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Chapter 54 - First trial (Part 2)

The skeleton man snapped his fingers as he started talking, "Since we only wanna test your range we have weakened the souls so we can see where the hits landed also don't worry we are gonna repair them so just hit them with a mana blast five at a time.You will only lose if you miss every shot we give you which is three." Jin was ready for this action but as he looked at the list he saw he was last again and wiped a tear off his face. He watched many people manage to just barely hit it and still got to pass so he knew that this test must want a lot of people to survive for some reason. 

As the test went by he sat there practicing mana control and pouring mana into his senses, specifically his eyes. About three hours passed as only seven people managed to fail and finally it was Jin's turn as he stepped up to start his shooting. Jin poured mana into his eyes locking onto his soul partner forming a mana ball he shot it hitting the chest making a hole. He then tried something else as he pointed his finger out firing off a beam which did hit but barely scratching the face of the soul. Jin finally was ready for the last thing as he made a circle on the palm of his hand then made a ball firing a beam destroying the head of the soul. 

The souls began to heal as their body could only be harmed permanently by death energy like anything reapers use including their eating. As the test was finished a pit opened as the skeleton made a large magic circle with many different parts to it he then started grabbing all the people putting them into a the pit as he also grabbed the participants holding them over the pit as he said, "This part will be where you fall down you have to get hit by your soul and survive getting back up in five minutes this is to test you endurance and how fast you can spot something and get back." 

As he finished talking he let go as they fell into the pit, each of them trying to find their soul as fast as they could. Jin poured mana into his eyes trying to see his soul partner but he couldn't see in the crowd of souls so he pulled out his katana swinging it down trying to find it by cutting his way in.  Even after three minutes of slashing, hacking, stabbing, dismantling and going deep into the pile he had to jump up and realize that he had to use his necklace. The necklace began to shine as the sky turned dark storms coming in as it rained and a bolt of lightning struck down onto Jin as it was absorbed into his sword.

Jin then slashed down into the crowd as thunder crackled lightning spreading across all the souls as he eventually got to everyone he then jumped on one of the souls heads jumping towards the pit as the timer was on its last seconds. He didn't get enough air time so he began to fall but a rune activated with the lightning as it summoned cherry blossoms charged with lightning pushing his feet up getting down as he looked down seeing eighteen people still down. 

He landed down onto the ground as the cherry blossoms petals burned up from the lightning and the sword disappeared into the space ring. Jin then saw as the pit burned up in flames leaving nothing but ash as the pit began to close, most of the ash raised up creating souls. Some of the souls began to leave as their partner had now died. They went towards a portal as they seemed to be going into a battle zone from the sounds coming from the otherside.

Jin then walked away as it seemed there was more test coming on as the Skeleton in the suit snapped his fingers creating a field able to easily hold twenty thousand people. The skeleton man on the suit explained, "This part of the trial will consistent of you trying to dodge all the souls if you get hit you will lose." They all nodded as the the skeleton man held out three of his fingers counting down as he yelled, "3...2....1....GO." They all began to run all around the place as. The souls seemed to stand there waiting for something but suddenly their eyes seemed to burn with passion as they started running towards people. 

As Jin was jumping up to get to the high ground he saw everyone and noticed that surprisingly all the normal humans were still in the game. Jin saw one of the contestants touched and then he teleported away onto the pillar the skeleton was standing on as his soul was ripped out and eaten. He didn't want to end up like that man so he continued to keep his distance, not allowing any soul to get near him. 

As Jin got on top of the arena he looked around sighing as no souls were near him sitting down observing the souls. He saw that their souls seemed to finally be fully turned on as their memories of battles thrived trying to capture their enemies dead or alive but mostly dead. He got up ready to move but he felt something coming towards him so he jumped down seeing a man in what seemed to be ninja gear as knives were stabbed into his back. As he was falling down from the air an arrow came flying by him but he was able to create a blast of mana from his band to blast himself down to the ground. 

Jin looked around him as he was surrounded by the warrior souls seeing seven people had already gotten out and some people had sabotaged other people killing them or pushing them in. Jin then took out his katana getting ready for a real hard battle right now.