BXBX NOVEL Chapter 368 The Test Ends!
"T-this! This!" Anderson was left speechless, suddenly her sister's friend appeared infront of him calmly answering his attack.
Siegfried and the rest of the people were also surprised, especially the Astazes.
Every summoner would know that the higher the summoner level you obtained the higher the synchronization rate the more the master can use the contractor's power.
"How could she interfere with the duel!" Count Maller's party on the other hand seized the opportunity to find fault in Eli's action.
Initially, when they could see that Baobao was about to be beaten up by the knights, their party could help but anticipate Eli's loss even though it wouldn't prove anything but Eli's ability to handle three strong knights with her contracted familiar.
It just felt like they have to comfort themselves by seeing Baobao lose in the end. But now, with Eli in the picture and her stance which tells everyone that she could also wield the same power as her contracted beast, they felt yet another slap coming violently on the other side of their cheeks.
Unbelievable! She already had the intelligence, the formidable backing of the two Grandmasters, and now, they are seeing that she is also strong enough to face three strong knights of the Empire?!
Why couldn't this woman just sit on the side and talk about dresses and tea parties?
There was also a complicated feeling rousing from the hearts of the nobles who were watching from the sideline.
A woman too capable as Eli was someone that may not be good for society, especially when she completely defeated all the noble women of her generation.
"Everyone, why are you so surprised? Haven't we talked about testing my aptitude, not only my Baobao's?" Eli looked at everyone calmly as if asking if she had done anything wrong.
She eyed Count Maller's party and met their dumfounded looks. Then she looked at Emperor Valentin as if seeking her opinion, all while she was firmly holding the blade of Anderson's sword in one hand!
Kazimir and Antoine felt goosebumps on their back as they saw Eli sweeping her gaze towards their Father Emperor.
That was because, of the aura that Eli was emitting right now, even the way how she acted nonchalantly, was like how Leon was whenever he fights the enemy!
Cold-blooded, hard to read, and overwhelmingly strong!
They all looked at Leon who was looking at Eli back with a subtle smile on his lips as if he could not be even prouder the moment she saw Eli step into the battle area!
This couple is truly a match made in heaven! The brothers looked at each other and resigned to their hearts, the more they observe the two of them, the more they could see the compatibilities and similarities between the two.
Emperor Valentin on the other hand had a pleased expression on his face. He could not help but silently applaud his future daughter-in-law in his heart for repeatedly putting the arrogant nobles in place.
Appearing as neutral and calm as he could, he raised his hand while declaring righteously,
"What the Great inventor said is right, everything was done because you questioned her aptitude in the first place. Why does it seem so ridiculous to you that she participates in her demonstration of aptitude?!"
At the Emperor's words, everyone in the hall swallowed the words they wanted to say in protest. The appearance of Baobao made them forget the reason why he was here in the first place, and so they lowered their heads and no longer dared to open their mouth to whine.
Meanwhile, on the battlefield, Siegfried did not wait for the Emperor's confirmation and immediately did a follow-up attack on Eli to rescue the restrained Anderson.
Eli immediately released Anderson upon seeing Siegfried stepping in. She used Baobao's strength to push Anderson away from her and quickly reverted the transformation of her hand to normal for her to grab her short sword.
The synergy between Baobao and Eli was actually beyond what summoners can do.
Even if she wouldn't transform with Baobao's physical features, she could still use his powers. The only thing that was kept secret was that Baobao can also tap on Eli's spiritual energy to augment his already overwhelming strength.
Wielding her short sword, Eli stood unafraid before Anderson and Siegfried, who were veteran soldiers before they were high-level magic users.
This was because her constant sparing partners were the ever merciless crimson blade and the vice captains of the temple knights, Joab and Keren!
Even when Eli's way of parrying the sword attacks by Anderson and dodging the sneaky attacks by Siegfried was clumsy, she was effectively compensating for her physical disadvantage and lack of experience with Baobao's power and her devourer's power sneakily.
Her devourer's power was attributed to the act of borrowing strength from Baobao anyways!
Nathan, Anderson, and Siegfried could not help but be in awe of how, Eli who looked like a frail woman who could not defend herself, exchanged blows with them consecutively.
If this was a true fight, Anderson and Siegfried were quite curious as to how she would last in a life-and-death battle.
But what she demonstrated was enough for everyone to prove that she had enough abilities to become part of the committee.
It was just a matter of how this duel would end in the most neutral way. For if Eli would appear to defeat them, it would mean that the three of them would become ridiculed for not being able to hold down Eli and Baobao.
If they would appear to defeat the other party, then this would also become something that could be used against Eli. And so, they were now unsure how to conclude the sparring match when the Emperor did not even set the time limit for the duel.
Just as they were debating in their minds on how they had to conclude the duel, Mishael, who appeared to be sitting calmly on the appointee's seat stood up and spoke to the Emperor. "Your Majesty Emperor, I have enough information for the assessment. I propose that the assessment be ended."
In his hands was a strange yellow-colored crystal glowing in the faint light, it was as large as a football.
Emperor Valentin eyed Mishael and looked at the battlefield, then he waved his hand and asked the grand chamberlain to stop the duel.
As soon as the grand chamberlain's voice echoed in the halls, Eli and Baobao, along with the three knights stopped at what they were doing and attentively faced the Emperor.
An eerie silence invaded the hall, the onlookers were clearly confused as to why the Emperor suddenly stopped the duel and why Mishael, the Captain of the Temple Knights suddenly stood to speak.
Getting everyone's attention, Emperor Valentin addressed the people with a tone that is calm and full of wisdom,
"As I said earlier, what we are doing is to assess if Lady Eli's aptitude met the set qualifications of the Anti-Curse Committee, and second was to determine if her contracted familiar has something to do with the curses."
The Lady showing what her contracted familiar could do was already enough to prove that she had met the qualifications to join the committee. But I had the Captain of the Temple Knights, Sir Mishael to detect any traces of curse power on the Lady's familiar."
Upon hearing this, the crowd started to murmur and discuss amongst themselves what the results would be.
Since Eli claimed that Baobao is not a cursed bear and does not have any powers relating to the curse magic, they were also interested in what the representative from the Temple would say.
Receiving Emperor Valentin's signal, Mishael stepped infront and activated the glowing stone before the people.
In an instant, a recording of a masked cursed user appeared on the screen, he was clearly agitated and kept cursing the Temple and the Empire. But since his face was covered, no one could recognize his identity.
Only the black smoke that kept coming out of his body and bashing on an invisible array could be seen so clearly.
Instantly, the people gasped in fear as they knew that this person was indeed a curse user.
Upon seeing that the crowd understood the video, Mishael proceeded to explain, "This is a special projection stone that is used by the Temple to detect people who use curse magic. Every time they use their magic power, black smoke will appear out of their bodies and the stone will glow dark red as a warning…"
Then he proceeded to flash the recording of Baobao and Eli's fight using the same projection stone. He let the people see for themselves that Eli and Baobao fought without traces of the black smoke.
"As you can see on the entire course of the sparring, Lady Eli and her contracted familiar did not have any trace of the curse magic even when using the summoner's abilities. Thus, this proves that Lady Eli and her familiar's claim to have no connection with the curse is true!"