Still, it was to be expected, as even Soldier Stage Monster Beasts in the Mortal Realm couldn't be taken down by low-level firepower. Regular guns and even small explosives barely scratched the Monsters and only concentrated military efforts or the arrival of High-Level Pract.i.tioners could take on the Monsters. Just thinking that this was the "Easy Mode" that was given to Earth as a blessing in preparation for the Second Stage of the Cataclysm made those who knew the truth shudder at the thought of what was still to come.

Eventually, though, the time came to leave and since Kurt would be going with her to the audition site, Elizabeth and her father left in a rather normal way; they took a helicopter. After all, it wouldn't be a good idea to scare them off with a flying man or a human bullet, would it?

Thus, after a short half an hour-long flight, Elizabeth was taken to the outskirts of Tokyo and came upon the site of the audition. There, in a rural area, with barren plains for dozens of kilometers on end, Elizabeth touched ground on the only building in sight. She entered through the roof and after things were sorted out, the audition promptly began.

Loudly, a voice from a Public Announcement System announced, "The audition will now begin! Starting with Applicants suited for fire, Applicant #0001 please head to the interviewing room." Just like that the audition began and by the time the first sentence of the announcement had ended, Elizabeth had finished reading through Applicant #0001's record file.

A couple seconds after the announcement, the door to the interviewing room, where Elizabeth was already sitting down at, opened and a middle-aged woman entered. Elizabeth said, "Please, take a seat, Ms. Green."

The dark-skinned woman did as Elizabeth suggested and was only separated from Elizabeth by a white table. With the unfurnished room and lack of windows it honestly looked more like some sort of interrogation room than one for interviewing purposes; almost like the room was meant to make people uncomfortable.

"So, why are you looking to study Magic under me?" Elizabeth started the audition process.

"Gurrrlll, if I'm being for real, I saw that swaggin' Ice s.h.i.+t you did and I was like, d.a.m.n, I wanna f.u.c.king uh… you know, keep some of these 'f.u.c.k-boys' in check." The woman spoke with overt ebonics influencing her speech, but Elizabeth wasn't fazed. She merely looked at the woman's Status and nodded while continuing the interview.

[Status

Name: Tanisha Green

Level: 0

Rank: Non-Pract.i.tioner

Strength 10

Endurance 11

Speed 10

Defense 10

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Intelligence 10

Inner Strength: 50

Affection Rating: Mixed

Current State: Slight Admiration, Fear, and Jealousy

Description: Though mostly worried about getting the apprentices.h.i.+p to learn Magic for self-gain. Tanisha is also reproachful over the fact that you have an "evolved" power — as she thinks it — while she doesn't.]

'Mhmm… This was only the first interview, I shouldn't get irked so quickly,' Elizabeth thought as she sent Ms. Green out and requested the next person come in for their interview. She went through dozens of interviews by the hour and through gauging the interviewees with their spoken responses and Statuses, she picked three people for those that would train in Fire, Water, and Earth under her.

Alas, Kurt expected the process to take much longer, so he had only sent applicants of those three Affinity groups to arrive for the day. Thus, Elizabeth had to wait for more people to arrive for her to interview. She only picked people that seemed the least likely to turn on her, but as human nature was arbitrary at times and there wasn't enough time to form an absolute connection of loyalty, Elizabeth could only do so much.

Eventually, more people to interview arrived and as Elizabeth declared she wanted to get this over with as soon as possible "no matter the consequences," she embarked on a death march to interview all the groups one after the other. True to her strength, she looked at the seemingly never-ending amount of work without apprehension and continued performing throughout both day and night to see to it that she would only stop the auditioning process that one time.

For hours, she picked people to learn Ice, Lightning, Darkness, Light, Wind, Wood, Metal, and even s.p.a.ce Magic. Though this time, it seemed to change for Elizabeth as she was halfway through the Audition for Yin Mage apprentice. Unlike the previous instances where people would enter alone, this time, a whole group of people entered at the same time.

