Chapter 4: Chapter 4 Shio's challenge
After the exam had been finished Noah allowed the division captains who were watching from afar to enter.
This was the moment where the results of each applicant was going to be shown, the knights selection worked like this: if an applicant passed the exam then they are officially knights and they can get recruited by captains into their divisions and if you're in a division then you get paid highly and you get to go to more missions but if you're solo the amount you get paid is based on the amount of missions you participate in,
Then if you fail the knights exam you still have a chance of becoming a knight in only two ways, the first one is if you get recruited by a captain and that automatically makes you a knight and the other way is if you leave and retry next year to become a knight.
The moment of truth was upon everybody as they received their results and rankings one by one. The first person to receive theirs was Shio, his results were that he passed the exam with a 100 percentage pass rate and his ranking was Elite level, nobody was surprised as he was already really strong.
There were about 9 divisions, there was The Rainbow beasts division, The Yellow cross division, The phantom division, The blazing storm division, The shining diamond division, The hunters division, The black art division, The Frozen dragon division and The white star division with each captain being Elite level.
Noah asked the captains if there was anybody who wanted to recruit Shio and every captain raised their hands up, everybody was stunned at the sight of this scene.
Without hesitating Shio quickly chose to join the division with the greatest reputation, he joined the Frozen dragon division.
Next up was Fortune, he's results appeared and he passes with 93 percentage and was classified as somewhere in the middle between higher rank and Elite rank, which basically made him a high rank and he was also recruited by the Frozen dragon division.
Rin, Sora Lloyd and Shinji all turned out to be middle ranks. The next person to receive their results was Annie, her pass percentage was 49 and she was classified as a low rank, according to the rules anybody with a pass percentage of less than 50 failed the exam.
Shio and Rin were shocked and tried to defend her but were overruled, Annie thought that it was better if she gave up and so she decided to walk away but then she heard a voice say:
"Hey kid why don't you join my division, I mean you do have a lot of potential so it could work out." When she turned to see who just recruited her all she found was the captain of the most useless squad, The Black art division.
She saw that moment as her one and only chance of becoming a knight and so she took it.
Next up was Akiyoshi who passed with a 89 pass percentage and was a high rank, he was recruited by many divisions but then surprisingly he chose to join The Black art division.
The recruiting and results showing all came to an end with only 35 knights as the only ones who passed.
Shio went on and settled with his division at their mansion, and Annie also settled in with the Black art division.
"Well here we are home sweet home, we'll come to the black art division." The division captain Zak said.
Standing in front of them was a grey rundown mansion, when Zak opened the door the scene in front of them left them in shock, all the division members were lying down on the floor sleeping.
"Everybody wake up!" Zak shouted and all nine of them quickly stood up.
They all looked like a bunch of idiots in the eyes of Annie and Akiyoshi but they actually were idiots. The black art division had 10 members counting the captain, there were four girls and six boys, and all of them were wearing black uniform with a badge written Black art knights.
The girls were; Akane, Yumi, Mio and Amelia.
The boys were; Captain Zak, Vice captain Ayumu, Tsukasa, Kaita, Yoshinori, Kyojuro and Takeru.
"Guys I would like for you to meet our newest members Annie and Akiyoshi, please give them a warm welcome." Captain Zak said.
The whole team was dazzled and they all rushed to greet Akiyoshi and Annie.
"Wow another woman on our crew, you look absolutely gorgeous and stunning." Yumi praised.
"Cool another warrior to add to the team come on let's go help you put on your uniform." Kyojuro said and waited for the captain's response.
"Fine go help the both of them put on their clothes and show them their rooms." Captain Zak ordered and the division did the same.
The next day Shio left his division and went into the Knights of Lakhar headquarters, there he confronted the Head Master Iguro.
"Wait you can't enter there the Head Master is busy." The guard standing in the door said but Shio ignored him and entered anyways.
"Yo." Shio greeted the Head Master.
The head master was a 29 year old man who had long hair, deep brown eyes, a physique body with intense muscles and was wearing a black uniform that was different from the one Shio was wearing, it was different from the ones all the division members wore.
"Who are you? And why did you just badge in to my office like that?" The Head Master Iguro asked.
