Hiroshi stood up and started walking towards the two examiners after getting called.
"Wish me luck!" He said to Hikaru while happily walking towards the two examiners.
Hikaru smiled and nodded at him. He looked at Hiroshi and noticed that he didn't have any kind of weapon, except for a small blade around his lower left leg, which is used for cutting pieces of monsters. He remembered that this guy had a large greatsword with him back then, which he just flicked away with his fingers. He still hasn't given him anything in return for that, but it's odd that Hiroshi still hasn't gotten a new weapon.
Melee Weapons are essential to Adventurers, even if you're a long-ranged fighter. You see, there are times when long-ranged adventurers are forced into melee battles due to some situations. This is something that most long-ranged beginner adventurers always forget.
While Hikaru is quite certain that Hiroshi is a melee fighter, he'd seen that from the forest, he still is hiding something from him. It might be a really interesting skill, or a weapon that he hid inside some sort of space storage or something.
Well, he might be able to see it right now from this fight.
Hiroshi steadied himself, trying to calm his pounding heart. After months of isolation inside that dungeon, he's forgotten how to stay composed in front of other people, or how to talk to them calmly. Even before this, he was an introvert. He was always hiding inside his house, and the only times he would go out are when he has to go to school or when his aunt/uncle told him to buy something from the store.
Communication is especially hard for him, and he would sometimes ignore people when they talk to him. And that's the reason why some people in school got annoyed at him, thinking he was looking down on them. A lot of people hate him for his "cold" attitude, even some of the teachers. But he was academically smart, so the teachers couldn't do anything to him. He would always score within top 10 in the whole school, if he remembered correctly. But that didn't stop other students from mocking him, or sometimes, bullying him. He fought back, of course, but that only made it worse.
Bullies think of themselves as "superior" to others, and would sometimes not realize that they are bullying someone. So, with Hiroshi ignoring them, they got mad and decided to physically hurt him, and when he fought back, they thought of it as him going against their delusional "superiority".
He got in front of the examiners and they asked him who's he going to pick to fight between the both of them. He picked Alex, the male examiner.
He would've picked them both, but Hikaru would have no one to play with later after he's done with them. He's skills are what you can call, overpowered.
He still hasn't told Hikaru what his skills are, but his skills are abnormal status effects. Poison, paralysis, sleep and blindness. That's his current magic skills, and he deduced earlier that he can still get more of those kinds of skills if he levels up more. They might not seem special, since most of the abnormal status skills in this world only have the percentage of working below 20 percent. But his skills work 100 percent all the time! They can even be shot from long-range!
That's why, even though he's just a Tier 9 warrior, he can defeat beings that're in the Tier 12 or 13! But that's not all, since he can defeat beings that are more powerful than him, he got titles from his Status Screen that can increase his strength to Tier 9 to Tier 11! He's currently level 89, only one level away from being a Tier 10 Warrior.
Last time, he only used that greatsword for cutting apart monsters down that dungeon. Some monsters there were edible but most of the time, they had really tough hides. So he had to use that greatsword for cutting those edible monsters, so he could eat them safely.
And, as a bonus, he managed to learn Greatsword Swordsmanship from swinging that greatsword around. His proficiency is only at [Beginner - Level 5] right now, but if he can get another greatsword to swing around again, he's sure that it would be upgraded to [Intermediate].
He and Alex were 10 meters apart from each other. Alex had his sword and shield equipped, with his white shining armor.
Meanwhile, Hiroshi had nothing but a tattered dark cloak and a black pants. If you look at it, it's really unfair for Hiroshi but that's not really the case here. If he were to say something, Alex is at a disadvantage here. First of all, Hiroshi's Tier is two levels higher than Alex. And second, no one can beat his abnormal status skills. One zap of his magic, and they're either paralyze, blind, or poisoned.
"Hey, why don't you take out your weapon?" Alex asked, holding his weapon down.
"There's no need, I can beat you with my bare fists." Said by the seemingly cold Hiroshi.
"Hahahaha! You won't make into a fine protector of women if you don't go all out!" Laughed Alex, who immediately assumed that Hiroshi won't hesitate to drop kick a woman if they do something bad to him.
'What's our battle got to do with protecting women?' Thought Hiroshi, who finds it quite ridiculous. Women can protect themselves, they don't need excessive protection from others.