Initially confused, Elizabeth watched as her father personally brought in two recognizable adults, but after seeing who he brought, Elizabeth's mood turned downcast. A bleak pressure of uncontrollable melancholy couldn't help escape from her, as Lisa's attunement to her negativity heightened these emotions. Yet, if it only stopped there, then perhaps Elizabeth would have been able to control herself.

Alas, after the adults entered and flashed her an awkward smile, behind them, there lied the appearance of a little boy with short white hair. At first, Elizabeth thought she was hallucinating. She rubbed her eyes despite her cultivation base and profound medical knowledge and thought, 'Surely, he's not…' However, even as her eyes turned bloodshot and she ran through every test to check for hallucination, even going as far as to probe her soul, Elizabeth froze up.

"GASPER!" As if she believed that he would vanish if she didn't immediately jump and catch him, Elizabeth moved with enough speed to kill anything Level 20 and below if she came to directly smash into them. She was caught by the forearm of her father as her uncontrollable outburst would probably end poorly otherwise. But instead of being grateful, she flashed a menacing aura of killing intent as her unchecked emotions believed her father to be stopping her from reuniting with the most important person in the world to her.

"That's not him…" Kurt solemnly said. "Everyone here knows that Gasper died nine years ago. This is his brother. Jasper only looks the same as his late brother…" He had expected Elizabeth to react, considering how much she cared for him while he was still alive, but this was a bit too extreme; to him anyways.

"WHAT?!" Now calling for the boy's status to confirm it herself, Elizabeth's body grew lifeless as she came to terms with reality.

[Status

Name: Jasper Von Kinsterling

Level: 0

Rank: Non-Pract.i.tioner

Affection Rating: Scared and Depreciating

Current State: Horrified

Description: To young Jasper, you look like some sort of h.e.l.l demon right now. He thinks you're trying to kill him or something of that nature…]

Like a flame that had been mercilessly snuffed out by a great tsunami, the hope that had surged in Elizabeth's heart was gone and with rather dead-looking eyes she just looked on at the reminder of her most unbearable moment in the past. With her hopelessness tainting her voice, Elizabeth addressed the two adults, "Why have you come here? And why are 'their' names so similar?"

"We, uh…" As the man stumbled through his words, his wife fiercely said, "Why? For little Jasper to come learn under the legendary Mage. But it seems to me that you don't take kindly to our presence here, ADRIAN." Growing very defensive after Elizabeth's reaction, Jasper's mom didn't hesitate to drop what she considered to be a bomb; Elizabeth's previous name.

Unfortunately for her, Elizabeth's reaction barely surpa.s.sed her raising an eyebrow as she still-hopelessly droned, "Che! I thought I would get to see my little brother once more and instead, I met a replacement. Hmph! How else would I react?"

"Listen here, 'little missy,' I don't know where you get the gall to sit on your high horse and think you care about Gasper more than us, HIS REAL f.u.c.kING FAMILY! You think my fifth son is some sort of replacement for the fourth one? You think I… I would…" Growing way past emotional, the woman couldn't even finish her words as she choked up.

"You would what? Let him die a miserable death? Isolate him and ignore his cries because he was weak? You know I'm not the ignorant little six-year-old boy from all those years ago. I know now that you could have easily gotten the medicine to f.u.c.king save him had you spent just a bit of that fortune of yours. Get off my high horse? Why don't you stop preaching as if you gave a f.u.c.k, when it's so obviously clear now that you didn't care then when he could have been saved!"

"YOU THINK I WANTED THAT TO HAPPEN? You think I don't blame myself every night for that mistake!?" At this point, the woman's face was a mess as her makeup was running, but she couldn't help but hatefully curse, "f.u.c.k you! I knew this would happen!" She turned to her husband and tightly grabbed onto Jasper's hand before loudly announcing, "Let's go! She obviously has no intentions of teaching Jasper and I'd bet she'd first see all of us dead before she would deign to help Gasper's brother…"

After putting his hand on her shoulder, Jasper's father tried to pacify the situation by saying, "Hold on dear… She's just a bit worked up. I mean, it's understandable since we were in the wrong…"

"She's calling us deadbeat parents!"

"To Gasper, we kind of were…" After admitting this himself, the temperature in the room noticeably dropped in temperature.