[AUTHOR'S NOTE: You can go ahead and read yesterday's chapter if you haven't already, I've fixed it. Thanks for your patience. Also, the updates might become unstable because I've fallen ill, but I might still be able to release a chapter daily until I return to full health, when the usual two chapters per day will resume. Thank you for reading and understanding]
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Asher opened his eyes to the world as he felt his body stabilize. He had expected to find himself in the same four white-walled, cornered room he had seen so many times before, but this time he was wrong. It was different.
He appeared in what seemed to be a vast hall, grand, echoing, and filled with a faint hum of energy. All around him stood numerous other candidates, boys and girls roughly his age, though each varied in height, hair color, eye color, and overall physique. Their sheer number alone was overwhelming, easily entering the thousand with perfect ease.
