Luis and Serion headed towards where the second examination is taking place.
They approached the place and saw a girl sitting lazily on the chair.
"I am the person in charge of the second exam bla bla, and you should enter the Mysterious Archive and you know the rest, now go!" The girl explained lazily as she waved her hand gesturing them to leave.
Serion just shrugged and entered the door towards the Mysterious Archive. Luis followed and entered the room. He saw a lot of shelves with books that have a dim glow. It felt so magical like the ones he saw in the movies he used to watch while he was still on Earth.
"Let's meet up at that place after an hour, we will separate ways from here. What you need to do is find a book and try to understand what it means, and write a summary of it." Serion explained.
"Okay understood! Find a book, comprehend it, write a summary of it, and go to that place." Luis repeated as he nodded his head.
Serion heads to one of the isles to the right while Luis wandered around. While wandering, he saw a staircase leading to the next floor. He climbed up the stair and saw that the books here glowed brighter than the ones on the first floor. One can see the pedestals arranged at each end of the isles. On top of each pedestal, there's a book lying quietly, and all of them glowed brightly.
A single book on a pedestal caught Luis's attention. It is the only book that doesn't glow and looks very ordinary. When he looked at it, he got the feeling that the book is calling for him urging him to come closer and touch the book.
As if his body was out of his control. Luis approached the pedestal and took a closer look at the book as his hands slowly reached out for it.
The moment his skin touched the book, it glowed and floated up. The cover of the book burned as it changed from an ordinary tattered cover into a pitch-black one with red writings on it. The book emitted a terrifying aura that one might feel that they will melt if they were exposed to this aura for too long.
Luis was enveloped by the black with a tinge of red aura that carries a very strong killing intent.
He appeared in a place where an event is happening. Everything looked so dark and the moon has a red hue as it was refracted to the dark clouds that make a person feel eerie and terrified.
Piles of bodies can be seen as a fight that was still going on added another dead body.
"Life and death is a cycle that every being must experience. From the plants to animals and then humans. Even gods and goddesses aren't an exception. Unless one can control life and death itself eternal life can't be claimed." A voice rang out inside Luis's mind.
"Who are you?" Luis exclaimed as his body shuddered from the eerie and gloomy air that the place brought.
"Only a child who has the power to destroy and create the balance of the world can see what will happen when the world is full of deaths." The voice continued as the scenery changed from the bloody place into a barren place.
The scenes changed into different events. People starved to death, a pandemic claimed the life of a lot of people, plants and trees withered as animal corpses can be seen anywhere. The sea and oceans don't have the once blue hue of it but instead, it has the dark red color that almost looked like black. Everything is a mess and nothing good can be seen from these events. If a normal person is to see these, they will be depressed and at the same time can't take their life even if they want to. The torture of wanting to die but can't, it might make them insane.
"The fate of the world lies on the one who holds the scale of the balance of the world. Child of fate, you claimed the weight for the scale of death." The voice from his head echoed as the surroundings twisted and he saw himself standing at the front of the pedestal where he saw the book.
The book regained its former form which is an old tattered book. Luis wrote down everything that he comprehended from what the voice that rang on his head said.
While that event happened, Mufar ran towards the area where the second examination is taking place.
"Analou! Who entered the archive last?" Mufar anxiously asked.
"Sir Mufar! The last who entered are Menazee and his friend and Arion entered before they did." Analou responded as her lazy expression can't be seen on her face anymore.
"The archive alarm rang on my office! Did you tell them to not go into the second floor?" Mufar shouted anxiously and the girl immediately became teary-eyed as her fear surfaced from her heart.
"Sorry, sir Mufar! I didn't tell them what they need to know because I heard that you briefed them earlier." Analou cried.
"You know that we had an incident a long time ago where a student touched the book of Fire Origin and then ended in tragedy, right? He and his family were cursed that if they didn't find the fire maiden, their whole clan will be turned into ashes. They failed so a hundred and more lives were taken away!" Mufar explained anxiously.
"I'm sorry sir Mufar, I'm sorry!" Analou cried and kept on apologizing.
"There's no need to apologize. What we need to do is stop that student from endangering their lives!" Mufar exclaimed as he touched the door handle and tried to open the door but no matter what he does, it won't open.
"Why isn't this door opening?" Mufar looked back to Analou.
"Probably they were using the Comprehension Array, that's why it won't open.
A moment later, a loud explosion rang from inside the room as the door clicked and opened by itself.
" Sir Mufar! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to... It was just... I just... And then... It exploded and then... I don't know what happened!" Luis ran towards Mufar panicking and trying to explain everything but his panic only made him stutter.
"That dweeb destroyed the Comprehension Array! Good thing that I submitted my work first before he did." A beefy guy mocked when he exited the room. He is the guy who entered the office of the Dean together with Serion.
"Achi! Don't be rude! He didn't mean what happened inside!" Serion defended.
"Yah right! As if I didn't know that he almost destroyed the Magic Circle on the first examination. He must have the Legacy of the God of Destruction!" Achilleas scoffed and harrumphed.
"We can fix that later but I want to ask, who entered the second floor and touched a book there?" Mufar asked as he looked towards the three.
A hand slowly raised as if he was afraid to raise it high and this hand belongs to Luis.
"What happened? Are you hurt? Are you cursed?" Mufar anxiously asked.
"Uhm... I think I'm not cursed? Why did you ask? Did something happen?" Luis responded confusingly as he looked back and forth to all of the people around him.
"Thank goodness! What happened inside?" Mufar calmed himself and asked.
Luis explained everything from when he entered the second floor to the book he read and the destruction of the Comprehension Array when he passed his summary.
"Sir Mufar, the Comprehension Array was overloaded that's why it exploded." A guy reported to Mufar after they examined the array.
"What book on the second floor did you comprehend?" Mufar asked calmly that one can't feel the once anxious tone he has.
"I didn't read the title but it's a tattered one on a pedestal. Come! I will show you." Luis answered and gestured for Mufar to follow him.
They reached the second floor and the pedestal where the book was, but when they looked at the pedestal, the book was long gone.
"I promise that I returned the book here! I swear! I returned it before I wrote my summary!" Luis explained in a panic.
"You mean it's gone when you finished comprehending it?" Mufar asked.
"No! It was there before I started writing my summary then I go to the array and then it exploded and then this happened." Luis was still in panic when he's explaining.
"Hmm... Interesting..." Mufar pondered.
"Am I disqualified?" Luis asked as sadness surfaced from his face.
"No, you are not disqualified. I, personally announce that you three passed the second exam. Now go to the third exam!" Mufar announced and instructed them to advance towards the next exam.
"It overloaded? Interesting, but luckily he only touched the trashy book. I even don't know where that book came from nor why did the dean placed it on a pedestal?" Mufar pondered as he returned to his office.
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"A news came that someone already comprehended the Book of Chaos. Find that person immediately and bring me back every piece of information that I need!" A man wearing a black robe with red linings and eye patterns commanded.
"Yes, young master! I will depart immediately!" A man wearing a black overall with a black mask agreed. This man is covered in black that one might have difficulties seeing him in a dark or shadowy place.
"Now, I shall wait for the return of the Book of Chaos, and once again, Chaos will rule over this world!" The man in a black robe exclaimed while laughing like a maniac.
The man in all black immediately departed with an incomprehensible speed as he heads towards a certain direction. A direction towards a certain place, Divine Prophecy Academy.