COI C9

On the same day, the campsite was filled with many students and adventurers, the rest are with Haw and Ironno somewhere within the forest, and Heist is with the unconscious kid outside from the portal. The day remained slow and peaceful, and the robe elf is going to meet Heist personally. The orders are there and absolute, and his actions will be judged by the presence of the man of Isekai. The wind blows ever so steadily where the growing forest heals itself from the disasters by the students passed by. Ignore his sight of many fallen creatures and raw resources to dry and empty, he is ready to confront a questionable man in cat man thing.

Heist sensed something is coming and a gust of wind coming with a full forced and dust covered someone inside. He didn't see who is in the wind, but he sensed it. He sees a figure and the robe elf revealed himself. Speaking in elven tongue, Heist didn't understand him and stay cautious

"WHO ARE YOU!"

Closely to a threat, and set his guards up. The robe elf pulls out a tribute to show him no harm. He cast a spell that forms a picture

". . ."

The robe elf shows him a portrait where he is with the students having fun with the other elves enjoying lunch.

“!?"

Heist was surprised and grew a bit tempted by the female elves than seeing the students.

The robe elf forced to reconcile himself for him by Heist's seductive expression on his companions. He later brushes off the spell, and pulls out an empty scroll. Heist thought it was a piece of paper

"Oh, can you write? Can you understand our language?"

The robe elf nodded and shows his open hand asking something to write.

"Pen? oh right, sorry I don't have one"

He laughs a bit, and the robe elf saw already one of those chalks lying on the ground near them. Heist remained oblivious and the robe elf looks at the unconscious child behind him.

"Oh right, the kid"

Heist looks back at the kid remained asleep and turns back.

Heist acted a bit silly, and explained to him

"The kid got hurt, and he needs to leave this forest"

Robe elf just nodded and continue to listen

"Eh enough about that. Why are you here?"

Both of them are in an awkward situation, Heist is surprised that an elf is in the D rank forest while the robe elf forgot about Isekai of man didn't understand him without the rune stone. Later the robe elf sensed something is coming, and probably this cat man's kind, knowing well that handling with these types of people will only ruined around them. He just cut the scroll by tearing it by his own hand into a papercraft insignia and gives it to him. He throws it as it glides the piece of paper to his hand.

"Is this for the kid? Why not give him yourself? I can trust you"

Heist is a bit suspicious but the elf remained calm, and the elf spoke again in elven language then he walks away, Heist is dumb founded and secretly kept the paper knowing he knew that elf is trying to be careful because of how powerful he is.

"I get it most of them won't cause trouble, what's more I can't get to talk those guys. Damnit!"

He slams his fist to his hand with arrogance

"I don't deserve this kind of cautious, those guys did save my other teams for the last few missions. I . . ."

The rescue team found them and began to land near them.

"Sir, we are here to rescue the kid"

"Yeah sure"

Heist was not being serious of being suspicious at the elf. On the other hands he has the piece of paper given by him

"This paper . . . Hey, gives this paper to the kid when he wakes up, ok"

"Yes sir"

They strap up the kid and began leaving. Heist returned back to the campsite, and with his hand in deep grasp.

"Those little shits will going to be fucked when I done with them"

He didn't care much later on, but there are something he needs to do. Reaching into the portal where there a fight between the students and adventurers, they argued as spoiled brats and the loudest are the one who beat up the kid.

"Those bastards, yelling is not the answer. A good beating will"

The portal remained to be seen, and the robe elf didn't leave, but his image walks away was an illusion. Seeing such a wonderous site, he bears no interest of it and watching a flying machine with the kid held his message. Not one of the witnesses to part of the apprenticeship of that child, and neither heard of it to ever existed. Woe is him where curiosity plays its game on him. A splendid way of life, and hope to joined along in the Enders guild quest. Where the ruined men put him to their sides to go along. He observed and watched in the far distance seeing the forest recovers from the students' activities and more.

Deep within the forest, where the students are preparing for the hunt, the elves kept their distance and stopping the monsters they wanted to get, and the two Raker Mawns watched the students in close distances to counter any incidents. These two only questions in their mind of how the students to deal with these rare creatures without obliterating all the loots they can spoil on. The monsters are elk like creatures forming in herds, and their numbers are suited for any students but their sizes deceivingly hid their prowess as beasts. With the forest slowly controlled by the elves to form a large cage, and protect the forest by any students' mishaps.

