9 THRONES

CHAPTER 70: THE SHADOW

Gostaf again smiled "Disregarding your strange talent that can improve on its own, you have actually reached the Qi Fondation stage so that it is considered qualified to take the elite disciple test. Hows it? Are you still interested in trying it now or planning to postpone it?".

Vann's face became resolutely "Teacher Gostaf, let me try it".

"Good spirit, then you can go to the room at the back, I will prepare the monster first" Gostaf pointed to the room at the back.

Vann stood up from a sitting position and walked towards the back room without hesitation. Although the matter of his talent being able to increase was a little bothersome but Vann's goal had not changed, he had to become an elite disciple.

When Vann went to the back room, Gostaf stood up "Then I will also go, Hasel! I'll prepare the monster that Vann has to fight".

"Wait, I'm coming with you! Anyway I was interested in watching this fight" said Hasel who decided to follow Gostaf to another room. More precisely, Gostaf plans to go to the basement, where the monsters are stored.

Gostaf did not mind taking Hasel, after all the teachers were allowed to go to the basement where he kept monsters unless Gostaf or the academy chief forbade him.

They went to a room similar to a library, Gostaf picked up a book on the shelf that made the entire room shake.

Slowly the bookshelves began to move to the side, a path consisting of stairs to the underground appeared before them.

Gostaf and Hasel walked down the stairs without hesitation, there were lights around the stairs so that the road in front of them was not dark at all.

When he reached the underground, Hasel finally saw hundreds of prisons of iron where each prison there are monsters trapped there.

The iron prison used to capture monsters was different from a normal prison, but cultivators used runes to strengthen the prison without providing an opportunity for monsters to escape.

"Gostaf, what monster are you going to set free this time to fight Vann?", asked Hasel who was observing the monsters around full of interest.

"Shadow Monsters" Gostaf said pointing to a prison that had no monsters there except the darkness "Vann was lucky, it was very difficult to get Shadow monsters because they were always experts in hiding. Most cultivators were only able to kill him, whereas capturing the Shadow, only a few cultivators could. I just got this monster yesterday, I spent a lot of money on this Shadow".

Hasel immediately turned towards the prison that Gostaf had appointed full of curiosity "Isn't it okay? Maybe the Shadow Monster was a bit too difficult to fight for Vann, after all Shadow was a monster from the 9 main pillars. Every monster from the main pillar was definitely the strongest monster among monsters, not easy to fight against them even for a level 2 Qi Fondation".

"If it was anyone else, I would definitely not let them fight against the Shadow monsters" Gostaf said "But what we are talking about now is Vann, the winner of the Qi Gathering monthly match, said, I'm sure he'll win against the Shadow".

"I agree with you on this matter" said Hasel who finally nodded in agreement "Let's start the fight".

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On the other hand, Vann found the back of the Gostaf house was a vast dirt field with several trees around.

In addition there was another small wooden house quite far from here, it seemed like the small wooden house was a place where Gostaf took out a crystal ball that could test one's strength beforehand.

Vann found many traces of the fight around this field such as destroyed trees, cracked land and various other signs.

As Vann was busy observing the surroundings, a loud voice sounded nearby.

"Shelf!".

Not far from Vann's location, an iron prison emerged from underground.

Behind the iron cell in the prison, Vann only saw darkness without monsters as Gustaf had said just now.

As Vann begins to think if Gostaf wrongly took the iron prison and brought the empty prison without monsters, the prison's iron cell opens.

"What is that?", asked Vann, full of doubt, because when the prison opened, there was a shadow on the ground that emerged from the dark prison.

At first the shadow on the circle-shaped ground went very slowly, but suddenly the shadow moved very quickly towards Vann.

With less than 2 seconds, the shadow d the ground had been 5 meters away from Vann.

Vann drew his sword without hesitation, he did not know about the approaching shadow, but Vann was sure that it was most likely a monster. After all, the shadow on the ground came from the prison that was supposed to be Vann's opponent this time.

"Steel Technique 5 Element stage 1, Water Wave", cried Vann, the water began to gather on his sword and spread towards the shadows on the ground through Vann's slash.

"Booooom!".

A loud explosive sound rang out, Vann's water wave just attacked the ground and the surrounding trees until they were destroyed. But the shadow on the ground was completely unaffected, it rushed towards Vann, more precisely the shadow was already in front of Vann.

When he got to Vann's front, a shadow on the ground spread over Vann as if trying to eat him.

Gostaf who was watching from a distance said hesitantly as Vann was about to be eaten "Do we have to help him? After all, in Shadow's body, there is a deadly poison. As long as one is eaten by the Shadow, it is difficult to survive even if it is only 1 minute".

"Don't worry, sit down and look! Vann is just starting, soon he will tell you why he got the nickname water dragon" said Hasel confidently, he believes Vann will win.

As Hasel thought, Vann did not give up at all but stepped forward again while slashing his sword "Steel Technique 5 Element stage 1 Change, Water Dragon Wave".

"Graaaaa", the figure of a water dragon formed from Vann's sword that shouted loudly at Shadow who was trying to eat Vann.

Facing the Shadow, the water dragon opened its mouth and ate the Shadow figure.

At first the water dragon that ate the Shadow did not show any results, but over time cracks and cracks appeared around the Shadow's body.

"Shelf!".

Under the bite of the fiercer water dragon, the Shadow was immediately eaten by the water dragon until it returned to its original form of being a small circle-sized shadow on the ground again.

Shadow knew that he had already lost to Vann, therefore he turned around and tried to escape.

How could Vann throw away the opportunity and let the Shadow who almost ate it run away?

"Eat the shadow!", cried Vann pointing towards the Shadow who was trying to escape.

The water dragon did not say anything, it rushed towards the Shadow that tried to escape then ate it with 1 bite before flying into the sky and exploding.

the elite disciple test fight was considered difficult by most of the disciples of the Wood Sword Academy, but for Vann, he was able to complete it with less than an hour.