Magus Supremacy

"Time for the second assessment!" Ryan announced and the crowd baited their breaths waiting for what the next assessment would be. "For that, Captain Amir would conduct it."

Immediately Ryan was done speaking, he sat back down in his chair and the floating crystal got to Amir's position as he stood up and looked at the crowd.

'We definitely got a lot of applicants this year compared to other years.' he thought and then he cleared his throat.

"The second assessment would be a team hunt." Amir announced and everybody were surprised as they began mumbling and murmuring wondering what Amir was saying. "This assessment will comprise of you all forming a team of five and the groups would be teleported to our hunting grounds were you are expected to get your hands on at least 15 magical beast core from the beasts."

Hearing this, the whole crowd erupted in a murmur as they were wondering if the academies were planning on killing them all.

"15 magical cores?! That's insane! The captains are insane!" Someone shouted.

"Agreed! How are we supposed to hunt 15 magical beasts?!"

"Mind you, the captain said we would do it in a team of five so there should be no problem as long as your teammates are strong right?"

"But 15 magical cores? That's still a lot."

"Ahem!" Amir coughed and the murmurers went silent. "We didn't force you all to come here now did we? Do you think you coming to a magical academy you are going to have fun? Joining a magical academy is for you to grow stronger in combat and become the great mage you are destined to be.

We don't joke here! And if you know you can't participate in this assessment, the gates are opened up for you all!" He shouted while glaring at the crowd that suddenly shrank.

"Keh Keh Keh!" Captain Alex laughed as he looked at the crowd. "Along with being the most numbers of applicants we ever received, they are also cowards. It's safe to say they are the worst applicants ever."

"True! But should you have said that aloud? There are still some impressive people here." Sophia said.

"Tch! I can't wait to just get this over and done with." Alex scoffed and then Amir glared at the crowd.

"What? Is nobody leaving?" He asked and being met with silence, he continued. "Good! Now as I was saying, each teams of five would be teleported to our hunting grounds and would hunt level 3 hop bunnies and make sure to get 15 magical cores. Note! You would all be given a time limit of ten minutes. Any group that fails to get fifteen cores would be eliminated and sent back home."

"Is that understood?" Amir asked and everybody shouted at once.

"Yes sir!"

"Great! You all have five minutes to form your teams." Amir said and then he sat back down letting the applicants to huddle over and form their teams.

Grey didn't bother with that, as he walked back to a wall and leaned on it with his eyes closed when he heard footsteps approaching him.

'I knew it wouldn't be hard to find a team, considering my impressive display but a team so soon?' Grey thought as he opened up his eyes to see a young teenage guy with curly black hair with strands of brown beneath it and bright blue eyes walk over.

"Uhm… Excuse me Grey right?" The guy asked and Grey raised an eyebrow.

'Have I seen him from somewhere?' he thought as he stared long and hard when it finally clicked in his head. 'Right! He was the dude that was getting bullied earlier.'

"Yes… what do you want?" Grey asked.

"I… I was wondering if you would love to form a team with me please." The boy said.

"Huh?" Grey said with a raised eyebrow.

"Pardon my manner. Hi! I'm Arthur Rill, and I'm sixteen years old. I would love to form a team with you if you don't mind." Arthur said.

Grey just sighed and stood upright from his leaning position. 'I guess bullied individuals got to stay together and I can't pass this assessment if I don't form a team so…'

"Fine! So that makes two of us, we need three more people." Grey replied and he could see a wide smile on Arthur's face.

"Leave that to me, I would go find more team members." Arthur said and he was about to move when he heard a voice heading their way.

"Wow wow wow! No surprise there that the flashy new applicant would find a teammate so soon." They both heard a voice coming from behind them when they turned around to see a boy who stood around 5ft tall with blonde hair on his head and a beautiful hazel green eyes walk over with a smile on his face.

The guy was an epitome of beauty and was the kind that many girls would rush over and try to have their chance with him.

