St Chaos Healer

Ch 29 - Benjamin's Trial

As soon as my name was called out I jumped into the puddle.
A number of eyes stared at me, eager to see who was the next candidate.

After entering the puddle, I headed to the trial area while also stretching my arms and shoulder. I have to at least be physically ready to intake the corrosion within itself. I have no idea how it might affect me, but I was more than ready.

Maybe warming up won't do anything but it's better than doing nothing. The warm-up would also ready me mentally as I was used to doing warm-ups before training. The human body were frail so they often need warming up. Otherwise, they get muscle cramps and other minor inconveniences that might act as a hindrance in their time of need.

In the demon world, there was no such thing as a warm-up.

As I was headed towards the center in the trial area, I could also hear giggles from the corner of the crowd.

I subconsciously checked at the distance just to my surprise, a fat lump of meat was giggling.
It was none other than Moses with his little gang who was watching with a shrewd smile. The fatso was surrounded by a bunch of other kids from our village. They had taken the front row seat to watch my trial.

I wasn't offended but rather surprised to see Moses managed to clear the first trial. The fatso was pampered to the brim that he couldn't even swat a fly without help. I thought he might get killed by one of the rail guards for acting like an ass before he could even enter the first trial.

But I heard that Moses had some distant nobles. I thought it was a rumor but that explains this rumor to be true.

I guess only physical training doesn't mean jack if you are just not able to manifest mana core. No wonder the supervisor emphasize to forget being a mage.

I would be thoroughly shocked if Moses cleared all the trials and become a mage. I would just lose my belief in the entirety of the mage system.

I quickly shook my head and tried to clear my head.
Gotta focus on what's in front of me.

Just when,
"Oi Beanjam!" suddenly a familiar voice shouted.

Beanjam? What?
I turned around just to see Tracker with a smile giving me thumbs up,
"Best of Luck."
Shorty giving me good luck caught me off guard but I was more annoyed by the fact he mispronounced my name in front of everyone.

As soon as Tracker said so, I could hear people bursting into a chuckle.
The group that was most enjoying this was none other than Moses and his lackeys.

I angrily glared back at Tracker but didn't bother to say anything.

Meanwhile, Tracker was rather confused,
"Hey, what's with that look. I wished you luck and you repay me by glaring at me. Huh?"

I just ignored him and continued to walk heading towards the trial area.
Arguing with him would just make me look like a bigger fool and ruin my mood.

As I continued to head to the center I turned my attention to the puddle itself.
The puddle water was just knee-deep. Not to mention there was a sweet smell in the air. Probably because of the constant discharge of mana from the sword into the water. This lead to a change in the water's properties.

As I reached the edge of the trial area, supervisor Canith was waiting for me. He was still standing on top of the mysterious blue rock like before. He never even once stepped down from the rock. If he had to go somewhere he would rather fly along with the rock-like as if he was glued in place.

Not to mention this mysterious blue dull teal rock had the property to absorb all the corrosion emitted by that mana sword in the center.

Without wasting any second I stood in front of the supervisor Canith and greeted him with a gratitude bow like every other candidate who came before me. The gratitude bow used by this kingdom is a bit different. You have to cross your right arm to the chest while touching your hand to the left shoulder and bowing your head.