-Somewhere below the Fortress-

A big blue flash could be seen in an empty semi-large auditorium. After the flash 100 humanoid figures could be seen in the hall including Jericho.

A guy walked up onto the stage in a beautiful white robe with gold inlined in the gown. The scene looked like an angel addressing the human race of their place in the world.

"Attention," the figure on the stage said, once he saw that no one was calming down or sitting down he yelled out with magic coating his voice enhancing the sound. "ATTENTION!!!" this got everyone's attention immediately the hall became quiet almost instantly.

"Thank you, if you all will please sit down and I will explain things to you all," the figure said

once the person on the stage saw everyone seated, he started to explain the examination

"I will be your examiner today and throughout the week or however, it takes to get this over with. The examination is more like a battle of the fittest, you all will be transported to an island isolated deemed worthy of the battle once the battle starts you all must kill each other to survive, the last 10 people will survive and be accepted into the academy, the other 90 will die" once the figure stated it this he stopped talking for his words to seep into the people below.

Jericho was wide-eyed, scared and mad at Zelus the most.

The figure continued to speak "it seems you all have been told earlier about what will happen today, good but I will continue to explain. You all will get a partner in the battle to survive with if you both survive, you both will be roommates throughout your time at the academy. I suggest not to hide; if you are detected hiding throughout the whole match and get zero kills during this examination, you won't get in and will be immediately killed once you get back. That is the fate of all cowards in this world, its a dog eat dog world out there, this examination will prove who has the right to survive in this world, with that said good luck, the seats you are in are made to teleport you to the island in 5... 4... 3... 2... 1..." the figure said and after his count down a large blue flash could be seen throughout the whole auditorium after said flash the room was emptied except for the figure on the stage

-Somewhere on a "random" island-

Two bright blue flashes could be seen in a thick forest, just like they appeared they disappeared randomly.

Jericho jumped back right after he felt he was back on the ground, activating his blad workshop ability, instantly two ethereal blades appeared in his hands as he looked upon the girl that appeared next to him.

The girl was a brunette, with green eyes, she wore a feminine version of his uniform.

"u-u-um, I'm gonna guess we're partners" she finally stammered out after a few seconds of them staring directly at each other"

"I'm Jenna" she said

Jericho stayed staring at her for a few more moments until he finally sighed and said

"I'm Jericho, you might be right that we're partners if that's true we need to start moving we are in a hostile environment, with no food, shelter, and no idea how far the nearest person is that will probably kill us." Jericho then let go of the connection to his swords, and they disappeared

Jenna looked at them disappeared and firmly stated: "if we are gonna work together we are gonna need to know each other's skills and power class, I'm a battle class geomancer, I'm gonna guess you're a battle class bladesmith based on those 'swords'."

"yeah you could say something like that, well let's get moving, we need to move to an open plane, preferably one with some shelter," Jericho said

they started to jog in a random direction, Jenna explained her class saying that she can change the landscape into offensive powers, while Jericho stayed silent about his powers, about an hour later they came into an open plane with a waterfall and cave, two other people were there drinking from the river connected to the waterfall

Jericho stopped Jenna before they went out into the open,

"see them there; if we want to survive we need to kill, and that means we need to kill them so while I go out and fight the front lines, I'm gonna need you to make their area enclosed with spikes that curve towards them like a cage" Jericho ordered

Jenna nodded, then Jericho formed 2 ethereal swords in his hands and ran in, right when he got near the two by the waterfall, he could feel the ground tremble as giant spikes started to enclose around them, Jericho ran and started to slice and stab at the two, try as they might block the swords phased through their blocking and Jericho managed to get in 2 fatal wounds on one of them, just as that one fell, and fireball flew at Jericho's face, the ground trembled again, and a line of spikes blocked the fireball and started to wave into the mage impaling her through her torso.

the ground shook again as the spiked cage went back into the ground with Jenna on the other side sweating crazily while panting she said

"well we now know that this thing is real, but bad things aside we have shelter now!"