Ascension: Strongest Fateless Mage

"In this Wild Magic Call activity, all of you will be thrown into a forest for eight hours. There are dangerous magic beasts in the forest up to grade-4 magic beasts, so be careful. Oh, and you can join hands with other student pairs to defeat magic beasts," Karina said with a sharp smile. "That's it! There are some other things, but you will have to discover them yourself."

All the students were startled. That was like…telling almost nothing about the activity!

"All you need to know is that you can earn points, so find out how to earn them, and they will be recorded in your badge. Those who failed to meet the required points will be expelled, and the top ten pairs with the highest points will get some rewards," Karina said before she took out a giant ship from her storage ring and placed it down. "Get on!"

The students entered the ship with confusion written on their faces.

"The hint should be the name of this activity, Wild Magic Call," Zevien said thoughtfully. "We will find out what the deal is after entering the forest."

…

Shortly later, ten other teachers arrived on the ship before it took off and flew away from the academy.

Inside the giant ship's faculty room, ten teachers sat around the big table while Karina sat at a slightly bigger chair at the table as she was the head teacher.

"Head Karina, shouldn't we tell the students not to attempt to kill other students? After all, they are bound to fight when they find out how to earn points," a middle-aged woman said with a slight frown.

"No need because nobody will die," Karina nonchalantly spoke as she waved her hand and took out a pile of bracers from her storage ring. "Go and give every student a bracer. Tell them that if they feel that death is coming closer, they can infuse mana in the bracer to save themselves and teleport on the ship."

"Oh?"

The other teachers were surprised.

Karina leaned back in the chair as a cunning grin appeared on her face. "This item will also protect their vitals once they are close to death and teleport them on the ship's teleport nod, even if they don't infuse mana, but don't tell them about the automatic saving effect of this bracer."

The other teachers nodded in understanding.

"We have to increase the ruthlessness because the future is even more brutal," Karina said with a cold glint in her eyes. "They can fight all they want to hone themselves in this dangerous environment."

…

Soon, some teachers arrived on the giant ship's deck, where students were standing in small groups, and gave everyone a bracer before telling them about it.

Ten minutes later, the ship finally arrived at the forest and landed on the ground outside the forest.

"There is one more thing about this activity, and it's about how to finish it," Karina said as she overlooked the students standing on the deck. "The final goal is to pass the forest and climb that mountain peak in eight hours. Those who failed to climb or climbed without sufficient points will be expelled."

"Umm, can you at least tell us how many points we need and how to see the points we earned?" a student asked.

"Nope," Karina shook her head smilingly. "You will know the existence of the points soon, but you won't know how much you need to pass. Just do your best and climb the mountain peak before the deadline. Alright, now leave the ship and enter the forest. The entire forest and those three mountains are inside our academy's magic formation created by the Headmaster."

Soon, all the students got off the ship while those who could fly flew towards the forest.

Zevien and the gang stayed together and went close to the forest's border before arriving in front of the faint blue visible barrier. However, after they passed the barrier, they found themselves separated!

"Obviously, they wouldn't allow a big group to move together," Zevien said with a wry smile.

Vernisia nodded as she looked at her golden badge. "I guess the pairs stay together because of the badges."

"Yep. Each abode had a pair of badges, so they should be connected somehow with the unique code of each pair of badges," Zevien nodded before grinning and cracking his knuckles. "Well, time to go on a rampage!"

But suddenly, his face changed. "I can't access my storage ring."

Vernisia raised her eyes and tried, but she also couldn't access her storage ring. "This magic formation barrier is likely preventing it."

"Yeah."

"Anyway, let's get moving," Vernisia said as she called out to Lyn and sat down on it.

*Neighehehe!*

"Alright," Zevien said before he activated his shaman seed to power up and then sat down behind Vernisia while grabbing her waist. He didn't power up to full, but just increased his magic power to 1000 for now.

"After finishing this activity, we'll go and custom order our battle outfits. Many students already had battle outfits," Vernisia said before she commanded Lyn to fly upwards.

However, when Lyn flew five meters in the air, it cried and descended to 3 meters in height.

"What happened?" Vernisia asked as she caressed Lyn's head.

Soon, Lyn sent back thoughts to Vernisia and told her it couldn't fly above five meters in height as some sort of power suppressed it.

Zevien also guessed it and laughed. "Let's just zoom through the forest."

…

After five minutes of flying, they encountered a grade-5 Earthly Bear.

*Rawr!!*

The bear roared after seeing Zevien and swiped its large, sharp, brown claws as two crystal claws materialized and shot toward Zevien.

Lyn nimbly dodged the attack before Zevien jumped high and waved his right hand to release a [Nyxite Claw] towards the bear.

*Swoosh!*

The black creepy, devilish claw was fast and dangerous as the bear was directly cut into three. However, something strange happened after that!

The bear turned into black ink while leaving a tomato-sized golden orb behind.

Zevien curiously moved towards the golden orb. "Could it be that we earn points by collecting such things? Hmm, so the magic beasts in this forest are fake or what?"

"Don't move! Leave that orb, or we will attack you!"

Zevien and Vernisia looked to their left and saw two students standing five meters away while pointing their hands at them.

"Are you sure?" Zevien grinned.