Chapter 31: Ch 31: Dangers in the Second Test

After spending some lovey dovey naughty time together, Rein and Lauren again returned to the Dreadful Touvic Woods to complete their mission.

Technically leaving the forest in the middle of the test to have fun with your newest lover was definitely cheating and a crime worthy of the capital punishment, but the other mithril rankers who were in charge of keeping an eye on the participants had already lost Rein's and Lauren's trail when they hid their presence at the very beginning.

So, those invigilators were mostly trying to see if anyone was leaving the forest or not which would not be able to prevent or detect teleportation in any way. So Rein's crime was not caught. And if not caught, it was fine.

And spending time with his girlfriend had higher priority than any lousy exam anyways for Rein.

While Rein and Lauren were having their bed talk and were whispering sweet nothing into each other's ear, Rein had explained most of his powers to her.

It made Lauren very surprised, but she was also able to accept it easily as she already had a guess that Rein was way more impressive than what she had initially thought.

So, she proposed that she wanted Rein to leave everything to her, even for his safety. These rank 4 and 3 monsters were no trouble for Rein, with him her safety was assured. So she wanted to use this chance to train herself without any serious risk to her own life.

So, for the duration of the mission, Rein was not going to take any action. Lauren would be responsible for keeping both of them safe. If she was able to keep herself and Rein safe for the duration of the second test then Rein would go on a solo date with her.

And if she was unable to do so and Rein needed to take action, then she had to wear a dress of Rein's choice. It could be anything that Rein wanted and she would not be able to refuse her.

So with such high stakes at play, the adventuring date restarted again.

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This time Rein did not do anything. She did not even use the stealth ability of his robe. Instead he left everything in Lauren's hands. Lauren was in charge of hiding both of their presence.

She also did not forget to taunt the monster now and then to make sure it was still chasing her.

This Scoriadia faced a flaming explosion trap, a wind blade trap, a trap where it got trapped in a lava pool, a trap that made it to endure an area with high wind pressure. Just like that, after taking on dozens of traps head on, this monster was quite a bit weakened.

This was finally time for Lauren to go on the offensive. This time she did not hold back anymore and used her strongest spells one after another.

But those were still just a ploy to buy some extra time as Lauren was preparing her personal unique magic, which was quite powerful but needed quite a long time to complete the casting.

After about 3 minutes, she was finally able to prepare the spell. Those three minutes were quite hard for Lauren. As she was giving most of her attention to her personal spell that she was preparing, the power of her other spells decreased and the Scoriadia was able to attack her using this chance.

Lauren was quite badly beaten up. Her right hand had turned purple as it was hit by the Scoriadia's stinger once. There were also a few whip marks on her body. The reason behind them was the long tongue of the monster which it used as a whip.

Many time Rein felt like jumping down between their fight to torture this monster to death, but as his lover was not in a life threatening danger and it was a good battle experience for her, he did his best to hold back.

Even though she was badly beaten up, Lauren still had a slight smile at the corner of her face as she released her personal spell. A ball of pure white fire came out of her hand and hit the Scoriadia right on its head.

It went inside the monster's skull without feeling any resistance and burned down the monster's brain. It died immediately.

This spell of Lauren used the principle that wind could make fire to get stronger to the fullest. Lauren continuously supplied her fire with wind magic to make it hotter and hotter, then when it became too hot for even her to control, she threw the fire toward the monster that easily killed it.

After that, just when Lauren finally got her hands on the "Evening Lalina" a weird high pitch sound came from the deepest part of the Dreadful Touvic Woods. This sound was filled with the feeling of anger.

A chill ran down Lauren's spine as she felt like the killing intent coming from whoever made this sound was targeting her.