Chapter 202: 202. CATEGORIES
The hall was surely a few tens of miles in radius. It had massive golden pillars hundreds of meters tall and tens of meters wide, keeping the white ceiling up.
Wrapping around those pillars were golden zig-zagged figures, which clearly resembled streaking lightning bolts.
‘I wonder if they have a guild crest,’ Noah thought never removing his gaze from the room.
Right across the room was a massive golden stage a few tens of meters in height, but spreading across for a kilometer or so.
On this platform, Noah could clearly see four magical beasts all radiating power far above tier 4, and in the midst of them was a figure he couldn’t make out from that distant.
Without halting his steps, Noah walked down one of the two steps on opposite sides at the end hallway.
The massive ground space which had yet to be filled had rows of humans pour into it from the nine hallway endings in that room.
The walk towards the front of the pulpit began this journey taking almost an hour to complete. But even at that, there were already a thousand individuals before them.
“Do not leave the line. Now we shall wait for all you fellow aspirants to arrive,” Lady Sophie announced, standing perfectly straight, her head rasied towards the Individual before them.
Nodding their heads at her words, the group of 43 stood in a straight line with minimal movement. They were capable of standing for hours and still not budge, which was exactly what they did.
Two hours passed before people stopped walking into the room, and even by then, the room still wasn’t filled.
The level of boredom Noah had experienced during those two hours had caused him to hum a few songs he remembered from Earth.
Having gotten closer to the pulpit, Noah had obviously gotten a better view of the individual that stood atop the pulpit without so much as an inch of movement.
However, the persons face was covered by a black veil, leaving only their blonde hair in the open.
The individual was clearly a man due to their straight black and golden striped garment with a long golden cape, and hairstyle.
However when it came to percieving the persons power, Noah senses were at a loss. The man radiated not an ounce of power.
Maybe it was because they were Intentionally not allowing their aura out, since even tier 4’s were like that unless they released whiffs of their aura, but the event still startled him.
Noah could clearly sense that the beasts around him were above tier 3, although they didn’t enforce their full aura which would probably be enough to kill them, however due to his understanding of magical beasts, he could clearly sense reverence in their intelligent eyes.
The matter sounds unimportant, but if one looked at the fact that a single Individual would struggle to defeat a beast their level.
Unless they were monsters like Noah, or the rules changed in favour of man in tier 4, then the scene was totally weird.
“Good day gentlemen and ladies. I hope your stay in our refurbished hostels were nice,” the man’s voice encompassed the whole hall, and he continued without waiting for a response.
“We greatly aplogize for the inconveniences you experienced on your way here. But thankfully all of you are present,” he paused.
‘Yeah, at the sacrifice of your members,’ Noah thought, his anger not present on his face.
“As you all know, our guild; the Divine Lightning guild, is one of the three great guilds in out nation. And even competes with other guilds in the two other nations on our continent,” he suddenly began to float.
“Why do I say this? Due to the tough competition and in order to keep our status, we do not appreciate anyone who isn’t above average in terms of being a cultivator. Which is why out guild members are tagged geniuses amonst the higher echelon’s,” he paused sweeping his calm gaze on the multitude.
“Now that you all understand a bit of our requirements, lets get on to the real deal,” the man said flying higher into the room, before stopping at a particular height.
“The screening phase will last for merely four days. But in this period you will know if you will be one of those gaining entry into our guild,” the expert explained.
“There are three categories of the screening phase. Which consists of different tests. The first is the body, the second being the mind and lastly your cores,” he paused before continuing.
“Let me expanciate. The first three days will hold three different tests each day holding trials for the vessels of power as i have mentioned,” he explained.
“The last day will feature a race. More will be said on that later one,” he explained standing on the head of the metallic fox beside him, over 50m in height.
“I’m sure the tests sound easy. But do not forget that they will be difficult even for geniuses who have high comprehension in whatever affinity they wield. They were fashioned to the Incredible requirements that we set for our guild members,” the man explained pausing for a few seconds to allow his audiences assimilate his words.
‘This feels like a cult,’ Noah giggled inwardly.
“Now to how things will play out.”
“There are three categories of cultivators in this room, those who are tier 1’s to tier 3’s. And due to this, we can’t place all of you in the same court,” he started.
“I’m certain you all have a group leading you. Well they will be your guide through out the entire screening process. So please group leaders be nice,” the expert seemed to smile.
“You will all be grouped into the categories you stand. Tier ones please gather here,” the expert gestured at the left side of the room.
“Tier two’s here,” he gestured at the right side. “And tier 3’s please gather in the middle,” he explained, and they quickly began to do as told.
Due his group already being in the middle, Noah didn’t need to move much, simply allowing others to go through their line.
The process took another hour, but proved to be one of the smoothest organising process Noah had ever witnessed.
“Hey white haired man.”
Someone suddenly sounded beside Noah, and he felt surprised to see Ariana, and suprisingly she too was at the forefront of her group.
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