As Raya sat down to rest, a clump of grass not far from her suddenly began to shake.

With a bang, a small head with a black and white ponytail and a green leaf on top of his head suddenly poked out.

"Raya, are you alright?"

Fran struggled to pull her foot out of the dense grass, and asked with concern as she patted the little yellow slime sticking to her body.

Raya shook her head:

"I'm fine, it's good that you lured away those troublesome ooze monsters, or we'd have failed the assessment."

Fura smiled and waved her hand, just as she was about to say something.

"Click~"

With the sound of leather boots on dead branches, the last of the test students, Bill Liaton, also walked out from behind the tree in the other direction.

Compared to Fran, who was a little embarrassed with slime, Bill, who also attracted half of the ooze monsters' hatred, was much cleaner.

It had been three days since they had entered the outskirts of the Ibi Forest.

At this moment, the clothes on the three of them were much more embarrassed than when they first entered the forest, and they also had a strange smell unique to the damp jungle.

As for their mentor, Jin Longtina, she had already cast invisible magic, hiding in the distance and recording their every move.

The graduation assessment trials of the Royal Capital Academy of Magic usually take more than a week.

(Except for the first session.) The students of that class were basically legendary strengths, and in addition to the identity of students, they basically held positions such as deputy commanders of major legions)

During this period, each tutor should record the performance of these students for reference data in the subsequent graduation ceremony.

It is also a record of witnessing whether a student actually becomes a qualified mage.

If you want to get into a low-paying workplace like the Court Mage, this record has to be beautiful enough.

(It is worth mentioning that when Gandalf, the dean of the Magic Academy of Oracle Town, graduated from the Royal Capital Magic Academy, he completed the solo mission in only 1 day and 6 hours in the actual combat assessment, becoming the first graduate of the year, and was directly escorted into the palace mage group.) ）

"Senior Bill, are you okay? There are no injuries on the body, right? Want some water? ”

Seeing that her sweetheart also returned safely, Raya hurriedly greeted her warmly.

This standard act of forgetting friends caused Fran next to her to roll her eyes, she had never seen her care so much about herself.

In the face of Raya's initiative, Bill did not reply.

He was still wearing the black robe of unknown material, and walked up to Raya with a calm face, and suddenly bent down and squatted down.

In an instant, there was barely a three-centimeter distance between the two bodies.

"Hmm!"

Raya's eyes widened as she looked at Bill, who was close at hand.

It was the first time to be so close to her crush in front of her best friend, which made Raya, who had always been very aggressive, blushing in an instant, and completely lost the sassy demeanor of fighting the Rex Tyrannosaurus alone just now.

However, Bill did not make any romantic confessions as he imagined, but instead seemed to be looking closely at something.

He carefully opened the eyes of the dinosaur corpse sitting under Raya, and after looking at it carefully for a while, he walked aside with confidence, took out the kettle and poured it down on the palm of his hand.

"Rex Tyrannosaurus, the king of third-order demonic beasts, judging from the crystal turbidity in its pupils, it should be a dying old dragon."

Bill said calmly as he cleaned his blood-soaked palms with water.

At this time, Fran also walked to the side of the Rex Tyrannosaurus, squatted down and patted the other party's tail, and said helplessly:

"It's a pity, although this big guy's strength is not inferior to some fourth-order demonic beasts, it doesn't match our goal."

"Not only did we waste our work this time, but we also wasted the magic trap we had spent all day laying out."

After experiencing the sudden "intimate encounter" just now.

Raya barely sorted out her fawn-like heart, and said with a red face and a smile:

"It's okay, the trap can still be arranged anyway, isn't it~"

"And we're not going home empty-handed!"

As she spoke, Raya smiled mysteriously and suddenly held the object hidden in her right hand aloft.

"What's that?"

Fran looked at her curiously.

As Raya's palm slowly opened, a dazzling green light instantly caught the eyes of Raya and Bill.

"Dangdang!"

