Chapter 119: The Entry Assessment

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All of the entry assessment participants were led to a massive indoor area that had a glass dome that let the sunlight thine right through, the ground was smooth concrete and the walls were made of the same white bricks as the ones outside. 

The entry assessment participants were placed in lines on the far end sides of the right and left. 

A young girl, no older than 16 with long pink hair and blue eyes stepped forward, she wore a pink shirt with long ruffled sleeves tucked in a white knee-length skirt. She wore pink tinted vambraces and silver knee high sabatons. 

"I'm your entry assessment instructor for today as well as an S-rank adventurer." The girl spoke out with a smile

"My name is Rhea Kleid." She introduced herself

"I'm sure you all met my elder sister at the front gate, Natalie Kleid, she is also an S-rank adventurer." Rhea said to everyone 

"Now for your entry assessment, it's simple, you fight until your opponent is incapacitated, gives up, or dies before the time limit." Rhea explained

"Yes, killing is very much allowed, the world of adventurers is a cruel one, so even for a test you should be prepared for death." Rhea shrugged

"Now for the first few rounds, the left and right sides will fight in the order each line starts, since there's only 16 of you, this shouldn't take long." Rhea said

"After both sides have their winners, the remaining people will fight against each other, and whoever lives in the end is who passes, even if they're incapacitated." Rhea stated

"However, if there are two opponents that cannot incapacitate, kill or neither chooses to give up within the time limit, they both automatically go to the final round and will be given a different opponent." Rhea clapped

A familiar magic timer appeared above the area, displayed above was exactly 15 minutes. 

Ivery thought about these circumstances and pondered at the thought of what Yannel and Danya had done without their help getting through...

Ivery who knew what Yannel's abilities were and how he's been an adventurer all on his own for a year, she couldn't imagine him not passing. It was Danya, however, who she didn't think passed, she was mainly a healer after all..

"The first two people in the lines of the right and left side can step forward and prepare for battle!" Rhea shouted

Two people stepped forward from Ivery and Luther's lines and stood several feet away from each other. 

It was two women, one fully covered from head to toe in lightweight platinum armor holding a large claymore, and the other only wore a silver breastplate, greaves, and gauntlets and held a long sword in her right hand, her short hair was the same blonde color as Ivery's, and her light gray colored eyes looked determined at her fully armored opponent. 

Rhea snapped her fingers and the 15 minute timer started. 

Immediately both women charged forward and clashed with each other. 

The female claymore user swung her weapon down and the blonde woman dodged and thrust her aura-infused sword forward. Her sword glowed blue as it cut through the claymore user's armor. 

"Ah!" The claymore user fall on her back and groaned as the blonde woman pushed her sword through further into her abdomen 

"Give up or die.." The blonde woman threatened 

"Never!" The claymore user swung her weapon again and hit the blonde woman off of her

She pulled the woman's sword out of her abdomen and threw it.

The blonde woman weakly stood up, not expecting to get hit in that position. 

From afar, Ivery glanced at Luther and saw him yawning, not at all interested in the current fight. 

With the timer hitting 6 minutes, both women readjusted themselves and ran at each other again. The claymore user, infused her own weapon with aura and it glowed a bright yellow color. The blonde woman's sword glowed blue again and she swung her sword with all of her might. 

The timer suddenly stopped and turned red.

Ivery watched as the claymore user dropped on the ground, headless. The blonde woman heaved and sat on the ground, exhausted. 

Ivery found it hard to believe she was tired after such a lackluster fight..

She saw that Luther had a disappointed expression, he seemed as if he thought he would at least see a decent fight. 

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As time went by, several participants fought and managed to win before the timer went off, and a total of 6 people died so far. Everyone had been battling to the death so far, not letting the other person survive to even be considered to pass later on. 

Eventually, it was Luther's and Ivery's turn.

They both stepped forward and smiled at each other. 

"So, are you going to hold back?" Ivery asked him

"I don't think I can bring myself to hurt you my love...what shall I do?" Luther replied 

"Let's just play around until the timer goes off then.." Ivery said as she summoned Excalibur 

"Alright." Luther summoned his black sword 

The 15-minute timer went off and before anyone could keep up with what happened, Ivery and Luther had already clashed swords and caused a powerful gust of wind to knock everyone down, including Rhea. 

Excalibur glowed and Ivery swung her sword in a downward motion, hitting against Luther's sword and made him slide back. He laughed and swung his sword down in a verticle motion and suddenly a black portal opened, the portal expanded, and several black skeletons walked out of it, holding several types of weapons. 

"Black magic?" Rhea dusted herself off and was shocked to see a rare black magic user 

"This should be a good time waster." Luther grinned 

"Good." Ivery threw Excalibur up in the air and it multiplied 

All of the floating Excalibur's shot forward at the charging skeletons and destroyed them instantly on impact. 

Ivery snapped and all of the multiplied Excalibur's gathered and combined back into one, it then enlarged three times its original size and it dropped down into the ground, piercing the concrete. 

Waves of golden magic emitted from the sword and all of Luther's skeletal summons dispersed, and as soon as they did, the timer hit zero. 

"Y-You both can move on to the final round.." Rhea stood in shock

Ivery happily ran over to Luther and he picked her up and carried her to the waiting area for the finalists. 

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