As the entrance exam began, everyone started to run into the mountain.
Since the candidates only had three hours, they wanted to reach close to the academy, as fast as they can to fight the stronger beasts and earn more points. With the cultivation of the profound Rank, everyone was confident that they can do that.
By moving fast, the candidates wanted to get close to the academy before fighting beasts. Because If they chose to fight beasts from the start and stayed close to the border, they might have problems facing the beasts while moving towards the academy at the end and get late.
As everyone started to move, it began to create friction between the participants, because it wasn't possible for almost a thousand people to move along.
Although everyone was moving as fast as they can, Aran was still standing at his spot, looking at the mountain! The spectators who were observing Aran through the monitoring artifacts started to wonder what aran is doing. Because they knew that it was not a good idea to stay behind since they will have to rush at the end.
Professor Fredric, a man in his forties, who was a professor in the academy, was in charge of monitoring the participants. He was watching the exam from a room in the academy, where more than a hundred spectators were sitting down and observing the participants through the display crystals in front of them, which were connected to the monitoring devices.
When Professor Fedric saw Aran, standing still at his spot without moving even after the exam started, he asked one of the spectators sitting close to him who that candidate is. Because that candidate looked a little familiar to him.
The spectator beside Fedric immediately got up and went to the next room and brought a book from there. That book had all the details about the candidates who were participating in the entrance exam.
After scrolling through pages, he found Aran's details and told Professor Fedric that his name is Aran Wilford and he is from the Wilford family!
When Professor Fedric heard his family name, he was shocked, because he remembered an old participant with the same surname who once shocked everyone in the entrance exam. It was Fenris Wilford.
" What's his father's name? " Fedric immediately asked because he knew that Fenris had a brother. Since Aran looked a little like Fenris, he started to wonder if they are actually brothers.
"It's written here that his father's name is Deylor Wilford "
" Are you sure he is the some of Deylor Wilford?"
Fedric asked. Because out of thousands of students Fedric had taught, Fenris was the strongest student of his. Even after all these years, Fenris still had many unbroken records in the Phoenix academy. He wanted to make sure that the information is true.
" Yes sir. Im sure! "
As Fedric heard that, there was something else, he was interested in knowing about.
" What's his cultivation stage? Does he also have a Lightning attribute?
As the spectator read his cultivation details, he was also got shocked,
" He, He only has the cultivation of the fifth tier of the intermediate Rank and he only has wind, as the single attribute, sir. "
After hearing that Fedric was more amazed because Fenris was also in the intermediate Rank when he gave his exam, but Fenris was only twelve when he joined the academy.
" Is there anyone else from the Wilford family? "
" Yes sir, there are two more participants. Emilia Wilford and Jason Wilford. "
" So, where are they, I need to see them, right now, " Professor fedric said loudly. Suddenly everyone started to look for the Wilford twins in their display crystals. Soon after a few minutes,
" Sir here we found them," One of the spectators started to shout.
As Fedric heard that, he moved towards him and saw that both of the siblings were already fighting a third-Rank, high-tier beast together. Since the academy didn't have any rules against fighting together, it was allowed to do so.
Emilia was using her fire against Jason's water attribute to create a misty space by instantly vapouring the water and they were sneak attacking the beast. They had the best cooperation skills and they were also using their attributes to their full extent to easily fight the beasts and move forward.
On this side, Aran was still standing, because he knew that he can't fight like everyone else and collect many points, so he had his ways.
Aran was standing there and using his divine vision to look for all the first and second-Rank, high-tier beasts and he was also pinpointing all the monitoring devices.
When he found the positions of everything he was looking for, he immediately started to move. But unlike others, he didn't move towards the academy but he ran towards the eastern region of the mountain!
