The Strongest Beast Tamer 190 Beginning of Trials

They would still take some time to create the food court, however, they already had two restaurants ready to deploy there. Pedro and Elena still needed to train their two apprentice chefs to a higher degree, high enough to where they should be able to cover then entire menu without trouble. There was also Valentina, she was currently in the midst of training her new assistant in the ways of business. In other words, she was just telling her assistant what Flynn told her.

The Academy currently had the large dormitory with its thick walls created from the trees. The interior, although took a long time, was finally completed with each room having a similar but slightly different design. The higher one is in the dormitory the better and larger the rooms were; just to give the students an extra boost in morale for when they think they had enough training.

The training facilities were terraformed with Lachlan's strengths along with Christina's creative eye; she made sure just about everything had a purpose in being there, whether that be uneven ground or dips to disbalance the students, or the hills and small trees which sprung from the ground all along the field to block the vision of students competing in combat. Everything was there for a specific reason to enable them to prepare for fighting in the wild.

And today, they announced through both Researchers United as well as the Explorer's Guild, that they were opening their Academy to the world. The first trial for entry was being held in Atlanta, it would be held in two days to allow for those in nearby cities or towns to make their way over.

These two days were to allow for their group to prepare the necessary trials which the participants will have to complete. They were obviously going to do a few strength tests; however, that would be unfair to those that specialised more in elemental control.

As such, they decided to split the trials into three: One was for those that specialise in physical strength, one that's for people that specialise in elemental control, then those that specialise in both. As for the rankings that would decide their place in the dormitory, that would be held after they get the entrees that pass; there will be a maximum of 1000 – 1500 participants that can pass during the trials. Once they were chosen, a tournament would be held on the island and the rankings would be decided from there.
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However, what the group wasn't too certain of, was how they were going to test each of the participants. Strength was obvious enough, they can have a few tests which determine the physical strength of each participant. It was more so the people that specialise in elemental control that the group would have trouble assessing.

Sure, Lachlan could just analyse them and be done with it by choosing who has the highest level of elemental control. However, when it came to combat, having a higher level wasn't everything. It was also heavily dependent on how one uses their elements as well.

For example, water could be used in a variety of ways. Should they use it correctly, water could be used for both defence and offence; with defence, one can either use it to change the directing through attacks or just straight up block it completely with a frontal defensive stance. Then with the offence; an individual could either send a water bullet towards their target or use it similarly to how Lachlan uses his ice, create a layer of water around a body part and attack with it.

Granted, the latter would be more useful to those that already have plenty of physical strength while the former would be for those that have better control in their elements. That, however, would be determined during the tournament held after the students are chosen; there may be a few dark horses that decided to keep the maximum extent of their abilities a secret.

As of this moment, Lachlan was standing in front of the training field that he spent the most time on. In his opinion it was probably the greatest training field there will ever be for combat within the wild. The area it covered was roughly a square 230x230m. It was certainly a behemoth of a training field.

There was a variety of vegetation, whether it be thick or thin trees, short or long grass, they had it all. In some parts of the training field, there were vines as well as a manmade river. Created through the use of water stones; granted, it was a suggestion from Anne when she heard one of the requirements Christina wanted as during a meeting. Fortunately, due to some even more skilful terraforming nether Christina, nor any students will be able to see the source of the stream.

Which is exactly what they wanted.

Phoebe was in the middle of admiring another training facility, most commonly called the "Ocean's Field" by anyone that sees it. Due to the training facility utilising both Water and Wind Stones, the group was able to create situations that usually only happen out in the wild, usually in the middle of the ocean.

The training area covered a rough square of 300x300m; it slightly dug into the mountain roughly 1 kilometre into the island. There was a tall and thick wall surrounding the facility, the waters inside were incredibly rough, reaching a height of 20 metres. The wave smashed against the wall and spray upwards, creating a wall of water in front of Phoebe's face before falling backwards returning to their little ocean.

By Phoebe's feet was the new turtle she claimed on that near that Death Island, respectively named Hope, the turtle which possesses the ability to sense dangers.

