Picking up Girls With My System

Myla had taken the trial before, so she knew what to expect: a beast attack.

The beasts were of all kinds, but most were fire elementals, and their power was equivalent to that of a rank 1 Official Mage.

This was the same power that both Myla and Arthur had inside the trial. Myla could feel the difference, as she was much weaker than her real self outside of the trial.

Arthur felt it even more acutely. He felt as if he was naked! But he knew he had to endure it if he wanted to find answers about his Phoenix Bloodline.

"So, how do we survive this? Is there a plan?" Arthur asked.

He swallowed his pride and asked for guidance from someone who had already endured the trial. But unfortunately, Myla did not have as much experience as Arthur thought.

"I-I've never survived more than three days..."

They left the starting point, which looked like a village, and ran into the forest. The other humans inside the village fought against the beasts, but almost all of them perished.

Arthur could not care less about their lives; he was only thinking about saving his own.

"Will the beasts follow us?" he asked.

"Yes. They will track us down until we are dead. I tried to fight against them for three days, but it didn't matter how many I killed, they never stopped coming," Myla said.

It was not a comforting thing to hear, but if Myla had survived three days on her own, then with Arthur there they would survive for even longer, at least twice as long.

'Will that be enough for us to complete the first part of the trial?' Arthur wondered.

Anyway, Myla took the lead and showed Arthur a cave. A place with only one entrance, one of the best locations to fight against a horde of beasts.

"They can only come through the cave entrance, so we have to hold them here," Myla said.

Arthur thought it was not a bad plan, and he would try to follow it to see if it would work. Myla sat down on one of the rocks inside the cave while Arthur moved towards the cave entrance.

"What are you doing?" she asked, staring at him from afar.

"What do you think? I'm placing some magical formations to help us fight the beasts, obviously."

During their escape from the village, Arthur had done his best to think of ways to succeed in the first part of the trial. With his power locked at the first rank of an Official Mage, it would be difficult to use his more powerful spells and so on.

But there was one thing that was not limited by one's power, sort of. Arthur had plenty of magical formations he could create while being a first rank mage, yet those formations had a power above the rank one!

That was his trump card, something that would help him deal with the beasts! Myla got up from the rock and watched all of Arthur's moves up close, trying to learn a thing or two, but that was not what happened.

She was shocked! All the drawings in the air, on the ground, all the runes, everything was just something she had never seen before!

There were two main reasons for that: Arthur's knowledge about magical formations was way above hers, and the formations he knew were from another planet, so how would Myla know a thing about them?

Myla was utterly shocked. "How do you know these things?" she asked.

Arthur looked at her like a master looked at a bad disciple. "How do you think? I study!"

Myla chuckled. "It makes sense you had plenty of time to study looking as old as you do!"

It was just a joke, but one Arthur took to heart. He got up, and an astonishing scene happened! Arthur changed his appearance to his normal self, a tall, handsome youth with a muscular body and long black hair.

"W-W-W-What?" Myla's cheeks turned red.

She was close to Arthur when the change happened. So close she could feel his breathing.

"This is the real me," Arthur said. "The old man's appearance was just to fool some people, like you. Your joke made me show this to you. Happy?"

"My joke? Why do you go around looking like an elder when you have such a perfect face and body and look so beautiful?"

Myla only realized what she said after speaking it aloud. Maybe the time she had spent with Arthur had made her more close to him, and after seeing his true appearance, she let that slip.

"I'll let you do the formations alone," Myla said, walking out of the cave.

"Where are you going?" Arthur asked.

"We need to eat and fill our needs, so I will go get us food, water, wood for the campfire, and so on. The plan is to stockpile because the number of beasts will increase after each day," Myla explained.

Her explanation made sense, and it was something they had to work on before the beasts arrived. Either way, Arthur was sure she also wanted to leave to not stay with him after saying what she said.

'Tsk, these youths…'

Arthur remained there, placing many layers of magical formations. Some to help them hide from the beasts, but most of them were offensive ones!

He wanted to kill as many beasts as possible, as that could possibly be the only way to pass the first stage of the trial.

Myla returned to the cave carrying a basket she made using vines and a log. It was filled with water, and inside the water were fishes!

She also had another log just like that one, but it was meant for water alone, the one they would drink.

"This is our food and water. I gathered the wood for the campfire as well! All we need now is water for showering, but the beasts will only come tomorrow, so we can still shower tonight in the nearby river."

The idea about showering in the nearby river was nice, and Arthur could not wait for it!