You know when Liang think about what an examination is all about when regarding attending an Academy that train them to be a Liberator, he could perfectly understand if there will be a fighting content during the examination, specially when it was what the Academy specialize about.
With the sole responsibility of being Liberator, fighting and eradicating those evil creatures called Invaders, in order to fix the balance of the souls in the world.
So what was Liang currently doing finding himself along with the other group of candidate in a wide open space area, sitting on a chair while facing a familiar looking desk that he was used in seeing during his short high school life experience, along with a test paper place on top of it?
Liang know that this is an examination to attend the Academy, but what with all this about paper testing, examining about the people knowledge relating about the world?
This was not in his list of what supposed to happen for an examination! This type of paper test shouldn't be appearing in this new life of his.
What was this all about?
What was the use of this at all?
And here Liang has concluded that he finally said goodbye with this nightmarish objects that has cause him great headache during his younger years.
Oh he know some of the answer written in the test papers... but as he read more about the questions it contain... Liang immediately felt the emerging headache.
What's this all about explain the use of glowing orb?
What was that? He only knew about magical core since it was an item he discover sometimes within the Magical Beast bodies when he was hunting them.
What's this about creating a formation and inscribe a rune regarding about attack and defense?
Liang has never created and inscribe a rune of any kind of type before! Sometimes, he can only knew on how to tell about the use of a formation and rune when he could discern about it.
What's this writing about the life of John Windsor?
He didn't even heard a single bit about this person!
Liang couldn't help but groan, Oh he was done for.
He would admit with great difficulty that he was like those barbaric people in his past life History where they only know how to use brute and forceful method.
Those without great knowledge about the world.
Well Liang was being biased but he has been mostly staying at the Village that he has grown up with, working hard all the entire time just to save money for his transportation.
He was basically a country bumpkin!
He never even gotten the chance to learn those information's, he just know and learn about those useful item that he needed and was using for.
About how to survive without anyone help regarding those magical thing, fighting beast and magical beast.
And about on how to make money.
Liang beloved Mother Zi, may she rest in peace, hasn't thought him much about the world.
So, now the Academy wanted him to answer all those thing?
He was basically clueless.
Oh, Liang started feeling slightly dizzy at the moment, so what does he have to do now?
How should he pass this examination that was currently blocking his way?
Liang hands twitch, he felt a great urge to burn those papers before him.
How did he past those examination in his high school day again?
Liang started thinking hard, remember... He has to remember!
Oh, Liang figure it out... He was to lazy and find it troublesome enough to study those books since he was able to acquire money so easily because he was a Part time Killer already, that he has decided to just bride his teachers, paying the other students to write his name on their paper or copying on his classmate test paper.
Right! Liang amber eyes light up, he basically Cheated!
Liang: "..."
Will that work here? No it would not work...
He cannot bride the examiner, surely they are far more professional with their work than his past life teachers, specially when he doesn't even have any money right now.
He was dirt poor.
Also, he definitely cannot pay someone else to write his name on their test paper since they kind of trying to pass too, besides its too late to do that now, he wasn't able to ask someone else to do it for him.
And he definitely cannot copy the test papers of the person closest to him since there was a formation array guarding around them, which even he could easily tell that it was to stop someone else from cheating over the examination.
Why are they being overly prepared and righteous about it???
It make it so hard for Liang to cheat his way out of this!
Wait.. Liang blink his eyes dazely before remember something very important just now.
Cheat? Yes that was right CHEAT!!!
Liang exactly remember about a very important thing just now, why did he forgot about him!
He got the greatest Cheat of All, even if it has been useless for a while now but it was finally time for him to shine brightly and stop being overly useless!
"Adorable!" Liang screamed in his mind, surprising the somehow distracted Adorable System.
"Eh? What's wrong Host?" Adorable was currently very busy as he has been seriously reading about on how to become an awesome System just now.
