Outside the arena, in the training rooms, Everybody was looking at the screen in total horror at the firepower they had just witnessed, along with the surprising amount of life force the girl had. All the training rooms were silent as they watched the city get erased from existence. Even the workers were scared of the boy now. There were 4 people who, instead of being terrified, were looking forward to fighting the boy. Lucia Raven, Brian Ashstone, Adrian Bleak and Cedric Hollow. Each one is a child of the legacy family, and all are at the top of A-Rank. They were all in the same training room, talking about the match they just witnessed.
"That is quite some firepower, but that should be a one-time move, so unlucky for whoever he uses it against ", Lucia stated while sipping her drink. The other 3 agreed, they wanted to fight him not be erased.
Damian and Alice both walked away from the podium, and Damian got hit on the head by Alice. "Why did you make such a big, powerful move on me? ". He could see that she was pouting about it, but he just laughed and patted her head. Alice forgave him immediately. "I'll forgive you because of the Pats "
{ Congrats, host, you have been given a prize for terrifying more than 10,000 people at the same time }
{ Skill obtained: Descent of the king of flames: MP cost: All of the user's mana/Mp. Borrow power from the primordial fire of the king of flames, commonly known as Ignitas; upon activation, the user becomes a living flame capable of burning anything he sees. Cooldown: 1 day }
Damian read through the Skill and realised he now had a trump card to use in battle, just in case. 'But I thought that I would become unconscious if I used my mana? And what if I only have 10 mana left? '.
{ The Skill recovers all of the host's mana, and it doesn't matter how much mana is used. The result will be the same, but the aftermath will hurt more if you use less mana }
Damian understood this wasn't something he could use sparingly as this would make him very vulnerable after he had used the Skill. Damian checked the time and noticed it was almost 11, so the actual event should be starting soon. He called over Alice and laid on her lap, getting a few jealous glares while doing it.
After a brief time, an announcement came through the speakers all over the stadium.
[Everybody in the training rooms, please make your way out into the main arena. ]
An enormous metal door opened up, revealing the main stadium. A vast area with 6 different arenas, 3 on the left and 3 on the right. Damian marvelled at how much bigger it seemed from the outside. Someone saw Damian in awe and went over to him. "The stadium employed the help of a space ability user who set up this entire stadium. The inside is much much larger than the outside seems; in fact, the stadium can hold up to 15 million people on the inside. ".
Damian gave him a thumbs up, then walked with Alice to a designated area for their training room.
The number 3 hung above a designated square in the middle of the arena. Damian saw the number earlier in the training room so he guessed this is where they are meant to be.
Once Everybody was in their squares the metal doors shut leaving them locked in the arena. A dome slowly faded from around the arena letting the constants see all the people in the stands' 15 million and all the seats were full '. Damian couldn't spot a single empty seat among the crowd.
Damian looked around and noticed that there were 16 groups with around 1,000 people. '16,000 people how do they expect to narrow that number down so quickly '. Suddenly everything went quiet as a man appeared above the arena with a mic in one hand and a piece of paper in the other.
"Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Verdient Academy test, exam, application, or whatever you want to call it. I will be your host or supervisor this afternoon. You can call me Alan, also known as the Sovereign of Ice but better known as the principal of Verdient Academy. Now, you might be wondering something. How the hell are we going to eliminate so many people? It's simple, of course, team battles. You will have to form a group of 5 and only 5 for this 1st part of the test. That gives us 3,200 groups. Maybe some people are sick, haha, but for the most part, you will be fine. If you can't form a group of 5, you will get something called a dummy. A dummy is an A.I controlled robot that will just listen to whoever's orders it is set to, but don't go trying to count on them as you will only get C-Ranks, which is definitely not enough this year. Not after some kid blew up a whole city earlier. I will explain what the 1st test is after Everybody has gotten their teams. By the way, teams aren't limited to your training room number. Once you have gotten your team together, talk to one of the workers around the field. "Alan finished his talk then disappeared again and appeared in a luxurious room with 4 old men "glad to see the oh so great and powerful legacy families showed up ".
The 4 old men weren't happy with his tone or how he talked to them but they were completely powerless against him so they let it slide.
Everybody on the field was going around asking people to join their group or requesting to be in someone else's group. Damian was laying on Alice's lap at the edge of the arena while she played with his hair. "Why aren't we trying to join a group master? "Alice asked while continuing to play with his silky hair.
"1. Everybody else in our training room is weak. 2. I don't want to walk around to other groups because that's tiring. 3. I'm completely fine with getting dummies. 4. Call me Damian. And finally 5. I have a deal for you Alice ". Damian responded while enjoying his slaves thick thighs. "Yes, Damian? ".
