Zol and Mason watched intently not missing a moment of what Alex was doing right now. They wished to see how exactly the new mana application could be used and while the VR was a poor environment to it too needed data to work on, it was their only option right now.

It was up to the VR system to play it by ear and adjust its parameters accordingly. A proper demo would be needed once the event was over.

........

Alex didn''t care about anything but killing the entity. He could feel his physical energies surge like a rising tide. Even he couldn''t tell how strong he had gotten.

The moment he moved, it was as if he teleported right before the entity, mid-air and with his pear held in his right hand.

He plunged the spear forward, aiming for the entity''s head. However, it wasn''t going to be that easy.

The entity was equally surprised by the change in Alex and wondered how that was possible. The power-up was enough to push him back several meters, after all.

Suddenly, Alex appeared before it and lunged for his head. He scoffed in its head and swiftly sidestepped out of the range of the spear.

Yet, Alex was just beginning as the moment he landed, he bolted towards the entity and delivered a series of rapid spear thrusts at different points on the entity.

The entity blocked the attacks it could and dodged the ones it couldn''t. One way or another, it was being pushed back by Alex and it didn''t like it.

It was his job to test the final participants for the sigil and only wanted those who showed strong will to succeed despite the low odds. The trial was meant to test their mental fortitude in moments that looked bleak.

Would the participants break down and fall into despair or would they continue fighting just for a sliver of a chance that never existed?

It was the reason it went after those who remained motionless for too long. Yet, one of them suddenly awakens a stronger power that rivalled its physical strength and speed.

Absurd!

It wanted to go out more but couldn''t as its strength was limited to a certain level; a level that meant little to the current Alex as his continued to grow stronger and faster.

He dared hold nothing back.

''Who is to say the being wouldn''t recover if given a bit of time or if it wasn''t completely destroyed? I''m taking no chances...

''Goodbye...''

The spear waltzed through the being as it exploded on impact, turning it into nothing but blood mist and pieces of flesh and armour.

*BOOOOOOOOOM!* Stay tuned to empire

The remainder of the spear''s momentum touched down and like several tonnes of nuke going off, it destroyed everything in sight, the resulting shockwaves blowing pillars into smithereens and dirt out at astonishing speeds.

The others had to rush out of the explosion''s area of effect to be safe. Even then, the air currents generated were too powerful as they swept some of them off their feet.

......

Everyone, from students to instructors looked at their screens in disbelief, watching as Alex pulled out another miracle.

With pure physical strength and speed, he killed a being that was designed to be unkillable. The only way out of that trial was to see the most courageous ones fight even when the odds were stacked against them.

Only after a few minutes of exchange would the being determine who was worthy of taking the Celestial Sigil.

It was a trial to test their resolve in the face of overwhelming power. What would they do in such situations? Would they accept their fate and die or do everything they could to resist?

Yes, the entity killed some beings and that was because remaining still in an active battlefield was asking to be killed.

They had to know that.

Yet...

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