"Who's the pretty blonde hair?" A female from the crowd whispered as she felt her cheeks heating up while staring at the boy.

"I don't know but I would give anything to have him in my bed."

"Judging from his looks and charisma, he must be of noble blood."

"Even better." A girl was heard giggling.

"Well since you need more teammates, I would just have to join you after all, peasants got to stick together." The guy said.

"Di… did he just say he is a peasant?" A girl said and the previous stars dancing in her eyes got dimmed.

"Tch! Worthless."

"I can't believe my heart was fluttering for a mere peasant."

"What a waste of time." Another girl said loudly as she walked away while the boy was seen clenching his hands tightly but then he unclenched it and smiled towards Grey.

"Well we don't mind having you on board so welcome." Arthur said.

"I didn't approve of that!" Grey replied with a slight frown. 'This guy, with his pretty face, he would draw more attention towards me and I don't want that.'

"You want to pass or not?" The boy asked. "The rules clearly states that we need to form a team."

"True! Don't you want to get into the academy?" Arthur asked.

And Grey just sighed before he crossed his hands across his chest. "Fine! So who's going to be our fourth and fifth teammate?"

"No idea, but let's just hope they walk up to us." The boy laughed when as he said, two individuals were seen walking over.

One was a beautiful red haired female with fair and smooth skin with her red hair neatly packed and braided while her eyes burned with invisible flames of determination and as she walked past confidently with her arms crossed, every guy who sighted her felt like their hearts wanted to leap out of their chests.

While the second was a boy who had green hair with his brown eyes nervously scanning around as if he was scared of something or someone but the way he carried himself, was as if he was someone important too.

Walking over, they stopped right in front of Grey.

"You! We want you to join us!" The female said arrogantly while Grey looked at her with a frown.

"And who are you to command me like that? I'm not your slave so watch your tone you bitch!" Grey barked with fire twirling around his fingers when he quickly extinguished it.

'I can't show my other magic after saying I have just two affinities.' Grey thought and the female in front of him had her face scrunched up in anger with a vein sticking out of her head.

"Don't you know who I am? How dare…" she was about to say when the boy beside her stepped forward quickly.

"What Scarlet here is trying to say is that, we want to join your team. All other teams are already full and even though we are important people, I don't think anybody would like to compromise for us so we noticed that you were here with an incomplete team.

So hence we coming over. So if you don't mind, can you allow us join your team?" The boy said with a slight bow.

"What are you doing Vince? You shouldn't be bowing to peasants, they exist to serve us and not the other way round. He should be happy we even approached him." Scarlet said furiously when Vince stood up and glared at her.

"Will you let me speak, you annoying girl?!" He shouted.

"Look! I'm in no way interested in you two love bantering, and I don't want to form any teams with you so chop chop." Grey said as he turned around to leave when he felt a hand on his shoulder.

"How dare you walk out of my presence you peasant!" Scarlet shouted and Grey swiftly turned around with lightning crackling in his hands.

"Be careful how you touch me as you might get burned in the process." Grey said with a low threatening growl.

"Guys please! Let's stop this banter." Arthur said as he came in between.

"You shut up!" Grey and Scarlet shouted at once and Arthur shrank back.

"Alright!" They all heard a clapping sound and they could see Amir standing up with the floating crystal glowing in front of him. "Times up, let all teams come forward and if you don't have a team, kindly leave!"

"You see!" Vince said with a glare and Grey sighed.

"Fine! And I hope after this assessment, I don't have to see your annoying faces anymore!" Grey shouted as he walked forward.

"Me too!" Scarlet replied and they all walked forward registering their team names and all the necessary registration.

When all was done, some men began descending down onto the coliseum and they placed their hands on the ground.

"Teleportation circles have all been placed around the coliseum and all these men will activate it teleporting you all to the hunting grounds for the second assessment. So good luck you all!" Amir said and the whole coliseum lit up with a bright white light.