The elks noticed the shifts around them and began to follow the grand elk, every step began drumming of the old elven rhythm. Where the elves outside easy to decipher where they are, and all of the students and the two didn't know. The students used a surprised attacks in different directions, others threw something on the ground while others tried to use fear tactics. All attacks direct hit many elks in the general direction

"These rare monsters are still too easy for us . . ."

The arrogant speaks early of their victory, and the others followed along.

"What do you expect on a D rank forest"

The grand elk remained standing while the rest of its herd began struggling and others were suppressed. It began to roar at them, a strong shout granted a miraculous reaction to its herd. Many were healed and broke free from the attacks and began to follow the grand elk.

"What!?"

"How did it?"

"Focus! they are getting away"

Along with the confusion, Haw reorganizes them. The elks began to escape where the roar of the grand elk gives them a ferocious speed. They began to elusively running through the trees and their stumps grew ever loudly as they stomp every wood. Breaks and tear come along the magnificent of its gallops where the students can't concentrate by the strong noise.

"They are persistent"

"The traps!? why is the traps won't work"

"Did the roar destroys them?"

The elks run through the students' traps but there is one trap was triggered and trip many from the front and cause a collapse behind them, leaving only the stumbled left behind.

"That trap works, why the rest didn't work?"

"Get them before they recover"

The students and with their weapons surround the fallen elks as they get up.

"Rest of you, split up"

One of the students commanded the rest of her classmates to get the rest.

"No, don't waste your energy. Preserve what you have here"

Haw calls out to them, but the arrogant one ignored him and pursue on.

"Teacher Haw, we can handle these beasts"

Haw pointed out the traps and the tactics they did.

"There is nothing that you can handle, what you have taught before is different from than in real life. Call them back if you can"

"But teacher, we don't have much time to rally them. They already left"

Haw quickly looks at the students who pursue leaving a bad expression on them.

"Rest of you, do you still have those fail safes?"

"Yes, the school already implemented on our IDs"

Haw can't ever believe to witnessed these kinds of people to ignore such important training.

The elks are standing up and firmly hold their stance, where the students try to knock them back down. Its antlers block any projectile as its head waves around along with the wind blowing slightly away.

"This is not good"

the elks started to gallop again to their direction, and the students form a defensive counter. It moves closer to them and began raised its hooves and stomp on their shields. They block it while their enhanced strengths kept them going. The ground began to crumble where the students got sink into it.

"What?"

"Another sinkhole, can elks use magic . . .?"

They thought it was a sinkhole but the roots are entangling them where the ground breaks.

"These monsters can actually do that"

The students saw their classmates getting rooted where the elks climb up from their shields and jump over them. Haw seeing the students being doubted by their own abilities, he pulls out one of his potions and throws it at the roots. It withered and they saw the magic coming from it being released like smoke. They were free and continue to get the elks. The frontline students have their special ability, hooks, throw it to catch the fleeing elks. The students caught them and reel them in, but some elks pulled the students into them while they flee.

"Aaaaah!"

"Damn their strong"

"I still got mine, help me here"

"Haha, one of us just got fly away"

The students see the prowess of these elks and decide to change plans. The students who kept casting spells on them, did harm the elks, yet these elks persist to leave where they regenerate themselves.

"They can regenerate"

"No look, they are still bleeding"

"They can't even flinch. These are rare monsters"

The rest of the students have no other choice of wasting hunting the rest of the fleeing herd, and focus who are still caught. The students got pulled away by the elks' strength forced to let go and return to the group.

"We are supposed to be the overpowered here. Why are they so strong now?"

"Just get what we have left, there is nothing for us to waste around. Just tire them out"

One of the students who used exhaust on them were not effective and seeing them kept going.

"I still don't believe it either"

Petrify, Paralyze, Earth wall, Fire, Gravity, Sleep, and many more magic can't even to put these elks down. The students were trying all their unique abilities leaving them no avail with their powerful blows. One of the elks got hit leaving them to dust as one of the students lose their patience. Ironno saw their frustration and forced the most destructive spell on those creatures.

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Such destruction to see by the elves, everything went well from the beginning in the eyes of those students. Yet they judge differently than what the elves expected.

"Howldreds are the most difficult to kill when these creatures' stubbornness kept themselves going. The hunter didn't realize they already destroying them. That's how valuable they are in their fit conditions"

The elves talk to each other after seeing an elk to be fully destroyed

"Yeah, they don't know that these beasts possessed different kinds of magic and it's equal to their potency. Let's head out to the other students and make sure they don't get too far"

The rest of the herd are moving closely to the boarder where the surviving elks galloping further away from the hunting ground and along with the other students chasing them.

