The training ground was engulfed in silence for a moment before buzzing with murmurs of disbelief.
"…This is crazy."
"D-Did he just do that to the Dange Stone slab with his bare hand?"
"How precise does his Aura have to be to go beyond leaving a mark and do that?"
"Was the stone slab defective?"
From the prospective students perspective, it truly felt monstrous.
They presumed Gray was a pampered noble who would barely pass, but he completely destroyed their expectations and cut the stone slab into hundreds of one-inch-sized cubes.
Thus, this naturally led to a comparison with someone.
Kalsa Bakiraga.
The prospective students simultaneously looked at Kalsa Bakiraga, who had destroyed one of the stone slabs.
However, Kalsa wore a puzzled expression. He had been disappointed with the students level, but after witnessing Gray's display, he became genuinely intrigued.
'Unbelievable!' Kalsa Bakiraga thought.
While Kalsa Bakiraga had struck the stone slab with Aura, causing it to explode, Gray's approach was different. He dug his fingers into the slab, injected it with Aura, and precisely controlled the released energy to cut it into cube-sized shapes.
Kalsa Bakiraga's eyes glimmered with excitement as he realized he had finally found someone who could be called his rival.
Meanwhile, the professors were also shocked. In the history of the academy, no one had ever showcased such a monstrous feat.
Even half the professors gathered here could shatter the Dange Stone slab like Kalsa Bakiraga, however, to do it like Gray von Ashborn required advanced techniques and concentration.
The Aura energy had to be controlled to prevent it from dispersing in all directions, while being injected with precise, sharp Aura and cutting it into hundreds of cubes, each precisely one inch in size.
This was a high-level, advanced technique.
"What a monstrous fellow."
Moreover, Professor Eva said he had scored full marks on the magic written exam, something even heirs of magic families couldn't achieve, making him even more monstrous.
While the professors recognized this, there were also prospective students who couldn't help but be in awe of Gray's advanced technique.
Among them was Soren Valerian, who had a proud expression on his face.
He had witnessed Gray's martial prowess when he faced off against the masked man, so he expected Gray would destroy the stone slab like Kalsa Bakiraga; however, he hadn't expected him to do something so unimaginable.
"As expected, the man I want to serve," Soren muttered.
Right then, Professor Joseph klash, in charge of the practical exam, stepped forward and broke the silence.
"Please proceed with the practical exam."
At his order, the exam overseer started announcing the next applicant, and the exam continued while Gray walked to the passed students group.
"Well done, young Master," Soren Valerian said with a cheerful smile.
To his congratulations, Gray nodded. He hadn't planned to display his skill to this extent; however, since he had made a fool of himself by attending the magic written exam, he decided to show just enough to regain his dignity.
Gray sighed and sat on a bench.
Just then, his eyes fell on a beautiful female professor with purple hair staring at him with an intrigued gaze.
It was Professor Eva, who had checked his magic answer sheet.
Gray felt awkward under her gaze and narrowed his eyes. Yet she kept staring at him, so he just ignored her.
Right at that moment, a voice transmission rang in Gray's ear.
- You have rather ominous energy.
'!?'
Gray's eyes widened. He quickly looked at the female professor who had been staring at him; however, the voice didn't come from her.
The voice continued,
- Is that your supporting Celestial Being's energy?
"What!?" Gray became even more puzzled. It was a male voice, and it seemed to know he was an incarnation of a Celestial Being.
Confused, Gray moved his eyes here and there, but he wasn't able to locate the man's location.
- Do you think you can find me by looking around?
Gray narrowed his eyes.
The voice transmission is usually a sound wave that comes from a single source, but the voice was coming from all directions, and the sound wave was resonating as if bouncing around, making it impossible to track.
It was different from the Voice Transmission Technique he knew, the general voice transmission.
Gray opened his mana sense and tried to trace where this voice was being transmitted from.
The voice rang again.
- It's useless to search. I'm speaking using the Hexagram Voice Transmission.
Hexagram Voice Transmission?
Gray furrowed his brow. He didn't know the technique, but he interpreted it as a method that lets the user send sound waves resonating in six directions: up, down, right, left, front, and back.
Gray felt intrigued by the technique. It was a great method for anonymous transmission.
However, it wasn't difficult for him to track the man behind the voice.
Gray smiled and commanded his system.
'Activate God's Gaze.'
Ding
[Activating Heavenly Authority "God's Gaze"]
As soon as he activated the authority, his eyes turned Crimson, and the sound waves were seen as golden strings.
As the man sent another voice transmission, Gray saw golden threads coming toward him from all directions, and they were linked to a faraway high-rise building.
- Interesting. You're understa…
Before the man could complete his words, he jolted in surprise.
Gray and his eyes met!
Gray was looking at him with confidence.
'ohoho. That's unexpected!'
When using the Hexagram Voice Transmission, the sound and energy resonated identically from front, back, left, right, up, and down, making it impossible to determine the source's location.
So for Gray to locate him was truly unexpected.
Meanwhile, Gray saw the source, and it was a white-bearded man in his sixties or seventies.
'!!'
Gray recognized the old man instantly. He was the Dean of this academy and the only "Life and Death" Soul Realm master of the Ataraxia Empire
William Ivan Goodfella.
After realizing it was the dean, Gray showed a worried expression, as he recognized Gray was an incarnation and remarked that his Abyssal energy was ominous.