It wasn’t long before the trio he Pavilion, and as they did, Ace’s eyes couldn’t help but widen.
Inside Yin-Yang Mountain, there were close to 30 young and weak auras he didn’t reise.
“ht, I pletely fot to mention it earlier,” Amira said wheiced his surprise. “A couple of months after the start of this new era, the Pavilion finally opes doors for its first official sele tests.”
“You should’ve seen it, boss,” Leo voiced via their e. “There was a sea of literally tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of humans. I’ve never seen anything like it before!”
“So many?” Ace asked back.
“Of course!” Amira replied, having guessed what Leo had said. “Even if you exclude your aplishments in the O’Brien Empire, the fact that the rest of us mao challenge and pletely suppress all the top students at each of the stro establishments fes and warriors in the ti was enough to solidify the Pavilion’s standing as the number one school on the ti.
Then when you factor in your results at the War God’s College and Master’s single-handedly fighting O’Brien and Fain, the O’Brien Empire’s twest experts, to a standstill…
The day the Pavilion annous sele date to the world, people from all over the ti began to rush over, hoping to get a glimpse into what makes us so special.”
“That would expin the new mountains,” Ace said, pointing at the new cloud-pierg mountains in the distance.
“You thank third brother for that,” Amira expined. “When the numbers began to reach the astronomical range, eldest brother had Lazerim restruct several of the mountains for the purpose of viewing.”
“Just viewing?” Ace asked. “Where did they all stay?”
He could imagihat a sele process of that magnitude sted much lohan one day as it did for his cohort.
“Everyone was forced to stay in some of the neighb cities in the Anarchids,” Amira expined. “Which reminds me, you really found yourself a good subordinate.”
“Subordinate?” Ace questioned before realising who Mira was referring to. “You mean Cirulus? He’s alright? That’s great!”
The st time Ace saw him, Cirulus had been blown away by Shamar. He had no idea if Cirulus had even mao survive, but hearing Mira bring him up now, meant that he had survived.
Even though they hadn’t been together long, the loyalty he had shown that day was more than enough to earrust and respect.
“Alright?” Mira smiled. “He’s great! He saw the upiion as a ce to help you further your pns for when you awoke.”
“He did?” Ace asked curiously. “How?”
“I’ll let him expin that himself when you see him personally,” Amira smiled mysteriously.
Ace’s curiosity had definitely been piqued when he heard that, but he knew Mira wouldn’t say anything after having made her decision, so he didn’t bother pestering her for answers. “So, how many applits were there in the end?”
He khat with everything that the Pavilion had revealed, the majority of those who came to view was likely just experts who wao know more about this mysterious but incredibly powerful upstart.
“Altogether, there must have been over 50,000 children who attempted to enter, some of whom were actually students of some of the other institutes that had wao jump ship,” Mira expined. “Because there were so many, eldest brother was forced to hand off the responsibility for the first stage – the aptitude phase – to the Dawson glomerate, who, thanks to Joel being a direct desdant and also their desire to get closer to the Pavilion, agreed to do it for free.
Still, the first phase aloook over a week to get through, and the numbers went from 50,000 to under 1000.
“So many failed?” Ace asked in surprise.
“Have you fottealent requirements for the Pavilion?” Mira asked, rolling her eyes. “Do you think geniuses aged ten or under who haven’t begun cultivating their battle qi and be on track to reach the sed rank as a warrior by their eleventh birthday, as well as having an exceptional-grade affinity to at least one of the ws and have a minimum of 20x as much spiritual essence as the average person of the same age grows on trees?”
“I khere’d be a high failure rate; I just didn’t expect the first phase to cut so many,” Ace sighed.
“It’s to be expected,” Mira shrugged. “Our Yin-Yang Pavilion has incredibly high standards to maintain after our batch. Plus, Mathias expihat the Pavilion wouldn’t accept any students ected to the Radiant Church, Cult of Darkness, or, as you imagihe O’Brien Empire.”
