with Richard knocked out the three had nothing to do and decided to sit down and talk.
they had actually planned everything a bit before they had entered the adventurers guild building. Alyssa had come up with a strategy for three different instances. one of the examiners possibly being focused on speed, another of the examiners being focused on strength, they honestly doubted that there would be an examiner for strength but if the examiner was a mage then the best thing to do was to fight a battle of attrition and pray the examiner runs out of magical presence before they ran out of energy.
Marv received a lesson on the different battle styles in this world and how people actually carried them out.
Magic presence could be thought of something similar to mana commonly used in several novels from Marv's world, while intelligence improved how well or strong a spell would turn out. if the intelligence stat was higher than the magic presence stat there was also the possibility of being able to alter magic spells but that depended on how high your magic presence was at first.
there were different types of strength as well. they were recognised into three categories. one of which was known as sword aura which was a result of when a living being had mastered complete control over their weaponry and could emit this strength in the form of sword aura. this was often used by people who had poor abilities to control magic but there were a few who tried to master both magic and the sword aura.
Magic aura was the same as sword aura but was complete mastery over one's magic in several different ways.
the last type of strength was something only a rare few were born with... and these were privileges...nobody but the beings from heaven knew the true purpose of privileges and those old fellows rarely descended to other planes.
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with these lessons, Marv gained some knowledge and decided to train his magic aura first. right now training his sword aura would be useless because he had never used a sword before and it would be too much effort to become at least half as decent as Masha.
they discussed how well their plan worked and Alyssa kept asking Masha questions of how she managed to overcome Richard's speed. Masha just shrugged and said that she had already moved before Richard did and reached just as he was about to blow Marv's head off. this answer was unsatisfactory but they didn't dwell too long on the topic.
soon Richard woke up and the group heard his groans. Masha walked over to him and helped him up. although Marv had landed a strong hit all it managed to do was knock Richard out for a short time he was still a level one and strength capable of killing him would be too overpowered also he got assistance from Masha and Alyssa in knocking Richard out.
Richard groaned before standing straight again and a wide grin was plastered on his face. he clapped and congratulated them for how well they did their fight. he waved his right hand in the air and his battle-axe flew back in his hand from a ditch that it had formed in the ground when he crashed. he chanted a few words and the venue dimension started collapsing.
they were soon back in the damp empty room and Richard requested for them to return to the reception and he would fill their forms. he let them go and decided to head upstairs to fill the reports himself.
with nothing to do the group headed to the right side of the guild and sat down at an empty table by the corner. Marv ordered two mugs of beer and they were brought to the table almost immediately. Marv wasn't an alcoholic and he wanted the two ladies to at least drink and relax a bit.
but he soon found out that the only person who drank alcohol within the group was Masha and she drank the two mugs all by herself. Alyssa looked away from Masha and focused her attention on Marv. she talked about several different things with him and asked whether he knew how to get his own income. all the money that the group had used until that point came from Alyssa's pocket and that included the mugs of beer that only one person drank.
Marv tried to think for a but and immediately dismissed the idea of using his system. it was too weird and was constantly changing behind his back at terrible moments. he then suggested to just do guild quests and a side job of selling monster resources. Alyssa sighed at this suggestion but it was better than nothing for now and they agreed.
the drunk Masha stared at the two from the side and was slightly dazed. whether they had noticed or not Masha had already ordered two more giant mugs of beer. she was drunk and impulsively demanded the other's attention. however, the second Alyssa gave her a smile Masha felt a cold breeze brush her cheeks and she immediately behaved and silently continued drinking.
Marv wondered how a knight could drink so much but he reminded himself that Masha was probably under stress for someone like a knight.
Eventually, Richard had returned from upstairs and asked the group to follow him. they went up the staircase and had followed Richard along a wide corridor before reaching a wooden door. Richard knocked twice and entered the room.
the room was simple and only had three pieces of furniture. two plush couches and a single red table. on the table was a stone tablet facing upside down on the table and a woman was sitting on one of the couches.
"Welcome to the second part of your testing. I will be the recorder of your stats and will affirm that no cheating was involved."
she told the three to sit on the other couch and she took a book that was resting beside her on the couch. she opened the book to a random page and a feather pen appeared in her hand. she then asked Masha to start.
though drunk Masha obediently did as instructed and placed her hand onto the calculation stone. when she did a bright light appeared at the centre of the tablet before spreading and forming a magic ritual circle. when the ritual circle had properly formed the letters surrounding the edge of the circle started floating high above Masha's hand and formed sentences in the air.
[name: Masha Kerian]
[race: prefers to keep secret]
[combat power: 1.83 stars]
[strength: 2.5 stars]
[agility: 2.0 stars]
[magic presence: 1.01 stars]
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next was Alyssa who repeated the process and also had sentences formed high above her hands.
[name: Alyssa Kerian]
[race: prefers to keep secret]
[combat power: 2.01 stars]
[strength: 1.5 stars]
[agility: 1.89 stars]
[magic presence: 2.65 stars]
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then it was Marv's turn as he to placed his hand on the calculation stone and the same thing happened.
[name: Marvin Rheede]
[race: angel]
[combat power: 1.5 stars]
[strength: 0.2 stars]
[agility: 0.2 stars]
[magic presence: 4.0 stars]
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the woman was surprised by these stats. she could have sworn that Marv looked more like a village farmer than an intermediate mage and his race was...an angel!?!?
she looked at him and immediately stood up. she bowed respectfully and said...
"it is truly an honour to be in the presence of an angel... I will immediately settle your registry and get you all adventurer licenses. please excuse me."
she left the room immediately and went to get all the matters settled leaving Marv and the other two alone in the room.
"Alyssa..."
"yes, Marvin?"
"I think I'm getting sick of the system."
"agreed."