"Can you go over the Formation Arrays without difficulty while making sure that you will not be detected from it?"
He has known that Ado has the uncanny of knowing everything around him, specially somewhere far away, a very great detection skills, which now that Liang think deeply about it, why didn't he tried to use it before?
It was such a waste of skill for not using it precisely and properly for his use!
"Of course I can Host Liang! Nothing can block the Adorable System! Adorable is a very Powerful System!"
"Excellent!" Liang excitedly said causing the Adorable System to be disturb as he showed and boast his pride just now as a powerful System.
"Host why are you acting like this? Did you somehow ate something that you shouldn't be eating again?... Host you're scaring Adorable System!"
Someone help this poor Adorable System, his Host seemed to be acting up again, did his Host brain finally burn down from those Test papers?
Adorable System was baffled over the reaction of his Host at the moment, and start to think about other reasons why his Host was acting out again when he was busy reading about how to be a Great System.
Liang grinned, why does he need to work hard, hurting his head in the process, if he has a Cheat System... no matter how incompetent it has been for a while now?
"Help me cheat Adorable System! Go over those candidates and scanned their answers, figure out which was the right one before telling me all about it!"
"I don't want to! Adorable is a very honorable System!" Adorable reprimand his Host for even thinking about it.
The System has its pride, he won't be doing those non principled behavior!
"Aren't you powerful?" Liang asked in a calmed voice.
"Yes I am!" the system replied in arrogance and pride.
"Aren't you supposed to be helping me?" Liang continued.
"Yes I am." Adorable seemed to find something wrong with the Host question just now.
"Aren't you a Powerful System? Don't forget what's your real purpose was! It was to help me to become the winner in life! You are a Cheat System! You are here to guide me! What is the use of your pride and arrogance if you could not even help the Protagonist! And now as a powerful CHEAT System, the greatest CHEAT of all, you could not even do a simple thing to help me cheat over this examination!?" Liang gently coaxed the Adorable System, his voice carrying an allure tone on it, as he speak in a prideful tone containing full of passionate emotions over his words while brimming with righteousness, the Adorable System began to feel bewildered and confuse as Liang continue to speak toward him.
"I... I..." The System was speechless, what his Host has just said really makes sense, even if Adorable felt about how very weird and wrong it sounds just now.
The Adorable exist to guide Liang to be strong no matter what, and didn't the Protagonist he read about became extremely strong because the System has guided and gave them Cheat???
Adorable system is very confuse at the moment, what should he do? He doesn't feel like helping his Host at all, specially when he glance at the grinned Liang was showing.
Adorable really wanted to zap his Host with Lightning again.
"Besides... Did you not notice? You weren't been doing your job properly as a System." Liang said with a gently voice as he began to question the System after his passionate words.
"What!? Host I am doing my job properly as a System!" Adorable protested indignantly.
Host is currently judging his capability as a System, what to do?
Adorable really want to zap him with the lightning at the moment.
"Then tell me... When I just past my first examination, why didn't I received any notice of Completion and Rewards before?" Liang said with a wide smirk on his face at the now speechless System, feeling so very happy over securing a win on it.
The current look on Liang face at the moment was asking for a beating.... well a zap of lightning.
The Adorable System remained silent...
Adorable forgot all about it! Oh the horror he felt!
Was he also becoming useless???? How could he make a basic mistake???
No it wouldn't do! Adorable Pride as a System won't allow it!
As an Awesome and Powerful System, he couldn't fail!
Adorable already have a Useless Host after all!
'Yes! This is all his Host Fault!' Adorable began to start blaming Liang in his consciousness without hesitation, not even feeling an ounce of guilt about it.
Adorable was affected by the Host uselessness! Mentally shivering, Adorable never has know that his host Uselessness was very contagious!
"Host I accept that it was my Mistake at the first place, So I will be helping you with the test papers! But Host I will be more strict about you from now on!"
Liang: "..."
