Sonya was looking at her brother's score with awe in her eyes as well. Even she was restricted at level six, but her brother managed to reach level nine. There was both surprise and a smile on her face. She was happy , but a bit shocked as well. She couldn't understand how her brother managed to achieve this result. She had been looking out for him since they were able to recognise each other as siblings. She kept tabs on all his moves since a sense of duty prevailed in her mind.
Yet she failed to understand just how her brother could undergo such a huge transformation without either her or their parents knowing it. This was a huge loss on their side that they didn't recognise Ragnar's talents. Little did she know that what was about to happen was going to take the entire school by storm.
The second phase continued with the next test being mana capacity test. In this test the examinee has to test his capabilities in a complex machinery that was developed by the elves where they had to use mana to operate the machinery. It was both a measurement device as well as a device that could test the user's ability to conduct mana and mana capacity. The device has ten pistons attached to it each one of which required a minimum amount of energy to be operated and lifted up.
The more capacity one had, higher will be the number of pistons he or she would be able to lift. The test was known to be quite taxing on the examinee's body and the highest anyone managed to reach in it was eighth pistons. The examinee who managed to do that was admitted as a special cadet into one of the top universities to be trained as a future knight of the humanity.
Ragnar was intrigued the last time and expected nothing less this time as well. This time though, he decided to hold back. Last time he was too excited and showed too good of a result. This time he decided to stop at seven as it would be enough to make him the topper. His chance came soon when his name was around.
This time around, everyone was watching him as he went into the testing area. He had managed to create too many miracles today for him to be ignored. Even though he was of Delta class, he had already surpassed record that were set by the best if Alphas. If he showed a similar type of result this time as well, there was a high chance that he would be shifted to alpha class.
"GAMA do you recognise this device?" Ragnar asked.
"This is low grade mana measuring device developed by the elves race to check the mana capacity of their you get generation. It seems that they have provided other races with it as well, for the technology to be available in this place. The machine works on the basis of a special design components created by the elves. They used Lignite Stone as a component to build the machine."
"Isn't Lignite a highly mana resistive competent?" Ragnar asked. During his time it was thought of as a waste material. There was no use for it.
"The elves managed to develop a system to use calculations based on experiments on the Lignite stones along with their resistances to successfully use them in measuring devices such as these. They are now extensively used in areas were mana capacity and content needs to be checked since a small amount of Lignite is required to measure huge amount of energy." GAMA said.
"Incredible. During the time I stayed dead, I didn't expect the world to grow so much. The last one was surprising, but this one is shocking as well satisfying to know. I guess, I need to access the records of its experiments. I have an idea regarding Lignite's properties and where I could use them. Make sure to schedule them and make me remeber to go back and check for the details."
"Yes sir." GAMA said.
Ragnar went ahead and began to infuse his mana into the measuring device. Slowly and steadily, the pistons began to move and rise up. While he was infusing mana, he was also checking the interior of the device to understand it's operation. Whoever came up with the idea of using it like this is a genius. While he was busy investigating the machine itself ,the rest of the crowd was slowly sucking air on the outside looking at the pistons rising one by one.
When the fifth piston lifted up Ragnar was alredy the top position holder int he class, but he didn't stop and lifted the sixth one as well. Once again, a resistance was felt which ignited his competitive spirit, but he managed to reign it in. He stopped after moving the seventh one a bit and almost raising it to around half its height. This much was enough to score the highest score till now.
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"Why is this boy purposely hiding his strength?" The principal couldn't understand the reason behind Ragnar's action. He was reigning his power in and not showing it in front of the world. Anyone else would have done the opposite to gain more attention and privileges.
The other teaches were watching the scene with awe. The rest of the competition was much different. Ragnar Avalon, not only shocked everyone present in the venue with his performance, but his results were so consistent and full of pattern, that it was hard to know if that was his capability, or he chose to gain such a result.
Every simultaneous test for Ragnar stopped right before the highest score achieved in that test. None of his results surpassed the highest scorer marks except for the mana sensitivity test where he almost reached the maximum amount.
The test were finsihed and the combined ranking was soon displayed. As expected, Ragnar Avalon was the undisputed first rank holder even after the second round. Only the third round remained which was also the main crunch of the show. It was the sparring around where the students will compete against each other to rise in rank.