*DF = Demon Force(s)

A week finally passes, the day of Demon Forces recruitment was today, Zai was laying in bed, in the basement of Nira's place. He gets ready and heads out to the recruitment area. Nira said that she had some stuff to take care of, so he left without being able to thank her for taking him in.

The walk to the recruitment arena felt the same as before as when he was touring Gleeland. Though when he came, When he made it his eyes scattered around the area to absorb everything. Easily hundreds of people, of all sizes. The area was noisy, and people were being put in groups as they were entering. When it was time for him to enter, he was put into a group of 10 then guided inside.

Zai and his group were greeted with a large lobby with multiple Demon Force soldiers standing on guard in Infront of doors. A man came up to Zai's group:

"greetings recruits, today is the day we filter the weak from the potentially strong. I say potentially because non of you are probably going to go far. As you may or may not know, there are multiple ranks in the DF's. From strongest to weakest, it goes; S, A, B, C, D. S ranks have privileges to run solo on missions, A can run solo with permission B run in squads on more difficult missions, C run in squads on less difficult missions and D work in squads on recovery missions. You'll learn more as you progress by defeating more demons and showing your talent on the fields."  The instructor continued.

"of course, to even make it in you have to go through 3 tests where several A-rank DF's will assess you: A theoretical and practical assessment quiz of only 10 questions, so it shouldn't take longer than 5 minutes. There will then be a battle assessment fighting dummy demons, assessing how well you fair with your current skill set. With that, more than 25 percent of you will be weeded out. Then will come the field test, which will eliminate roughly 65 percent more. Any questions?"

Everyone stayed silent.

"Well then, get going into the room past the doors behind me where you will begin the first test." He finishes and signals them into the room behind him.

3 𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘢𝘴 𝘝𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘍 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳.

Zai looked at the 9 other people entering the room with him 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘨𝘶𝘺𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯'𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘺 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘸, 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘢𝘥 𝘦𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳.

Zai entered the next room with everyone else, simultaneously, everyone's expression turned sour and their hairs curled at the atrocious smell. Holy shit it smells like dirty rat poop and 15 frog corpses in here. For some reason, the room smelled terrible, and everyone had a visible look of despair on their face as a reaction.

"For such a fancy-looking arena, it smells like dirty rat poop and 15 frog corpses in here!" someone cried out as they pinched their nose.

"I'm gonna puke." Another responded.

"that's enough," the reply from one of the guards got everyone's attention back on the test.

"This is just a small quiz, you won't get eliminated, so don't take forever as the last group, so sit down and start the quiz."

Everyone sat down in the rows of tables in front of them, with a single pencil and paper on the tables. As Zai took his seat he noticed the girl on his right him with long black hair who already started. She was uncontrollably shaking and tapping her pencil on the paper sporadically and biting her lip. In contrast to the man on his other side who Zai thought was too immersed in an assessment. Sitting in the perfect form it almost looked unnatural, a Sterne expression on his face, and his hands moving on the paper with calculated aggression.

I already know that I'm surrounded by weirdos Zai looked embarrassed but paid no mind and forced on his paper.

The paper wrote: Demon Force Theoretical and Practical Assessment Quiz.

A DF is obligated to follow the following rules;

1.      The priority is to kill demons

2.      Orders must be executed without fail, regardless of the order

3.      We were established in order to protect our citizens whether our own or foreign, keep battles away from bystanders

Zai nodded in his head, he was given the run-down by Vas before coming. Zai blanked and was working on autopilot, only his subconscious was working.

Question 1. Assuming a bystander was in an unstoppable position with a demon. In which killing the demon results in killing the bystander but letting it free results in the demon escaping and causing more havoc but rescuing the bystander. What do you do?

            𝘒𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯.

Question 2. You have the power to stop a Duke-level demon, but it requires you to put a city of people at risk. Fighting the demon before it reaches the city can easily lead to your death. Do you fight to your advantage and risk the cities people, or fight it solo, and possibly lose your life?

