The fight had started, but no one made any moves, Harrison and Louise faced each other.

"You can start if you want", Louise said, teasing Harrison.

"I hope you won't regret it later", Harrison replied.

Then Harrison took his sword and shot at high speed towards Louise and fired several blows at him, however all were blocked or deflected.

"Not bad! But you'll need more than that to hurt me", sneered Louise as he dodged Harrison's sword and landed a kick to his belly sending him backwards.

Cof cof!

Harrison coughed with his mouth full of blood, Louise's strength was no joke, he moved forward again to Louise and activated his [Savage Slash] ability.

You could see the figure of a lion the moment he activated the skill, then the lion merged with the sword that was now glowing and Harrison moved it towards Louise.

A huge silver streak came out of the sword and went slashing toward Louise.

"Hehe! Looks like he's going all out", Louise thought.

Louise then activated his [Fair Strike] skill and launched a slash toward Harrison.

The two abilities would collide and create a huge explosion of smoke. Louise took the opportunity and appeared behind Harrison, "Never let your guard down, especially at times like this", before Harrison could react with the words, Louise slammed the sword handle into the back of his head and knocked him out.

Everyone in the audience was impressed with Harrison's performance. He probably came from some resourceful noble family.

When Harrison woke up, he was informed that he had passed the exam and was placed in rank [D].

In this world the strength of adventurers and their abilities were measured by ranks, each rank gave the adventurer a privilege, but also greater obligations.

There were seven ranks divided into, [S], [A], [B], [C], [D], [E] and [F].

The lowest rank being rank F and the highest S, you could raise your rank by doing quests or acquiring achievements and recognition around the world, your strength is also very important for you to rise in rank.

People in rank [F] and [E] usually only have pickup missions available, in larger cities they can also take escort missions within the city itself, the minimum requirement for all ranks is to know the basics of survival, since even for a simple pickup you can encounter a zombie or other monster.

In the case of Harrison who was placed in rank [D] this is purely based on what he showed during the exam. Skills, techniques and mental state.

You never know when you're going to see someone you love turn into a zombie, so you have to have your mind prepared in case this happens and not collapse, people in rank [C] could already command an entire group of people, in short all the lives of those people would be in your hands a mistake could be fatal.

Harrison sees that his rank was [D] returned to the group with a proud smile on his face.

And then the next people were called into the arena.

"All right! You passed rank [F]";

"You passed rank [F]";

"Passed rank [E]";

"Fail, you are very nervous when you are facing your opponent and you can't think straight!", one after the other were taking their examination.

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Until it was Lilian's turn, "Miss Lilian your turn please come to the arena!", said the evaluator in the middle of the arena.

When Lilian came out from where she was and entered the arena, a commotion happened. All the people were asking what a child was doing there.

"What the hell? A child?";

"No... She must be a Dwarf";

"Kyaaa Lilian! How cute", people who didn't know her before in the guild were surprised that a child was going to take the guild exam.

"Are you Lilian?", the evaluator asked suspiciously.

"Yes, I am Lilian, a beginner mage", she introduced herself.

"Uh? A mage? Eh... Normally we would have someone to evaluate mages, but since someone rarely decides to be a mage, that person doesn't even waste time coming here", explained the evaluator; "Is it okay if I evaluate you? I promise not to be too hard on you."

"No problem!", replied Lilian.

Elsewhere in the guild.

"Uhmm interesting, so this is the girl... I don't feel fear coming from her, this is going to be an interesting fight", said a short old man.

Turning back to the arena.

"Okay, you can start whenever you want anytime you want", the evaluator warned.

Lilian nodded, "Hmm... I possess the sword, but I don't really know how to use it... I can't make any cool attacks with it...", Lilian thought sadly.

She took her sword in her hand and when everyone was going to ask if she would fight with the sword, she slashed the palm of her hand.

"Is this girl a masochist?"

"What the hell is she doing?", whispers could be heard from the stands.

When everyone was wondering what she was doing, blood began to float around her, she had activated [Blood Manipulation].

"Tch... having to use my own blood, I'll end up getting anemic... it won't be as easy to get blood out of him as it was from the zombies who are dumb", muttered Lilian.

Taking advantage that Louise had her guard down because of what she had just seen, Lilian solidified some of the blood into the form of a blade using [Blood Blades], it was not necessary for her to use the ability, she could control it herself, but the ability makes the job easier and automatic.

The small blade shot out towards Louise and passed right next to his face making a small cut.

Louise felt something coming out of his cheek, ran his hand over his face and saw that it was bleeding, "What was that? Does she control her own blood?", he wondered.

All the people watching were also shocked.

"S-she controls her own blood?";

"Did you guys see her turn her own blood into a blade", more, and more comments about what happened.

"Buahahaha, you didn't see anything...", said Keito who was sitting watching.

Everyone looked at him confused, even Zyra who was watching was shocked at what Lilian did, she didn't remember seeing a blood controlling mage anywhere else.

Lilian took advantage that Louise was looking at the blood in her hand and quickly used [Blood Manipulation] and made the blood turn into a splinter aiming for her face.

Louise reacted quickly this time, "What the hell... Can she control my blood too? The human body is full of blood... it would be scary if she could drain and control the blood inside the person's body...", Louise thought, now he had his guard up.

Elsewhere in the guild.

"Hahahahaha! Look Liza, the face the appraiser is showing, Hahahaha that girl has amazing magic!", said the old short man.

"Indeed sir!", agreed Liza with a smile.

Back in the arena.

"Damn... it's kind of unfair, I won't be able to defend myself properly if he comes at me", muttered Lilian.

Every time Louise tried to advance towards Lilian, she would make blades of blood and shoot towards him.

Louise at every turn had to defend herself against the blades coming at her, but even if she broke them they would shatter and the blood would return to Lilian, in an infinite cycle until the blood was destroyed, "Damn... looks like breaking those blades won't help... I'm being cornered by a little girl who doesn't even have the right level", muttered Louise.

Lilian was still at level 4, and in this body she was only 12 years old, but she was not as naive as a 12 year old would be, after all in her past life she was an adult.

The magic Lilian had was also helping her, she just needed to stay away controlling the blood, she would make blades, attack with them and if they were broken she would just turn the blade back into blood and create another blade.

But of course, if Lilian used her blood and it was destroyed by another ability, things could get bad for her.

When Louise realized that if he just stood still he would get nowhere, he decided to ignore the small blades and move towards Lilian.

Louise possessed great speed, so he came near Lilian very quickly who hardly even noticed him.

"It's over!"exclaimed Louise, going with his sword towards Lilian.

"Damn...", muttered Lilian as she gathered all the blood in the form of a small shield.

Crack!

BOOM!

The sword collided with the shield which was blown to pieces and Lilian was thrown backwards.

Cof! Cof!

Coughed Lilian with her mouth full of blood, Louise seeing that she managed to neutralize some of the damage advanced once more towards her.

Lilian stood up quickly, took her sword and made a cut on her other arm, leaving everyone perplexed.

Then she gathered a large amount of blood in her hand using [Blood Fist], a huge fist made of solidified blood went towards Louise, while Louise's sword went towards Lilian.

BOOOOOOM!

Lilian's punch hit Louise's sword, throwing it all the way to the other side of the arena.