Chapter 237 Working Alone [2]
"Anyway, I should probably leave now," I said. "I'm fine now, so it shouldn't be a problem."
"Huh? I think you should stay with us, it'll be entertaining," Leon insisted.
"I would love to, but I'm better off working alone," I stated.
Leon insisted a few times that I should stay but in the end, I was able to convince him. Ellyn and Anya already knew that I disliked company, thus they weren't going to interrupt, and neither they did.
Henceforth I left their group and wandered off on my own after thanking Leon once again for healing me. As much as I hated to admit it, he really had a broken system.
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Once I split up with Leon and the rest, I wandered off into the forest on my own. The sun had climbed up in the sky and the weather was good too; in short, it was a good day.
I removed my blazer which was a tangled mess of torn-up cloth and threw it away. I wouldn't want to get stuck in that during a fight, after all. The rest of the uniform wasn't in the best condition but it was enough to pass the remaining two days.
Taking out the magic crystal from my pocket, I tossed it around in my hands as I walked. Seeing it I remembered the reasons why I came to this island.
As I've mentioned before, there were three reasons why I came to this island.
The first one was to take care of Emmeric and the others who were plotting against me. I know I could have avoided this entire fight if I had opted out of the exam after Nsiria told me about their plans, but I didn't because I wanted to finish them for once and all. Otherwise, they would have caused trouble for me later on.
The second reason was to acquire a magic crystal—which was done since I got it after completing the hidden task. Or many crystals you say.
They were basically the same things and the difference in the names came from the fact that mana crystals were pure and came out directly from the mines within the labyrinths while magic crystals were processed for industrial use.
I wanted one of these for some of the experiments I want to do since they were rare and not available in the normal market, the exam was the best way to acquire one.
This, of course, meant that I wouldn't be submitting this to the teachers after the exam and won't get the points I should get for completing the task. But points were never my target so it wasn't much of a problem anyway.
The third and last reason was to test out my skills. I'd been training myself consistently for the last three months in both sword arts and magic. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to bring the Requiem sword with me since it was outside the rules but I still had my magic to test out.
I needed a place where I could do that. The human dummies in the training facility were up to no good since they were just non-moving targets, that's all. Hence this island, which was filled with real monsters, was the best place to test myself out.
Thus I did just that. For the next two days, I spent my time slaying as many monsters as I could on this island. f𝔯𝒆𝚎𝚠𝑒𝚋𝒏૦νℯl.co𝓶
It started out slow, but soon it became a competition between me and the other students. After all, they had to kill as many as possible in order to collect as many points as they can.
And since I was the only one who didn't care about the points, I focused more on how strong I am compared to the average student in the area. Thus I would often find myself alone in the middle of a massive horde of monsters.
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I still managed to beat the other students in terms of kills, though. While they were busy killing all the monsters they could, I would let the monsters surround me and then slaughter them one by one. It was an excellent opportunity to train my magic skills.
After a day or so I noticed something: I was getting stronger, in fact. Taking out monsters took less and less time as I progressed. Now I could defeat even the strongest monsters in the area with relative ease. Even a high-level monster like the golem was no match for me.
It was just what I wanted.
I spent the next three days doing that. Killing monsters was fun and rewarding, but it also had its drawbacks. After all, I was running out of mana. Thus I had to take regular breaks to replenish my mana and make sure I don't get mana exhaustion again.
Food wasn't the least of my problems. On the first day, I'd eaten nothing but some fruits which I identified as edible. After that, I tried to eat some of the monsters, and since the horned wolves were the closest thing to animals, I decided to eat them.
I killed one and cooked its flesh and ate it. The result…well, monster meat tasted worse than I thought. And I scratched the idea of eating them forever. However, the problem was soon solved when I arrived at the beach on the island.
I was hunting some monsters, that's how I'd ended up here. Never did I know that I'll end up with such a good supply of food. I saw the ocean, and the idea popped into my mind.
Going to the shore I confirmed that the fishes I'd hoped to catch were there: they were. Once that was confirmed, I used my elemental magic and froze the water surrounding any fish I saw.
The fishes froze inside a block of ice and the block came floating upward on the surface of the water, I went and picked them up and after releasing my magic and taking the fishes out, all I had to do was cook and eat them.