Chapter 45 - Levels and Start of Proficiency Test
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After me and the two ladies finished lunch in the next room and returned to the hall, we noticed that the hall had become even filled than before.
We saw some strangers who weren't there before. But then we realized that they were other visitors who had come because they were interested and curious about me.
Seeing the three of us who had just entered the room, those people also looked at us with various expressions between curiosity, doubt, confusion, and the like.
I felt a bit uncomfortable being stared at by so many people, but I kept my normal attitude and calmly walked over to Mephisto-jiisama. And when I got in front of him, I said,
"Mephisto-jiisama, I will return to the exam room."
Mephisto-jiisama gave a small nod.
"Aye. Good luck."
Sakuya-san also wished me well.
"Rey-sama, may fortune be with you."
Kulshedra-san also joins in saying,
"Don't forget to summon me later."
I nod at them.
"Nn."
After that, I walked out of the hall and returned to the exam room.
Previously, the examiner, Roygun Belphegor, told me that the proficiency test would be conducted in a special area. But I was asked to go back to the exam room and then she would take me there.
After I sat waiting for about fifteen minutes, Lady Belphegor returned.
She then said to me,
"Alright Rofocale-kun. Now it's time for your ability test.... Please come forward. The place for your ability test is inside a special barrier, so I'll use teleportation magic to bring us there."
Using teleportation magic? Hmm.... I wonder what it feels like because this is my first time. In a conscious state actually. Because when I was brought by Mephisto-jiisama to Governor Azazel's lab, I was in a coma due to being badly injured.
I nodded, stood up, and came before Lady Belphegor.
After that, she stretched out one hand and then I saw a magic circle appear on the floor.
"Get ready.... Close your eyes."
Hearing that, I closed my eyes.
Before long, I felt something strange. It's as if I'm floating in the sky but also as if I'm floating in the sea. It was very uncomfortable and made my head feel dizzy and groggy. But luckily I was able to endure it…. Because compared to that weird feeling, getting hit by Scathach-sama during sparring was still worse. Yeah, much worse.
"You can open your eyes."
Hearing Lady Belphegor's words, I opened my eyes.
And then, I saw that we were currently in some sort of.... Gladiator Arena? Colosseum? That was my first impression when observing this place.... And we were at the edge of the arena where in front of us was some kind of device, and on the walls around the arena there were some kind of CCTV cameras every ten meters.
"Are you ready for your ability test?"
I nodded firmly at the question.
"Yes."
"Fufufu. Good.... First of all, we will measure your Demonic Power level.... Please stand in front of this device."
Roygun-san pointed at a device that looked like a van de Graff generator but was also connected to an LCD monitor that displayed my information data such as portrait photo, name, place & date of birth, clan, and such, along with a graphical diagram with parameters still at 0.
"Place your hand on this sphere and then exert your Demonic Power as hard as you can.... That's it."
"Huh? That's it?"
I was a bit surprised because it was actually that simple to measure my level of Demonic Power?
Lady Belphegor then chuckled.
"Fufufu. Quite simple indeed.... This is a device for measuring the level of Demonic Power. Demon Lord Ajuka Beelzebub made it.... Actually a device for measuring Demonic Power has existed since the time of the first generation of devils. But this device is the latest version developed by Ajuka-sama. And the CCTV camera-like devices that surround the arena are actually advanced magical sensors to measure the approximate parameters of abilities level of a person after observed in battle.... And the common level of measurement which is Low-Middle-High-Ultimate, by Ajuka-sama divided into more specific based on the numerical level between 1-99. Low-class= Lv.1-19; Middle-class= Lv.20-39; High-class= Lv.40-59; Ultimate-class = Lv.60-79; and the advance level is Transcendent-class = Lv.80-99."
"I see."
I was quite impressed after hearing Lady Belphegor's lengthy explanation.
But I'm not that surprised. After all, I've often heard that Ajuka-sama is a genius and very creative. So it wouldn't be strange if he could come up with innovations like that…. And the more I heard about that, the more I felt he was very similar to Governor Azazel. At least in terms of creativity.
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"Okay. You can start."
Roygun-san allowed me and I gave a small nod.
Then, I put my right hand on the sphere and then exerted my Demonic Power.
Then, from my hand a purple-black flame-like energy appeared which then engulfed the sphere on the device.
After a while, the sphere seemed to vibrate and then a *ting sound was heard repeatedly and from the monitor you could see a graph of the Demonic Power parameter which was originally 0 started to increase rapidly!
0, 10, 20, 30, ....
After crossing the 35 mark the increase starts to slow down.
35, 40, 45, 50, 53, 56, ....
And after passing the 60 mark, it's increase only Level by Level.
60, 61, 62, 63, ....
Until finally, the parameter chart actually stopped rising.
"Level 67?"
The Demonic Power parameter chart stopped at Level 67.
"This.... I've heard that your current level of Demonic Power is already at the Ultimate-class, but I didn't expect it to be this high."
Lady Belphegor looked slightly dumbfounded as if in disbelief seeing the [67] number on the parameter chart.
"67 is considered high?"
I asked somewhat surprised and doubtful.
And Lady Belphegor then looked at me rather sharply.
"Don't underestimate this, Rofocale-kun. This is Ultimate-class level.... Do you know how many Devils with Ultimate-class Demonic Powers are known at current time?"
I shook my head at the question.
Roygun-san then gave her answer.
"No more than fifty. And that's only from all of the alive Devils in this time. But even out of those less than fifty, most of them are below Lv.65 and those above Lv.70 are just a few. So your Lv.67 is quite high considering you're still this young.... Even, it wouldn't be surprising if you could reach the Satan-class level one day."
Roygun-san said the last sentence with a sharp tone and gaze.
Satan-class. I found out about that from the lesson I got from Grayfia-san. Satan-class is sort of a sub-rank categorized for Lv.75 and above. It was the level of both the old and present Devil Kings.
Even so, I didn't think that among the current Devils whose Demonic Power reached the Ultimate-class is no more than fifty people. I'm sure they are great and high-status people.
As for the Satan-class, I heard that aside from the Devil Kings and some old generation devils like Mephisto-jiisama, there are currently only a few people who are said to be of this level.... One of them is this examiner of mine.
"What about you? What level are you, Lady Belphegor?"
I asked curiously.
I know she is at the Ultimate-class level, and it is said that she is also at Satan-class level, but to what level exactly I don't know.
"Just call me Roygun.... As for my level.... Ufufu, what do you think?"
Roygun-san smiled widely and touched her index finger to her cheek as if she's teasing me.
And I'm just sighed deeply at that.
"Hah~.... Forget it."
Now I'm sure she's indeed at the Satan-class level!
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