Combat Assessment

I look at the man on the other side of the arena, the intensity slowly building between the two of us. The magic timer counts down closer to the start of the match, I start to circulate my Life Vision to see if I can find weak points. I see a lot of weak points from his many injuries in his years as a fighter. Then I start to channel ice and lightning through my body, and lightning and scythe energy into my scythe. I finish up my preparations by activating lightning element Quick Steps. Finally the timer hits zero as both of us dash toward each other.

I'm able to see all his old injuries and that is where I am, while not compromising on my techniques. His experience easily allowed him to block the attack with his broadsword. We both smile as we find someone who we can go all out with. I can tell I would definitely die in a real fight though, he's not using strengthening skills.

"Finally, it looks like I found an opponent, even if you're holding back! I would love to get your name, what is it?" Even though I could easily get his name, out of curtesy I don't and ask instead.

"Hahaha, I go by Zashan, I haven't met a new recruit who could match my first strike in a long time. I can't wait to see what else you've got to show me."

After a few testing blows, I figured it would be neat to focus on agility not speed. So I switched Quick Steps to the ice element, as well as my scythe attacks. This has less power than lightning, but there is a corrosive effect to it.

"Energy Sever- Ice," I mumble to myself as I activate the skill, sending an arc of ice and scythe energy towards Zashan.

"Interesting, I've never met someone who can externalize weapon energy so young!" He said this with a hint of praise in his voice to me.

"What can I say, I guess I'm a little special then," I said with unnoticeable meanings unless he knew my skills.

As he closes in we continue, I put myself on the defensive looking for openings. I know I can't do this for much longer, as I'm almost out of mana. I activate Severing Blade and push ice, lightning and scythe energy in to the max. This was a much more powerful attack than I expected.

Zashan feeling a sense of danger quickly activated all his defensive skills, bringing up his sword to block the attack. As he blocked the attack the power pushed him back almost ten yards away.

Hiding the shock that final attack, Zashan announced the en of the assessment. "Okay, I think that's good enough for the assessment. You most certainly passed, although the highest adventurer grade I can give you without approval from the capitol is C+ grade. I look forward to the waves you're going to make in Eazelyn continent." (A.N. Hurrah for name generators!!!)

*Due to user pushing the use of energy and elements far past their limit, said limit has been released. Lightning and Ice Affinities have leveled up twice, and Scythe Energy once.

Basic Lightning Affinity 4

Basic Ice Affinity 4

Basic Scythe Energy 2

As he said this I'm starting to regret that last attack I did, but excited that I was able to push my skills to new heights. Now that my mana is so low I feel a severe migraine pounding in my head. Although terrible I'm still able to stabilize my body and walk toward Zashan.

"That kinda sucks, but it shouldn't be to hard to get it up, so don't worry about that. I was a bit curious though just who are you in the guild, someone of your strength should be pretty high up?"

As he laughed in a way as if he'd been caught he said, "You got me, I'm actually the guild leader of this branch, Guild Leader Zashan. When I saw your application paper I thought I'd seen wrong but after looking again I wanted to do your test."

I gave him an awkward smile while I said, "I didn't expect to get so much attention. It's a little embarrassing."

"Don't worry I'll keep everything quiet so you don't get any more attention than starting at C+. You're an official adventurer now though, if you wait half an hour it should be ready, in the meantime you should go collect your bounty."

"Thank you so much for your consideration, I'm glad to be under your leadership." As I said this we left the arena I went to the bounty counter to see if everything was ready.