The examiner began to draw slots according to the rank of each student.
No. 1 vs No. 20
No. 2 vs No. 26
The examiner began calling the numbers of all participants and their opponents for the first round.
First round, Joel was seen heading for the ring alongside a boy.
You also know you don't stand a chance, Joel said to the boy as they got on stage. Yeah, that is obvious. No one in their right senses would go against a time affinity mage.
He immediately raised his hands and forfeited. There were other rounds, so he might as well conserve his strength for them.
No. 20 forfeited the match, No. 1 won the first match, the examiner said slowly.
The next match came after that, and the opponent also forfeited his match, making the examiner scratch his head in frustration. He then looked at the No. 2 while thinking of the conflict between the Zephyron clan and other major clans. He decided to play against the rules and tweaked the slots to allow both of them to fight for the last round.
Both were already at two points, and the rules of the examination stated that the first 1000 to reach 3 points would win.
Next round, No. 1 vs No. 2.
When the crowd heard the next match, they began to tremble with excitement. The reason was simple: one of them held a mythic tier affinity, Time. While the other held two ultra-rare affinities of space and gravity, both of them even synchronised perfectly with each other.
Another reason was that everyone in the Twilight Empire already knew of the conflict between the Zephyron young master and the major clans.
Joel walked to the stage with calm strides while glancing at Alric, who was smiling maniacally.
As they both entered the ring, they released killing intents strong enough to drive those below the refinement stage insane, but instead of stopping them, the examiner even smiled on the inside while keeping a calm look on the outside.
Are you both ready, the man asked them. Yeah, let's get this over with so I can gain my admission easily, Joel said to the examiner as if not regarding Alric as an opponent.
Alric, seeing that Joel did not put him in his eyes, became furious and lunged at him.
Suddenly, a terrifying force pressed down on Alric, much stronger than his gravity release. Don't believe that because I did not talk when you both released killing intent, that would mean I do not know what I am doing.
You can only attack your opponent when I say so, the examiner said with a stern face.
When the examiner finished talking, he was about to ascend to the sky when Joel asked a shocking question. Sir, can we kill our opponents if we want?
That is going to turn into a deathmatch, unless both parties agree, I can't proceed with it. Alric, what do you say we spice things up a little?
To think you will be delivering yourself this easily to me, Alric said as they both dropped blood essence on the paper the examiner had given them.
To think that killing this idiot was going to become easier because of him, Alric thought to himself with a smug smile on his face.