Suddenly the whole atmosphere turned into a serious one, Mr Adam repeated himself once more, "You have to take the final exams right here, right now Earl", Earl was now confused, why was he suddenly told to take the final exam right now?, he had till Friday to do so, he wasn't pre-informed nor properly ready, plus he wasn't even in his normal school uniform, which was designed to aid alchemy, all he had on was a plain white shirt, and some shorts.

"But sir, I still have to Friday, so why am I-", Earl tried to reason, but was suddenly cut off by Mr Adam

"I've been instructed by the AAO to conclude all final exams today, as they have decided to not make the highschool submission date next month, but by Monday", Earl was in shock, not only had the AAO suddenly changed the final exam date, but they had also changed the Highschool submission date. The AAO, or All Alchemy Organisation had existed for about 400 years now, and they oversaw all new Alchemy practices since then, they mainly created and enforced rules concerning Alchemy, as well as governed the highschools Alchemy students attended, they were in charge of the schedules, acceptance or denial of application, and overall function of the alchemy world, this was mainly to keep balance and restrictions on the practice of Alchemy, but sometimes they made decisions that seemed too sudden and drastic, and this was one of those times.

"But-" Earl tried speaking once more, but was once again cut off by Mr Adams, " In addition to that, they will handpick the highschool you attend, and grant you free accommodation", seeing the confused look in Earl's eyes made Mr Adam sigh, "Look Earl, not even I know what the AAO think, but I do know one thing, they're preparing for something..., something big, but to do that, they need as much trained Alchemists as possible, so if you still haven't given up, I'd like to score you as soon as possible, because I've got a long day ahead of me", When Mr Adams was done, Earl nodded and stepped out of the shops door.

After stepping outside, Earl could immediately see three huge Alchemy circle's drawn out on the floor, but he had already seen it before, it was a sight he was all too familiar with, "As you know, the Final exam includes three tests, one to test your physical body's limit, one to test your mental state, and one to test your alchemy abilities, so please if you would, step into the first circle", said Mr Adam, he then gestured his hand towards the first circle, Earl gulped as he walked towards the circle, he wasn't prepared, and everything was being rushed on him, not to mention he had already failed the exam 5 times before this, so if he failed now, it would be his last chance, with that in mind he walked to the middle of the circle and took a stance, lowering his centre of balance, and spreading his legs, while placing both his hands by his side, like how monk stood when training, he thought this was the best stance he could take for this exercise, but then just then he suddenly felt this feeling of danger, his body quickly reacted by flexing all his muscles in his body, noticing this only one thought came into his mind 'Third Eye'.

"Drain!!" Mr Adam said, suddenly the whole circle lit up, and slightly transparent glowing blue hands, with blue particles floating around them began springing on out of the floor and going through Earl's body, it felt like someone was dragging out all his strength from his body, and he soon began sweating, he maintained his stance while gritting his teeth, but the more the hands passed through his body, the weaker it felt, soon his legs became weak, and he eventually collapsed onto the floor, immediately after seeing this, Mr Adam quickly deactivated the alchemy circle, and pressed the timer on his stopwatch, it displayed the number 78 on it, and he took out a pen and wrote it down on a book he pulled from his pocket.

After the circle was deactivated, blue particles started re-entering Earl's body, and he soon had all his energy back as to when he had started the exercise, "Onto the next test then" Mr Adam said as he once again, gestured him towards a slightly smaller circle, he walked into it and stood there still getting ready for the next test to start.

"Migraine!!" Mr Adam yelled once again as the second circle lit up, suddenly Earl's eyes rolled back, and his eyes were now just white, he stood there motionless as he saw a message

[Spiritual energy depleting]

[Spiritual energy: 20/50]

[Spiritual energy depoeting]

[Spiritual energy: 15/50]

He suddenly became panicked, and frantic, he didn't know what this spiritual energy was, or how it worked, but he knew one thing, it was depleting, and it was depleting fast, he started struggling as hard as he could to break free, and eventually he had come out of it, and immediately threw up on the ground, seeing this Mr Adam then released stopped it once more, and repeated the same actions of writing down a the number 48 in his book, when Earl was done throwing up, he got up from the floor only to see a message appear in front of his eyes

[Spiritual Energy: 8/50]

[You must consume life energy in the next 24 hours]

[Your Spiritual energy will continue to deplete till life energy is consumed, You will experience immense pain until life energy is consumed]

[If Spiritual energy reaches 0, Your HP will continue to deplete till death]

His eyes opened widely, his spiritual energy was now 8/50, and he would need to consume life energy in less than 24 hours unless he would die, he didn't even know what spiritual energy was, or why he would need to consume life energy to keep himself from dying, but he had an idea, one that he didn't like, one that involved taking another person's life.

"what's is it Earl?" asked Mr Adam, as Earl stood there speechless and looking like he had just seen a ghost, snapping out of it Earl answered "I'm fine...., let's get this over with", he then walked over to the third and smallest alchemy circle, it was drawn on a small table and had lead in the middle of it, he knew what it was, it was the test to transmutate lead into steel, "Okay then, start" said Mr Adams, Earl began trying his best to transmutate it, but nothing seemed to happen, this went on for another 10 minutes before Mr Adam decided to stop the third test, after carrying the piece of lead from the transmutation circle, he began walking off, " wait...., I..... I... I felt something change there, I'm positive I can do it just give me another chance", Earl pleaded, hearing this Mr Adam took one look at the lead and put it back, with that he called it a day, " don't worry, if u pass, some people will be arriving on Monday to take you to your chosen Academy", with that he walked off and as he smiled to himself, I love those who keep their promises, eventually got out of sight and Earl then sat down recovering from the final exam, as he was amazed by his teacher Mr Adam, although Mr Adam had support Alchemy which let him either buff or debuff any opponent, but it was still worth it when in a real team battle situation, but in a one on one confrontation, it wouldn't be so useful, but Earl's Reminiscing was quickly got cut off.

Suddenly it felt like his stomach was about to explode, and his head was aching so bad, he threw up once more, but felt even worse than the way he was before throwing up, he kept holding his stomach and head until he fainted out of pain, banging his head on the floor with blood in his mouth and coming out the side of his head, just then the shop doors opened up "What's all that noise??", It was grandpa Ollie who had come out like a grumpy old man, but later on, his face changed after seeing Earl motionless on the floor, "Earl!!" grandpa Ollie shouted as he grabbed Earl of the floor and took him inside, just then his pendant began slightly glowing, and although he wasn't conscious, he still received a message

[Vlad Talisman activated, healing process begin]

[Spiritual Energy: 7/50]

[Your Spiritual Energy depletes]