The First Exam Begins

"My name is Tina, and I'm also the examiner for the first exam." Tina quickly steadied herself and noticed Lucky sitting in the car.

The other party was a Nen Ability user. The first Hunter Exam she had arranged could not possibly stump him.

"It doesn't matter whether he drives or not."

"Now then, all of you, follow my pace." With that, she immediately started running.

She ran toward the endless desert.

The other examinees followed as well.

Lucky was also about to start the car.

However, several examinees stood in front of the vehicle, clearly intending to do something.

Some other examinees watched the show, though they undoubtedly had designs on Lucky's car as well.

Whenever they could conserve energy, they naturally would. Who knew what the next exam would be like?

The Hunter Exam had no requirements regarding an examinee's character.

Even an evil person could become a professional Hunter as long as they passed the Hunter Exam.

Only some examiners might have slight standards when it came to character.

But such cases were rare.

Not only did the Hunter Exam have an extremely low pass rate, its death rate was also quite high.

"Kid, get out of the car now. We're requisitioning this vehicle. Unless you want to die." The leader was a scar-faced man.

He gave off the air of a bandit and had three companions who looked like underlings.

All of them carried killing intent. They had clearly killed people before.

Each of them held weapons such as knives and daggers.

"Brother Kuli, don't be hasty. This young man will surely think it over. Let me have a word with him." A young man seemed to be trying to smooth things over.

But Lucky had no interest in wasting words on them.

He merely glanced at the four of them.

Then he said, "Kill yourselves."

"Ah!" Four cries of agony rang out as blood sprayed everywhere.

The four men who had just been threatening Lucky actually slit their own throats and killed themselves at his command.

Lucky did not spare them another glance. He started the car and drove after the others.

With his Sharingan, a single look was enough to deal with ordinary people like them.

But this scene terrified some of the other examinees who had harbored similar thoughts.

Such a method was simply unheard of.

"Tonpa, the big brother you just acknowledged is already dead. Looks like you might not even make it through the first exam this time," said an examinee who knew the young man.

Then they all sprang into action and immediately chased after the main group.

Fortunately, the desert was boundless and did not have many steep dunes. They could see the advancing group, and with the highway there, catching up was relatively easy.

Lucky had already driven off.

Otherwise, upon hearing that name, he probably would have sighed in amazement.

So Rookie Crusher Tonpa had already appeared at this point!

Tonpa was born in 1953 and had begun taking the Hunter Exam at the age of ten.

He was currently seventeen years old, a little younger than Lucky.

Tonpa looked at the four corpses, gave it no further thought, and immediately chased after the others. As he ran, he began to ponder.

Lucky leisurely drove after them and quickly caught up with the main group.

The difficulty of this exam lay in the harsh desert environment. The examinees would quickly become thirsty and dehydrated. Those who came prepared might fare better.

But for those who had not prepared, this was the first problem they had to face.

The longer they ran, the thirstier they would become.

And there was also a blazing sun overhead.

Still, Lucky felt that this exam should not be as difficult as the one in the anime.

In terms of danger, this desert could not compare to the Zevil Island Wetlands at all.

The Zevil Island Wetlands were a famous adventure site, known across the world.

Even without deliberately asking around, Lucky had heard rumors about it. The Zevil Island Wetlands contained dangerous Magical Beasts as well as many rare herbs.

Some herbs required for the advanced secret formulas of Heavenly Arena were also obtained from the Zevil Island Wetlands.

The examinees who ran ahead at the start had all been confident in their own strength and had never considered asking to use Lucky's small car.

As for those behind, after witnessing what had just happened, they did not dare approach Lucky at all.

In their minds, they had already decided that Lucky was one of the dangerous people among the examinees.

Lucky drove ahead.

He pulled directly alongside the examiner at the very front.

A car was certainly faster than a person running, though that was only compared to ordinary running.

Some examinees in this group could outrun Lucky's car if they ran at full speed.

The disparity among humans in this world was also enormous.

"Examiner Tina, is the endpoint of the first exam Bahali Oasis?" Lucky asked directly.

If it was, he was afraid he would simply drive straight to the endpoint and wait.

Some examinees had not expected Lucky to be so bold as to casually strike up a conversation with an examiner and even ask about the exam's content.

Those who had taken the exam once or twice knew very well that examiners were not easy people to communicate with.

It could be said that those capable of becoming Hunters were all rather arrogant.

Only Wesley felt that this was not a problem.

Lucky was far too famous in Heavenly Arena. Both his strength and status were outstanding, and practically everyone knew that he was a disciple of the Heart Source School.

Tina smiled. "No, it isn't. Vita Desert doesn't have only one Oasis."

There was more than one Oasis?

Lucky had not learned this information in Vita City just now, despite launching a financial offensive.

Logically speaking, it was unlikely that anyone would deceive him.

The only possibility was that not many people knew about the other Oasis.

Moreover, the examiner named Tina seemed to be a local.

It looked like his plan to head directly for the endpoint had fallen through.

There was only one highway leading from Vita to Bahali Oasis.

Even if the road were buried by yellow sand, he could still find the correct route. His En was enough to distinguish the road beneath the sand.

But the examiner's words meant that they might leave this easy road midway.

And if his car left the highway, it would not be easy to drive through the desert.

Still, it would not make much difference.

Lucky said nothing more.

He simply drove along slowly behind them.

The examinees at the front also overheard Lucky's conversation with the examiner. Those who could make it this far were not complete fools.

Naturally, they could think of what Lucky had thought of.

It was useful information.

Soon, they had been running for an hour.

Examinees had already begun falling behind.

This really was brutal!

If someone was eliminated during the first half of the first exam in the anime, at least their life would not be in too much danger.

But here in the desert, dehydration alone could kill someone.

Only 328 examinees remained now.

Within Lucky's perception, aside from himself, there were no other Nen Ability users among this batch of examinees.