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Chapter 24 : End of a Third Stage Entrance Exam

  After the match, I went back to the audience seats. I went back to where Charles and the others were. When I got there, they talked a lot to me.

  “You were really great, Rid,” Chloe said.

  “That’s right, I didn’t expect you to be that strong,” Charles said.

  “By the way, what technique did you use just now? And how did you use that technique? Did someone teach you?,” Chloe asked.

  “My late grandfather only taught me the basics, the rest I learned myself from books, techniques that I also learned from books before. My parents gave those books to my late grandfather so that I could learn them later. That’s what my late grandfather said when I asked where the books came from,” I said.

  “Is it possible that your parents are great people, Rid?,” Chloe said.

  “I don’t know, I’ve never met them,” I said.

  “Hehehe, it seems I was right. You’re hiding your strength, Rid,” Noa said who suddenly interrupted.

  ”Hiding what? I showed you my technique in the match just now,” I said.

  ”But there must be something you’re hiding, right?,” Noa asked.

  ”Hmmm I don’t know,” I replied.

  ”D*mn you, Rid, you’re hiding a lot of things,” Noa said, annoyed but joking.

  ”I should be the one who’s annoyed here, Noa. What were you shouting about “Teacher Rid, Teacher Rid,” like that,” I said.

  ”Hmmm is there something wrong? You taught us the technique earlier, Chloe even won her match because of the technique you taught her,” Noa said.

  ”That’s true,” Chloe said.

  ”But that doesn’t mean you can shout like that. Oh my, even the other participants were confused seeing me being called that,” I said.

  “Isn’t that great, Rid? If the other participants are curious, they will definitely approach you and ask why you are called Teacher. If they know that it is because you are the one who taught a technique, they will definitely ask to be taught too. And finally you become famous in this academy,” said Noa.

  “I don’t need to be a teacher. I registered in this academy to be a student and learn, not to be a teacher. Besides, I am not interested in becoming famous,” I said.

  “You said that but you put on a “wow” match and got a perfect score in this match. You also got a perfect score in the first and second exams. It is certain that you will become famous and known by others,” said Noa.

  “That’s right, I should have just hidden my strength, so that people wouldn’t recognize me,” I said.

  “I don’t care if you hide your strength, Rid, but at least keep teaching me techniques that I don’t know,” said Noa.

  “Because earlier you shouted calling me Teacher, I won’t teach you anymore,” I said.

  “Whyyyy???,” asked Noa who was surprised.

  ”Hmmm if I don’t teach you anymore, you won’t call me Teacher anymore, it’s very simple,” I said.

  ”Nooooo, okay then I’m sorry Rid, I won’t do that anymore,” said Noa whining.

  ”No,” I said.

  ”Riddddd,” said Noa who hugged me while whining.

  ”Stop, don’t hug me. I don’t want to be hugged by a guy,” I said.

  ”Nooooo, I won’t let go if you don’t teach me anymore,” said Noa.

  ”Okay, okay, I’ll teach you again later so let me go,” I said.

  ”Okay then,” said Noa who immediately let go of his hug.

  ”And again, don’t call me Teacher Rid again in public,” I said.

  ”So it’s okay when we’re together, right?” asked Noa.

  ”Up to you,” I said.

  ”Okay then,” said Noa.

  “You two are really close, huh?” Charles asked.

  "Close what? We just got to know each other before the exam started," I said.

  "Seeing your behavior shows that you are close," Charles.

  "Forget about that, shouldn't we be celebrating now that we have successfully passed the academy?" Charles said.

  "That's right, we all passed. I was too busy dealing with this kid earlier," I said pointing at Noa.

  "Hehe, I'm so relieved that we all passed," Noa said.

  "Me too, my opponent was quite difficult," Chloe said.

  "But the most important thing is that the five of us passed," Enzo said.

  "Yeah, even though we didn't get a perfect score like Rid," Charles said.

  "Why am I being brought up again?" I said.

  "Hahaha," the others laughed.

  While we were chatting, suddenly there was an announcement from the supervisor.

  "Attention everyone," it turned out that the supervisor Alan was the one who announced something.

  ”The match earlier was the last match for this third exam. I congratulate you for completing this third exam. We have prepared a list of 200 participants who passed the entrance exam to San Fulgen Akademiya and the list has been posted on the notice board on the 1st floor or lobby where we gathered before starting the exam. You can go directly to the 1st floor and see the list of participants who passed. After you see the list, please gather first on the 1st floor. Because the arena on this floor is very badly damaged, repairs will be carried out immediately. Therefore, participants are expected to go directly to the 1st floor without waiting on this floor,” said supervisor Alan.

