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-Three years later-
It was graduation day, and all I have to do is pass one final test. My father said he was given this test by the powerful wizard Maze,
and has been given to graduates ever since then.
"Well Omnike, if you want your final test, go into the guild woods. You will find out what to do there."
"Yes sir"
I headed out from the map room to go to the guild woods to find out what my final test was. I was getting Anxious to find out what this final test was.
I reached to guild woods and, surprisingly, found Cromwell, dressed in black and red guild robes. These robes showed that he was a supervisor for training.
"Do you give me my final test?" I asked with a raised eye brow.
"Yes I do. It's simple, really. You just have to do what I tell you. Draw your sword."
I did as he told and drew my sword. "Now try and hit me."
Hearing this surprised me a little bit, but I did as I was told.
"Now, all you have to do is hit me. Use all your force."
I charged at him, sword in the air, ready to pull it down upon his shoulder,but Cromwell swiftly moved his sword to block it.
"Come on, you must have more than that."
"Alright, fine!"
He pulled his sword away, and I began swinging like a madman. Up, across, right to left. I started to lose track, and he blocked them all in a way that seemed like it was nothing to him.
"Stop! Very impressive. Now hit me with your bow, but not too close, shoot me from a distance." Cromwell said, jumping off before I could question him as to why he is already moving on to the bow. I didn't even hit him!
I fallowed orders and took my bow out, drew an arrow, and prepared to fire. I watched the trees and the rocks in case he may be hiding. Looking over towards the entrance of the guild woods, I saw him right in the open.
"Wow, is he trying to make himself a target?"
I shot an arrow towards him, and he didn't even make an attempt to block them. Six more arrows were shot, and all six hit him in the torso.
"Alright that's enough." Cromwell said while pulling the arrows out of him. He healed his wounds and said "Alright now hit me with your lightning. And again, don't get too close."
He stayed in the exact same place as where I hit him before. I cast lightning on him for three seconds before he vanished to an old empty tree halfway in the path. I saw him there and zapped him some more. Finally he told me to stop and to go to him.
"Congratulations! You pass! Now, go meet your father in the map room, he'll take you to the graduation. Good luck out there!"
In the map room, my father led me through the library, through this door that led to a bridge over a very large crevice, into the Chamber of Fate. There were a lot of people lined up on either side of the rug that led up to a podium. At the end of the rug I could see Kain. I stood next to Kain and looked at him, but he didn't seem to notice. The podium in front of us was taken by my father, who gave a rather short speech about glory, and striking fear into peoples hearts. I don't really remember, I lost interest at "You will be given difficult tasks". Father never really was a good speaker.
The crowd cheered when we got our guild seals. My father led me back to the map room and told me what the map was really about.
"Here, you get quest cards, which anyone who needs a job done, whether it be bad or good, fills out one and waits for a hero here to pick it up. After every quest, you get money for helping that person. If you ever need something, come back here. I've packed you supplies to start with. Go check the map and see if there is anything that may be easy for you, seeing as how this is the first time you've ever really left the guild. Good luck out there son. Make us proud."
I checked the map table and saw quite a couple of quest cards. The only ones I saw were hard ones, except a little riot that broke out in the Picnic area. I'll take that one I thought picking up my quest card, I headed out the main gates, and into the world that awaited me.
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Well, there's chapter 3! Review, tell me what you think, all that. Chapter 4 Soon!
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