Chapter 176 - You Sure It's Not Your Doing?!

He kept on walking and the forest keeps on extending. An entire hour had been passed but he couldn't find anything there.

Once again Aryan got pissed and thought of using the same trick again. Like the first time this time too he created an illusionary soft, comfy bed, then turned it into reality. After that what happened no need to explain.

He hit the bed, closed his eyes, and waited for the examiners to contact him again.

Back to the other side of the forest. Nex found the head of the old phoenix and was planning to rip apart his phoenix crown.

For birds and especially for birds like phoenix their crown on their heads symbolizes their pride and power. And the absence of a crown signifies they had been defeated by someone, they longer have that pride as they used to have before.

Nex poured a small amount of aggressive sage energy into the red crystal ball and transferred it to the big crystal ball.

It got its command and made some distance between itself and the phoenix.

3, 2, 1~~Fire!!

The big crystal fired a huge energy wave towards the feather and burned it up completely.

The phoenix woke up with a screech and looked around in a rage to find out the one who broke his sleep and burned down his crown.

No one came to vision, except a crystal floating at a distance.

"Krrrrr!! Krrrrrr!!" screeched the phoenix in anger. 

All of a sudden his body cut a fire. The nest caught the fire and began to spread rapidly. Nex got afraid of the phoenix and thought if he continues further the phoenix may burn down half of the forest.

So to avoid such possibility he decided to retreat from that place. The crystal ball turned blue again and was getting configured to move towards Aryan when Boom!!

An attack fell on the crystal ball. Since it was engulfed in fire Nex and his team couldn't determine the damage level and escaped that place as soon as possible.

Back to the forest Aryan was still asleep and Lisa was unaware about it. She was using all her mirrors to watch the phoenix lesson teaching show.

Nex brought back his crystal ball to the place where Aryan had set his before and Lisa changed her mirror views and set it towards the tropical forest.

"Mam, we found that kiddo!!" one of her assistants called out.

"Oh, nice, very good. Tell me his coordinates I will set the mainframe central mirror to that place."

The assistant told her the coordinates and she set it exactly at the same place. The footage became visible and with that her anger too became visible.

"Gahhhhhhhh~~~" Lisa shouted out in anger. "This kid!! Kill me!! Someone, please kill me!!"

Looking at Lisa's such behaviour Nex handed over the controlling crystal balls to his lab assistants and headed towards her side to check up on her condition.

"What's all this ruckus about?!" Nex asked in a masculine voice. 

Everyone paying attention towards her feat heard the voice and turned around towards the source of the voice. Even Lisa too stopped throwing her tantrums and looked towards her side.

"Senior Nex~~!!" she called out in a nasal voice.

Nex knitted his eye brows and replied a "Yes~~ What happened?!!"

Lisa took her near the main frame central mirror and showed how the kid was sleeping in the middle of the jungle.

Seeing the kid even Nex was taken aback for a minute.

"This kid…. Really has some guts!!"

"Guts~~?! He has some things which are more powerful than guts. He even evaded my all out trap spell without a single scratch."

"You mean that multi-elemental javelin rain?!"

"Yes, that one. He didn't even get a single scratch and reversed the damage place as it was before."

"Whaaaat?!"

"Yes, that place was filled with hole and craters but he turned it to normal as it used to be before. Even the grass their looks like the same as before."

After hearing to this at one point Nex was thinking of canceling the exam, kidnap that kid, and recruit him for his team.

First he showed some reversible magic that none of them had seen before. Second, he showed some magic circles that were categorised as un-identical and anonymous. 

"Such talents shouldn't me left unpolished," Senior Nex murmured.

What he didn't know that the kid was not a rough diamond but a high quality polished diamond. Whose value cannot be estimated easily!!

He pondered for a while then asked with hesitation, "Miss Lisa, can't we…" He was about to ask further when she understood what he wanna ask and refused right away.

Nex tried to convince her in different ways but wasn't able to do so. At last they decided the kid will have to go through the same trial like others, but if he fails Nex will take the opportunity, recruit him and let him enter the sage palace.

While they were talking about all this one of the Nex's lab assistant shouted out and called his senior for help.

"Senior Nex, please hurry. The technical damage caused to the damage has reached level 3. One more strike and it will go astray for sure."

Crack~~ Crack~~ Crack~~~!!

Came a sound from the mirror, both of them turned around and saw the worst had already happened. A major crack had already surfaced on the ball. Without doing any further delay Nex ordered them to shut down the crystal ball.

But it was already late for them to act.

The ball came out of its invisibility mode and began to glow red al of a sudden.

"Senior~~!!" the lab assistant call out in panic.

"Move," Nex took both the controlling ball from his hands and try to control the big crystal ball. But to his dismay it was completely vain at that point.

The controllers weren't responding to his energy, and the ball wasn't responding to the controllers.

"Tch, tch," Nex cursed in anger.

"Summon the combat team and the retrieval team. Ask them to get ready for their next mission."

"On it sir," said one of his lab assistants and ran in a hurry out of the room.

All they could do then was to monitor the crystal ball and pray it stays at that same place till the retrival team reach there.

But what to say, life is a bit**. Just after a second of their praying the crystal ball began to levitate and start emitting a bright light from it.

"Seniorrrrrrr~~~~" called one of the lab assistants.

Nex ran towards the monitoring mirror and saw the weird behaviour of his invention.

"Damn!! It's broken now."

"Completely broken." Added Lisa from behind. 

Nex didn't reply anything on her comment and muttered, "Just hope it don't go towards the jungle and hinder that kid's trial."

Lisa "Mhm"

And once again. His prayer got heard by the gods and the same thing happened that he was praying for not happening.

The crystal ball turned towards the jungle and Shyyun!!

It travelled towards it with a dynamic speed. 

All the members present their face palmed and looked towards Nex in suspicion.

Everyone was of the idea that Nex was secretly controlling the crystal ball device to interrupt that kid trial, make him fail then give him an invitation to join the team.

Nex understood the intention behind those sharp glares and quickly denied the fact.

"Oh come on. I am not that much of a mean person to do something like that. Have you seen me doing something that absurd for any test result or any project?" 

Silence~~~

The room became completely Silence~~~

Not because none of them had an answer. But because everyone of them had an answer or two.

Even Lisa and her assistants group who don't often work with Nex have had heard rumours about him.

How the research department head made a big company go bankrupt because they refused to lend him their best enginner.

How the research department head bought an entire planet to recruit some of the talented researchers their whose planetary laws doesn't allows them to move out of the planet.

And at last but not at all the least how the research department head waged war on a medium sized country for not giving him an assistant on whom he have had set on his eyes.

Thinking about all these events everyone became sure that it MUST BE NEX who was doing all these things.

Till then the room was silent, and Nex too realised what's going on in theirs mind.

"Oh come on. I agree I have bankrupted some companies, bought of some small sized planets and waged war on a continent or two, but do you really think I am the kind of person to do trickery like that?"

After hearing these all this things from his mouth everyone confirmed that he was definetly pulling any underhanded trick to make the kid fail in his trial.