Chapter 5 - Topic of The test

"This year the Hunter council of Twilight Kingdom has decided to have your graduation exam based on your survival skills. This time you all will be asked to survive at least one full day in the Ancient Ruins." Lance ended ominously.

This ominous ending gave goosebumps to the students but their curiosity was stronger so Winter stood up and asked," What ancient ruins are we tested on, sir?"

" You will know during the exam. There are four sets of ruins decided on your exams. Every high school in the Twilight Kingdom would have the same exam. You can say that millions of kids like you will have an exam at the same time.

You will be given a simulation helmet provided by the Kingdom and through it will be connected to the central brain. The exams start sharply at 11 am. There will be no entry to late arrivals.

Of course, if you could bypass the security of the brain in the virtual world then you are qualified but do you really have so much mental power to combat the brain and able to take the exam. " He said to just students provocatively.

But none of them thought they could do it. To tackle the brain even of the weakest one it would need a grandmaster warrior in the virtual world. Only they could battle the brain and then continue to fight without worrying about the expended mental power

" I thought so too. Back to the topics then, at eleven o clock, the entry to the virtual world will end and you all will be brought to a grand auditorium in the virtual world.

It is the exact replica of warrior pavilion battleground in the capital of Twilight Kingdom, Dawn city." When he mentioned this his face revealed a sense of remembrance and longing.

Professor Carol by his side grabbed his hands to show support and then she continued," The pavilion is magnified enough that all the students appearing for the graduation could be accommodated. When I said all I meant all the graduate students from the Twilight Kingdom.

There are many genii out there. You might be the top of the Birch city but don't forget Birch city isn't even ranked in the top ten cities of Twilight Kingdom.

We are pretty mediocre compared to the other cities. We can hardly send seven-star warriors and this time we are lucky to send even two nine stars warriors.

But it is very common in top ten cities. There are few master warriors in top three cities who might be graduating this year. So be cautious. "

This surprised many in the class but some have expected this too.

" When you arrive there, the strongest among you in terms of GE and stage, he will be chosen to spin the wheel or lottery your battlefield.

This is done so that the leader becomes a target and he can't easily win. There have been only ten times in so many years that the strongest has returned triumph in the exam.

And all these warriors are currently warrior kings. So you better be prepared. Though I know you won't be selected." Carol joked.

" There are four options this time instead of the normal three. They are divided into easy, normal, hard and hell difficulty. Earlier there wasn't any hell difficulty but this time it is different. " Lance commented

" What is different this time, Professor? Did something happened in the kingdom." Scarlet asked

" Nothing has happened to the kingdom, it is related to something in the kingdom. "

" What do you mean Professor?" Terry asked.

" Well pretty boy, the thing is there are too many outstanding people in your generation. Normally there will only be less than fifty nine-star warriors.

But your piece of shits really breaks the record. There are more than a hundred people at nine star while more than fifty master warriors.

So the examination committee thought it might be too easy or the vast majority of people.

So they changed the settings. You will be marked and scored according to the skills you use in those ruins.

For easy ruins: Aurora islands are selected"

"But he was interrupted by Samantha this time." But Professor wasn't it categorized as normal grade difficulty "

" Yes it was but the difficulty of this exam is increased making normal stage battlegrounds as an easy qualifier." Even if he answered her doubt he was still miffed about being interrupted.

" Normal ruins: Doom Islands.

You may not know about Doom Islands as they are pretty tough to survive and most of you won't hear about it until you reach grandmaster level.

Next would be hard ruins: Desert

And finally the hell difficulty ruins of God's abyss. "

When the words " God's abyss came from his mouth an eerie cold wind blew and almost everyone saw death in front of their eyes.

" God's abyss is a place of death and only death. No spirit warrior has ever returned from it alive and less than 5 percent if the total warrior kings returned back from it alive.

There is a very eerie message etched at the entrance ' Abandon all hopes for all who enters here only death awaits'.

So if this ruin is chosen even if they reduce the difficulty you may not even survive an hour there.

And I am not telling it considering the class basic stats but only taking into account the top three leaders of the class. Even you three alone won't last long. Daniel isn't strong enough and Winter and Billy, you both aren't skilled enough.

Because it is decided at very short notice that your exam will be tougher so the council will also send information about the four ruins one week before the start of the exam."

" Is there anyone who has anything to ask us?" Carol asked

" Professor, what is so special about our generation?" Daniel asked

" Oh, so did you notice something," Lance asked with his eyes shining.

" I do have some extravagant and unscientific thoughts. I don't know whether it is right or wrong."

" Tell your idea and we will tell whether it is right or wrong."

Daniel is also the brain of the team. He has never lost a single team battle against anyone since he joined the school three years ago.

So whenever he expressed his thoughts no matter how much they dislike him, they still listen to him attentively.

" Everyone of my generation or you could say it better than everyone who is taking part in this graduation exam was born at the thousandth year of the day of the apocalypse.

Although the current year is 4325 it is widely recognized that the meteorite fell on Solaris in 3310.

We all were born in the year 4310. A thousand year later. So do this exam difficulty hike has something to do with it and the education council of Twilight kingdom decided to put us through this hell. " Daniel finished.

His words got everyone thinking while both the Professor smiled at hearing his view.

" You aren't completely wrong. "

" So it isn't related to the fact that we all were born 1000 year after the year of the apocalypse. "

" No, you are right about it. You are wrong to think that it was Twilight kingdom who made this decision.

The one who made this decision was the Hunter Council President, Donovan Trask. "