Hero Jentaka
Chp.25 Save your energy

Crying.. The ringing alarm drew the attention of all the examinees towards the athletic body man wearing a gray slim fit shirt.

"I warn you if you have little luck or ability to complete yourself then you better give up" With a calm tone of speech the man's voice could be heard by almost a thousand people in that place because of the Qi running down his neck.

"Please get out through the elevator on your right" the man pointed in the maxed direction.

"If you insist, you may end up with serious injuries or death even in this place." The athletic man looked at the participants in the place. No one wants to give up for them already too far they get to this place, considering their origin from various parts of the country Centuri. Now for them to give up is not an option.

"The examination of the first stage of becoming a member of the military elite will begin.." The man's sound waves began to harden noticeably sweeping across the faces of the participants.

The athletic man turned his back and began to walk along a long passageway. Followed by nearly a thousand participants who followed behind him.

"Huh.. I wish someone would give up.." Theodore looked back and there was no one to back down.

They all walked back slowly following the footsteps of the athletic man. The footsteps began to feel fast as the people in front of Xernathan, Sanji and Theodorus began to run.

"Hurry up Theo the man in front of us starts running.." Sanji encourages Theodorus, who still seems to want to talk.

Hundreds of people made the echoes of their footsteps tremble filled the previously silent passageway. The athletic man began to flow back down his neck with Qi.

"I introduced myself, my name is Gatlin"

"First stage test tester" The athletic man introduced himself.

"If you want to go to the next stage of the exam please follow me, I will show you where the path is.." Connect the man to the rest of the participants while running and letting people follow him.

"Do we just have to follow you?"

"Towards stage two?" People looked at each other in wonder.

"Yes, but I won't tell you how far the second stage exam is.."

The man named Gatlin glanced briefly back. "The first stage is beginning."

People began to understand and continued to follow the athletic man's run.

"Rightly what you said earlier in Nathan's elevator, the first stage exam must be about physical strength." Theodore patted Xernathan on the shoulder as if cheering his friend.

"Just keep your energy Theo our journey is still very long." Xernathan doesn't like to see Theodorus joking around at a time like this.

"No problem, as far as I'm going to follow the runaway man who often exercises it" Theodorus looked trivially at Gatlin who became a first stage examination examiner.

"I will continue to follow as far as his legs stretch.." Theodorus shouted vaporizing the spirit in his chest. But people kept running to regulate their breath without caring about the scream.

'Chih.. Theo was always stupid instead of saving energy and yelled like that. Who was clearly strong alone no one dared to do such a foolish thing like him.' Xernathan swore in his heart.

'Heei Theo fools could be this endurance test will be endless..'

It was as if one thought - two of Theodore's friends - had cursed him in their own minds.

Now the number of remaining examinees is nine hundred four people with Sanji as the last number holder, which is nine hundred five.

One person had even been eliminated before the first stage examination began.

That is the person who was killed by a man in a neat suit wearing a rabbit head mask.

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Forty kilometers of distance they had already traveled from the start. Over a hundred people had already given up and stopped running.

"If you're all excited.why are you all so long.." A yellow-toothed man ran next to Gatlin, the man ran as he leaped for joy cheering the people behind him. Gatlin next to him only glanced briefly at the man.

'Urino said the distance we would travel was only about fifty kilometers I no longer needed to save my energy.' The man's mind as his mouth widened showed those yellow teeth.

The torch fire mounted on the walls of the passageway was like falling down as the people running around shook the wind at him and stood up again as the men passed by.

The people who originally lined up neatly are now all scattered. There's something right behind Gatlin. There were those beside Gatlin there were also those far behind. Of course someone stopped running.

Shpr.. The wheels of a skateboard rippled next to Theodorus.

"Woii who are you, cheating to undergo a physical exam like this on a skateboard.." Theodorus cursing the narrow-eyed child who was riding a skateboard next to him, Theodorus' breathing was already intermittent.

"Why indeed?" With a flat face the boy asked back to Theodorus.

"It's not clear already, we're undergoing a physical endurance test. You're riding a skateboard that means cheating." Theodore could no longer scream. As he continued to run he pointed at the face of the child who was riding a skateboard beside him.

"We misrepresented Theodorus, the first stage examiner did not say this was a physical exam. He said that we only need to follow him until the location of the second stage exam." Xernathan and Sanji ran some distance from Theodore so that at any time Theodore fainted they would carry him. They gave them a long distance so that Theodore would not complain and not talk to them.

"My name is Xernathan, the man who scolded you his name is Theodorus and the most handsome is Sanji.." Xernathan with a very wide smile introduced all his friends.

"It looks like we're just as handsome.." Sanji is actually lazy to admit, but he feels this narrow-eyed child is indeed worthy of praise.

"Whaa. You all seem to be the same age as me.. I should have run with you" The narrow-eyed boy returned Xernathan's big smile and Sanji's praise.

The slender-eyed child jumped off his skateboard and the skateboard disappeared as the narrow-eyed child swung his hand.

The narrow-eyed child shows the ring finger on his left hand. "It's called a haumuru ring, an heirloom of a dimensional safe, I can keep everything lifeless into this ring." The narrow-eyed child happily explained. While Theodorus and Sanji immediately understood the explanation of the narrow-eyed child but their eyes both caught something else in the left hand of the slanted-eyed child.

"You're wearing three necklaces Mr Urino gave you at once? You okay?" With a disjointed breath Theodorus forced to ask but while continuing to run.