We all walk over to the door as the knocking gets louder.
I reach forward and open it to see a low-level waiter holding the golden exit card that's on the back of the door. He looks us over for a moment before speaking.
"Ray, Emrie, Natalie, right this way. Stage 1 of the exams will now begin. I wish you the best of luck."
He slips the golden card into a small black box similar to the one I put my ID into when I first met one of the guards outside of this compound when I arrived.
It disappears inside, and he turns to the black door at the back of the hall to scan a wristband in the scanner at the door.
Unlike yesterday, when all of us tried ours, the door clicks open and a bright white room shows itself within.
We walk out into the hall, and when peering in the opposite direction, I can see the gold and silver doors wide open with countless other men and women in tuxedos greeting dozens of hunters at their doors.
Everyone is escorted to the end of the hall and through the black door into the mana-shielded white room.
It's enormous.
The room stretches out over 300 meters in every direction, and inside, there are small cubicles separated by another layer of extremely dense mana shielding.
A strong silver door with a screen displaying a number is on every cube.
The attendants escort each of us to the cube with our numbers on them.
Ember is assigned to the cube right next to mine, and Natalie's is next to his.
However, once we walk inside, and the silver door clicks shut, the outside world completely disappears from my senses.
To see through these walls, I'd need to use mana control with precision that rivals a level 1500 monster.
While it is very possible, I feel heavy surveillance auras in this room and decide it's best not to let out any suspicious mana radiation of my own if I don't have to.
A few minutes go by in the silence of the tiny white cube, as I assume all of the other applicants are brought into the room and escorted into their cubes as well.
Then, a voice echoes through the small space while a pure white table and chair come out of the floor as if they're made of liquid mana.
"Your written exam now begins. You have 3 hours to complete this test. If the timer runs out and you have not filled in all of the answers, this will be accepted as your final score. You may not leave this room until the testing is complete."
The liquid mana consolidates, then a digital screen becomes visible on the center of the table.
I walk over and have a seat and look down at the screen.
It has [02:59:51] counting down, along with all the details about the hunter's ID they have in their system.
I look down at the first question on the test, and I raise an eyebrow.
[After Expending 0.1% of your total mana control in a single training session, what is the optimal rest time and procedure that should be taken before another serious session of this intensity commences?]
There's an empty blank space beneath the question, and as soon as my eyes finish scanning the text, a thin white pen made of the same material as the chair and table materializes out from the desk.
I grab it and think to myself while I look at the [Back][Skip][Next] options beneath the text.
I try to picture what most of the applicants here possess in total mana control to visualize what kind of training I did back then.
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