Raya excitedly held up the prismatic demon core that was emerald green and the size of her palm, and shouted with a smile:

"Look what this is!"

"This"

Fran looked at the demon core lying in the palm of Raya's hand, and shouted with wide eyes and amazement:

"Third-Order Wind Demon Core? Raya, you're so lucky, aren't you?! ”

You must know that the output rate of the demon core of the third-order demonic beast is not one in ten according to the official statistics of Rose.

In fact, this ratio is much lower than the official statistics, and many times it is normal to kill dozens of third-order demon cores without them, otherwise the price of demon cores would not be so high.

Unexpectedly, Raya obtained a magic core after her first successful hunt, and I have to say that her luck is really good.

"Hey, hey, when we return to the green forest capital and sell it, we can repay the money we borrowed from the mentor."

Raya smirked and scratched her head as she quietly watched Bill's reaction not far away.

Unfortunately, the expected surprise expression did not appear.

Bill looked at the beautiful crystal, just nodded calmly, and then walked over to a large tree and sat down.

He is now just a physically strong ordinary person, not the star-studded royal capital twin stars that he once was.

Even with the magical assistance of Fran, the series of extreme parkour exercises in the jungle just now had consumed a lot of Bill's energy, and if it weren't for the deep meditation that had also exercised his physique, I am afraid that he would have collapsed to the ground by now.

Looking at Bill, who closed his eyes and recuperated, a trace of loss flashed in Raya's eyes.

But soon, this cheerful girl hid this loss in her heart, turned her head and smiled and began to discuss with Fran how to find the traces of the fourth-order demonic beast next.

"I originally thought that it would not be difficult to defeat the fourth-order demonic beasts with our strength, but I didn't expect that finding them would be the real problem."

Fran rubbed her greasy hair that hadn't been washed for three days, and sighed helplessly.

Raya nodded and said in agreement:

"Yes, the periphery of the Ibi Great Forest has been swept over and over again by those mercenaries, how can there still be that kind of high-level magical beast."

With that, Raya's eyes rolled, and she suddenly whispered:

"Otherwise, let's go to the forest"

"No way!"

"Don't even think about it!"

Fran suddenly interrupted Raya's words, and at the same time said with a serious expression what Tina was hiding not far away from at this time.

"But we've been exploring for three days, and there's really no trace of a fourth-order demonic beast on the edge of the forest."

Raya kicked the Rex Tyrannosaurus corpse next to her in grievance.

"You see, even it can become an overlord in the outer forests."

Looking at Raya who pouted, Fran sighed and said in a serious and soft voice:

"Have you forgotten what Mentor Tina said? This was once the territory of the elves, although the high-level magical beasts and magic nodes outside the Ibi Great Forest were basically defeated by the mercenaries."

"But don't forget, the magic node inside the forest has never been found! There are a large number of high-level and even legendary magical beasts there, and our current strength is completely looking for death. ”

"Okay~~"

Raya nodded decadently.

She knew that Fran's blockade was well-intentioned, but she really wanted to show herself too much now.

If it were Raya in normal times, she would not have come up with such a dangerous move at all.

Fran understood what she was thinking, gently took her hand, and whispered comfortingly:

"Let's explore a little more to the side, there will definitely be"

Before he could finish speaking, Bill, who had been resting with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes.

The pair of emerald jewel-like eyes suddenly looked in the southeast direction, and shouted:

"Who? Come out! ”

After receiving Bill's warning, Raya and Fran immediately stopped talking.

She grabbed her wand, and as Fran watched warily into the dark and dense jungle, she cast two pale green wind blessings that increased her speed on Bill and Raya.

Bill, who stood up, drew the thin sword at his waist and looked vigilantly in the direction of the movement, and a small pale yellow fireball began to appear in Raya's hand.

After three days, they already had the prototype of an adventure team.

The bright-eyed Bill takes on the role of guard and combat containment for the squad.

He always spotted the enemy before they arrived, and the three of them avoided a lot of useless battles.

Fran, who is proficient in wind magic, serves as a support position in the squad.

