When everyone finished, Elder Ron spoke. "The first one in this assessment is Yasenia! Followed by Gustav and Ryuuji. Only the three of you killed the Tayra congratulations! Those that have reached the Komodo dragon fight go forward! For the others, depending on the previous assessments, you will be either put on the red, orange, yellow, or green class! The ones that have reached the last test will be put in either the blue, indigo, or violet class!"
The ones that passed advanced forwards. There were only 1,000 people of the almost 300,000 people that presented. They reached the assessment area, with six arenas in two lines of three.
They were surrounded by a ton of stands making a gigantic stadium. Here there are all the teachers and alumni that were spectating before.
Madelaine got up from the teacher's stands and landed before them.
Madelaine had light purple hair and black and blue irises that seemed to be able to swallow everything. With a 173cm tall build and a slim body, her cold features were beautiful but intimidating. Even when she spoke gently, you would feel respect for the woman.
She looked over and spoke. "The last assessment is to win against the senior of the violet class appointed by the academy. If you can win, you will be put directly in the violet class usurping their position, so don't expect mercy from them. If you don't win, you will be paired against someone from the indigo class with the same conditions. If you lose those two battles, you will begin from the bottom of the blue class and have to fight to grow. That's all, begin!"
Seeing nobody step forward, Yasenia took it upon herself. She started walking calmly towards one of the arenas. Her [Blood flower spirit] robes waved with the wind as if she was stepping on clouds.
Her long and fine dark hair and seductive features accompanied her tall and well-endowed body drawing the gazes of everyone. Her golden slit eyes calmly looked around, and when she stepped onto the arena, she said with a smile. "So? Who is my opponent?"
A female jumped from the stands. She had long chestnut-colored hair and brown eyes, with delicate features, and was 165cm tall.
She said with a taunting smile. "Are you so impatient junior? I'm Ellie, and out of the 100 violet class outer disciples, I'm ranked 45th. My cultivation is at the eighth level of the Body Modification realm. Although beating up a junior only on the second level isn't to my taste, you must forgive me today."
Yasenia answered by taking out her giant sword and circulating her energy. She started remembering her lessons with her mother.
'A battle between cultivators is completely different from a battle against beasts. Doing faints and interrupting the beast tempo is easy... at least for the low-ranked ones. However, a cultivator is cunning. Never go all out at the beginning unless you are absolutely certain of winning.'
Tatyana, at that moment, smiled mischievously. 'Instead of using faints, use mind games. Play sheep to eat the tiger, deceive them in their own games, and when they think they have you... Kill with one strike! Your tail will be one of your most useful assets. Use it well.'
Yasenia asked, looking at the teachers. "Can we make lethal attacks?"
Madeleine smiled and said. "Yes, there is a formation that reverses one lethal injury per person a day. Nonetheless, if we think your attack will be too devastating, we will stop you, but the stopped person will win, so don't worry. Fight without concerns."
Yasenia nodded and waited for the signal.
"Begin!"
Yasenia played on the defensive.
Ellie charged forward with her long sword, her steps seeming elusive and fast, making Yasenia have a problem following her.
When Ellie was halfway, she waved her hand, and a fireball as giant as a person launched toward Yasenia.
Yasenia jumped to the side instead of evading normally. As she had expected, that fireball exploded in her previous position.
Ellie used the time when Yasenia was evading, covered her sword with magma, and thrust her sword powerfully.
Yasenia calmly covered her sword with the [celestial coat] and charged toward Ellie. Then, she did a powerful diagonal strike that went from the upper right to the bottom left side.
*Bang!*
The two swords collided, and Yasenia was sent backpedaling six steps while Ellie only moved one step.
Ellie smiled and charged again with the magma cover. She was also sending fireballs occasionally, and she was wearing down Yasenia little by little.
Four minutes went by in this back-and-forth exchange.
Ellie saw her sword's [Celestial coat] getting thinner and thought she already had it in the bag.
At that moment, Yasenia suddenly used the Full body [Celestial coat], and it shone with a new brilliance.
The divine-looking Yasenia charged forwards with more than double the previous speed!
Ellie was surprised and hastily erected a firewall to stop the quick dragoness. Yet, it was cut vertically by the giant sword.
Feeling an opportunity now that Yasenia was mid-swing, Ellie did a vertical slash toward Yasenias head.
However, she felt something piercing her chest when she was about to bring down her sword.
She looked down only to see a golden tail piercing a little to the right of her heart.
Then she heard a soft voice clarifying the situation. "You lost."
Ellie lost consciousness and dropped sideways.
Yasenia pulled out her tail, and blood sprayed from the wound. Some people jumped toward the stage and took Ellie to the medical room.
Yasenia's strategy was to make her opponent forget about her tail and, in a burst of power, use the giant sword as bait for her tail to strike.
She succeeded and won.
Yasenia smiled and looked toward the teachers.
She saw praising gazes and nods.