  ”Before that, allow me to announce that the Third Stage Entrance Exam for San Fulgen Akademiya is officially over. Please, other participants, go directly to the 1st floor,” said supervisor Alan.

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  And finally, the third stage entrance exam ended. The third exam ended at 19.30 which means that this third exam took 4 hours and 30 minutes. Quite a long time for an exam.

  After the announcement, we immediately rushed downstairs.

  -

  Back to where the head of the academy was.

  "What do you need? Your Majesty the Queen," said Miss Karina.

  It turned out that the one who contacted Miss Karina was Her Majesty the Queen of the San Fulgen Kingdom, Kayana Estella San Fulgen.

  "Your Majesty the Queen? Oh my, didn't I tell you that we were chatting alone, you didn't need to be this formal with me?," said Queen Kayana.

  "Hahaha, I'm sorry. Because the one who contacted me is the person with the highest position in this kingdom, I feel impolite if I don't call her by her honorific title," said Miss Karina.

  "Are you making fun of me, Karina?," said Queen Kayana who was a little annoyed.

  "Haha, how could I make fun of you. So what do you need, big sister?," said Miss Karina.

  "What about the third stage of the exam?," said Queen Kayana.

  "Just finished," said Miss Karina.

  "Just finished? Didn't the exam start at 3 pm?," said Queen Kayana.

  "Yes, and the match just finished," said Miss Karina.

  "It took quite a long time, I thought 3 hours would be enough to finish this third exam," said Queen Kayana.

  "Well, because there were many interesting participants in this year's exam, so it's natural that it took a long time. Moreover, Javier, who I asked to be supervised, was defeated by one of the participants here," said Miss Karina.

  "I contacted you to ask for a report about this Javier and you said he was defeated?," said Queen Kayana who was surprised.

  "That's right," said Miss Karina.

  Queen Kayana became interested in it.

  “Tell me everything that happened in this third exam, Karina,” said Queen Kayana.

  “I will report about Javier to you first. According to you order to supervise Javier, I even watched this third exam live and left my piling work behind. Luckily I was able to take care of it by asking Mr. Frederick to do it,” said Miss Karina, a little annoyed.

  “Why does your tone sound like someone who is upset?” said Queen Kayana.

  “Oh no, I am not upset,” said Miss Karina.

  “I apologize, Karina. For asking you to do this even when you have a lot of work. I promise that I will reward you for your hard work,” said Queen Kayana.

  “Is that true?” asked Miss Karina.

  “It is true. How could I lie to my little sister. Even though you have left our family, you are still my sister,” said Queen Kayana.

  “Okay, I look forward to that reward,” said Miss Karina.

  "Yes, yes. Now continue your report," said Queen Kayana.

  "According to your suspicions, it seems that Javier is indeed one of the subjects of the Elf race's heart transplant experiment. And it seems that the heart used by Javier is the heart of an elite Elf soldier whose body was found 7 years ago, the same year as the rumor about Javier burning his teacher. At least that's according to my perception," said Miss Karina.

  "Then what did you see that could give such a response?," said Queen Kayana.

  "You know that for the third stage of the test, this is a match test and in the arena where the test is held, a danger sensor has been installed when a fatal attack occurs in the arena," said Miss Karina.

  "Well, the danger sensor is to detect whether the competing participants use a fatal attack on their opponents or not, because according to the rules that were read earlier, no fatal attacks are allowed to be used in the match test," said Queen Kayana.

  "That's true, but when it was Javier's turn to compete, I turned off the sensor. So if Javier made a fatal attack, the sensor wouldn't sound. And that's where Javier used a lot of dangerous magic without being detected by the sensor, starting from Boosting all his powers to 10x, using magic attacks that could destroy the arena and he even used High Level Magic up to 3 times. And he did that without any fatigue at all," said Miss Karina.

  "3 times high level magic and without fatigue for a prospective student? That's enough to prove it, but why was Javier able to use so much dangerous magic like that?" asked Queen Kayana.

  "Before he competed with his opponent, he had a feud with his opponent in the canteen. His opponent was from the common people. Maybe because Javier, who was a noble, was upset because he was humiliated by a commoner, that's why he went berserk and used many dangerous attacks on his opponent in the arena. He's the type of person who gets emotional easily when humiliated, especially by someone he thinks is below him," said Miss Karina.

  "I see, he was very upset because he had previously fought with his opponent and finally he used many dangerous attacks on his opponent," said Queen Kayana.

