Xero sat at the corner watching the door closely. Lora had already picked up her teleportation stone. Xero stared at her.
His system had detected an ability. Voice Amplification and Copy. Then he heard the voice of Lonel Brayn asking them to get to the Assembly hall. That was suspicious considering the fact that their time hadn’t ran out yet. They still had about five minutes before the exam ended.
"Wait. Don’t use that yet." Xero said to Lora who stared at him in shock.
"What the hell? Do you want a bad impression for yourself on the first day! I personally do not want that for myself." Lora said sternly.
"Calm down. Think of it this way. Someone’s ability is to copy voices he has heard. Probably someone copied Lonel Brayn’s voice and wants us to have a self elimination." Xero explained but Lora had a different idea.
"Look. I understand what you are saying. Someone may have such ability but it’s a low probability. What if it isn’t the case? What if its about the person you killed? I have a feeling that it is about that." Lora explained and Xero just stared at her.
If Xero wanted to convince her otherwise he had to drop solid points. For him he was solidly sure of what was proposing because his system had detected an ability. How was he going to convince her to wait?
"I understand that but what stops him for waiting an extra 5 minutes before addressing the situation." Xero explained. Lora thought for a while and stared at him.
For all she knew he had good senses. He had sensed the shadow user faster than anyone in the room, a feat only possible by a Level 5 and above yet a level 1 was able to pull it. She was beginning to think that his ability was to detect others ability. For that reason she decided to stay with him.
"Ok. I’m counting on this one. You better be correct." She said and checked the time. (00:02:34). Good. Two more minutes.
Xero then relaxed his head against the wall. Whoever it was that was using the ability had probably convinced a good number of the remaining teams to fail by getting to the open ground. He was snapped out of his thoughts when someone open the door and stepped in.
For a moment, everyone stared at each other. A guy with silk red hair and deep muscular body walked in. Both Xero and Lora stared at him in shock. His expression was also shocking as he hadn’t expected anyone to still be in room when entered.
"Damn it." He cursed and looked at their watches to see their rank and HP, a slight relief washed over him.
Xero stared at him closely. He had seen the face before but he seemed to forget where. All he knew was that he had seen him before.
"Good thing you guys are here. Pretty hard to believe that you guys didn’t fall for my ability." He said and grinned as he closed the door behind him.
Xero eyes glanced at his watch to read his level and HP. (Level 7), (HP:65/70). Xero gulped lightly. This guy was definitely strong. The both of them had no chance against him. He was out their league. The only consolation he had was that time had run out leaving them with 1 minute.
"Hey, I don’t sting. I’ll just beat you two with the remaining time. My aim is to be only survivor of this exam." He said and smiled. Xero was visibly sweating. He wanted to avoid facing him at all costs. For all he knew, he could probably take them out with one hit. His HP wasn’t large enough and Lora wasn’t in her full state either.
"Look we want to avoid fighting as much as possible. We aren’t in a good state to fight but if you provoke our leader, you may end up dead." Lora looked at Xero as he lied. He come up with the lie to buy themselves enough time to escape this man devil.
"What the hell are you saying?" He said and quickly dashed to Xero in a split second. His leg was pressed against his neck. "A Lamer speaking with such pride?"
"Huh? I just told you that there’s a level 8 in this room but you haven’t noticed? Seems like you are dumber than I thought initially." Xero said and noticed the time. (00:00:56 )
"I could kill you here you know that." He said calmly. Lora dashed towards him with brute speed but he caught her mid air and smashed her against the ground. Her HP reduced drastically to (5/50).
"Fuck! Why did you lay a hand or her?!" Xero muttered as he clenched his fists.
"What are you going to do? Lover boy!!" He said and laughed lightly.
Xero could feel his cells getting excited. A draining feeling washed upon him and his smile turned to a deep grin. His eyes went deep and hollow and he his rage take hold of him.
He grabbed unto the guy’s head and slammed his knee against it with all his strength. The impact sent the guy staggering backwards.
"Kill him"
"Kill him"
"Kill him"
"Come on. My cells hate you. I need to beat the crap out of you first. Don’t die yet." Xero said as he was completely engrossed in his excitement that he didn’t noticed the timer had ran out.
He dashed forward attempting to slam him against the neck like he had done to his previous opponent. But that instant, they all vanished out of the building and were suddenly standing on the podium.
Xero ended up slamming his fist against one of the officers that stood beside where he got teleported to. Only then did he snap out his excitement.
Before him were other students probably those who had failed the exam. To his side was Lora. She was badly injured so a medic held her up.
"What the hell?" He muttered to himself.
"As you can see, only five students cleared this exam." Lonel Brayn said in his loud voice. Xero then noticed that the timer has ran out. He had survived. A great relief filled his heart.