Second test, start!

"The next test will be in 1 day!".

The examiner said six hours ago.

Now Noah was on top of the pillar while training with his saber again, waiting for the day to pass. He felt with very energy since he ate, and it seemed not to end so soon so he took the opportunity to spend training. When the first test started he was wondering where the other competitors were, because since arriving on the island, he had only seen those who came on the ship with him, but all these doubts were answered throughout the day.

The pillar was very large, so when he arrived, he only had a vision of one end of it, which was the same at which he had climbed. During the day, from all sides of the pillar, people came up he had never seen on the ship.

Some people who were with him on the boat also managed to get along to the top of the pilar, but for some reason they didn't want to get close to Noah. They had no proof that Noah actually killed the men or how he did, given that he was only 8 years old.

Even if it's of course he did it, who would believe that an eight-year-old killed a grown man in no time? And yet, they had no information about how he did it, and since they weren't dumb, if he did it, he'd probably have enough power to kill everyone there.

They weren't suicidal and didn't want to have the same ending, so they kept quiet. Since there were no rules about not killing, there would be nothing to complain about either, so everyone was quiet and kept their distance from the little boy.

Which was a very comic vision for others who were not part of that group. For them, men were afraid of a little boy playing with a sword. Although their techniques are quite refined.

Even after looking at the badge on his chest showing the number 001, they imagined that it was pure luck for him to get there. Well, you can't blame them, anyone in your shoes would think the same thing if didn't have information.

But as stupid as they were, they knew there was probably a reason they were avoiding him, and they assumed that maybe the person behind that kid would be someone important, it would also explain his 'luck' in getting there first. So no one approached him.

Noah, who was oblivious to all these thoughts, continued his training. His reiatsu had already grown a lot, and his body was strengthened as a consequence. He felt that his Sonido cross distances of up to 50 meters without difficulty. Which was a big advance, from 20 meters to 50 meters in just one day.

His senses also increased greatly with this, and he could have an estimate of the amount of people who were on top of the pillar, despite being approximate numbers, because most were blurry and it was difficult to say for sure.

But he could claim that on average, there were about 250 people there. Which was a relatively large amount for the size of the pillar. Although the pillar was extremely large, the space was not really noteworthy, so the space was only enough to give a personal space to each of the 250 candidates there.

By that time, 12 hours had passed. He was still focusing on training his saber while trying to implement some more training of swords and katanas together. His blows seemed cleaner and cleaner, which made him wonder what he would look like in the future when he turned on his death eyes, or if he used his tails to help him cut.

He was sure he had improved the way their tails moved along with the swords techniques, since it wasn't that different. In fact, it was even easier with the tails, as they were actually an over-body part.

As he trained and waited for time to pass, he looked around sometimes when he stopped to drink water from his bottle for example.

And in one of those looks, he saw some people he hadn't seen in the anime. The ones who caught the most attention were an average man with blue hair and a girl with pink hair with scrunchies and in a dress full of frills.

They looked like the two best there, but they are still paled in comparison to Noah. Well, that's if you don't count on Nen, because Noah doesn't know how to identify Nen from other people yet, so I didn't know if they were proficient or not.

But he was confident that even if they were Nen's friends, he would win, even if with difficulty.

Returning to training, he paid no further attention, while for a few more hours his sword cut the wind a few more times.

...

23 hours had passed, only one hour before the test began, and had already arrived all the remaining participants, there were about 275 participants in total, he know that because he have seen that the higher number that he seen on the badge was 275.

Niac had already left, only leaving the examiner of this stage in place, who was still with his cup and took a few sips from time to time.

*Beep beep*

The examiner's clock beeped, signaling the beginning of the stage.

"Attention everyone, gather here in the corner where I am." He said, while stood at one end of the pillar. "The test will begin, watch out for the rules." Hearing this, everyone gathered near the place where he was.

The examiner didn't say anything else while he was taking a control from his pocket. The control was single-button, and when it tightened, the pillar began to shake slightly, when its ends began to take shape and form a square...

'How the hell does this place work?' Noah can't help but think. 'Is it possible to do something like that with nen? Remodel metal?' He pondered, perhaps it might be possible, considering Nen's nature, but wouldn't anyone who could do that be even stronger than Netero?!

Apart from that out of his head, he looked back at the examiner.

"The test now is simple..." He said, as part of the pillar in front of him opened, showing a platform a little further down. "You're going to have to go down the whole pillar from the inside. Whoever kills or dies will be disqualified." As he spoke the last part, he opened one of his eyes a lil and glanced at Noah.

'...' Noah thanked for not having that rule in the last test, if not he would have failed at the same time.

"The test begins in... 3... 2... 1... Now!" The examiner spoke, but no one moved, they didn't know what was down there.

No one except Noah, the pink-haired girl and the blue-haired man. They went down regardless, as they stopped on the platform and looked around. What they saw was a way to the other side. The path was made of cylindrical platforms that were 2 meters away from each.

Noah looked down only to see that there were thorns in case anyone fell off the platform.

'Is that it? No... It can't be just that.' He thought, while he was the first to jump on the first platform. As soon as he arrived, 5 arrows on each side were on top of him, the arrows were going too fast, catching him unforeseeable, causing him to jump to the next plataform to deflect.

As soon as he came out of that plataform, the plataform began to go inside the ground, and when he touched his feet on the next, five more arrows came from each side.

"I forgot to say, if it comes out of a pillar, it will come down and will not be up for another two hours! Good luck, kekeke" The examiner said, outside.

Noah heard this and clenched teeth as he jumped to dodge the arrows, but as soon as he looked down, he saw the pillar retract to the ground just like the other. Not giving him time to care, from the ceiling came three more arrows aiming at him.

"Tsc-" He popped his tongue while lifting the saber and using it as a shield for the arrows, which were aligned. Managing to do this, he straightened up in the air to fall on the right platform in front of him.

Managing to fall, he spun on the same place, while the arrows fired at full speed at him again, but he used a small amount of reiatsu as a shield for the arrows, which ricocheted in his body and lost power, falling to the ground.

'I can't do much more of that, now they may think it was with the saber, but if I abuse this...' He thought, realizing the looks of all that they were no better than him.

Some had already fallen and even died. Some were doing very well, but the best besides Noah were those two. The girl seemed to dance while dodging the arrows while the man was holding his hands with a kind of glove, and with every move, the arrows produced sparks as they crashed into his gloves.

'Looks like we've got some skilled ones here...' He thought, as he jumped onto the next platform at high speed.