The Old man didn't talk loudly but everyone in the vicinity could hear him clearly.
"Hello everyone, My name is Bali Bearore, I am the Vice-Principal of this academy and I will be in charge of your first two years in his academy.
So listen to me carefully, there are more than a thousand of you here but only three hundred of you will be allowed to enter the academy, the rest of you will have to go back to your homes and maybe try again next year"
Hearing the Vice Principal say that only three hundred of them will be allowed to enter the academy was a huge blow to the crowd, many of them felt really happy that they were able to pass the screening and now this cold water was dropped upon them.
More than half of them won't be able to make it into the academy.
"There is more, the top ten best students out of the three hundred will be given free admission and a place to stay inside the academy without any rent fee"
Hearing this few of them got a little excited, they hoped they might at least get the tenth position so they won't have to spend any money on living fees in the Academy.
Bali Bearore let the students talking to themselves for a few seconds before they finally shut their mouths again.
"Now that everyone has finished their discussion let me explain how to pass the entrance exam, the eastern forest has a massive outbreak of monsters last month and if not taken care of they might attack the city.
All of you will be taken to the eastern forest where you will have to hunt down these monsters and kill them, the more you kill the better your score will be, points will be based on the type of monster you killed as well.
The stronger the monster you kill the more points will be allocated to you.
You can form teams or try to be a lone wolf, whatever suits you the best, but keep in mind that if you teamed up the score that will be allocated to you will be shared equally to everyone in your team even if they didn't contribute in killing the monster.
And if you are wondering how will you be graded, don't worry, everything will be recorded through this"
He said and showed a badge to the people in front of him, the badge looked like the academy's symbol and is in blue in color.
"This badge will record everything that you see and everything that you will kill, it will also allocate your score as well so don't lose it"
He said and paused, looking at the students once again as they began to speak to each other, they are already trying to get themselves a teammate because it is the best course of action.
Even if they have to share points among themselves they can still take down powerful monsters with teamwork and get enough points to succeed and pass the entrance exam.
There were also people who didn't want to form teams because they thought highly of themselves and looked down on others, there were also some that genuinely wanted to test their limits and take the exam alone by themselves.
Zio was a mix of both, he definitely looked down on the ones who were below his level and the ones that are on the equal level were ok in his eyes but he could still overpower them because of his brute strength.
[What do you think?]
Asura asked.
'I will do it alone, I don't need teammates, it will just hold me back'
Zio said.
[Hahaha, good, that's how you should be, and there are a very few here who can match you in pure strength]
Asura said.
'So are there anyone that is stronger than me on my level?'
He asked curiously, Asura had told him that no one can challenge him at the same level because of the training method Asura imparted on him.
[Well there is no one that is as strong as you on the same level but I did notice two people who are a level higher than you, one is two years older than you and the other one is at the same age as you]
Asura said.
While talking about the first one he didn't show much interest but when he talked about the second person, there was a hint of excitement in his voice as being.
Even Zio was surprised by hearing that someone is on a level above him at the same age, Zio is already at the peak of the fundamental level, the next stage is the Energy Manipulation level were a cultivator will be able to finally control the energy that their Religan is based upon.
When Zio reaches this level he might be able to control wind energy properly and he might be able to use the skills that Tempest thought him.
Zio realized that there is someone who might be stronger than him but at the end of the day, it didn't matter, his only purpose is to get in the top ten so he doesn't have to spend any money during his stay in the academy.