章 111: Training

I don't know how we got into this situation. Oh right, I ask for this. I ask Scathach, the hero's teacher, to train my peerage and me.

"Master! Another incoming!"

I see the incoming shadow monster and fire another compressed ball of fire. It explodes and engulfs the monster in a hot plasma ball a second later.

We are currently in the Land of Shadow, where many kinds of monsters are located and the place where Scathach rules. Not only that, but this place is also the training ground of any Celtic Warrior.

Just like what Scathach said earlier, there is no greater teacher than experience before she decides to teleport all of us in the middle of the Land of Shadow with only instructions to get back to her castle.

She decided to throw us in the middle of a land that was filled with monsters and call it training.

"Medea, Illya Hermione, Rin and Sakura! Watch our back! Hermione and Rin! You guys are our support! Shield and heal! Illya! Berserker front! Kara! The same with you! Shirou, Kuroka, and I will be behind Berserker and Kara, killing the rest of the shadow beast."

A second later, my peerage member obeyed my command and got into formation. Illya summons her Berserker to the front with Shirou and me behind them so we can support the backline as well in case we are surrounded. My magic-user will watch our back with Hermione and Rin become our support. Hermione became our healer, and Rin became a track and battle support spell caster like a shield.

"Let's move out. The castle should be in the south."

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|3rd POV|

Serafall looks at Riser and his peerage performance with interest. She knows they are holding back in the Rating Game, but she never thought they were holding back this much. She sees Riser fire, a very powerful fire that even melts the ground around him within seconds. Not only him, but his peerage also works as if they have been working for years.

They move like water. They flow and adapt to any situation very quickly.

It had been three hours of constant fighting and walking, but Serafall did not see any of them exhausted. She can see them get tired from the constant fighting, but she does not see them fall to the ground in exhaustion.

"Hmmm. They are not bad. Two thousand shadow beasts, and they are still going. If they are a Celtic warriors, I will invite them to the Knight of Red Branch."

Serafall looks at Dagda with a shocked expression when she hears Dagda's words. Knight of Red Branch is a well-known group of Celtic Warrior that goes through a trial given by the Celt Gods. She did not know what kind of trial it was, but every single one person in this group is a powerful individual.

The last person she knew coming from this group is called Jacob O'Gallagher. He is known for defeating a Demonic Boar that was raging across England. Even the Pendragon family cannot beat the boar with their sword.

Serafall continues to watch Riser, and his companion fight their way through the wasteland filled with monsters. The land itself became an obstacle for Riser and his group. Without any place to hide, the only thing they can do is to go as fast as possible to the safe zone, the Scathach's castle.

And this strategy Riser is doing. As far as he can see, there is not a single thing that they can use as a rest area. They can use a gap between the rocks to rest, but it is still far away from their current position.

He and his group can fly and use the sky to get faster to the castle, but Riser knows that it will defeat the purpose of this training.

"Medea! Above!"

Not only that, there is a monster that can fly. Meaning, not only do they spend their energy to fly, but they also need to spend a large amount of their energy to fight against the monster coming at them.

*BOOM*

With a swing of her staff and a second, a wave of energy flew toward the flying beast before killing them. After killing the flying monster, Medea points her staff at the group of monsters that leap toward them and cast her Rain of Light spell.

Hermione stands next to her mentor and twirls her staff before a second later, a twenty ice-spike appears from the ground and impales the shadow beast. The impaled beast was still alive and struggling to get out of the ice, but they froze up and got destroyed before they could do that.

Rin points her finger and says.

"Qualvoller Schmerz"

A second later, a small red ball of light flies toward the snarling beast jumping toward her. The ball explodes and releases red lightning toward the nearby shadow beast when the ball hits the monster.

Sakura concentrates on her attack, creates a portal around the monster's neck, and closes it. This is Sakura's new attack. She can create a portal inside a solid object, and when she closes it, it creates a gap between the two objects.

When the portal appeared in the middle of someone's neck, and Sakura closed the portal, it was like a decapitation without getting close to the target. Sadly, she needs to concentrate on doing it, or it will not work.

Illya and Kara, on the other hand, laugh together. Both of them enjoy a fight and are having the time of their lives. Kara, who has been floating in the empty space for a long time, wants to move her body as much as possible, and fighting is the most enjoyable thing to her. After a month of training with Riser and her fellow peerage members, she became a battle maniac, especially when fighting against Sairaorg.

On the other hand, Illya is having fun when she sees the Shadow Beast explode into a speck of black dust. She is just having fun murdering something without making Shirou disappointed.

Kuroka summons as much mist as possible and melts any shadow monster coming inside her mist.

Shirou and Riser are supporting both the frontline and the backline. They are the ones that are killing the monster who slips without the other noticing, and with a few hundred each wave, there are at least twenty monsters past their defense.

They slowly but surely get closer to the castle, and after a total of five hours, they arrive at the safe zone. When they arrive at the safe area, Scathach appears in front of them with a smile on her face. The smile that Riser did not like.

"Congratulations on completing the first exercise. Let's get to the second round, shall we?"

Scathach flicks her finger, and suddenly they arrive on top of the mountain in the northern part of the Land of Shadow. When they arrive on the mountain, they can hear a loud roar coming from the air, and when they look up, they can see a massive dragon land not too far away from them.

*ROAR*

Riser looks at the dragon and can only curse.

"Balls"