            𝘙𝘪𝘴𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵.

Question 3. Would you save a comrade or civilian first?

              Well, I have to save the citizen since that's my job, I guess Zai thought to himself.

Question 4. A dozen lower-class demons that you are able to eliminate easily are en route to a specific part of town. A high-class demon, significantly more difficult to defeat is en route in the opposite direction towards town. What course of action do you take?

              𝘋𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩-𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯.

Question 5. An area you were deployed to in order to investigate has multiple High-level demons active that your squad cannot handle. What will you do?

              𝘙𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵

The following questions test your current knowledge.

Question 6. What is the only way to kill a demon?

              𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵.Zai learned this from Vas, in theory; demons reproduce by stealing the mana of living things or are simply born in Hel, which can be consumed through the heart. As a result, when someone has all their mana stolen, they begin demonization, all the mana stolen converts to demon mana stored in the heart.

Question 7. How many members in 1 DF squad? (DF means Demon Force(s))

              5 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘯 1 𝘴𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘥, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 2 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘭 1 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘦.

Question 8. What is the role of each member in a squad?

𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯: 𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨-𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭.

              𝘛𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘳: 𝘎𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘥, 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘵, 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘵 𝘶𝘱 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴.

              𝘈𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘳: 𝘔𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴

              𝘚𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵: 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘶𝘱, 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘦

Question 9. Do you have any notable health conditions?

              𝘕𝘰

Question 10. Why did you join the DF?

              𝘛𝘰 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭 Zai finished the test, and his mind felt a cool breeze as he inhaled, though looking back at the answers made his head scratch. He wasn't able to erase his answer to question 10 so he crossed it out and replaced it with, 𝘐 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘫𝘰𝘣. His face was still puzzled at his previous answer.

"uhmm s-so do we like, hand it to you guys or?" The woman next to Zai asked with a shaky voice.

"We finish when everyone's pencils stop moving,"

Everyone turned to the pencil that's still tapping and scratching away. To the left of Zai was the stern-faced man still writing away. It felt like he was trapped in time the only thing moving were his hands. Zai leaned over to see what he was writing so diligently.

Zai's face dropped and his eyes widened to disbelief. Ok wait, why is this impressive? He thought to himself as he glanced at the multiple paragraphs written for each question. Zai's head felt like it was overheating simply trying to comprehend how someone can have so much to say for such simple questions.

"oh my GOD, GIMMIE THAT" someone from across the table slammed his hand on the other guy's work and decided to finish it for him.

"HERE, why did you join the DF? Simple, cus it looked cool, you don't need to spend hours working on dis shit bro!" every blood vessel on his face looked as if they were about to burst.

"Well, That was not very polite of you." The man replied.

"Like I give a damn? I don't want my time wasted by a four-eyed freak writing his autobiography on a quiz!" He got up in his face, but the man stayed calm maintaining his stern face throughout the ordeal.

"My name is Donte, not 'four-eyed freak' that's all I'll say since it is impossible to win an argument with a barbarian." he says whipping his hair to the side

"Shut the fuck up." The 'barbarian' turned back around with his arms crossed, and the man named Donte maintained posture only slightly adjusting his glasses.

"You guys done? Good, you can pass through now, I'm pretty sure the 3rd set would've been done by now so you don't have to wait long for the second test."

Everyone got up and began passing through the doors. And the guard started collecting the papers. As they pass through the doors, they enter a waiting lobby with large gates being closed off by more guards. The guards whispered to each other as they looked at our group and one of the guards began instructions for the next test.

"The following is an assessment of battle using a dummy demon when you enter everyone climbs the big stairs on the walls and stay on the bleachers until your name is called out in the bleachers. Good luck everyone you're only two tests away from joining!" loud and confident, the voice of a mere guard was powerful enough to create cheers among the crowd as they opened the gates.