Chapter 12 Explanations and Guidance
The survival of the woodland takes place in a specially constructed illusion within the Black Acacia Athletic Grounds, complemented by magical flora. The process was obviously expensive and complicated, and an average school like Blackacia could only provide enough resources to light up the magic for a month at most. Therefore, for a limited period of time, all eligible students must either complete Woodland Survival 101 or forfeit the opportunity to excel on the fieldwork.
The course was operated by several commandos sent down from the Randwick barracks, who specialized in land operations, specifically reconnaissance and reconnaissance missions.
Gwen's eyes lit up as their teacher, a six-foot-four-inch, shaved sergeant, introduced himself to the students.
"Call me Sergeant Boone. The military smiled kindly.
Gwen's face warmed. After spending so much time with teenagers, the appearance of a real "man" makes her realize how much she misses interacting with adults.
Sergeant Boone is a poster soldier in a promotional video with a stubble that grinds cheese. He was long and strong. He wears a tight khaki crewneck and looks like an Australian.
"Gwen, stop drooling......" Yue nudged Gwen's ribs with his elbow. She noticed that her companions liked strong and stoic men, and it made perfect sense. Gwen always lamented that her father was a useless, merciless layman who relied on his women to make his bed for him.
The exercises that students have to do are innumerable, but for Gwen he has the patience and experience of an adult, and wild dressing and other basic survival routines provide few challenges. Although physically exhausted, watching Boone explain that sweat was running down his thick arms was not a farce.
In fact, it's not a hassle at all – until the whole class starts using utilitarian magic.
Each of the students had to participate in the construction of the temporary shelter and firefighting. They also practice hunting relatively harmless wild animals for food, or at least mimicking the animated structures of real animals. The illusory venue further disorients students, assessing their orientation and tracking abilities. Day after day, the schedule and activities continued. There was even simulated rain in the fields, and in one case, a forest fire, but Gwen suspected that Yue had something to do with it.
By the fourth day, Gwen's confidence had been shattered.
Since mages can manifest a wide variety of practical phenomena, different schools of magic make specific tasks trivial.
For example, Yue can make a fire, but cannot control the flames. This means that if she loses control of one spell, the entire camp could go up in smoke. Here, the water mage, the most common elemental mage, saves the day. They may not be able to fight effectively, but they can summon clean water to drink and wash, extinguish flames, and even effortlessly create magic shields to keep the rain at bay.
Similarly, recruit a good spoil or shapeshifter, and one has a shelter with immediate results. The abandoners created igloo structures with domes where teammates could sleep, while the transformers could transform stones to build a two-bedroom bungalow. Interestingly, Boone told them that at one point, his party was trapped in a wasteland near the Orange Belt in Central Australia. With no shelter from the sun, their Transformer dug a safe and good bunker underground, so the army chose to turn it into a forward base of operations.
So, watching the others go about their work, Gwen and Yue realized a fundamental flaw in arousal. The Awakened are very, very good at killing and blowing things up.
But in other ways a pony of a scam.
Oh. It's mine. My God. Her face was burned.
Thought she would be ashamed to evoke memories of others.
Gwen, Yue, and the other six people stood there, watching those who they looked down on do a dozen things at once.
Sorry, not a summoning mage!, Gwen apologized. I'm too arrogant to know anything about your talents!
There, the Awakened were the stars of every practice session, their eyes and ears captivated by loud explosions and cool fireworks;
Together with Geng and Yue, they watched their crumbling wooden house sway in the wind, while people like Deborah turned themselves into a high stone fortress.
Gwen cringed at the tenderness of her blistering fingers, and all motivation vanished from her. Even though Boone was watching her, she couldn't muster the motivation to do more.
To make matters worse, Deborah discovers the girls' incompetence and begins flirting with Boone, asking her for advice on how to strengthen the Battle Fortress of Normandy. After all, she's a perfect candidate, with shapeshifting and earth-like gifts, just like Boone.
Watching her sculpture twist into an arch and stretch into a wall distressed Xiao Yue, who could only chop off branches with her tomahawk, feeling like a useless name.
"Be bold!" Yue roared. "She's Sergeant Boone everywhere, like a cheap piece of meat. ”
"Very good......" Gwen shrugged. She could tell Boone was uncomfortable and understood the man perfectly. These are high school girls, and he's in his 30s. Although Deborah has a woman's body, her boyish notions of flirtatious sex are a big surprise.
By the time Deborah completed her mission, she had built an elevated fortification, a two-meter-tall monster with a roof and an observation platform. Boone raves about her, while their opponents are thrilled with their otherworldly confidence.
Yue Heguan looked at their worn-out sticks hunched over and exhaled through their noses sadly.
