Chapter 24

Gorya walked back to the other side of the ring while Sebastiene Helped fancy guy up and gave him a healing potion. Fancy guy was back on his feet a couple of minutes later.

"Please state your name and position sir." Sebastiene instructed him which shocked the fancy guy.

"My name is Klent Mark Amihan, a support class specializing in wind magic." He replied.

"What race are you?" I asked.

"I'm a human, my lady." He smiled awkwardly. "I hail from the farthest village in the South, Damsion village."

Sebastiene's smiling face darkened at his answer.

"I see. Thank you." I dismissed.

He went down the ring as gracefully as he went up, as if he was not thrashed by Gorya to the point of screaming in surrender. I rolled my eyes sarcastically.

Sebastiene called on the next examinees but they either surrendered before fighting or got completely defeated by the spirits.

Thus the combat exam for the commander position ended sooner than we thought and the third exam will only be taken by the three people; Haktor Fuujin, Marionne Fuego and Klent Mark Amihan.

The third exam was Command.

This exam will test how good they are at commanding a group and how well they work in a group. For this test, Sebastiene changed the form of the stage, from a round one to a square.

"Everyone! The next exam will be command." Sebastiene announced. Everyone was excited for the next test as they all shouted and cheered for the three remaining examinees.

"The test will be easy, each of you will choose ten other people from the knights around except, of course his grace and her grace and the ladies, to be in your team and try to take this flag from me." Sebastiene instructed while waving a royal blue flag with a moon emblem embroidered in the middle. "You can come up when you are ready to take the test."

"Now the three of you can start to look for your team mates." He told them.

Fancy guy, Klent Mark, looked at the other two and immediately went down the stage. He took a long look at the knights before going to a bulky clean cut knight with a spear and started to invite him into his team. Athy shook her head looking at him and Uriel chuckled.

"Idiot." I heard Athy say and Anderson just nodded his head to what his lady said.

Marionne also went down the ring and was on her way to us when a loud shout made her stop.

"Warriors of the wind tribe!" Haktor shouted. "To me!"

Ten people from the sidelines immediately went up the stage and gathered behind him. Athy raised her eyebrow and father frowned at how quickly they gathered.

"I'm ready." Haktor announced loud and clear.

Sebastiene smiled at the sight of the opponents.

"You know the general idea of this test." Sebastiene smiled. "You only need to take this flag from my hand using any method you can within the given time."

"Are we allowed to use our abilities?" One of Haktor's men asked.

"Of course! You may use any methods you can." Sebastiene replied.

The men nodded to each other and immediately went into a specific position.

"Understood." Haktor replied also going into an offensive stance.

Sebastiene's smile grew wider at the sight of ready opponents.

Sebastiene held the flag with his right hand and stood at the right side of the stage. His smile never left his face as he tied his hair back into a high ponytail. "Then, let us begin."

Haktor immediately dashed toward him with lightning speed followed by his men. He attacked Sebastiene with his glaive-like weapon, the Hsu Quandao, while his other men aimed for the flag in Sebastien's hand.

Sebastiene used the tip of his index and middle finger to deflect Haktor's attack while dodging the others attempt to take the flag. Haktor kept on attacking Sebastiene, trying to make him take his attention away from the others to give them a chance to take the flag. Sebastiene, on the other hand just keeps dodging and jumping around the stage.

As we were watching the fight, Marionne Fuego came and bowed to us, father gave her a nod and mother smiled at her.

"Your Grace, I would like to invite your man to be on my team." She told my father. "I hope you will agree."

"Which man?" Father asked her.

"The on standing beside the youngest lady." She replied.

Our heads snapped towards her, including the maids' and Anderson's.

"Oh." Father smiled at her kindly. "He is not someone you should ask me permission for."

Marionne's expression turned into that of bewilderment.

"Then who should I ask for permission if not you, your Grace?" She asked obviously confused.

We all looked at Athy who was frowning at her.

Marionne followed our line of sight and I could immediately tell when her eyes locked with Athy because of her sharp gasp. I mean immagine seeing a five year old looking at you with a frown, but with Athy, make it into a death glare. She turned her head to look at my father again and he only gave her an awkward smile. She nodded towards my father and kneeled down in one knee in front of Athy, she bowed her head before looking at her.

"My lady, may I ask for permission to invite your knight to be on my team for the test?" She softly asked Athy with a very serious face.

"Why should I?" Athy sarcastically retorted.

"Because the instructions clearly said that we could invite any knights around except for His and Her Grace and you, the young ladies." She replied calmly.

"Are you saying that I could not hear or was I not listening?" Athy's sarcastically replied.

Marionne looked at her calmly, not a drop of sweat from nervousness nor a change in expression.

"Athy.." Father shook his head. "Stop teasing her."

Athy's frown slowly turned into a smirk. "I'm just playing with you. You may take him if he agrees to fight for you."

I shook my head at my sister's bad joke while Uriel rolled her eyes at Athy. Father just let out a soft chuckle as well as Anderson who was standing beside them. Marionne stood up from her kneeling position and faced Anderson.

"Sir, can I ask you to please join my team?" Marionne seriously asked.

Anderson looked at Athy from the side of his eye.

"You may join if you want to Goth." Athy rolled her eyes at the giant man calling him by his pet name given by her.

"Thank you my lady." He smiled broadly at Athy before facing Marionne and holding out his hand to her for a handshake. "My name is Goliath Anderson, pleased to be on your team."

"Thank you for joining my team Sir Anderson." She replied as she shook his hand. She then faced Athy and bowed down. "Thank you my lady."