บท 25: Myroc Trials (part 1)
White lights flashed across the scene as a third of the challengers were teleported into the tower to start the first round of trials.
Pained voices rang out as players quickly covered their eyes from the blinding lights. Of course, there were also some players who the flashing light had no effect on such as Wyatt and Hazel as well as a group of players who decided to fall their lead and focus on their mana while waiting.
With his eyes closed Wyatt started flowing the lightning mana through his body. Unlike his last couple of training sessions, Wyatt wasn't focusing on his arms instead he was trying to direct the mana toward his legs.
Wyatt knew that he is still a long way off from covering his entire body with lightning mana so he planned to only focus on his 4 limbs for the time being.
The process of leading the lightning through his legs was extremely uncomfortable it felt as if had a bunch of fire ants crawling up his legs. Still, he preserved for over 2 hours before finally managing to cover both feet up to the ankles with lightning mana.
Losing concentration due to the murmuring voices around him Wyatt wiped the sweat off his face and opened his face.
"Huh?..."
Opening his eyes he was caught off guard by the circle of players surrounding him all focusing on their mana control. For some reason, these players had all decided to follow his lead and chose to sit in the same vicinity.
Feeling awkward because of the stares around him Wyatt turned his head away before suddenly making eye contact with the girl across from him.
This girl was, of course, Hazel Alastair
Her long silver hair was slightly messy due to training but matched with her piercing blue eyes for some reason Wyatt couldn't look away from her. Without thinking he murmured the only thing that came to his mind.
"pretty..."
Quickly catching himself after Wyatt turned his head away hoping that no one heard him but sadly he wasn't that lucky.
"Hahahaha you hear that?" one man chuckled out loud with all his friends following soon after.
"PPFFFFTTTT" another man even spit out his drink laughing
Feeling awkward Wyatt looked back at the girl hoping at least she hadn't noticed or would just laugh it off but instead he was met by those same eyes glaring at him. Feeling bad Wyatt stood up and was about to apologize to the girl when a loud voice suddenly interrupted him.
"Group 1 has finished the trials" Announced Nikolai.
As he said that a large hologram appeared in front of the tower which had a long list of names each with a star rating out of 5 next to them.
Since he read the trial details Wyatt already knew what this rating was so he wasn't surprised. The Myroc Trials were designed to be fair by only testing players' talent and potential compared to others of the same level. Since if a level 3 and a level 7 both competed it was obvious that the level 7 would have an advantage in stats this was the fairest way of properly judging individuals.
For every stat category, players were rated out of 5 stars, and then at the end, their average score would be displayed on the screen.
[Berum 3.5 stars] [Rolin 3 stars] [Liera 3 stars] [Amora 2.5 stars] ....etc
According to Nikolai, there hadn't been a score of 4.5 or above since Archmage Lachlan's first pupil took the test over 150 years ago. Apparently, the group average scores of the biannual trials always sat between 2.5 and 3 stars this matched perfectly with the result of the first group which only had one player sitting at 3.5 stars.
Since there weren't any interesting results Nikolai instantly started the next round of trials. With another series of bright flashes Wyatts chance to apologize ended with Hazel being teleported away before he could even say anything.
"Sigh... ill just apologize if I ever meet her again," he told himself
Since he needed to give his body and mana time to rest before his group started the trials Wyatt decided to go explore more of Myroc and grab some food.
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Roughly 2 and a half hours later Wyatt was back outside the tower waiting for Nikolai to announce the results.
"Holy %$^&" Someone yelled out as the hologram appeared once again.
As the names appeared from lowest score to highest Wyatt was surprised when a familiar name showed up
[Lukas 4 stars]
"huh isn't that Sir Lavons student?" he said remembering his fight.
Even Nikolai seemed impressed with the score before stating "Although it's not 4.5 or above we only get to see a 4 star talent every couple of years." he was about to continue complementing the ranking when suddenly another name flashed above it silencing everyone.
[Hazel 4.5 stars]
"................."
".........."
The silence was so palpable that any words people tried to say seemed to just get stuck in their throats.
Even Nikolai choked on his words unable to understand what he was seeing
After a minute of deathly silence, the players of group 2 started being teleported out in order.
Teleporting out Lukas was met with the gaping faces of a crowd surrounding the exit although caught off guard once he thought back to his score his face quickly turned into a smug smile as he thought "Yes this is how it should be!"
Standing in front of everyone he could feel their gazes piercing his body as he laughed out admiring his newfound fame. Thinking about how to address his new fans he was about to give a speech when a voice suddenly yelled out.
"HEY MOVE OUT OF THE WAY ALREADY!" a random person in the crowd.
"huh?" Lukas was stunned by the sudden outburst finally, he turned around and looked at the hologram behind him
"4.5...." he was speechless. He had thought the crowd formed to celebrate his talent but now he could only awkwardly move to the side with everyone else.
As Hazels' figure appeared in front of everyone, they all stared at her in awe of the regal aura she exuded. Every Glance and step she took seemed to be filled with nothing but bottomless confidence as if this was the expected result and everyone else was beneath her.
In the deathly silence, only one person managed to murmur
"as expected of a real pro....."
Even Wyatt was Caught off guard by the appearance of the girl. To think the insane talent who tied the great archmages first student would be the same girl he accidentally offended earlier
"ah..." was the only noise he could get out
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