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Next, Garen used the same paper box tactic and his extreme reflexes, he managed to completely stall his six remaining opponents into submission via the effects of his frost radiation. If not for the ruling that they had to finish the battle within a fixed amount of time, he wouldn't have been so successful.

After successfully winning his 10 matches, Garen decided to quit while he was ahead, so he voluntarily leaped off the stage. This shameless act shocked not just the judge, but also the two men in white uniform.

At the end of the day, Garen only managed to show his extreme reflexes and his ability to release frost radiation, with literally nothing else.

The schedule then quickly progressed to the second phase, the test for their appraisal limits.

Garen barely passed it. The Ice Rainbow Sect's requirements were not that high, Garen's modification of the traditional Frost Radiation showed that he had a certain degree of modification and combat prowess. Thus, even though his appraisal limits were not that high, he was still given a pass.

Looking through the results slip of the test, Garen saw the stats for his bottleneck limit stated clearly at the very top.

”Bottleneck is Level 5, that's not too bad…” Bottlenecks represent the maximum Level one can manage to achieve, just that the amount of time needed in the later levels would be much longer. ”50 years…” Garen was speechless.

This estimates shows that in theory, he could reach the level of a Level 5 energy machinists, but that would require at least 50 years of continuous hard work.

However, the most important part was that he successfully passed the test. A few of the Level 4 limit participants had been rejected. Garen learned that even though he barely made the cut, his quality as an energy machinist still wasn't as bad as he originally expected.

The final combined selection test was also a fluke. The others were having awesome battles, but only Garen was holding onto his paper box and being a one-trick pony. The opponents were all extremely wary of him and chose to avoid him as a whole. After all, there was no need to actually, since the rankings were based off win counts. Thus Garen got past the test easily once again.

Furthermore, he did not break any rules, the paper box he was using was completely built by himself, so it abides by the competition regulations.

In the end, there were a few people attempting to imitate his tactics, but they were easily defeated. This showed them that this type of tactic was not something anyone can pull off, it required an inhuman reaction speed and reflexes.

Out of the final five that passed, Garen was one that was being despised by the others.

Every batch would have around three to five passing participants, Garen was seen as the worst performing person in this group.

After several hours, all of the candidates have been confirmed. From a total of five batches, there was a total of twenty people.

There were three Level 4s ranked at the very front. Surprisingly, the hummingbird user Garen had seen earlier was one of them. However, it was understandable, since the Ice Rainbow Sect is one of the strongest sects outside the Big Three Sects. For him to choose this sect was no surprise at all.

”Howmet, look at this…” The judge saw that the numbers were almost enough, so he softly asked at the direction of one of the white uniformed man.

The white uniformed man slowly floated up and landed on the stage, looking down at the passing candidates.

”These ones should do,” he reached out and grabbed a short dark golden cane from his sleeves and lightly waved it around. The tip of the cane suddenly shot out a white light, as if a peacock spreading its feathers it turned into countless light spots, slowly falling onto everyone below.

”Grounded Prison, Command, Aiz!” He roared in a low voice.

Immediately, the light spots on the bodies of the candidates started to lightly vibrate.

They started to shoot out both weak and strong pillars of light, pointed at the sky.

These light pillars could go up to 2 meters in height, with the shortest barely reaching the top of their heads. With the uneven heights, it looked like a white light pole behind their backs when looked from afar.

Garen's back also had a pillar of light, it wasn't too tall or too short, it was in the middle amongst all of these pillars.

The white uniformed man pulled back his hand and slowly flew above all of the candidates. Everyone that his sight scanned started to feel shivers down their spine. The sharp gaze of those two eyes felt like a knife cutting through your skin, making the person ache.

”Nilo, these people, are there too many of them?” The other white uniformed man flew past and said softly. The two bodies were emitting a strong inheriting level energy field as if it was nothing, forcing everyone's head downwards.

”It does seem like we have too many.” The white uniformed man Nilo nodded his head and frowned. His gaze landed on Garen. ”This person…”

”His performance was decent, although he made use of some exploits, his reflexes are extraordinary. In addition to that, he seemed to have made great self-modifications, adapting the radiation and halo-type energies. I'd say that he's fine,” the judge's voice rang from below.

Nilo nodded.

”You, you and you!”

He simply pointed towards three others, they were the three people with the worst performance other than Garen. ”You may leave. Your ranks are too low, you've been eliminated!”

Instantly, the faces of the three candidates changed drastically. It was two white-collar-looking men and a model student-looking girl and after they got called out, their faces looked horrible.

”On what basis!!?” One of the white-collar guys interrupted out loud. ”Our performance wasn't the worst! On what basis do you want us to leave!” He purposely increased the volume of his voice to cause a commotion.

”On what basis?” Nilo laughed coldly, ”When I tell you to leave, you will leave! On the basis of me, Nilo's, authority as the supervisor's disciple!”

Garen looked coldly from the sides. He was indeed not a match for these people, but after he had experienced their attacks, wanting to beat these people would not be a difficult task. After all, the difference in strength was not that big. The only thing was that a lot of people would dismiss his skills as nothing but fancy flourishes.