64 Celes First Awakening Trial 1 Unedited

"This is the Trial Slate, once you touch it, you will enter the trial and in the case where you will pass it, you will be shortly after Awakened."

After following the Guild Master all the way to an underground room, Celes and Nex found themselves in front of a large and ancient slate that had 30 names divided by the number from that was from three to five and then further ranked in their division by the time that was also written next to them.

"Those are the best among the people who passed the trial from all over the kingdom," the Guild Master explained, "Once there is someone who proved to be worthy to enter the ranking, all the of the Slates around the kingdom will update and show the ranker in his appropriate place."

"Who is this Starshine?" Celes asked and pointed on the highest name that was the only one in the division of number five and even had is time is written as a bit less than thirty minutes, more than a twenty minutes difference from the one that was ranked below him, "Is there a reason his name is the same as the city's?"

"Yes," the Guild Master nodded solemnly, "Master Starshine is one of the legendary figures that founded the kingdom and because of that, this city was named after him. He was also the first one to find the first Slate and pass its trial, furthermore using unknown means, he managed to create copies of that slate that are connected to the original in every major city. Until this day no one who went through the trail managed to get close to his record."

"Oh," Celes nodded simply and went in front of the Slate, "So I just have to touch this stone and I immediately start the trial?"

"Yes," the Guild Master nodded and added with a hopeful gaze, "And although I don't hope from you to enter the top ten, you will have my eternal gratitude if you managed to enter the ranking. Our Guild didn't produce a lot of proper talents in the last years."

"Okay sure," Celes once again nodded and was about to touch the Slate before someone called to her.

"Celes wait," Nex called to her, causing her to stare at him with a questioning gaze, he then gave her gaze and sighed, "Don't overdo it."

"Fine!" Celes grunted and touched the Slate.

And after a flash of light, she disappeared.

♦♦♦

Celes found herself inside a large hall whose walls and ceiling seemed like they were made from black smoke. And a moment after she checked her surroundings a loud voice boomed in her ears.

[Welcome! Trial Taker! To the test of the Magic Philosopher!]

"Too loud!" Celes twisted her nose cutely, "And can you please not talk in such a deep voice? I feel like my whole body is on "vibrate mode"!"

[...] the voice stayed quiet for a moment before returning to speak as if it didn't hear anything, [As one who aspires to become a Magic Philosopher, you will not only have to show your capabilities in battle but more importantly prove your abilities in comprehending the secrets and knowledge of spells!]

"Acting like that I see?" Celes rolled her eyes at the voice, "Fine I understand, so can you please be a good Array Spirit and give me the tests?"

[...]

"Well?"

[Oh trial taker! In front of you are five magic circles of spells starting from now until the next twenty minutes, you will need to comprehend at least three of those spells and cast them with enough proficiency to satisfy me! Once you finished to comprehend the spells you have chosen, announce it to me so we will begin the-]

"Okay, I'm done."

[... What did you say?]

"I said I'm done learning those spells. Did you became deaf after speaking in that overly loud voice of yours too much?"

[...Very well trial taker, it may be for the best for you to learn patience first. Show me what you have comprehended!]

"Sure," Celes shrugged and stretched her fair hand, "First the eternal basic, [Fireball]"

Mana already began to rapidly gather into her palm as she spoke and the moment the last word came out of her mouth, a golden fireball with a diameter of about a meter flew like shooting star through the hall before being swallowed by the smoke-like walls.

[...What was that?] the voice seemed like he was taken by quite a surprise as it didn't speak in his somber tone.

"Not bad right?" Celes grinned proudly, "The golden color is a quite nice addition right?"

[Not just the color... the size, the speed, the heat, they shouldn't be this potent with just the magic circle I gave you!]

"Well duh! But you didn't say I can't make a bit modifications, did you? Oh, and don't worry because as you can probably see very well, the magic circle you showed me was kept as the base without having any changes done to it."

[This is ridiculous! How are you able to not only comprehend the spell I gave you in an instant but also make modifications to it that sharply increase its abilities without changing the basis at all!?]

