It has been a month of studying in the academy... Today, the students are all gathering on the bulletin board in their dorm after the hunting exam.
Things have progressed a little, and thankfully no students had broke the rules this time. Emily, Mica, Eda, Willem, and Austin were ranked to have the highest capture among the class C-As-- in the class rankings, they have reached the first place, in tier with the Class C-B.

"This month's hunt sure progressed well..." Atia sighed in relief.

"I did contributed that much in this class as the sixth placer!..." Eldas smiled, proudly.

"Right! Although, the top five in our class did contributed in our rankings that much~" Mica said loudly, "You guys sure are pretty, softies..."

"At the very least, I became a column for Austin's rank up!" Atia waved her fist on the air.

"Sorry about your low crysta count..." Austin apologizes to Atia as if he was the reason why she had lower loot counts.

"But man~ you deserved your place Austin!" Ilich stated, "Unlike the other four, you made an effort for it!"

The other top four, turned to him as if questioning his statement. A memory then trailed into them:

...During their hunt, Emily decided to make a team with Mica, Willem, and Eda. They ignored their classmates who are all hunting other monsters within the valley. It turns out that they had discovered a horde of Leibunnies, despite their danger level scales from 1 to 2, they have magic abilities of levitation which makes them a good source of magic crystas. They successfully eliminated the whole horde to get a good amount of crystas, effortlessly...

"I just wished you guys spared one for me!" Lillian complained tearfully, holding a piece of illustration of a sleeping baby Leibunny.

"That's why I said you guys are softies!" Mica protested, "Listen, during the hunt-- there's nothing that matters but hunting crystas--"

"--I don't think it's--" Hugh interrupted but Mica then cuts him off.

"No! Ka-yuteness-- is not the basis of survivability! It is how rational you get, and that's why WE should be rational in the hunting-grounds!!"
Making a dramatic pose, the other three followed her in order to support her idea.

"They're taking this way too seriously..." Ymir sighed.

"Not as serious as--" Petra smiled mischievously but was interrupted by Robyn:

"Please, stop!"

"Oi, class C-C, everyone! History class is starting~!" they heard someone announcing in the midst of the conversations. They all turned to the speaker, Zoul the aeromancer, who was part of the class C-C.
A lot of time had past?

All of the students then headed outside. They may have different schedules but their class time is synchronized, by this time, class C-A had the alchemy class by Miss Hara.

Clicking her stick towards the board filled with illustration guide and formulas. Miss Hara then allows the students to do the potion formula:
"You may now proceed..."

"First would be the d-powder... next would be the rb-feather..." in-sync murmurs were heard as they all poured the ingredients into the boiling experimental tube.

"Hehehehe..." Mica's eyes sparkled. "Nothing is better in alchemy but a salvager!" she then randomly poured all of the ingredients into the experimental tube.

"Ah, Mica! I don't think--" Willem called to her side, although having a monoexpressional face of smiling, he waved weakly as of warning.

"Aculate! That's not part of the formula!!" Hara called, trying to stop the young girl from pouring ingredients any further.

"And lastly-- the wyvernia herb!" Mica concluded as she poured a yellow maple-shaped herb into the tube. The color starts to change randomly with bubbles starting to fill the tube--

BOOM!!!

The potion exploded and the room was filled with smoke. Students are coughing until the smoke cleared away.

"Aculate, explain yourself!" Hara demanded with her hands on her hips.

"'You will learn from your failures!' That's what I believed, Miss Hara..." Mica answered with a soft voice.

"I don't think she will buy it, Mica!" Atia called to her.

Upon the mess, Mica had done. She was punished to clean the entire room and is excused for the next class.

After all the classes, Atia had decided to accompany Ymir, Austin, and Torin inside the cafeteria. They have been talking about the sceneries found across the world, and are pretty much guessing where would they go next.
As they have all been into their conversation, they suddenly felt something overshadowing them. Turning to the glassed window, they met a golden eye surrounded by a blue-gray set of scales.

"D-d... D-DRAAGOOOOOOOON!!!" Eren who was passing near their table suddenly exclaimed and immediately hide under their table.
Atia immediately run between the two boys and lowered herself down the table.

"Whaaaaat are you doing?" Austin asked in the corner of his eye.

"Oho! Observing a dragon this close is new for me, I am scared to the bones, obviously!" Atia answered as she pop her forehead up to observe the flying dragon.

"Please don't say that with that unchanged facial expression..." Torin sighed.

"How about this?--" Atia calls him lowering herself into the table with an exaggerated expression of fear.

"That's way exaggerating..." Torin's sweat dropped. "Though, I'm surprised you can keep your composure, Ymir..." he turns to Ymir who is casually placing her head on her hand by her cheek.

