Dungeon

Entering the kobold dungeon we enter through a cavern looking place before coming out to a forested area with many bushes and tall grass. We follow Nali's directions and five minutes later find a small group of five kobolds.

I stay in the back and watch as they fight, Tina's control on her reactions have gotten a bit better since our spar. But she is still not in control of her body enough for more advanced monsters with higher in intelligence as they can easily dodge her attacks. Albert has much better control on his body but appears to lack in the senses control department as he will over focus his senses on one and fail to notice another coming close.

Dumpet is standing up front beside Tina and is helping her block the attacks and deal with any stray kobold that escapes from the control of Millet and that Janette is unable to strike properly. John works from behind them to watch out for anymore groups from coming in or sneaking up so as to not allow them to get overwhelmed. 

Everyone is doing their job properly and decently, I decide to finally help by giving Tila a boost in her body control by pushing my energy into her body and wrapping it around the parts of her brain and nerves that works body movement.

She suddenly appears to be hitting each strike accurately and with decent force in the proper location, we finish the fight in five minutes and I can see the light shining in Tila's eyes at me from here. She knows that I had enhanced her control and clearly was very happy with how well it worked to make her stronger.

She finally speaks and says, "I have never seen anyone buff a person like that, it was like having perfect control on my body after using it like a club previously."

I can see the interest shining in the eyes of the other members, body control is something that usually only comes with extreme training for a long time, fighters early on compensate by coating the weapon in elements allowing the area of attack to be larger and slowly build up there striking force so as to make the attack more deadly.

A buffer that increases body control means the members don't have to expand as much energy to fight allowing them to last longer and with higher strength then other teams.

  It is like having double the amount of time to do the same tasks, because you don't need to stop and rest as often as others along with able to fight faster, it took them 3 minutes to kill 2 of them but only two minutes to kill three of them once I enhanced Tila's control.

With that Nali took us to another group of five, it only takes 3 minutes to finish them off with me enhancing Tila in her control.

Now all but three of us have the required items and only 23 minutes to find and dispatch the groups of five, we will be finished before the time requirement easily. A group of 7 is found and we decide to hit it as we will get the last of the required amount from it, although they admit they usually wouldn't hit it to preserve energy with me here they feel less worried about that.

We attack them at the thirty minute mark and are finished at the 36 minute mark, heading back to the entrance I am low on energy due to using the control enhancement on another for more then ten minutes.

Using the enhancement on myself, even if the effect is so weak it is hard for others to tell, it is ten times easier then on others.

The amount of energy used is drastically different as I lose a large amount by releasing it from my body and keeping up the link to keep feeding the energy to keep the enhancement going, it is just easier with me since all I do is focus more energy to the control areas in my body while I have to coat there control areas to properly get the same effect.

My group leave the dungeon at the 45 minute mark, luckily we didn't go to far in or you may not make it out in time, handing over the ears we are the first to complete the task the teacher had assigned.

Two minutes later a ten count group comes out clearly tired and scratched up from fighting with all of there ears in hand. Two more full groups come out by the 55 minute mark when the nine count group comes stumbling out clearly quiet injured and one of there team members badges is yellow meaning it had been activated.

They did bring out enough to pass but was deducted points for a dead team member, at the 58 minute mark one of the last two remaining full teams make it out haggard and running like a village of goblins are on their tails.

They have the appropriate amount of ears so pass, the next group came out sluggishly at the 62 minute mark with clear signs of having ran like the other group.

They have all the ears but will be deducted points for taking to long, though they will lose less points than the team who had a member 'die' during the task and so the score my team gets is full marks with 15 extra credit points for coming out early.

Leaving the dungeon to rinse off in the workout showers we then have practice on the obstacle course for those who had points reduced, while I was given the task to heal those injured as practice for treating larger groups for multi team tasks like boss floor killings or mass monster hunts in dungeons.

Although she didn't give war as an example I could tell that was an underlined one of the reasons even if not spoken, although peaceful you never know when a disaster could strike and cause large scale conflict.

With the training finished we were told not to bother showing up on any day beside Monday and Friday.

Heading to eat and then sleep I finally get some sleep without nightmares for the first time in two weeks,  rested and relaxed I get through my classes napping like always and when it was time to enter the tower we were the first group of the high school level sent.

Taking a breath I enter the tower once more.