It soon became noon and the apprentices gathered and the mentors explained the rules.
Stealing from another apprentice is forbidden, they can't go past the borders, they can catch anything they can and the reward would be revealed at the end.
The other apprentice were gone immediately as soon as the competition started, just like those ninjas portrayed in shows leaving Alex's group behind but not for long.
Kristin flew using the wind element, lighting started dancing around Elijah as he was gone in a purple flash of light, Charlotte converted her legs and arms into that of wolves and started running on all fours jumping from tree to tree, branch to branch.
Leslie is on the chill slow side, she simply asked the trees to carry her around and so the trees did, Alex on the other hand was even slower, he just walked to the edge of the platform and jump onto the forest floor and started walking on a direction.
No running, no rushing, just started walking casually as if not in a competition. The other apprentice had mention this kind of competition would happen every half moon [that's how they count months here and they judge that a full year has passed by the seasonal cycle].
Only the village healer would get free meals cuz how would an old man or lady hunt for herself, of course there's their apprentice but how could they also hunt if they have no prior experience to even track prey.
Now not all seems heartless here as there is a food warehouse that distributes food to everyone so the village could keep functioning as a whole and also help those who can't hunt for themselves, but one has to at least contribute to what is inside the food warehouse for them to be able to get any, it's a kind of investment in a way.
Going back to the competition, Elijah was the first to find a prey to hunt because of his lightning speed, its another one of those earth deers that can throw boulders at someone, but before it could even react, an arrow was shot on its head, the arrow flew straight through the deer and the deer fell lifeless on the ground.
This is one of the techniques saw on those anime he watched, where a character would infuse their magic to their weapon to make it more deadly so Elijah spent the last week trying this technique and this is the first time he used it on a real target.
Elijah carried the deer to a near tree and started to cover it with dirt to hide it as he would claim this later on. This is one of the things they was taught during the last week if the prey is large enough to hinder his movements while out hunting. After burying the deer, Elijah's body is once again covered in lightning to find his next prey.
Moving on to Charlotte who is a hunting maniac, with the help of the wolf body parts, she also has the wolf hunting and tracking skills of a wolf, this is one of her most powerful spell so far but also the most dangerous, mainly because if she added too much animal instinct to her neural network it would make her go feral.
It the last week she thought of this as the memories of Cecil kicked in as she saw him do the same and she just as he did but one thing she didn't see was that after doing so for the first time doing so made him go wild and went on a rampage nearly killing Estela and the others and was only stopped by knocking him out.
She was careful ever since the first incident, she wants it to be the last so she keeps the animal instincts to as low as possible to prevent going feral again but also high enough that she would actually benefit from the animal instinct. She is currently on her 5th fire-breathing rabbit and was chasing down another one as she found a nest full of them.
Kristin on the other hand is having the worst luck, even after a full hour of flying through the trees she didn't see anything, some occasional birds flew past her but they are either too agile or too fast for her even after blitzing through the trees.
So she ditched her bow and arrow and started using compressed air bullets. This 'Air Bullets' has a diameter of 5 millimeters, has a sphere shape and is very fast, and one of the most deadly feature is that its invisible to the naked eye as it is too small to start attracting dust and debris and her kills started to sky rocket. Sky rocket in a sense that she now has 10 small birds compared to her 0 before.
Now for Alex, he is just taking his time and once he found a clearing he uttered one word, "Domain."
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