After making their plan, the man who escorted Earl there came in once again, but this time escorted the entire team to the last floor where a huge platform, with hundreds of people already on it, they were each in groups of five, and just as Ruby had said, it seemed like it would be a battle Royale, more teams were being brought to the ring, so most of the team's already there had decided to go over they're plans again, but most of Earl's team had decided to just look around and try evaluating the other teams, but almost immediately Earl recognised someone in the crowd of people, "Jake??!!", of all the people to run into, it had to be Jake, he had always hated Jake so much, and he just had to meet him at the entrance exam, Jake always bullied him due to his weakness, although he hates it and fought back most of the time, the end result would always be the same, but even if now he felt a little stronger, and although he had no idea how to fight properly, he would at least help his team as long as it meant that they could knock out Jake.
About an hour had passed and all the contestants had been ushered into the big platform, it was about the size of a football pitch, it was a little elevated with a black energy surrounding the entire ring, the entire thing was surrounded by a huge audience stand with lots of people already sitting down to watch the exams, there was also a large commentary box off to the high corners of the stadium, and an announcer then came up to a separate platform and began speaking, " Welcome contestants, I will now explain the rules, as you all know, each team consists of 5 members, each member was given a number at random, each team's total number amounts to 2000, which means the number assigned to each student is the number of points a team will gain when they eliminate them, on that note, once a team has below 500 points, they lose by forfeit and will be asked to leave the ring immediately, a team can only gain points by knocking an opponent out of the ring into the black void surrounding the ring, killing or seriously hurting an opponent is against the rules and would result in an immediate disqualification of the entire team and an immediate death penalty for the offendant, without wasting your time, the exams have now begun", although the announcer had just instructed them to comment battle, no-one had moved an inch, the rules were clear and easy to understand, and the group finally knew how the scores were being handed out, and the exam scores, they knew what they had to do to win, and it seemed like they're formation would work, as they were somewhat close to the middle of the ring , but they hadn't bothered to ask each others numbers, and this could jeopardise the entire match, because if two people both had numbers above 500, and they were knocked out, they would all lose, and their formation hadn't taken that into consideration, they all stood there not knowing what to do, and it wasn't only them, all the other students hadn't moved either, they were all not sure what to do, or how they would cope with the sudden change in situations, everyone was deep in thought, and the crowd didn't know why, everyone kept on thinking as they didn't move or fight, but one person did, Jake, he walked towards a random student and began gathering air into his hand, as it kept getting bigger, he kept trying to reduce its size thereby increasing the pressure of the air in his hand, when he was just close enough to the student, he threw out his fist and hit the student dead in the stomach, "Compressed fist", he said as the punch landed, the student didn't realise what had happened until the punch landed, it sent the student flying through the air from the middle of the ring straight to the outer walls surrounding it, the students body banged against the wall and fell into the black void surrounding the ring, as some debris from the wall fell into the void with him, everyone was shocked and was still processing what had just happened when they heard the announcer speak up, " Fred Jacobs, number 973, eliminated", the crowd instantly began cheering after hearing the announcer speak, and everyone in the ring quickly sprung into action as they had now regained a little composure.
