Life Hunter

The judges smiled wryly as the pressure from the three cla.s.ses was a bit overkill even for them, so they had to help each other to resist the aura.

But as they were doing that, they suddenly felt a ma.s.sive force joining the fray. They all looked at Arima"s cla.s.s and saw the two princesses holding their hands. The two of them had an almost identical appearance now, two harpies. But what shocked them was an aura that could rival with theirs coming from the two of them.

They also felt two other auras at the ninth level and one of them was particularly wild and strong. It was crucial to know that the more you go up in the levels, the harder it is to raise your life force. For example, going from level seven to level eight could take a year, but going from eight to nine would take five years.

The judges all knew that but now they felt two auras at the tenth level in a cla.s.s composed of kids under the age of eighteen. They were dumbfounded and seriously started to wonder if they should ask Arima to be their teacher.

Even Raal couldn"t help but wonder how strong he could become if he let himself be taught by Arima. Karia smiled wryly and she was the first to recover before counting the score for each cla.s.s.

It took the jury ten minutes before they signaled the students to stop "Okay, I"ll announce the results" Raal shouted for everyone to hear.

"Group A: …290, 2.9" He actually hesitated before giving the final score of Arima"s cla.s.s. But he then continued with the other cla.s.ses which were not bad at all.

"Group B: 269, 2.69" Velvet"s cla.s.s wasn"t bad either but, in these circ.u.mstances, the difference between the group B and group A was really big.

"Group C: 274, 2.74" Olien"s cla.s.s was surprisingly above Velvet"s as even one of his students was at the ninth level.

"This concludes the life force evaluation" Raal said "Now, only the group A will be left on the stage. You all will be evaluated on aura and killing intent"s control one more time since resonances can improve these types of variables by a great margin. After them, it will be group B and C. The cla.s.s with the biggest score will gain three points, the second will get two and the third will obviously get one point. As you all know, by the end of the compet.i.tion, the cla.s.s with the most points like those will win. After, of course, taking the multiplications into account"

The students nodded and the two groups which weren"t evaluated stepped down from the arena. Only Arima"s cla.s.s was left and they started gathering their aura in the middle of their own killing intent.

Raal observed them and he grinned when his eyes fell on Kine. He was a blood eater himself. When he felt the energy of the blood aura, he, of course, was quite happy. Particularly when he noticed that her killing intent was bigger but also calmer than before.

It was the same for Airon. His control over his killing intent was a lot stronger. Gaodu"s overall control was also really impressive. And that wasn"t the end, the control shown by Ofia and Lena was almost perfect.

"It"s fine, you can stop" Raal said and the students sighed before releasing their resonance and getting their spiritual forces back.

"Next. The results will be given at the end" It was Karia who said that and the group A left the stage to leave the place for Velvet"s cla.s.s. The control they showed was quite beautiful as all of the judges reacted very positively to it.

Then, after that, it was the last group"s turn. When those students released their spiritual forces, the judges" eyes narrowed as almost all of them jumped away from the students. They couldn"t react at what they had just done since it was completely in instinct.

Raal and Karia were definitely the strongest judges here and they both stared at a certain student among the others. His expression was "empty" and his eyes dull, even his body language only demonstrated calmness. He was the one who had an aura at the ninth level in the precedent test. The scariest thing was that he didn"t use any resonance to reach that level.

But even with all of that, the killing intent he was releasing was too big for a student. He didn"t even care about controlling it at all. He just purely released his entire killing intent.

Arima glanced at the kid and frowned. That kind of killing intent wasn"t really strong to him but it was kind of impressive. He was just confused since that intensity could only be created if you killed hundreds if not thousands of people in your life.

"Stop" Raal said with a darkened expression and the cla.s.s stopped showing their spiritual forces. Raal then called the other cla.s.ses and nodded toward Karia.

The latter stepped forward and gave the ranking "The ones with the best control are group A, followed by group B and then… group C" The ranking was ironically in the alphabetic order but it didn"t amuse anyone as they knew if this was an evaluation on killing intent intensity, the third cla.s.s would have won without a doubt, just with that single student"s performance.

"The points will be attributed now. A: 3, B: 2 and C:1" When Karia said that, a projection in the sky showed the same numbers "Now let"s not stay on this, we"ll follow immediately with magic theory. The order will be the same, cla.s.s A will pa.s.s first" She said and the tournament continued.

For that particular evaluation, there wasn"t any surprise, Arima"s students had spectacular theories and they easily won as their teacher predicted. The two other cla.s.ses were unexpectedly tied and both ended in the second place.

So, the points were now, "A: 6, B: 4 and C: 3" Raal quickly announced and then called the teachers separately, the next test was on mana core manifestation. For this test, it"s not all the cla.s.s which is evaluated but a single student from each of them.

