Cultivation Through Artifacts

Chapter 34: Choose A Teacher

While everyone looked at Khal, Liza, and the three others with sharp glares, until then Jas clapped his hands once again and looked at the five with the keys above their heads.

“Now then. Because the five of you are the current ones who possess the keys, you shall start the test first.”

As Jas said that, he looked at the muscular guy and said calmly, “Andre, please.”

The muscular guy called Andre nodded slightly hearing his name and without wasting any more time, with steady steps he started to walk toward the gate.

Khal watching him walk, made him feel like the whole world suddenly started to tremble around him. Just simply because of his dominant aura which was engulfing his body, made others think that they should bow their heads.

This feeling alone made some scared and nervous, especially because Andre was just still on the First Stage of the ten Cultivation Stages.

Under the hundreds pair of eyes, Andre stepped before the gate and without hesitation, put his palm on the entrance’s surface.

Because Jas told them to wait, others thought it will take a while for the gate to open, however, the moment Andre put his palm on the entrance’s surface, it instantly opened and revealed a figure at the other side of the gate.

It was a man with the same build as Andre, but with the only difference that he was way more muscular and had short black hair, while his whole being leaked powerful presence.

While everyone was taken back by the man’s powerful appearance and presence, the man stepped before Andre and crossed his robust arms before his wide chest.

Right now, the man looked like he could support the heavens just with his physical body alone, which made almost everyone around feel shocked.

However, the man didn’t care what others thought about him, he just simply looked at Andre with a sharp glare, and started to inspect him from top to bottom.

“My name is Raffin Cote and I will be your teacher from now on. You either call Master or I will kill you!”, started to talk loudly Raffin in an unshakable manner, making everyone around to stiffen up under a second.

But not Andre. Instead of feeling intimidated, he just cupped his hand before his chest and bowed slightly, in a respected manner.

“Understood Master!”, answered Andre instantly, making Raffin to snort somewhat unsatisfied.

“I will teach you well.”

After he said that, Raffin turned to the side, and after examining the crowd on the side, he walked beside Jas.

Andre followed his teacher to the side too and without saying anything else he stood still behind his teacher’s back like an unmovable mountain.

Looking at the almost identical-looking individual on his side, Jas could only smile.

However, he knew that time was precious, so he didn’t waste any more time and turned toward the crowd.

“Okay, it’s your turn, Ella.”, said Jas as he looked at the blondie calmly.

Nodding, the little girl walked before the gate too, and just like Andre, she touched the surface of it too.

Just like what happened a few moments ago, the door opened instantly and slowly a woman walked out.

However, when she did, it felt like time itself halted, while every eye in the world fell on the woman.

She was as gorgeous as a rose, with silky smooth brown hair, a curvy and slender body, and a sexy outfit that showed her milk-white skin while hiding parts that were way too private.

“She… She is beautiful! She is a Goddess!”

“Oh my God! An angel has descended!”

“I can now finally die happily!”

People after another started to speak shameless, ridiculous, or stupid comments, making Jas on the side to smile slightly yet again.

Liza seeing the woman’s appearance looked taken aback too and wanted to ask Khal something, but before she could have, she stopped.

The reason was that the moment she glanced at Khal to ask him, she saw his unfazed expression, which was quite strange.

All the other guys and even a few girls around them drooled by the charm of the woman, yet Khal looked as he saw nothing out of the ordinary.

It made Liza to look at Khal a bit strangely, but still stepped closer to him and asked quietly, “Don’t you think she looks quite beautiful?”

When Khal heard this, he glanced at Liza, and after thinking for a small while he just shook his head and said, “I don’t think she is that attractive. In my eyes, you look much more glamorous than her.”

“!”

Hearing the unexpected reply from Khal, Liza’s face turned beet red instantly. As a result, she stepped away from him without a second thought and averted her gaze shyly.

However, it was right at the moment, that the woman before Ella suddenly looked toward their way, like she just heard what Khal said.

“Eh? Was she able to hear what I just said from such a distance?”

While Khal thought about the possibility of being heard, the woman averted her gaze from him after a few seconds and looked at Ella again.

“My name is Scarlett. I will be your teacher from now on.”

“Thank you!”, said Ella with a bow and followed her instructor to the side, where Jas and Raffin were standing calmly.

“Noa, please.”, said Jas calmly as he looked at the hoodied guy.

Hearing his name, the boy called Noa started to walk toward the entrance too, but this act of his freaked out a lot of people closest to him.

Because he had a hardly detectable presence, anyone who saw him walking past by them got scared quite easily.

It felt like he was a ghost, lurking from the shadows.

Raffin and Scarlett seeing that Noa was walking dead silent, looked quite interested, but that was all. It was simply curiosity nothing else.

They just simply inspected as Noa put his hand on the gate and watched as from the entrance opened yet again and a figure walked out.

This time it was an average-looking man, with an average build. However, the only outstanding aspect of him was the pair of abyss black daggers on both of his waists, which looked quite frightening.

“Robern. I will be your teacher.”, said the man with an expressionless face and walked to the side too without saying anything else.

“So cold…”, thought Khal as he watched Robern stood next to Scarlett and glanced at Liza.

“It’s your turn now. Go.”

Glancing at Khal with a still slightly blushing face, Liza nodded and walked toward the gate.

As she walked, almost every person got mesmerized by her look, but it was not on the same level when Scarlett appeared.

However, this couldn’t be told about the three teachers on the side.

The moment they saw Liza, all three of their faces stiffened and looked at her with great inspection.

“A Natural Born.”, said quietly Scarlett as she watched as Liza put her hand on the gate’s surface.

Instantly, the gate opened wide instantly, but when they saw who was revealed at the other side, everyone turned speechless.

5 teachers, 2 women, and 3 men were standing before Liza calmly, all looking at her in silence and anticipation.

When Liza saw this, she looked surprised, but before she could have asked what was happening, Jas’s voice came from the side.

“It seems you can choose the expert you want as your teacher.”

Instantly, everyone became dead silent, to the point where even a pin drop could be easily heard.

Liza hearing this now understood what happened, so she started to look at the 5 teachers before her, one by one from left to right.

The first one was a woman. She had long black hair with honey brown eyes. She had a kind of strict look, yet her whole figure was leaking indescribable calmness.

The second one was also a woman, but strangely, out of the 8 teachers currently standing outside, she looked the most extraordinary.

Not only did she had a very petite figure, but what made everyone around look shocked was the extremely huge and wide sword on her back. Its size was twice as hers!

After looking at her for a bit more, Liza averted her gaze and looked at the remaining 3 men.

Out of the 3, 2 were looking exactly the same in appearance, giving Liza the feeling that they were twins.

The last man on the other hand made Liza kind of uncomfortable. The moment she looked at the man who was wearing a black suit, she felt like the man was peering right into her very soul.

It was a very strange and kind of creepy feeling, so she instantly averted her gaze and started to think.

After thinking for a while, she nodded and walked before the woman on the very left.

Stopping a meter away from her, Liza bowed gently and after cupping her hands before her chest she bowed.

“Please take good care of me, Master!”