Alya, Braiden, Vesta and Aaron revealed themselves looking good in their armor.


    "If all of you are here then it means you guys are.."


    "Yup you got it right"


    Agnes interrupted.


    "We are the soldiers of the eastern battle ridge" she announced proudly.


    The battle of the Eastern Ridge was known in history as one of the most epic stories in the Age of Extinction. One of the reasons was the six soldiers who easily killed thousands of demonic beasts using their knowledge of their kingdom''s topography. They did this without getting any casualties and only relying on their knowledge of their kingdom''s resources.


    "Well it''s good we are here and I suspect we will meet the others at the meeting" she added.


    "Then we should go"


    "Yes let''s go!"


    And so they went inside the great hall where a massive table wasid out. There are seats where each figure can sit so they dly took them.


    "Oh, dear ir that sadistic princess is there" Mckenzie immediately noticed the pink-haired girl sitting beside two empty chairs.


    "We should sit somewhere"


    "Yeah"


    However, to the two''s dismay, they were guided to sit right beside her.


    "It seems you two weren''t able to leave" she said making the two silent. Somehow they don''t want to spare any ounce of their energy on her. They remain nonchnt about any wordsing out of her mouth.


    "Tsk, your two are getting better now" she just said not minding their actions.


    Soon more people came and they immediately knew it was Jillian and Keith, they wore leathers made from rattan and bamboo, its brown and dark brown hues were quite pretty to see, while a sword rested at their waist and shield on their hand.


    Keith and Jillian saw them as well and they immediately smiled.


    "Are those two from the eastern inds of the continent?"


    "Yeah I think so"


    "Well eastern inds were the names they used to be called, but now the eastern group of inds are called the Kingdom of Fjords"


    "One of the inds there is where Keith and Jiin''s historical figure came from"


    "The Bngay"


    "Yup an ind made of tribes"


    They began to talk while still waiting for thest two ssmates. Since they began to see each other they thought they would see their other ssmates as well.


    In the second part of the exam, they mainly met each one of the five pirs but now ording to the history, they might actually meet all of them.


    "I wonder where are Apollo and Alicia" Read new adventures at mvl


    "I am also wondering about that"


    Samael and Casper asked each other seeing they were still missing.


    Suddenly they heard a couple of footsteps approaching the room.


    A presence suddenly envelopes the entire castle as if something is about toe.


    The door flung open and the man with blonde hair and emerald eyes made his way towards the table, behind the said man were the other members of the pirs they had met before. Cedar, Thor, Isaac and Artemis. They all then sat down while two people stood behind them.


    "Oh, they are here"


    McKenzie finally made a reaction after all the minutes he became silent.


    Behind Julius was the person they were most familiar with, despite his appearance changing the students of the lower ss could still recognize each other.


    A man with dark brown hair and blue eyes his stature and way of walking highly resembles someone.


    "Apollo" ir said feeling satisfied seeing his friend. If the boys were looking at Apollo the girls had their eyes on someone else. Behind Artemis was the girl they were very familiar with. Despite her different appearance, her gaze remained the same.


    "It''s Alicia" Alya concluded.


    "She looks normal but why do I feel like something is bothering her?"


    Vesta said she could tell that behind her cold gaze were feelings of uncertainty.


    "Apollo is the same, he looks tired"


    ir could tell, that since his blessing mainly works on people''s minds he is highly sensitive when ites to a person''s mental energy. He could tell that both Alicia and Apollo were in distress. Their emotions are especially disturbed.


    "This is strange, Alicia and Apollo are the strongest mentally out of all of us"


    "Why ir what do you see?"


    Mckenzie asked while leaning towards him.


    "Just what are you two whispering about?" Princess Sakura asked which made the two look at her.


    "None of your business"


    They both said.


    "I want to talk to them but I think we shouldn''t"


    "Yeah maybe after this we could talk to them"


    Then minutes pass by and Apollo''s ssmates begin to worry about him and Alicia.


    "When will this meeting start?"


    Sakura began to ask the soldiers who were stationed to assist them. Unlike humans, devils have different skin colors. Sometimes they have blueish skin color while others have ck to grey. This guard that Sakura is speaking to has blueish skin, guarded by ck obsidian armor, other than the skin devils also have horns, and this guard has two horns simr to a goat.


    "Apologies hero but please wait for a little longer"


    The guard politely said before resuming his previous position.


    "I am getting bored" Sakura just said before looking at the twins beside her.


    "You two talk to me" she ordered however Mckenzie and irpletely ignored her.


    "How about you give me something I can y with?" she continued to speak even though it seemed no one was paying attention.


    "Here use it"


    ir gave her a ball and she dly took it.


    "This is better than nothing" Then like a kid, she began tossing it in the air.


    "Where could she be?" Cedar began to question while Artemis and Julius remained silent.


    "Did those two have a fight or something?" while Cedar questions the absence of someone Thor begins to ask Isaac.


    "I don''t know either but I hope they can make up I am not used to this"


    "I feel the same"


    The atmosphere around the pir''s seat wasn''t particrly good and soon everyone inside the room felt it.


    "Alicia"


    Apollo whispered fortunately she heard it.


    "Yes?"


    "You looked unwell"


    "Really? Although it seems we are the same"


    "Perhaps so, but I think my problem is easy to solve however yours is different, it seems an old problem is resurfacing"


    With those words, Alicia looked at him, her eyes showed no emotion however since he knew her he could tell that something was truly bothering her.


    "Care to share it?"


    "Maybe I will after this"


    "I will wait then"


    After that conversation sounds of footsteps signal the arrival of someone.


    Two devils first came in, their appearance was simr to the guard with a few distinctive features. After those two was a woman who made the lower-ss students surprise. She had a very beautiful figure and unlike normal demons, she had fair skin simr to humans, but had a pair of horns and a tail.


    "Wait you gotta be kidding me"


    Braiden mumbled while Keith couldn''t understand what was going on.


    "She doesn''t have a face?" his question made Jillian cover his mouth.


    "The empress of the devils has no records of what she looks like, that''s why she is like this, a nk face"


    Jillian''s exnation made Keith remember one of the passages of the book.


    ~And there the most powerful devil graced the room, her presence was so powerful that a veil of fog obscured her appearance. No one can tell what she looks like, except the most powerful human, Julius~


    "I thought because of the excessive diversion of some events from the books we could finally see her real appearance" Keith said while slumping his back on the chair. The empress was one of the most mysterious people in their lessons for the fact that no one knew what she looked like and the personality she had.


    "This is so weird"


    McKenzie said looking at the nk face of the empress.


    "Lower your voice, Mckenzie"


    The entire ss was taken aback by the empress'' appearance except for two people, Apollo and Alicia. The reason for that is that they don''t really care what she looks like and just continue their conversation.


    [Shouldn''t you be worrying about this part?]


    "We already know the ending of this meeting and ording to the detailed story of Sakura princess of Fallen Sun no arguments or disagreement happened"


    [You are strangely calm this time]


    "Really why? I thought I was always calm"


    [You aren''t this time, you are excessively emotional that it''s affecting your mentality]


    Apollo sighed feeling defeated then he spoke.


    "I just realized that despite wanting and saying countless times that I want to end my siblings, deep down I still want them to ept me, that I still want to have a happy family. Realizing that made me feel miserable because no matter how much I crave for their love they will never give it to me. They will never ept me, and the family I want will nevere true"