The Invincible Hero - Chapter 58

After lunch of the next day, Tower, Malkus, Paneneko, Aerun, and Karretun arrived at the martial field. The martial field was already filled with people. After the events of yesterday with the Third Prince, everyone was very curious about these five applicants. On the stage sat B’wiri, Master Shannon, and Master Que. There were also several Elders and Masters.

A path was made for the five men through the crowd. Approaching the stage, Master Que invited the young men up to the stage. Reaching the top of the stairs, the five men were instructed to stand to the side at spots that were previously marked for them with light lines on the floor of the stage.

Tower felt like they took a simple test and turned it into a grand production. Malkus was enjoying the attention from the crowd. Paneneko and Aerun were quietly chatting and joking. Prince Karretun stood indifferently waiting for things to get started.

An Elder came forward from the stage and began to talk to the crowd.

“Thank you for coming today it’s always nice to see students come to these events. I am Master Kennono and I will oversee today’s testing,” he said.

The crowd went wild with enthusiasm. Master Kennono was renowned for his master of ceremonies abilities. They were as legendary and his Milking Cow Burning Fist Technique!

“Normally, we test for admittance for new students earlier in the year, but today we have five outstanding young men who demand a chance to enter even though it’s so late in the year.

What makes them so deserving of this opportunity? Ability! Perseverance! Talent! Background! Accomplishments! There isn’t one thing that makes these young men worthy, it is many things! Some of these men have progressed to their present level through the process of endless life and death battles. All five have fought against our most hated enemies the Fiends! They stand here, the nature of they are demanding that we give them a hearing. And it is my intention that wall of you are present so that you can reflect and learn and ask yourself, could you earn a spot on this stage today.

If the answer is no, then I think you should reflect on that and ask why not. What could I do to be deserving of such an opportunity? Realize the blessings you have received and the help along the way. Never take it for granted. You, students, are here because many of you have the background, but do all of you have the ability?

I now present to you the five great applicants to which each of you should compare yourselves to. First, we have Tower Prince of the Amazons, Grandson of the Queen of the Amazons. Also, the fiance of an immortal Amazon. Next, we have Malkus, one of two twin brothers, who have bled and fought together with each other and have become sword brothers of Tower! Malkus, like a mighty king on the battlefield, he reaps the lives of his foes like a man cutting straw.

Next, we have his twin brother Paneneko! A valiant young man with a heart filled with heroism! Merciless to his enemies but ever faithful to his friends and allies! Aerun Mounkeh, a man who has stared death in the eyes, fought the Fiends and who have chosen to challenge the test today for a chance at immortality! Finally, we have Prince Karretun who gave up the throne of his home country to pursues the deadly dangerous road of cultivation. Recently in the battle against the Fiends, he nearly lost his arm as he fought for the lives of all of the innocents attending a martial competition he attended.

The test today will be conducted in three parts, first we will test strength, third we will test soul potential, and finally, we will test for supporting careers! To conduct the test of strength we have Master Sheriff, to test soul potential we have Master Neshami, and to test for supporting careers we have our three dual career masters Master Macey, Master Perachia, and Master Bilvo! Let’s give these masters a great round of applause,” yelled Master Kennono.

“Master Sheriff if you don’t mind, please step forward and conduct the Test of Strength!” Master Kennono roared!

A large and extremely buff man rose up from up from among the elders and moved towards Master Kennono. His arm muscles were so big that the upper part of his robe looked more like a tight t-shirt than a robe. His legs, on the other hand, were really skinny and long. He looked like a cartoon character.

Stepping forward Master Sheriff struck a very heroic pose.

“I trust you all know how this works. We’ll bring out the Strength Pillar and have each person strike it. This will measure their overall strength. It’s a pretty straightforward test, but the really interesting thing is that we’re going to see if we can break a record today.

If we have a record breaker then we’ll award special prizes. To the strongest goes the spoils. Anyone who breaks the record will receive a spatial ring!” Master Sheriff said excitedly.

The crowd went crazy, spatial rings weren’t cheap. How many students had one? Not many, even among the elders of the sect not everyone had one. Now, this whole contest became really interesting!

Tower looked over to B’wiri pointing at the bands to see if they could take off their training belts and wristguards. With the trainers on, all five men’s strength was greatly reduced. B’wiri was about to answer when Master Sheriff noticed the silent communication.

