The rest of the match began to proceed after Ellis and Law were moved out of the arena.
The next two participants were chosen by lots again.
Each round lasted between 5 to 10 minutes, and every move of each participant was analysed and interpreted by the commentators.
At the end of each round, the commentators gave their opinions on how the match could have gone for each participant etc.
To the ones watching they finally understood the value of commentators, as their role was to offer advice to each contestant while informing the observing students the best way to deal with each scenario.
The winners of each round proceeded to fight against the winners, while the losers against the losers to determine their final rankings.
However, unexpectedly Ellis had dropped out from his rest of the match, opting to just watch from the side to the dismay of everyone wanting to watch how a sword whisperer fought.
After Law's initial bare victory, to his dismay, he faced constant defeat from his other opponents.
In the end, the final rankings were as follows:
1st place-Alister Bright- 01571
2nd place- Dan Stands- 02234
3rd place- Emma Redwood- 04326
4th place- Lawson Fowler- 00572
5th place- Ellis Wright- 10090
However unknown to many was the fact that the top 3 were spies sent to infiltrate, each for their own purpose.
Alister Bright, also known as Alpha.
Dan Stands the child send from the Almighty church in order to look for the chosen one.
Emma Redwood, a puppet controlled by Sophia, her goal seemingly being to get a strand of Prince John's hair or blood to control him. Whether she can do more than control him seems to be unknown.
Unknown to many at this time, Luke Storm, stood where he was assigned from where he watched every movement of the crowd warily. He wanted to know when his sister and her fellow members would strike.
At the same time, Isabella too observed the crowd, looking for Sophia who was controlling Emma Redwood.
While this was happening, the matches concluded and from there the results were announced after John arrived at the stage.
"This concludes this years graduation exam. Everyone please go home and get some rest.
I expect all of you to arrive tomorrow at the same place where the opening ceremony was held. Please arrive no later than 8 am for your graduation ceremony.
Also, could all the teachers please stay behind after everyone has left, please." Saying so Ez or also known as John dismissed everyone.
After giving instructions to the teacher Ez walked out of the arena while mages who were stationed there did a final inspection before they proceeded to deconstruct the arena at a rapid rate.
As he walked out he saw 2 people waiting for him, both of them examining each other carefully.
"Ellis, I believe you have met Luke after the 2nd stage of the exam." Ez smiled as he greeted them both.
"Luke as per contract your services are required tomorrow and for the banquet prepared for top 100 students and those in the special rankings.
You are free until your services are required. Thank you." Ez dismissed him, after which he walked with Ellis to the store.
"Thank you, your highness." After Luke left, Ellis bowed as he thanked his benefactor for giving him the chance to enact his revenge.
In return to his thanks, Ez asked him a question. "Are you satisfied?"
Ellis became silent, which clearly indicated his answer to Ez. "That is what I thought as well. No problem, I will give you what I promised."
"So how was the exam?" Ez asked after they walked in silence for a few moments.
"Harder than I thought." He replied, glad the conversation wasn't going in its previous direction.
Ez suddenly stopped and faced Ellis "Good. Also, congratulations on achieving the state of whisperer." Ez patted Ellis' shoulder before walking back to the store.
Ellis nodded with deep-rooted hatred and guilt against himself for betraying the one who offered him a way. There were only two people in his life who he owed everything for: one his mother and the second...
He clenched his fist while making a promise 'Once I finish with my revenge, next will be you old man.'
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Titus barged through the door into the door.
"Stupid arrogant pricks." Muttering some insults, he looked at John who was laying on the table.
Seeing him calmly sleep through all the troubles he caused himself annoyed Titus.
Feeling annoyed Titus kicked the sleeping John.
*Bam* John was sent flying to the wall behind him with a resounding sound before slowly falling to the floor.
Unexpectedly the target of Titus' ire was still sleeping even after having few of his bones probably broken.
Ellis quickly ran out with his sword held ready, only to relax seeing the annoyed and gobsmacked Titus.
"Is he still sleeping?" Slowly the annoyance in him was replaced by curiosity and fascination.
"How is he doing that?" Titus in his personal monologue failed to notice the worry in Ellis' face as he ran towards John worried that John had either died or probably lost his consciousness as soon as he woke up, after seeing him being unresponsive to a kick.
Ellis knelt down to take John's pulse and let out a relief noticing he was still alive.
"Lord Bloodfist I think his highness lost consciousness and is wounded from your ..." Ellis paused to rephrase the word attack to something much more suitable.
"...wake-up call."
Titus woke up from his trance hearing Ellis' worry.
"Lost conscious?" Titus raised his left eyebrow while staring at Ellis.
"Oh right, you don't have much experience in the medical field do you?" Realisation suddenly dawned on Titus before he smirked.
"Check his pulse again boy, he is bloody freaking sleeping. I am no medical expert, but I can differentiate between the heartbeat of a sleeping person and an unconscious person." Titus said while pointing a finger towards where the heart was.
Ellis was quiet for a while, not knowing whether to be gobsmacked at the fact that Titus could hear someone's heart beating or that John was still sleeping after being smacked onto a wall.
Before Ellis could take John's pulse again to check what Titus said, John woke up.