"This is simple," she shrugged without caring much about the voice's reaction, "I was used to learning extremely high-level spells since a very young age and thanks to a certain moron I had to follow around, I also got to learn a stupidly immense amount of knowledge of magic starting from plain mana manipulating through using advanced spells and magic circles and all the way to creating original styles of magic I still have a hard time believing they actually now exist. At some point, I found myself quite enjoying learning magic and began doing experiments in my times of boredom, even when it comes to basic spells such as those. And at some point I found myself to be one of the best magicians that I know, although it's annoying to admit that I will probably won't get close to that moron level unless I have an extra ten thousand years of studying."

[...]

"Oh my, look at me babbling so much. Anyway, what do you say? Does my spell count?"

[*Sigh* it is…]

"Yay to me!" Celes threw her hand to the air like a child, but her expression on her face was undoubtedly one of an old person smirk, "So shall I show you the rest?"

[Yes…]

"Good," she nodded and stretched both of her hands sideways.

[Wait! what are you-]

"[Lightning Chain]&[Earth Wall]!"

From her right hand, golden lightning shot out and like an agile snake, zig-zagged throughout the right side of the hall multiple times before vanishing into the wall like the fireball.

While on the left side, a wall made of golden stone rose in the shape of half a circle and spreads forward and rose in height just like a wave before stopping at the height of slightly over four meters.

"Fuu~" Celes wiped her forehead from the bit of sweat that gathered there and sighed, "It's a bit exhausting to do when you have a body of this level."

[As I thought…] the voice murmured before suddenly outbursting in a surprisingly childish tone, [You are just a two-thousand-year-old granny that reincarnated into a young girl! No wonder your abilities don't much your rank!]

*Veins popping*

"Oh?~ Is that what you think I am?~" Celes spoke with a tone that as casual as it seemed, still made the ones hearing it think of a scene from a horror movie, "Did no one told you that there are things you can't say to a woman in her prime?"

The voice suddenly felt that there is a crisis of its existence, so it quickly used the emergency protocols that appeared in its core for those situations.

[I am sorry! There was a problem with my operation! What I meant to say was that every two-thousand-year-old granny will want to be a youthful girl such as you should they reincarnate! I am sorry for what I mistakenly said and I promise that I won't do it again!]

"Then all is good!" Celes beamed into a brilliant smile in an instant, "I was hurt for a moment when I heard what you said, women are sensitive creatures after all. Not to mention that a certain moron decided to wag his tail for someone who is so much younger than him out of nowhere, so I was in a bit fragile state lately…"

[Ahem! Let's move on! Since you showed me the spells you comprehended and I deemed them qualified, let's move on to the last part of the trial! The combat test!]

[In this stage, there are five levels wherein each level you will be challenged by certain enemies against whom you could only use the spells you comprehended. Do notice that the difficulty of the level greatly increases each time. In order to pass the trial, you only have to pass the third level, but if you are able to pass the fourth and fifth levels you will be able to get additional rewards. Are you ready to start the first level?]

"Just a moment," Celes jumped in place a few times to warm-up and did some light stretching before nodding and pulling out her staff, "Yeah, I'm ready so bring it on!"

[Very well. First Level start!]

And the moment those words were said, dozens of goblins came out from the smoke-like walls and surrounded Celes with vile expressions.

[Goblin(Normal) LV:10]

"1, 2, 3…" Celes counted the goblins once they stopped coming out and finished in an instant, "Forty green molesters huh?"

"Very well," she laughed and indicated them to come, "Let's how fast I finish with you boys."

As if this was the signal, all of the goblins shouted their battle cries and charged at her from all sides, only to see her smirking and lightly waving her staff.

"I finished~"

*Bang!**Bang!**Bang!*...

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At the moment she finished her words, four magic circles appeared around her from four different directions and shot golden bolts of lightning that exploded the head of a goblin before jumping on to the next one and just like that, annihilating all of the goblins in a matter of moments.

[...] the voice stayed silent for a moment as had to thank his emergency protocols for saving him first before answering, [You have passed the First Level! Would you want to continue for the next level?]

