Chapter 6 - Ambrose’s C rank invasion.

Senior Celeste had led the group to the second floor of the building. This floor was a hall with multiple rooms closed off by doors.

The participants looked around with skepticism. They had subconsciously hoped for something as impressive as the pond of World Essence and were disappointed when it was just a normal room.

Senior Celeste faced the group and began to speak with a stern tone.

“This is the Examination Hall. This is also where the second part of the ceremony will be held.”

The group continued to eye the room up and down, unsure of what to do.

“Each of you will enter a room and each room will have a medical examiner who will determine your class. Very simple. When the examination is over, return to the main floor below.”

With her directions given, Celeste left down the stairs.

As a senior with hardly any experience in the medical field, she had little control over how this part of the ceremony would flow. It was entirely up to the examiners to report back their results.

Even though the medical examiners are enlisted by the empire, they have no connection to the emperor, making it completely possible to rig the results.

Although uncommon, it is not rare.

“Seems like the rules remained the same throughout the years. Then there is no reason to wait.”

Lilith moved through the group like the wind and made her way to the closest room.

The youngsters stared in confusion as she opened the door and entered the room, closing the door behind her.

Lilith was patient and observant. Usually going last in hopes of gathering as much intel as possible.

This habit emerged from her time as a noble in her previous life. When commanding seniors and leading fighters, a rash and unprepared noble is a dead one.

Being the first to enter a strange room was the opposite of how Lilith normally behaves and her peers seemed to notice this.

“There is no reason to stay longer than necessary. The examination is private with no way of gathering any intel. I would be better off going first and waiting for the others.”

Her violet gaze swept the room and met an unfamiliar face.

It was a pale man with short black hair styled professionally. Thin glasses sat over thinner eyes.

The man wore boring clothing with an arm band wrapped around his bicep. The band read “MEDICAL.”

The man looked at Lilith with a warm gaze when she entered the room. He smiled slightly and spoke.

“I’m your examiner, come take a seat and we’ll begin.”

…

Arg!

The guards threw the young boy on the ground with a thud.

“Wait here, We’ll return you to your village shortly.”

One of the guards ordered. Before the boy could respond, they entered the building once more and slammed the door shut.

The boy stood and wiped the tears from his face, His heart was heavy from the results of his submersion and he had just finished begging the senior for another attempt.

Instead of the pity he hoped to inflict on the senior, he was thrown out. His sadness had turned to fury and he uttered declarations worthy of jail.

The boy felt no remorse or shame in his actions. Instead, he stood beside his threats.

“I’m going to teach them.”

He brushed himself off, his eyes as cold as ice.

“I’ll make them all regret not believing in me.”

A memory came into the boy’s mind as he rambled to himself.

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“Listen well, son, if you can not withstand the first part of the ceremony and they do not move you forward to the second, do what you must to get to the second. Although your mother and I are talentless, our lineage is far from powerless. Do your best to show them that.”

In the memory, the boy replied.

“But father, what if they continue to refuse.”

Father sighed deeply with a tired expression.

“Then we’ll make them see.”

The memory faded as the boy’s eyes narrowed. Revenge is written clearly in his heart.

“I, Ambrose Fayn, will make sure the senior pays for looking down on me.”

…

Lilith took a seat across from the examiner.

The room was quite small, but not much space was needed for the examinations if she remembered correctly.

The room was scarcely decorated with a wooden desk and 2 wooden chairs on both sides of the desk.

A fancy light fixture hung from the ceiling of the room and a window was planted on the wall behind the examiner, allowing natural light in.

“Before we begin, I must go over the procedure. Save your questions until the very end, alright?”

Lilith nodded.

The examiner gave a smile then took out a sheet of paper and quill from the drawers of his desk. Lilith quickly noticed that it was a similar quill to the one senior used during the submersion.

The Bottomless Quill from the feathered squid. The quill was able to constantly spill ink no matter the circumstance. This made for a very valuable utensil used for writing, art, or anything one would typically use a pen for.

“I will ask you a few questions then run a few tests on you to determine your class. Do you understand?” The examiner said.

Lilith nodded again.

“Good. So what is your name?”

“My name is Lilith Grand.”

The examiner nodded and wrote down Lilith’s answer on the paper.

“What village are you from?”

“Azuri Village.”