"Ah no... she passed out awhile ago..." Austin corrected as he looks at Ymir whose eyes were just scleras, now.

"It's been awhile since I've seen your kind..." Guilimiere smiled competitively, standing on the balcony, viewable from the cafeteria.  "Care to do a duel with me~, Winter Dragon?"
She then takes out her sword and placed it before her face with her elbow and hand in level, and her other arm placed behind her. She then channels her flame magic into her sword as if it was a lion in a form of a wildfire dancing around her sword.

"Miss Guilimiere..."

"That amount of magic, her place as the 21st ranking adventurer is not just for show...!"

Guilimiere then bends her knees and motioning them as if she will sprint towards the monster. The dragon's eyes widened and then reverted back to normal, it then flew away to a different direction, clearing away the light blizzard on the air.

"Tch!" Guilimiere snarled, "HEY YOU! DO YOU NOT TAKE THE PRIDE OF BEING A DRAGON?! NOT TO MENTION YOU'RE AN SS CLASS ONE!!! COME BACK! I SAID COME BACK! CURSE YOU!! HEY! ARE YOU LISTENING, LIZARD?! HEY!!!"
Guilimiere kept on yelling to the fleeing dragon.

As Guilimiere kept demanding, the students were left impressed by the attitude of the dragon.

"I-i-i-s-is the d-d-d-d-dragon gone?..." Eren whimpered.

"I thought I was gonna die of shock!" Atia breathed in relief.

"Don't say that with an unchanged expression..." her three classmates sighed.

"Is the dragon gone?" Ymir asked after gaining her senses back.

After the dragon encounter, Atia and the company have stayed in the cafeteria waiting for the express to land as the blizzard had seemed to get stronger.

A static sound then echoed in the speaker and the announcer then spoke to the students:
"Attention to all of the students, the express is about to land on the Nive Havenia, please prepare yourselves for the exploration!"

The metallic door that leads to the yard suddenly opened, enterring the heated room was an almost frozen Petra and Peter.

"P-Petra and Peter?! What are you doing out there and cold? Not to mention almost sellable as ice statues..." Atia approaches them, opening a warp to her side and pulling up her extra jackets. "Wear these you two..."

"We love you, Atia/shortie~~" Petra and Peter said in-sync as they hugged Atia, ignoring the jackets in her hands. "Thaw our frozen hearts now~~"

"Cold! It's cold! H-hey! You're killing me! Somebody help!!! Ymir!" Atia called as she tries to struggle away from their tight hug, Ymir then runs up to them as she tries to channel a fire in her wand.

"C-coming! Endure it for awhile Atia!" as Ymir tries to get past on a last table, she suddenly tripped on the cloth, throwing her wand upwards, as the flame almost died--

--"Thank you Atia/shortie~!!" a now drenched twins thanked a drenched Atia as well. "Thank you troublemaker/Yum-yum~!!"
The two then hopped their way into the direction of the entrance.

"I'll dry you up, Atia!"

"Thank you, Ymir..."

The two girls then join back to Torin and Austin who was waiting by their table.

The door slowly opens, sending cold breeze to the students who are waiting for it to open.
As it fully opens, they were greeted with a white terrain, and houses with chimney top, afterall, this is a continental arctic country.

"Snowball fight!!" Victoria, a student from class C-B, exclaimed as she throws a giant snowball towards her classmate-- crushing him to the ground.
"I win!!!"

Atia turns to a medium-sized igloo, as if her eyes sees it wrong when there is something flickering from it, she then decides to approach it...
Her eyes then sparkled and she hugs the igloo.
"I've never seen such adorable and warm creature as you~!!"
A black rough-textured then raises as if curious on what was going on. It then turned to stare at the noirette.
Atia seems to notice the curious head, opening her eyes-- she then motioned herself and hugged the creature's head.
"Oh you're such a ka-yute creature!"

"Cool! A Pawarmkantle!!" Petallite screamed as she jumped joins the hug. She breathed in relief, "It so warm..."

"Mmm!"

"You guys are so unfair!" Lillian complained as she joins the hug, Ilich, Robyn, and Eda approaches them.

Atia then felt something poking her hand, she leans to her right and sees a khaki colored pup with streaks and a mix of white colored fur underneath. Atia stared at it before she realized it was a Fello, a dog monster so it's obviously trusted to be a bodyguard-- adults will recognize their owners and will act on the duty of protecting them.

"A-a-a, a Fello!!!" Atia went away from the hug and snuggled on the khaki pup, "Heaven! This is heaven!!" she cried in bliss.

'I wonder if this can be my fire elemental beast...' Eda thought as she stared straight to the Pawarmkantle.