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A vast grassland had become a battleground for six unique energy beasts.
But the fight had yet to start.
They had revived a five-minute grace period but it was also about to end.
The six participants, or more like the six creatures in this scenario, had done their best to do whatever they could in this enormous place they were given as a battleground.
But even here, the two giants, the one resembling a mantis that seemed to be made of jewel-like white crystals, and the mountainous creature resembling a mix of turtle, a draconian, a mountain, and a dead forest.
While the looks this mantis possessed were blended seeing from afar, they were so terrifying that one looking at it from close might even get a momentary heart attack.
It was dangerous and that passive-angry look it had made everyone that tried taking a closer look at it, gasp with great terror.
On the other hand, the turtle like other creatures was too big, so big that even after using all the skills they had or devices they used, they could only clearly see up to the end of its four ginormous legs.
It was a thrilling experience just to see this creature, and even if they couldn't take a closer look at it themselves, they were provided a small image of this creature from which they could tell one thing… this being was nothing as they had known till this day.
The power it possessed was off the charts, and they could tell it only from the outer observations.
They had known about its kind and how strong they were and what absurd things they could do but even among them, this one was different and special.
From their new knowledge, this one could use demonic energy, a power only available to demons and demonic beings.
It was also an origin beast that had the origin of [Celestial mountains], a realm of only mountains and highlands, a unique place few in the world knew about.
It meant it could also use the origin energy only available to it, and combined with the special powers that came with it, and the skills, and the powers it ultimately gained after going through all those changes.
Some of them were positive and gave it enormous strength, while some were negative and almost poisonous that took away many things including its rationality from it.
They had revived a brief information on this creature so they knew it had a serious narcolepsy because of which it stayed in an uncontrollable slumber for a pretty long period of time. And right now, it was asleep.
The person using this creature couldn't do anything in this grace period because of this but he also had nothing to do when he could use a creature like this one.
He was carefree about his own creature as well as most of the other creatures, but just like everyone else, there was a certain 'normal' looking creature that he was worried about.
And a similar thought was also true for the holy swan that had a natural hate towards the turtle but at the same time a fear so intense that it was nothing like the other creatures.
It seemed like it knew just how dangerous this creature was and it was also true as it possessed the holy power, the opposite of the demonic one it possessed.
It was on guard and the girl that this swan belonged to, couldn't do anything when the swan had decided to not get close to it.
It naturally meant she couldn't win this fight, but still, she couldn't help but worry about that dark slime that was strangely eating a tree far deep in the forest area.
The drake and wyvern were also worried about that turtle and slime but for the two of them, that white mantis was far more intimidating and almost frightful than any other creature present there.
From their perspective, this mantis seemed like their natural predator, and just being in its presence was so bad for them that the two of them had moved away from it just like how the swan had moved away from the turtle.
This scene before everyone right now was not something they were expecting and the three people, the one with a holy swan, a flame drake, and a unique wyvern, all had almost given up on this test.
They didn't know their creatures would behave on their own and act like this so they had also figured out that throughout the fight, the creatures would fight on their own and they actually would only give them commands, which these creatures could defy if they find it naturally inappropriate.
They weren't simply their puppets but actually replicas of the creatures they would be fighting.
They didn't know this so now there were many variables…
Their chance of winning had gone down to the bottom already so, all three of them were at least having a similar thought.
Which was obviously to take out the weakest before dying themselves so that they can be at least not the first person to get eliminated.
So, even with their guts screaming at them to not do it, all three of them had surrounded the single black slime which was eating the trees and grass in the forest, sometimes shining with a dim light that everyone thought to be a sunlight reflection.
They knew something was wrong, the girl that had known about the giant creatures like the two in the open grassland was too quiet and only whispered her instructions, and the slime being a low intelligence creature, might definitely follow any instructions from their 'master' in this case.
But they didn't know why she would tell this creature to eat plants… and they had no time to think deeply about this.
Their preparation time was over, the clock before every one of them had turned red, and at the same time, the creature that was in a deep slumber, opened its big red eyes with a roar that pierced the heaven itself.
-GHAAAAAAAAAAAA!
"Breath O' great being. Let this illusionary world know of your presence!"
The boy from the back shouted right after his great roar and just after that, the creature breathed in almost all the air in the surrounding, creating a suction area that seemed to be devoid of gravity itself.
But this effect lasted only for a moment as right after this area of non-gravity was formed, the creature breathed out… and with its breath, it breathed out the demonic energy that was an innate part of it.
-SHHHHHHHHHHH…!
But it was demonic energy, something that opposed all-natural elements themselves, so as soon as this dark breath touched anything around, above and below it, everything died, and turned into something that resembled nothing but hell and the hellish lands that the demons created on this world, the demonic hell plains.
This was a sight to behold but, everyone was focused on something else… and that something was certainly not the mantis that still stood in this hell plain in a perfectly fine state.
It was, as everyone certainly knows, the black slime that was exactly a step outside this domain of demonic energy created by the turtle's breath.
There was a scene before everyone that they couldn't believe even if they wanted to, and this scene wasn't anything anyone, not even elder mages or king-ranked knights would expect to see in the short time this 'test' had started.
"..."
And even their teacher was silent right now, shocked to see something that absurd, and that much unrealistic.
There were three corpses in that area just outside the domain of demonic energy, and all three were smashed into pieces.
The giant flame drake, a historic creature that took experts an entire month to defeat, was now in a state that could best be explained as a finely chopped piece of delicious meat.
The swan… well, that holy creature with grace second to none was now chopped in a way it seemed like a butcher had prepared it with the finest cuts.
The wyvern, the ruler of the sky, was now in a state that could be explained with one word: sliced in half. Vertically no less.
Three creatures that were nothing less than the two catastrophes inside this demonic energy domain, were decapitated in mere moments, and this happened so quickly that many of the students had no idea what actually had even happened.
And probably most of them will never know it too, but one thing was certain… they could see the being that had done that bloodbath standing in the middle of all these corpses, and… it wasn't a black blob of slime that they were seeing before this moment of devastation.
There was a humanoid figure standing there, with a weapon that resembled scythes in its hand, but from any angle they saw, this humanoid with pure dark form, as if made of the dark itself, was in no way a human.
No… if anything, that face with only a smiling mouth that had sharp, long teeth, resembled those infamous demons.
And they would certainly only believe it if this was actually a demonic creature because… there was no way in hell these 'students' would ever believe the power that killed not one but three creatures of unique rank in that mere moment, belonged to a human, specifically a witch, and even more specifically, a witch that was sitting among them right at this moment.