" Sir, he started to move !" The spectator who was observing Aran said. Hearing that, Fedric came back to see his movements, since he was more interested in Aran. As Fedric came and looked at the crystal, he asked the spectator
" What is he doing? "
" We don't know sir. But he is heading towards the eastern region of the mountain. I, I think he is lost. "
" What? Is there anything special in that region? "
" Nothing we know of, Sir "
Hearing trust, fedric got another idea. He turned his left at another spectator and said,
" Change your device connection and look what's in front of him! "
As the spectator followed the order and looked for what was in front of Aran, he found something.
" Sir here, there are three first-ranked, high-tier beasts. All three beasts are together since they are low-ranked beasts. But there is no way he knows their presence since it's almost a mile away from him and it's only first-ranked beasts, why would he fight them? " The spectator asked.
" Well, his cultivation is very weak. Maybe he wants to fight some low-ranked beasts and collect many soul stones," Someone else said. Before one more spectator starts to give his opinion, Fedric interrupted
" Everyone, shut up and observe others and only answer when I ask, understood? " Fedric shouted and continued to look at Aran.
Aran ran the same way everyone thought, towards those beasts. As he got close to them, Fedric was curiously looking at him, because he was curious to see what skills Aran possesses.
As aran got too close to them, the beasts also saw him and charged at him to attack, but instead of fighting the beasts aran just dodged the beast's attacks and continued to run as the beasts followed him.
Looking at that Fedric was disappointed. He was curiously waiting to see his skills and Aran had just continued to run.
" Where is he running away, look what's in front of him,
" Fedric asked the spectator again.
" Sir, There are some more low-ranked beasts in front of him, nothing else! " the spectator replied after looking at it.
Fedric started to doubt if Aran was really running because he doesn't have any skills. But still, he continued to watch, to know how it ends.
As everyone was watching, Aran continued to run at many first-ranked, high-tier beasts and he just dodged every attack of the beasts and continued to run in a different direction every time.
After running for almost half an hour, there were more than twenty low-ranked beasts following him.
" He should have fought them when he had the chance. With his level, I don't think he can fight all of them. It's hard to fight all that beasts at once even for profound stage cultivators and he is just in the intermediate stage " A spectator said in the middle of everyone watching.
" Did you hear me telling you to shut your mouth?" Fedric asked loudly.
" Sorry sir !" the spectator said, realising his mistake.
As Fedric was looking at aran, waiting for him to at least give up, Aran suddenly got disappeared from the display crystal. It made Fedric more furious than ever.
" What happened? Where is he? " Fedric shouted because after waiting for almost half an hour to just see Aran's skills, he couldn't understand how he just disappeared.
" This is all the footage of the monitoring devices from this region. I think He has gone to a different region sir. You will have to look at other crystals for the footage of the other regions! " the spectator said.
" Then where is it? look for it, I want to see it now! " Fedric continued to shout and everyone started to check all their crystals connected with all the monitoring devices to see if Aran was in their footage but no one could find him!
" What do you mean you couldn't find him? Are you saying that he has gone out of this mountain? "
Fedric was angry. He had left everything else to just see Aran's skills. And now he couldn't even see it.
" We are very sorry sir. Although there are thousands of monitoring devices hidden in the mountain, there are still some places where there are no devices. Since no one, not even the beasts go there, these spots aren't really necessary to observe. So I think he is in one of those places. We can't see it on the screen." The spectator calmly explained it to professor fedric.
" What do you mean you can't see it? Who decided these spots aren't necessary to monitor? Who is so irresponsible to miss these places?"
" Sorry sir, but we are just the spectators of the exam. And everything about the monitoring artifact is approved by the principal. If you have anything to say, you will have to ask him" The spectator replied.
When Fedric heard the principal's name, he realized that there is no reason to argue with them. And he slowly calmed himself down. Since he realise he can't see Aran, he decided to see others' footage.
" Ahh, whatever. Show me some other footage! " he said and walked at other spectators.
Although Fedric was disappointed, he also thought Aran won't be able to fight all of the beasts with his cultivation level. So he just waited for aran to rip his token to send the signal for rescue and Fedric continued to see other candidates fighting.