Hearing the announcement all the participants in the mist got dumbfounded.
How did we get eliminated?
Did the race already start?
Am I the only one in the mist? Were the thoughts of the participants inside of the mist.
As the announcement was made, the mist slowly dissipated revealing fifty participants inside the mist. Out of two hundred students that entered the test, fifty students got eliminated even before they could showcase their abilities.
'The eligibility two become a mage is harder than we thought', said shiv. If we are not alert and kept cultivating in the mist we would have gotten eliminated by now. As elder Dao said, 'I was slowly releasing my aura while cultivating. I didn't give much thought to it at the beginning but when mist-covered me I was able to sense everything around me due to the aura that I was releasing. The mist was able to cover vision but I felt everything clearly, presence of the fireball to the presence of the other participants around me.
As they were chatting with each other they maintained a study pace and were surpassing the students one by one. It's not that they were moving fast, but the rest of the participants were getting exhausted, hence reducing their speed.
Having reached chi refinement level six and seven, john and shiv were more than capable of completing one lap around the city. People who ran faster at the beginning were able to maintain a certain distance between them and the rest for a while but they get exhausted as soon as they completed the half of the lap.
The running race was given to test the endurance of the participants. One would eventually run out of energy if they run too fast in the beginning and didn't store any energy to keep them moving. They will fall to the ground as they were unable to move.
As they were running along with the out cuts of the city, they entered an area full of trees. As they went by the number of trees increased. Before it looked like a garden, now it looked like a forest. As they were new to the city they were unfamiliar with the area. They were slightly hesitant, but they found the flags that show the way. As they were going along the way suddenly a wooden log hit shiv and he fell to the ground within seconds another two wooden logs were thrown at them. John quickly dogged one wooden log, but the other one hit shiv on his head knocking him down. The wooden blogs were too fast that they don't even have enough time to react.
They were ambushed by the fellow participants. As shiv was knocked out john can't escape anymore. John had to fight at any cost. John stood in front of shiv and released his aura.
Seeing the john in front of shiv the participants that were hiding came out. As John knows that they were already here hiding in the woods he will be alert and will surely avoid the wooden blocks. Since they have to finish this before anyone else comes they came out to attack him. When they come out john's eyes narrowed, one of them is at chi refinement level seven and the other one is at chi refinement level eight.
'They said quit the competition and never come back or die', Said a man with chi refinement level seven. John frowned and said stop me if you can. With a smirk in his face, he gathered the spiritual energy in his hand and jumped at the chi refinement level seven, participant. Just as he was about to hit his face, the other one with chi refinement level eight pulled the chi refinement level seven contestant and stood in front of him. With a look, one can clearly say that he is giving way to escape and complete the round.
They might win the fight but all of that would be in wain if they lose the round. The point that level seven one is escaping and level eight one was protecting him shows that level seven one was the main person behind the plan and level eight one was just his lackey.
Snap, john lost his temper what's the difference between them and beasts he remembered the day that he wasn't able to save Shiv, spiritual energy gushed towards him forming an energy barrier as he started to ran towards the level eight participant as he started to move the energy barrier turned into a ball of fire around John. Though he was at chi refinement level six the might that he was wielding was comparable to that of a nascent mage. As he used to be one before, with the previous experience he was able to bring the might of a nascent mage.
Facing such a fierce attack, level eight mage wanted to escape but before he could move john was already in front of him and slammed his body heavily. Bam… with a loud boom level eight mage was sent flying. This single attack burned his clothes and shattered his bones.
John wanted to kill him but the matter in hand is to investigate about his father by entering the mage academy. Hence he quickly returned and wake shiv up. Shiv got conscious and drank water gave by john and started running as John explained what happened along the way.
They ran as fast as they can as they got deviated and got attacked, they were late. Though they were late shiv and john don't want to let go of the opportunity to join the academy as they had a chance to know more about john's father. After running for a while the end was visible and most of the students were running slowly as they got exhausted. Taking a deep breath they ran as fast as they can and crossed four participants shiv was faster than john as he reached chi refinement level seven and practised body cultivation.
They took rest while all the elders were discussing the results. Elder Dao came to shiv and started to heal shiv. Though he was an air element mage he knows quite a bit of healing spells that could be used with the help of medicine. While shiv was getting healed with quickly an elder stood up and announced the results.
The first one to complete the race was Marco from Brone village….the second one…the third one….the fortieth one is shiv from mage academy. Hearing that john disappointed as he failed the entrance test, and wanted to leave the area. Just at that moment, the elder said, 'however for violating the rules we are eliminating number twenty-three'. Since the number twenty-three was eliminated number forty-one, john has been added to the participants for the next test.