"Enough chit-chat, old man, start the battle." Coldly said by Hiroshi. He didn't mean to sound cold, but that's just the way he is. The only people he can avoid this habit with are his family and surprisingly, Hikaru.
Harley whistled and said, "Man, that's one cold kid. Anyway, the battle will start now!"
"I'll train you into a fine White Knight, gah-"
He was cut off when he suddenly felt he couldn't move. He was paralyzed! He tried his best to look at Hiroshi and saw his hand extended towards him. He couldn't even make a sound. He felt his hands drop his sword and shield, while seeing Hiroshi slowly walking towards him.
"I'm sorry, but I want to make this as fast as possible."
That was the last thing he heard as he felt something knee his stomach, making him pass out.
The other newbies watching the battle were in agape, the strong and gallant examiner was nothing in front of this kid! Even the Tier 5 Black haired kid earlier couldn't beat this examiner. That means, this boy must be in a higher Tier than Tier 7!
He might be able get the rank of Gold, or at best, a Diamond Rank!
(Note: In this world, Diamond Rank Adventurers are quite rare. There are only less than 500 around the whole world, while Gold Rank is quite common to see).
They might just be witnessing the birth of a legend…
Hiroshi turned around as Alex fell to the ground with a thud, and walked away. He then sat next to Hikaru on the stone bench, and said, "He was quite weak, I've faced monsters at the same Tier as him but they were more skilled and resourceful than him. But even then, he still wouldn't be able to put up a fight against me."
Hikaru nodded in satisfaction just from seeing that skill of his. Honestly, he could say that Hiroshi's ability is quite hard to learn just from seeing it once. He needs to see it 10 times just to learn it instantly, but he may be able to copy it in a few hours. Just one skill is that amazing, even from his standards. It's silent, not flashy, yet it can produce results that can baffle normal people. He needs that kind of skill!
Well, he might just create one just for the sake of it.
Harley then called a medic from the Guild to heal the unconscious Alex Delt, and called another Gold Rank Adventurer to continue the exam. It's not a surprise that some newbies might be able to beat an examiner, but normally they would be struggling. Yet, that kid beat him in less than 10 seconds!
This might be a talent that can prosper the Guild even more! They've been trying to find really talented individuals that can be called prodigies to join the guild, but it's been difficult since the Goddess' Church keeps stealing most of them.
They seem to be hungry for more power, so they keep giving out really enticing rewards for prodigies who would join the Goddess Deagaia's Church.
It's already good that there's five Tier 5 to 6 in this group, they would only get one of those every once in a while. But for such a genius to join the Adventurer's Guild? He might be even compared to those new Heroes summoned several months ago!
Harley handled the situation calmly and everything was gone back to normal once again. Another examiner was brought out, a Diamond Rank Adventurer who was passing by the Guild. He's a Tier 10, so it's quite impossible for other newbies to beat a Diamond Adventurer.
His name is Adalius Navarel, a once poor boy who grew in the slums, who then turned into a Diamond Rank Adventurer. He has two young siblings, one of them is currently a Silver Rank Adventurer, and the other has been recruited by the Church as one of the Light Maiden. A title given to those with incredible affinity towards Light Magic in the Church.
He is currently 25 years old, and he has mid-long light platinum hair, ocean-like eyes, a well shaped face devoid of any facial hair, white skin, and he's quite tall, around 190 centimeters. He wore a white fedora hat on top of his head, a long white trench coat with a suit underneath it, long white pants, and he's sporting sharp black shoes.
Overall, he looks like a gentleman who would open the door for a woman. But the cold unfeeling look on his face doesn't tell that.
Harley was the one who fought the next 5 opponents before it was Hikaru's turn to fight the examiners. He decided to blast less than 1 percent of his killing intent around the examiners and see how they would fare against it.
Harley's not out of breath yet from all those fights, but the moment that kid stood up from that stone bench, she felt like she was suffocating. She felt a killing intent like no other, not even a Tier 10 had this kind of killing intent!
Adalius, meanwhile, was not so unaffected. He felt like this kid was testing them, and even though he felt weakened by that killing intent, he can still stand up. But the girl beside him wasn't so lucky, she's already kneeling down on the ground, her head almost touching it. She was about to pass out, when it suddenly all stopped!
She was finally able to breath fine again, and even though she felt her legs go wobbly, she can now stand. She looks at their next opponent, and knew, she's way, way, way, way out of his league!