Loki woke up the next morning with a slight bruise on his forehead, unable to recall how he got to his bed. However, Loki's mind is still set on going to the Adventurer's Guild to pass the exam and become a D-rank Adventurer.
Getting up and washing up, Loki thinks about his Adventurer's exam, 'I wonder what the exam will be like, hopefully I pass. I also need to talk to the Guild Master about my Nature affinity while I can use it to a small extent, I can't use it good enough to call myself proficient.'
After getting dressed, Loki heads out down the road to the Guild feeling slightly anxious, yet excited about being able to take on better quests and going on more adventures. A little bit later, Loki reaches his destination and enters the building.
Moving towards the counter, Loki sees Estrella helping out another adventurer and waits his turn to talk to her after. Once it becomes his turn, Loki walks up and asks, "I would like to take the D-rank adventurer's exam, how would I start?"
"Oh! Hello Loki, You just have to wait a few minutes for me to set up your exam. It seems like there is another exam taking place, so you'll have to wait about 10 minutes until the exam room is ready for you." Replied Estrella as she walks away to check on the other exam.
With 10 minutes to waste, Loki heads over to the quest board to see what he could pick up if he passes his exam. Loki notices 2 quests that catch his eye that would be interesting to take, one being Goblin Village and the other Orc Hunt.
[Quest: Goblin Village]
Description: Find and defeat the Elite Goblin in the Goblin Village outside of the Forest of Kraymer
Req. Rank: C
Reward: 2,000 gold
[Quest: Orc Hunt]
Description: Find and defeat minimum 5 Orcs near Swamp Poach
Req. Rank: C
Reward: 3,500 gold
'Taking on a Goblin Village would be a lot of fun, if I pass, I'm definitely accepting that quest!' Loki thought with determination to pass the exam. Speaking of, Estrella walks back into the main area and walked up to Loki telling him that the exam room was ready and to follow her.
Agreeing to follow, Loki and Estrella walk through the far right corridor where there was 3 doors, one on each side and one at the end, all for adventurer's taking exams. Loki ends up stopping in front of the large metal door on the left side of the corridor that said Exam Room D+C.
"Go ahead and enter Loki, there will be an examiner in there waiting to test you, I will be in the spectator room. Good luck!" Said Estrella as she walks out of the corridor and around the corner.
Heading into the exam, Loki sees his examiner, a middle aged man with a well built body, He notices Loki and says with a smooth voice, "Welcome to your exam, to become D-rank, must survive for at least 1 minute against a B-rank. Here we will see how long you can fare against a stronger opponent and test your versatility."
"Okay, I'm ready to begin." Said Loki has he unsheathes his sword in front of him and mentally prepares for this examination.
Taking the fights, Loki has difficulty parrying and decides to put up stone shield right after backing away and the instructor charges in. Estrella watching from the spectator room above shows a surprised face as a young boy can use his affinity so fast with good instincts.
The instructor continuing to chase Loki as 1 minute passes, no one says anything to try to stop the exam as they continue to see how long he can go. Now Loki uses stone bullets and sending them to the examiner as he is slightly caught off guard. He gets hit, and a look of surprise appears on the examiners face.
{Stone Bullet} - Fire small stone pebbles at the enemy dealing 25% PHY and 25% MGI dmg for every pebble hit
Cost: 100 mana - Cooldown: 20 seconds
(A/N the damage dealt excluding DEF is 64.96 being specific with current stats)
{Stone Shield} - Create a large barrier out of the earth to protect you from harm and has a total health barrier of 200% MGI Cost: 200 Mana - Cooldown: 4 minutes
With only a total of 1,000 mana, Loki has to be quite careful with how much mana he really uses. However, Loki begins to adapt and enter a flow state being able to parry the examiners attacks more until almost 10 minutes pass and Loki runs out of steam and mana from all the stone bullets and stone shields.
Estrella absolutely stunned to see Loki last so long against this B-rank examiner, notices a second presence in the spectator room with her and jumps with a surprised yelp before saying "Guild Master? What are you doing here?"
The Guild Master chuckles at Estrella and responds "I heard he was taking the D-rank exam, I got curious, I see he can already use his Nature affinity to an extent, just very poorly it seems. How long has he been going? 5 minutes?"
"Uh, 10 minutes, sir" Estrella answers, and all the Guild Master could do was widen his eyes at Loki's sheer potential and begins to heavily laugh out loud with excitement at such a promising kid.
"HAHAHA, good, good! Tell the boy to come see me after his exam, maybe he'll become the 3rd SSS rank in the world." The Guild Master said speaking out and laughing out loud while walking away.
"Wha- Oh! It looks like the exam has concluded." Estrella a little fearful of what he just said, however, quickly returns to her professional attitude and went to check on Loki, who had already fallen due to exhaustion.
The examiner placing Loki against the wall so he can rest properly, looks over at Estrella who just walked in and says, "Who is this boy? He's barely into tier 1 and can hold his own pretty well, a little refinement and he'll become A-rank with ease. We definitely can pass him, shame we can't let him straight to Rank-C unless he proves himself."
Estrella goes to grab the boy and bring him to a bed to rest on and replies, "Who knows, the Guild Master has taken an interest in him, maybe he will do something soon that will help him achieve Rank-C or even B-rank soon depending on how fast he grows."
'!!!' The examiner had a shock expression learning the Guild Master wants to train someone himself. Walking away from the exam room, the examiner thought to himself 'I wonder how strong that boy will really get?'