Zephyr stood in a small room, leaning on the wall as he stared at the rest of the people— four in particular, who were together with him in the room.
After the voice told them of the examination phases, his shock gave way for joy, the second phase consisted of the last 50th people taking another exam, that was how he was lead out of his seating position to this place— a small opening aside the large hall.
When they entered the opening there were a majority of weapons, from sword to bow. He immediately wanted to pick a sword but at the sight of the familiar scythe he changed his mind, sword fight would come later but now he needed to choose what he was most familiar with.
Currently they were trying to get to know each other and become more familiar. The first person to speak up had a broad shoulder with dirty blond hair with an equal color of eyes.
"My name is Caelan, my first Art allows me to form gravitational barriers. While my second Art enables me to increase gravitational pull in a localized area". He spoke quite arrogantly. The next person was also a boy, but he was from vermilion clan. He knew due to the murky yellow coloured hair they all seems to possess, with sharp amber eyes.
"Arden and as you all know I am from Vermilion clan, I follow the pathway of bones". That was all he said with leaving his position of the wall. Vermilion clan is a clan that deals with the manipulation of bodies, thus their Arts is divided into three paths— Blood, Flesh, and bones.
Zephyr seriously didn't know what Arden was even doing here, he was supposed to be out there waiting to for the academy to start not waiting for extra time.
The next person was a girl, with black hair and black eyes, he voice came out soft.
"My name is Claire, my first Art allows me create sharp projectiles from water, which my second Art allows me strengthen myself". That was all she said before leaning back. The last person to speak out was also a girl.
"My name is kola, my first Art allows me to induce paralysis, while my second art allows me to 'encourage' my allies. With that she stepped back, giving way for the last person to speak, which was Zephyr.
Feeling everyone gaze on him, he didn't rush to answer, he first went through what they all had said.
'They gave out information about their Arts while hiding the most sensitive part of it. I do see why, this is a fantasy world no one is to be trusted with personal information about you'. With a quiet Sigh he spoke up.
"Zephyr, my Art allows me Harden space". That was all he said before leaning back to his wall
They were all taken aback, judging from his red hair and red eyes, paired with the overbearing aura flowing effortlesslt from his body, they all assumed— they all knew he was from Demios clan, but now he was saying something about being able to harden space, did his mother cheat with someone from DuskFall clan, and why isn't he saying what his second art is. But no one pushed further, they all knew big clans like to keep secrets, hell they too kept a lot from the opposite parties.
They all stayed quiet, Caelan originally wanted to take over and become the captain of this little group, until Arden spoke up— he originally assumed Arden was from one of the vessels serving the vermilion clan but after he spoke up he knew he was the big deal. And the other guy named Zephyr, he wasn't exactly sure if he was from Demios clan or DuskFall, all he knew was that he liked to sigh too much, neither way he wasn't going to offend neither of them. That was how the group fell into silence with everyone to their thoughts.
"Group 50th ascend to the podium". The voice rang out into their small conner.
With a quiet Sigh Zephyr slipped out of the door with his group, they walked into the large hall, but this time they didn't head to the seating area, they ascended directly towards the large center devoid from people. The center was the size of a football pitch, once again displaying the anomality of the world. They arrived at the large field, despite the large crowd looking at them he wasn't nervous or anxious for some reason, he wasn't really a fan of crowd.
"Venerable Magnus it's time for the last test". The owner of the voice walked towards Magnus with an aquarium filled with ants. The ants were anything but normal, aside from being bigger then normal. Magnus didn't respond, from the tip of his and blood started to pool out, then conversed to a drop of blood, which dropped on the body of one if the ants. Immediately the blood touched the ant it started to mover all over the body just like how venom covers the body of his host. Then cracking sound rang out of the body of the ant, it became taller and humanoid l. Still small it jumped out of the ant aquarium and landed on the field. Zephyr involuntary took a step back as he took in the sight of the ant mutating. The ant then stood up from its hunched position as it let out a feral roar that shook the hall. In front of Zephyr was a humanoid ant standing on it's hind legs, murky brown in colour with it's three arms ending in three fingers, which each ended with three large claws that looked like daggers, it's mandibles slapped together with a crisp sound, sound that made Zephyr certain if he was ever caught in it, it was game over.
"The ant is the same rank as you all. The Second phase will begin when one of you attack it".