“What’s this, what do we have here?” asked Master Sheriff.

Master Sheriff walked over to Tower and grabbed his arm. He looked at the armbands and at first didn’t think much of them. Suddenly, he realized what they were.

“Young man, are you wearing Amazonian strength training accessories?” asked Master Sheriff in shock.

Tower nodded, wow, these guys really liked to put on a show.

Amazonian Strength Training Accessories? The crowds were intrigued. Was this something that aided in the mysterious strength of the Amazons? The Water Rock Sect may be a Supreme Sect, but it always gave great honor to the Amazons. There were many women only sects, but none could compare to the Amazons. The Amazon Sect was just below the two Supreme Sects and they could step into the realm of Supreme Sect at any time. Everyone knew this.

“Please young man punch the strength pillar with the Amazonian training accessories on.” requested Master Sheriff. Tower looked over at B’wiri who nodded her head.

Tower walked up to the Strength Pillar and struck it. The top score for a freshman student was set at 903 points of force. This was enough force to break through a two-meter thick wooden wall.

Tower Punched and scored 1123 points of force. This made Tower score at Student Realm Peak level. However, that was just his punching strength while being restricted. Everyone was shocked. Most Freshmen students came in at Student Realm Initial Level the highest was a student who entered in the Student Realm Middle Level. What was Tower’s true realm? Everyone, including the elders, was curious.

Would you punch the pillar without the trainers?” asked Master Sheriff. Again, Tower looked at B’wiri who again nodded her head. Tower deactivated the trainers. Taking a punching stance he punched the pillar once more.

BAM!

The numbers flew until they finally came to a stop. This time everyone, including the Sect Master, was shocked. Tower had a score of 2082. No one could believe the numbers. If anyone had ever told them about this score they would never have believed them!

After recovering, Master Sheriff invited the other four men to strike the Pillar.

Malkus – 1987

Paneneko – 2090

Aerun – 1542

Karretun – 1566

After the scores, there wasn’t one person in the entire group of those gathered who wasn’t shocked. There had been so many shocks and surprises that several people lost control of their bowels and had to rush back to their residence to change.

Among the five men, the real surprise was Paneneko’s strength who turned out to be even stronger than Tower! It was hard to believe that Paneneko had such strength.

Next, Master Neshami stepped forward and gave each young man a blue stone. The stone was placed against their foreheads and then taken and placed in a trey connected to a light display. The light display would give a different color for the strength of the soul tested. The colors were Green, Red, Yellow, White, and Black. This was a test of not only Soul strength but also elemental affinity. The color display was in two columns for each person and there was a third column next to the two color columns.

The Third column measured the soul strength and had twelve blocks. Typically, most Freshman sect members only had a strength of two blocks. The highest was three.

Tower once again started things off. Placing his stone in the trey, Master watched as the display activated. Tower had two elements a primary Metal Element (white) and a Primary Fire Element (red). Malkus was Primary Black Water Element and a Secondary Yellow Earth Element. Paneneko was Primary Green Wood Element Secondary White Metal Element and a Secondary Yellow Earth Element. Even though there were only two colors the white and yellow colors blended together to make a whitish yellow color. This was clearly a mixture of two different elements.

There was nothing too shocking about this. However, what came next was worthy of shock, it was so shocking that the shock would pass through the next nine generations of everyone present!

Tower had a rating of Six blocks, Malkus ranked at nine blocks, and Paneneko ranked at the full twelve blocks! This was unheard of, even B’wiri was surprised by this. These three young men had extremely powerful souls. So powerful it was scary. Aerun had the average two blocks, while Karretun had three blocks.

As everyone was recovering from their shock, suddenly Tower, Malkus, and Paneneko grabbed at their heads and began to growl in pain. Their heads felt like they were about to explode! Suddenly, all three of them started to witness a vision, since they were still near the Soul testing machine it automatically activated a function and the vision in their minds was displayed for all to see.

The vision was a jumble of images of humans, dragons, animal people, Fiends. there was an intense battle, a majestic young man who looked like a human but he had gold dragon horns from his head. Wearing a blue and white battle suit, he flew fearlessly at the all-powerful Fiend who had no problem killing anyone present. The Young man tackled the Fiend into some kind of a dimension and then the vision went even more chaotic. Nothing made sense anymore in the vision and finally, things were so overwhelming for the three men that they all passed out!