However, some of the violet class commented, "If she was that strong, why didn't she use all her strength from the beginning? She is like her tail, a complete snake!"
Some people followed. "Truly treacherous, no wonder the beast-humans are so little in the sky continent. I'm sure that they are all like her."
More murmurs appeared with time.
The teachers thought for a moment and didn't say anything. They looked toward Yasenia, thinking. 'If she can't deal with this little amount of discrimination, she shouldn't be worthy of entering the academy or the cultivation world at all.'
Yasenia looked at those people with a smile and was about to speak when the air around those people started to freeze.
A blue-haired woman with icy-blue eyes and icy countenance spoke. "I don't understand how you made it to the violet class if you are mocking even the most basic fighting rule when fighting; that is, one must not reveal all your cards from the beginning. You should return to the red class and climb from zero again."
Yasenia looked over, and warmth crept into her heart when she saw Cecile's icy face. She added while laughing. "This is so ridiculous, hahaha! I asked the teachers, and they said to fight without reservations. She is lucky I wasn't a poison master, or I would have been ever more 'treacherous.' If you are so narrow-minded, you can't even accept someone different from yourself...."
Yasenia raised an eyebrow and continued. "You should go to the heart-demon formation and see if you still can last a minute inside."
Then she walked towards Cecile's side, sashaying her hips.
When Cecile was about to speak, she was engulfed in a warm embrace, her head sinking into something soft and sweet-smelling.
Yasenia smelled the almost forgotten refreshing scent and felt the cool body between her arms. Then separated and looked down at the face with reddish cheeks with a gentle smile and voice. "Long time no see Cecile, thanks for defending me right now."
Cecile was so overwhelmed that she only could respond with a shy affirmation.
Yasenia curled her tail in front of her to not bother anybody and continued to watch the fights.
The people around were surprised, and a boy from nearby asked. "Do you know each other? It seems that you are good friends!"
Yasenia started to make a little conversation with her future classmates.
Meanwhile, Cecile remembered the head pats and the feeling of the soft tail and couldn't help but send some looks toward it.
As if reading her mind, Yasenia patted Cecile's head softly while speaking to the other people.
Cecile closed her eyes a little, savoring that feeling. 'So soft~.'
One girl nearby couldn't help but shyly ask Cecile, who had a little smile on her perpetually cold face. "Does it feel good?"
Instead of Cecile, it was Yasenia who used her long tail expertly to pat the two people at the same time.
The girl was more expressive and muttered. "What... So comfortable... It is soft and warm and relaxes my mind a lot..."
The girl closed her eyes with a smile.
This was not without reason. Yasenia's tail had an energy-absorbing quality.
It is an extremely good energy conductor, so when caressed by it, it will absorb your body's extra energy and relax your muscles and nerves.
If put on the head, it relaxes your thoughts, absorbing the brain's excess energy. Yasenia has researched massages and similar things because she wanted to help Tatyana with what she could.
So, if Yasenia gives somebody a full body massage with her tail, they will almost all the time fall asleep because of relaxation.
After a few more seconds, she took back her tail with a laugh, saying playfully. "Should I make a stall with this?"
Some people couldn't help but laugh while that particular girl was thinking seriously about it.
Madeleine approached their group and started speaking calmly. "That kind of stall is not against the regulations unless you do things like harassment in the name of massage. It has happened before, so the punishment is not light, be careful."
Yasenia and the rest stood up and bowed. "Hello, teacher Madeleine!"
Madeleine nodded and said to Yasenia. "It seems that you know Cecile. She is the student I picked the past year, this year I only have one disciple quota because-"
Cecile intervened. "You recklessly destroyed the arena when you got excited."
Madeleine choked a little. "*Cough* Well, things happen. What do you think, Yasenia? Do you want to become my disciple?"
Yasenia seriously thought. 'I rather become Mason's disciple. He seems to have the same fighting style as me seeing that giant sword on his back... But he hasn't sent me an invitation. If I reject her, maybe I will lose this opportunity...'
Madeleine waited patiently for her to think.
'Madeleine excels at what I'm weak at, the skills. Because my energy is difficult to control, I have only created my [Celestial coat]. My mother told me it is something powerful that will most likely accompany the rest of my cultivation road. She was very proud about it and that night rewarded- *Cough* Don't go on a tangent. In short, I should accept.'
Madeleine seeing the slight redness in her cheeks, got a big misunderstanding. 'Did she fall in love with me? Well, I wouldn't really mind... No, no, no, what are you thinking!'
On the other side, Cecile didn't know why, but she had the urge to punch her respected master in the face.
Yasenia answered with a full ninety-degree bow after some seconds of thinking-
This sent some males and females into a daze because of the big bounce her breast did because of momentum. "I, Yasenia, daughter of Countess Tatyana of the Moon Empire, accept Master Madeleine."
Then she straightened her waist and added while looking into Madeleine's eyes with her golden slit eyes. "I will be in your care, Master."
Madeleine nodded happily.