"Are you ok?"
David noticed that peculiar behavior when he saw that Noah was staring at the floor where the Flame dragon had disappeared.
Noah simply nodded at that question and turned to join his resting companions, his cold gaze was hidden behind his hood.
'These were just bottom tier beasts, Thomas is a heroic cultivator, I'm still a child in his eyes.'
With that last thought, Noah suppressed again his emotions, he couldn't allow himself to be distracted in that place.
The fifth trial featured a floorless area, the aim of the test was to cross the void below them and reach the passage on the other side.
Flying wasn't a problem, David had personally chosen a rank 3 cultivator of the wind element with a spell that could carry all twenty of them.
Yet, dragons would randomly peek from the cavities in the walls at the sides of the area and launch lightning bolts aimed at the cultivators flying at its center.
A large number of lightning bolts were launched, nineteen cultivators did their best to fend off the incoming attacks in order to protect the wind mage.
David's group struggled a bit, lightning attacks had innate piercing proprieties and they were able to destroy everything on their path.
It took the full effort of all nineteen cultivators to safely reach the other side, they found themselves exhausted and without any energy left but they had succeeded in passing the fifth trial!
Some discord, though, began to appear on the expression of the weaker cultivators when they saw that Noah wasn't as tired as the others.
The other cultivators had long noticed that Noah wasn't using spells, he simply relied on his martial art and on his inscribed sabers to fight.
That wasn't a problem when that behavior was enough to safely pass the trials but the fifth one had almost completely exhausted them, they were annoyed to see that he wasn't doing his best to help them.
'Ignorance is a bliss…'
Noah thought as he avoided those angry gazes and focused on refilling his dantian.
The truth was that he had informed David about the dangers involved when he used spells and the Mental tremor couldn't affect magical beasts too much.
'As long as David is ok with that, the others won't dare to complain.'
He didn't care that the others thought that he was a dead weight, he knew that his moment would eventually come, he was doing his best to avoid injuring his companions after all.
Then, it was time for the sixth trial.
That test forced the cultivators in a harsh battle between the two kinds of dragons that they had met in the previous two tests.
Forty or so Flame dragons and Flash dragons attacked David's team in a wide area with some pits on the floor.
The pits only showed the void below the labyrinth, falling inside them would probably lead to death.
Also, a few rank 4 specimens in the middle tier were leading the dragons' assault, it wasn't a reckless charge like in the first trial.
The battle was harsh, many cultivators were injured and a lot of energy was expended.
Yet, David and the other three cultivators in the solid stage took care of the vanguard and slaughtered their way inside the enemy lines, beheading the dragons in charge of the battle formation.
It took almost an hour but, in the end, David's team succeeded in defeating all the dragons and passing the sixth trial.
Chapter end
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