You won Debbie this time!, they sobbed in frustration.
Considering Deborah's presentation, the girls noticed the versatility of Transfiguration. Deborah can launch a short-range catapult, she can peel the skin, she can take the shape of a stone in the future. She can even self-gain and hand-to-hand combat with her goals and abilities to improve. Transfiguration is an all-around talent!Deborah is a useful being who has a team than themselves, who are hell with glass cannons.
"I think we look down on her too much," Yue admits pitifully. She likes to be honest about her feelings.
"Yes...... Gwen found herself rubbing her hair, "I feel useless." ”
"Ergo..."
Elvia joined them on the fifth day and was trained individually in combat triage and field hospital protocols. She's useless in the base building either. So the three girls spent a week learning some of the multi-talented stuff of other magic schools.
In the end, the trio managed to "pass the ball".
This is followed by combat training and teamwork.
In theory, the June setting is perfect.
Their scout Henry doesn't need to leave the party, so if things get to a certain point, they can fully enjoy Gwen and Yue's firepower as well as Elvis Presley's healing.
Thanks to an omens among them, the team can move while maintaining formation, alternating between Gwen and Yue to conserve mana, and having Elvis Presley and Henry go to reinforce the team. Jun himself doubles as a battlefield control and a tank, using his spells to trap and slow down opponents. If they encounter a soldier-level beast, Gwen and Yue can attack, while the army slows down. In the worst-case scenario, Henry and Elvis Presley had their own shields. In addition, as a clergyman, Elvis' mana-intensive shield of faith is just as powerful as Jun's shield of renunciation, even though she can only defend herself.
Theoretically, their formation seems to be perfect.
"Oh my God! I just died, Xiao Yue!
Thanks to a combination of illusion and magic, the training ground becomes a sparse line of fire, allowing the girls to track down a moving "dummy".
When Xiao Yue spotted a dummy hiding behind a thick-waisted oak tree, she instinctively unleashed a cannon fire. The consequences have been catastrophic.
Her first lightning bolt struck the tree. The second is on a branch. The third slammed into the adjacent ground, kicking up a cloud of dust and dirt.
The dummy escapes, but the tree shatters and falls, nearly knocking Joon down, and Joon has to hastily erect a reinforced ice barrier.
"You're good!" Yue pointed out.
"I know, but if I slow down, or if I suck, I'm a pile of meat under the tree now. "Imagine if Gwen or Henry were in my place," Jun pointed out coldly, which angered Yue even more.
The group's training did not go well.
Xiao Yue has a knack for shooting at anything that comes into her sight. Even with the divination provided by Henry, she was banging on the trees left and right, transmitting the explosions of split wood, dust, and various debris to her team.
Gwen thought about the physics of her past world and wondered if something like this could be applied to magic. Although she did not know how these shapes of explosives worked. It's not like they teach demolition in the MBA program at the University of Sydney.
"Then what do you want me to do?" Yue asked angrily. The woodland proved to be a terrible terrain for her magic, and by the way, it was the terrain for their upcoming field trip in the royal state.
Two upperclassmen stopped the party.
Five people get together to discuss better strategies.
"Xiaoyue, I don't blame you or anything, but you have to pay attention to the obstacles above your head. ”
After all, baseline mantras are eternal for a reason. If Xiao Yue insists on using rockets that cause trouble, then there will be no problem. However, rescinding the contract would halve her losses, not to mention, she was convinced that she could somehow make the contract work.
"Okay, we'll take ten, and then we'll call you. ”
The Viet Cong retreated and went to the Central Committee of the Party, with Gwen behind the army.
"Now it's Gwen. Jun motioned for her to follow. "Let me go, let me go. ”
"Okay. Gwen followed closely behind, feeling the adrenaline rush through her body.
June instructs the controller to release another dummy. In the distance, the shape of a half-humanoid creature becomes a reality. It lands mechanically on the forest floor, mimicking a half-kangaroo, half-goblin hybrid.
"Thunderbolt!"
A bolt of blue lightning ionized out of mid-air and struck it before it left the summoning circle, submerging the golem in pieces of wood and animal skin.
"I mean ......," Jun groaned. "In my opinion, Gwen ......"
Elvia was embarrassed by her two exciting friends.
"I'm sorry......" Gwen grimaced. "I'm a little nervous......"
"Sorry!" Joon shouted to the controller.
"You have 30 minutes left. A hoarse female voice shouted from the control tower.
"Oh well. Joan turned to Gwen. "In my name..."
Another dummy appears, giving it the illusion of entering the woodland in an elongated way. This time they waited until the thing was hiding somewhere in the woods.