Yesterday, during the late of night, Phoebe swiftly awakened everyone from their peaceful slumber with important information from Hope. It seems like there's likely going to be a being of great power coming towards them; however, due to the current distance between it and the attacker, it wasn't able to properly determine the specifics of the danger.

Granted, if it was anything that could send Hope into a panic then it left little room for discussion on what it was. Three possibilities could occur; one, it's an incredibly strong intelligent beast, that one is actually the most unlikely. Two, it's a beast from another dimension that travelled through a spatial gate. And lastly, it could be another half-human, one that seems to have lost themselves to the other half allowing it to gain full reign over the body.

Fortunately, it seems it's ability in transportation was rather slow and wouldn't be in America for another 5 - 6 days, let alone in Atlanta. Either it was slow, or it decided that it wouldn't rush its journey over. Granted, Lachlan would be incredibly stunned if it was the latter, but at the same time, he wouldn't be surprised if all other halves have unique personalities.

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A couple of days passed by rather quickly, the group was currently split into three groups and were stationed at three points in the city. The testing grounds were in an area roughly the size of an average school oval, rather, that's where one of the testing stations was at.

Chloe, Flynn, and Brianna were on the school oval testing for elemental control. Lachlan, Phoebe, and Zhang were currently inside in the business district in a large open area testing for physical strength. Joe, Zoe, Georgia, and Simon were currently just stationed on the outer edges of the food district testing for individuals that possess great prowess in both physical strength and elemental control.

Lachlan, Phoebe, and Zhang were all sitting on seats placed just outside the affected area. Since they were planning on testing physical strength it came to no surprise that they would use the gravity stones to test the participants.

The participants were to complete a series of tasks to best showcase their strength. The three weren't looking for anything insane; the gravity was currently set on 2 times Earth's gravity. Which is slightly lighter in comparison to what the group could do now, but 2 times is still a lot of extra pressure.

"Participant 00001 come to the testing area!" Lachlan shouted powerfully, his voice echoed through the crowd of people standing by the side of the road. Not many of them were there to test their physical strength, rather, they were just getting a glance to determine whether or not they have the capabilities to pass the test.

Once Lachlan shouted out a masculine teenager walked out of the crowd, he was currently wearing a tank-top which allowed to showcase his muscles in a much better light. Lachlan decided to not analyse those that participate in the tests; after all, although it is a strength test, an individual's willpower is also tested, and Lachlan didn't want the numbers to affect his judgement.

The teenager walked over to the gravity affected area and tilted his head in confusion, he tried to stare closed but with no luck of noticing anything dramatically different. The only item he could see was a statue in the centre of the affected area.

The group decided on placing the gravity stone inside the statue to allow for it to remain hidden for the time being.

"Step forward and complete the tasks," Lachlan said with his arms crossed, leaning back into the chair. He stared right into the participant's eyes, not breaking eye contact for a second.

The participant gulped before taking a step forward and reeling his leg back in shock; he almost looked insane with what he did next. He placed his foot back into the affected area before taking it back, then placed his arm within the affected area before taking it back and looking towards Lachlan in shock.

"Step forward and complete the tasks," Lachlan repeated sternly.

The participant nodded before walking into the affected area, allowing for his entire body to feel the overwhelming pressure. It felt as though there was another him standing on top of his shoulders, weighing him down extensively.

Stretching and rolling his muscles he walked towards the first area; a simple test, one just needed to complete a squat. There was a variety of weights in that part of the field, even lifting up the first weight which weighed 15 kilograms was already passing.

Because although it states 15 kilograms, under the pressure of 2 times Earth's gravity, that 15 kilograms turned to 30. It was similar to a couple of the other tests; the participant's test involved a squat, pull-up, bench-press, punch, plank, and 50-metre sprints.

For the punch, it utilises a punching machine to determine the power behind a participant's punch. They mucked around with it yesterday, figuring out what they would deem as a passing grade. Fortunately, with the help of some volunteers, namely Zhang and Flynn, they were able to determine a rough placement of where they wanted the participant to be.

The participant only needed to complete each task once to pass. However, the group made sure for there to be unexpected difficulties.

Chapter end