As Matt started walking, he frowned and looked ahead.
'Is someone about to finish their tests already?' he thought after seeing a silhouette out of the corner of his eye.
Then he was stunned when he looked at who it was.
'Alice? I don't think she's out of the tests... Did she do it all in a row? How long has it been going on?' he thought in shock.
He didn't know Alice had gotten so good at the drop of a hat.
But she stopped suddenly.
Still, she was so far away that it would take Matt about 15 minutes to catch up with her, so that meant she was facing a big problem right now.
When Matt saw this, he felt more determined, so he started walking without looking to the side.
Because they were the only two in this place, they would both meet up as long as Alice held on long enough.
She soon resumed her walk, which was slow this time. She hesitated in many trials until three and a half minutes had passed since Matt started walking; she stopped and was sent out of this place.
'Almost...' Matt thought and sighed.
He started walking too, but suddenly he noticed someone had come back inside, so he looked back.
'She recovered that fast?' It was Alice, naturally.
She noticed him, too, so she started walking faster to see if they were meeting somewhere.
While Matt kept up his normal walk.
And 15 minutes later, they were both standing side by side.
One was waiting for the other, while the other was walking fast to catch up.
"Matt, you seem to be feeling better." She said she was a little happy about this.
Then, they both went back to the room to rest. There, Matt explained how to reach the 30 minutes in each test, teaching her some important things for each test.
The following day, they went there again. They still took it patiently, without rushing. They learned a few topics from Robert and then studied them further during the night, thus completing the third day of testing.
Then, finally came the fourth day of testing, which was also the day of the Welcoming Ceremony.
According to what they heard regarding this welcome ceremony, it is a big ceremony where they invite all the new students to eat. Academy leaders like the Great Summoner and the Founder will gather to give them motivational words. But the most important thing is that all the new students will be there, so many of them choose that moment to form groups or to join some interesting student faction.
Even so, before the Welcome Ceremony, they would still have 2 hours of class that were not mandatory. But Matt and Alice arrived early that day and went into testing very early, as they didn't have too much time.
Matt was already 1 minute away from completing the 30 minutes today, and Alice still had two tests to catch up with him.
This time, Matt had trained his mentality during the night.
He noticed that the mental attacks of the fourth test were much stronger than the rest of the tests, and after 20 minutes, this was more evident. They were attacking his weakness, but more so, they were directly attacking the brain to make him falter.
Still, this was not a problem for him today, as he quickly reached his limit from the previous day.
'Heh, you seem to have run out of ideas, little spirit. Look at you throwing mental attacks that have nothing to do with my weakness at this point...' Matt scoffed a bit at this and kept walking until he hit the 30-minute and 1-second gap.
It was then that an embodiment of the central spirit appeared in front of him.
"That's the first time I've seen a Half-Elf from that world so talented."
Matt smiled. "There's a lot you don't know, even if you are a spirit."
"Aren't you surprised to see me like this?" The spirit was surprised at the nature with which Matt spoke, and he shrugged.
"It's not the first time I've seen a spirit and talked to it. There's nothing to surprise me." He replied.
The spirit nodded, though surprised.
"You've done well. Honestly, in this entire Human Academy, there are only about three or four who have managed to complete the 30 minutes in all the tests. Despite that, most of them were totally exhausted when they finished it, and it took them 1 month to complete it. So you and that girl can feel proud. You are among the top of this academy, around these tests.
So I look forward to seeing what kind of spirit you guys will be able to summon later on." After saying that, the spirit disappeared, and Matt returned to his body.