Inside the magical forest a lone boy was walking cautiously. He was Lucas.
His attention was drawn to his right by the sudden rustling sounds. He immediately turned around and he faced a group of magical creatures called Blazing Tigers. They were fire based creatures with great attack power. The group was consisted of 6 Blazing Tigers. One among them was in the early stages of E Rank and rest of the 5 were peak F Rank.
Lucas without hesitation withdrew a silver coloured sword. It a common D Rank sword, which was given to him by Rexon as a gift.
He moved nimbly on his feet and before any of the Tiger could react he sliced through the neck of a single F Rank .
The tigers let out a ferocious howl and in rapid movement surrounded Lucas. He immediately took his fighting stance.
Two tigers, each from one side jumped towards him and Lucas moved backwards in great agility and in swift motion drew his sword vertically, decapitating another tiger from the neck.
Ignoring the other tiger who had jumped on him, Lucas jumped forward and stabbed another tiger between its eyes, immediately killing it.
The remaining three tigers roared in anger. Lucas showcasing great agility moved and in swift movements killed the remaining three tigers with great precision.
The most notable thing was that Lucas did all this without any use of mana, depending only on his great physical strength.
He noticed that his points rose from 0 to 15.
A F Rank magical beast provided 1 point and E Rank magical beast gave 10 points.
Inside the arena, at the scoreboard displaying points, Lucas rose to top of the list with 15 points.
Immediately following him was Luna with 13 points. On the third place was someone with 2 points.
The audience was extremely surprised by the names of these two commoners and their strength. Their increase in points in such a short amount of time attracted attention and two of the many screens floating in the arena focused solely on these two.
At another location in the forest stood a girl. With the girl as epicenter the ground was charred black and many magical beast lay dead around her. Some of the beast were completely burned and their death was gruesome. The girl was Luna.
Unlike Lucas, she took a different approach to her battles. She was not like Lucas who would take the hard approach to do his job, but instead she opted the fast and the swift method.
Using her lightning element she was burning and killing beast like they were nothing. She would move for some distance and kill some beast using her lightning. The sound of her lightning and fight would draw other beasts from nearby and for sometime she would continue to kill them and then move to next location.
When every other candidate in the forest was trying to be sneaky and only taking beasts head on in very smaller numbers and avoiding larger groups, Luna was making all the noises she could to attract the beasts towards her.
Out of the three elements which she had affinity with, she had decided to only reveal her thunder affinity and to keep the remaining two, the wind element and the ice element which was her strongest element as a secret.
Meanwhile the audience witnessing her crazy approach and then having the strength to back that approach was stunned.
Though Lucas was leading the scoreboard, he was using simple and plain methods which were not so very attractive, while Luna was in all her flamboyance.
At one place one boy was seething with fury as he looked at the rankings on his token. He was Leo Acalo currently on 3rd position. The Acalo were another elite family. Leo had prepared himself to top the entrance. He was extremely arrogant of his talents. With his talent and the resources of his family he had already broken to E Rank. But now he was extremely angry. He was seething with fury. No matter how hard he tried he was not able to overtake those two brats. And what angered him more was the fact that they didn't belong to any elite families. He clenched his fist and calmed himself and thought , 'Get all the limelight you want. The main thing is the second round. Then I will show you the difference between elites and commoners.'
The hunt for the magical beast continued for 8 hours. It was now the closure time. At the end of the competition Lucas was placed firmly on 1st position at 596 points. At second was Luna with 591 points. The only reason Luna was behind Lucas was because she encountered less magical beasts than Lucas. Although both had purposely slowed down in the end so that they not reveal too much of their powers.
At the third was Leo Acalo with 467 points. At fourth was Tim Clove. He was the younger brother of Natale Clove. At fifth was Alicia Telon. Although her famiky was good and strong they were a normal upper tier fanily even weaker than Wilsons.
After the time ended everyone participating were teleported back in the Arena.
Amden was calmly gazing at all this. The result was no surprise for him.