Here it is, Test number 2 Zai couldn't control a smirk on his face.

"HELL YEA!" the loud guy from earlier was visibly excited with his arms in the air.

The girl that was sitting next to him earlier was shaking so hard Zai could've mistaken it for an earthquake, as her breathing got heavier.

"Hey," Zai tapped her on the shoulder, and she jolted and turned around, revealing her dark silky hair, slightly tanned skin and eyes that looked like they lead to the depths of the universe.

"Y-yes?" she said.

"You look scared but hey, nothing to worry about y'know? Just try your best!" he tried encouraging her.

"O-oh no I'm not worried about that, thank you though." Her face turned to beat red as she turned back.

Zai frowned concernedly for her 𝘐 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘦'𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥.

Everyone finally was situated on the bleachers and looked at the large terrain they had to fight on. Barrels, hills, ditches, makeshift trees, and more. It didn't look complete, the size of the area was cut off by another wall. It looked like only a quarter of the arena was open, the next test is most likely on the other side.

"Was good witchu? You wanna fight or somethin'?" the guy from the test-taking room continued to taunt Dontai in the seats ahead of him, though Donte paid no mind for the most part.

"Fighting isn't allowed right now, barbarian, so please put get out of my face." He closed his eyes as he tried to ignore him.

"You don't like me in your face now huh!? Whatchu gon' do bout it?" he leaned in closer while Dontai continued to look in front of him, unwavering.

"Greetings recruits!" The attention was instantly gained by the soft yet masculine voice projecting through the arena, a blonde middle-aged man standing in the middle of the stadium was talking.

"T-the Ice Lance of Voua…I can hardly contain myself." Zai heard the shivering voice of the girl that he tried to comfort behind him. Except for this time, she didn't look nervous. Her face was red, beads of sweat running down her head-𝘢 𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘦?-a complete face of ecstasy.

"I'm so glad there are so many of you participating in this year's recruitment, and it's time we begin the second test. This will be an assessment of battle I shall create a dummy demon that you will fight and I shall judge how well you do." Each word was a musical note to the women in the stands, blindly listening as if hypnotized. Even the men wore faces of respect and admiration.

Zai turned to the girl behind "Um, who?"

"Who? What do you mean 'who?' that man right there is The Ice Lance of Voua, the second strongest S rank in Voua and 4th strongest in the world, Adonis Leon!" she started speaking swiftly in complete contrast to the before, it's almost like she practiced that one line for hours on end.

"So, let us begin!" Said Adonis, a guard ran up to him and whispered into his ear.

"Lucas Victor!" as soon as the name Lucas was said, someone jumped from the bleachers.

The atmosphere of the arena was interrupted by some half-naked boy with a creepy smile on his face. He skipped and hopped his way in front of Adonis in the middle of the stage.

"Yeeeeeee." Said the man.

Adonis asked with a simple smile "Are you, Lucas Victor?"

"uhhhhhhhhuuuuuhhhhhh."

"I guess that's a yes, welcome I'll go ahead and start the test." Adonis backed up from the crazy-eyed Lucas. Without moving an inch Lucas shivered slightly but his crooked smile only grew. Ice began to form in front of Lucas, sculpting a large 9-foot ice demon that looked like a golem.

"Now obviously It won't kill you since I'm in control, this is pretty much a low-level demon and ill make it behave as such so please take it seriously." Adonis raised his hand out and began controlling the ice demon replica like a puppet.

The ice demon lunged towards the unarmed Lucas, the lunge caused the ground to freeze behind it.

𝘉𝘖𝘖𝘍

A large blow to Lucas's stomach sent him flying and tumbling on the ground crashing through props on the stadium, he caught himself by digging his fingers into the solid ground. The sight made everyone in the stadium cringed.

"h a h a h a h a h a h a" an eerie, spaced out, laugh came from the undamaged Lucas. The second lunge from the ice demon was coming but Lucas was still laughing. Inches away from getting another gut punch, Lucas jumped, a skillful jump that landed him perfectly on the arm of the ice demon. As if not a single amount of energy more was expended into the action.

He ran across the arm with elegance and situated himself behind the ice demon after jumping off its shoulder. Once his toes touched the ground, he launched himself faster and harder than the ice demon was able to, into a side kick cracking the ice demon's back.

𝘊𝘙𝘈𝘊𝘒

The air became heavy as the expression of the onlookers turned pale, the drastic difference between when Lucas's first impression and him fighting the ice demon shocked the stadium.

𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦, 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘫𝘶𝘮𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘢 𝘸𝘦𝘪𝘳𝘥-𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦. 𝘏𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘥. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘬𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘫𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘪𝘵, 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘸. Zai was looking intently to spot a technique that he might be able to pick up himself.

Lucas continued to dodge the ice demon's fierce attacks, constantly going behind him, and striking at that one crack he created earlier.

𝘍𝘖𝘖𝘚𝘏

Punches 𝘊𝘙𝘈𝘊𝘒

𝘍𝘖𝘖𝘚𝘏

Kicks 𝘊𝘙𝘈𝘊𝘒

𝘍𝘖𝘖𝘚𝘏

Even headbutts 𝘊𝘙𝘈𝘊𝘒

It became a stalemate until the ice demon used a new attack, shoving its fists into the ground the ice demons began breaking the floors and large icicles erected from the ground. Lucas smiled once more, jumping from icicle to icicle, his limbs were freezing, but his smile only grew bigger. He infused mana with the last jump from him to the ice demon.

𝘊𝘙𝘈𝘚𝘏 the icicles behind him all broke instantaneously by the sheer force.

A front flip landed him behind the golem once again back-to-back. Except for this time his crooked smile disappeared.

"I want, a thrill…" Lucas murmured to himself.

Lucas jumps and performs a spin kick on the golems head.

𝘉𝘈𝘔

Losing its balance as he lands, he does a roundhouse kick on the crack as the ice demon's head, completely obliterating it.

𝘉𝘖𝘖𝘔

Jaws drop as shards of ice go flying everywhere before Adonis dissipates them.

Adonis walks up 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘱 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘱 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘱, congratulations you can go up ahead and recover in the next room behind me."

The same smile creeps up back on Lucas's face "iiiiiiiiiigghht."

𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘨𝘦, 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 Adonis thinks to himself.

Zai leaned back in his seat, 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘶𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘴. 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘣𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘯 he thought as a crooked smile began to uncontrollably irk its way up on his face.

The guard came back and whispered the next name into Adonis's ear.

"Imon Willow!"