484 A Lucky Finding! 4yr

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Much like Bald Wu'ke and co., the other students threw themselves into setting up camps at their chosen locations. Amusingly, that became a chance to show off one's creativity in problem-solving and/or the size of their pockets.
A few had the same idea as Bald Wu'ke's team. They severed a few rocky spikes from the surroundings with their own techniques and built a makeshift fortress around their tents.
Some had managed to procure magical drilling equipment from the Alchemy Faculty prior to the Trial so that they could excavate a large cave out of a sufficiently large rock pillar — the idea was to make set their base one hundred-odd meter above ground much like a bird's nest. This allowed them to be safe from the reach of terrestrial wild beasts, but it also made going in and out of their base quite bothersome.
Even then, some went even further and really let the size of their wallet shone—discarding the usual procedures of making camps, they just purchased a handy, three-minute-set