"Back to the monarch."
"I congratulate you all."
"Ten of you making it here is no small feat."
"You've all passed the second phase."
"You may go back and take the third....."
He paused.
'I'm sensing an or.....,' Xander said.
"Or you wait here, prove your worth to me, and I give you unlimited reward points."
"What's the catch?" Zeus asked.
"Well, I'm a monarch."
"Monarch of what exactly?" Razga followed.
"It doesn't work that way."
"It's not like you're a vessel of something, exactly," the monarch teased.
He was intimidating, but not by choice.
It was obvious this was because of the mana it exuded.
No, it wasn't just mana.
It felt like all its stats were maxed out.
'Did that monarch just compare itself to us?' Rean thought.
"Ok, so if we back down then we can just pass the first assessment by clearing the third phase, right?" Victor questioned.
"Yes."
"Ok. No rush, right? Let's think," Kara said.
