The door opened and John took steady steps towards the towering frame. He past through and once again slid through the void. He looked around him and felt a slight compression about the energy surrounding his body. He entered a trance like state touching upon the complexity of the energy and allowing it to alter his physique.
He was suddenly in a new area completely full of people, there was many rows of seats and he picked a random one sitting and enjoying the material of the chair after being in the wilderness for so long.
"The second test shall now commence, all those who are ready head to the stage".
John however stayed completely still, he was trying to touch upon the same state he entered while being teleported from so far away.
The energy around him intermingled and combined, swirling and flowing like an enormous ocean of energy, connected through enormous rivers that could be seen coming from the walls.
He was in a trance and started to untie and separate the strands of energy, before drawing them in and understanding there composition and meanings. Comprehension dawned upon him as he absorbed enormous quantities of the energy strands.
He felt something shift with his body's' composition, becoming much more unique as it strives for combination of the energies.
Time passed slowly as he remained in the comprehension of the energies, the thousands of applicants slowly gained confidence and went to the stage. The stage had numerous pillars that measured their attunement with the elements, their potential in understanding the elements and their affinities with the elements.
Slowly John peeled open his eyes he felt an intricate bond with the energies surrounding him. He stood and walked to the stage with unhastened and rhythmic steps. As he arrived at the stage and got in one of the many lines he felt a sense of relief that he hadn't took to long while understanding the elements.
The line moved rather slowly but John didn't mind as he was still trying to get more improvements no matter how insignificant that they were. After small mater of time, he had arrived in front of the pillar and put his hand on it without thinking twice. He felt some of his energy drain as runes lit up on the face of the massive pillar.
The results were made aware to the judges and they were shocking. "He has affinities for all elements and he has an intermediate understanding in all of them too, some of them are even advanced understanding like wind, fire, and darkness. He is a prodigy how is someone like him in the furthest testing point of our empire." One of the judges exclaimed while staring at a paper with a look of pure awe.
The rest of the judges showed awed expression too when they heard the results, meanwhile John simply went to the next area of the exam completely oblivious of his new popularity among the judges.
He soon entered a room that was completely empty and simply stood in the middle waiting for the test to start.
He didn't wait long before a humming started being emitted through the room. He fell to his knees and concentrated on his mind and allowed the sound to assault his mental sphere. He took advantage of the assault on his mind to start increasing its sturdiness and size.
He felt as if his mind would explode at any moment but he persisted and his mind continued to increase in power he stayed there like that for hours and only after the fourth hour had passed, did the sound stop.
John collapsed on the floor and rested as his mind was under constant stress for a long time. After a hour of resting he felt that his mental energy had recovered and his mental sphere start to stabilize.
The door to the next trail had been open for a while and he had taken long enough on this test so he continued on his journey.
As he entered the next room he realized it was it was the same as the last but a a figure of light stood in the room and there were racks of weapons in front of him.
"Pick a weapon and comprehended the martial art that the figure demonstrates to complete this test"
A voice echoed through the room so he followed the instructions and quickly found the gauntlets. As he put them on the racks of weapons suddenly disappeared and the figure was the only thing left in the room.
The figure started performing the martial arts and John could see how it's aura flowed and imbued each move with extreme power. John quickly started imitating the forms and attempting the same aura movements.
He mimicked the figure as it preform numerous different martial arts that were extremely complex.
He felt as if the techniques were becoming in graved in his body as he continued to mimic the figure. Slowly the techniques became second nature to him and suddenly he understood the set of forms and the figure stopped.
The figure and the gauntlets disappeared and he was alone in the room.
He one again decided to rest as he had completely exhausted his body and pushed it over the limits.
But before he could recover he felt the same pulling on his body as he slipped through space once more.