"If our group gets first place then you can ask for anything from me no matter what "Damian thought he could hear her heart beating out of her chest once he finished. "E-Even perverted things? ". Damian nodded, confirming her thoughts.
Alice was already thinking about what they could do later and how sore she was going to be later tonight. Damian looked up and thought she was going to start drooling at this point. "Mind if I join you two? ". Damian got up and saw a girl wearing quite revealing clothes while holding a warhammer that was as tall as her body. She was around 5'6 with short black hair that reached her neck and fiery eyes adorning a shade of blue. A light smile on her face. She had tanned skin with some very prominent breasts, but she was not as gifted in the ass department, though.
"Hey I can see your nipples "Damian's body suddenly felt heavy and saw the warhammer being swung at him. Damian grabbed the hammer face and slammed it into the ground "Why does Everybody swing at me so quickly ". The woman was shocked by his strength as she couldn't even lift her hammer up and even more surprised that he could still stand after being affected by her ability. Damian looked at her up and down, then asked, "Do you have any friends with you that could join us? ".
The girl lit up and waved at two other people in the distance who walked over. Damian noticed it was a tall guy with a bow on his back and another girl with a sword attached at the waist. The boy came up in front of Damian and bowed, "Good to meet you, sir. I hope we can join your group". "
Damian was taken aback by this guy's attitude and he didn't remember meeting someone like this. He was sure he would recognise someone like this with very pale skin with, red eyes, and very short blonde hair. He was also quite skinny, which didn't fit his height of around 6'3, the same height as Damian. "The first thing is I don't know you, and the second thing is that if you want to join, tell me your name, specialty, ability, and rank ".
The guy went first as he stopped bowing. "I watched your match with your girlfriend earlier. It was incredible, that's how I know of you sir. My name is Leon Damarcus, my specialty is sniping, my ability is called phantom allowing me to make my arrows invisible for a short time and im a low B-rank. ".
Then the girl with the warhammer stood forward. "Maddie Winter, my Specialty is crushing, I guess. My ability is called weight, allowing me to change the weight of 2 objects, which is what I did to you earlier with my warhammer. By the way, my limit is between 10 kg and 500 kg, and I'm also a low B-rank. "
Finally, the other woman came forward. She was the same height as Maddie but had no expression. Purple hair reached down to her neck. Her green eyes seemed to be looking at nothing, seemingly depressed. Damian noticed that she had a huge ass and decent sized breasts. "Abigail Renegal, my Specialty is fighting. My ability is called ethereal blade, allowing me to coat my sword in solid mana, making it very sharp, and I'm a high B-rank ".
Damian walked up to the woman with the sword and put his hand out to the side, "I wanna see how sharp your sword is. Cut my hand off". " Everybody around him thought he had gone insane except for Alice, who thought he was just testing her. Abigail took out her sword and activated her Skill, coating the blade with a beautiful blue hue, then swung down at his hand.
Damian looked at his hand flying through the air and smiled "Impressive, You can cut the hand of a Peak A-ranker right off, very nice. Hey Alice sweetie will you help me out here ".
Alice stretched her hand out to him, then cast heal and waited to cast it again. The other three were stunned that his hand started to grow back and seemed as good as new after 10 seconds.
"It feels like nothing happened, very nice. Also, good job listening to my request. "Damian went over to his cut-off hand and burned it to ash. "Don't need that." The other three continued to stare in shock. Leon was the first to come back. "B-But I thought you were a brawler because you used gauntlets in the fight with sir? "Alice smiled. "I used the gauntlets because if I had used my bare hands, they would've been broken in one collision."
Damian smacked her on the ass " Introduce yourself ". Alice stood before them "Alice Greenwood, specialty is obviously healing. My ability is called Nature's control, which allows me to have basic control over nature as well as being able to sense people when I'm in nature, I am a mid A-rank. I'll do his information as well because I doubt he would want to His name is Damian Locke, Speciality is destructive magic, his ability is Hellfire allowing him control over flames and apparently Hellfire, but I have never seen him use it only regular flames, He can also maybe heat his body up causing him to appear orangish red but dramatically increases his physical ability but that's still just thoughts, He is a Peak A-rank ".
Damian patted her head. "Thanks. Now I will make this team as long as I'm the leader. I will not be under anyone. EverybodyIs everybody good with that? "They all laughed and agreed, "Who else would be the leader? "Damian walked over to the worker, thinking that he had to stop saying dumb stuff. After he had put in his team, he was given five dog tags, each with the number 666.
Damian walked back while holding the tags, thinking he was quite lucky with the number. He gave one to each of his team mates and then went back to resting on Alice's lap while she played with his hair. The other three sat around her and slightly stared at their new leader getting pampered.