"Teacher Haw I got one, everyone, help me pull"

The students help him reel in the young elk. Haw walks behind them and brings out another potion, patiently reacted on the elk next moves. The elk kept itself moving forward and slowly sliding back to the students. It started to kick back at them with its tremendous strength and kick anything as it being pulled in. Haw throws an explosive potion in advanced and saw what the elk did, a boulder mend with the ground was there on the right time as it kicks it to their direction, and in midair, a potion collides with it and exploded.

"Whoa!"

Another one thrown while the other counter in every sequence he can make from the elk.

"Wow, this is getting too dangerous. Shield us would you"

The students who failed to get the other elks joined to help them. The shields were up but breaks so quickly

"How?"

They persist but didn't realize until one of the students who is the mage.

"The damn monster just air kick your shields like it was nothing"

"But my shield can stop anything"

"If it failed, then it failed"

The mage student changed her direction where she checks on the others while the one who cast a shield got thrown off by his own magic.

Haw brings out the handmade scrolls and give it to the shield student.

"Use it and see why"

The kid was in the middle of being dumbfounded and the other student slap to his senses.

"Hey teacher, I should be the one who use it"

"Give it to the kid who can shields, and he needs to learn it by himself"

"Ok, but what about the others"

"There are no other scrolls or potions would help you on this. I give those who really need to know" The student gives it to the shield student and yelled at him

"Use the scroll, we need the help we can get here"

The student picks up the scroll and used it, and in the short moment he obtains a temporary trait.

"Look out!"

The students didn't see what he pointed and Haw followed along and throw something at it. The potion breaks in mid-air, and the shield student realized that it was his own unbreakable shields hovering above and saw the air blowing it all above them like leaves cyclone itself along the strong wind. He then used the shields again the same shield like dome. The air reacted by the air kick of the young elk gives a blurry view of some force pressurizing the dome shield and began to fly off by its tremendous force, and with that, Haw kept his footing every forced to his stance. The shields remained there until he has to stops placing it.

He thinks the other way and remembered something

"Its magic can redirect my shield's positioning, and those flying are my shield as debris . . . This is not fair. I just want my shield to protect, not like an object"

and then he shouted at himself

"I have to learn my own abilities"

"Hey, what's wrong with you?"

"Did the scroll has some side effects?"

Haw kept focusing on the young elk as it now closing in to turn charge at them any time now. The elk turned around, and it uses its horn to cut the rope attached by the hook.

"No, it’s getting away"

Haw throws some more potions at it, but the elk is too persistent. Where the students kept their footings after the cut.

The shield student had made another shield on the elk, the same dome, but bounced out to the air. He becomes hard headed and got his head to work, and formed a shield sphere. Leaving the young elk trap.

"YES! I GOT IT!"

Haw realizes putting it on a unbreakable shield sphere made it a bit ironic.

"The wheel of doom"

The students heard their teacher

"Wheels of doom? haaa!"

the elk is running inside the sphere like some sort of hamster ball, both tumbling and running inside, hitting like some kind of a pinball among the trees. The indestructible shield and the full force of the elk's strength. The wheel of doom comes across by some absurd chaos for them.

Rolling into its captured herd and the other students put them in disarray, leaving the rest of fleeing herd escape or just out of its hooves from the ground. Haw's chance is too good to acted on where these elks left their hooves off the ground. In the middle of this chaotic swings of the ball, he ordered the ones who can used their magic tools

"Bring any kind of ropes and tie those elks who are off their hooves from the ground. QUICK!"

The remaining ropes on their arsenal were released and tie up any elks who are down. The students are still strong and can grab a hold a few of them while the rest who can't tie and even getting kick off by the elks and flew away.

The balling elk still cause a ruckus until the shield student who use on it, got knockback and flew back away and freeing the elk from the shield. After a worse event in the middle of this chaos, they somehow caught seven of them and Haw was heavily involved than he should.

"Teacher Haw? The rest of the dead elks, are they are still valuable?"

"Where?"

"I mean gone or nothing left"

The students were not able to contain their overpowered abilities, and seeing their powers were backfiring left and right. He maintains his posture and acted out of what Andui had taught him.

"It's alright, seems like we caught 5 uninjured"

"Well, you're the one who caught them"

The two other elks were injured and more like decapitated from its limbs and guts.

"Can I ask you something? These brutes can actually fight. What happened to them if they are willing to fight back?"

The students ask him after seeing such a battlefield than a hunting ground.

