Gil and Misty follow the Harpy flight trajectory landing themselves in the heartland of troll territory an entire village of hostiles bearing their claws and primitive stone spears at the pair. The Harpy condescingly looked down at the two mock colouring it's expression.
"You said follow it and look where you got us, tch it looks like we'll fight yet another wave."
"You rushed along with me Gil so don't pass the blame on me alone."
The wasteland trolls hairless creature of tall stature of weak physical attribute their dark skin gives them an advantage as they absorb the sun's heat never feeling it's effects along with a natural resistance to fire.
"zone them out with a spell." Gil lays out a plan
"Ughh, I can't I've used up all my mana cooling myself off took precedent." Misfy said apologetically
"You... you ... I should have performed that sand burial."
"Well, you're in luck remember my specialty is physical combat and I've brought my trusty rapier."
Unsheathing her rapier she stands with Gil back to back against the plethora of incoming enemies.
The trolls screech in unison before striking at the two, with Magic circles at their disposal they kick-start their spells
-enchantment magic - water element-
-hammer hedge-
Hammer of enormous size takes form crushing a wave of trolls , leaving a wide opening for the two.
"Don't drag me down."
"You know I'll pull my weight dear Gil."
The pair begin their assault each focusing on their area of expertise, hit and run tactics for Misty came naturally as she thrusts her water embued sword at the enemies taking a few down. As she falls back Gil swings at the swarm chasing after her, a bait and switch play perfected to tea.
The screech gets louder as more troll tribesmen jump to attack.
Gil releases a wave of spells coupled with wild swings.
Misty focuses on using the confusion and aftermath of these spells and attacking the the groups of stragglers putting a further toll on their numbers
The trolls watch as their numbers thin about, helpless and finicky as they come.
"They are panicking, oh look at them think they'd tuck their tails."
"I won't let them. I need every bit of experience and monster core I can get."
The two losing theirselves deep in conversation dish out devastating blows to the monsters.
"Greed won't do you good Gillie boy."
"Gillie? Boy?? And it's not greed I want to catch up to them all and surpass him."
"So serious are we."
Creatures screech cease before long leaving a baffled widowed Harpy as the last monster around.
"There's no where for you to hide!." Gil yells at the Harpy
The Harpy does not heed and takes flight once more.
"10 gold on the Harpy leading us to the boss."
"I don't gamble but I raise you 30 it's a mob."
"What makes you think that?."
"We haven't encountered the Spiked snakes."
"The bets are on and the odds are in my favour."
-20 minutes later-
The harpy perched up at a boulder overlooking a sandy dune and watches as Misty and Gil catch up
Where a group of snakes known as spiked snakes await ,Spiked from head to tail poisonous if bit they fire spikes straight from their body at the two.
Gil was the first to respond
-Gaean shield-
Stones formed into shields gather around Gil and Misty creating a barrier against the live ammunition.
"I win, cough out your gold."
"Take it easy I'm a daughter of a minor noble I don't have that kind of money."
"Excuses!."
Gil springs up magic circles summoning stone hands and begins his assault on spiked snakes
"The bet should have gone my way, I don't understand."
Misty slashes at the snake in frustration cutting a portion up forgoing her usual hit and run for a full frontal assault.
The spiked snakes hiss and begin shooting more projectiles to which Gil intercepts , taking the load of the assault giving Misty once more a chance to attack
Misty charging up her sword with elemental energy thrusts in a straight line.
"Take a load of that" She says as she thrusts holes in a line of spiked snakes.
Gil takes up to charge his axe and with another swing he takes an arc, decisively defeating the spiked snakes.
" any further tricks before I drive my axe down your face."
The Harpy cries , no it is summoning allies an ally of immense power a giant shadow took form above the skies it belonged to a bigger Harpy, the Queen of Vultures.
"I won the bet."
"...., tch this isn't the time to gloat."
The Harpy appeared to snicker as it flew closer to its queen , it let's it guard down feeling reassured alas it wasn't long before the Queen talons grabs onto the widow crushing it with force.
"Wow! I mean Gil!, are you in any position to fight."
"I'm not backing down from this, even if I'm down to my knees."
"I see , then I guess I'll get serious as well."
