Finnaly on the top!

Stretching, he prepared to keep climbing.

It had been an hour since he was there. He wanted to finish this test before anyone else. Everyone was in their respective holes and they didn't see him leave.

He no longer had his tails on display, while used Sonido and appeared 20 meters higher, holding on to the pillar while jumping from platform to platform.

Each jumping distance exceeded 2 meters, while he showed almost perfect balance. His eyes once again looked down, only to see that the ground was even farther away.

He didn't feel cold in his belly that he would normally feel being at that time, and without thinking too much about it, he kept climbing. From platform to platform, he was having fun as he climbed that spot.

Having fun to the point that he even forgot the slaughter he had just done and the room he painted of red a short time ago. As if it wasn't with him, he was climbing the place with a smile on his face.

Feeling the wind blowing harder because of the height, he breathed the air whose oxygen was no longer so abundant. A few minutes passed, until he looked down again, only to see the ground at a glance, while it was covered by the various clouds.

Looking back up, he can see he was almost on top. He was very high, but he didn't care about it as he kept climbing. His speed of scale exceeded any ordinary person who was competing with him.

And it might be even better if he flew, but it wasn't like he didn't want to do it. There were three reasons why he wouldn't.

1 – He had already shown that he could use Sonido even without using Nen, which looked like a teleport.

2 – He had no control over Nen, and did not want to generate any more suspicions.

And 3 - He... he can't do it. He had tried to fly once, but the lack of reiatsu took him by surprise. He did not know that he needed reiatsu to fly, since many of the characters did not show reiatsu spending in the anime.

But then he made a theory. The flight may not spend reiatsu, but require a specific amount of reiatsu to work. It didn't make sense, but that's what he could think at the time... Maybe some restriction god made to get him to move forward little by little.

What about not using Garganta to go upstairs? Simple, he couldn't either. The Garganta was a portal that connected him with limbo, where there was no concept of time, making his teleport instantaneous.

How much Reiatsu did that spend? It was bigger than he could count. Despite being the same amount independent of distance, the amount was too large for him for now. Despite the increased strength.

After eating the second body, he could feel that his Rc reserves increased greatly. Now he could use 3 tails and each 6(20 feets) meters long.

Although the size did not fold as before, they still doubled in efficiency. Getting much faster and stronger. His regeneration he hasn't had a chance to test yet, but he knew he probably wouldn't have trouble regenerating a small limb like a finger in a few seconds.

*Queeeak*

A scream took him out of his thoughts, when he, by instinct, used Sonido to the side, distancing himself by 5 meters from the local he was, when a giant hawk flung its claws into the pillar.

Their claws entered without difficulty, as if they were piercing flesh, while lefting sparks everywhere.

Removing his claws from there, the hawk stood at Noah's height, as he looked at him directly.

Flying again to Noah, this time even faster, barely giving reaction time for Noah to use Sonido and appear on a platform above where he was, while the bird passed straight through and made the wind momentarily unbalance Noah.

Noah then quickly picked up his saber while taking on a fighting position.

'Shit, I'm at a disadvantage, I can't fly yet...' He thought, as he pointed the saber with one hand at the bird, that he had already stood still and was turning to him.

The hawk once again shot himself against him, with his sharp claws showing off.

Noah fixed his saber in his hand, holding him strong.

The hawk arrived at him aiming at his claws, but Noah turned a little sideways while using his saber that crashed into the membrane between the falcon's fingers, avoiding the claw.

The shock of his saber against the membrane produced sparks, showing how hard the hawk's skin was.

Seemed like steel shocking against steel.

Noah seeing that he could not cut the falcon, bent down while removing force from his saber, causing the falcon to continue the path once more.

The falcon passed straight, after a while stopped and prepared for the third time going, but this time...

'I want to see if I can't cut you now.' Noah thought, when his eyes began to glow red.

Looking at the hawk, a few lines appeared in his vision.

One on the neck, one on the paw, one in the middle of the belly, another at heart height, and several smaller ones in places like fingers.

The hawk didn't seem to mind when he threw himself against Noah, aiming his head with his paw.

Noah positioned himself again while focusing on the line at the beginning of the falcon's leg.

As soon as the hawk was going to bump his paw into Noah's chest, Noah disappeared from his spot and appeared in front of where he was aiming as he passed his saber across the line.

As soon as the saber completely crossed the line, the entire leg of the falcon was separated from his body in a clean cut. The skin as hard as steel meant nothing in front of those eyes.

The falcon was still in its advance and had no time to stop as it went forward at full speed and felt the pain of having his leg ripped off.

*Creaaaak*

The hawk cried with his leg cut off when he finally managed to stop in the air.

He looked at Noah with hate, only to find Noah's eyes looking directly at him. The hawk seemed to want to pull back a step by looking into Noah's eyes. His instincts screamed for him to get out of there, his impending death was looking away at him.

But before the hawk could think about leaving...

-Sonido-

Noah disappeared from where he was and appeared next to the bird's head, while his saber traced the line he saw over his neck.

With a quick movement, he held the hawk's head by the feathers of his head, while a cut appeared on the neck of it, causing blood to gush everywhere and the falcon's body falling from that height.

Due to the height, the body seemed to take time to fall, while Noah was still holding the hawk's head and looking at where the body fell.

'Looks like I won't be able to eat chicken stew today...' He thought, as he looked with disappointment.

He was already on top of one of the platforms, given that the whole fight took place next to the pillar. Noah then turned to the head of the hawk, who was still with his eyes open. He can't help but think of the man who died with his eyes in a similar way.

His head dripped blood from where his neck should be, but all the blood fell from height and was carried away by the strong wind.

'Well, I think I'll take it as a trophy.' He thought as he continued to climb, this time a little faster. He didn't want another one of that falcon. One was enough.

Although it would be a good workout for him with saber, but he was in a place where he could not afford to use only the saber.

Turning his head up, he can see that he was almost at the top, seemed to be missing only a few meters.

Rising rapidly, he soon reached the top.

There were two people sitting at a table that was on the top of the pillar, each with a cup and seemed to be talking and enjoying the wind breeze.

"Oh, the first one's finnaly here?" One of them, who was examiner Niac, spoke as he turned just to see Noah. He soon remembered the body dumped that appeared to have been mutilated. And seeing that Noah's clothes still had blood, he imagined that what he had thought was right.

'Killing someone effortlessly... And besides...' He thought, only to look at what Noah was holding. The head of one of the island's falcons. 'This kid is scary... Even some people with Nen can't afford to come out of a fight against these monsters alive, especially in such an environment.' He continued, as he thought about how Noah managed to fight in such a precarious environment as he climbed the pillar.

The other examiner also wore a suit, but his hair was orange and his eyes were closed. Making Noah wonder how he can see anything...

He took another sip of his cup and looked at Noah.

"What a surprise... The first to arrive here is an 8-year-old..." He said out loud while throwing a circular badge with the number 001 on it to Noah, who held this.

"The next exam will be in..."

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