Chapter 3: The Unexpected

Derrick took a closer look at the new character that just appeared. Admund was a tall guy, his whole body was shrouded by an unknown dark smoke that seemed alive and moving. His hand was holding his fedora in the motion to put it back on while revealing a creepy smile. Beneath the fluttering dark smoke of a cape, revealed the presence of a neat gentlemanly suit, that if worn without the menacing smoke covering him would at least improve the villainous image he was representing.

While he was analysing Admund, a strange though hit his mind. He felt odd, the feeling of someone watching him grew,Derrick tried finding the source of the queer feeling before his attention was brought back to Admund. Just as he was analysing the other party Admund had done the same, Derrick realised the source of the strangeness and now that he knew where the source came from his uneasiness had settled before completely ignoring it. He felt that it was completely normal for Admund to examine the new entrants this year. Interrupting the buzz in the crowd a snapping sound could be heard, it was Admunds doing he had snapped his finger.

"1st stage" Admund declared.

Just then the loud crowd turned completely silent. Even Derrick wasn't able to exercise his mind freely, a heavy pressure started to slowly grow on his body. The snap followed a pressure intensifying on the entrants. Derrick felt that he was becoming heavy and his weight was gradually increasing . It was gravity related ability activated by Admund ,but knowing this didn't change the situation of anyone facing the increased gravity. They had to bear it until who knew when. Although, Derrick felt the pressure on his body he could still handle it, it was nothing beyond his physical capabilities. In fact he was more or less relaxed relatively compared to some of the other entrants who were sweating with a contorted face, while some were almost swaying from exhaustion ready to faint at any moment.

Derrick felt smug knowing the pressure wasn't challenging at all and before his confidence had blasted through the roof ,the slowly increasing pressure began to rise at a ridiculous rate. The gravity which was a slightly strong doubled, tripled, quadrupled before stopping at 5 times the normal gravity. Derrick was sweating buckets, even though his body wasn't experiencing any severe strain his mind almost blacked out when the gravity had increased fivefold. The pressure on both his mind and body eventually eased before gaining his senses back. In contrary, Derrick noticed the majority of the entrance were drowning in their own pool of sweat passed out, while only 30 remained standing with great difficulty and out of which were a few with conditions more of less similar to Derrick who had a much easier time enduring the pressure than the majority. It was to be expected Dereick was a half Dragon, he had the blood and gene of dragon in him although he looked human. All the entrants include different races.

Earth although a multi raced planet had far less individuals that had actual strength, and the strongest races didn't stay in the planet. Even if strong individuals existed it was nothing in comparision to the strongest individuals of other planets and races. Moreover the superpower who had existed on this planet had all moved to the higher dimension.

After Derrick stood observing the situation he felt elated, he was riding on a complex set of emotions. After he had to go through the unexpected test and the trouble of enduring an annoying pressure which had exerted him a lot, his mood became sour but now that he could see through the veil covering the the body of the female entrants and of course different races, revealing the voluptuous body fats ,seeing this scene had eliminated the the gloomy atmosphere surrounding him. The female entrants had started to remove their blazers which were all soaked leaving only the white wet translucent shirt. The real treats to his eyes were those who decided to wear gym clothes and revealing casuals, their singled layered clothes sticking to their bodies making the curves and bulges more prominent. These scenes had improved his mood almost unleashing his inner beast and again before his mood could hit the high ceilings a though poped up in his mind and realised that the test just now was not something he signed up for. He didn't actually know what the tests were going to be but he did have a vague idea it was something related to the department of choice the entrants registered for.

'SNAP'

With a snap all the entrants were revitalised to full health. Everyone noticed that the circular area was glowing green which was actually the cause that had been restoring them full health. Derrick recognised that it was a plasma-tech but didn't actually know what it was. As all of them had been restored to full health the chatters had begun. The entrants also started to notice how unexpected the type of test they were given, they had the same thoughts as Derrick.

With a creepy smile, showing a calm and completely normal expression, expecting these reaction from the crowd he snapped again.

"Silence" but this time there was no abilities or any effects that followed after the snap, only a word came out of Admund. Then he continued" the first stage of the test has ended, the thirty of you who withstood the gravity and still managed to remain standing will advance to the 2nd stage while the rest has failed the 1st stage. The majority of you have failed but you guys will be transported to a different dimension giving you guys the chance to participate in a different test and by passing the test you guys can still enter the inner circle by choosing a specific department and those who have failed will still be eligible to enter the outer circle. While The first stage which all of you find unexpected is something the academy had developed to skim out entrants with abnormal physical capabilities . So these 30 who has passed the 1st stage will not be allowed to choose a department beside the sub classes within the combat department."

'Wait a minute wtf' was the exact thought rampaging Derricks mind in reaction to Admunds instruction. His dreams shattered before it even began, he was not even allowed to choose the department he wanted to enter let alone making bikini battle suits, his dreams to make erotic battle bras and panties went down the gutter. Derrick was fuming but he couldn't do anything, apparently he wasn't someone capable of slapping that villainous looking gatekeeper but he swore one day he would drag him with only a bikini on.

While Derrick was exercising delusions of beating the hell out Admund, another snap sounded. The place where the failed entrants stood started to grow wrapping them in bright light before disappearing, they were all gone teleported to who knows where for another set of tests.Derrick wished he was teleported too he wanted to join the battle suit department but was denied entry.He had no choice but to continue.

"Now the second stage, thirty of you will get into a cabin each...hmmm ....perfect the number of entrants and the number of cabins seemed to match." He said with a smirk.

For some reason Derrick felt that Admund somehow secretly influenced the tests. It was strange that the cabins and the number of participants matched. Derrick brushed this though off and his attention landed on the cabins. They were virtual cabins but it seemed special, Derrick felt that it had addition function. Everyone stood by one cabin each before entering, Derrick was the last one left but he felt Admund's eyes on him throughout the test and his gaze still lingered on Derrick. Derrick's thought of Admund reached a point where he thought that Admund was homosexual and felt that Admund was attracted to his holy face. Having this thought Derrick felt chill run down his spine, he soon ignored and got into the cabin.