Somewhere in the castle's hallway's King Tyrell appears in a flash of light, with an angry look on his face. He makes his way towards a pair of doors forcing them open with a loud bang. “Archduke Gard, what is the meaning of this!?!”, Tyrell screamed towards a young man sitting at a desk focusing on a book. “Always a pleasure to see you too, your highness.”, the Archduke spoke with annoyance in his voice. “Answer my question dammit!”, Tyrell responded with anger still present in his voice. “And what have I done this time?”, he responded feigning ignorance. “Don’t give me that. The kid just got attacked by a group of candidates. The interesting part is that these candidates are all children of nobles that you have under your heel. You put them up to this didn’t you” Archduke Gard gave a scoff and spoke, “Oh come now, maybe I let it slip over a dinner or two about a promising candidate whose fairy would be very valuable, and I may have also said that the best bet for taking him down would be to team up on him. Even so is any of that so wrong, many other candidates have teamed up for this exam, and none of them are cheating you made sure of that haven’t you.” King Tyrell was fuming but he had no rebuttal against this statement, "It baffles me how people still put there trust in you with how much you betray and coerce." The archduke simple smirked, "It's not that they trust me it's that they want power and currently I'm tied for first with you. The only difference is I'm willing to punish those that disappoint me so they are extra eager to please me." The king was at a lose for words. Everything he said was true and because of that he knew there wasn’t anything he could do about this except pray for Ren. “Now if you have nothing else to say could you please leave me back to my research.”, Gard asked with clear arrogance in his voice. Anger brimming in Tyrell so much it took all he had to leave the room with grace, before teleporting back to the observatory.
Back at the trial Ren’s head felt like it was pounding, and his body felt like it was burning, he looked around and saw his seven attackers start to surround him. Ren’s feet wobbled as he got to his feet, in an instant one of the attackers charged straight at Ren punching him straight in the stomach, sending him flying straight towards another attacker that gave him a quick and powerful kick. Ren was back on the ground as the attackers readied their next move. “Ren come on we have to get out of here!”, Noir screamed at Ren as he started to glow Black. Ren mustered up all the strength he could and sprinted past the group, only to immediately stop in his tracks he strained his head looking down to find weird markings all over his body. “Good my seal works.”, one of the attackers spoke, “If you try to move too far away from any of us you’ll stop dead in your tracks.” Another one of the attackers struck his back with a slash of fire leaving a burn mark on his back. As the attackers moved towards Ren, he felt he was able to move again, he then formed a fireball in his hand and as he threw a lightning bolt came down and struck him. “What was that !?”, Noir exclaimed. As they looked up, they saw a cloud hover over them Ren moved away from the cloud but it kept following him, as another lightning bolt came down Ren tried to roll out of the way but he saw that his left leg has sunk into the ground lightning struck him again as he let out a scream of pain as he fell back to the ground his foot being freed from the dirt.
“Ren come on you gotta get up!”, Noir shouted at Ren, but he didn’t move he just stayed on the ground looking at his attackers. All the attackers let out a barrage of attacks lightning, fire, plants, whatever they had came flying towards him. A cloud of smoke formed too thick to see through and all that could be heard were cries of pain from Ren. As the smoke cleared all seven readied another wave of attackers but stopped when they realized Ren had vanished. A smirk formed across the blue haired girl's face quickly turning into laughter, "Even with all that power a commoner is nothing compared to us nobles." Suddenly she a pain coming from her neck and a tight grip on her arms straining to look behind her she saw Ren very injured but he was still standing. Ren's hold got tighter as he forced her to back away with him. “Wh-what are you doing?", she spoke in a strained voice, "Let go!”, she demanded. “Gi-give me the antidote.”, Ren said weakly as he tried to keep his hold on her. “Never”, she groaned. “Ok well hope you like lightning.”, as he said that he directed her head towards the storm cloud above them starting to charge up. “Y-you’re bluffing that’ll hit you too. Ha ha”, she laughed at Ren. “You wanna test tha-that.”, Ren said with a smirk on his face. The cloud above them started crackling more and more, she waited for Ren to let go but with each passing second he showed no signs of faltering. "Stop your spell.", she pleaded to her allies. Her allies looked to one another then back at her, "Sorry Rita but this is probably our best chance to get rid of him. No hard feelings 'kay.", one of them said giving her a thumbs up. Finally, she broke, “Ggh, fine left pocket.” Ren reached into her pocket and true to her word a vial was there, just as the lightning came down Ren released her but before she could move kicked her towards the lightning. A large flash of light filled covered the forest as Rita screamed in pain. The flash vanished quickly as it arrived as Rita fell to the ground in pain. Quickly before the other attackers realized what happened Ren took the cure, slowly he felt his strength return and his head felt less foggy.
