The Assessment Grounds separated in two spaces so that the two classes can use the Assessment Grounds and at the same time preventing the clashes between the two.
What meet them inside the Assessment Grounds are equipment and rooms that will test their body's capabilities.
"Now that we are here, let us start your assessment." " We will first test your strength here using this equipment" Ms. Smith pointed to the equipment beside her. The equipment has circular pad covering its front and a measurement device connected beside it.
"Now this equipment here will measure your strength. You will get three tries to punch and I will use the average measure of that three tries." Ms. Smith explained clearly to them.
"601.45kg"
"656.24kg"
"582.42kg"
"..."
//author's note: note that after the Great Merge, humans have a booming increase in strength//
After the rest of the other students of their class have finished finally came Asher and Wendell's turn. Wendell got called first so he was the first of the two to get his strength tested.
Wendel got in front of the equipment and took a solid stance for a punching technique. This surprised Ms. Smith as she was surprised that someone who isn't from a major family in the city knows a Martial Art Technique.
Then Wendell punched three times in the blink of an eye.
"2,469 kg"
"2,489 kg"
"2,495 kg"
"Tch! Still did not reach that 2500 kg mark!" Wendell said with a frustrated look as he stared at his results. "He's still frustrated about his result? Damn! If I have that kind of strength I'd be so happy" someone in the crowd of students said quietly but was still heard by Ms. Smith "That's the difference between the two of you he is still not satisfied even when has has that amount of strength compared to you who is easily satisfied by a small amount of increase in strength and gives up something when they can't earn it" Ms. Smith remarked.
When the student heard it, he got angry and turned around but as he turned around his face froze and hurriedly smiled awkwardly and turned around to watch again.
"Asher Ingram" called Ms. Smith. It is finally Asher's turn to be assessed. Asher went in front of the equipment and took a fist technique stance too, but this did not make Ms. Smith surprised. Rather, her face froze due to immense shock as she did not understand why a stance similar to 'that' strongest technique she knew have appeared in this C-grade city.
Asher then punched three times unhurriedly.
"3,543 kg"
"3,632 kg"
"3,678 kg"
Asher expected this result as his said that his strength will probably be at 3,500 kg or more during their sparring. So he did not show much reaction as he already expected it. When Asher went back he didn't see his teacher's shocked face as she already recovered from it.
For the next test, they will test their agility. The ability to react and respond. They went to a room that shoots paintballs that has a variety of speed and curves, and angles where the paintballs will be shooting from.
At this test many students have been hit by paintballs other than Asher and Wendell who just got hit by the paintballs with a combined number of less than ten, Asher being the one who was least hit, The best record the other students is at best 15 hits of paintballs.
"Those two are monsters!" a student who is breathing heavily said as he stared at Asher and Wendell's results "We're in luck as we have two monsters in our class that are on the same level of those direct descendants of the seven families and the other one even surpasses them" added another one of their classmate.
"Hey, hey you should remember that its just our body, that is being assessed right now. those two's Warsouls can't be compared to those of the seven monsters" someone quickly reminded and quickly extinguished their hopes.
"This time we just used the paintballs as this is your first time. Consider this test as a form of training too, as it will help you with your reaction time and reaction speed and also teach you how to respond smoothly to unexpected angles." Ms. Smith reminded them
"The next test will be the last test for this assessment. This will test your own overall combat capabilities." Ms. Smith then explained the last test for the assessment. Then they went to a room where there are pods. What the school will do in this test was to test them virtually against the past first year middle school students geniuses or the record of all first year middle school students in all of the federation.
"These pods will send you to a virtual arena individually as to test your overall capabilities. You will keep fighting until you are defeated or until you defeated the last one. There are ten opponents to this test. Although I know that you can't defeat these past students as they are the geniuses that made our academy proud, I hope that you will still fight them with your all." explained Ms. Smith
Then someone asked "Are they really all the geniuses in the history of the Federation?". Just as Ms. Smith was about to answer the student's question someone asked "What if I defeat one? Will there be a reward for that?" Ms. Smith was surprised to hear someone ask that question but quickly remembered the interesting duo but as she remember, it is not Wendell's voice that asked this question so she turned to the source of the voice and was surprised to see that Asher who did not say anything the whole assessment earlier to speak now. "I will speak to the Dean if you ever defeat one of them this assessment." answered Ms. Smith to Asher.
This answer of Ms. Smith made Asher excited to defeat these so called geniuses. And by recalling the reward that will be given by the Dean if he defeat one made him drool but only for a moment and quickly reverted back to his cold personality.
But one person that payed attention to him has seen this, Wendell then went beside Asher then said while laughing and slapping Asher's shoulder, "Hey dude, the way you immediately changed your expression was so funny that I could choke myself while laughing" Asher's face turned red while maintaining his cold expression. This, in turn made Wendell laugh a lot more as this really looked comical.
Asher hurriedly went towards his chosen pod then quickly entered it just to stay away from Wendell. After they all went to each of their own chosen pods, Ms. Smith then said "I will start the simulation now, Get Ready!"
After Ms. Smith started the simulation, they were transported to a virtual world arena. After Asher was transported, a screen appeared in front of him to choose a weapon. Asher chose the spear because ever since he saw a spear, he felt a strange connection from this type of weapon that he never felt to any other weapons before. So even though Gus cannot teach him on the ways of spear as he uses swords. Asher insisted to use the spear as his main weapon. Asher trained himself using the spear; sweeping, stabbing, cleaving, and lunging for countless of times.
After Asher chose a weapon, he immediately took a stance and his expression changed to a serious look that he only makes when ha was sparring with Gus. A person appeared and the countdown began.
"3"
"2"
"1"
"0"
As soon as the timer hit zero, Asher immediately took a lunge at his opponent but missed as his opponent use a movement technique to dodge to the side and his opponent countered by a sweeping slash using a sword.
Asher saw it coming so he jumped backwards to dodge the attack and prepared to block a cleaving attack as he expected his opponent to cleave just after he land. After he blocked the attack Asher used a movement technique taught by his father,
"Vanishing Phantom Steps"
He suddenly disappeared in front of his opponent which caught it unprepared then appeared behind it and stabbed powerfully. Their battle lasted only a few moments after it started. He then prepared for the next opponent.
Battle after battle, Asher fought and fought. But when it came to the last opponent he sensed a familiar aura. The familiarity is so vague that he can't remember whose aura it is. Because the opponents are faceless to hide every genius' information and data. So he just prepared to fight.
This last battle was fought by Asher the longest time and at the same time the hardest, as his opponent is as good as him and he knows what moves what Asher will do. But in the end he still defeated his hardest opponent but it still made him feel fatigued as the last opponent is very different from his earlier opponents.