433 Aptitude Exams End (1/2)

Inside the room where the people from Ancient Elysium Sect and the two Empyrean Knights of Azure Sun Great World was watching the trials. The two elders that Henry brought with him were still arguing with each other using voice transmission.

They were mostly betting on whether a certain participant they are observing will pass the exams or not.

As Elders of the Ancient Elysium Sect and the ones who also participated in creating the trials, they of course knew the criteria of passing.

The Test of Courage is something that was created by another elder on the sect, Test of Knowledge and Test of Will is created by these two. In order to move on to the next part of the exams, a participant has to pass at least two out of three tests in the Aptitude Tests before they could move on to the second part of the exams which is the Smelting Trial.

Though these elders had strange personalities, it doesn't change the fact that they are Elders from Ancient Elysium Sect. This is not the first time that they participated in the recruitment so they understand how to gauge an individual's chances of passing.

Most of the people they were observing failed, which made them disappointed. Just like what the Empyreans and Henry discussed earlier, the performance of juniors are getting worse as time goes by. Even though the difficulty of the exams had been lowered by the sect already, they were still struggling to pass.

'If this continues, then no matter how many disciples we brought back to the sect, aren't they going to end up as a waste of space and resources?' The elder with numerous moles on his face and a bulbous nose spoke to the other elder.

'You toad, don't be a jinx!' The elder with a long grey beard glared at the Toad Elder. 'We both know that the sect isn't lacking neither space nor resources. What we lack is disciples.'

'But we can't bring back useless brats since they'll be bound to kicked out anyway!' Elder Toad frankly commented.

'This…' The elder with a gray beard unconsciously said.

'See? Ain't I right again? A pity, a pity! We've prepared some goodies for the brats today but it seems that none of them would be able to get their hands on it. Say? You think we can keep the prizes instead? I kinda lacking some spirit stones lately.'

'Shut you trap and look at the guy who passed the Test of Knowledge earlier!'

'Oh? What's up? Let me see...' Elder Toad squinted his eyes and gazed at the table. His eyes were then focused on a guy with an aqua-marine colored hair who exhibiting a feral killing intent and is currently surrounded a gray shroud.

Elder Toad's face changed his eyes help surprise. All the playfulness on his face were now gone and was replaced by rare expression of solemnity.

'Quasi-Slaughter Intent. What do you think Graybeard? Shall we inform Young Lord about him?' Elder Toad asked.

Elder Toad and Elder Graybeard then turned silent after that. Instead, they silently observed the other participants. They were hoping that someone else will give them another huge surprise as well.

***

As soon as world around Raven shattered, he similarly woke up from the special state that he's in as well.

Out of nowhere, he was surprised to figure out that he's releasing a very aggressive and dense killing intent. A frown surface on his face, and with the addition of the ferocious expression on his face, Raven looked like he lost his composure and is prepared to tear down anyone who will try to cross him at any given moment now.

Raven stopped paying attention to his surroundings and focused on inspecting his body. During his first inspection his frown deepened since he didn't see anything that caused his killing intent to surface. And even though he's releasing a very aggressive aura right now, his mind was actually exceptionally clear.

He also managed to see the shroud covering his body, he was surprised at first but he noticed that this shroud wasn't anything harmless at all, in fact it was hardly visibly due to him also wearing black colored robes. If anything, it just caused his body to look like he was covered in some sort of a visage.

He then sank his perception inside his core and as soon as he did that, he finally managed to discover what happened to him.

'The energy of slaughter.' Raven murmured inwardly, 'Slaughter Intent? No, it should be a quasi one. But how though?'

He thought for a bit and his eyes began shining. 'It's probably due to how much people I've killed. How many did I kill anyway? I don't remember. But I guess have this now. Well, I'll foster it. After all, not everyone manages to condense something like this.'

Due to the special state he was in, most of his actions within the Test of Will was like a blur to him. He can't recall how many people he killed or how many times he was revived. All he could remember was constantly perfecting his fist arts and that he killed many people. Because of that, he didn't even notice that he experienced some sort of change.