ROYAL HUNTER ACADEMY.

After being dazed for a while by seeing the majestic palace scenery we both woke up from our dreams.

"Woah, I feel shocked everytime by seeing this palace, also I wonder how majestic the royal palace would be, if this royal hunter academy is only a part of it". Angun said

I also felt shocked by seeing it and wondered which artist made it.

Hunter Academy gets a large sum of money by selling the beast materials like their horns, skin or scales, teeth and especially the beast cores which fetches a large sum of money.

Only hunters were allowed to live in this academy and not their descendants, so it was normal to be shocked by seeing its appearance.

Although we were shocked, we had to start running for entrance as we were late, the gatekeeper checked our badges for entrance and allowed us in.

This place had very strict restrictions as not all people were allowed to visit this place, if you were found to be moving here without a badge, you would not be fined but rather be killed by the guards for trespassing.

After an inquiry from a worker, we soon found the place where the genius test was conducted, this test was a compulsory test for all candidates for the expedition. Although we were guaranteed entrance we still had to check our cultivation level, so that we can be grouped accordingly. We aligned ourselves in the line created at the entrance of a black room and there were also 48 participants before us.

"Hey, aren't those two Delvin and Angun." One of the participants before us said.

"Yeah, and particularly that Delvin is a son of an ex­-general, Dravyn Cadieux, who was given the title of 'GENERAL OF WAR'." Other candidate said.

"Sshh, keep quiet if you don't know, both of you should have come from commoners so you don't know everything, do you see that tall and handsome person standing first in line is also a son of newly promoted general Lamius Werner, named David Werner. General Lamius has some kind of feud with ex-general Cadieux, so don't get too hyped about anyone or else u would offend either side even before the genius test". Another candidate said.

After hearing this news, both commoner candidates looked at each other and then at David, obliviously afraid of him.

Obliviously where there were people there were gossips too. But it is true that General Lamius had a feud with the ex-general Cadieux due to some political matters.

Meanwhile, David was standing at his position like a rock unmoved by any comment, he is an over prided character and considers everyone beneath him like everyone was an ant to him which he can crush at any time, so he didn't respond.

"Clang". The black door opened and an instructor with a strict face stepped out of it.

"Hello everyone, I am Rong Hai and your examiner for this test. Firstly, before the test starts, I will be giving you a brief lecture on the cultivation stages.

"There are only three cultivation stages for martial arts in this world, mainly:- [Genesis Stage], [Visceral Stage] and [Bone Condensation Stage], each having 9 levels, these levels are grouped in 3 groups- Mortal realm consisting of 1st three levels, Earth realm consisting of mid 3 levels and Sky realm consisting of last three levels.

Genesis stage begins with absorbing natural energy and then infusing it into our body cells to remould them. Although natural energies are constantly supplied to your body cells but cells could only absorb a minute part of this energy due to their size.

But when this natural energy is finally absorbed by your cell, it will start to dominate your cells for its accommodation and then changes the shape of cells by moulting them and giving birth to new cells, so that the cells can absorb more natural energy and store it as refined energy.

This stored natural energy is called refined natural energy which determines the quality of your natural energies.

You can definitely feel natural energy as a dense air entering your body but you cannot feel refined natural energies, only a crystal made of natural energies can identify the refined natural energy. Refined natural energy changes its quality after each moulting of cells.

1st level genesis stage is obtained by 1st moulting of our body cells, 2nd moulting of our body cells obtains 2nd level of the genesis stage, likewise, further moulting of cells obtains higher levels till the 9th moulting of cells obtains 9th level genesis stage.

After the Genesis stage is the Visceral stage which is obtained through remoulding of muscles, after the Visceral is the Bone Condensation stage which is obtained through remoulding of bones."

"There are also many kinds of benefits that you receive through each advance in cultivation stages. Each advance in cultivation levels grants you 5 human force. Apart from that when you reach the visceral realm you can live for 200 years."

"1 human force is the max punch force that a normal human without any cultivation could generate. While a cultivator in 1st level of genesis is able to generate a max amount of 5 human force by a punch. With every advance in genesis level of cultivation, the cultivator received an additional 5 human force of punch power, so the cultivator of 9th level of genesis realm contained 50 human force of power."

"Lastly, as you all are cultivators you would surely know that the refined natural energy stored in your body can also be easily oozed out of your body with just a thought like moving your hand, but after it has separated from your body, you can't control it unless u generate a consciousness. As for what is consciousness, leave it for another time, you will receive another lecture after returning from your mission."

After giving a long lecture about cultivation and its stages he paused at this point to let them ask any question if there were any.

After no one asked a question for a minute he nodded at them and said

"Now let the test begin. Firstly you will have to step in the room one by one and imbue your refine natural energy onto the spherical crystal kept on the table, which was obtained from natural spring and it changes colour depending on refined energy. As you all know that refined energy in your body is colourless so each level in the genesis stage can be only identified through this crystal which is available only in our academy and in the royal palace. As you all are between 10-11 years of age it makes it easier to classify which among you is genius. Also, you may feel that you have already broken through different levels but in reality, you may have been struck at just 1st level and only natural energy quantity is increasing in your body rather than the moulding and quality of refined energy. That's why this test is important."

"1st level genesis stage is shown by crystal as violet colour, 2nd level shows indigo colour, 3rd level shows blue colour, 4th level shows green, 5th level shows yellow, 6th level shows orange, 7th level shows red, 8th level shows bronze and 9th level shows silver colour." Instructor said

For obtaining Lieutenant rank, one should be at the 7th level of Genesis stage, that is entering the sky realm of Genesis stage.

"Candidate no. 1 David Werner enter in the room and place your hand above the crystal so that your oozed-out refined energy can fall onto the crystal," the instructor said.

David stepped in the room and started to imbue his refined Qi in crystal. As soon as refined Qi was imbued on the crystal it started to react by changing its colour, it first turned into violet colour then dark violet, then turned dark indigo, then dark blue and finally stopped at dark green colour, no matter how much more refined Qi was imbued on it after it never changed its colour.

"Excellent genius you have reached peak of 4th level genesis at just 10 years of age", The examiner said with an impressed smile on his face after waiting for a minute.

"He is really worthy of being a son of general, A son of lion will always be a lion," One of the candidates said.

"No wonder he was so confident, he is worthy to be confident on himself", another candidate said.