Entrance Exam

Spring. The crickets were singing as it welcomes warmth of the sun. The streets have started to become busy and lively again after winter was over.

Spring season has always been the start of the year on this world. After 3 months, specifically 99 days, Summer will arrive, then Fall and so on, Winter. These are the four season of this planet, consisting of 396 days per year.

Today was January 4 of year 2021 in this world. School enrollment always starts on the first Monday of the month.

An irritating and shocking alarm suddenly rang beside the sleeping young man who was drooling as foolish face was smiling, telling that he was having a nice dream. As the alarm keeps ringing, this nice dream was turning into a nughtmare which can be told from the sour face of the young man. Thus, he has no choice but to get up now.

After getting up, he checked his mobile device which where the alarm came from. He turned off the alarm as he checked the time. Upon checking on the time, his eyes widened in surprise. 10:43 AM, it was already about to be noon time. He setup the alarm at 9 AM. Clearly, he was late for what he was about to do. Thus, he madly rushed over to get changed with out taking a bath anymore and brushing his teeth, as he just used the left over brewed coffee to gurgle and freshen up his mouth.

Martial Saint Academy. This is one of the top notch yet lowkey school as it has no branches to other cities or region. This school for college students is only located in the Ba Yu City which is located at the top of the mountain.

The young man who was rushing over was appalled with the line that he saw. The reknowned thousand steps stairs of the academy was filled with students who wants to enroll in this academy. There were eight rows, filling up one student per step. Basing from that, eight thousand students were wanting to enroll but the quota that the academy will accept was one thousand.

"Uhm, miss..is this the line for the school enrollment?" The young man can't help but asked the young woman who was wearing the school uniform of the academy to confirm what he was seeing.

The young woman can't help but chuckle softly at the disbelief expression on the young man's faceas she gestured to the end line. "Why, yes, and you're just the last one needed for the enrollment to start."

The young man felt like crying when he saw that there was only one vacant step left on the thousand stairs. He was thankful that he was still able to make it in time yet at the same time, cursing himself for being negligent as he headed towards the vacant step.

As he placed himself over the vacant step, the thick huge wooden gates slammed open, letting the wind ferociously blew over towards the enrollees on the stairs. As the gates opened, a silhouette of a man appeared. The sun was facing against him thus his facial features were blurred by the shadow.

"Ladies and gentleman." The voice of the man spread all over towards the startled enrollees. "The test is very simple. Those who are able to enter the gate are the ones who are deemed passing the entrance exam."

"First row, begin. You only have ten minutes to enter the gate." After giving his instruction, the man switched on numerous machines that generates strong winds.

The first row of enrollees madly dashed over before the machines can generate very strong wind. Five out of eight students were able to take advantage of this opportunity. The other three enrollees were indignant, shouting, as they voiced out how stupid the test was but, their voices can not be heard due to the strong gales.

Nonetheless, even if their voices can reach to the man who was overseeing the exam. He could not be any less indiferrent as his voice mysteriously spread all over to the enrollees again.

"Second row, you have nine minutes to enter the gate." Once the voice of the man was heard, The eyes of the enrollees of the second row fiercely turned towards the three who failed. Obviously, they are blaming them for the one minute deduction of the time to enter the gate. When the three failed enrollees saw these, the hair on the back of their necks stood up, scampering them away the vicinity.

"Third row, eight minutes." The man simply said after two enrollees passed the exam for the second row.

"Fourth row, seven minutes." The man's voice spread all over again after three enrollees of eight passed for the third row. Observing this, enrollees were starting to speculate the rules of the exam.

"Fifth row, six minutes." There was only one of eight enrollees passed for the fourth row. Enrollees who were still waiting for their turn to take the test can't help but gulped and curse their luck at the back of their minds. Only one enrollee was able to pass the entrace exam again.

The hopes of the sixth row was about to snuffed out like a candle light blown by the wind, however, this light shined brightly again when they heard the man's voice. "Sixth row..you have ten minutes to enter the gate.

With the renewed hopes, all eight enrollees were able to pass the exam.

The test kept repeating until dusk have already arrived. It was finally the last row to take the exam. 997 enrollees have passed the test already and three enrollees needs left for the quota to be completed.

"Thousandth row. You have five minutes only to enter the gate." When the last eight enrollees heard this, they were shocked and could not help but violently react including the young man.

"Four minutes." This left the last enrollees speechless as well as the students who already passed and were still watching the test finished.

As the people were feeling dumbstrucked, one silhoullete flashed by on the eyes of the enrollees. The young man dashed forth and dived down on the ground, gritting his teeth as he started to crawl like a lizard. This scene left the crowd's eyes wide opened but soon lit up enlightened.

