It was finally time for our final exam.
Our last practical.
And I wanted nothing more than to get it over with so I could crawl back into bed and hibernate like a bear in winter.
But first, I had to pass this trial.
Our exam site was a stretch of crumbling ruins, as big as a small village, nestled at the westernmost edge of the Night Sanctuary.
This whole area was a graveyard of shattered buildings, collapsed archways, fractured pillars, and leaning towers that looked one breath away from toppling.
I heard that this place used to be one of the training grounds for Selene's Sentries — her most trusted warriors.
But now it was cut off from the rest of the Sanctuary. Left to rot. Used for training new Awakened in the skills of Stealth Monster Hunting and Wilderness Survival.
Standing at the threshold of the ruins, I saw vines curled around the withered walls of old buildings, creeping through cracks in the stone.