"Can't you guys keep it down. I have been staying awake for the past few days monitoring the exams." John rubbed his eyes while yawning.
Suddenly feeling something, he looked towards Titus, who was still looking at John like some kind of glowing lab rat.
"Can you not kick me like that? I like to sleep on that desk because it's more comfortable than the floor. If you want to use a desk use the ones in the kitchen or the one in the waiting area." John instructed Titus, followed by walking to the kitchen.
'That's your takeaway from all this?' Ellis was unable to believe what he just heard.
Titus who was about to nod towards Ellis, shook his head as he realised the reason why he came here before following after John in anger.
"Do you have any idea what kind of problem we are facing because of you, and instead of helping us sort it out, you are here sleeping!?" Titus started shouting towards John who seemed to be cooking.
"Probably the complaints from all the lower-ranked nobles, merchants, and other influential people, right?" John asked as he stirred the contents in the pot.
"Stop doing a guessing game and start taking this seriously! You have one hell of a solid pair of balls to go and poke the hornet's nest that even the magi association avoids!" John ignored Titus' screaming while he carried on cooking.
After calming down a bit, Titus passed the message he was here to deliver. "Dexter asked me to ask you how you wanted to deal with this situation."
"Just arrange a meeting between me and all those people who raised a complaint after the award ceremony tomorrow. I will deal with them later." John casually replied.
Hearing this Titus frowned before saying "Not just that, we have a major problem from the Springwood and Sprinkles family because of this brat." Titus said as he pointed a finger towards Ellis who lowered his head in fear and anxiety.
"Do you know what he fed both of the heirs of the respective families with?" Titus' voice started rising in anger.
"Well from how angry you are I suspect it's something horrible." John replied.
"Horrible? He fed them a f*ck*ng 'Test of Will' to them both!" Titus screamed.
John suddenly froze as he said "Oh!"
Titus nodded seeing he finally got some reaction and carried on. "But due to the complication before taking the pill on each of them they had to go through 2 days of agonising pain before someone could cast an anti-test of will spell." Titus explained in anger.
"Oh damn!" John exclaimed in shock while Titus nodded.
As he was about to carry on John interrupted him.
"The gas ran out as well. Oh well, looks like I have to eat it half cooked." John said as he proceeded to stir the pot, casually.
Titus along with Ellis suddenly realised John was giving out reaction for the wrong thing the whole time.
"ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO ME?!?!" Titus bellowed in rage, to which John just covered his ears.
"So, they swallowed a couple of pills and had to wait 2 days for treatment right? So what? Tell them to suck it up or something. I mean they got much bigger things to worry about in a while." John flashed a look of annoyance towards Titus, whose scream nearly made his eardrums pop.
Hearing this Titus flew into a rage before something clicked in him for a moment.
"Wait a minute! Brat, did you know about the side effect of taking the Birthless and Test of will together?" Titus quickly turned and looked towards the worried Ellis, who took a step back while avoiding his gaze.
Seeing him and hearing his rising heartbeat, Titus knew Ellis somehow found out the severe side effects of taking those two pills together and purposely fed them in order to let them undergo severe pain.
It was not due to the pills themselves but rather the cure that caused severe reaction once one intended to implement it after taking those pills.
The cure to those 2 pills has opposing reactions that causes one to wait 2 days after taking one of the cure. The same can be said for the healing process of a torn limb as well. Taking the cure early can mean death itself.
Luckily, the cure for the 'Test of Will' had a duration of 3 days after first consuming it.
Therefore most people would naturally choose to cure the birthless pills side effect as the cure becomes useless after 2 days of ingestion.
The same can be said for healing amputation as well, as this time not only Phil had to be treated for amputation but his arms had to go through restoration from the burns Ellis had inflicted on it. Due to the immense concentration of magi particles being present on his arms(due to the healing), it will cause the anti-test of will to not work properly and similarly have to wait 2 days for the magi particles to balance out and disperse from the arm.
Therefore, the lives of both Ava and Phil were not endangered in any way or form, other than having to endure 2 days of insane torture. However, to those pampered kids, even getting a paper cut is too much of pain let alone the agonising pain from the 'Test of Will'.
'It is as if he wanted them to go through the pain from the very begini... Oh... OHHHH!' Slowly things started to fit in place as Titus redirected his gaze towards a certain someone.
John ignored the angry look from Titus, as he slowly poured the content of whatever he was cooking into a bowl.
'No wonder Dexter asked me to ask him to deal with them as well.' Titus mused as he carried on with his glare.
"What? He asked me what was the best way to make them suffer, and I gave him many options. How was I supposed to know he liked option D over F?" Seeing the glare still on him John shrugged before he replied while carrying the bowl to a table.
'Well I did but I am not going to tell him that and screw myself over.' Ez mused silently
"Fine, I will deal with them as well. Bring them to the meeting with others as well. Better to deal with everything together." John sat in front of a table as he ate the food in front of him to heal the numerous damages sustained from Titus' initial kick.
Hearing this a smile slowly started creeping its way towards Titus' face.
While Titus relaxed his angry glare, he remembered something as he turned towards Ellis in surprise "He gave you 6 OPTIONS of torture to choose from...?"