Just for a moment, a brief and short period of seconds, the only thing Aurora could see was a yellow-orange flash of light. And all of a sudden, she was standing in a grass field, next to Guide Luria. A circular field, surrounded by a wall made out of stones, and on the other end, a stone table with some recipients and what looked like weapons.

— Here we are! — said Luria while taking a few steps forward. — Welcome to the Simulus, Aurora. The place where the Al'kin Quiz has taken place for the last nine hundred years. — continued, while lifting her arms and taking a breath of air.

Luria walked towards the centre of the field and looked at Aurora, waiting for a response.

— Are you ready, dear? — she said.

— I've told you already that this is useless, that I have no powers. Please do not make me go through it. — replied Aurora.

— Please, just... give it a chance. You've got nothing to lose, after all. Right? — said Luria.

Aurora rolled her eyes and walked towards her, while noticing that the walls had inscriptions and carvings all over them. It looked like a very old language.

— Wonderful. You see, Aurora, the Al'kin Quiz was made to filter the students that apply to Aelhollow Academy. Of course we don't deny anybody education, but the filter is needed to know which abilities were in the need of improvement. — Luria continued. — So... there are different kinds of tests to let us know what are your capabilities, and since you insist you don't have any abilities at all, we must go through them all. —

As Luria continued talking, the only thought in Aurora's head was running back home. The amount of anxiety that exposing to this test was giving her, was unbelievable. But she tried to resist that urge of escaping.

— There are five different tests that conform the Al'kin Quiz. The first one, physical capabilities. While we do not condone violence, we do believe it's necessary as self-defense. Now, choose the weapon you want to use and prepare yourself. — said Luria while looking at the awkward and confused expression on the girl's face.

— Who am I going to fight? Are we going to fight?! — she replied.

— Oh dear, no, of course not. — replied Guide Luria. She then lifted her arms and, as she did, the floor collapsed, leaving three big holes. After hearing a screeching sound, Aurora saw three stone golems crawled out of the holes. — You're going to fight these cute fellows. — concluded Luria.

— Oh no I won't. Are you actually kidding me? I have to fight three giants made out of stone? How is this not considered torture? Is the government aware of this?! — replied angrily Aurora. — I told you I have no abilities whatsoever and you make me face three killer beasts? — she said.

After her words, one of the golems made a rather sad expression and looked down with his stone head.

— Oh no, Luthard, she didn't mean that. It's only her first day, please. — said Luria while comforting the creature with her hands. — Aurora, these are not killers or beasts. The stone golems have served this school since the very beginning as the front line defense. Don't you dare disrespect them like that. They are really sensitive. And they will not hurt you. We've got that covered. — she said while stepping away from the golems and coming closer to Aurora.

The girl felt bad for what she said and didn't say another word, she only kept looking at Luria. The Guide then took her left hand, and said a few more words.

— I know this is really difficult, but just give yourself a chance. Please. — she said while looking her into the eyes, and watching her nod with her head and slightly smile. — Now, let's find you a weapon. — she continued while taking her to the stone table. — Are you more of a sword person? Or maybe bow and arrows? — said Luria while pointing to the different weapons layed on the table.

— Nah, bows are really clichéd. And I've never used any of these, so I don't know. — replied Aurora, while going from one thing to another with her fingers, when she suddenly laughed out loud.

— What? — asked an intrigued Luria.

— You know what? I'll go empty handed. — said the girl.

— Are you sure? — she asked once more.

— Yes. After all, you said they don't mean any actual danger. — replied Aurora.

Guide Luria wasn't really sure about her decision, but she something in her heart told her to trust Aurora, and so she did.

— Okay, then. Please stand on the stone circle. — said Luria, while pointing with her hand to the circular pedestall in the middle of the field.

Aurora followed her directions and stood on the stone, while watching how the field started growing bigger and bigger as every second passed, and some structures started building themselves from scratch, to use as a sort of cover, maybe.

— Are you ready? — asked the Guide one last time?

— As ready as I can. — said Aurora while nodding with her head.

— Let the Al'kin Quiz begin. — shouted Luria.

The golems then looked at Aurora, and started running towards her. She started running left while searching for cover, sort of panicking. The stone creatures were pretty fast for being made out of rocks, but still she managed to outrun them. Her urge of escape was being really useful.

When she finally arrived to the first structure, she took cover behind it, being it that big should give her some sort of advantage, it was as big as a two-story house. But all of a sudden, a giant rock smashed it, taking out half of it with one hit. Aurora watched the structure vanish while looking absolutely shocked and scared.

— And that's supposed to be not dangerous at all? — she shouted in hopes of Luria hearing it.

She then looked behind the wall and saw how one of the golems was creating another rock with it's hands, and she knew that her side was next. Therefore, she started running as fast as she could towards the next structure, that was at least three hundred feet away, when she heard the rock smashing her old cover spot.

Aurora looked quickly behind her to only notice that the giant stone and the structure's fallout was coming towards her. She started panicking and didn't know what do, so when the rock was basically in front of her, she knew that things were going south.

She looked at the multiple objects coming towards her, and let a tear drop, like accepting something, but little she knew how this would impact her actual self.

— No! — exclaimed Aurora, with a calm but somehow rushed tone, while lifting her arm.

Luria was speechless, as she saw the girl who claimed to have no abilities at all, create a pure energy barrier around her just by lifting an arm. Every object that hit the shield would disintegrate to dust.

The barrier started to disappear as Aurora came back to herself.

— What... happened? — asked a confused Aurora.

— Thank you for your service, my dears. — said Guide Luria, while the stone golems went back underground and she walked towards Aurora.

— Are you okay, darling? — she asked her.

— My head hurts a lot. What happened? Did the rocks hit me? — Aurora said.

— You don't remember any of it? Not even what you did? — replied Luria, while helping her up.

— No... Why? Should I? What did I do? — the girl said.

— I'll tell you everything while the field gets ready for the next test, okay? Now come, let's eat something. — said the Guide, while taking her towards the main area of the arena.