4 Chapter 3 (1/2)
A few minutes before.
”I can't believe you Goz, who let someone fight a Devil on his first combat test!? And you too Mr. Raymond, who as the S-ranker in charge, approves of a thing like this!?”
The moment she heard about what Goz and her boss has done, Tina left her job come running to the arena, where she saw both her Goz and her Boss, Mr. Raymond, the S-ranker in charge of the testing sitting around chatting like they about to see a nice show. Angered by their attitude she immediately began to berate them and asking them where are their conscience.
”Don't you worry that he will die before we manage to interfere? You could lose your job for doing something like-”
”Ahh! Enough! My head hurts from all of your naggings,” Finally couldn't tolerate it anymore, Goz cut her off while she spoke, ”I didn't want to do this either, because if even if that brat win, he will probably too exhausted and full of injuries to fight me. This is all because of him” he said while pointing at Raymond who sat near him with an amiable smile.
”Huhu, he's right I was the one who told him to do this,” the middle-aged man opened his mouth, ”however, I have support from the higher-up to do this, after all this is too weird that an A-ranked Hunter popped out of nowhere without any previous background.”
Hearing this, Tina still tried to argue, ”but he passed the truth test of the police, and it proved that he is speaking the truth, so why is do you still need to suspect him.”
”Because that he is speaking the truth the higher-up wanted to use that kind of means to test his abilities.” Raymond's face turned serious. ”After all, a hunter that trained completely outside the jurisdiction of the association isn't something that happens often.”
”But still, using a Devil is a bit too much,” Tina still tried to argue.
”Enough, this is the final say I have about this situation. In any case, you shouldn't worry about him getting killed, the Devil he is fighting against is drugged and will only fight at 50% of his ability, and in addition, there is a bomb inside him that will explode at my decision, so you shouldn't worry so much about him dying.”
After finally calming Tina down to some degree, Raymond looked back at the arena with eyes full of curiosity. ”In addition, my instincts tell me there is something unique about that man, so for now no more talking, I don't want to lose any detail about this fight.”
And as soon as he ended his words, the Devil has begun to move started to walk toward Nex, but before any regular eye could notice, the devil vanished from where a was and almost instantaneously appeared behind Nex and stabbed a scythe through his back.
”Kyaa!”
Tina shrieked and covered her eyes to horrified to look, but in contrast to her the people next to her who knew what truly happened and that it wasn't Nex, but an afterimage of his, had a different reaction, Goz looked in disbelieving eyes while Raymond smiled brightly as if his hopes come through.
But none of them prepared for what happened after.
Before the devil managed to move after realizing that his attack didn't succeed, Nex appeared next to where he was and swung his sword down in a simple motion. And as if cutting through butter, decapitated him.
And at that moment silence fell on the three who watched this scene, and each a different expression on his/her face. Tina mainly astonished and relieved, Goz happy and full of battle intent, while lastly, Raymond had a face as if he trying to comprehend what he just saw.
Swinging the sword to clear off the purple Devil blood, Nex looked back at his ”audience”.
”Well, did I passed the Test?”
After staring at him for a few moments, Raymond finally reacted and sighed deeply and answered: ”yes you have passed the test, normally, if the matter was my decision I would give you the license immediately, but since it is an order from my superiors, you would need to defeat Goz additionally.”
Goz, who sat next to him a moment ago, was now standing in front of Nex while making a clicking sound from his body while stretching.
Nex stared at Raymond, and then at Goz who was Grinning at him and shrugged. ”Sure, that what I expected anyway.” he then threw his sword back to where he picked it from, and then signaled with his finger for Goz to come. ”Come, I want it to finish it quickly”
Goz seeing this begun to chuckle, ”hehe, I'm not like that half-assed demon, you would probably need the sword in order to wound me.”
Nex shook his head. ”I only use a weapon to kill or when it is truly needed, now we are only sparring and since your level isn't higher than mine I would fight barehanded.”
”You dare to look down on me?!” Feeling angry and humiliated, Goz yells at Nex.
Nex, clearly not caring about what Goz said, just shrugged his shoulders.
”If you want me to do otherwise you would have to prove it.”
”Haha! Very well I will prove you by breaking your bones first.” with those words, Goz charged at Nex in breathtaking speed while his body began to glow in threatening light.
For a normal person, witnessing a giant like Goz running toward them like that will scare them out of their wit. But Nex was completely calm as he stared at him unfazed.
And the moment that Goz arrived where Nex is and was about to punch him with, time seemed to stop for a second along with the sound of a whip followed by the sound of something crashing.
*Bang!*
And then the world seemed to change in an instant.
Where Goz just was stood Nex with a pose that looked like just punched something with his fist stretched out, and on the other side near the wall of the arena, there was Goz lied on the floor seemingly dead with his body shape slightly embedded on the wall.
”Goz!”
Managing to finally shake off the shock he felt, Raymond ran to where Goz was while Tina followed behind.
”Oh, you don't have to worry about him I only knocked him out”
Ignoring what Nex said and Arriving where Goz is, Raymond checked Goz pulse and then released a sigh of relief, ”he's okay.” After making sure Goz is okay, Raymond turned to Nex and said without disguising the surprise in his eyes.
”That was quite a punch, It's hard to believe that someone with only A-rank magic power could do this.” he looked deeply at Nex who seemed unfazed by the meanings of this sentence, but then he smiled ”luckily I saw the results so you won't be suspected for Rank forgery.”
Hearing this, Nex smiled as well. ”Does that mean that I can now get the hunting license?”
”Haha, of course, in fact, we will issue it immediately as someone in your state would probably want to earn money soon aren't you.”
Hearing this Nex nodded.
”You read my mind.”
***
”This is the Hunter ID, its color is black meaning you have a Hunting license and eligible to enter danger/hunting zones according to his Rank, where you have not passed the test, you would have got a white ID notice that it can also be used as a credit card and a bank account for your convenience. In addition here's a communication device that given for an A-rank Hunter through in it has a high-level computer and navigation device, do notice that a new one will cost money if you ever lose or break this one. And that's all, is there anything you want to ask?” Tina said while giving him what seemed like a black credit card and a futuristic(at least from Nex point of view…) wristwatch.
Nex thought a bit and then spoke.
”I have one question.”
”Please ask.”
”Where the Demonic Beings worth the most?”
”...”
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Goz woke up inside a hospital be inside the treatment room of the arena, trying to understand how he got there he remembered what happened earlier in his fight against the guy who he was supposed to test until he suddenly heard a voice.
”Oh? I see that you are awake? Good, I want to hear what happened there from you.”
Turning his head Goz saw Raymond standing next to his bed. Thinking of what his boss just said Goz smiled grimly.
”There isn't much to explain, while I was about to hit him with my fist, he suddenly had a different air around him like I was standing in front of someone who can see through all of my openings. The next thing I know is that I felt like a truck hit me in the guts, and afterward is that I waked up here.”
Goz then looked at Raymond who had a similar expression on his face and said: ”Boss, I think we just met someone incredible! To be so strong already at A-rank.”
Raymond sighed and said while looking toward the arena where Nex was a short time ago.
”Its more than that Goz. Even though he showed power well over A rank, his magical power never actually passed that level.
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