Trial 2

Slowly the room light up, and three figures become clear. They are humongous dogs, staring at him with greedy look, saliva spreading everywhere. The barked a little, before pouncing on him.

He used crossbow, to escape it narrowly, after which they stare at each other for a long time. 'Let me look around a little', he looked at them as well as the configuration of the room when countdown started.

[40:00] he have forty minutes to clear the round. He jumped down, having a spear in one hand, and a crossbow in other. On of the dog, jumped to catch him mid air, he punctured his spear to change direction, and used crossbow to shoot at other, precisely making one of mutt blind.

After which he used the chaos between them to continuously attack them, and kept looking for opportunity. He threw grenade in one of the dog, which burst and damaged his companion a little.

Once again another round started, one berserk which couldn't distinguish between friend and foe, while other struggling to save it self.

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*Boom* "finally I managed to kill these bloody mutt", Austin cheered after completing his task. Only ten second was left in the task. Soon the scenery changed, and a message appeared along with bursting fire crackers.

[Congratulations on completing the Phase I of trial.]

[Evaluating your performance, please wait….]

[Congratulation, you have received S rating.]

[You have received: Sapling of Wisdom tree (general) and SHADOW CLONE SPELL (as per result)]

"Lily where should I plant the Wisdom tree", Austin asked after waking up from his sleep.

"Master, I would recommend you to clone it, as it will bring you great assistance, in comprehending various skills without much trouble, as well as share some of your burden as System Admin. While you will manage to focus on yourself much more easily", Lily suggested.

After thinking for a while, he nodded, and said, "Ok lets do as you said. So be my guide."

"Ok master."

After which she explained the growth of the Wisdom tree, it is similar to banyan tree, when it is fully grown up, and can split consciousness to comprehend all the information which it could receive. Not only that, they could also control puppets and golems, create spirits to complete other tasks like exploration, and other studying other arts like painting, singing, dancing etc.

While she led Austin to botanical garden, which have various herbs in it. She led him near a empty space, and asked him to plant the wisdom tree, after which she chanted some spells which materialized various magic formation around them. After completing everything, she said, "Master, now use some of your blood to form the link, with it", he nodded, and cut his palm. Soon he felt a little dizzy, and the formation light up.

A blinding light engulfed the surrounding. "Its over master, you can heal yourself."

He also felt little strange, "It will take some time, slowly you will get used to it", Lily said beside him.

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Later on, he experimented on the spell which he had received, SHADOW CLONE, in this skill he could create clone using his shadow, not only that they cold have any shape he want. Although he is strong physically, but his soul is weaker. He is already at Tier 3 when comes to body cultivation, while his Mental strength is only at Tier 1.

Meanwhile, Neville is still undergoing her trial. She is right now facing bloody bandits, which were harassing the entire region for several years.

The leader of the bandit, looker at her with lewdly, and said, "Little girl, I will forgive you if you kneel down before me, and surrender yourself as my slave. Worry not, I will treat you with great love and care", after which he licked his lips.

Hearing this, other bandits also started to laugh, and on of them moved closer to her. Just as he was about to touch her hand, a silvery light flashed before him, and his hand was cut apart.

"Ahhhh.." he couldn't even finish his scream when he is beheaded. Silence engulfed the cave, some were looking at her with shock, anger, fear as well as admiration.

"Y…You how dare you", bandit shouted while looking at her in anger. His fingers are trembling, "Attack her, I want her to beg for mercy" he shouted while dashing towards her, and well as other bandits also attacked.

*Woosh* one of the bandit was sent flying, hitting several of his companion, while he blood was spread all around, several others were also flying, some without head, hand or other limbs, some with deep mark at their chest, abdomen, etc.

*Swish* She swung her sword, releasing the sword aura, her face was completely covered in blood, and looked at the bandit leader near her, before stabbing at the throat of one of the companion which was falling.

*Swish* she cleared the blood, before dashing towards the leader, and one-sided massacre started.

She looked at the corpses in front of her, and said, "So this is how you fill in the battlefield" and slowly scenery around her blurred, and the entire surrounding changed into a white hall.

"It was marvelous", a man wearing tuxedo suit, appeared while clapping. "Although you made various mistakes, but it was still quite good, for your first trial" he complemented. After which pointed out the various mistakes she had made in the entire trial.

"Now lets evaluate your performance", he said when a screen appeared beside them. He looked at her, and said, "Your reaction in the various scenarios: E"

"Your reaction after all the events: C…."

"Overall result: B+"

"You have received 1000sp, 1 silver lottery ticket and a katana."

"I would like to use my lottery ticket", she said after looking at all the rewards.

"Are you sure about this."

Soon a roulette appeared, she pull the lever and it started to rotate. There were various categories like Skills, Potions, Accessories, Weapons, etc. After rotating for some time, it finally stopped on weapon category, and a box appeared.

When she opened the box, she found a whip inside it. Looking at the whip, man said, "You are quite lucky to receive a soul weapon."

"You can control how it would work through telekinesis, as well as can summon it, anytime, anywhere", he explained looking at her confusion.