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"GRYAR!"

The giant T-Rex, which was actually a young hatchling from the monsters we had hunted down before, was bathed in Xijun's gentle attacks, it began to fall back and tremble in fear.

"E-Eh? She's actually winning?"

"No way…"

"Make the beast fight some more!"

"What a cowardly creature, did you raised her well?"

"Ah… Fight some more!"

The Elder that tamed the T-Rex ordered it to fight more, as the beast roared angrily and suddenly was taken over by a lot of power, an energy transferred by the Elder. The creature rushed towards Xijun, opening its jaws and unleashing a massive breath attack of flames over her.

BOOOMMM!!!

Everyone saw how Xijun was consumed in the flames in disbelief and dumbfounded, the flames consumed her entirety as she seemed to disappear before them. But I knew she was fine.

"S-She's surely dead now…"

"You went a bit too far."

"She… was still kind of useful."

"Ugh, what a letdown."

"S-Stop, don't release more flames! We still want to see if there's a corpse left at least… Sigh, we'll have to bury her I guess."

These elders were really quite the psychos.However, as the beast stopped firing its breath, Xijun emerged below the flames, inside a bubble of water, unscathed.

The bubble of water seemed very simple and it didn't emanated any powerful aura or something, it looked like a simple water spell that was made amazing due to Xijun's high power.

"Water Bubble?!"

"That's a low-tier Water Spell."

"The same as her Water Bullets…"

"Can that spell even be used for defense? Anything would pierce it."

"S-She survived anyways."

"Sorry little one." Said Xijun, as she manipulated her water bubble and then moved it upwards.

The T-Rex looked at the scene with horror, as it long ago had realized the enormous power of Xijun, and it suddenly closed its eyes, waiting for death to embrace him.

SPLASH!

However, the hit didn't killed it, it was just a bigger water bullet. However, it was strong enough to knock it out unconscious, making it fall in the ground covered in water…

BOOM!

"…"

"…"magic

"…"

"…"

"…"

Xijun had somehow managed to win without actually looking impressive. She's incredible at pretending. She used Low-Tier Spells purposedly to not seem so awesome, and simply and slowly fought the beast, even letting it burn her, and simply using the low-tier spell Water Bubble, which is not even used as a defensive spell, to defend herself.

She looked like a newbie with some kind of talent on it, and at the same extent, for anyone else than the Elders, she looked like a cheater or something… it felt weird, it was as if she was cheating, but not really, and it seemed as if she was talented, but not really either.

This girl as an amazing talent at deceiving other people's expectations, and it truly shocked me to my very core. She looked at the Elders with an expressionless face.

"I'm done." She said."You're clearly strong, I admit it."

"Okay, I guess…"

"She's strange, I can't tell if she's really talented or not."

"She defeated your pet so she's obviously talented."

"I guess… But well, this Tyrant Wyrm was a small hatchling!"

"Oh, so that's how it is…"

"I guess that's not big of a deal then!"

"Hmph!"

"Anyways, girl, you're going to join one of our sects? Pick one."

The Elders suddenly didn't acted as desperate as before, I was impressed. Did Xijun really liked to be treated like this instead of being praised as a genius? I suppose her grandfather gave her a very unique outlook at life. Perhaps I should try to not show off too much either, I don't want to bring unwanted enemies to my doorsteps, although they would be good EXP, but it still not a smart decision.

Xijun wondered which sect to join, but she didn't knew which sect they even belonged to… At the end, she said something else that surprised me a bit and made me realize I was actually important to her, and she cared about what I thought and wanted.

"I'll wait. Gustav here is my friend, so I will join the sect he joins." She said.

"Eh? This man?"

"Oh right, he's next in the test…"

"He looks like a homeless man just like her."

"Indeed…"

"Well, whatever…"

I looked quite humble, but not homeless! I was wearing this world's peasant clothes. I didn't had my equipment over my body as I wanted to be "raw" for this. The Blackhole actually tore it apart a lot, even my spear ended almost completely destroyed, but when I was rescued by Xijun, the last bits of cloth and metallic pieces of the spear slowly regrew back to their original sizes and forms as I infused divine energy into them and waited for them to regenerate through Self-Repair.

It was honestly a pain to wait for them to regenerate completely but that's how life is, its honestly a pain sometimes, but you get through it anyways. My equipment was inside my inventory now, almost completely repaired, although not completely, my spear still was halfway through in a whole month. And Anna wasn't feeling well to upgrade it herself, so I've been delaying it for now.

My own powers are good enough anyways, and I've been using other weapons randomly from what we get from dropped items, but nothing really suits me other than my spear, I've made a bond with that one… ah, I still miss using it, but bringing it out would be a bit weird.

"Then, Gustav, come and show us your power."

The Elders showed me the sphere, and Xijun seemed expectant to see my power, as if she wanted me to go all out while she contained herself way too much. Now I would feel bad if I disappointed her, but it also feels unfair on her part that she gets to hide her power but she wants me to see all my own power…

Oh well, let's use a bit.

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