When Aran was running on the eastern region of the mountain, a total of twenty-four beasts were following him, and all the beasts were first-ranked high-tier beasts. Every one of these beasts held three points despite being weaker than second-ranked low-tier beasts which only carried two points.
Most participants didn't realise how the points have distributed and they all focused on fighting high-ranked beasts and getting to the academy. But Aran knew that it was not about fighting the stronger beasts but about gaining more points.
Although some others understood that, they chose to get to the academy rather than stay close to the border because they didn't want to face the beasts in the end.
As Aran was running, since he could see the exact location of the monitoring devices through his vision, he found a place where there were no monitoring devices and took the beasts there to fight.
After running for a while, Aran finally reached the point, from where the ground was high. As he ran towards there, he used the temporary unsealing technique to immediately unseal his demonic cultivation and took out his sword.
Aran suddenly turned around at the beasts and continued to move back to balance his movements and used his soul suppression technique on all the beasts that were following him.
Since all the beasts were at a low rank their soul was weaker. So as aran suppressed their soul, soon the beasts' movement got slowed down.
Instantly Aran started to shift his mana to activate the rapid blood-flowing technique and he used that technique's full power to only increase his speed.
Aran wanted to defeat the beasts with a single slash so he infused both types of his mana with his sword and charged at the beasts at full speed.
He used his divine vision to point out their central mana points and used the initial-true-base sword technique and managed to slash all beasts one by one before they could even react to his moment.
The reaction of mana in his sword, created small explosive energy blasts, as the sword touched the beasts and most of the beasts died in one attack. Only some of them survived but they were also severely injured.
when Aran's first attack finished, his sword broke into pieces due to the mana reaction, so Aran Immediately threw it away and took out another sword from his storage ring. But this time he didn't have enough mana to do the same thing so he just continued with the rapid blood-flowing technique and slashed down all the remaining wounded beasts.
After killing all the beasts Aran took a few minutes to breathe because by using all the techniques at once his body and soul had completely exhausted.
After a little while, aran started to extract soul stones from all the beasts and manages to collect twenty-four first-ranked high-tier soul stones, which were 72 points.
After collecting the stones aran stopped the temporary unsealing and started to move toward the Academy.
Since he had used most of his mana, he couldn't move at his full speed but there was still time, so it wasn't a big problem for him. He used the vision to avoid all the high-ranked beasts on his way and managed to move in a safe route.
***
When Aran started to move and came under a monitoring device, a spectator saw him on the crystal in front of him and informed professor Fedric that now he can see Aran. When Fedric heard it he immediately came towards the crystal to see what happened.
As Fedric saw it, Aran was just moving slowly towards the academy. Looking at that, Fedric started to wonder if he truly defeated all the beasts because even if he did, Aran didn't have any wounds and he looked entirely okay. Fedric couldn't believe it. He was disappointed not able to see him fight.
" Look what's in front of him! " Fedric asked a spectator again because he wanted to know if there was any chance of him fighting another beast.
" There is a third-ranked high-tier beast, half a mile from him, Sir. " The spectator replied.
But before Fedric could start to think that he might have a chance to see Aran fighting a strong beast, Aran changed his direction and continued to move.
Although Fedric continued to see what was in front of aran and did this for another half an hour, every time there was a strong beast in front of Aran he just avoided it and continued to move in a different direction and after walking for an hour aran had gotten close to the academy.
By that time, since Aran didn't have any wounds, his life force had regained its strength. So Aran just recovered his heavenly mana. He chose not to recover his demonic mana since he had to use temporary unsealing.
There was still an hour left before the examination finished, so aran looked around, for some other low-ranked beasts. After finding some beasts he started to move toward them.
Fedric who was watching this with disappointment started to wonder why aran had gotten fast.
" He is running towards a group of low-ranked beasts in front of him, sir."
One of the spectators said after checking. Hearing that, Fedric started to wonder if it will turn out like the last time but he still looked at it, thinking that he might see some skills this time.
As Aran got close to the beasts, he again activated the rapid-blood-flowing technique and brought out his sword and continued to charge at m the beasts. He couldn't use the soul suppression technique this time, now that his soul has weakened temporarily.
When the beasts noticed aran, they also charged at him and Aran again performed the true base sword technique and slashed most of the beast's primary mana points. Although it was successful, this time the beasts had also managed to injure aran!
Aran immediately stopped his rapid blood technique, as he got wounded and it was written in the book not to use the technique while wounded. After that aran continued to kill all the beasts until the whole group of the beasts was dead and started to collect soul stones from them.
Fedric, who saw this was impressed and disappointed at the same time. He was disappointed because Aran didn't use any wind-manipulating skills but he was more impressed to see his sword fighting.
Fedric couldn't understand what type of technique Aran used to increase his speed matching a profound stage cultivator and he had never seen a perfect sword performance as Aran did.
But still, even with all the things he saw, he couldn't believe Aran beat more than twenty beats last time without even getting injured, so he started to wonder if aran had cheated and used any artifacts.
***
After extracting the soul stones, Aran immediately started to move towards the peak of the mountain and he finally reached the academy, five minutes before the exam ends.
As aran reached the academy, he saw that out of all the participants, there were only less than three hundred participants who reached the academy.
Many participants had withdrawn from the exam upon facing a fifth-ranked beast, and some of them were still inside the mountain facing some strong beasts. Some participants even got disqualified for trying to use artifacts.
When all the candidates saw Aran, they were shocked to see him coming out of the mountain and they all thought that although he had made it to the academy, he won't earn many points and lose.
Aran just ignore everyone and moved towards one of the stones submitting booths.
As he was walking towards the booth, he saw the academy from there. It was a lot bigger than in the painting he saw in the book. Although the academy was almost the same as what he had imagined, he was still surprised to see it.
Because the Academy looked more like an enormous city, prepared for war, and it was protected by many high-ranked defensive formations.
After submitting all the soul stones he had collected Aran went to sit somewhere and took some low-ranked healing pills to instantly heal his small wounds.
When the bell for the exam's completion rang, immediately all spectators, and soldiers started to run into the mountain to help the remaining candidates who were struggling since the exam had finished.
After a while, when the counting of the soul stones was going on, Professor Fedric suddenly arrived there and walked straight toward Aran.
As Aran saw him, he was surprised to see a fifth-tier, master stage cultivator with the lightning attribute, walking towards him, but he knew what the reason might be. As the professor got close, he said.
" Hello, Mr Aran Wilford! "
When everyone heard that they all were shocked, realizing that Aran is from the Wilford family. Because most of them were from the capital city and they knew about the Wilford family and Fenris Wilford.
Looking at aran, although everyone was in shock, no one could understand why Aran was that weak despite being a young master of the Wilford family.