Lord of Annihilation

"5 seconds.", said the machine.

Lucius adjusted his state of mind and balance.

"4 seconds."

He began to tighten and loosen his muscles.

"3 seconds."

He began adjusting his breathing to his optimal state.

"2 seconds."

Lucius then began controlling his soul power to to have it go through his eyes, his nerves and his limbs

"1 second.:

He then opened his eyes. A faint red could be seen in the depths of his eyes.

"Begin Reaction Testing.", said the mechanical voice.

Immediately after that, the wall in front of Lucius opened up. Lucius dashed into it at his top speed. He started going all out from the beginning to get his optimal results. As he entered the new room, the walls on both sides opened up to reveal, small circular disks. Each disk was 30cm in diameter and was flat. Lining their edges was red circular light.

As soon as the machines detected Lucius' entrance, they fired off in his direction seemingly trying to hit him. They came in all sorts of directions and did not seem to have a fixed pattern.

'It seems my goal here is to not get hit by these.', Lucius calmly thought as he prepared to dodge them.

Seeing the disks enter a meter, of his range, Lucius quickly twisted his head and upper body in a weird manner. Looking from afar, one could see that his upper body and lower body were not in the same line. They were in fact parallel to each other!

The disks narrowly missed him and fell behind. After dodging the first wave, Lucius did not relax for even a second and continued to move at his top speed. He dodged each disk in a variety of manners from jumping, twisting, rolling on the floor, zig-zagging, etc. He even evaded one disk while having it clash into an another on by moving in their trajectories

'They are too slow.' Lucius thought to himself. After infusing his eyes and limbs with soul power, the world in Lucius' opinion had slowed down. All sorts of calculated directions and trajectories could now be clearly seen with his eyes. He even had the energy to calculate their precise path and dodged them in a very narrow manner.

Of course he could dodge them with room to spare, but Lucius did not do so. After the fight earlier, he noticed his body was too uncoordinated with his mind. His body did not move in the way he wanted it to. Therefore he was using this method to train his body under the infusion of soul power.

By this time Lucius had covered 3/4th of the total distance of this test. As he was continuing his mind suddenly alerted him fo danger. He quickly twisted his head downwards in a 90 degree angle, and felt his hair being ruffled. He quickly looked at the newly fallen disk.

'That was close. It actually caught my blindspot and almost knocked me out.', Lucius analyzed calmly. If it had been an ordinary student they would have surely caught off guard by that attack. Fortunately Lucius had his senses enhanced by his soul power and his monstrous battle experience.

He became even more cautious after that attack and quickly completed the rest of the testing with ease .A laser recorded his finish and the disks stopped firing.

"Reaction Test complete", said the machine.

"Proceeding to Strength Testing. Please hit the pillar ahead with your full strength" ,it continued.

In front of him, Lucius noticed a pillar giving off a metallic lustre. It was completely smooth devoid of any markings. A circular indent was seen in the center of the pillar.

Lucius stood in front of the pillar and started gathering his breath. He concentrated and started to channel his soul power to his fists. He then assumed a fighting stance and with a sharp exhale punched the pillar with his full body strength combined with his soul power.

BAAM!!

A loud sound echoed through the empty room. Lucius felt drained and struggled to stand. He noticed that his soul power was very low.

'I guess that's the capacity of my soul power. 5 minutes of high intensity movement and 1 full powered attack', he thought to himself.

"Strength Testing confirmed. Proceeding to Endurance Testing.", the machine spoke up after a few seconds.

A door opened and a new room appeared. The room was empty except for a steep incline on the ground. On the top of the incline was a red flag.

"Please reach the red flag to complete your testing.", the machine instructed.

Lucius gathered his remaining energy and had it cycle in his body. He then proceeded to walk towards the red flags. As soon as he took the first step, Lucius felt his back being burdened. It seemed as if weights had been added to his body.

'A Gravity Simulator. This is going to be hard.', Lucius inhaled a sharp breath.

Unlike adding weights onto a body, a gravity simulator manipulates the surrounding gravitational force to increase or decrease. This adds weight to all parts of the body including the inner organs. Lucius even felt his lungs being weighed down and found it hard to maintain his breathing technique.

He grit his teeth and continued to move forward one step at a time. With every step he took the load on him increased and the terrain gradually inclined. Lucius found it hard to move forward after 15 steps.

'I need to move forward.' Lucius thought firmly.

After the 30th step, the gravity in the room had already tripled to that of normal. He found it impossible to stand let alone take a step forward. Lucius firmly clenched his teeth and started drawing his soul power once more. He then proceeded to take 5 more steps before his felt a sharp pain tear across his entire body. His soul power had been completely exhausted!

'Just 5 more steps!' Lucius thought to himself as he struggled to suppress the pain he was feeling at this moment. Unlike physical pains or internal injuries, exhausting or overdrafting of soul power had a different kind of pain. It felt similar to having one's muscles being torn apart piece by piece, whilst increasing their sense of pain.

Any normal person or even a trained soldier would have passed out at this moment, alas Lucius was none of the above. He was an inhuman 300 year old monster, who did not understand the meaning of giving up, Through his life he had simply lost too much.

He persevered and finally took that final step towards the red flag. As soon as he took that step the gravity was immediately restored to normal. Having the weights taken off him Lucius body collapsed onto the ground. He had been holding on off his perseverance for those final few steps.

"Congratulations Miss Olivia, You have successfully completed the tests. Your results have been calculated and is shown in the screen ahead.", the machine spoke without an ounce of excitement in it's voice.

'Wait, what.' Lucius thought to himself.