The man hosting the exam saw Finley's grin and was confused. 'He's way to arrogant. He won't make it.'
"Everybody, We shall now commence the exam! Whoever gets on the stage first chooses another person to fight. That is how the exams order goes."
After hearing that everyone nodded in unison and stood still. A few minutes passed and no one went up yet until...
"Since no ones going up, I guess I will!"
A youth in pretty luxurious clothes walked out of the crowd and got on the platform. He was about Finley's height but had an aura of arrogance around him making no one really like him. Instantly once he went up there discussions started.
"Hey, isn't that the fourth prince?"
"Now that you mention it, he does resemble the fourth prince quite a bit."
The youth was apparently the fourth prince of Menguire Empire and his name Leo. Leo wasn't a legitimate child but since he had shown a talent in cultivating he was given the title of prince. Of course though, he couldn't vie for the crown like other princes. Leo raised his hand and pointed at a random person in the crowd.
"Come up to the stage and fight me!"
The youth he pointed at stared at him and shook his head.
"Can I forfeit?"
He looked towards the exam host and asked. He was only at stage 3 middle and the prince was in stage 3 top, although there wasn't much of a difference there was still a difference none the less, The prince was raided and trained by experts from young and had many battle techniques.
The man looked at him and sighed.
"You can, but are you sure? You wouldn't be able to go until next year."
"I'm sure."
"Well then, The prince won! Next challenger."
In a few hours there were only a couple note worthy people. One was Ash Moran, She took her opponent down in a quick and elegant manner only hitting when needing to, not making any extra movement. The other Jamie Turner, He was the opposite of Ash, Slow and ruthless when fighting. Jamie had rich battle experience causing him to know when to strike.
A few hours more and there were three groups in the crowd. People who won, People who lost, and people that haven't gone. Finley and one other person belonged to the latter of the three. The person that Finley had to fight was named Winston Welch. He was was ridiculously large, almost three meters tall and had muscles bulging on all of his limbs, His arms were as big as Finley's thigh's and his legs were the size of him. Finley felt like an ant compared to him but still smiled and walked up on the stage.As they both got on the stage discussions broke out among the crowd.
"How can someone get so huge?!"
"Isn't the smaller one the guy who said he was the that dead Dukes son?"
This question sparked even more discussions about Finley. Naturally, though, the exam host had to step out and silence everyone to start the duel.
"Let's have a fair fight!"
They both said as they launched at each other. Weapons weren't prohibited but Finley didn't want to use his just yet. They both lifted their fists and punched at each other. Finley noticed Winston's punch and decided to faint and kick towards his chin. Winston quickly moved his left arm to guard against his kick but the force caused him to stumble back a couple steps. Finley took the opportunity to kick him in the gut but this time his leg was caught by Winston.
Winston threw Finley's leg up and punched his side causing Finley to be thrown to the opposite side of the ring. The bystanders were quite amazed at the fight so far and were trying to determine the winner., from this exchange alone they knew that Finley was not Winston's match in hand to hand combat. Finley jumped up and took out his great hammer, Winston responded by taking out a great axe.
'These two are really trying to kill each other right now aren't they.' The examiner sighed.
Finley swung towards Winston's side with his hammer and Winston hurriedly tried to block but was to late. Finley's hammer was too fast and he was shot off the ring like a bottle rocket.
"Match end! Finley's Victory! Everybody who won needs to proceed to the Great Hall for the second test."
Everybody quickly left leaving Finley and Winston. Winston was currently on ground face up. Finley walked over to him and stretched out his hand.
"That was a good fight!"
"Yes it was!"
Winston acted like nothing happened and slapped his back a couple times before walking off.
Finley grabbed his shoulder and looked towards the examiner.
"This could get us both in, am I correct?"
Saying this he held an insignia in hands and flicked it towards the examiner. The examiner caught and his went wide.
"You, Where did you get this?"
"While travelling I found this in a cave next to a skeleton."
"Can you take me to the cave?"
"When I took the Insignia, The cave started to shake I barely made it out alive before it collapsed."
The examiner sighed but thought of what Finley said. 'there hasn't been news of the founder in hundreds of years,. We searched everywhere but didn't find a thing where could this lad have found his corpse.' He sighed and said.
"Yes you could but he would be an outer student, and you would be an inner student."
"About that I would like to be an Outer student as well."
"Okay Oka- Wait! You just said you wanted to be n outer student with the founders insignia!?"
"Yes I did."
"Hagh, I guess you can be an outer student."
The examiner sighed and said dejectedly. He then walked off into the the school.
"Friend you sure are a great person."
Hearing that, Finley felt three hard slaps on his back but didn't mind them.It was Winston.
"I just wanted to test myself. Even if I lost I would've still gotten into the school."
Saying that Finley turned towards the gates and started walking towards them.