Lucas and the others followed the Vice-Admiral, surprisingly there are several roars inside the base.
The students faces changed, the base is invaded?
"Don't worry, these monsters are in cages.They are caught for several reasons, one of them is for yours contest." a high official in the front said loudly.
The students relaxed hearing that, monsters are still much stronger than humans, these Tier 8 monsters are the bottom of the food chain.They are used only for food or minions of stronger ones.
They walked for a while, and the base look empty, there is several soldiers here and there, but the base is so big that it looks empty.
There is a giant fighting field in the front, with big glass like walls around it.Everyone looked to that astonished, this place is so big for a fight, 50 pairs can fight there without interfering with each other.
"You guys will fight there, against monsters.It is big, so 20 of you will fight against 20 monsters, you guys can't join forces to kill the monsters." the Vice-Admiral said simply.
"What if the glass wall breaks?" a guy in the front asked.
"If you can break it, then you can take my position." the Vice-Admiral replied calmly.
The students are stunned hearing that, that means that even the Vice-Admiral can't break this thing.They are curious to try it, but they are relaxed as well, the monsters won't go out of it.
When they are talking, some officials go to somewhere.After a while, they are back with some soldiers with a little different uniform, and these soldiers have a hundred monsters behind them.
Everyone is dumbfounded looking to the free monsters, these monsters don't have nothing stopping them.
"Don't worry, these soldiers with different uniforms are our mental power unit.With the strength and numbers of these monsters, the soldier can control them almost completely." the Vice-Admiral said calmly.
When he heard this, Lucas got a little excited looking to these soldiers.He never seen a mental power till now, only in the internet.
If he gets a mental power, he won't need to worry about weaklings anymore.Even though he can ignore almost all Tier 8 attacks, if he is hit in a decisive moment against someone equally powerful, he would die easily.
While he is thinking, the soldiers put 20 monsters in the field, and undone the mental power.The monsters immediately roared loudly.
The students are calmly looking to the monsters before, but now they are serious, some are even trembling.The previous round make several lucky ones, so this level is to make sure that everyone has a minimum strength.
It would shame the country, the government and everyone else if a person so weak be there.So surviving or defeating a regular monster is a minimum requirements.
"20 of you will enter there, but know that you can die, fighting against a monster in group and alone is completely different.We will protect you all, but sometimes is too late, so if you wanna give up, this is the last time." the Vice-Admiral explained.
Hearing the Vice-Admiral, several students hesitate, even though some are lucky, but they see a real monster from near.Fighting in group already is dangerous, fighting alone is hard for the majority of them.
In the end, nobody give up.Some are fearful, but they came here with that mentality, their objective is to go to the schools in the federation.A thousand schools look a lot, but everyone under the required age wants to go there, so even the worst school in the federation will be better than the famous schools around the world.
The Vice-Admiral and the officials nodded seeing the determination of everyone, not everyone will become a hero, but if you don't fight, you will never know.
20 students entered the field and everyone looked with attention, if they win now, it will be a great boost in the others confidence.In these 20 students, 8 are Tier 8 and the rest are Tier 9.Everyone expects that the Tier 8 ones win, the problem is the Tier 9 ones.
Even though these monsters are weak in the Tier 8, they are stronger than Tier 9 in the end.To win like that, the Tier 8 one must have several powers, or a powerful one, if not then it can only be decided in battle experience.They are students, so even in battle experience they are weaker, only some rare ones can do such thing without years of constant battle.
The 20 monsters there aren't close of each other, so everyone encountered their opponents.After a while, one monster is beheaded, everyone looked to that.
This look make a opening and one student is shredded in pieces, and some others are injured.The officials ran to the injured ones and saved them, while killing the monster, if several monsters banged on the students, it won't be a test.
The others students in the field and outside are stunned, somebody like them got cutted in a instant, the situation changed too fast.In the end, all of the Tier 8 killed their monsters, and 4 Tier 9 supported the required time against the monster, but neither of them killed it.
Seeing that only 1 got killed because of distraction, the others aren't intimated, they just told to themselves to don't be distracted.After several rounds, the numbers stayed almost like the 1st round, a little more than the half passed, there is some changes, but it always stayed around this.
Several got injured or even serious injured, even some loses their members, but only the guy from the 1st group died.After a lot of time, the night is coming.
"For today, it'll by only this.Prepare for tomorrow." The Vice-Admiral said and walked away.
The officials walked away too, even Marcos go away, only the soldiers come to them instruct where are they gonna sleep.The soldiers gave them the choice of sleeping here, or going to a shared room, almost everyone stayed here.
Lucas and the others too, here isn't cold and their body isn't so sensitive.Only the hardness of the ground is a little annoying, but this isn't a problem to them too.They seated near and started talking.
"More than half of the people already gonna fight, why any of us go yet?" Bai asked confused.
"Probably they will let the stronger ones to the end, if several people can easily handle with the monsters in the beginning, then probably won't be just a victim.The first ones are some of the weakest, even though the distraction counted, that guy was weak too." Liz thought and said.
"Yeah, with a equal fighting power, determination worthy more than confidence.If the students have confident instead of determination in the beginning, several of them will be like the guy who died." Ryo nodded and said.
They started to speak about this, even Edward joined after a while.Bai see that Lucas didn't entered the conversation and got curious.
"Hey Lucas, what did you think about this?" Bai asked curiously.
Everyone looked to him too, even though he is only a Tier 8, everyone knows his strength and talent.So they are curious about this too.Lucas is almost sleeping when Bai asked to him, he got confused and looked around.
"Well, these things that you guys are talking are if someone has almost the same strength than you, if you are much stronger, you don't have to think about it." Lucas said calmly.
Like himself, there is some people stronger than him in this contest, but when he upgrade to Tier 7 he will be much stronger than they are.So he don't care about these things, only the weaker side or the cautious ones search for a easier way, the stronger ones don't have to worry.Like the rich don't care about a poor threat, but the poor think he will get killed for anything wrong that he did.
This is like the natural thoughts, like a adult don't think how he will deal with a child, so he thinks that getting stronger is better than searching a way to be invincible in the same level.Like being the best football player in the neighborhood, you think that you are strong, but near professionals, it is a huge difference.
Everyone is stunned hearing Lucas response, principally Ryo.His face changed and he caught a stone like thing from his pocket, the stone disappeared in his palm, and blue flames burned around him.
Here is the military base, so students don't dare use their powers, even though the officials didn't say nothing, so Ryo flames are flashy in this quiet place.Even the soldiers are alerted, but a middle-aged man is on their front with a hand lifted, they stopped seeing the signal and don't say nothing.The man, who is Marcos, just put his hand down slowly and looked to Ryo's flames with a little smile.
'I had given up about Ryo getting in one of the top 3 schools, but now that he is evolving to Tier 7, and his 2 powers, he has almost guaranteed entry.' Marcos thought happily.
The world changed and still changing, a student in one of the top 3 schools are greater hope to the country and the humanity than a whole battalion, so he is happy that his son is one of those people.
He is happy as a father and as a general too, he knows Ryo's personally the best, so he won't back off if the country has a crises.