Dormitory

"Here is your token," said the female master, taking out a familiar small token that resembled a palace-like structure before giving it to him.

White taking his token moves to the waiting area. As he left, he glanced at the female master who had an unsure look on her pretty face and stood at a place where a group of people, including Golden were.

"I told you it should be a perfect rank." Side glancing at White, Golden said with a smirk. Due to her superior looks and unnatural aura, no one dared to approach the area she was standing; making both her and White the center of attention.

"Judging from her looks before, it's not like she was gonna believe me either way." White surged.

"Hmm, true."

As the two chatted, the people around looked in envy at the thin and ragged figure of White who had awakened a perfect rank Mysterious Space, and to make it even more frustrating for them, this lowly dressed person even seemed to be close with the beautiful golden-haired girl with the same perfect rank space.

Meanwhile, the pretty master that just examined the rank of White's Mysterious Space still had an absentminded and blank look. She felt somewhat embarrassed at the fact that the person who she thought had lied about having high-rank space actually turned out to have a perfect rank, although almost every one of the other 9 masters would have the same doubt, it still hurt her young pride.

'But, was that…' turning to the thin white-haired youth her expression was slightly unnatural and complicated glancing at his figure. She seems to have seen something that she found unbelievable and not possible.

Up on top of the stairs leading to the entrance of the enormous palace, the glaze of Grandmaster Xia moves, the eyes of the girl were as dark as the night and dept reaching the bottom of the ocean, looking toward the pretty female master and White who was beside Golden. 

Unknowingly, a rare smile appeared on her indifferent expression making the level of her unbreakable young beauty increase even more, silently a thought came to her mind, 

'Someone interesting had appeared.'

…

Time passed like a fleeting wind and after considerable waiting, the token distribution had come to an end. 

At the large stone ground, aside from the 10 masters, there are two groups divided to the left and right. The right group which White was at had several hundred people and were ones who had passed the trial of master and awakened their Mysterious Space.

The other group on the group in the left had considerably fewer numbers of those who failed the trial and didn't possess a Mysterious Space. Currently, they had various expressions of sadness, envy, depression, and even crying from the group; especially the ones who had reached the age of 18 and were their last chance.

But no matter how they react there was no one who could help these people.

At this time, Grandmaster Xia, who had been sitting at the stairs top stood up and walked down step by step and said, "Alright, aside from Master Frank and Master Tang all of you are dismissed."

Hearing the order of the beautiful girl whose age seems to exceed her appearance, the 8 masters except for the pretty female master from before and a young straight face master dismissed.

Turning to the young male master with a straight face, she ordered: "Master Frank you will be responsible for taking the people who failed the trial to the Master Army Ground."

Bowing slightly, the master signaled the group and left toward the western part of the city. Although some seem unwilling, they could be nothing more than to try their hardest on the next trial.

The northernmost part of the city where the Master Battleground was located was in an elevated position and from the old stone ground they were current, the view of most of the city could be easily seen.

Watching them disappear into the long steps downward into the bustling city, the girl turned to the pretty master, saying, "As for you Master Tang, please escort these young talents to the side mountain where their dormitory and training ground is, and meanwhile also explain the rules."

"This one understood, Grandmaster Xia." bowing slightly she brought the large group and descended the stairs and into an unkept trackway; away from the bustling city.

But before they completely disappeared, Grandmaster Xia said something in an inaudible voice and the pretty master paused her step and turned to Golden who was not far away, and said, "Miss Golden, Grandmaster Xia wanted to speak to you privately."

Golden seemed to see this coming and nodded after some thought in front of the surprised folks. She glances at White saying: "Go on ahead, I'll catch up."

White didn't say anything and followed the pretty master along the rundown walkway with the confused and lovestruck people.

As the group disappeared, the girl called Grandmaster Xia thought of something smiled slightly, and approached Golden who was lonesomely standing alone.

…

Taking the olden stone pathway that bears clung to the ground, White glances at the beautiful scenery of the surrounding forest that seems to contain everything needed for survival, and thinks about the girl of beauty in humble clothing; Grandmaster Xia.

Different from the people going to the Master Army Ground, the route going to the dormitory was away from the city leading to the forest that existed at the periphery of the city. It was also at this time that White realized the Master Battleground wasn't inside the city but outside, and where they were heading was even further.

"Greenleaf," sawing Greenleaf at his sides he called and asked, "Do you know the difficulty of reaching the Grandmaster realm?"

"Ah?!"

The girl who was looking at the beautiful forest was jolted hearing the voice of the man who had always caused ripples in her heart. Her beautiful face turned with a slightly surprised look, and remembering his question she quickly calmed down and answered:

"Sir White, I don't know much but it is said that a master without talent could remain in the Master realm for all his life and even the talented one required a considerable amount of luck, and hard work for many years before tackling into the realm of Grandmaster."

"So it's like that…" Nodding, White went into in own thought leaving Greenleaf to glance at him from time to time.

'Bearly older than us… Beyond the realm of Master: a Grandmaster, I wonder how difficult is it to achieve?' White had overheard the information about her from people talking about her. 

Although he could somehow guess the gap between Master and Grandmaster from the reverence and respect before he doesn't know anything of it. But what he does know is that the Xia girl wasn't just any ordinary talented girl.

Listening to the pretty master explaining rules and stuff, they had finally reached an area that was filled with strange rocks and garden-like scenery in a field that was paved with a jade-like stone and along a few long houses that were made up of special stone and seemed to host numerous rooms.

"This is the training ground and dormitory of a pseudo-master such as you all. Although I have already said it, I'll explain the main point again. 

Most of the rooms in the dormitory are empty and could accommodate two people, lunch and dinner would be served at the mess hall behind the dormitory, and training of master starts in the early morning and the master who would be guiding you will be here early in the morning."

Taking in a deep breath, she continued: "There isn't a restriction if you joined the training or not but, if you aren't selected in the official selection then you will be chased out of the Master Battleground or be put in the Master Army Ground, that's all. What you do now from here is your choice." said Master Tang; the pretty master turned and prepared to return to the same path they came from.

But as she turned, her piercing eyes couldn't help but fall on the thin figure of the pale white-haired youth who had perfect-ranked space.

Coincidentally, White happened to turn to the pretty master and their eyes accidentally met.

At that time, the firm eyes that were without much emotion and carried a strange coldness imprinted themselves deep on her mind. Although she was an almighty master, she was unable to bear his gaze, she turned and quickly went away with her thoughts slightly in disarray.

'That person should be bought by the Golden Princess, if so, I can't prey too much, not to mention his Mysterious space is…' her thought stopped remembering what she had seen inside him. 

'Should I tell Grandmaster Xia or maybe…'