"Stick to the formation" Ruby shouted, regardless of if they didn't know each others numbers, the best choice was still sticking to the formation and making sure no-one got eliminated, everyone else knew this and quickly followed as planned, Henry and Earl got back to back, while Annie, Ruby, and Sidney all spaced out around the two of them making a triangle shape, Other teams also managed to get into formation, while others were currently engaged in combat, as the five of them stood in the middle of the ring, debris, fire, and all sort of things were flying all over as the students began fighting each other, so far no-one had attacked Earl's group, as they maintained formation, they were on high alert, and for most of the team, it was the first time they had fought such an intense battle before, they all stood there patiently waiting and kept there defences high, then Earl felt danger coming towards him, he began scanning his surrounding when he heard saw a giant bolder coming from his left, "Ruby, your left!!" Earl yelled out, she immediately threw her hands on the floor, an in almost an instance, a giant wall came out of the floor and stopped the boulder, "Sidney, your right!!!" Henry shouted seeing someone rush towards Sidney, Sidney then quickly bit on his thumb and drew blood, he then drew an Alchemy circle on the floor and slammed his hands down on it, as the student got close enough to Sidney, a giant hand which looked pale, stitched together human skin flew out from the alchemy circle and grabbed the student in the face and hoisted him up in the air, soon after, a huge faceless humanoid like creature, about 10 feet tall, with giant long hands that went down to its feet crawled out of the Alchemy circle and tossed the student straight from the middle of the ring to the outer wall, the force was even stronger than Jake's punch as the students body smashed through the wall and into the crowd stands, everyone on Earl's team were surprised at how powerful Sidney was, but Earl was even more amazed, Jake was the strongest student in his town, and had an insane amount of skills, strength and overall power, but after looking at Sidney, he couldn't tell who was stronger, "Annie 3'oclock" Henry shouted, she immediately turned facing another student who had a fireball in his palms, and punched her fists together, as she then readied herself for the attack, the student threw the fireball at her, but she just punched it, extinguishing it in a single blow, the student seeing this threw out more fireballs towards her, but she just repeated the same thing time and time again, once the student was a few feet away from her she stomped one foot on the ground as he threw out her fist towards his body, although she never physically touched him, the student felt like he had just been hit by a bull, he was knocked back quite a few feet away from them, and landed on the floor hurled over in his back, they continued like this for most of the match, Henry would freeze people, and alert the others of incoming attacks, while Earl relied on his third eye to scan for any attacks he didn't see coming, while the other three were knocking opponents away from them, though not all were eliminations, all they needed were all their members to be intact, and as the announcer kept calling out student names, the attacks coming towards them began intensifying as they were one of the only teams to still have complete members, it had been one hour since the exam had started, and they weren't many people left in the ring, only about 80 students were left in the ring, including Earl and his teammates, with so little people, Jake who had just eliminated someone had noticed a familiar face in the crowd and clenched his fists as their eyes met "Earl!!".
Jake was closer to the edge of the ring, when he saw Earl, seeing someone who he saw as useless and weak in the same arena as him made him angry and pissed off, and what's more he had made it this far despite being useless, he was so angry he began gathering air around his legs, as the pressure kept on building, one of Jake's teammates saw this and looked at the person he was aiming for, "Hey don't do it, they're teams got...", Jake completely ignored what his team mate was saying, his team only had three members left and Jake was number 601, even if everyone in his team was eliminated, they would still qualify, so he paid no attention to anyone and did his own thing, he then bolted off in one powerful jump at an incredible speed, the floor he was standing on before had a huge crater there, the sound of him taking off was like a bomb explosion, and everyone's attention was now on him, but they're eyes couldn't follow his movements as he flew across the ring in a split second, just then Earl's third eye skill activated, and he could feel the danger coming, only this time he knew where it was coming from, he managed to raise his left arm to the side of his body, but before he could even completely guard his side, Jake came flying going straight through their formation and grabbed Earl by the neck and kept on flying till he gradually lost momentum and landed a closer to the edge of the platform with Earl in his hands, everything happened so fast that most of the crowd members though that Jake had disappeared from where he was to the other part of the ring, even Earl's team were shocked to see that Jake had gotten passed them no problem, and none of them had reacted, Jake had Earl in his arms and hoisted him up in the air, as he gathered air in his other hand, seeing this, Earl knew what was about to happen and swung his body to the side while throwing out his left arm at Jake's face, Jake had readied his punch, and threw his fist towards Earl's body, but was hit by Earl's punch first, Jake lost balance for a split second, but still managed to land his punch on Earl's left arm, the sound of bones being shattered could be heard as Earl's left arm had been shattered to pieces, and as his body dropped to the floor, he held his shattered left arm and looked at Jake in his eyes, his anger was evident, as he screamed at the top of his lungs, "Bring it on then!!!!", seeing the fighting spirit in Earl's eyes just made him more disgusted, "I told you I hate that look in your eye" Jake said as he clenched his fist once more gathering air in his fists.