What to do? It seemed that Liang has also given a very bad (For him) inspiration on his System, this is definitely bad, won't he be receiving more harder, dangerous or useless task later on?
This is a Pit System after all!
After an hour of taking the examination, finally the time limit was finally over.
Then Liang disappeared in the test examination room, appearing in a wide open space area as far as his eyes can see, along with a group of people, standing in a much more larger and wider Rune Formation Array.
The people around was just glancing around each other, before their attention was caught up when a bracelet with a tiny small black crystal ball was place in the middle on it, along with a green coin covered with runes has appear before everyone else.
Each person having recieving their own bracelets and coins, before the result of their examination test was imprinted in their mind.
Name: Liang
Results: Poor Result, Pass 10% out of 100%
Note: Please try hard to learned more about the world.
Eh? Liang stared dazedly in disbelief.
Why did he get a 10% Result? Didn't Ado helped him with the test papers just a while ago?? At least he should be getting 80 % - 100% score?
"Host this is for your own good. Getting a high score will just make people suspicious about you. The people in the Academy will later know that you have cheated after attending the Academy and showing that you doesn't even know any single thing that you got right in the test papers, showing that you clearly Cheated! It was in order to help the Host in avoiding troubles!" Adorable System said with great Pride, like he was doing a great job doing his work as a System, his voice was screaming 'Praise me! Please Praise me!' for being smart and quick witted.
Liang mouth open and close speechlessly for a second before asking in a defeated voice, "So I failed???"
Adorable System was silent for a moment before asking in a meek voice, "Oh Host, didn't I tell you? This is not really mandatory to pass, they just wanted to figure out how much information the Candidates knows about. It doesn't really mean that they wouldn't pass you just for failing on it."
So all those agonizing thinking was very useless all along?
Anyway, "Ado!!!" Liang mentally screamed as he began to complained to Adorable on his mind, why didn't he received any information about it?
At least please do your job as a System properly!
"Host, please call me Adorable!" the system complained before secretly sighing sadly, he worked really hard and he didn't even get praise by his Host.
Then, there was no time for the both of them to continue mentally interacting which each other, when the large formation glowed brightly causing everyone and Liang to vanish in the area a few second later.
In a dark forest filled with a much larger trees quickly appeared in Liang eyesight before feeling the slight cold wind touching his skin.
The entire location that he was transport into was looking really ominous at the moment, like those scary looking ghost in the horror movies will appear any second scaring the heck out of him.
Although, the magical beast was more scarier and dangerous than the ghost in the horror movies in his past life.
Long slender fingers touch his forehead and begun massaging it, Liang amber eyes narrowing slightly, he was really annoyed this time around.
It doesn't even help that he was currently feeling headache at the moment.
Really, those examiner should have done those test paper in the last examination part if it was really not needed for them to pass on it.
Those people has definitely done it on purpose.
Was it fun? Watching those less intelligent about the way of the worlds, sweating nervously when they saw those test papers? Feeling so loss and helpless, thinking that they wouldn't be able to attend the Academy in order to become a Liberator?
Destroying their dreams?
He know that it was probably some kind of test about being surprise and being ready for anything to happen anytime for all he knows, but Liang will definitely get back at them.
Liang sighed before glancing on his other hand that was currently wearing the bracelet on his right wrist while holding the green coin covered in runes with his fingers.
Then he heard the Adorable System alerting him of a new task being issued while an invisible panel appearing before him while Adorable voice echoed on his mind at the same time.
Prompt!
A Task!
"Host, Please pass the 3rd Examination Part!"
A few moment later, a dangerous smile suddenly gracing his lip, completely giving an evil appearance as he look quite dangerous at the moment, a far cry from the funny person he has been acting a while ago.
Even the System in his mind was remaining silent.
Sometimes, a moment like this doesn't fail to always remind the Adorable System about how dangerous his Host really was in the end.
