Two days later.
"WELCOME TO THE MOST ANTICIPATED PART OF THE WHOLE ACADEMY ENTRANCE EXAMINATION!"
The booming voice echoed through the massive stone coliseum, bouncing off every wall like a wave.
The moment it spoke, the entire arena fell into complete darkness. For a few seconds, the world vanished—no light, no color, only the faint, collective breath of thousands waiting.
Then, all at once—
A surge of brilliance exploded across the space.
The darkness shattered into an overwhelming flood of white light, flooding every corner of the coliseum until not a single shadow survived. The light wasn't steady—it pulsed, bending and morphing into ribbons of color that danced through the air, twisting and converging high above the arena.
There, suspended midair, a massive rectangular platform shimmered—the source of the light itself. It floated with mechanical precision, its underside lined with golden runes that rotated slowly, casting rotating halos onto the crowd below.