The examiner had written that down as well.

These simple questions went on for a bit and Lilith answered them absent-mindedly. Her eyes wandered past the examiner and toward the window.

She gazed adoringly at the scenery of the empire. She daydreamed of housing her parents in an empire like this. Where the buildings are tall and large. Where the smells are sweet and savory, Where the sounds are comforting and urban. They deserved an empire even better than this one.

“Have you lost your innocence?”

?

Lilith was snapped from her dream.

“I’m sorry?”

During her last life, this was not one of the questions during the second part of the ceremony so she thought she had misheard him,

But the examiner only smiled again. This one was different from before…

“My apologies, I had asked if you laid down with a man yet.” He apologized insincerely.

Lilith knit her eyebrows in puzzlement but answered.

“I have not.”

The examiner gave an eerie grin.

“That is all the questions. As stated, I must run some tests. Is that alright?”

Lilith felt uneasy but nodded slightly.

“That question was not asked last time I completed the ceremony. Is it because I’m a girl this time around? Maybe they must know if I have a possibility of being pregnant. I could just be thinking too much.”

Lilith thought this to herself as the examiner reached into the desk once more. Removing a small needle from the drawer.

“May I see your finger?”

Lilith gave the examiner her hand and he gently grabbed and caressed it.

“Your hands are really soft…”

He took the needle and stuck it into the underside of her pointer finger. The needle wasn’t far enough to hurt but just enough to draw the blood.

The needle began to shift into a red color, almost the same shade as blood.

With a few breaths, the needle was shades darker than before so the examiner removed it.

Blood began to bead from where the needle was inserted.

“Thank you,” the examiner said as he pulled out a strange tablet from the desk.

He inserted the needle into the device and shortly after, information began to fill its screen.

The examiner looked at the tablet intently, his eyes showing a strange emotion Lilith had not seen before.

After copying the information from the tablet onto the paper, the examiner stood up with the tablet and brought it to Lilith so she could see it.

“I’m not supposed to do this but,”

The examiner got close to Lilith, his eyes set on the tablet. He pointed to a line Lilith could hardly decipher as she had no medical experience.

“This shows your anatomical compatibility with the tea inside your body.”

He pointed to a different encrypted line.

“This one transcribes how your DNA reacts to the tea in your body.”

“Oh?”

This interested Lilith. She never got to see the tablet during her last life so she was a bit curious about how classes were decrypted.

“It’s quite a lot, I know, but in summary, your body is only optimal for Support Class.”

Lilith was not shocked by this information as she had known since she was born that she was a Support.

“Ah, how unfortunate.” Lilith pretended.

“Indeed it is.” The examiner replied with compassion.

“Of all the classes. Warrior… Tamer… Wizard and Witches… you got Support.”

He got closer to Lilith, his eyes no longer on the tablet but on her legs. The same eerie smile from before painted his face.

“But do not worry, I can tell the senior that you are capable of Witch Class”

“I-”

“But you’ll have to do a favor for me too.”

The examiner’s desire was clear to Lilith now. That look in his eyes was not hospitality. It was lust.

“No need, I’m not capable of pretending to be a Witch so a Support is good enough,” Lilith said calmly, masking her unease.

“You don’t understand how they treat Support Class fighters. You’ll be Classless to them. I can fix that for you. I wouldn’t be able to live with myself knowing a pretty girl like you is being mistreated…”

The examiner’s hand was now on Lilith’s thigh. He squeezed.

“If you refuse, I don’t know what I’ll do.”

Lilith looked into his eyes. His intent was obvious so her heart began to beat hard.

“I can take him out easily. He’s only a medical examiner, he doesn’t have the same combat experience that I have. But it is not that simple. If I take him out and tell the senior he tried to force himself onto me, he will just say I am wrong or mistaken. The senior has no reason to believe me instead of him. If I kill him, then no matter what he had or was planning to do, I would not go unpunished.”

Lilith thought to herself and concluded…

“What favor must I do for you?” she said with a calm voice.

The examiner’s smile grew more sinister as he squeezed her thigh tighter.

“Just do as I say, alright?”

!!!

An alert appeared into view as sirens began to ring out in the building. As Lilith read it, her heart eased.

[Ambrose Faye is leading a C rank invasion of Azure Stone Empire!]