After Adrian saw the explosive reaction of the Pocket Dimension Home Showrooms, he waited for three hours before announcing that the guild recruitment will start. He made sure that everything is prepared before he spoke. He looked at the numerous lists of participants and arranged them based on level.
"Hopeful Guild Recruits! I am pleased to welcome you to my territory. I know that many of you have prepared for this day which is why I will not say much but good luck.
For those participating in the guild recruitment, please read the directions that I have sent to all of you. I shall meet you there along with my guild members." Adrian announced as his voice reverberated to all of his territory.
Adrian told them to meet outside of Avalon as their number is not small for them to gather in one island. Adrian gathered them below Avalon where the land was unearthed. It took about one hour for all of the hopeful recruits to gather in the area.
All the recruits that did not make it into the cut were all deleted from the list when they did not reach the designated area on time. Although, the players that were decreased only numbered to one percent of the whole list. A lot of players were eager to join Pantheon as the range of levels went from 200 to 15.
As the players waited for the Pantheon guild members to show up, they all talked among themselves. They speculated on what the tests would be while others remained silent as they were nervous. The chattering only stopped when nine figures descended from the sky.
A Daemos with his four wings spread out descended onto the scene as if a God of Destruction going down from the heavens. Adrian looked very menacing and dignified at the same time as he entered in his Netheros form. Levin Cloud, Creepysoo and Lycan descended on Kanlaon's back as they cannot fly.
Kabrakan changed to his Wind Breaker Armor which fused his shields and arms to wings so that he can fly. Peridot rode on Moksha that rode on thunderclouds. Vayu freely walked on air as if he is stepping on flat ground. Soleil rode on a miniature version of Regulus while Solstice freely descended as vampires do have the ability to fly.
"Greetings! My name is Equinox, the guild master of the Pantheon guild. We moved all of you here because we cannot do the actual test on Avalon. I will move all of us in a Pocket Dimension which is our guild home. All of you will have temporary passes and will be ejected upon death in the guild house. I shall now start the transport." Adrian stated without even entertaining the questions of the participants.
Adrian opened a large portal that led to the guild house that can only let those that were tagged in the list inside. The portal ate all the participants in one fell swoop as the other guild members followed. Adrian is then the only one left in the area among his guild members but there were other players that were not swept away.
The players that were not swept away were players that were not in the list and was just among the crowd. Adrian asked them what they are there for since they were not on the list of participants. All of them unanimously stated that they want to participate while some were the ones late.
"To those that were late in coming but were on the list, you may now leave. If you really wanted to be in my guild, then you would have come on time. I already gave half a day for all of you to gather. You can participate in the next recruitment drive when you are ready.
To those that were not able to register, I shall let you participate under one condition. Do you all agree?" Adrian asked.
"Can we not also be included in that one condition!?" One of the late comers stated to which Adrian raised his eyebrow.
"If the ones that were unable to register agrees to that demand, then I will let you have another chance." Adrian replied and the unregistered ones agreed.
Adrian took the names of the remaining ones that only numbered in the hundreds. He looked at them and there were only a handful that looked promising. The one that he is surprised the most is that Arsenal and Apolaki were part of the unregistered ones.
"Since all of you were late, I shall give you a preliminary test. You must pass this in order to gain admission to the real tests. Do all of you agree?" Adrian asked and he was met with silence, but they did not move from their position.
"Your silence means that you agree to it as you did not move from your locations. Sirius!" Adrian stated as Sirius came out of his shadows.
Sirius came out of Adrian's shadows in his full size which dwarfed any type of player. He could basically swallow a player whole with his sheer size. Sirius is also emanating a powerful aura that scared off low level players.
"All you need to do is to survive at least for ten seconds against Sirius' onslaught. Those that get reduced to 10% of their health will be eliminated. Did I make myself clear?" Adrian asked as all the players started to use their various buffs and gripped their weapons.
"Start." Adrian said calmly as Sirius suddenly melted into the shadows and create numerous shadow spikes to impale all the players.
Some players were able to dodge while some are immediately eliminated from the test. The next thing that happened is Sirius emerging from the shadows to attack each of the players within a quarter of a second. Sirius did this for the remaining time and a majority of the players are eliminated. The only ones that were actually able to resist the onslaught of attacks were Arsenal and Apolaki.
"It seems that only two of you passed. I am sorry to inform the rest of you, but you failed." Adrian stated as he tagged the two and passed the portal towards the three of them.