"Okay, here you go. ”
Henry's aura appeared, and he scanned the area in front of him, almost immediately finding the magical features of this breathtaking building.
"Three o'clock, twenty meters, one enemy, small", the soothsayer skillfully reported.
The party pushed forward as quietly as possible, and Henry reported on the movements of their quarries every time he shifted positions. Gwen's bolts were effective at up to 40 meters, but as the distance increased, her spatial accuracy suffered.
"It's fascinating," Jun announced.
"God forbid. ”
"A real hit. ”
The group held their breath. The dummy stopped behind another tree, but quickly decided not to hide, jumping out of the bushes like a mechanical wallaby.
"Guide Bolts!"
Gwen looked in amazement at the latch half a meter away, as if guided by God, flying towards her goal. It's the effect of the real blow that brings about a chance for change, and it taps into the clues of all sorts of possibilities, giving her a sense of supernatural foresight. From the perspective of others, it looks as if this thing has hit a lightning bolt.
"Smack!"
The extra energy from the blessing spell begins. Not far away, positively charged bolts dismantled the building, leaving shards of wood everywhere.
"Get it done!" Jun ordered.
"Lightning explosion!"
Guided by the positive energy implanted in her guide bolts, half a dozen bolts arced in the air. Three strikes, three near-misses, and a subsequent electric explosion left only a mass of burning material.
"A ray of frost. "A frost extinguishes the spark and cools the area.
Cantreep in June extinguished any potential fires before they could spread. This is something they have to watch out for: there is almost no economic activity such as logging in the green zone, which means that the forest is on fire.
"Well done!" Jun said breathlessly.
"Nice Gwen," Henry continued.
Gwen high-fives Yue and Elvis Presley.
It was a good run from any angle.
This proves that the Lightning Mage has a ridiculous advantage over those who explode with projectiles. As long as Gwen can visualize the point of appearance, she can appear from behind, front, side, top, any direction. Still, shooting from above the target is safest, as the current tends to arc towards the lowest point, and Gwen doesn't want to risk wasting the spell and accidentally grounding it.
Before the end of the allotted training time, the group switched between Yue and Guan three more times. Xiaoyue's next attempt succeeds, but the last attempt fails again, causing a forest fire.
"Okay, let's clean up today. Jun made a phone call, and the five of them retreated from the practice ground. The hallucinations disappeared and they reappeared on the concrete pavement.
"Impressive firepower," a sultry voice sounded behind them.
"Ma'am. Jun greeted the man in the shadow of the hallucination.
"AO company questions?" the owner of the voice asked, and a jealous figure appeared.
The coach was a woman who looked to be in her twenties, slim and dressed in professional attire. She wears a scarlet pencil skirt and a conical white shirt decorated with a carmine silk tie and ruby red heels. The woman had a confident look that immediately focused the students, and her unusually gorgeous face did not diminish in the slightest. She tied her hair in a bun with loose rings of red hair that accentuated her delicate silhouette.
The instructor's dark blue eyes sparkled.
Compared to the others, Gwen was even more impressed. The teacher reminded her of herself.
"Ma'am. "The students expressed their respect.
"Guest coach Alexia Debotton. Their instructor reached out a hand and shook the student's sweaty palm briskly. "I'll take care of your team to go on field trips. ”
"Madam, we are under your care," Jun replied in front of the others, who had been knocked unconscious, much to Yue's disappointment.
"Not so fast, Tiger. Alicia's rosy smile was full of confidence. "First impressions matter. ”
She waved to the control station, and the field changed from a forest to a dozen dummies walking back and forth.
"Fireball!"
A ray of flame shot from her fingertips towards the wandering dummy. To their surprise, it flew perfectly between the first two, passed through the gap in the third, and hit the dead spot of the fourth. Then, a fire bloomed like a bright red lotus flower, rolling by.
But this explosion was a bit strange and unusual, as it lacked the heat that was ubiquitous in Yue's spell.
When the dust settled, they were shocked to see that only one dummy had been destroyed, while the others were only charred.
"What!" Xiao Yue's chin was half-open.
Gwen was flustered. Everything she saw defied reality!
"It was a spell that took shape. Alicia shook her fingers coldly, like someone knocking on the ashes of a cigarette. "You need a little summoning and a little transmutation, a little meta-magic training and a little elemental spirit help, then with a little practice, it should be controllable. ”
The gathered young people looked at their new teacher, and true adoration welled up from their little impressionable hearts. Despite the vagueness of her advice, even Gwen was infected by her amazing performance of abilities.
Arouse... And what about the metamorphosis?
She was flustered.
A mage!
A real magician!
A man who is totally competent in both schools!!
And this woman doesn't look more than thirty years old a day!
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