Exos Measuring Device

"Good," the aged man suddenly implied as he opened his eyes before snapping his fingers.

As if it was in reaction to the aged man's action, a thin passage open in the metallic ceiling as a thin screen slid out of it, displaying what seemed to be some sort of a marks roll!

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1. Pass 2. Pass

3. Pass 4. Pass…

5. ...

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25. Excellence

26. Fail 27. Pass

28. Pass 29. Pass

30. Pass 31. Pass

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Instant markings! This was what went through the heads of most of the students that were in the gym-like metallic room.

It was precisely a few seconds ago that the extraordinarily performing student finally gave up as he stopped the treadmill look-alike machine and got down after managing to preserve for a whole half an hour after forcing the student that was supposed to use the same line to choose another one, yet what seemed to be the marks of the whole batch appeared in front of them as soon as that!

"An Excellence!"

"It's him! He is indeed a 'Physical Aspect' Awakened!"

"Well, that's not too hard to guess that after his monstrous performance on the endurance and agility testing machine..."

Obviously, with almost all of the students gaining the passing mark, and only one failure who didn't even get that, most of the attention was concentrated at the only 'Excellence' mark in the whole list.

The slim guy who had no distinct features nor a buff, muscle filled body, was actually a 'Physical Aspect' Awakened, or he had at least reached the standard for that as he managed to score the 'Excellence' mark, he was also part of Crow's group.

'Mhm...' Chrome nodded in his mind as he found his mark as no.27 to be a pass, he already expected such a lackluster result after all.

The only strong point that the current him had was his supernatural ability, which was supposed to come out as last, so he had to hold on for now and prove his value as an Awakened then.

"Excellent indeed, Old Crow sure knows how to groom talents…" the aged man complimented as he gave Crow a nod of affirmation before turning his head to look at the 'Excellence' mark receiver as he instructed, "You have already passed the examination by getting the 'Excellence' mark for the 'Physical Aspect' test, you are free to wait at the beginning room if you want or you can continue on with the examination…"

"I wish to go back and rest," the slim 'Excellent' student replied.

"Very well, you can go back to the room we were at earlier, we will send someone to call for you at the very end to receive your successful enrollment status." the aged man nodded as he pointed towards the door.

The 'Excellent' student wasted no time as he bowed to both the aged man and Crow before moving out of the room.

"As for the rest of you, follow me." As soon as the student left through the door, the aged man turned around as he walked towards the door that was at the other end of the room as the structure of this testing unit seemed to be straightforward and quite simple.

Chrome and the rest of the students, totaling thirty now, followed as usual, with the only difference being a certain student with a huge build who couldn't help but stare at Chrome…

'It's not unexpected that he passed the 'Physical Aspect' test, but could he have actually really awakened some trash ability and gunning for the three passes qualification…?'

It was naturally Fred, who was pretty sure that Chrome was mediocre in all aspects, but still couldn't stop himself from thinking about the chances of the lowest possibilities actually occurring which might allow the qualification of Chrome to enroll in the Extra's Academy, which made him feel a bit threatened.

'I thought that I would finally get rid of him, yet he is still trying to climb up and be as persistent as a cockroach… no wait, that might actually be for the better, after all, those newbies who pass by a hair's length usually resign themselves in the first week as they can't withstand the pressure… yeah, both cases are in my favor…'

Thinking about it thoroughly, Fred smiled by the time they finally arrived at the second room, reaching the conclusion that Chrome was no longer an obstacle either way, especially since…

'I wonder if he can even pass the next test anyway…' Fred mused as he finally got it out of his head, as he felt totally free of worry…

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'This room seems to be much simpler…' Chrome thought as he took an overall look at the room.

The room was also completely metallic as the last one and also seemed to have similar dimensions, but instead of the bulky and different machines that filled the earlier room, this one was freer as it only had two… human-sized capsules.

The whole room contained nothing but the chairs at the side and the two capsules that were quite similar to the ones used for certain diagnostic scans in hospitals, which were connected to several thick wires from behind.

"The second test will be naturally, the 'Exos rating' test!" the aged man said as he looked at the students before he turned his head back towards the two capsules as he elaborated further, "Some of you must be already familiar with these capsules, but I will explain their procedure for all."

"These two are 'Exos Measuring Devices' which are naturally set to test one's natural Exos ratings, both capacity ones and production ones. As such, this test seems to be much more simple than the last one, but its marks are naturally set at much higher standards in comparison due to the nature of this examination as a whole…

"However, these capsules do show the actual result after one is tested inside of it, unlike the earlier tests, you all would be able to compare your results before the whole test is done, but the marks will naturally only be decided then." the aged man added...