Chapter 21: The Beginning of the Field Test

In front of a grey barrack, first-year students of Ochyra University are chattering with each other waiting for the lecturer to start the field test.

A male student is chattering with his friends,”Do you want to make a bet on who will get the most score?”

“Is that even a question? Idris Crawford from class 1-D will surely get the highest score”, the guy beside him replied with certainty.

A female student walks up to them and said, “I don’t think it will be that easy, although he is a peak rank three Awakened there is also the rising star Harmen who is also broke through to rank three Awakened”

Amidst the chattering of students, Rex standing straight with his arm folded in front of him.

His serious expression is unwavering amongst the crowd,

Adhara and Rosie stand beside him while glancing at each other, they both know Rex is in a very bad mood.

After going out of the red barracks, Rex becomes a different person. They both tried to talk to him but Rex ignored them.

Rosie and Adhara wrap Rex’s wounded hands and decided to let Rex calm himself down.

The inside of the grey barrack is spacious compared to the red barrack, it is as big as a football stadium. There are thirty entrances into the maze that will lead to different places, mist is coming out of the entrances and an eerie aura covers the whole maze.

A couple of minutes pass, Dave and the other five lecturers walks to the front, “Today, you will all begin the field test. Behind me is a maze of skeletons cemetery, you all can make a group up to a five-person group. You will still be under our monitor, if you’re in danger just shout and we will come over. The highest score group will be rewarded, this field test will last for 2 days so be prepared”, a muscular middle-aged man with a scar on his face said while enhancing his voice with magic.

Then Dave continues, “As he said earlier, this place is the skeleton cemetery, this place holds plenty of rank one, rank two skeletons, and even a couple of rank three skeletons. rank one skeletons will give you one point, ten points for rank two skeletons, and one hundred points for rank three skeletons. Your points will be recorded by the watch we will give you, just touch the dead skeleton to add your points”

The crowd of students broke into a chatter, one of them raises their hand and asks, “Sir, Can we steal from others?”

Six Lecturers that are in front smirked, “Yes, you can definitely steal But! If you kill someone, we will kill you”

Hearing this the students shudder in fear, the weakest lecturers out of six of them is a peak rank four Awakened so the students have no chance of defending.

The female lecturer with blazing red hair and eyes clap her hands, “Now that you know the rules, Let the field test BEGIN!”

The students all dashes to their chosen entrance, some are lightning-fast and some are mediocre.

Rex followed by Rosie and Adhara goes to the right-most entrance, Rex sense that there is plenty of skeletons from this entrance so this is where he will go.

‘Stronger! I need to become stronger!’, Rex thought as his silhouette disappears into the right-most entrance.

Unknown to them, a group of five-people followed them inside.

The leader has spiky black hair and wearing a black combat suit, he brings a saber on his right hand and his eyes flash with ferocity.

If Rosie saw him, she will immediately know who he is, It was Lucas Platchi!

After following the path for a couple of minutes, Rex halted his steps and looks at Adhara and Rosie.

“Have you both fight a supernatural before?”, Rex asks with a questioning look.

Both of them look at each other and replied in a union, “No!”

Rex face palmed himself and said, “When you both face a skeleton later, make sure you crush their head before leaving them okay?”

“Okay, I understand”, Adhara replied with a smile.

“Got it!”, Rosie replied casually while rolling her eyes, she thought, ‘What’s so hard about skeletons anyway’

Rex nodded his head and resume their journey,

The group meets a dead end, they are met with a big wall. There is no other path but to go back when suddenly,

Raawrr!

Roarr!!

Dozens of skeletons started to climb from the ground, they still have a little bit of skin that is dangling from their non-existent muscle. Some of them are holding a sword or dagger, some didn’t hold any.

Their nasty appearance shocked Adhara and Rosie, they both steps back in fright.

Rex didn’t bother with the two of them, he immediately bolted forward and kicks one of the skeletons that are still climbing from the ground.

BAM!

The skeleton didn’t even realize when suddenly its head was shattered into pieces by Rex,

<killed rank=”” 1=”” skeleton,=”” obtained=”” 100=”” exp=””></killed>

‘100 Exp? That’s a lot, I didn’t expect it to be this much’, Rex thought in delight after seeing the system’s notification.

Rex’s eyes glint with brutality, he dives into the horde of skeletons using only his battle gloves.

