Jaquin stood tall, staring at the group of students. Hia eyes seemed to be scanning each and everyone of them.
"What's this feeling," Will thought. When the man had walked into the stage he had felt a slight shiver down his spine. Everything about the man was screaming danger, trying to check the information he found nothing.
[ Name: ??? ]
[ Realm: ??? ]
Everything was blank and he couldn't help but frown. "Let's hear what he have to say," he muttered. Soon he felt someone was staring down at him, following the feeling, his eyes landed right at the man's face, both staring at each other.
Will seemed to be stuck in a daze as he felt himself being sucked in by an unseen force, he had to close his eyes from the bright light.
Opening his eyes, he was in a battle field with corpse strewn around. Some seemed to have dried skin as if their life essence had been sucked off from them.
Looking ahead he could see two men battling furiously. He squinted his eyes trying to get a better view but it seemed a force was invading his senses as his vision got blurry.
At a distance he saw another figure battling some human figures. He heard the figure screamed as one of the man fell on the ground.
"No! No!" He found himself screaming as he rushed towards the man, but he felt his body getting heavy. That didn't stop him as he rushed forward but shackles burst forth from the ground holding him in place.
He kept on screaming with tears falling from his eyes. He felt a terrifying anger consume him as he roared looking at the red sky.
"Will! Will!"
"Ugh," finally he came to his senses. He found out Belle had been calling his name for some time now.
"What's wrong?" he asked her in a croaking voice.
"I'm supposed to be asking you that," she said in a whisper. All of a sudden you fell into a trance and started crying.
"--"
'What's going on with me,' he thought. 'First that strange dream, now this.'
"Its nothing," he said to her after sometime. "I'm alright."
'Hmmm, there's something strange about that boy,' Jaquin thought. 'Well I would be around to watch the show.'
"I am Jaquin, the vice supreme commander of the military," he said, pausing briefly. "It's great to see all of you training since hard to join the military rank as the next recruits."
"I'll be hear and would watch the assessment, those that perform remarkably well would have a chance of becoming my disciple. Goodluck!" He said, before stepping down.
The students hope had risen hearing this, becoming the disciple of the vice supreme commander was no joke after all. The abundant resources and the number of advantages it comes with. Some where getting pumped not wanting to miss this once in a life time opportunity.
The general then dispersed them after giving some words of encouragement.
'I have to be careful,' Will thought as he walked back to his dorm room. They had been dispersed after that and told to prepare down.
Opening the door, he walked towards his bed. He felt exhausted for an unknown reason and slept off as his head landed on the bed.
Few hours later he woke up to see a message from Belle. "Thirty minutes ago," he said checking the time the message was sent.
He stood up from the bed and headed out of the dorm building. Walking for some time he arrived at Pete's forge. Entering the shop, he pushed open the double doors, entering the forge.
"Hey, lad! Come in!" He said ushering him inside. After their one month punishment they had decided to continue to help him as he couldn't recruit any worker.
"Thanks for the assistance you guys have rendered, I'm truly grateful," he said with a smile. "I've decided to give you guys some of the best weapon from my old stock. You can collect any weapon and armour you want that is in the advanced tier."
"Really!" Dren exclaimed as he charged towards the vault of weapon. He started going through and soon he found some daggers which suits his taste.
"It's good to have a back up in case of emergency," he said patting the daggers which he kept on his waist. "Now time for the armour."
The rest eagerly joined searching for their respective weapon.
[ fanged katana: Advanced tier ( low stage ) ]
[ strength: +1 ; Agility:+1 ]
[ Dual crescent blades: advance tier high stage ]
[ Strength:+2 ; Agility:+3 ]
Will eyes browsed through the weapons as he moved about. "I need something strong enough to last me throughout the assessment," he thought.
His eyes soon caught interest in a long katana with intricate designs of a dragon round it.
[ Sun blade (unique): Advanced tier peak stage ]
[ Strength:+2 Agility: +3 ]
"I choose this one," he said with excitement.
"Hmmm, you got good eyes lad," Pete said with a smile. "This is a special sword, I hope it aids you throughout your test."
With a satisfied smile, Will kept the sword in his storage space and soon joined Dren in choosing armour.
[ Armour of the night (unique):advance tier peak stage- Crafted from the rare nightclaw beast ]
[ Defence: +200 Agility: +3, Strength:+2]
"Hey, Dren. Why don't you take this one," he said pointing it out for him.
"Whoa," he dropped the one he held and then rushed towards the other one. "This one definitely suits me," he said holding onto it. "Thanks, Will."
"Why don't you choose for me also," Belle said behind him.
"Whoa!" He exclaimed with a jerk. "Uhm..Yeah, sure." He scanned through the armour and soon found one that he felt would be okay for her.
[ Feiry rose armour (unique): Advanced tier peak stage ]
[ Defence: 200; Agility: +3 ; Strength: +3 ]
'Now, I'm the only one left,' he thought. He scanned through the lot and his eyes fell on a golden armour.
[ Sun armour (unique): Advanced tier high(peak) stage ]
[ Status: Damaged ]
[ Strength:+4 (-2) Agility:5(-3) Defence:250(-150) ]
Although seeing it was damaged he decided to hold onto it. 'With the sword it's a complete set,' he thought. 'And they usually have special set skills.'
"You sure you want that, lad." Pete said coming over him once again.
"Yeah, this will do for now." Although he wanted to boost his strength without relying on armour, he still needed it for the impending assessment.
"Thanks alot." They said bowing down in gratitude.
"It's nothing," he said. "You better survive and come back to me.'
They all bowed down once again before heading out in excitement. They were one step closer in completing their preparation. Now they needed to decide their meeting point when they get transported to the yellow zone.
"So what's the plan?" Belle asked staring at Will.