Misty grabs onto two mana elixirs she saved for the boss throwing one at Gil's way and another on hers
"You've kept this at all times and never used it?, since when you had a brain." Gil says with a smirk plastered on his face.
"I'm smarter than you Gillie boy, remember who's ranked 4th in the examination board."
"Tch, I'm fifth now but one of these days I swear one of these days."
"Yeah yeah , pigs will grow wings and so will you
Anyways eyes on the prize
Are we ready?."
"As I'll ever be."
The Harpy Queen swoops in at the two to which they dodged in opposite directions she takes flight again before putting up spell circles
Summoning a cyclone.
-stone pillars-
Gil summons a multiple pillars lined horizontally
Taking the impact with force
-aquatic turbines-
Misty takes flight using water as she's propelled up in air she shoots her self right on top of the Harpy's back
"Not bad for an idiot!."
"Will an idiot do this!."
She grabbed her rapier as she resists the harpy's airborne maneuvering she finds the creatures focal point and she plunged her rapier right into it's left wing.
The Harpy Queen cries in pain as she and Misty free fall , Misty falls off the harpy's back.
"No , no , no. Hey Gil a little help here! I'll die."
"You can't die in a dungeon !." He says as he rushes in to catch her as she falls
Gil catches Misty and slightly winces at her weight.
"You're heavy." He says
"Eric wouldn't have said that." She pouts
"Again I'm not Eric." He smirks
The creature now wounded and on its feet looked at the two enraged and had become a berserker
It unleashes another wave of wind spells
"Forget defense and I can't tank my way out of a berserker."
"Which means, we're braving a storm."
-stone hedge armor-
Gil casts a stone reinforcing armor type
As Gil and Misty covered up with stone they March onwards towards the eye of the storm
The Harpy Queen screech cries had attracted a small group of harpys.
The harpys move in circles around the two before attempting to lunge an attack.
"Gil, Will the stone armor last long Gil!"
"It won't, but we'll make through the worst of it!."
The widowed harpys attack are met with fierce resistance as Gil hacks away and Misty thrusted them off.
The two continue onward before the armor crumbled off now at the eye of the storm
They face off against a wounded berserk Harpy Queen.
"It was an exhausting dungeon , I got poisoned, ambushed , and made a fool out of myself.
I will show you now the extent of my rage."
Gil removes his crumbling armor as the creature fires wind spells he simply hacks away at it , not a whiff of magic involved
"I never seen him this angry before I have to take notes not to provoke him further haha (I will)."
Misty follows she uses her water spell to propel her above Slashing at it's eye
The Harpy Queen now half blind aims its talons crushing the grounds where the two had been , dodging these attacks they hack and slash off the Queen bit by bit
Now at wits end the Queen surrounds itself with Magic circles ready to expel winds of great magnitude
The winds fly out of all directions , had any hit doom would visit them both.
Gil laughs at the face of adversity
"Is this your best !, if this is it. Then you're dead!."
Gil summons stone hands and uses them to crush the ground shaping pillars of stone.
Lined up and circled around them.
As the winds colide with the pillars much of its force is absorbed before the pillars begin to crumble
The stones have been crushed and the winds are now short of a simple spell in power scale.
Gil slashes at the wind
The creature looked bewildered scared even. It had forgotten that it was the monster yet it sees one.
Gil and Misty both leap at the Harpy cutting its head from its torso.
The creature now lies defeated.
Misty heaves in relief as Gil looks on ahead towards a treasure that appeared out of thin air.
"We won, and Gil you were amazing. I don't want to hear you yap about being weak you're... you're amazing."
"I could say the same about you, you used healing magic and you're good at combat."
"Are you finally realising how great of a person I really am."
"No."
"Oh that's a shame, you were all over me as wee little child.
Oh remember when I comforted you after wetting your bed you were so cute."
"Stop, never mention it to anyone!."
"I'll keep it a secret , it's our secret after all."
They both continue bantering unaware that someone's listening in.
-meanwhile-
"The first years this time around is choke ful of talent it wasnt the case for the third years which has Master Leon and myself and the 2nd years of which Russel stands out, an interesting lot they are."
The trials continue...