The scarred instructor gestured for the remaining forty-seven students to follow another guide toward the stone staircase leading to the third trial area. The teenagers quickly formed a line and began shuffling away from the dirt ring.
While, the white-haired princess from the Bririth Kingdom paused near the exit path. She turned her head and locked her piercing red eyes directly on Solomon for a brief moment.
She pivoted on her boots to join the departing crowd, glancing back over her shoulder one final time before completely disappearing from sight.
Solomon watched the students leave and rested the massive executioner's sword against his shoulder. He tapped his fingers against the pristine steel hilt and looked at the scarred instructor. "What exactly am I supposed to do now?"
Multiple loud booms suddenly erupted across the sprawling courtyard. Ten figures leaped directly from the highest mountain peaks and plummeted toward the dirt ring.