Before the battle begins, she will set up various trap spells, and she can also apply various buffs to the other two.

Occasionally, in battle, Fran can also use the Wind Blade to perform a certain amount of damage output, which can be said to be a very versatile existence.

As for Raya

As the undisputed main attacker in the team, Raya's fire-based magic is definitely a big killer in the team.

Just look at the Rex Tyrannosaurus that was cooked by the fireball technique, and you can see how terrifying the output of this girl who specializes in fireball magic is

"Who's sneaking out there? Hurry up and come out! Otherwise, we can only think of it as an enemy. ”

Raya shouted, and the fireball in her palm exploded, instantly increasing from the size of an orange to the size of a basketball.

"Don't, don't do it, we're entangled in vines."

A somewhat high-pitched, panicked voice came from the dense forest to the southeast, accompanied by a few inaudible mutters:

"Great Wild Wanderer, how the hell did this goddamn vine grow so big?"

"Cookie, you guys are using a bit of force! Didn't you say that your broken sword couldn't cut anything, why can't you even cut a vine?"

"Whew!!"

Listen to the screams in the jungle.

The three of them glanced at each other and nodded tacitly.

With the blessing of Fran's [Group Feathering Technique], the three of them quietly walked together in the direction where the sound came from.

Although it may be a trap, out of compassion for fellow intelligent beings, they still feel like they want to investigate.

As the distance got closer, Bill, who was at the forefront, gently picked open the dense bushes that blocked his view with his thin sword, and leaned into the depths of the forest.

Suddenly, a snow-white humanoid with pointed ears and a little creature less than the size of a palm appeared in front of them.

looked at the two spirits who were bound by black vines, but still "fighting".

After carefully discerning it, Fran suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, looked at them and asked in a curious whisper:

"You're White Goblin Otto and Leprechaun Cookie?"

"Oh my God, I didn't think anyone would remember my name now."

Hearing this, the good-looking white goblin waved an oversized backpack to resist the wooden sword spur of the goblin next to him, and took the time to look up at the three of them with a smirk:

"Let me see, oh, it's a beautiful half-spirit┗|'O′|┛嗷~~"

Before the white goblin could finish speaking, he suddenly let out a miserable howl.

Suddenly, it turned out to be the angry goblin who was ignored on the side, saw the right time, avoided the blockage of the big backpack, and stabbed the white goblin in the ass with a sword.

Bill, who was at the front, didn't seem to want to witness the smell of the sight.

After confirming that the two men were not in danger, he retreated to the bottom of the tree and continued to close his eyes.

"Uh, Fran, do you know them?"

Looking at the white goblin who was scolding and shouting, "I'm going to break your little toothpick," Raya turned her head and whispered.

Fran shook her head:

"I don't know him, but I heard about the goblin merchant when I was a kid."

Fran paused, and raised his eyes to look at the goblin merchant's delicate, slightly cunning face:

"Legend has it that this white-skinned, long-eared goblin merchant and his elf companions often haunt the forests of Ibi, searching for the treasures left behind by the legendary dwarf god of forests and travel, the Wild Wanderer."

"When he meets customers who match his heart, he sells them his inventions."

Hearing this, Raya suddenly became interested and asked excitedly:

"Wow, isn't he at least a hundred years old? Can goblins live so long? ”

Just as Fran was about to speak.

The white goblin Otto, who was entangled with the little goblin, suddenly took the time to raise his head, looked at Raya and said dissatisfiedly:

"Little human girl, please don't confuse me with those dirty, tawny-skinned idiots in open crotch pants, that's the greatest insult to the great Otto!"

"Wow, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."

Raya, who was found whispering behind her back, scratched her head and smiled embarrassedly.

Fran on the side hesitated for a moment, but still stuck to Raya's ear and whispered with voice transmission:

"But it's said . He is a prisoner who escaped from the Confederacy of Carmelo on the west side of the Endless Sea. ”

"But no one has been able to prove the truth of this at the moment."

(End of chapter)