Only Wisdom Awakened - Chapter 294

Chapter 294: First Room
Hans’s blank stare accompanied everyone else who was watching from the monitoring room as Freya closed on to the device on the wall.

“This is pretty self-explanatory, isn’t it? There’s just one thing you have to do…

Push.

The first test of power simply requires you to do as much as you can, and you will receive the appropriate score.”

Hans maintained his unfazed expression as he said:

“I see…

What does the number at the top stand for? Newtons?”

With her face as serious as always, and her emotions suppressed deep down in her mind, the woman didn’t hesitate as she answered:

“It does not matter, the only thing that matters is our score.”

Hans raised his shoulders in nonchalance as he thought:

‘I guess she’s right, seems like it is indeed quite an important challenge for her…

So eager to lose…’

Hans nodded in silence as he watched the woman prepare herself.

Her mana spread throughout the whole room as she raised her hands laterally, and then as if she were readying herself to push a whole car, she stressed all the muscles in her body, the veins on her arms thickened a bit as she moved her hands forward.

But at that moment, her hands were stopped, as if battling with an imaginary force.

In the meantime, the platform of the wall was barely moved as the screen on the top of the device seemed to be glitched, displaying a number that was rising incredibly fast.

Hans watched the number’s growth slow down as he saw the woman reach her limit.

As the pressure subsided, and the number on the wall soon returned to be filled with zeros, the device emitted a beeping sound before displaying a beeping number that flashed every couple of seconds.

On it was written: 113821.

Hans was surprised… if his guess was right, and those were indeed newtons, such a powerful push would have probably been enough to demolish a pretty large building or lift a couple of busses or tanks, certainly not something to be trifled with.

But it was funny… he had never tried to go all out when using his telekinesis lately, he didn’t do anything that required him to apart from flying.

But even when flying, Hans never really pushed his telekinesis to the limits, with spells such as wind repulsion and gravity repulsion, it was simply overshadowed.

However, the force he had perceived wasn’t superior to his, he felt that if he didn’t spare any effort, then he could have beaten it without much trouble.

The woman watched her score as she let out a brief sigh of relief… she had set a new record, and this was one of the rooms she was less confident in, so she naturally felt as though she was released of a burden.

In the monitoring room, most of the higher-ups were watching curiously, while two of them were seemingly left soulless by what they had just witnessed.

“Wow, Freya’s amazing”

The vice guild master blurted out.

The third team leader, who was one of the only two people who realized the incredible strength just displayed, couldn’t help but immediately glance at her:

“You… know what that means?”

Seemingly offended by such a question, the woman knitted her brows as she stared at him.

Then, with an even more insulted tone, she replied:

“Of course not, the number just looked big”

‘Then why the hell are you acting like I took you for dumb?!’

He immediately wanted to say, but he decided to avoid doing that as he managed to restrain himself.

“I… I know”

The vice leader of the guild’s first attack team announced.

This time, the other man was even more confused,

“how come only the stupid people said they understood what that number meant?”

He thought to himself.

But as the man began to speak, he immediately understood the reason behind his understanding of the subject:

‘Right… I had forgotten… he’s a certified musclehead’

“Before the catastrophe, I remember that during the competition for the title of the world’s strongest man, someone had managed to deadlift over five hundred kilos and that incredible feat was said to have been equivalent to a power of five thousand newtons…

I once asked the guild leader if I could train there, but she told me that my punches wouldn’t trigger the machine, that is because the force needed to be applied to the whole surface of the machine for it to count the pressure.

In other words… she has been maintaining the push of a last-ditch effort of the world’s strongest unawakened men multiplied more than twenty times, and she applied that pressure to the whole machine…

This… this looks like a perfect execution of an exercise… is something I never thought I would see.”

Even though he was in awe of the wrong things, Henry Langston couldn’t help but agree with the fact that it was insane.

At that moment, a question was asked, and the man knew that he was the only one who could answer… as always.

The woman who commanded the second team, the person who had met Hans together with Henry, immediately asked:

“So… how much are 100 thousand newtons of force”

Henry immediately felt everyone’s gaze turn toward him.

He paused for a bit before saying:

“A newton is the force needed to move one-”

But as he was talking, he suddenly stopped, knowing that the other people wouldn’t have been able to convert it to a real-life situation, so he instead said:

“I’m not sure, this is just my opinion, but the strength displayed by the leader means that she would probably be capable of lifting almost a dozen tons, which means to say about six cars, maybe a bit more or less depending on the model… she could probably lift a train carriage, and she should be well capable of destroying a little building with such a pressure…

I am afraid any person whose body doesn’t have any magic or physical qualities that can resist such pressure of at least C-rank or even B-rank won’t be able to survive under such pressure, or at least, their bones would probably shatter.”

Everyone clearly felt the might of their guild leader when the matter was explained like that.

Every mage gathered there had reached the seventh rank, and as they assisted at that incredible display of power, they immediately began wondering whether they should seriously start to train their telekinesis.

Suddenly, the whole group shut up as they saw Freya approach the second machine…

At the time, all the other members inside the room had also taken an interest in the challenge, so the scene was now displayed on a larger screen, leaving enough space for everyone inside the monitoring room to see what was happening.

The second device was a pillar standing in the middle of the room.

Just like the first device, this one was also made of a pitch-black material, and it had four monitors on its top, making it possible to see the test scores from every part of the room.

“This is the second machine… a test of grip strength, you are allowed to use both hands, but as the machine only registers any results if the pressure is even, you will not just be able to crush it from both sides and be done with it, you are forced to use your grip.”

The machine was immediately strained under the woman’s incredible grip, the number quickly spiked before stopping at 16483.

Sixteen thousand four hundred and eighty-three… quite an incredible result considering an average adult male had a grip strength of about four hundred newtons.

It would have probably been enough to restrain most of the monsters she wanted to incapacitate or fling them into the distance while keeping them tightly caged.

Lastly, she proceeded to approach the third device, but before taking the test, she turned toward Hans, who was still waiting for his turn.

“What? Feel like it was too much for you to handle and need some time to recover your mana?”

Hans found it quite relaxing to irritate the woman for some strange reason, but he was soon met with a cold response as she replied:

“Do your part first, we will decide whether or not you’re worthy of making me waste my time, the pressure you showed me last time wasn’t nearly enough to surpass the one I displayed, so let me be the judge and see whether you’ve improved or not.”

Hans smiled as he replied:

“Well, you’re the one gifting me an item so I can only follow the rules”

Hans’s attitude of taking victory for granted made Freya want to attack him right that moment, but that would just make all the efforts she had made to improve to that point wasted.

She wanted to beat him in a fair battle, and that would be barely enough to satisfy her.

In the monitoring room, they saw Hans walk to the first machine as someone said:

“It seems like they’re switching…

Finally, we’ll be able to see the boy’s strength”