Chapter 133: Guild Membership Card (1)
Chapter 133: Guild Membership Card (1)
"OK, we can proceed to the strength and feasibility test. Here's your party registration sheet. Please fill in your guild party name and submit it to the registration counter." Jacob handed over the sheet of paper that Sylvia and Elysia filled out last night.
After Sylvia received the paper, Jacob guided the new adventurers to the middle of a training ground for a strength test. He greeted the other instructors and sent Sylvia, Elysia, and Dylan to the new recruits array.
"Well, even though two of you are already at Spirit level, you still have to follow the procedure. The test of strength has two stages. The first stage is proving the level of strength using this crystal." Jacob took out a transparent crystal from his [Space Bag] and made it float in front of him.
"And the last one is evaluation, so you have to survive for three minutes to fight, dodge, or destroy 18 orbs like this. This is to assess your ability and confirm it to us. Understood?" Jacob took out a light brown orb as an example and showed it to Sylvia's party.
It was nothing more than a hard rock ball, commonly used for dexterity training and attack response. Still, it was also used as a rookie procedure.
"Yes, we understand. We just have to destroy the orbs without suffering any damage from them." Sylvia represented her party to respond. It was simple and easy for all of them.
"This is for an individual like the others, you can see there. Oh, he was battered by a cruel orb. He lacked experience." Jacob pointed to a prospective new adventurer who was battered for fighting one orb.
"*chuckle* All right, can we start now, Jacob?" Sylvia just wanted the registration to finish quickly.
"Ho? Immediately call me with a familiar name without formalities? You want to attract me, beautiful girl? Nice effort, but..." Jacob still wanted to flirt with a beautiful girl. Still, he couldn't continue his sentence. Dylan, as the father looked annoyed.
"Cut all that nonsense and get your job done. You're wasting our time with it." Right to the point, Dylan cut out the extra crap.
Jacob became awkward as he slightly smiled while scratching the back of his head. He was just about to tease the beautiful girl right under the supervision of her strong father. He was not ready to get a death wish.
"Sorry, sorry, now who wants to be tested first? Please enter into that circle." Jacob walked to the circle near them.
"Lys, you can ask your father to take the test first. Make this man dare not try to flirt with you hehe..." Elysia whispered softly from the side.
"Un, of course. However, I don't think it's necessary. My father will ask for the first." Sylvia nodded at her friend then turned to look at her father. Her estimation couldn't be more accurate than that. Her father had intended something rather sinister.
Jacob was in the outer circle, and Dylan immediately entered the circle without further ado. Two girls and one white cat were waiting outside the circle at a safe distance.
"Oh? You want to be tested first, Mr. Nalyd? All right, now touch this crystal." Jacob gave a magic energy detection crystal, it floated slowly towards Dylan.
While Dylan just snorted and caught the lousy crystal. A circle with a magic array and a detection crystal, it was all too easy for him to trick everyone.
He channeled a little of his magical energy and made the color that came out of the crystal dark blue.
"Impressive, you have proven your level is indeed Spirit level, Mr. Nalyd. Please return the crystal, and we can begin."
Dylan threw the lousy crystal casually at Jacob. While the latter was frantically trying to catch the thing that was thrown at him, then complained about the expensive crystal or something, but Dylan just didn't care.
"Prepare yourself, even if you are a Spirit Mage, but don't underestimate me. I am already at Master level with years of real experience." Jacob flew 18 balls all over his body then sent them all at once into a circular area, towards Dylan from various sides with a unique method.
Dylan had a bored expression. He slapped lightly at all the stone balls that came to attack him consecutively. The 18 stone balls controlled by someone at the Master level were easily crushed as if they were nothing more than fragile objects.
Jacob was speechless. The other instructors who happened to see it were also silent. Even some adventurers and would-be adventurers didn't know what to say. They just gawked silently.
The man didn't dodge or anything. He just swatted them like a fly. It took no more than three seconds, and he looked bored. Not everyone knew about the man's strength level, but for those who already knew, they were astonished in their respective minds.
Even though Mr. Nalyd was a Spirit Mage, wasn't it too easy to destroy the Withrollite Stone? It was a stone that didn't easily break even if it was hit by someone at Spirit level...
"Err... Congratulations to you, Mr. Nalyd. You pass the strength test easily. Please wait outside the circle, take a safe distance." Jacob straightened his composure and ushered Dylan out of the circle politely.
"Father, go, yay, best!" Sylvia greeted her father with cheerful chirps.
Not because her father's greatness destroyed all those orbs, but because her father restrained himself very well and correctly.
He could have snorted and used the exhaled air to destroy everything with magic. Or did something cruel to throw all those orbs back at the controller.
Dylan just nodded and then folded his arms. He stood beside his daughter.
"Ais, can you go first? I want the last one, hehe..." Sylvia giggled, only she knew why.
"Um, okay." Elysia nodded lightly, then she entered the circle.
The same thing was repeated. Elysia was given a magic detection crystal. The transparent crystal color emitted a white color, indicating she was still at the Apprentice level.
After receiving the crystal back in a polite manner, Jacob controlled 18 orbs against the girl, with a completely different attack pattern from the one he used to test Dylan.
Previously it referred to the seriousness and quick attacks. Still, now it was an attack with a regular pattern and seemed relaxed. Apart from the procedure regarding the level of strength, Jacob could not bear to hurt this beautiful girl who was so pleasant and polite.
Elysia just dodged all attacks for 3 minutes with ease. As soon as 3 minutes had passed with an easily predictable attack pattern even without her advanced perception, she began to wonder about the battered man.
He was a seventeen years old Apprentice Warrior, but he still failed this test of strength? This was nothing more than a test of combat ability against an incoming attack than a test of strength, in other words, an examination of agility. No wonder Martin said this was easy.
After giving Jacob a formal salute with a sentence, she returned to Sylvia's side with a neutral feeling. She didn't feel anything after she passed the so-called strength test.
"Ais, you were so amazing earlier. It was as if you were dancing with a gentle, relaxed pace." Sylvia greeted her friend with compliments.
Basically, she just wanted to know what she had to do to pass this test easily, for reference. Currently, she had an identity as an Apprentice Mage. It was the same as her friend.
"Ufufu... Thank you. You wanna get tested last, Lys? If so, please allow Vann to hurry over there and let her prove herself." Elysia smiled lightly.
"Um, alright. Vann is Vannessa's pet name? Cute~ Nee, can I call her by that name too?" Sylvia nodded and then asked Elysia but also Vanessa.
Unfortunately, that question didn't need to be answered in words. Vanessa immediately jumped from Sylvia's embrace to enter the particular circle.
"Wha-what? She doesn't want me to call her by a name like that?"
"Err... Looks like she doesn't want that. It doesn't matter, she is Vanessa, just call her like that as usual, Lys." Elysia soothed the heart of a girl who was a little devastated.
"Fine..." Sylvia let out a soft sigh. For some reason, she felt that the cat had just dumped her.
Jacob was a little awkward and felt really weird. In the middle of the particular circle right now was a cat with the status of a Spirit Beast.
Not only him, but the people who were on the closed training ground also felt the same way.
What was happening now might be the first time in the Highmight Guild history, an adventurer with a beast identity.
Beasts on the Human Continent were generally only labeled with contracted beasts, pets, wild beasts, livestock, or prey. There had never been a privileged beast with this particular treatment, even though there was no rule against them.