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With a gust of wind he kicked created a dust cloud blinding the remaining enemies. With a swift lunge Ren dove into the dust cloud dealing one of the attackers an all-out punch. The enemy winced in pain but he didn't falter he joined his hands over his hand and slammed them into Ren's back crashing him into the ground. The pain Ren felt was great but he couldn't stop. Out of the ground roots emerged wrapping around the attackers body. With a flick of Ren's fingers the roots swung with the force of a hammer picking him off the ground and slamming into the ground causing it the earth to break apart. He didn't move and as Ren unwrapped the roots around him his body fell limp as the familiar white light appeared causing him to vanish.
As the dust settled the five remaining attackers realized on of their allies were missing leaving Ren standing in his place, their gaze focuses again on Ren as they got into a ready stance. “Alright we’re switching to plan B”, one of them shouted. All five of them retreated into the forest area behind them, forcing Ren to follow due to the seal. In the forest Ren continued chasing after the attackers but suddenly one of then released a giant cloud obscuring Ren’s vision. Ren stopped running and tried to look around but to no matter where he looked all he saw was cloud. “Focus on their life energy.”, Ren said to himself as a veil of green light formed around him. Out of the cloud one of the attackers appeared from above going for a fierce downward kick as Ren dodged it the kick struck the ground causing it to break apart. Ren then engulfed his hand left hand in fire and the other he surrounded by stones he gave a several swift punches to the attackers stomach, but the attacker refused to show pain. The attacker tried to punch back but as he made the effort roots sprung out ensnaring him. Ren continued dealing punch after punch until the attacker as the attacker's pain grew more and more, then with a final uppercut pulling the attackers feet out of the ground sending him flying. As the attacker started to disappear Ren thought he had a chance to breathe however from the fog again came another attacker wielding a sword gave fast slash at Ren who blocked it with plant roots. The roots started to glow then exploded catching Ren’s right arm in the explosion. The pain in his arm was sharp but he couldn’t lose focus as the attacker swung with their sword down again, this time Ren dodged it giving him an opening as he charged his hand with lightning then aimed it directly at the attacker causing them to fall to the ground. For a minute they laid there until a light surrounded them and they vanished. Ren’s right arm then started to glow as the burns from the explosion started to heal.
Time passed and finally the fog surrounding Ren started to dissipate as the three remaining attackers stood before Ren. They charged straight at him ready for a combined assault, however all three of them stopped dead in their tracks a with look of fear present on all their faces. Ren was confused then heard a twig snap behind him, he turned around and saw the blue haired girl from before standing right behind him. Everyone could tell something was wrong with her, the whites of her eyes turned pitch black, her hands were stained with some weird substance and in her left hand was an empty vial, and her fairy looks like all the life had been drained of it. That however isn’t what caused everyone to freeze in place it was the sickening aura she gave off as if they all knew that taking a step forward would lead to their death. A hundred thoughts raced around in Ren's head, 'How long has she been behind me?', 'What’s with this pressure?', 'Why can’t I move?', 'What kind of magic is this?', but the more he thought the more he realized that this was different, 'No there’s no magic behind this, is fear?' Without even saying a word she opened her hand and raised it towards her teammates as three dark vines with the same ooze as on her hands sprang out of the ground and pierced their stomachs. All three of them looked at their stomachs in shock as they start coughing up blood. One of her teammates weakly said, “Rita why?”, that’s all they could say before a light surrounded all three of them as they disappeared. “Keep my name out of your mouths you filth.”, she spoke in a cold voice that had didn’t do much to hide her bloodlust.
