"What exactly do i need to do then ?" Alice asked. It was the first time she saw such a big crystal.
"You need to put your hand against it and channel your mana. We will test your aptitude based on the amount of each one and how efficient its flow is. If your rend emits a different kind of mana we will test that too" The examinator explained.
"Oh okay" Alice placed her hand on the crystal. She decided to not use her first rend as she felt like it was cheating. She poured all the 4 basic elements first.
The examinator took notes "Now for the rend if you have one"
Alice activated her second rend. The moss covered her body and wooden horns grew out of her forehead as she placed her hand on the crystal. She poured the nature mana into it and with that this part of the exam was over.
"We will give you your score once your friend outside is also tested" Alice's examiner said as she left. Tania went right after but because she only has access to her rends magic it was way faster.
When she got outside they both got their report papers.
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|| Alice - Human - Age 16 ||
|| Magic: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ||
|| Air - A tier . . . . . . . . . . . .||
|| Earth - B tier . . . . . . . . . .||
|| Water - B tier . . . . . . . . . ||
|| Fire - C tier . . . . . . . . . . . ||
|| Rend: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ||
|| Nature - B tier . . . . . . . . ||
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|| Tania - Dryad - Age 190 ||
|| Magic: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ||
|| None . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ||
|| Rend: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ||
|| Nature - SS tier . . . . . . . ||
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"Wow Alice you are really slacking. Look i got SS in the one i had and you didn't" She pointed towards her rend.
"No it just means that you are this much better at it than me" Alice answered.
"Isn't that the same thing ?"
"No. Because it means that you are way better than most people at it" She praised Tania. It was the first time she saw how god she was at it.
The examiner left the room and said "The rest of the tests will be taken outside in 20 minutes. You will get more precise evaluation."
Alice took Tania with her towards the testing grounds. They barely made it on time. When they opened the doors everyone outside stared at them. There were tons of other people waiting for the exam and Alice knew that they will be her enemies if she wanted to get to the academy.
A group of judges walked out from the building and the main one started speaking.
"Today is a very important for all of you. If you pass this test you will be students of the academy and get put in a class depending on your performance. Those of you who fail can always try next year. We will now give all of you rules of the test"
The wind blew papers towards each contestants hands. Alice looked at it and started reading, then remembered that Tania can't read.
"I will read it out to you Tania" She said. The dryad nodded.
"Name of the test: Hide n Seek
The rules:
-Don't get caught
-You are allowed to fight back and team up"
Alice looked at Tania. Both were confused why the rules were so short. Then they heard a loud thud sound and one of the contestants falling.
"Contestant number 238 out" The judge shouted.
Alice grabbed Tania by her hand and shouted "Run !".
They heard contestant after contestant being eliminated by magic. Then Alice could feel a spell being thrown towards them. Alice quickly stopped the attack with a wall of earth. She casted a stream of water upwards and asit was falling down she shot a ball of fire towards it. Creating a smoke screen.
"Tania! Create a forest!" the dryad started creating a forest with her rend. Alice also helped her as they both were at an advantage inside one. They hid under the roots of one of the trees to asses the situation.
"Why didn't you use your main rend ?" Tania whispered into Alice's ear as to not be heard.
"People here can't learn about me having it. It's not a normal thing" Alice responded while she was looking around. She activated her rend to see the mana inside plants. She found out that she couldn't feel it in one of the directions. She remembered that last time it happend there was a high concentration of mana in one of the directions. But she also knew how high the concentration of it was back at the lab of that scientist. There were two things it could mean. The first was that she didn't understand her rend too well. And the other was far worse. It meant that there was someone extremly strong in that direction.
As Alice was lost in thought a wall of fire appeared around her and Tania. "It found us !" She created an exit with water, took Tania on her back and ran away with air. While running Tania was creating a shield from the plants she created. They ran for good 15 minutes before stopping. "I think it went for someone else" Alice was panting. "Did you see what it was ?"
"I only was magic appearing but nothing else." Tania said.
"Then it must be some kind of rend. Maybe some long range one. We must watch out at all times then." She kept brainstorming.
"Shouldn't we create a forest to hide in again ?" The dryad asked.
"I don't think so. The dryad plants look way different from the normal ones here. But what if we make that thing believe that we hid in a forest ?" She finally made up a plan.
"Oooh i think i know what you want to do. You are planning to create a decoy forest right ?"
"Exactly. Then we would have time to run away and because of the plants height we would be able to see when that thing gets rid of them." Alice turned to Tania as she said that.
"That's a great plan"
"Thank you Ta-" She realized it wasn't Tania speaking and that there was a guy standing between the two of them.