Moments later Maximus finished thinking after he got a conclusion about his previous experience.

"So, their mental stability in both the past and present is due to their nature and not acquired from the other world, that's a bit reassuring."

'I apologize for what I did earlier, I wanted to test the limits of your mental stability and make sure of a few things.'

Everyone's breathing is still turbulent. After all, staying in a loop like this for three months and maintaining mental integrity is an achievement in itself, but the teacher's words do not bode well. Of all, it was Dante and Aliana who understood nothing despite knowing more than the others did because they saw a great contradiction in the teacher's behavior.

"The nature of the teacher... The teacher's actions, the more I look at him, the more I feel he hides more than he expresses."

Dante began to think and think about possible reasons why the teacher would do something like this. "Is this training dangerous and may cause psychological trauma? Is it about post-training? Or is it for personal reasons that have nothing to do with us? I can't understand what he's thinking."

'Rest for an hour and then we shall start our training that will last for five hours, your survival and safety are your responsibilities.'

Maximus decided to give them some time to gather their dispersed ideas in order to be ready for the first survival training.

'Is teamwork possible?'

'Of course, Eric. However, once you gather it will be easy for me to find you, so I do not advise you. Group skills development is important, but individual skills development is indispensable, as you won't always be together.'

After a long hour, as long as a hot summer day, you do not know its beginning or end, as if time slowed down from the intensity of the heat, second by minute, minute by hour and hour by ten days.

Each of the members gathered himself after what happened previously and prepared psychologically and physically for the next survival test. Maximus called them all to get close to him, then snapped his fingers and teleport them to an unknown forest. Sounds of insects and frogs everywhere. Some birds fly here and there, slender and tall trees from which vines hang for several meters and the humidity is stifling in the air.

Maximus can't throw them like this randomly into a forest without telling them some information about it, which can be called a hint if possible?

'This is the rainforest, a jungle in the west of the continent that is a destination for many adventurers and explorers looking for rare herbs and creatures. The terrain is rough, the soil is fragile and most creatures here are poisonous, so avoid touching anything. In addition, the rocks are covered with moss so it becomes very slippery, especially near the slopes.'

'You told us earlier that we were going to hunt monsters, what species are there?'

'This is what you have to explore for yourselves, remember what I said earlier. Survival is the top priority and do not face a stronger opponent.'

'Then understood, Master.'

The simple help he gave them earlier is mostly enough to take care of everything inside this 'rainforest'.

'I will give you five minutes to get away from here and I'll start chasing you afterwards. I wouldn't use mana tracking to make it fair and square but that doesn't mean I cannot find you.'

Maximus fired a magic bullet, which was as thin as a nail but powerful at the same time. It passed through shrubs and trees and hit something. The target was not clear to the boys until Maximus brought it in by telekinesis. It was an olive green lizard with a length of about thirty centimeters no more and with spikes along its spine. The magic bullet hit her in the neck with frighteningly accuracy.

'You understand what I mean?'

The color of the kids’ face changed after seeing and hearing this. He was just playing with them during training sessions until this moment, the first sentence he said to them came to their minds, "Training won't be difficult, it's hell." accompanied by a strange smile, they realized what he meant by that phrase. The training was mislabeled what Maximus called "survival training" akin to a "death hunt".

"If I wasn't good enough, I might be in the place of this lizard, damn our luck."

This one sentence came to everyone's minds at once and swallowed hardly.

Everyone looked into each other's eyes and nodded to each other and spread around Maximus in all directions to gain more time, Maximus smiled at their creative idea, but it was not different for him, so there is no difference between their separation and their gathering. Maximus waited in place for ten minutes before moving to give them greater chances of success since they were his disciples instead of the five minutes he had told them earlier, and then he began to walk in a certain direction while having a cunning smile.

'Let's see who will be the first prey.'

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"I think I've moved far enough, let's look for monsters to hunt."

Dante, who was the fastest among them, ran very fast and lightly among the trees, without stumbling into obstacles, and avoiding what might be an obstacle in his way, he began to turn his head left and right, looking for suitable hunting targets. While he was searching, he found a black cheetah about a meter and a half long, which did not look normal but not very dangerous. Dante sneaked light steps between the trees and jumped towards a nearby tree and began to move from tree to tree using his techniques, he took out one of the two short swords that were with him and pumped the aura into it, the aura was unified and very sharp and suitable to eliminate the target with a single blow, this aura was the product of daily training on mana in several forms for two weeks in addition to physical exercises and fighting that push one to the limits and breakthrough them faster.

He jumped from the branch he was on heading towards a tree trunk and then pounced on him directly and killed the cheetah after stabbing it in the middle of its head, there was resistance by the cheetah's skull but after penetrating it, the short sword passed smoothly and came out of his throat from the other side. The cheetah tried to resist but it was too late as he fell dead just a few seconds later.

'The first prey- success. Let's move somewhere else.'

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Elsewhere in the forest, Orion was also looking for a target to hunt, a feral boar with thick skin and sharp fangs that wandered among the bushes and ate from different places.

