As time passed candidates increased steadily during this time Akio passed his time by mediating, he will not do training all time but he watched anime online. He has also met Tonpa who has come to him and offered water Instead of saying anying he simply released malicious aura toward tonpa and taken it back. After this incident Tonpa maintains a 30 meter distance from him.
Five Days has passed since Akio entered exam site he was feeling bored, candidates have also increased from 19 to 500 as he ws thinking what anime should he watch when he heard a horn.
Akio quickly located the man who used horn and heard him say
"Welcome to Hunter Exam, I am your Phase One Examiner"
"Follow me for Phase 1 Exam Site"
After that man started running candidates also started running behind him. Akio also followed steadily he was located in the middle of the crowd.
After candidates walk for 1 hour they saw stairs going upwards they followed examiner as started climbing stairs after climbing stairs for 30 minutes candidates saw light, after they saw examiner gathered there candidates gathered around examiner.
As akio got out from underground using stairs he saw a desert. After examier waited for 15 minutes he took out a remote and press the button and door the came from slowly closed.
After putting remote in his pocket Examiner said
"To clear Phase One of Hunter Exam you need to cross this desert, Association will provide you device which will show map so that you will not get lost in desert, after reaching there you need to submit your device which will act as passing certificate of Phase One"
After saying this he called a person who distributed devices, after distributing he went back alsong with him Examiner also disappeared.
Candidates operated devices and start running towards desert. Akio also operated device saw that device is showing blue icon which is him and saw red icon where he need to reach and he thought This exam might be a survival exam and this desert might not be simple it must have some creatures which might harm hunter candidates.
After that Akio started walking towards destination he is walking without consuming too much energy so he can act if any unexpected incident arose.
as he walked he spotted ahead some candidates who are forcing other candidates to hand over their devices.
As he walked forward some candidates spotted him one of them who look like leader came forward and grinned at Akio and said
"Hey stop handover your device"
Akio look like he is interested and said to them
"What if I don't hand over my device"
Leader of group took out his sword look at Akio as dead man and said
"Die"
As soon as said that he charged towards Akio and slashed
Akio doged slash and use finger pistol to instantly kill him behind him 2 other people attacked him he dodged then killed them using tempest kick after that he walked towards location
While walking forward Akio thought this was his first time killing people he thought he will feel something but he felt nothing but he will not become a murder maniac he will only act against those who threaten him, while he was thinking he suddenly noticed something through his observation haki
That right observation haki, he awakened observation haki during his 3 months training while dodging attacks of wild beasts.
As soon as Akio stopped he used tempest kick on sand 10 meters away, tempest kick landed in sand as soon as it landed a creature got out from sand it look like scorpion but it is very big as soon as it got out of sand it attacked akio
Akio dodged and instantly covered his fist with haki and punched it claws
Akio punched instantly cracked the shell of one of it claws but it soon healed back and it attacked instantly akio dodged using observation haki after that he using moonwalk to walk in sky after that he coated his hand with haki and this time he also use ken along with haki after that he instantly launched himself towards scorpion and punched it towards its head its head immediately exploded and it stopped moving.
After killing it he continued his journey, the rest of his journey was peaceful he didn't encounter any creatures after travelling for 12 hours he reached his destination there he saw a person standing there who was wearing a black suit
He got closer and heard
"Congratulations you have passed Phase One please submit device here"
After hearing this Akio submitted the device he heard man say
"You need to wait for phase one to end till then you can take a break and take some refreshments "
As he said this he pointed towards a table where food and drinks are placed.
Aftter akio took some food and juice from table he found a place sat there and ate his food he was first person to arrive here he will need to wait for remaining candidates to arrive
12 hours has passed since Akio arrived at location he was getting bored whe he heard footsteps he saw a candidate after second more candidates arrived at destination.
After waiting for One Day the man who is wearing suit shouted
"Phase One Exam is over those who has passed follow me"
After that he started running and all the candidates who passed phase one followed him
Akio calculated the candidates who passed and followed the person in the suit
After walking for 5 hours they saw a lake the man in suit stopped near lake and looked at 105 candidates who passed phase one and said
"My name is Marcus Hale I am a One Star Sea Hunter i am your Second Phase Examiner"
"To pass phase two exam all you need to do is to catch a fish, in this exam you will participate in the pair of two"
"For that you will draw lots to know your partner"
"As for fish"
Marcus walk towards a board covered in cloth and removed it
"This is the fish you need catch from the lake"