"I never been hunting these types of rare creatures, because the goblins warned us that these elks can fight like elves themselves"

"Really? Did they actually fight like elves during our hunt?"

"No, it was the grand elk's roar who used it"

They realized something, while cheering to get their first real hunt during their training, they forgot who are separated.

The elves are starting to worry where the students got separated are cornering the herd, their expertise can't balance out between them and the students. After a few blows to the elks, their stubbornness grew to survival and the instincts grew far worse than they could ever imagined. The grand elk is protecting his herd and the rest of the elk stood with it like some last stand. The students throw every powerful ability they have, the elks held on until the grand elk roars again. Timely execute where the students hitting the grand elks a stun or any silence skills. All of it are nullify by the strong roar from the elk.

"We can't lose here. We have the powers stronger than the rest of the world"

The statement is frowned by the elves and only them know the flawed.

"No matter how powerful, cause and effects are the true downfall who hold such absolutes"

The arrogant student came in to challenge the elks, where the herd prepared to protect its females and children. All horned raised and prepared to spread out. The students tried to wall them off like those walls coming from the elves.

"They broke through, but not those tree walls"

"Shit!"

The students were getting knockback by their charge, while the others held it in. The elks force themselves to use their horns to sway them out of balanced.

"oof"

"We can't even use magics on these Dud*"

An elk smash one of them by the charge, their special armors kept them being injured but the stuns and strikes were good enough for them to lose balance. The elks grew desperate where the students won't even back down. They all mustered together with the grand elk where the rest of the elks fighting were being blown off by their destructive force. The elks’ instinct released its ferocious roar and the grand elk charged in with an unusual magic through and through.

"What magic is that?"

The bright light in a formed of other elks charged deep, leaving no chance to have a good view by its blind charge.

Elks have becoming like bulls using everything of all the beasts and magic it thrive within the wild.

"There are getting annoying, we have to destroy them"

The students unleashed their most powerful magic that Horsin will never see. An explosion burst out causing the a few elks fully blown by only a short flash. Horrifying to see such destruction but the elves already understand what was it. The grand elk was full blown up and its appearance was no longer recognizable. The students have won, but never thought of getting from its corpse.

"We beat them, but . . ."

"But we have nothing to get from all that"

The same view from the previous harvest, but a crater showing nothing of any life.

The entire herd was blown away to the sky and the remains can't be identified. The aftermath has caused such barren field, and a strange thing happens around them.

"If we can manage to get one of them, we might . . ."

"There are too stubborn, and even though they are wild monsters. Can they be tame?"

The elves should help them after they massacred the grand elk, but this time, they want none of it as they desecrated the entire herd with no contribution to nature. She only spoke doubt on them

"They have destroyed the grand elk, where its body gone and magic freely. Withstand their mighty pride, and treating it like some weak creature. Witness more of its sad calls"

The magic border where the elves shield the hunting ground was broken in by another herd. This time, the other grand elk mustered all the never existing remains of its fellow species. As the previous grand elk was taken away but their connections through magic made them know.

"There are more of them"

"Good, we can have more to show off to our teacher what we did those so-called rare creatures"

A bit laugh from the group, as they unleashed the same trick they have. The grand elk shouts once like the other and they did even worse than the previous one, but the grand elk stood and its hooves stomp on the ground where the trees joined in to fight them.

"What the?"

The trees are joining in, but they look different than before. The students never imagine the possibilities of each monster can do, even the ones that can use magic in many varieties.

"The trees are"

The trees grew closer to them where the new herd chase them with the antlers absorbing the used mana in this desolated land. The elks are charging, the trees are coming from the ground with their roots, the air poisoned by exposed elven magic, and it is unleashing the phenomenon in this very forest.

"AAAH!"

A charge coming from the students and the forest itself starting bound together with the elks’ charge with every gallop grew stronger for this attack. The elves only watch them, and decide to leave and joined the Raker Mawn when this is over. One of them says to her partner

"I have never seen people acting on it to their pride"

"Let's get back to the other students. I hope these children learn something about it . . ."

Not even have a chance to see what happened. A sound of screams coming from the students and the wails of many different magics come across.

"NO!"

"WE CAN'T LOSE LIKE THIS"

"I'LL GET YOU ALL FOR THIS!"

They thought it was fear, but pride worsen their judgement.

