As for the aim of thepetition, some imed it was to in a mythical creature inside, and others imed it was regarding a conflicted territory. Arthur knew all these were spections, so he didn''t give them any heed at all.


    After half an hour, he finally managed to reach the gate, where he found another crowd lining in one hundred long lines waiting for their order. "Let''s wait then," Arthur helplessly shook his head as he stood in the shortest line with Iman, who said:


    "Do you think you canpete fairly with all these?"


    "What do you mean by fairly?"


    "All these mages had many teams belonging to the great ns and guilds. Do you think they don''t know the aim of thispetition already?"


    Arthur went into silence, as he had to admit this was a very true fact. the teamsing from these grand ns and guilds already had the advantage over rogue mages like him. he just sighed, as he replied:


    "What can I do then?"


    "Simple, I will go inside and try to find your master, and ask her about this little piece of help."


    "Really?!" Arthur turned to look at her, before he felt he just fell deeply into her trap. "What do you want in exchange for that?" he asked.


    "It''s nothing, just five more potions of the type you once gave me before," she chuckled, as she had great improvement since the day she took his potion, "don''t forget you still owe me a permanent cure," she yfully added.


    "Sigh," he didn''t argue with her, as he knew it was desperate arguing with a woman, especially a beauty of her refined caliber. He simple took out five potions and gave them to her, as he said:


    "Don''t take them in one go, and don''t do it in public."


    "I know, don''t worry, no one else will see my body after you," she winked in a very yful tone while saying her flirting answer, making him mistook her for Lendy. She stored the potions hurriedly into her ring, like they were a priceless treasure, and then she said:


    "Give me some of your bird''s wings."


    He handed her fifty bird''s wings, as he didn''t know how long he would stay inside that pocket world, and thus it would be great, having an extra help from the outside world.


    They both then stood there for another hour, before their turn hade. They didn''t know why all of these mages took all this long time already, however when Arthur and Iman reached the mage responsible for registering them, they instantly understood everything.


    There was a test of talents there, showing off your current strength and your potential talents, something that would take quite some time already.


    "State your name, your team name, your n name, and the number of mages in your team."


    The mage routinely said the moment Arthur and Iman stepped in front of him.


    "The name is Arthur, my team name is the Golden Lion, my n''s name is the Golden Lion n, and I have one hundred mage inside my team."


    Arthur replied, and the mage had a piece of paper behind him where everything he said was written there at once. "Go ahead and put your hand on the orb, put both of them tightly on it and wait as long as you can hold."


    The mage then pointed towards onerge crystal made of pure pink color. Arthur was about to head there, when Iman suddenly said:


    "Excuse me, I''m here to admit for the master position in the academy."


    The mage raised his head, for the first time, and nced at her for a moment, before saying in warm weing words:


    "Sure, sure, you can go directly into the academy and there someone wille and guide you afterwards."


    "Thanks," she replied, before winking to Arthur as she bypassed him. He smiled back, as he went towards the crystal and put both his hands over it and waited.


    The mage responsible for the test was another one, and he was already busy examining a hundred more of these crystals, so Arthur just waited patiently, while he tried to understand how this crystal worked.


    The mages next to him were like him, waiting for the tester toe and activate the crystal. Arthur observed the distant mages, who were now being tested.


    The crystal shed with dim light first, then bright lightter on, before one mage after another retreated away from it, like it was a very hot piece of metal. The tester would then observe the crystal keenly before writing something in his sheet of paper, and then make the mages go to the next test.


    ''So, I have to withstand the energy influx from this crystal then?'' Arthur muttered, as he knew it wasn''t a veryplicated test, however he nced again at his crystal, trying to figure out how this crystal emitted such immense energy.


    The crystal was pure cold, with nothing there to be felt from it. if he passes by it in the forest, he would never think it had such an extraordinary ability.


    Arthur knew there must be a trick somewhere, but he couldn''t ascertain it. it didn''t take long for the tester toe towards his group of ten mages, as he just patted with his fingers over the crystal of each one, making it start to work.


    "Try to hold as long as you can," the tester repeated the same words which he said thousands of times already.Arthur started to feel some energy trying to prate his skin, and it felt quite offensive towards him.


    As a reflex, he started to resist it, using his own energy to do so. Just as his energy shed with this hostile one, a great unpleasant feeling started to erupt there, plus something else.


    ''Interesting! This energy isn''t that harmful to me after all!''


    The moment the first sh erupted between the two energies, Arthur felt the change of his energy after this sh, as it felt slightly purer, and the energy that seemed hostile ended up being absorbed by his energy.


    ''So the test is tricky after all! My energy seemed to be very superior to this kind of energy, and thus I shouldn''t antagonize it, instead I should wee it.''


    His own thoughts led to a drastic change in his strategy, as he kept rotating his energy, but didn''t send it towards his palms, instead he gracefully weed the hostile energy, withstanding the first unpleasant reaction between it and his own, before he started to enjoy the benefits of absorbing this energy.


    Suddenly the rejection he had and the friction heat at his palms miraculously vanished. Arthur was closing his eyes to concentrate on these things, so he didn''t see what unfolded outside him.


    The moment he decided to absorb the energy, not reject it, the orb started to change color at once, showing dim red, bright red, dark red, then finally ck color. The face of the tester immediately changed, and everyone around Arthur felt a great wave of energy hitting their bodies, literally knocking them off the ground, driving them away from the orbs, making them fail the test.


    This scene had seeded in attracting the attention of everyone, and some mages started toe from inside the slightly opened door of the academy to witness that.


    "It''s another prodigy! This year is destined to be unique!" one of the magesing from the inside muttered.


    "But this one is slightly different from the others, as this is the first ck colored talent we had this year," another one replied, as he observed the reaction of the orb to Arthur''s energy.


    "Should we increase the energy now?" a third one asked.


    "Sure, they all have to fail this test, even if they are prodigies," their highest in rank mage replied, as he didn''t put these young prodigies into his eyes.


    After all he hailed from one of the mightiest ns, and he was currently the head of this test. He only saw his nsmen, and no one else.


    Arthur wasn''t aware of any of this, as he was enjoying the blessinging from this energy to his own. After a while, he started to feel the effects of this exchange getting lower, as if the energy was about to lose its effects on him.


    ''Sigh, it''s a given the lower you are, the more benefits you get when eating heavenly meat.''


    Arthur muttered to himself, as he was sure his gains would stop soon. Just as he inwardly shook his head in regret, the energy entering his body showed a dramatic change all of sudden, as if another source of energy was linked to his body, not the initial one.


    This new type of energy was much more aggressive than the previous one, and he felt its energy was harming his blood vessels, making him even bleed from his skin pores, attracting everyone''s attention.