This prowess test coupled with all he had experienced so far told him that this was the cruel aspect of the cut-off. In other words, these warriors better have a bus pass ready to go home.
There was no display of results this time, only a shuffling of the field. Draco was left in the prime area whereas everyone else was sent to another area packed together like sardines.
The sudden change came as a surprise to the warriors, but before anyone could complain, their faces changed. Cerea, the embodied spirit that seemed to be Draco's helper and connected him to the testing system, suddenly manifested above his head and 'sucked'.
The vortex that appeared before the spirit did not affect the air or the atmosphere but it did affect something else: the other spirits. The bodies of the other warriors shook as similar embodied spirits within them were dragged out by the vortex and then pulled over into its depths.
