Chapter 18

The girl whose name was Sophia walked towards the general and said out loud:

"Grandpa you must have made a mistake, you said I'm ranked second."

Since she was so close to general's microphone everybody could hear her complain and although some felt like she was arrogant, others felt like she was right: only a monster could beat another monster and these kind of monsters weren't common on planet Moryl in the first place so it was completely improbable to see two of them in the same year's examination.

She didn't look even a little bit embarrassed and instead looked at the general who she called grandpa while waiting for him to explain himself. The general looked at her coldly and then said:

"Walk in the ranks soldier !"

The girl snorted and then walked in the ranks as ordered, she obviously didn't like this situation but since she had been given an order she had to obey: she was a soldier after all. The general on the other hand didn't look back even once and continued his speech:

"Very well, before I announce the name of the first on the ranking I would like you all to see a little video."

Some knew what was coming while the examinees all felt curious, couldn't he announce the first on the ranking before showing the video ? What did this video have to do with the examination?

Two light green holographic screens rose from the ground and were displayed behind the general and his men, the same screen was displayed behind the examinees for everyone to be able to see and soon a video started rolling on the screen.

Twenty or so soldiers were fighting a grade two midnight cat, their attacks looked fantastic, sharp, precise but none of them could injure the cat.

Sophia who was obviously also looking at the video in a bad mood wondered why her grandfather decided to show this video now, she was impatient to find out what kind of person could beat her record, she had hunted day and night for seven days without stopping except for eating and other necessities, she hadn't even slept ! But someone had actually done better than her and she couldn't believe that.

"Do you need help?"

Soon a voice sounded from the screens and the camera turned to a relatively handsome young man, he had smart and determined dark eyes, long hair pushed behind his ears and a small smug smile on his face, he wasn't the type of person to attract attention in a crowd because of his looks but if you looked at him closely he was really handsome.

And even though his uniform was tattered all the examinees could still recognize it, was clear that he was wearing the same as them, he was also a first grade evolver and an examinee!

The people around Sam on the platform recognized him and looked at him weirdly, they weren't stupid: if the general was showing this video before announcing the first in the ranking it meant that it probably had something to do with him.

Next the camera turned back towards the midnight cat and everybody could see it wreaking havoc amongst the group of soldiers, in two seconds most of them were knocked out while some got killed by the midnight cat, the scene wasn't a pleasant one and some fragile souls, both guys and girls couldn't help but close their eyes, they were after all still teenagers with no battlefield experience yet and seeing someone dying like this was a first and definitely too much for them.

Soon the midnight cat jumped at the camera and some people really got frightened by the scene, since they had a first person point of view it was a lot more immersive and terrorizing, they felt like they were the one under the beast's attack.

"Let's do it, you hold it down while I take care of killing it."

Sam's voice sounded again and this time the camera turned towards Edward who only appeared as a dark silhouette at the ground, nobody was able to recognize him and they were soon surprised to see him weaving an enormous axe to the cat and sending it flying a few meters away! Even though the cat wasn't dangerously maimed by that attack it was still the first time the cat on the video was sent flying like this !

"Is he a grade two evolver ?"

"Maybe a grade three, the ones fighting the cat before must have all been grade two but they couldn't do this."

Everyone was curious about Edward's identity when they saw Sam with blazing legs jumping on the cat and giving it a blow to the shoulder, suddenly the people around Sam looked at him with round eyes, what was the background of this person ?

This proved once more the rarity of skills, it was said that to get a skill from a grade one beast the chances were as high as 0.0001 percent while it got higher as the beasts got stronger it was also extremely hard to hunt grade 5 beasts and higher.

So even though when killing a grade 6 beast you have ten percent chances of dropping a skill crystal there was no one on planet Moryl who could kill a grade 6 beast and very few people in the 872th Star system, it was said that there were grade 10 evolvers and more further in the galaxy but it wasn't sure since except the Uninet there were basically no proof of their existence but anything on the Uninet could be modified or faked so it wasn't a reliable source of information.

That was why a grade one skill could be sold for ten million galactic dollars for the weakest while a strong one could go for more than fifty million galactic dollars !

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The video kept rolling when suddenly everyone saw a bow appear in the camerawoman's hands and a light blue arrow appeared out of thin air, the arrow whistled as it cut through the air and nestled itself in the cat's right eye, everyone felt relieved as they thought this was the end but suddenly they heard Sam's voice:

"Let's run ! It's evolving !!"