Liang was after all a person who has taken the life of many peoples, his hands already been stained and covered by blood of the peoples he killed.
So, its time to hunt huh? Liang thought, before moving as his red long sleeves began to flap before a colored small gem suddenly appearing on his wrist, glued against his skin with the use of force energy.
The appearance belonging to the object called Magical Core belonging to a Magical Beast.
Any kind of objects that contain elemental energy inside of it like the magical core or elemental crystal was able for a Cylch to carry inside of it.
The Cylch helping utilizing for the user to contain the powers and acting as a medium in order for a person to utilize the elemental energy it contain with their bodies.
And opening the third Cylch was the main feature of its use, helping the user use the power that doesn't belong to them to begin with.
With the help of the third Cylch, a user was able to control any kind of elemental energy.
Of course, that person has to have great insight and affinity with a certain element in order for a person to utilize its power.
Afterward, a glowing sign of silver magic circle along with the image of three Cylch place along the complex runes in the magic circle formation appeared on Liang right side of the forehead, the image shown inside the runes signifying the strength of a person, showing how much a Cylch a person was able to open up.
Of course there will also those people who prefer to hide the number of Cylch that they have open up, it was good plan to hide their strength after all.
However, no one can easily tell how powerful a person was just based on the image alone shown when activating their force energy, the awakened person just have to observed, analyzed or sensed a person strength in order to calculate how much powerful they were.
After all, everyone have different type of Cylch, power and feature it contains varies depending on the person itself, either by different because of their talent, quantity, insight or abilities.
And Liang activate the use of his Cylch as a black color gem appeared on his wrist skin, the black gem signifying the dark element as it glowed for a bit before a thin layer of black transparent energy covering his entire body.
Featuring the ability of blocking his force energy, making the other Awakening Candidates that was transported along with him unable to find his exact location just by using a detection or sensing ability, of course it won't work at all if a person was far more stronger from him or having a special trait that his ability won't work at all.
While also lessening his sense of presence, causing his figure to be blurred along with his surrounding, making a person to slightly miss his form in their visions and making it hard to distinguish his appearance, unless they concentrated really hard.
This was the ability that Liang has gained from his insight when using the dark element for a long time.
Every different person have different way of using the elemental energy that they can use, some people was also unable to gained any characteristics when using the elemental powers and will be able to only use a simple feature of the element itself.
Like Fire to burn, Water to drown, Wind to blow, and Earth to Hit.
Liang smiled widely, his amber eyes flashing with a cold light before moving as he dash ahead in the eerie and silent Forest deep within, leaving not a single sound in the entire process.
Remaining silent as a Ghost.
His figure disappearing deeply within the forest while regarding the information's of the Third Examination information echoing loudly on his mind.
"Elimination Process! Kill a magical beast and obtain their magical core, use the bracelet to store the objects."
Gain a Minimum Magical Core: 10
During the entire process of the Examination, any actions that was utilizes are allowed!
The Academy will not be taking any responsibility for anything that will be happening at this moment on, proceed to Leave immediately for any unwilling Participants!
Participants can team up and work together or steal against each other and even killing a Competitor is allowed, it will be depending with each of your choices.
However take a note that we are currently watching your actions, so proceed with cautions!
Second task! Grasp the Rune of Coins in the hand of the Participants!
Gain a Minimum of Rune Coins: 3
The Highest in Top 5 in the Examination round will be rewarded with points that will be use and exchange in the Academy!
If a participant is finish and wanted to get out, please send a message within the bracelet using your force of energy or a participant can remain and proceed to continue the Examination until it was all over.
The Spring Academy Blessed All The Participants, May You Be Successful!"
A dangerous glint appeared in Liang amber eyes, as he thoughts about the content of the 3rd Examination just now.
It was finally showing the true color of living a life in this world, its a undeniable fact that this world is cruel, bloody, brutal, ruthless and dangerous.
Th weak one won't be able to survive, only the strong will prevail in the end.