"Good morning everyone. I assume everyone knows what we're doing today?"
Miss Amy stood right before everyone in the classroom, looking down at the class, which looked extremely excited.
"Yes, ma'am!"
"That's the energy I want to see. Then let's all get in line and get ready to go to the arena!"
A few minutes later...
As they lined up in front of the dark room once again, Alex took a deep breath and thought back to the last time he had tried to beat the test.
It was a disaster, just like everyone else who was caught off guard by how fast the golem could run.
With the light disappearing as he was transported to a plain field again, he immediately began running to the first obstacle course.
It was a dummy who wrote 'Light Me,' which Alex easily accomplished as he already had it prepared.
The light ball directed by Alex hits the dummy, giving him a score of 85.
Next, he ran straight to the next dummy, shooting a ball filled with dark magic.
With another 85, he ran straight to the last dummy, which was just a dummy that had the word stone written in the middle.
After casting a stone at it and getting an 80, he came to a stop and began meditating.
Feeling his mana fully recharged, he got back up and began approaching the golem ahead.
As soon as he could see the golem still a hundred steps away, it already started running towards him.
A ball of stone appeared above Alex's head as it slowly expanded bigger and bigger.
It reached all the way to the size of his head before catching on fire as Alex began to cast another spell on top of it.
But with the golem now less than fifty steps away, he was only halfway done with the spell.
Unable to complete the real fireball as he had hoped, he was forced to direct the premature spell at the golem.
Even though the golem raised its arm at the last second, the semi-fireball was enough to make the golem lose a large chunk of it.
"Nice! Just one more."
As Alex began to retreat further back, the golem was now enraged.
It started running even faster than earlier at him, matching his speed despite him running his heart out.
Still, it was all according to Alex's plan as he quickly cast a water spell right behind himself.
The golem ignored it but soon realized he was somehow running slower and slower.
Alex was now almost back to the original distance where they started, with the golem's feet stuck in the mud as it tried to catch up.
"Dumbass."
Not wasting any time, Alex began casting the same spell as earlier, able much slower as his mana regeneration couldn't keep up.
Still, by the time the golem was out of the mud and began running closer and closer, the fireball was complete.
As it began flying towards the golem, it raised its arm to block it again.
Half of the class looked a little shocked, including Alex, who knew from the textbook that it was a tier two spell.
As the video resumed, the merged wind blade pierced straight past its arm and into its head.
"That's the creativity combined with a strong mana pool that everyone should be replicating."
With everyone clapping for Chloe again, she shyly stepped back down before sitting down next to Alex.
"That was amazing." Alex complimented.
"Thanks..."
"Now for our next person to applaud: Sophia and Mary are the only people in the class who managed to get 90 in the golem fight."
Everyone still clapped again as the score was still very impressive, albeit just not as crazy as Chloe's.
"Ahem, besides their impressive score, I want to tell everyone that this will be the last time I'm going to bring you all to the arena."
Everyone looked a little shocked as Miss Amy sent the two of them to sit back down.
"I know you might be a little disappointed, but now you can go on your own time and challenge yourself."
"How do we do that?" One of the students asked the question in everyone's mind.
"Just use your ID, which was given when you entered the school. Go to the front desk and tell them what level you want to enter."
Seeing everyone seem to understand the instructions, Miss Amy went back to the explaining lectures.
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As the class ended, everyone in the class was already grouping up with each other to check out the arena on their own time.
"Alex, you want to come with us? We are about to check the arena out right now."
Chloe asked as she came back from talking with the girls in the back.
"Sure."
As the seven of them left the building, they went straight to the arena with their backpacks.
Hundreds and thousands of people were already at the front, with all the front desks full of people lining up.
Most of them were wearing different color robes, with various levels of mages standing in the lobby chatting with each other.
Almost all of them were also much older, ranging from fully grown adults to even someone in their sixties.
Their towering height made it a little intimidating, but the seven of them weren't scared away by it.
"What do we do now?" Mary asked, looking around the arena filled with curiosity.
"Let's go explore the building. I heard there's a shopping and even a tournament arena on the back."
Evelyn took the lead, with Camille and Luna following right behind.
They were filled with curiosity as they walked past the different dark room entrances that people entered inside.
Meanwhile, Sophia's focus was holding Mary's hand tightly, preventing her from wandering somewhere else.
Alex and Chloe both followed at the end, looking a little bored as they followed the two in front of them.