There were quite a few unhappy parents and representatives, but all those who were still mortals were quickly dealt with by me, Leo, Killian, and the others.
As for the few saints, most of whom came from the Radiant Church, they were roughed up by senior brother Wukong.”
Ace didn’t doubt that for a sed; he khat the average expert could be easily defeated with the strength of each of Leo and his cssmates. As for Wukong, even though he didn’t kly how strong he’d bee now, he khat no ordinairy saint would be able to withstand orike from his staff.
And by having all threats, be it mortals or saints, dealt with by mortals, it would only help to reaffirm the invincible image the Pavilion had built!
As for Mathias updating the Pavilion’s recruitment to exclude the O’Brien Empire as well, he was anything but shocked.
Although his hatred for the Empire as a whole had virtually disappeared the night he mao truly awaken his queror’s haki, and even more now that his mother’s soul had recovered, he also uood and appreciated how protective Arianna and the rest of her disciples were of his mother.
The only person he would never five was O’Brien himself; as for the rest of them, he wouldn’t bother with them as long as they didn’t stand in his way.
Unfortunately, the same couldn’t be said for Mathias and the others. After everything that happehe O’Brien Empire were lucky Arianna’s disciples hadn’t caused them any more trouble.
Still, there was ohing he couldn’t help being curious about. “After everything that happe year, I’m surprised the O’Brien Empire dared to step foot in the Pavilion’s territory. Did they send many people in the end?”
“Not many, just a few of their more unknown powerhouses. Probably in an attempt to gather intelligence,” Amira shrugged. “Still, with the intelligence of Sabre, Cesar had long since learnt the identities of each of the O’Brien Empire’s saint-level experts.
None of us killed any of those who acted out, but those experts sent by the O’Brien Empire… Wukong sughtered all four of them.
It was after that that all the other forces uood just how deep the hatred for the O’Brien Empire ran for us here.”
Even though he didn’t harbour any strong feelings for the Empire of his so-called biological father, he still felt appreciation for the Pavilion; after all, it was for him and his mother that they were willing to go so far.
“But anyway,” Mira tinued, bringing the subject back to the sele. “The sed stage was a lot faster; each wave was posed of 100 kids a off to climb to the top of Yin-Yang mountain.”
“I remember that,” Ace sighed as feelings of nostalgia started to well up inside him. “How did they all do?”
“None mao beat the time set by you if that’s what you’re asking,” Mira rolled her eyes for the umpteenth time. “But there were still a few impressive times, some of whom actually mao beat the times set by myself and Joel.”
It had to be remembered that back then, although her bat strength was sed only to Ace, Amira’s realm as a warrior had only reached the early stages of the sed rank; as for Joel, like Ace, he had reached the te stages of the sed rank. The thing that separated Ad Joel was Ace’s ridiculous willpower, but when you took into sideration the fact that Ace had two lives to temper it, that much wasn’t surprising.
Aew how petitive Mira was, so he knew better than to wind her up; as such, he simply waited for her to tih her expnation of events.
“Of the 900+ kids that made it to that point, only a little over 40 mao make it to the top,” Mira expined.
To that, Ace wasn’t particurly surprised. He could still vividly remember the difficulty of the climb. Even after you finished climbing all that way using nothing but your hands a, you still had to face the ever-increasing gravity as you hiked the rest of the way. It was a miracle that their batch had a 100% pass rate.
The only thing that still made him curious was the fact that there were apparently over 40 passes, but he could only sense 28 new auras.
But before he could give voice to his curiosity, the excited shout of an all too familiar voitered his ears.
“ACCEEEEEEE!” A giant ball of meat shouted cheerfully as he took to the skies with fmes propelling his rge, round figure. “You’re finally awake?!”
“It’s good to see you too, Fatty!” Ace smiled as he returhe bear hug of his excited cssmate.
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Book 12: Part 5 – A True Asura
