Free The Beginning After The End (New Heights Book 2) by TurtleMe

orange as a spark shoots up
in the air.  The spark explodes like a firework, separating into dozens of
small floating tendrils of fire.  The tendrils stay afloat all around the
stage, surrounding the both of them.
     
    “The
boy is good.”  I hear Jasmine give a rare nod of approval.
     
    The
examiner’s face turns serious now.
     
    I was
a little confused as to what those floating embers were for but my question was
soon answered.
     
    “Expulsion!”
 He raised his staff above his head while he was still dashing backwards.
     
    Suddenly,
the dozens of fire tendrils glowed then shot out beams of fire at the examiner.
     
    “Stone
Shard Field!” The examiner points her staff down at the ground.  The area
around her glows a bright yellow before multiple pieces of earth shoot up from
the ground.  The rocks move in formation to block the lasers of flame.
 Only, it doesn’t just block the lasers but redirects it towards Lucas.
     
    “Release!”
 Lucas screams as he pales.  The wisps in the air disappear but the
flames that were already shot are still heading towards his direction.
     
    Pointing
his huge staff at the multiple trails of flames heading his way, he shouts,
“Fire Twister!”
     
    A
cyclone of fire just big enough to surround him appears from the ground.
 The trails of flame spin around the small fire tornado, fusing into it.
     
    “Pierce.”
 The examiner mutters softly.  The rock shards that redirected the
flames now shoot forward towards the flame tornado Lucas was inside of.
 The large shards of rock go through the fire tornado and dissipating it,
stopping just before they squish Lucas into fine paste.
     
    The
blonde noble just falls to his knees in defeat, sweating from the exhaustion
from using so much mana.
     
    The
rocks around Lucas crumble and fall as the examiner releases her spell.
     
    “Your
control and creativity in the combinations of your spells are superb.  You
have a great future Mr. Wykes.  Your control over mana consumption needs a
bit more control but I look forward to see what you can become capable of.
 I think I can just barely pass you as a B class!”  She announces,
giving him a smile.
     
    “WOAH!”
 “Another little monster!”  “Gah!  I want to just go home!”
 “What is with today’s crowd?”
     
    I hear
some of the audience members that have already taken the exam murmur excitedly
amongst their peers.
     
     “It’s
only natural!”  Lucas gets up from the ground, dusting his robe while he
tries to keep a poker face but it’s pretty evident that he’s excited.
     
    He
gets back to his seat before the examiner, who wasn’t even tired, switches
places with the Augmenter examiner.
     
    The
scarred man gets up, stretching his body.  I see him high five the other
examiner and looks at his notes.
     
    “Next
examinee, Note!  Please come down!”  He bellows.
     
    Jasmine
puts a hand on my shoulder.  “Good luck.”
     
    I nod
back and walk down, leaving Sylvie with Jasmine.
     
    “It
seems you’re here to be tested under special conditions, seeing as there is no
information here written about you.  Okay!  Let’s see what you’re
made of.”  He gives me a curious stare, trying to look through my mask’s
eye slit to see who I was.
     
    Just
as he’s about to unsheathe his sword, a voice interrupts him
     
    “I’ll
be the one to test this particular examinee, George.”
     
    Turning
my head, I see the thin, bespectacled man named Kaspian walk towards us from
the corridor I came in from.
     
    “S-sir?
 You will be personally examining this participant?  I apologize if
this sounds presumptuous but is there really a need for an AA class to lower himself to test an examinee?
     
    The
scarred examiner is visibly baffled by the fact that Kaspian will be the one to
test me.
     
    An AA
class!  The difference in levels grows bigger as the ranks get higher.
 Being an AA class Adventurer signifies that you have the strength of ten A