Chapter 240 - [Bonus ] Tracking Spell
Renita was seen using her ranger-specific spells to lead her team through the Beast Sanctuary.
Casting her tracking spell in the vicinity, she attempted tracking the team"s target for the mission. It was tracking a sounder of wild boars known as Earth Suidae. The Besanc mission the team had accepted was to collect 40 tusks of Earth Suidae after all.
Earth Suidae was an earth element wild boar species in the F-Rank. It was known for having a tough hide and exceptional endurance. Plus, its inherent earth element spell would allow it to create a st.u.r.dy exoskeleton made of earth, covering most of its body.
Earth Suidae would literally become a tough nut to crack once it utilizes its inherent spell. Furthermore, it would travel in packs, traversing through the forest in search of food. It was an omnivore species and its appet.i.te knew no restrictions.
Killing an entire sounder of Earth Suidae and collecting the tusks was not an easy task because of these traits. Therefore, there were few takers among F-Ranker students for this mission.
Eren had selected this mission because of its lucrative value. The reward in Merps was enough of a temptation. Plus, the mission would test all of its team member"s progress as well. It would give him a fair idea about how his party is fair as a whole in real-life scenarios.
Renita"s wind-element tracking spell was simple. The wind would pick up the trails of various signs of life around her as she cast the spell. Then a group of dense gusts of white wind would flow in the directions of those signs of life while creating runic patterns in the air.
The runic patterns would be based on the signs of life the tracking spell has picked up. So they held a meaning that the rangers could understand and decipher for the most part.
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Therefore, a skilled ranger would be able to tell more details about the target they were tracking by looking at the runic pattern their tracking spells would create. A reckless ranger would miss the obvious warning signs that the runic patterns imply, thus leading their team astray.
It was obvious that the ranger cla.s.s had drawn parallels between it and the historian cla.s.s. But unlike the spells in the historian cla.s.s that generated in-depth a.n.a.lysis of recent past events, the spells in the ranger cla.s.s were fine-tuned to give only the necessary information for tracking while omitting the rest.
The ranger cla.s.s spells were also less taxing on the rangers. The historians would only be called upon by the team when the purpose of their task was to know what had happened at a particular place. The rangers would be better at tracking the team"s target in real-time.
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Renita was using her spell to do the same. After she cast her spell, there were many runic patterns created in the air around her. She dispersed the runic signs which indicated old signs of life as well those that indicated solo or a small group of animals. Her team wanted to track an entire sounder of boars after all.
She finally saw the runic pattern that was indicative of her target after a while. She dispersed the rest of the runic pattern and concentrated on the one she zeroed in on.
Renita had benefited significantly by being guided by Almera who was also a wind-element tracker. The latter"s lectures had been paid by Eren to help his ranger in progressing further in her cla.s.s.
Eren paid significant attention to raising his team"s ranger. And that investment was showing its effect now. Renita quickly understood the patterns and informed her team about the sounder"s current direction, its strength, and the ballpark range of distance away from the team members. This range was based on the traversing speed and elapsed time.
According to Renita"s estimations, the sounder they were tracking carried at least 25 members in it. They were at least 7 Earth Suidae adults with a late-stage F-Rank ranking. There were around 9 members that were in the lower stages in the F-Rank. Rest were unranked boars, possibly young infants who followed their parents around.
The number of F-Rank beasts in the sounder wasn"t small. But Eren had said to his team members that slaying this group of wild boars won"t be too difficult for the team if every member played their roles right.
During their trip through the forest, most of the White Raven team members were tense. All except Ramy who had put his worries to rest as soon as Eren told him not to worry.
He would chat with his team members as they tracked their targets. A team member"s worry would be relieved by his fearlessness wrapped in the comic touch of his lisp. It was the team"s first Besanc mission after all. And their shadow team leader had selected one of the most difficult missions a team of first-year students could find in the Besanc.
"How faw awe we fwom ouw target?"
Ramy asked Renita while looking at her with a serious expression. As if itching for battle with the beasts, he had already drawn his sword out. It seemed that he wanted to show his improvement to his idol.
By now everyone in the White Raven could understand what Ramy was trying to say even when his lisp twisted his speech way too much. The ranger tried not to laugh at his question and answered honestly.
"We should be about an hour away from their current spot according to our and the sounder"s traversing speed.
Eren, should we rest and recuperate before contact is made? We"ve been travelling for hours now."
Renita asked her crush after thinking about her teammates" condition. Jake was panting hard and Bel looked mortifyingly exhausted. Becky also gave her the hint that she needed to relieve herself.
"Alright. Guys, we"ll stop here for a while. Get fresh and eat something. We"ll discuss battle strategy as soon as everyone has their grub."
The butcher agreed to his ranger"s suggestion. They needed a sound plan before starting their battle with one of the fiercest groups of animals in the F-Rank.
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