BXBX NOVEL Chapter 56 - 19
Inside the red tower, in a room that was used for the first test. Prospective students take their exams seriously. The room felt very quiet and calm, only the sound of scribbling on the exam paper could be heard there. Time passed slowly, and the 2 hours given to do the exam finally ran out.
"Time is up!" Christof\'s voice echoed throughout the room. He snapped his fingers again and the exam papers in front of the prospective students disappeared.
"You will be given a 15-minute break. After that, we will do the second test. For the place, you can look in the manual book given during registration. See you in the second exam room later." Christof and Kalya then disappeared from the podium.
15 minutes is a short amount of time.. So, Ziel decided to stay in that room until break time was up. It wasn\'t only him who thought that way, even most of the prospective students stayed in that room.
While waiting for the break time to end, Ziel felt a cold gaze from the table far beside him. Because the room was quite spacious, and the number of prospective students taking the current exam was approaching 3000 people. The distance between Ziel and that person was quite far and was also blocked by the other prospective students.
Ziel knew who it was that kept staring at him. She is Lilith, looks like Berith isn\'t with her, he may be in different test venues. Currently, Lilith is wearing a closed dress, and her hair is tied in a ponytail. She also wears glasses so her presence is not as conspicuous as before. It looks like she doesn\'t use magic to disguise because the tower has magic that can detect someone\'s disguise. But the magic itself doesn\'t apply to Ziel, he doesn\'t disguise himself but makes a clone of his old self on his current self.
Ziel silently ignored her and pretended not to notice. It didn\'t take long for Lilith to lose interest in Ziel and not see him again. Not long after 15 minutes was up, the manual book that the prospective students were carrying vibrated and emitted a \'Beep\' sound. When they opened it, it listed the room that would be used for the second test.
They immediately rushed to the room. While Ziel walked slowly following them from behind. Arriving in the room, they were immediately shown 2 large devices standing on the podium. The device is about 3 meters high, there is a small pole beside it and each device has a small screen floating above it. There are also Christof and Kalya who are waiting.
"Welcome prospective students, we will soon start the second exam. But before that, I will give you 1 minute to wait for other prospective students who haven\'t arrived yet." As usual, the people who welcomed them were Christof, and Kalya just kept silent. 5 minutes went by very quickly. Then the door of the room closed by itself. Some prospective students were surprised to see it, and some prospective students breathed a sigh of relief because they could come on time.
"Okay let\'s start the second test. As you can see, in front of you there are 2 big devices. They are artifacts to measure your strength. The one on the right can measure the power of a magic circle for a mage. The one on the left is for measuring the aura seal for a knight." Christof walks while explaining the function of each measuring device. Then he began to continue his explanation.
"You just need to bring out your full strength and touch the crystal in the center of measuring devices. It will judge your strength by numbers." Christof points to the spherical crystal in the center of the measuring devices.
As he was explaining, a prospective student raised her hand. She is a beautiful girl with blood-red hair tied in a ponytail. That girl is Reina Rubelia, the Princess of the Rubella Kingdom. Even though she wasn\'t currently wearing her knight outfit. But her body shape still looks sexy in her casual clothes.
"What\'s wrong Princess Reina?" Christof knows who the prospective student that raised her hand is, but from the tone of his voice, he seems to treat her the same as other prospective students.
"Could it measure our strength in detail? Roughly speaking, wouldn\'t showing our magic circle or aura seal suffice?" A deep and dignified voice came from Princess Reina\'s mouth who questioned the function of the measuring device.
"For that question, we will show you how these measuring devices work. Teacher Kalya, please help..." Christof looks at Kalya who has always been silent from the start. She just nodded slightly at Christof\'s words and immediately walked over to the measuring device used for mages.
Kalya then placed her palm on the crystal ball and unleashed her full power. The prospective students felt the pressure from Kayla\'s power. 7 magic circles emerged from her body and the pole on the mana measuring devices also spawned the same number of magic circles. Then the numbers appear on the small screen on the device.
[70,847]
After the number appeared, Kalya immediately pulled her palm and walked back to her original place. The students were confused by the number. They couldn\'t tell whether it was big or small because it was their first time seeing such a force measuring device. Christof knew what the prospective students were thinking, so he began to explain it to them.
"You must already know that a person\'s strength is judged by how many magic circles there are for a mage and aura seals for a knight. In this device, each magic circle will be rated at 10,000. When your strength goes up by 1 level it will be 20,000. The higher the level of power you have the more difficult it will be to raise it to the next level." Christof paused for a moment and looked at the prospective students then continued his explanation.
"Because the higher one\'s level, the denser of the mana or aura needed to create a magic circle or aura seal. So, even though the power value to reach the next level is the same 10,000 but the density of mana and aura will be different. So, if you need 10,000 values to go up from senior mage to magic master. The amount is different from the value of 10,000 to go from magi master to magic king. The value shown by teacher Kalya shows she is a magic king and close to the level of a Sage." Christof stopped his explanation. And then in each student\'s manual book, a number begins to appear, which is their number to go forward and measure their strength.
"At least you have to have a value of 30,000 or the equivalent of an intermediate mage or knight to pass this exam. Do you understand?" He looked back at the prospective students in front of him, but they didn\'t say anything.
"Then you will proceed according to the number in your manual book. With this, the second test begins. For number 1 please come forward. If you are a mage choose the right measuring device. If you are a knight then choose the left." After giving his explanation, Christof and Kalya sat in their chairs.
Ziel didn\'t know how many entrance exam participants were in that room. When he looked at the manual book in his hand. The number is shown there is...
"Number 788 huh..." Ziel sighed softly, he didn\'t know how long he had to wait for his turn.
The second test had started, a boy with short red hair walked to the podium. He headed for the mage measuring device. The moment he put his hand on the crystal ball, a number appeared on the measuring device\'s screen.
[40,100]
"Passed... Next..." Christof called the other participants while writing it down on the magic tool in his hand.
[35,224]
[40,509]
[42,200]
[37,779]
...
The test continues. The number of test-takers who have advanced is about 500 people. The next examinee was a beautiful girl with blood-red hair. This is Reina rubella. She walked towards the podium with dignity. Even though she\'s wearing casual clothes now, her curves are like an adult woman\'s inviting lewd looks from the male participants. It was just that they didn\'t dare to approach her because she was a Princess. She walked over to the measuring device for the knights. When she placed her hand on the crystal ball, the number that came out made almost all the prospective students open their eyes wide.
[49,998]
"Wonderful, as expected of a blood knight princess." Christof smiled broadly and nodded seeing the results of princess Reina.
"Next..." Christof resumed the exam.
[42,120]
[34,987]
...
Subsequent participants who tested their strength only got an average score of between 30,000 - 45,000. Ziel who had also been summoned set the result to 40,050 while Lilith, who was shortly after him, got 44,500. She also suppressed the result of her power measurement. After seeing that Ziel\'s strength value was only around 40,000 its seemed like Lilith had completely lost interest in Ziel.
Time passed, one by one prospective student take turns measuring their power. Until finally the last participant to take the measurement signaled the end of the second test.
"With this, the second exam is over. Just like before, you will be given 15 minutes to rest. And the place for the third exam will be listed in your manual book. Then you can go now." Christof and Kalya remain in the room. Looks like they\'ll take care of the power measuring before they leave.
Ziel immediately walked out leaving the other participants in the room and headed to the room where the first test was conducted. When he left the room, there was someone who kept staring at him. Not a gaze of hostility or malice, but more like a gaze of curiosity. The person who did it this time wasn\'t Lilith, but one of the teachers in charge of supervising the exams in the room, Kalya Venetia.