Next Morning,

As stated yesterday, every Marnie soldiers below the age of 30 came to the central square where the assessment is going to take place.

Special officer Chaton(Tokikake) along with few of his subordinates was already in the square when Rey and Mia arrived.

Once everyone came, Chaton came forward and spoke, "Hello everyone, I am a special officer Tokikake. Today, I will be the one supervising the entire assessment with my fellow officers."

"Now I want everyone to separate into three groups: soldiers below 17 years of age in one group, above 17 and below 25 in one group and finally, ones who are above 25 and below 30."

"If there's anyone who is above 30 years of age please leave, if I find out after then the consequence will be severe", Chaton said and waited.

After seeing nobody was moving, he continued: "Your first round will be a physical test, only after passing this round you will be eligible for further rounds."

Then one of Chaton's subordinate came forward, and spoke, "First round will be 20 Km running to test your stamina and then followed by weight lifting, sit-ups, and push-ups."

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"Your final score may vary according to gender, age, and other factors so you don't need to pressure yourself over this round."

Three high-rank marine officers took charge of the three groups respectively and issued commands for the assessment.

Rey and Mia's group is the smallest one with only 50 people since their marine base only had a small number of young soldiers below 17 years of age.

The first batch to run is Rey's group, they were told to run the training ground for 40 rounds which amount to 20km.

The most important thing is, they were told to complete the 40 rounds within 45 minutes otherwise they are rejected.

Hearing this most of the marine soldier's complexion changed and they began to curse. 'It's impossible to run 20km within 45minutes' one of the marine soldiers exclaimed.

Soon others also began to curse and swear as it's absurd. Then the supervising officer yelled, "Silent"

"If you guys have any objection, then you can leave."

Everyone becomes quiet. Soon the test started, Rey, Mia, and the fellow marine soldiers begin to run with their full strength.

Mia also prepared to run fast but was stopped by Rey, " You shouldn't run fast, but maintain a steady pace."

Everyone was quickly running at the front while Rey and Mia maintained a steadfast pace. After 10 some rounds, some of the soldier's pace began to slow down.

After 20 rounds, many soldiers were out of breath and began to struggle. Since Mia and Rey were constantly running for almost two months, they have good stamina and so, faired better.

Thirty-five minutes passed by, 30 rounds got finished. Only 10 rounds remain while 10 minutes remaining to complete the last 10 rounds.

At the last 10 minutes, Rey and Mia rushed their pace and raced with their full strength.

Rey and Mia completed the run before the 45 minutes deadline. Among them, 20 some soldiers in their group also completed while 30 some got eliminated.

Mia was catching her breath while Rey looked normal as if he didn't run 20km but took a long stroll.

"Good," Chaton praised seeing 20 something young soldiers advanced to next round.

Soon the next round of physical assessment took place, like weight lifting, pushups and situps.

Only running considered as an elimination round while other physical tests not. So even if one didn't perform well in one part, they can show their abilities in other.

When the physical tests ended, a marine supervisor came and announced the name of the soldiers who are advanced to the next stage.

In their group, 16 soldiers got advanced while others are rejected. After 2 hours, the other groups also completed their physical tests.

In total, 420 soldiers got advanced to the next round while Rey's group has the lowest soldiers since they only had few members.

"Your next assessment will be according to individuals abilities. Like some will be expert in a sword, while some in firearms, etc." Chaton announced.

Then everyone who got selected gave their name, age, and their specialty. According to their abilities, they are once again divided into different groups.

Rey gave his specialty as a fist, while Mia gave as Firearm. Like this, the groups were divided into different like Fist, Firearm, Leg, swords, knives, and other weapons.

Like Rey, many soldiers gave their specialty as a fist. In this round, Rey has to punch a long, tough rock and has to break it with his bare hands.

While for Firearms, they have to shoot a long-range target and swordsman has to cut the woods in a single hit.

Many of the soldiers got eliminated in this round and at the end of the round, only 120 some soldiers got advanced.

Next and last round of the assessment will be hand to hand combat with high-rank marine officers.

The Marine soldiers who came with chaton are highly skilled and experienced fighters from headquarters so everyone was perplexed by how to defeat them.

Then an officer came forward and said, "You don't have to defeat them, you just have to show your abilities."

Ten high-rank marine officers came forward. Soon, the combat exam took place and every soldier began to fight the officers one by one.

Chaton was disappointed as he didn't saw anyone extraordinary. He was overseeing the entire assessment and writing something in his little notebook.

Next, it was Rey's turn and he was going to fight a marine with average appearance who had tanned skin, brown hair with a mustache and wore a normal marine officer cloak with cap.

"Next, Rey Silver."

"Here", Rey responded and came forward.

"I am Haro from marine headquarters. It's saying you were good with your fist; Come, show me how good you are." The Marine officer Haro said.

Rey knows very well about the strength of Marines from Headquarters since he knows about their training. Like Koby and Helmeppo who were brought to headquarters by Garp improved their strength to the large margin in a short amount of time.

So, even though Haro looked like a normal soldier, his strength shouldn't be questioned.

Rey charged at Haro with his full strength and punched at his opponent. Rey's fist may look simple but it was packed with power and speed.

Haro was surprised by the punch, he could feel the fist is packed with strength. He calmly countered the fist with his own but took a step back by the impact while Rey took few steps back.

'Fast!' Haro exclaimed mentally.

Even though he didn't apply his full strength, it was more than enough to knock a fifteen-year-old boy.

Haro turned little serious facing Rey. Rey once again charged and punched his opponent continuously while a torrent of fast attacks began to fall on Haro.

Chaton who was watching the assessment got surprised by the fight between Rey and Haro.

He could tell Rey is a lot stronger compared to normal fifteen-year-old boys. He called the Marine base captain and asked about Rey.

The Marine base captain who already knows about the recent event caused by Rey and Mia narrated everything to chaton. He didn't dare to lie in front of the special officer.

"Interesting!" Chaton muttered and continued to watch the fight.

Facing the strong Haro, Rey's fighting intent soared and every cell in his body began to madly jump as if excited by Rey's intent.

Haro also felt Rey's strong battle intent and was surprised to find Rey's strength was improving. Even he found it difficult to face Rey's attacks normally without utilizing any techniques.

'Tekkai!' Haro shouted and when a punch from Rey struck his opponent's stomach it got rebounded.

Haro stood at the same place without any injury, expressionless. "You are very good! You can go and rest."

"Mn", Chaton nodded his in approval while smoking his pipe. 'Forcing Haro to use Tekkai, he will be worth training.'

Rey moved to the back and stood in a quiet corner but he was inwardly excited. Because his first gate becomes fully visible and was located in his Spine region.

He could feel pure energy emitting from his first gate, but when Rey tried to open, he wasn't able to.

'It seems like I need to further train my body so that I can open the first gate as soon as possible.' Rey thought.