Haw, Ironno, and the other students saw a large a pool of magic erupt close to the magic elven border. Seeing such a sight, only they could see. Outside of the border where no one going to see it. Where the breeze of the trees absorbing those sources of mana hidden away by sight as the clear winds hid the colorful mana with its breeze. It is one of the forest greatest mysteries. Where magic still lingers, but never once used to be destructive by thriving throughout nature. The elves reached them and shakes their head at them, looking disappointed where the students are worried. Leaving a sad expression

"Those students lost and disappeared, and the magic they left leaving you call elks . . ."

She couldn't continue and her partner acted out for her

"The herd was massacred, and the other herd unleashed more powerful that you can see here"

"What is it?"

All of them turns and see a pillar of light and sees the moving elks coming to their direction

"It doesn't matter, even for them they should be passing through"

The herd of elks reached them and they look rather odd than the previous one.

"Elven magic elks"

Haw told the students as they couldn't recognized the magic.

"When magic, such as destructive as yours. These creatures are stubborn live among the apocalyptic world. Look at it, they are the one of dangerous creatures after many battles"

The students are carrying their spoils, and seeing the other herds look rather terrifying as they can now sense dangers by these magnificent beasts move across the trees.

"We should've leave, elves, can you escort us"

The students ask them to lead the way and they gladly accepts as the students too. Ironno and Haw have got some lucky spoils, where there is a herd's thriving instead the dangerous ones kept on fighting during its travel.

"We have good catch with the breed, you man"

"Stop that . . . did the translator ruin your words"

"Heh, I would like to remove it to mess with ya"

"I would expect that"

Ironno almost let it go . . . almost.

"Raker Mawns, we hope these children learn something about the forest. Considering they said it is a D rank area, tell them that nature is still nature and there are still other animals come across depending which seasons they are in"

"noted, please let your leader knows about it as well"

Both nod to each other and they continue with the students back to the camp. The herd pleasantly moving passed them, and the rest of the herd all put themselves to the dust are becoming soils to the trees. Slowly formed the forest back to normal, but will the marks of those students’ deed disappear too.

An incident occurred within the campsite, where the failed safe ring opened with the students who are searching for the rare creatures. All of them who chased after the grand elk, and they are now here resting themselves witnessed all what those creatures have done to them. What's more surprising that the monsters didn't even lay scratch on them except by their own magic.

"Hey, what's wrong?"

The A ranks were checking on them

"Is there other people out there attacked you?"

"No, we got attacked by rare monsters"

"Monsters? Detection shows that these attacks are to be the same as ours"

The students couldn't get it, but they know they were taken down by the new herd.

"How about the rest of your classmates?"

"We ignored them to regroup and chased after those monsters and . . ."

They feel frustrated, and they can't even understand what's going on. Silfa and the rest of the team joined them.

"It indicates that your failed safes are activated by your own powers. What's got into you to use such life and death in a D rank area?"

They got embarrassed and their classmates outside heard about it and began to laugh

"God-like powers on a D rank forest, ahahaha!"

They can't even explain themselves but there is the other student who brought along a device she records.

"Here, this is the record what we did in the forest before lunch. I'm telling you that this monster is strong after a short while"

The girl who gives it to them is one of their adventurer's relatives. Silfa took it from her, and let the others doing their jobs. Alche made it and trying to scold these students, but pulled by Silfa

"I need you to help me on something. You can discipline them some other time"

"Wait, they are in a load of trouble. They are using life and death abilities on something they never have experienced before"

"Please Alche, follow me"

Alche, Silfa, and the rest of the adventurers gathered at their lounge and watch the video.

They were all surprised as they are with the elves in this very forest, three of them. Two female warrior elves and one robe wearing elf seem to be a magic caster. While watching it, Alche heard the elven word 'Mylnoie' and he accidentally stops the video with his magic.

"Hey why did you stop? These students actually met an elf. I never thought they are there in all places"

"Sorry, but can we replay what they said before"

"Would you please repeat that Gown man incident? That part was hilarious"

They replay it again, and Heist comes in late realizing who is in that video.

"Hey that's the same guy who visit me last time. Why does he actually speak fluent here"

"The rune stone might have help him speak in a more common language, but has a little flawed"

"Like what?"

"Gown man"

Heist just burst out laughing, hearing from it. While the others at the back starts laughing on that matter, Alche got it what he heard

"Silfa, the elves called him Mylnoie meaning, that's their superior"

Heist was shocked

"You mean that guy I'm talking before is a superior?"

"Yes, did you guys meet?"

"We met while the kid was with me. Do you really understand elven language?"

Alche pulled his device and Heist brings out his own with the recording.

"Can you translate this one too?"