyon was able to trade so many of these plants in a large quantity.
But due to the special environment, hunting in these dungeons wasn't easy at all, despite their low levels.
"Please follow us!" The Hunters spoke.
Slowly, the crowd of students started getting thinner as they were taken to different parts of the city.
The citizens of the Capital were surprised to see so many Royal Guards patrolling, as the information about the arrival of the students hadn't spread that far.
After an hour,
"Your form is good," The Hunter praised Kevin.
"But be careful about conserving your stamina," He suggested.
Kevin nodded as he put his spear behind his back.
"And for the augmented magic, let's go forward without it for a while," The Hunter spoke,
"Any reason for that?" Amelia asked.
"It's making the hunt much easier, let's make it a bit more challenging," He suggested.
"Oh, then I will use my daggers," Amelia replied.
The activity they were doing was meant to show them how tough exploring an unknown dungeon was.
"And make sure to stay away from the walls," The mage said.
She was experienced in exploring dungeons like these a lot so she warned the four of them.
"These big cracks on the wall can hide many smaller monsters," she said.
"We will maintain this formation and only use our barrier when a threat is detected," She added.
Eva nodded as she didn't mind conserving her mana. Usually, they would try to clear a dungeon as fast as possible, and it didn't allow Eva and Amelia to conserve their mana like this.
Kevin kept killing every monster they encountered, and he was on par with the B Rank Hunter.
Both of them couldn't believe a student so young who was barely 18 was near their level.
'It's hard to imagine that he is already B- Rank,' The Hunter thought in his head.
"Keep this pace, we can reach our objective before nighttime," He spoke out as Kevin nodded back at him.
It was a bit difficult as the variety of monsters made it difficult for Kevin to deal with them all, but Elena and Amelia's support was enough for him to keep moving forward.
Eva's timing was near perfect as she knew when to protect and when to not.
Just like that, they kept going forward and after a long time, all of them were resting.
"Good job, I am pretty sure you guys won't have any problems in your Fourth Years," The Hunter said.
He was very surprised to see the biggest talents of this generation fight in front of him.
"Any other advice you guys might want to give?" Amelia asked.
She was the most quiet one among all of them, surprisingly even more than Eva. So the mage was glad to see her involve herself in the conversation as well.
"Umm, maybe try to rely less on each other," She said after thinking for a while.
"Teamwork is important but you guys are very unique in your talents so getting too used to it would create trouble if you are with other people," She said.
"But overall, the chemistry between you guys is good, the teamwork was nice," She added.
Although the two hunters were supposed to guide them and point out their mistakes, it was harder to do if the people that they were guiding belonged to such powerful families.
So she didn't add anything else that could potentially hurt their feelings, as there weren't any big mistakes that they made.
"Let's go back for now, it's time for you guys to gather at your hotel," The man stood up.
"This time, both of us will clear the path so you guys can relax," He said while taking out his sword.
The path back to the Dungeon Entrance was easy as all they had to do was sprint as the Hunters with them cleared out all the monsters for them.
"You guys go, I will come after I have a chat with Ria," Elena stopped at the entrance of the Hotel.
All three of them nodded as Elena turned and went towards an empty garden that was present at the Hotel.
"We greet Young Lady Elena!" A few people wearing a mask on their face appeared.
One of them took out a necklace and handed it over to her.
"What about the location?" Elena asked.
"We have no contact from 'his' side," One of them replied.
"Ok, don't let anyone find out that I called for you guys," Elena said.
"And get any news regarding 'his' movements," Elena said.
"It might be difficult as their location was last reported inside the Royal Castle," One of them said.
"Royal Castle?" Elena repeated.
"Hmm, report to me if anything happens," Elena waved her hand as all of them disappeared.
"Royal Castle, what is Leonard Tarvian doing there?" Elena questioned herself.
Despite making a deal with Leonard, Elena didn't trust him at all. She wasn't going to put her or Kevin's reputation in danger before confirming everything.
While Elena was gathering information about Leonard, another group of masked people were reporting to Gavin.
"Hmm, so this is the location?" Gavin asked.
"The time window is too short, it will be hard," Gavin replied,
"That's the order we received," The masked man replied.
"Ok, but make sure that no professors are near the vicinity of that area," Gavin added.
"You will receive our signal once the preparations are complete,"
"And what about the other Hunters?" Gavin asked.
"We will take care of that,"
"Then I will do my part as well," Gavin replied.
