After the woman entered the room, kingu and scathach followed after her.
When they entered the room, kingu and scathach notice that the room was full enchantment. They also notice equipments used in training are strictly arranged. On the center of the room, there is an empty space, and on the back, there is a door.
The woman gestured that they should follow her as she started walking towards the door on the back.
Once they reach the door, the woman opened the door and gestured for them to enter.
Inside the room are a desk and a chair, 2 couches, a table, bookshelves, and other decorations.
A man can be seen sitting behind the desk while reading and signing stack of papers.
When the man notice the presence of other people, he stop signing the papers.
"Please sit" the man said as he gestured for kingu and scathach to sit in the couch.
After kingu and scathach finally sat on the couch, the man introduce himself.
"My name is gerd armstrong, the supervisor of the mercenary alliance blueberry town branch" the man introduce and then he pointed to the woman that brought kingu and scathach." And that is ella spring, an attendant of our mercenary alliance"
"I assume that you are new here, and your rank has yet to be deteremine"
"Before we assess your rank, let me first explain the different ranks in our alliance." gerd said as he took paper from his desk and showed that it contain the diffent ranks of mercenary, he then explain every rank
"Rank E are people who don't have magic, they are suitable for quest like cleaning and other misc. quest.
"Rank D are for beginner mages, they are suitable for quest like finding lost things and herb gatherings."
"Rank C are for slightly experienced mages, they are suitable for quest like fighting ordinary animals."
"Rank B are for veteran mages who have low mana, they are suitable for capturing small groups of bandits."
"Rank A are for very experienced mages, they are suitable quest like guarding a caravan, being a bodyguard, and capturing small groups of dark mages."
Gerd pause for a while and then continued explaining
"Rank S mages are rare and most of them belong to a guild, they have the power to destroy a town and have high mental capability."
"We have a few Rank S mages in the alliance but most of them like to go solo and not be tied with the alliance" gerd said with a helpless expression.
"The last Rank is Wizard Saint Class, there are ten official Wizard Saint but there are mages who have equal power than them but do not like to be in the spotlight so when they are invited to become a Wizard Saint, they declined."
"That all the rank in the mercenary alliance. Did you understand all of it." Gerd said as he put the scroll on his table and look towards scathach and kingu.
Kingu and scathach just nodded as a response to gerd's inquiry.
"Out of all ranks, which do you think do you belong?" gerd ask as curiousity is clear in his face.
"hmm, i would say that we don't belong to any of them."riku said
"Why is that?" gerd ask slightly bewilderd by kingu's answer.
"That's because we're above them" kingu declared as confidence can be felt within his words.
"Quite arrogant, but are you sure that you are not all talk and no action." gerd said while slightly amused
"It's not arrogance but confidence." kingu said
"Since you are so sure that you are very strong. Then you mind fighting our S-class mages." Gerd said
"Of course, even if a wizard saint came, he/she would not be a match for us." kingu declared.
"Then ella, call endo and bolack. Tell them that i need them here now." gerd said as he gesture for ella to go.
"Understood supervisor." Ella bowed and exited the room.
A few minutes later, 2 men entered the room.
"What do you need us for supervisor."endo ask after bowing to gerd.
"I would like you 2 to fight this boy and girl." gerd said as he pointed to scathach and kingu
"Are you sure about that sir?" the man called bolack ask gerd.
"100 % positive"gerd replied
"I might not be able to hold back sir." bolack said
"That what i want. Now let's go to the training room"gerd said and then gestured for kingu,scathach, endo and bolack to exit the room.
Once they reach the training room, they spotted a semi arena on the center of the room, gerd activated the runes inside the room and said
"Endo will fight first with scathach and then kingu and bolack will fight next."
"Now, Scathach and endo. Step into the center of the room and ready yourself."gerd said as scathach and endo.
"When i said start, the match will then commence"gerd said
"Don't worry girl, i will hold back and not hurt you to muck" endo said while slightly laughing
Noticing that scathach was in a bad mood, kingu reminded scathach "Scathach, don't kill him"
"Ready, and start" gerd shouted declaring the start of the match
Once the match started, the room suddenly became freezing cold that gerd and bolack started shivering even with the runes that restricts damage to the spectators is activated
Gerd and bolack then trace the source of the chilling aura to scathach.
"You've been very arrogant just now. Looking down on this queen like your stronger than me. Don't you know that all of the people that look down on this queen has been force to sleep for eternity." scathach said as she approaches endo.
"Every step that scathach took, the temperature of the room would go down and it would be so cold that kingu had to project a barrier so that they won't be affected. Even with bolack's physical enhancement magic, bolack still can't endure the coldness of scathach's aura, what's more endo who took the full brunt of it.
When scathach was finally in front of endo, endo was frozen solid so gerd declared that scathach is the winner.
"Scathach, retract your aura!" Shouted kingu.
Once scathach heard kingu's voice, scathach retracted her aura and the room returned back to its normal temperature.
"Umm, Can you unfreeze him now?"gerd ask nerviously as he pointed to endo
"Scathach, unfrooze him. I think you have punish him enough" kingu said knowing that endo would be very traumatized after he is unfrooze.
Scathach unwillingly unfrooze endo when he heard kingu's instruction.
Once endo was unfrooze, he was so traumatize that one look on scathach made him pissed his pants and ran outside the training room.
"Bolack and kingu, get into the center of the room and ready yourself." gerd said
"Ready, and Start." gerd declare for the match to start.
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Author's Note:ahahahhahahaha, DAO of cliffhanger is here to present you the cliffhanger of the day. I haven't apploaded a chapter yesterday so there's 2 for today
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