Gauging Tests(Part 5)

The group of winners was then transported to the Hall while the losers were transported to their seats in said Hall. Noah on the other hand was still interested in the portal summoner that they had battled. In his lifetime, he had learned that there were different kinds of fixtures but there were those that were laboratory-made, and knowing the laboratory, the people who held such fixtures were either originally test subjects or came from a powerful origin. Evidence of said situation was Althea, at least Noah thought that she had to come from a rich family from the way she carried herself and once again, Noah found himself practically staring at the curves on the girl's body.

The military uniform was the same for everybody but he was surprised that even in a shirt and military pants, her body stood out showing exquisite beauty.

Althea was still deep in thought and disappointed in herself for being hit by the Verdure Summoner, she was curing herself for being so careless. She was still deep in thought when she felt a presence behind her, she looked back only to find the same boy drooling over her again. No matter how many times this happens in a day, she never gets used to it. She was still low on manna so she decided to punch the guy right in the face. She turned quickly to punish him but Noah so it and due to his agility, escaped by a skin.

Noah looked at the girl who looked at him in disgust. He was usually a decent person who kept to himself and never went out of his way to make others' lives troublesome. He didn't know what happened to him when he looked at this girl but he quickly discarded it. His only goal right now was to get stronger and defend himself, he was already surprised as to why he was able to dodge the punch that was surely going to destroy his nose.

Althea couldn't stand the fact that he was able to dodge one of their punches as she was always used to being the powerful opponent, she was raised never to be weaker, in fact, her nice girl charade was to make her opponents underestimate her. She had broken the boy's leg earlier that day because he had done the same mistake the boy in front of him has committed. She was going to make him pay, right after she solves her suspicions about him and as to why he survived the fire that he sent, just because someone was a fire conjurer didn't mean that they couldn't be harmed.

Noah turned and rushed to his seat as he did to want to be next to the girl any longer than he wanted to. He was pretty sure that in a matter of seconds, he was going to get his butt handed to him. Sitting down, he had seen that the people he would potentially go up against were going to be either equal or stronger than him, he needed to level up this fire skill.

He stealthily left the hall and went to a secreted corner. He then conjured The Book of the fire realm from his Corts Space. He thought of the question. "How do I level up Fire skill" showed the solution in a different language and Noah read it as fluently as he could read English.

[Fill gauge with 50 soul fires to level up fire skill]

Noah looked at the words in shock, how was he supposed to collect fifty soul fires, that would mean he had to kill different people to get them and well, that was inhumane, right? "Kastiel is there any way to absorb soul fires without having to actually kill someone," Noah asked Kastiel who had strangely been silent this entire time.

"I would reply positively but for you, the only way to do said task is to reach level ten and unlock the shop where you will find equipment that does the task" Kastiel replied seemingly studying something, he had stayed quiet during this entire time, not because he ought but he wanted to study the boy's tactics in fighting. He had seen that Noah preferred to watch and study his enemy first before attacking, although the solution was good although in fights where one had to act on instinct, Noah would face severe consequences.

Knowing the new information, Noah couldn't help but sigh, he now had to rely on physical strength and not only his Fire skill. He inwardly cursed as to why the system ad disabled his other skills.

Most of the matches had ended by now and they were going into the second round. Noah was now with his teammates when it hit him, he actually still had a chance due to something he had forgotten.