"A B- is actually an outstanding result for this assessnt,"
The woman paused to look at Alex, and continued, "You're likely the highest scorer in this batch. Most students can only slightly increase the elental energy in their surroundings, which is considered a good result."
Alex listened intently, taking what the woman said with deep interest.
"You've taken it a step further by manifesting your elental control into the physical world with your fire, and the spatial disturbances."
Her words offered so consolation.
She added, "FYI, to achieve an S result, you'd need basic manipulation over your elent, which essentially ans your control needs to be good enough to use it in battle. This is also the main requirent for upgrading your soul core to C tier."
Alex nodded, absorbing the information.
Despite his initial disappointnt, he realised that his result was actually very good.
***
Alex returned to his dorm, feeling a mixture of relief and exhaustion.
The elental assessnt had taken all of the energy and effort out of him for the day, and all he wanted to do now was rest.
Ring! Ring!
But before he could do that, his communicator started going off like crazy, and like a fairy, Mira's face appeared in front of him in holographic form.
"Hey! Alex, how did your elental assessnt go?" She greeted, excitedly smiling the whole ti.
She couldn't wait to talk to him.
"I got a B-, how did yours go?" Alex replied, smiling back with his cheeks slightly flushed.
Only a day had passed since they had started their relationship officially, and it was still going to take Alex so getting used to — seeing Mira's face so up close and personal, even though it was a hologram, made his chest feel funny.
Mira's smile faltered slightly, "I got a C…"
Alex's eyes widened in surprise.
'A C? That doesn't sound right for her. I expected her to get around the sa as …'
Mira sighed, her expression a mix of frustration and acceptance. "Yeah, it's not great compared to my other results. But considering most E ranks don't have any elental control at all, I guess it's not too bad."
'Oh yeah, I completely forgot she's not even a D tier yet!'
Alex nodded, "True, and you only have one elent so far don't you?"
Alex was right.
Mira only had so control over the space elent, which was the reason why her results were so 'low'.
Her talent, Call of the Void, was strong, incredibly strong.
But it was also difficult to control.
Mira had spent the entirety of her ti in the Primordial Expanse teaching herself how to use it. It wasn't like she had any instructions or a teacher, so she had to work her way up from the bottom.
Thanks to this, she had no ti at all to practice her space elental control.
The small amount of control she had was thanks to the small tidbits she had picked up over the months through the usage of her talent.
If it wasn't for her even gaining the talent, she'd have ended up like the majority of the students in not even turning up for the elental assessnt…
Switching topics, Alex leaned forward. "So, about the final assessnt — the strategy assessnt. Have you read the details?"
Thanks to the difficulty of this assessnt, the university had released so details about it beforehand.
Mira's expression turned serious. "Not yet, but I have heard so things. It's going to be the longest and most difficult assessnt so far. For most students, it will be the deciding factor on whether or not they even qualify for the rankings!"
Alex nodded, pulling up the information alongside Mira's hologram. "The format is an assassination scenario…"
This was what worried Alex.
He had no idea how to assassinate soone!
It's not like there was a school soplace where he could learn all about the art of assassination… right?
"The assessnt will take place in a Virtual Reality environnt. After all, it's not like they'd get us to assassinate real people…" Alex joked.
"Each student will be loaded into a separate VR environnt and stripped of all of their awakened abilities, left with only the body of a normal human being!" Mira spoke, reading from the information sheet.
The two of them continued reading through the details of the assessnt released by the university, and couldn't help but feel uneasy about the upcoming assessnt…
Their goal was to assassinate an F- rank awakened. Even though this didn't sound like much of a challenge, it would actually be their hardest test yet.
The difference between an F- rank and a normal human would be like pitting a kitten against a fully grown, battle hardened adult lion.
"We need to rember that we're not just trying to kill an awakened," Alex said. "We're doing it without any of our usual powers. We have to think like normal humans again."
This was where strategy ca in.
Since they had no strength to rely on, they had to focus on using all of the other factors to their advantage.
Things like their intelligence, experience etc would be crucial.
And most importantly, environntal factors.
Unfortunately, the university hadn't released anything related to how exactly the assassination would be set up, so they could only speculate.
But that was why there was a 1 week ti limit to this assessnt, which would only be 1 day in reality thanks to the ti dilation technology on the Virtual Reality pods.
They had a week to assess, analyse and examine everything they could use to their advantage in assassinating the F- rank.
"Man, this is going to be tough…" Alex spoke, unsure if he could even pull this task off.
"Yeahhh…" Mira agreed, also just as worried.
***
The next morning, Alex woke up feeling refreshed. But that was about the only good thing about his start to the day.
The strategy assessnt would start in a few hours, and he hadn't co up with any ideas on how he'd even approach completing it yet.
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