"I think it's a good target apparently. Let us give it a try." Orion began to watch the boar looking for potential weaknesses and an optimal opportunity, approaching it and minimising the distance between them, looking for the closest safe distance. Orion had hunting experience having worked with his father for three years and knew how to analyze the behavior of animals and their potential weaknesses. It did not show weaknesses or rather that Orion realized that he did not have enough strength to attack some weaknesses. From his thick leather-covered body and dense lint, his hind legs were somewhat exposed.

After a gradual approach, four meters was the shortest distance he went unnoticed. He applied the stealth skill he learned yesterday and applied a dense yet disorganized halo around his sword; it was like that because he pumped too much mana because he was not sure he could cut off the leg of the wild boar in one fell swoop. He waved all he had and hit the pig's left leg. Despite these, they did not succeed in cutting the pig's leg completely, but the bone was completely shattered, and its movement would be restricted for the rest of the time.

"That's how I ensured my victory in the fight; I'll beat his neck again and again until he dies while avoiding his rushes towards me. It won't be dangerous, but I'm not going to lower my guard."

Ten minutes after avoiding his attacks and beating, the sword had cut more than ten centimeters from the pig's neck. After dozens of strikes, the depth was enough to cut the artery and caused the pig to bleed to death. His blood smeared the area and the smell began to spread through the air. Orion made sure his clothes were clean of blood and left quickly before a dangerous predator would arrive. He looked for a place to rest for minutes before completing his search.

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Near a stream in the middle of the forest, Mira moved further after hearing the sound of the purr until she glimpsed it from afar.

"I hope I find a good target there."

With some hope, Mira slowly advanced until the vision began to become clearer. Among the trees, she spotted a hugely black bear well over two meters tall. "That's bigger than what I could beat. I'll wait and see what comes here."

Mira waited among the trees fifty meters from the river that mediated a cliff, Mira waited among the nearest trees to the edge of the cliff, which did not exceed three meters in height, but it was enough to prevent the growth of trees in the trees and only herbaceous plants were able to grow below. Half an hour after trolling, a group of three gray wolves stepped forward to drink from the river without regard for the bear. Their careless behavior provoked the wrath of the bear, as the wolves encroached on his area without regard to his ownership of it, the bear proceeded to attack them without regard to the consequences.

"A golden opportunity came creeping to me!! I will take advantage of their fight to inflict as much damage as possible, I will help the loser to restore balance and drag the fight as much as possible until they inflict the most damage on each other and then eliminate them one by one."

Mira descended towards the cliff, which was closer to a grassy meadow than to the bottom of a cliff. It contained many, many huge rocks several meters in size, these rocks did not belong to this area, but were washed away by the river when its level rises during the rainy season. Its level rises by at least ten meters and covers most of the meadow, which has eroded the edge. At the growth line of the trees, the river becomes so turbulent and its currents are so strong that everything that gets in its way is relentlessly swept away even if it is huge rocks like this. Mira exploited these stones and crept between them, approaching the site of the fight between the bear and the three wolves.

The bear was superior at first and with a blow from his palm, he threw one of the wolves for several meters and was about to wipe out one of them, Mira intervened and twisted roots behind his hind legs hindering him to prevent ot from eliminating the wolves. The wolves that had been losing moments ago turned around the bear and attacked it from both sides, causing neither insignificant nor serious damage. Mira freed the bear's legs, he became completely berserk, crushed the pelvis of one of the wolves and lost the ability to move his hind legs, the other two attacked the bear’s hind legs and damaged its tendons, and the movement became painful and much harder. Mira took the opportunity, spread sharp roots in the area, and began stabbing the wolves to death. The bear, who had not previously noticed Mira, turned towards her and pounced on her with all his remaining strength, but she always kept a sufficient distance between them and continued to stab him with the roots in his belly until his entrails began to appear, the bear lost its concentration from bleeding and fell dead as well. Mira remained standing in the middle of these corpses, smiling and talking to herself about her success in getting such a big catch. Her joy continued until an explosive magic arrow interrupted as it hit the ground no more than ten meters near her and caused a large explosion. It would have been more serious if she had been closer. Mira's slender legs began to tremble and almost lost her concentration, but she set off towards the trees on the other bank after jumping over the river over a growing root that she moved towards the river to help her with one thought in her head:

"Please don't hurt me, please don't hurt me. Why am I the targeted of all?"

More than three hundred meters away, Maximus was the one who launched the magic arrow, or should we call it bombardment? He raised his hand to his forehead to block the sun and get a clear view of the position of the arrow. The accuracy was as stunning as he wanted her to be, it did not hit Mira directly or cause actual injuries, but it was enough to push her to escape at full speed. He simply achieved his goal and paid no attention to anything else.

'It seems that my skills are still decent. It would have been dangerous if it had been closer. That's enough for Mira, let's look for someone else.'

Maximus wrapped his hands behind his back after he identified his next destination and set off very quickly...