Divinity

--- [Alex’s perspective]

Shit!

I didn’t expect him to find us this fast.

Dan isn’t fast enough to run away from Leon on his own, and Lett and Rin are injured.

If it wasn’t hard enough to escape from him normally, we also have to carry these people!

But we can’t just leave them to die either…

Had Leon not been so injured himself, there would be no way for us to get away.

But how did he get so injured?

All the people we’ve met so far seem to be so weak, what happened to him?

“Stop running away! I’ll catch you sooner or later anyways! If you hand over those people, I’ll let you go!” – Leon

That’s not happening.

Lett is Vic’s sister; I have to protect her!

Dan and Rin are her allies, so they’re my allies too.

But he’s right…

We won’t be able to keep this up forever.

It seems inevitable that there will be a fight.

Should we stop now before we run out of stamina?

I look over at Shin and it seems he’s thinking the exact same thing.

We both come to a sudden stop, then carefully dropped the people on the ground behind us.

It’s time to face Leon…

--- [Leanne’s perspective]

This year’s exam is exciting!

We’ve got quite a few interesting characters down there.

Especially that one team…

Shin Magnum and Alexander Minima, they’re both tremendously powerful.

Their level of control over BDM is insane for being unranked…

They’re both around the level of a high F-rank hunter.

Maybe even E-rank…

Alexander started learning BDM just six months ago too…

That level of talent is almost unheard-of.

There has only ever been a handful of people to have achieved that level of control in such a short amount of time; those people have all ended up becoming hunters worthy of being written down in history books.

I can’t wait to see what becomes of him in the future.

One day, he might even become an invaluable asset for us…

But Shin is no joke either.

He’s way stronger than I was when I took my first exam…

Just like very few people pass the F-rank hunter exam, very few people pass the exams after that too.

In fact, there are more F-rank hunters than there are E, D, C, B, A, and S ranked hunters combined…

Not everyone has it in them to become a high ranked hunter.

But…

They are both more talented than me, and I was able to reach B-rank…

It’s possible that one day they might even be able to reach A-rank…

Who knows, maybe Alex will one day reach even higher heights…

Even I have my doubts about that though…

S-rank hunters are the truly incredible; they’re the guild masters after all…

There is one more interesting character this year.

Leon Adamas.

Adamas…

The Adamas’ never disappoint, and this time it’s no different.

Well, that’s not quite true…

This Adamas doesn’t just not disappoint, he’s on an entirely different level altogether.

Leon has already learned SDM, that’s almost as impressive as reaching Alexander's level of mastery over BDM in six months.

The last time that happened was with Alexander’s brother…

And before him?

Well…

Never.

At least not in the 150 years I’ve had this job…

I’ll make sure to keep an eye on them; I’m very curious where they’ll all end up.

Nobody knows what lies ahead, not even me…

But…!

Whatever it is, I won’t miss it.