After hearing his results, David reacted as if he didn't hear any praises and moved to a secluded corner of the main room and closed his eyes, considering others as ants and beneath him to respond to them.
Those candidates who had fawned over David had ugly faces now but didn't dare to show anger on their faces or retort. Why you ask, because in this world there is a single rule that 'strong should be revered'.
Seeing the awkward atmosphere, the examiner called out candidate no.2 and his crystal showed dark indigo colour which meant he has reached the peak of 2nd level of the Genesis stage. Then 3rd candidate was called and he has reached peak of 3rd level of Genesis, second only to David. He was also praised for his talent and unlike David he thanked everyone for their praises. Likewise, other participants started to get results, except 4 candidates who had gotten 3rd level, the rest of all had only reached 2nd level of Genesis stage.
Finally, it was turn of Angun and to everyone's surprise he had also reached 3rd level.
"Congratulations Brother, now you'll have to pay the bill for Lavender restaurant," Delvin said with a happy smile on his face.
"Sure brother and not only that, we will also drink till our fill for a week," Angun said as he was happy for his cultivation level.
"Next" the examiner called out.
"Brother it's your turn, best of luck," Angun said.
Delvin took a deep breath and moved towards the black room obviously feeling nervous. He started to imbue his refined Qi over the crystal and crystal started to absorb Qi and started changing colour. Everyone including David stared at the crystal results to see what level has the son of an ex-general has reached. The crystal showed light violet colour for 5 secs but after that, it didn't change its colour. 2 mins had passed by but the colour still didn't change.
"1st level of genesis stage," examiner said with an ugly and disappointed face.
"Is that really a son of an ex-general, if so, why he is only ranked 1st level." One of the candidates said.
"Is this how a son of the general of war should be, it would be better to die than shame your father, A son of a dog will always be a dog" David said with a sarcastic smile on his face obliviously not giving any face to his father's enemy.
"Hey kid why don't you go home and look your face at your father's piss to reflect yourself and motivate yourself for the breakthrough, as you could not even reach at peak of 1st level, the third candidate named Frostor Windane who was at the peak of 3rd level said.
By hearing all people mockery, Delvin became more depressed and became paralyzed on the spot, later he started shivering all over and vomited blood then became unconscious and started to fall on the ground. Seeing the situation turning bad Angun caught him and began running towards medical department of the academy for diagnosis.
Apart from Angun no one cared about Delvin, even the examiner didn't move, why you ask, because just as I said this world was for martial cultivation and weak people had no place in this world, only strong ones could live.
In one of the corners of the academy stood a tall building with a nameplate hanging on the entrance 'Medical Department'. This department was the richest department of all departments in Boneflare kingdom because all beast remains were stored here as well as cultivation resources were supplied from here. In one of the rooms of this department a youth opened his eyes after an unconscious state, this youth was no other than Delvin.
"What happened to me", he asked. "Brother you were unconscious for a day, I was very worried for you, doctor said that you will be fine after rest of a day", Angun said. Delvin didn't respond to him just stared at the ceiling of room feeling depressed and over-exhausted.
"Are you still worried about your cultivation, you should know that there is still half a year gap between all of us and you as you have just stepped on 10 years of age, you still can catch up to them and me", Angun said motivating Delvin. As soon as Angun said these words a spark of inspiration hit Delvin and his health and mood started recovering to normal. Seeing the changes happening in his words Angun said further "When you were asleep for a day, the academy announced that it has grouped us as 10 candidates in each of the 5 groups as we are all 50 candidates for expedition. 1st group will travel to the outskirts of Ambersnarl Mountain, 2nd group will travel to Roughwhirl Mountain, 3rd group will travel to Crowstrike Mountain, 4th group will travel to Ashbluff Mountain and lastly, 5th group will travel to Hallowedsorrow Mountain and you were grouped in 5th group."
These were 5 mountains surrounding the Boneflare kingdom, on which many beasts stayed. The main reason for this expedition was to hunt down all the beasts on the outskirts of the mountain to avoid random beast tides and also to give an opportunity to youngsters to train themselves. There were also limitations set on these mountains by the academy that genesis stage cultivators could only enter on the outskirts of 5 mountains, Visceral stage cultivators could enter middle areas of mountains while Bone condensation stage cultivators could venture upto the top of these mountains.
"In which group were u selected", Delvin asked to Angun.
"1st group, you should not be too disheartened brother because Ambersnarl mountain is ranked the highest threat level among all mountains as it contains the greatest number of beasts, so it will be a hard trip for me, here this is your map of Hallowedsorrrow mountain and the expedition will begin tomorrow morning so go to sleep now," Angun said with handing over a map.
Ambersnarl Mountain is situated on the north side of the kingdom and is largest among all the mountains and it is named so because it had many beast liars.
Roughwhirl Mountain is situated on the east side of the kingdom and was the second largest mountain, it is named so because it has a shape of a spinning mountain caused by air currents.
Crowstrike Mountain is situated on the west side of the kingdom and is called so because it has 2 peaks spreading out of the middle part of mountain giving the mountain a shape of bird spreading it's wings. It is also a coincidence that this mountain contained more bird type beast.
Ashbluff Mountain is situated on the southeast side of the kingdom and is named so because of it has a very high temperature in the day and is very cold at night. This mountain is the greatest supplier of minerals for the kingdom.
Hallowedsorrow Mountain is situated on the southwest side of the kingdom, it is present between Ashbluff and Crowstrike Mountain and blocking the view from south to west side. It is named so because this mountain consists of many big holes and a kind of dried blood scent on it everywhere, it was a rumor that ancient godly cultivators had a battle there that's why there were many holes on it. Although it has a name of sorrow on it, it is the richest of all mountains as it contained many unique spirit herbs growing on it ."Goodnight" Delvin said to Angun and closed his eyes as he was tired and went back to sleep.