"Hmmm," Celes thought for a moment as she saw the corpses of the goblins, that disappeared like they were an illusion, before nodding with a smile, "Sure! Bring it on!"

[As you will. Second Level start!]

And just like before monsters came out from the walls, only that this time, instead of goblins creatures that seemed like their taller and more fit brothers.

[Hobgoblin(Rare) Lv:10]

"Twenty this time huh?" Celes shrugged, "No problem, show me what you got!"

"Gyaaa-"

*Bang!!**Bang!!**Bang!!*...

But before the poor hobgoblins could roar properly and charge at her, two larger than before magic circles appeared and blasted golden lightning bolts so powerfully that the magic circle they came from broke completely the moment they were shot from it. And just like before, all of the heads of the monsters were destroyed in just a few moments.

"I am so sorry!" she giggled, "I was just so eager to cast the spell that I just went ahead and did it!"

'Old women are scary,' concluded The Voice internally before announcing, [You have passed the Second Level! Would you want to continue for the next level?]

"Give me a minute," she took a few deeps breaths using a breathing technique that Nex once taught her, "I have a mana capacity of a small potion bottle so I can't use those spells as much as I wanted to."

The voice stayed quiet and didn't dare to disturb her, the trial has a time limit of two hours, and yet this crazy woman reached the third level without using even a tenth of it yet!

"That moron sure know how to create techniques," Celes sighed as in less than a minute her mana returned to full capacity, she then swung her arms a bit before nodding.

"I am ready."

[Third Level start!]

And just like the previous two times, monsters came out from the walls, monsters far more burly and large than the ones that came before them.

[Orc(Elite) LV:10]

"You don't have any better-looking monsters to bring?"

Celes grunted as she was surrounded by ten Orcs that seemed like they were hit in the face a lot when they grew up, "I don't mind if it will be stronger ones."

"Well, never mind that," she sighed, "It won't take long anyway."

And just like before, the moment she finished speaking all of the monsters charged at her with ferocious expressions.

But she didn't seem to mind as she clapped her hands while holding the staff between them with a smile.

"[Whirlwind]X[Fireball]"

[What!?]

*Boom!*

*Orcs cries of pain!*

The moment she said the chants of the spells, she separated her hands to the sides at once, and along with her movement, burning gusts of winds were created and swirled around the hall, causing the temperature in the area to spike in an instant.

Although the burning gusts didn't do much other than some shallow wounds upon meeting the Orcs flesh, the same couldn't be said about their eyes, mouth, nose and even ears.

So in just a moment, all of Orcs found themselves in a state in which they could only be paralyzed in pain as most of their sensory organs were severely burned.

"Now it's time to send you on your way."

She made a gun shape with her fingers and pointed at the vitals of two Orcs.

"2X[Fireball]"

*Bang!* *Bang!*

From the tip of her fingers, two small fireballs that didn't pass more than a few centimeters in diameters shot out in speed and power great enough to pierce the Orcs bodies and explode upon meeting the monsters vitals.

"I can see now why he loves so much to cast spells like that," Celes pretended like she was blowing off smoke from her fingertips and giggled before turning her attention to the remaining Orcs.

"Now it's time to finish it."

*Bang!**Bang!**Bang!*...

[...What did you just do?] The Voice asked tiredly as ten corpses of very ugly Orcs began to disappear.

"Isn't it simple?" Celes tilted her head, "I combined the whirlwind spell with the fireball spell and caused a flaming storm. The whirlwind spell was also from the magic circles you showed me so and the spells' base didn't change so there shouldn't be a problem, right?"

[*Sigh*] the Voice realized what it felt for the last minutes was what humans call migraine, [I guess you also know the fifth magic circle right?]

"Of course! I wouldn't give up on a new spell just like that!" she laughed as if it said something funny, "Now quickly do what you needed to do instead of wasting time asking obvious things!"

[...]

[You have passed the Third Level! Would you want to finish now the Trial? Or would you rather continue for the next level?]