  Queen Kayana then fell silent as if thinking about something, then she realized something and started talking.

  "Wait a minute, you said that Javier used many dangerous attacks and even high-level magic on his opponent, right?," asked Queen Kayana.

  "Yes, I said that earlier," said Miss Karina.

  "But earlier you said that Javier was defeated," said Queen Kayana.

  "That's also true, even though Javier used many dangerous attacks to defeat his opponent. But his opponent was able to overcome all of those attacks and even made Javier lose," said Miss Karina.

  "How is that possible? Does his magic power and mana capacity exceed Javier who has been transplanted with an elf heart?," asked Queen Kayana.

  "I don't know about that, because in the match earlier he didn't use any magic. He only used magic during the second test where I didn't witness it at that time, only one of the teachers who was in charge of supervising the test saw it," said Miss Karina.

  "He didn't even use magic when fighting Javier? Then what did he do when he fought Javier?," asked Queen Kayana.

  "He mostly avoided Javier's attacks but sometimes he also slashed Javier's attacks with the sword given by the academy. Even Javier's last High Level Magic, a giant fireball, was successfully slashed by him. He defeated Javier with his sword and attacked him right in Javier's chest then Javier was thrown against the wall and lost," said Miss Karina.

  ”Slash high-level magic using a sword? Did he use 'Enhance Weapon'?,” asked Queen Kayana again.

  ”Yes, I thought you knew about it,” said Miss Karina.

  “'Enhance Weapon' is a technique to strengthen the weapon used. If he can cut a magic using a sword, that is normal, but if what he cut is magic that comes from high-level magic, that is something else. High-level magic is magic that has a very destructive and dangerous impact, it is impossible to cut magic using a weapon without using 'Enhance Weapon' because the magic will likely damage the sword used. If he can use 'Enhance Weapon', it means he is an expert in using weapons. It is not surprising that he can cut Javier's high-level magic,” said Queen Kayana.

  "If you saw the match in person, you would definitely be more surprised when you saw it with your own eyes. Ah, but don't worry, I've recorded the match with an artifact. Should I just send this artifact to the palace so you can judge it yourself?," said Miss Karina.

  "You're really quick, Karina. You even recorded the match even though I didn't tell you to. Quickly send the artifact to the Palace, I want to see the recording of the match immediately," said Queen Kayana.

  "Okay," said Miss Karina.

  "By the way, Karina, what's the name of the contestant who fought Javier?," asked Queen Kayana.

  "Rid Archie," answered Miss Karina.

  "Rid Archie? Hmmm, I don't think I've ever heard of his name, or I've never heard of anyone familiar with that name. How could you pair that contestant with Javier? Was it just a coincidence?," asked Queen Kayana.

  " “At first I had a hard time choosing a participant who would be Javier’s opponent. On one hand I wanted to prove Javier’s abilities and on the other hand I wanted to make Javier lose in this third test so that he wouldn’t pass into the academy. I initially wanted to pair him with Charles or Chloe or even Irene but it didn’t happen, they might be able to beat Javier but Javier might be reluctant to show his true power if he fought them. Until finally one of the teachers who was in charge of being the head of the exam supervisor today told me that there was an interesting participant in the first and second tests. He got perfect scores in both tests. I thought that he might be able to fight Javier in the third test. Moreover, this participant had also had a feud with Javier before. If this participant fought Javier again, Javier would definitely take revenge on that participant by showing his true power because Javier’s nature is very emotional. That’s why I paired Javier with him as an opponent in the third test. And look at the results now, I can get proof of his strength and I can also keep Javier away from entering the academy because he lost in the third test and didn’t pass,” said Miss Karina.

  "So that's how it is, but wait a minute. You said that he got perfect scores in the first and second exams? I know that there must be many who got perfect scores in the second exam, but perfect scores in the first exam? Was he able to answer the 'trap question' correctly?," asked Queen Kayana.

  "If he got perfect scores in the first exam, surely he can answer the trap question correctly. And as additional information, he also got perfect scores in the third exam when he fought Javier," said Miss Karina.

  "He even got perfect scores when he fought Javier? So you mean that even though Javier used a lot of dangerous attacks and magic, he was still unharmed when fighting Javier that's why he was able to get perfect scores?," said Queen Kayana.

  "That's right, he also didn't get tired at all when facing Javier," said Miss Karina.

  "So he got perfect scores in every exam, very interesting. Rid Archie huh, I can't wait to see him. I hope I can meet him in person," said Queen Kayana.

  - To be continued

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