Chapter 11: Combat day

Once she was done speaking, she brought the students outdoors to a large arena. In the arena, there were dummies, and combat stages on a large arena. Everything was set for the exam to take place.

"Alright, the first student, Rayzen Hurd," Miss Morgana said, checking the paper she was holding in her hands.

Rayzen walked up in front of her, and she led him to the first test, the physical one.

He stepped into the middle of a square arena waiting for instructions.

"You have two things to do, destroy the four dummies and avoid the blasts they will be throwing at you. If you pass this without getting touched and destroying the dummies you will have a perfect score. Using your filial is strictly prohibited, now, your assessment may start,"

Suddenly, four dummies spawned on the arena's corners, and each started launching blue blasts in Rayzen's direction.

The blasts were launched quite fast, but rayzen manages to dodge each of them with great reflexes and rushed to the first dummy. The moment he got closer, the dummy suddenly start firing at a higher rate.

'It's like the dummies can sense the danger and react directly to it," Langris thought, 'at this rate Rayzen is going to lose..."

For the moment, Rayzen was doing great dodging the blasts, but it was clear that he couldn't keep dodging, he had to get closer, even at the risk of getting hit.

"I've got to try something!!"

He launched a rapid offensive, and he dashed at full speed. At this point, he had wasted too much time to care about getting hit, it was time to get a bit reckless if he wanted to pass.

Right when he was close enough to the dummy, he punched the dummy with all his might destroying it in one go. However, in that process, he got hit by two blasts in the knee and the back.

Quickly after, he turned to the other dummies and dodged the blasts they were launching at him. In a matter of at least 6 minutes, Rayzen had dealt with all the dummies.

"Alright, your overall score, 55, you got hit by 6 blasts, and took 6 minutes to destroy them," Miss Morgana said before announcing the next student.

A few students had passed, and Langris had realized that challenges varied depending on your physical build. If your body build is more suited for agility, then the test would change so you can be at you best.

After most of the students passed, none of them had done as good as Rayzen somehow, even though his score was average,"

After a few students, it was now Langris's turn for the test, and he entered the middle of the arena just like the others. The problem with this exam was that there were new challenges every time.

This made the examination unpredictable, and Langris was required to be on high alert.

"Well then, we will begin the last physical test,"

When she said those words, 10 dummies surrounded Langris who was in the middle of the arena. Every student didn't have more than 5 dummies, but somehow, the weakest of them had been given the most dummies. At that moment, he looked at Ms. Morgana, and she had a cynical smirk on her face.

"Survive without getting touched, for the next 10 minutes to get full credit,"

Suddenly, one of the dummies launched a high-speed blast that passed millimeters away from Langris's ears.

"Is she serious?" Langris shouted as the 9 other dummies started to follow with the fire blasts.

One thing that would make Langris fail this exam, was his stamina which was way too low. Langris had got great agility, but he couldn't keep that up for 10 minutes at this intensity, it was simply impossible.

For the first 2 minutes, Langris could keep up with the blasts even though it was ten dummies, showing great agility to dodge the blasts. However, he could feel that he was getting tired, and at one point he was going to eventually crack.

'Fuck sake, there is no way I'm passing this exam!' He thought while still dodging the blasts, 'Why would she give me 10 dummies while the others had 4 or 5!?'

After dodging, again and again, he eventually felt a blast hit him on the back of his shoulder. Langris couldn't afford any distraction, and he didn't even have time to think.

When Langris started to get tired, his pace started decrease, and another blast hit him straight in the stomach pushing him back a few meters back causing him to lose balance, this caused more blasts to hit him in the leg, chest, back, and ankle, and before any other blast could hit him, the dummies stopped and suddenly disappeared.

"Langris Wranven, you got hit by 13 blasts in 10 minutes, this gives you a score of 35 points for the Physical test," Ms. Morgana said.

Having 35 points would mean that he would need to have at least 15 points in the filial test, and have a perfect score on the combat test. Langris frowned and clenched his fist when he heard his score, what was making him so frustrated was the fact that he managed to avoid a lot of blasts, and still got a low score, given his body build, he should have been given an average score.

'This bitch clearly set me up,' Langris thought in frustration.

The problem was, he couldn't do anything about it, if he was given a mark, then that was his mark.

Ms. Morgana was one of the respected teachers in the school, so even if he would go and complain about her being unfair, there would be low chances that he would mqnage to get anything out of it.

"Moving on to the filial test!" Ms. Morgana announced, "the first student, Frisk Qimyar, "please go to the middle of the stage, we will see your filial power level, in this test, we will simply check the power level of your filial,"

Frisk was a blonde young boy with the thunder filial, he went to the middle of the arena, and a big spheric orb that floated above the ground suddenly appeared right in front of him.

"Please place your hand on the orb, and a number will appear above the orb, if it is greater than 70, then you will have a perfect score, if it is greater than 40 and less than 70, then you have passed the test, but if it is under 40 then you have failed your test,

There is one last thing I would like to say, this power level will also determine the tier of your filial, from Green to Gold tier,"

Frisk proceeded to place his hand on the orb, and it suddenly started to glow, for a few seconds, and eventually, a score appeared right above the orb.

" 45 points, congratulations, you have passed,"

Frisk walked back to the pile of students with a relieved expression, and Ms Morgana announced the nezt student. Many other students passed as well, each of them passing the 40 points, and Rayzen even score 59 points,"

Eventually, It was now Langris's turn, and he was sweating from top to bottom. If he were to fail this, then there were no chances at all that he passes this exam.

He hoped that the system he had obtained would be considered as a filial, and he would get a decent score.

"Langris Wranven, please walk up to the orb," Ms. Morgana said.

He did as she said, and once he was in front of the orb, he glared at the large ball.

"Please tell me that this system is considered a filial," Langris whispered crossing his fingers.

"Place your hand on the orb," Ms. Morgana said with a confident smile.

Langris then placed his hand slowly on the orb.He looked above it, and there was no number coming up.

"Hmpf... It was expected from a no filial, I can't believe that this dude is part of the Wranven family,"

"I know right, I never knew elite families could give birth to such losers,"

As the critics were coming his way, and it seemed like he was going to fail, a system message popped right in front of him.

< would you like to activate your system Filial? >