The teachers are supposed to choose that student and send him on the stage. Arima chose Gaodu. Velvet chose a female student of hers who was named Mila. And without surprise, Olien chose the student with the astounding killing intent named Yrion.

The first one to pa.s.s was Gaodu, once on stage, he activated his inheritance without any hesitation. He was soon surrounded by a divine aura and his appearance changed in consequence.

Arima watched this and wondered, it was the same situation as Chronepsis. Dionysus is supposed to be one of the strongest and popular G.o.ds of Greek mythology, not far from Zeus and Poseidon themselves. But Chulainn affirmed that Dionysus never became a Heavenly G.o.d and this time, Arima checked if it was actually true or not.

And he confirmed the fact that Dionysus"s soul had completely fused with Gaodu"s, leaving no doubt. But he also found out something else. Dionysus is still a proud G.o.d and a really special one. Although his power wasn"t at the Heavenly realm, his abilities and entire persona were at the level of a Heavenly G.o.d. That"s why;

The moment Gaodu started his core manifestation, two different lights appeared around him and two different cores were formed.

Everyone was shocked at the sight and even Cekrad stood up and squinted his eyes. Although the two cores were not fully matured or exceptionally pure. There were still two of them which is more than rare.

As they were looking at the cores, the manifestation began and the entire arena became covered in vines, a pleasant fragrance instantly filled the air and a pink colored fog formed from Gaodu"s body and spread around him.

The manifestation spread outside of the arena and reached the benches where the teachers were. Raal was surprised and looked around, the arena was actually quite big and if we count the distance the manifestation went through, it would be around a mile from Gaodu as a starting point.

Raal waved his hand and Gaodu stopped. When the manifestation disappeared into particles, Raal signaled Mila to step in.

The girl went to the middle of the arena and breathed in. Her core soon formed beside her and it was quite impressive. When Arima saw the core, he smiled and looked at Velvet.

It was the same for the judges and Cekrad. Their reactions were a bit strange but they were not in mockery, far from it. They were actually congratulating her to have found a student like that.

Mila"s core was indeed special. To be exact, its form was special. The core wasn"t spherical but had the form of a prism. Its size was also quite big, a lot more than Gaodu"s cores at least. It simply meant that she had a bigger and purer mana pool. But the form of the core was something really rare. It was a special const.i.tution that meant one would have purer mana than everyone else naturally, these kinds of people also recover mana quickly.

Her manifestation also began, all around her, flowers started to bloom endlessly and reached the same distance that Gaodu did.

Raal nodded and told her to stop. The flowers soon flew away like petals and then disappeared in the air. It was then Yrion"s turn to go.

When he arrived in the center of the arena, he crouched down and punched the ground. His fist became buried under the stone and he closed his eyes. His mana then started flowing out of his body and the ground trembled. From underground, countless spikes pierced the stone arena. They continued to form, and like a wave, they reached the benches and beyond.

Arima and Cekrad both acted at the same time and protected the students and the spectators from the spikes. While they were doing that, Yrion pulled out his hand from the stone and released in the same motion a red core, glowing with a bright light.

Arima looked at the core and snickered. It was as he expected. That kid"s soul was bathing in blood and killing intent which nurtured his core even more. As a proof of that, from the tip of those earth spikes, blood started flowing although it hadn"t pierced anything.

"That"s enough" Karia raised her voice and Yrion stopped his manifestation. Instead of disappearing, the spikes retracted and went back underground.

When that happened, Cekrad waved his hand and repaired the arena in a second. The judges concerted together and then the results were given by Karia.

"The first place of this test goes to group C. The second place is tied since we deemed the two to be equal" She said and the points were updated.

The points were now, "A: 8, B: 6, and C: 6" Karia announced to everyone and declared the start of the next test at the same time.

"So, it"s now, huh?" Arima said and looked at his students. Indeed, the next test is what scared the students and teachers at first, magic control.

Arima slowly stood up and before he even was completely standing, he had already teleported beside his cla.s.s. It was the same for the two other teachers, they both went to see their students.

"I already said the important aspect before. Now, I will just give you something to go through this" Arima said "I put it in my books but it"s not something that is easily learned. That"s why," He smirked "We"ll cheat a little" He declared and snapped his fingers.

Suddenly, his cla.s.s and himself disappeared from the closed s.p.a.ce. Cekrad"s eyes widened and immediately turned toward Arima"s group.

"It"s okay" Night smiled and said "He just have to talk with them for a second"

Cekrad raised an eyebrow and nodded. Just a minute later, Arima returned along with his cla.s.s and he then returned to his seat. Meanwhile, his students stepped on the arena with a really complexed expression. If you looked closely, you could also see some of the students were holding their laughs.

"How long?" When Arima sat down, Chulainn asked.

"Well, just a little week" Arima answered with a smile and the entire group chuckled together.