Bab 55: Entrance Examination (7): Arrival

Ivy looked at her niece, who was being carried by Kestrel's feather, with a complicated look on her face. Hesitation filled her from asking of inviting Isabella to accompany her on the travel to the dungeon when she realized Kestrel had not taken off yet.

"Bring down, my niece." Ivy stared with dead-serious eyes. "I will bring her to the dungeon myself. I don't want her to experience more humiliation and degradation of her reputation by traveling in the dungeon with a feather together with unsightly students."

Her words were toxic and heartbreaking to her, but thankfully students were already far away, and her tone and voice were not loud. On the other hand, Kestrel heard and understood what she said about making his feather degrade the reputation and humiliating Ivy's niece, which irked him.

However, he did not want to find any reason to humiliate himself when he peeked at Ai, who continued caressing her sword like an ordinary person. Hence, he could only do what Ivy said and grumbled internally while not hesitating to detach the feather from Isabella's back despite Isabella still hovering in mid-air.

"Ah!"

Isabella shrieked in surprise. She got panicked and acted more when she looked below. She was half a thousand feet high above the ground, and if she landed without slowing her fall, without a doubt place her life in danger. She could not compose herself as she tried to work her mind profusely.

"How dare you?!"

Isabella could hear her aunt's angry roar as she looked in that direction when she realized her Aunt soared to save her. Before she could even process what happened, she was now in her Aunt's embrace, who looked at her filled with relief and slightly feeling angry.

"Aunt," murmured Isabella.

She looked at her Aunt with eyes sparkled with Grateful and admiration. She wanted to thank her, but seeing her looking at her as though she was a treasure, she could only sigh internally and finally thank her Aunt.

"No problem." Ivy smiled. "Don't worry. I will revenge you."

However, before Ivy could summon her offensive attack, she felt the gaze of a person who appeared emotionless and indifferent, and she could not hold herself back from trembling and having goosebumps. That's right. It was Ai who stared at Ivy with a warning look as though telling her not to create a mess.

"Let's go, child."

Suddenly, a roaring engine could be heard in the distance before it instantly roared closer. Ivy looked at the Bugatti with its crimson color and the shape with a paint of a phoenix. She held her chin high, filled with pride when she saw her niece looks at the Bugatti with awe and amazement.

The Bugatti's tires were blazing with flames, for it was the reason why could it fly and move in their direction. The flame was similar to the flame Ivy emitted from her feet, as a cause for her flying.

When the Bugatti stopped before them, Isabella could not hold herself back anymore as she instantaneously jumped in the passenger's seat and hurriedly invited her Aunt to drive it. Isabella missed the times when she lived in her mansion, which she hoped was still the same before from her engraved memory.

Ivy looked at Isabella's spoiled actions and could not help but smiled satisfyingly, before stepping on the accelerator accompanied by the booming roar. The others watched as Ivy, Isabella, Kestrel, and other students soared through the dungeon as they decided to set off.

***

Ten minutes later, due to the speed, the students took when they traveled, which almost broke the wind barrier. They managed to reach the dungeons in less than the private airplane would take them. Strangely, Draven and the other students did not feel the wind when they soared in the sky, as though there was no wind obstructing their path.

Normally, no matter what transportation vehicle, if a driver or passenger doesn't have a windshield protecting them from being slapped by the wind, they would feel discomfort in the travel due to the wind. However, Draven and the students felt otherwise, as they enjoyed themselves watching the beautiful scenery from the air.

When Draven and the other student were one foot away from the ground. Suddenly, the feather shook and detached itself from them, which took them by surprise. They lost their balanced, as they stumbled on the ground, dirtying their uniform as well as getting light bruises.

They immediately turned their heads and saw Kestrel watching them in amusement, as they could only grit their teeth while standing up and patting the dust off their uniform. Meanwhile, Draven actually safely landed despite the sudden surprise that took him.

"Tsk! don't give me that look, or I will pluck your eyes out," said Kestrel to those students fiercely glaring at him. "Wait for your Daddy to feed you with his milk, kids!" He guffawed afterward.

The students who understood what he meant grumbled in anger while feeling disgusted, directed at Kestrel, who was unaware because he was closing his eyes with his excessive laugh.

A moment later, Ivy and Isabella arrived, and their arrival was eye-catching because of the vehicle they sat on and the burning flame that the tire left as though a rainbow. Even Draven felt slightly envious seeing Isabella in a flying car.

He then steeled himself he would experience it in his own car in the future.

While Aiden had his eyes glued to Isabella when the latter had been showing a positive extreme happy emotion. Unlike the explosive personality she always showed when she spent her time in school, she was currently having the happiest moment of her life. She smiled genuinely, and her bright lustrous eyes drew Aiden's attention.

As though feeling his gaze, Isabella turned her head to Aiden and was genuinely surprised to see Aiden looking at her with an ambiguous stare. She could only smile at him, and Aiden unknowingly found his vision looking at something else. Clearly, he tried to avoid Isabella's gaze.

Ivy enjoyed the spotlight and the smile from her niece when it was interrupted by the growl of the beast. Everyone looked in the direction which was from the sky. Then, they saw an indistinct shape of a huge creature, which seemed to be a flying creature from the silhouette outline. They later concluded it should be a butterfly from its wing's framework.

They could not guess what beast it was, but they inevitably get panicked as they concluded it should be a beast attack. Even Kestrel was ready to fight the beast when they saw another indistinct feature behind the seeming butterfly' back, which he thought familiar. He then realized who it was when he heard it was saying something to them.

"HA-HA-HA! Behold! My beast pet!" Hugo's voice, who was manly and raspy, was immediately identified by all the people below, even when they only knew him once. Then, they could see another outline that had a similar build to Hugo, the General, who had an abashed facial expression.

Once they landed on the ground, filled with black rocks and tainted soil, they looked at the dungeon not far away from them. As expected, the gate almost closed the dimensional portal, which means they only have a week to kill the boss before it could be inaccessible to them.

In a month, the dungeon would be experiencing a dungeon break when the portal turned black, and the gate would disappear. It would then cause a lot of trouble despite having the power to immediately annihilated the Dimensional Monsters before they could harm the citizens.

Although, the task of doing so was not that hard for them. The fact it could be the perfect test for the battle performance test, not only to test the ability of the students to cope in an environment, where they would later expose themselves. The chances of killing the boss were higher, which means this plan was two birds with one stone.

Therefore, the General praised the order from the above, despite how dangerous it might seem. However, the General grew up with comrades getting killed by Dimensional Monsters, beasts, and even humans. Hence, he did not pity the students that much.

"Find your group now," declared the General. "You only have five minutes to form your group. The group should be balanced, and the group should consist of five members. With one each having different roles."