He whacks skeletons left and right, the skeletons didn’t stand a chance against Rex’s might.

BAM!

BANG!

BAM!

<level up!=””></level>

</increase>

<obtained 3=”” attributable=”” stats=””></obtained>

Bones shatter everywhere, Adhara and Rosie regain their composure and join the fight.

Rosie uses her wind element to slash one of the skeletons, while Adhara uses fire elements to burn the skeletons that are getting closer.

Whoosh!

Boom!

Rosie slash another skeleton with her wind blade and shouted, “Rex look! I kill many!”

Rex glances at Rosie and saw a dozen skeletons lying around her when suddenly a couple of skeletons that still have their heads intact bite Rosie’s ankle.

“Aaaahhh!!!”, Rosie screamed.

Rex immediately dashes towards Rosie, he didn’t get there in time when another skeleton stabbed Rosie with its dagger on her right foot.

Rosie fell down with a pained expression, the skeletons around her wanted to stab her again.

Looking at this, Rex’s eyes turn violent.

He musters all of his strength, the muscle on his legs bugles with veins all over it.

BOOM!

The ground crack under Rex’s might,

He turns into a streak of shadow that immediately appears beside Rosie, He parried the dagger and stomp with his feet.

BAM!!

A huge web-like crack appears on the ground that has been stepped by him, the surrounding skeletons burst into pieces.

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</increase>

<obtained 3=”” attributable=”” stats=””></obtained>

Rex nodded his head seeing the effect of his skill, ‘The Force Beam is very convenient, it is a versatile skill. I can use it through my hands or legs, it can even become a long-range attack, very convenient’ he thought after confirming the skeletons are all dead.

Killing the skeletons around Rosie makes Rex leveled up,

He then approaches Rosie with a hint of worry, he kneels on the ground and checks on her wound.

Adhara also comes and helps, thankfully, she can use her fire to close up the wound to avoid blood loss.

Rosie gritted her teeth when Adhara burn her injury, she looks at Rex apologetically, “I’m sorry Rex”

Rex shakes his head, “I told you, Skeletons will not die unless their head is crushed. Can you walk?”, he said with a worried look.

“I can manage, but I think I can’t fight. Sigh, I become a burden this early”, she said regretfully.

While Adhara is patching Rosie up, Rex checked his stats.

<stats></stats>

Name: Rex Silverstar

Level: 9 (1120/3400)

Race: Half-Blood (Werewolf)

Full-Moon: 24 Days – Dark Moon

Berserk: 45%

Sanity: 70%

Mental: 19

Strength: 22 (+3)

Agility: 15

Endurance: 17 (+3)

Intelligence: 0

Attributable Stats: 6

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Rex smiles after seeing his stats, ‘Nice, I raise to level 9! Where will I put it?’, Rex thought deciding whether he should add his mental stats once more or not.

After deliberating, Rex decided to play safe.

He adds 3 points into his mental stat and the other 3 into his strength stat.

Now his stats look like this,

<stats></stats>

Name: Rex Silverstar

Level: 9(1120/3400)

Race: Half-Blood (Werewolf)

Full-Moon: 24 Days – Dark Moon

Berserk: 45%

Sanity: 70%

Mental: 22

Strength: 25 (+3)

Agility: 15

Endurance: 17 (+3)

Intelligence: 0

Attributable Stats: 0

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With these stats, Rex is more confident in beating Noah. Just by looking at his stats, he already entered the realm of rank three Awakened.

While he was nodding to himself, he suddenly senses danger approaching.

He jolted to his back and saw a fireball heading towards Rosie and Adhara, the girls were shocked when they saw the fireball and closes their eyes in fright.

Before the fireball can even get near the girls, Rex already appeared in front of it and parries it.

Slash!

Rex karates chop the fireball making it vanish instantly.

Rex looks at his hand in delight, ‘I’m confident to beat these kids’, he thought after looking at a group of five people in front of him.

A spiky black hair youth was in front of the group while dragging his big saber, If anyone were to see this they will be shitting their pants in fright but not Rex.

Rex looks at them calmly,

“You must be Rex Silverstar? Nice to meet you, I’m your killer by the way”, Lucas said with a devilish smile plastered on his face.

The other guy beside Lucas takes out two stones from his pocket that glows grey and red respectfully.

Rex also shows his nasty grin, ‘These guys want to play dirty eh? Thankfully, I can play dirty too’