When entering through the square like teleporters, Quinn realised that the students didn’t have to go through holding each other one by one like they did the circular teleporters. At first, Quinn thought this was done on purpose as a way to randomly split up the students for the assessment, but as they were transported to the new area, and he looked around him. He could see everyone was there and shortly after the teacher had arrived as well.
Just like the planet, they had come from it was dark outside when looking at the sky. All of them seemed to be in a strange open wasteland. There were no trees like where they once were, and there seemed to be nothing around them at all. No lake’s no hills just a fat plain wasteland.
It was hard to tell if it was the same planet that Quinn had arrived on once before. When he had arrived at the red portal planet before, he had done so at a shelter There were plenty of buildings and strange items around, but they were all destroyed. After all, planets were large and vast, and some of them even had similar structures to earth. Where there would be separate continents with water in between.
So there was a good chance that Quinn would never see the shelter again even if he was on the same planet, but it did start to make him think. The planet was where he had found the Shadow ability book, while the book itself was an ability that only vampires could learn. Right now vampires used the planet as a training ground, was there a possibility that at one point the human shelter and the vampires had interacted with each other.
Maybe the vampires were even the ones who had destroyed the shelter. The shadow seems to be a complicated thing, during his training, he looked at the other descendants and saw them from time to time using their powers. Yet not a single one of them had the same shadow power as Quinn, and even the system had told him it would be best for him to hide it for now, only using it if his life was in danger.
When Clark had arrived, he went around to each of the students placing a strange small circular device on their clothing. It stuck on quite easy and it looked as if it would take quite a bit before falling off. He then also handed them each a small backpack that continued certain supplies inside, one of them being blood.
"This here is a tracker that will allow me to find you, as for the other things you can take a guess why they are needed," Clark explained. "This trip will last a total of three days. When the tracker beeps three times, it means you are to return to this spot so please try to get your bearings. If you are lost, then don’t worry.
"My familiar is one of the best at tracking people, and we also have the trackers placed on you as back up. The task is to defeat ten death bat crystals, you may do so however you wish, you may do whatever you wish. But remember your fellow classmates are not the enemy. If I find you have stolen the bat crystals after they were already obtained you shall be in serious trouble."
From Clark’s words, it sounded like working together to collect the crystals were not a problem, but one could not steal crystals from another. This meant working as a group presented its own problems. Although you are more likely to kill a death bat crystal one would have to find more. And then between the group, they would also need to decide how to distribute to Bat crystals to each other.
The larger the group, the more likely a person would eventually be left out, and the stronger ones would complain at the fact that they did more work. In the first place, there were only twenty five of them on the planet.
Clark then proceeded to sit down and open up his book as he started reading.
"Well, what are you waiting for?" Clark said. "The assessment has already begun since we got here."
With that, the students decided to split off and start searching for the death bat beasts. Rokene had teamed up with Quinn and had also already summoned his familiar. With the three they could cover more ground and perhaps find a death bat quicker.
Some other students had formed groups, while there were very few who had decided to go off on their own, but those were mostly the stronger students.
Before leaving, Quinn looked into the direction of Siyrus and their group of three. Their eyes met for a brief second before Siyrus turned his head away and walked off in a different direction. At least, for now, it didn’t seem like he would cause any trouble with Quinn again.
Nearly all the students decided to head off in a different direction to see if they could find anything. One of the hardest parts of this assessment was the fact that they were given next to no information. They wern’t told where to go, or even where the death bats would most likely be.
If they were in a more varied terrain area, then perhaps they could have chosen certain places that were more likely to have beasts. But the open wasteland made it hard for them to choose any direction.
"Shouldn’t it be obvious?" Rokene said while walking and looking at his black rabbit running about ahead of them.
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