Silvia Salvator

Ren looked around for a while and finally arrived at where the examination occurred. A big hall with many examinees like him gathers.

As he sat on one of the seats, he checked his stats.

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[Ren Miller]

Age: 12

Mana: 120/200 (???)

Talent: D-Grade Magic Talent (???)

Skill: Mana Manipulation lv.3, Mana Control Lv.4, Mana Absorb Lv.2 (???), Mana Sensing Lv. 2 (???), Magic Augmentation Lv.2.

Special Power: None.

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This is the result of all his training in the past week. After he limited his talent he's been seeing and absorbing less and less mana so he's focusing on control and manipulation. As for his mana, it was a pretty good amount, since just 10 points of mana are enough to make the first circle. He can only make up to the third circle because of his lack of experience and knowledge. So he wishes to learn more here.

Finally, after waiting for a while, a hunchback old man which apparently is the principal walked up to the stage and started talking about how great and proud this school is... well just the usual, nothing important.

"Well I can feel a feeling of restlessness by a lot of children, I guess all of you are impatient to start right?".

"Then we shall start immediately", As he said this the principal clapped his hand and suddenly all of the students including Ren appeared in a different place.

Surrounding them was lush trees. A humid place, seems like they are in the middle of a forest.

"Haha, surprised?", The principal was still in front of them as he laughed from their shock.

"This will be your test, in your wrist was a device that shows your information", As the principal said that, a bracelet appeared on all of the examinee's right wrist. Ren took a look and suddenly a small screen appeared in front of him. It was like his status screen but it was different.

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[Ren Miller]

Age: 12

Mana: 0

Talent: Talentless

Skill: None

Special Power: None.

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It was the one that he graduated on. There's a little extra on the bottom of the screen as well, it was showing his score on his test which is 100 for theories and 0 for practicals with a total score of 50. And he was very surprised that he was actually ranked at 90% out of 12 million students with just that. I guess there are still those that didn't even try.

"Don't worry, that is only the information that the Union gathered in their database, it's not your real status screen and your full information won't be shown there", The principal smiled.

"You might want to ask, what is this for? Well, in this test you will make a team of 5, it depends on yourself to create it of course but remember that your team composition is also included in the test score so you might want to make an optimal team with balanced warriors and mages"

"To make a team, you simply need to touch your bracelets with the other bracelets that you want to team up with, if you want to erase a person from your team list, simply go to the menu at the top of the screen and press 'team' there, you can delete a person from the list but it needs an anonymous decision from others on your team".

"Well then, here comes the real test. To complete the test, you will need to get out of this forest. Of course, it's not that easy, there will be a first to third-rank beast roaming around this forest. Your job would be to survive and leave the forest".

"The beast that you killed will give you test points and it will help with your ranking so it would be better to kill a lot".

"Ah, before I forgot, there's a single fourth-rank beast somewhere, if you find it, run. You won't be able to handle it and we won't save you either. Just like on the contract, when you agreed to apply to this school then your life is in our hands", The principal said with a serious expression.

"Well, good luck!", After saying that with a big smile on his face, the principal disappeared in front of us.

Suddenly it was quiet, and then.

"Waaaaah, I want to go home!".

"Me too, sob"

"Uhhh..."

There are different kinds of reactions, the first is fear and the second is.

"Hey, let's team up"

"Let's do this"

"Yeah!".

You can immediately see two sides that will partake in this test, those that will fail and those that survived. But there's also one special case.

"Hey, get off, if you want to team up with us then prove your worth", A handsome boy with ruffled golden hair stood in front of a beautiful silver-haired girl while facing a few students in front of them. The girl frowned but she didn't say anything.

Ren never met them but it seems from the fawning expression from the students around them, they are pretty strong or influential.

"Please pick me, I have C-grade magic talent".

"I have a B-grade Archery talent!"

"I have a C-grade swordsman talent"

"I have C-grade-"

There are many people with pretty good talent around them but the boy only took two with him. A girl with B-grade Archery talent and a boy with C-grade magic talent. Then he stopped and say

"We don't need any more fighters, is there anyone that has good knowledge of the beast and their weakness that can come forward!", if you heard him then you might think he was smart but Ren saw that it was the girl that told him to do so. Otherwise, the boy might be taking another C-rank fighter with him.

"Hey, brother, who are they and why are there so many people with good talent around them?", Ren asked one of the boys on the side.

"You don't know? did you just get out of the cave or something?".

"... yeah".

"Anyway, they are Matthew Brass and Silvia Salvator. Both of them are a person with A-grade talent. A genius! get me?", The boy said that with a proud expression, as if it was an honor of knowing them.

"Ah... yeah", But Ren's focus was not because of that. Salvator? isn't that the same family name as that examiner from the union, are they related?

"Not only that, they both are the child of an S-rank talent hunter! you get me?!".

"Ah, yeah thank you very much", Since Ren already got a good amount of information from him, it is safe to say that he can use them to complete the test.

"Wait, where are you going!?", The boy shouted as he look at Ren that went in the A-graded student's direction.

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'Is there really no one?', Silvia thought as she asked a question to a person. The person also can't answer.

Many of them said that they knew the beast and their weakness but none of them can't answer when she asked them. Even the lowest first-grade beast.

She already knew that this kind of test will happen but she didn't have time to study all of the beasts and their weaknesses so she thought of getting a person that knows about it on their team.

Then a voice appeared beside her.

"Um, can I try?", Silvia turned to her side and saw a boy. He looked average but his calm and confident eyes earn him a point from her.

"Sure, then what is the weakness of the 3 bladed mantes?".

"It's the neck, just separate its body and head"

"Flurry bat?"

"There's a black ball on its head, that's their life core".

"Shadow salamander?"

"It's an agile beast but as long there's not enough shadow around us it will be slowed down exponentially".

"Then one last question, what is the weakness of the Dark Unicorn?", As she asked this, she saw the boy tilting his head as he asked.

"Why do you want to know a fourth-ranked beast's weakness?"

"You knew?".

"Hm... I like reading you see", The boy nodded as he said.

"Then what is its weakness?"

"Well? why do you want to know? you want to kill it?".

"No, just a precaution".

"I see, well although the horn was the hardest part of its body, it is also where his life force came from, so just cut it and it will die immediately. Besides, the horn was too hard so it's pretty much impossible for us to do so".

"Well, I got it, so what's your name?", Silvia nodded, she also knew that it was impossible for them but she has a habit of preparing for the worst. She also recognizes his knowledge so she wants to accept him into the team.

"Ren, Ren Miller", The boy smiled as they shook hands.