Phase One of the Ascension Tournament had officially begun
The Individual Demonstration required each novice to present their mastery of a specific Gift to the panel.
Father Marius sat at the center of the table with Brother Thomas to his right and Sister Nefeli to his left.
Raziel stood in the observation area next to Lucian and Lara, watching the first twenty novices complete their evaluations with a completely blank expression.
The presentations matched exactly what Raziel expected.
Standard ecclesiastical training and all lacked any real tactical imagination.
A novice channeled his mana to summon a fireball the size of a melon and threw it at a wooden training dummy, turning the target into ash.
Another girl created a concentrated gust of wind strong enough to knock over a heavy row of wooden chairs and push the nearby spectators back.