"My name is Nakamura Shio and I barged into your office because I want to battle you for you title, I heard that as the Head Master you should always accept these challenges, it's like your culture." Shio answered.
"HAHAHAHA, you want to challenge me what a joke." The Head Master Iguro responded as he laughed endlessly.
"I'm not here to make you laugh." Shio said,"I'm serious I want your job and title."
The Head Master stopped laughing and called out his assistant, and said," I want you to get this word out to everyone, there is going to be the battle for the Head Master and please get the battle ring ready."
"The battle ring shall be ready 14:00 sir." The assistant said.
"Good at 14:00 our battle will begin." The Head Master said and Shio nodded.
The battle ring or Arena was ready and every knight of Lakhar dropped their duties and went to see who challenged the Head Master.
Sitting at the audience sits Annie and Akiyoshi talked.
"I so hope that the person who challenged the Head Master isn't Shio." Annie said.
"You mean Mushi why would he challenge the Head Master?" Akiyoshi asked.
"Well that's because he's a moron."
The fighters appeared and on the left side the Head Master stood, on the right side Shio stood.
"Dang it Shio." Annie said. Everybody in the audience was shocked by this scene and they all laughed.
"You see that kid, everybody is laughing at you." Iguro said.
"They'll be laughing at you once we're finished." Shio responded.
The battle began, Shio took out his sword but the Head Master didn't take out his and he gave Shio a free attack. "Go on give me your best shot kid." Iguro said.
Shio did as he said and smacked him with the flat part of the blade which caused him to crash into the walls.
The whole audience was shocked by this scene as well as the Head Master himself, it appeared as though he never expected Shio to wield such magnificent power.
Iguro quickly got up and drew out his sword then he attacked Shio.
Shio blocked the sword but he was still crushed into the ground then he also got smacked with the flat part of the sword, which sent him flying then Iguro appeared behind him and kicked him away.
Shio did a flip and stood still he then attacked and Iguro did the same, their swords collided setting off intense excitement in the field but Shio was overwhelmed and was pushed back, Iguro then cut of Shio's arm and blew him away.
"This battle is over kid you should go before you lose anymore body parts." Iguro said.
"HAHAHAHAHA, this battle isn't over its only the beginning." Shio said as he smiled then used his spell ABSOLUTE HEALTH which regenerated his arm and healed his body.
Everybody's faces were stunned and left speechless.
Shio attacked and Iguro barely blocked it, Shio continued to attack and pushed Iguro into a corner but then he decided to use his Magical ability.
Shio's eyes started having problems as he did not know what was happening.
'Good my ability seems to be taking effect.' Iguro said.
Shio attacked but what was in front of him as Iguro changed into a wall and he stepped back, but then his body suddenly got slashed at the back.
'Oh I see he used his magical ability it must be messing with how I see reality, no it sent my mind into a reality he created and left my physical body here, although I still control my body everything I see, smell, touch, hear and taste are all from the reality he created, what a strong ability but too bad that his opponent is me.' Shio thought.
Iguro continued to attack Shio but then Shio used a magic spell TRUE CANCEL and it cancelled out Iguro's ability.
Iguro's eyes widened in shock but then Shio attacked him, their blades collided once more but it still seemed like Shio was being overpowered and he got a real beating, until he got smashed up with the walls.
Shio stood up again then said, "it seems like I cannot defeat you."
"You finally understood." Iguro said.
"I wasn't done talking, I cannot defeat you while limiting 90% of my powers." Shio said.
"What! No you're lying."
Shio released 15% of his power and a menacing amount of magic aura surrounded him, Iguro's face dropped sweats as he faced fear for the first time, the whole audience started sweating as well, even the Captain's.
Shio prepared himself to attack, but then all of the Captain's combined their magic power and formed a barrier that surrounded everybody in the audience.
Shio attacked and it was so fast that Iguro could not see it coming, and he alongside the arena were blown away, the Arena was devastatingly destroyed and whole country of Lakhar Shaked at the hand of Shio's power.
When everybody looked all they saw was Shio standing proud in victory and Iguro lying down on the floor defeated.
A few days passed and Shio was declared as the Head Master and he also declared that once The former Head Master Iguro was healed he will become his right hand.