The distance from the stairs to the gate was 33 yards. The enrollees who took the test felt like the distance was miles aways, yet the young man who was crawling was already half a distance away already even though a minute has just passed by. Observing this, one of the enrollees were able to follow up, she was a graceful young woman.

Three minutes and twelve seconds, three enrollees were able to enter the gate crawling simultaneously: the young man, the graceful young woman and a very tall buffed pale young man.

"The test is now over. The quota for the batch 21st is now complete." The man who oversee the exam simply said and dismissed.

"Well that was fun!" The buffed pale young man laughed in a rowdy manner as he pointed to the other five enrollees. "Look at those buffoons still lying on the ground. Hahaha"

The graceful young woman only shooked her head while the young man could only sigh in relief as he was able to take action right away. In his inner mind, he could not help but joyfully cry from being able to pass the exam despite his tardiness.

As the young man was lamenting over his actions, a heavy weight slammed on his shoulder making him winced from the pain, it's like his shoulder was dislocated from the impact. A shadow loomed over him as the sound of like a laughter of a villain boomed behind him. "Bro, you were very quick to think back there. If not for you, even though, I have this awesome body, I would not be able enter the gate forcefully within four minutes."

"Eh, thank you..I guess?" The young man could not help but take it as a compliment despite how this very tall and scary young man said it in a sarcastic tone.

The young woman on the side also nodded in agreement.

"Let me buy you a dinner." The very tall man offered. "Come with us also, little sister. We were the last three to pass the test after all. I think fate has convened us to be with together."

The young man eyed the young woman then weirdly eyed this pale young man. The young woman noticed this, and a thought surfaced on her head making him blushed and disgusted at the same time. But, before they can decline the offer, the buffed young man already dragged the two with his muscular hands clamping on their bodies.

Spirit, this was the name of one of the best restaurants here in Ba Yu City. The restaurant's specialty was their Spirit wine which was a breakdown of types of wine, the Yin wine and the Yang wine. The Yin wine makes your body feel cold yet makes the activity of one's mind spike up, while the Yang wine makes your body heat up and increase your blood flow and stimulate your metabolism. If a normal person drink a bottle of this wine, they will be knocked out for around 24 to 48h hours, after waking up, they would feel that their vitality was renewed.

"My name is Shi Hao of the Shi Clan by the way." The three were on each corner of the table. The table was so full of meat and vegetable dishes that there were barely spaces left for their utensils left for them to eat and drink the special wine. "You must be from the Wang Clan basing from your silver blonde hair and your cold nature. I heard they have a genius who was someone at my young age also, and she is a girl also. Are you perhaps, Wang Su Yan?"

When the young man heard the introduction of this very tall pale young man, he can't really help but eye him weirdly. Obviously, this pale young man look about the same age as him or even older. The young man was 21 years old. Hearing the Shi Clan though, he thought of this prestigous clan, thus he can't help but ask, "Are you referring to the Shi Clan who owns one-fourth of the developed lands of this planet?"

"Hell, yeah, I am!" The very tall young man laughed rowdily.

This greatly shocked the young man, but when he looked at the young woman who was still indifferent, he could not help but think if this Wang is also famous, he never heard this kind of clan name ever since.

The young woman shook her head from Shi Hao's inquiry. "I'm her twin sister, Wang Lou Lan. My sister doesn't need to take the entrance exam as she was already invited to be one of the 12 student council."

"Eh?" The two young men were speechless. The two were envy for different reasons. Shi Hao envied Wang Lou Lan's twin sister's monster talent, while the young man was envy for being able to enroll through the backdoor.

"It must have been hard on you, huh?" Shi Hao looked at Wang Lou Lan with eyes full of understanding.

When Wang Lou Lan heard this, she was taken aback, blushing a little as she shook her head. "Not at all."

As the older one on the table, the young man was able to sense right away that there will be a spark that will light up between these two. But before the young man can become more amused with these two, Shi Hao's voice rang out again. "And what about you, my friend? What's your name?"

"Eh, me?" The young man pointed out his self. "Ahh, yes, my name is Fang Yue."

When the other two heard the young man's name, the looks on their faces were quite astounded.

"Why, what's wrong?" Fang Yue looked at the two as if there's something wrong with his name.

"To think you have such a background." Shi Hao nodded vigorously in approving manner. "No wonder. No wonder"

The grace young woman, Wang Lou Lan also nodded.

"Haha! It is quite an honor to get to know someone like you, brother Yue." Shi Hao raised his glass full of Spirit Wine as he congratulated theirselves from passing the entrance exam. Cheers!"

"Haha. Not at all, not at all." Fang Yue also raised his cup. Then, Wang Lou Lan followed.