Countdown 15 Departing From the Alpha (Evelyn)
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Chapter 20

His friend had checked the packs for more than 50 years searching for his mate, which he unfortunately never found. After 50 years of constant searching, he gave up, and closed his heart to even the prospect of having another werewolf as his mate and queen, other than his rightful mate.

He was already a hundred years old. Normally, werewolves had a minimum life expectancy of 200 years. Salas, as a high ranking werewolf, had an even longer life, but who could say for certain exactly how long his life would be. It had made even the Council worry, as he reached his current age, and still had no heir to the throne.

What if the reason for not replaceing his mate was that she had not been born yet? He gave up the search before her birth, and thus Celia Blair was never checked.

He sighed again. Well anyway, his highness made constant inspections to the Academy, and even if not, as he had already checked it this year, he could possibly still come for the start of the courses in

autumn.

It would be three months later, but he had already waited for so long... what was 3 months more. And with his abilities he could probably smell her, if he even came near the gates. It was not necessary to actually see her face to face, to check if she was his mate, so in due time they would replace each other.

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Three weeks had passed since the Seer test.

Seeing her pass it, the other candidates gained another level of respect towards Celia.

Out of the 000 people or more that first signed up for the exam, only about 300 remained, just after the first test. They were the ones ranked 3rd and 4th.

The IQ test and the liberal discussion test diminished their number even more, so for the melee combat only 100 candidates remained.

Celia was between the remaining candidates, and she was actually placed first for the second and third test. The first test was confidential so no one knew her ranking, but she was at the very least a 4th rank.

During this time she kept mostly to herself as always. But in the eyes of the other candidates it felt ‘like she bloomed further, like she looked even more beautiful than when she first arrived. At the

beginning she felt more introvert and not easily approachable, but now as she was more certain of

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herself and she also felt more at ease in their presence, they could even greet her when they passed by and each time she would respond. These facts seemed to add to her attractiveness. She seemed even more charming than the first day they saw her.

During her time at the Academy, Celia had called her family only once, not that they called her also. Only her brother messaged asking how she was from time to time or if she was eating properly, but with her mother she had only spoken once.

It was the time she called to inform her family she had passed the first three tests. But when her mother answered the phone, after she had waited for quite a while for the call to be picked up, the latter told her to take care of herself, and quickly mentioned she did not have the time to talk at that moment, but she assured her she would call her back later. She waited for the call that never came, so they did not know of her progress.

She also tried later to call her sister, but Brianna did not respond to her calls at all. She sighed, as she figured her sister was still angry at her for leaving so abruptly, so she gave up trying to call and only left a message for her, telling her to take care of herself and, even though she was not one to talk of her feelings, she also told her younger sister she loved her very much.

The last Monday finally came. She was a bit nervous, but still felt she was as ready as she would ever be for the final test. She had used the rest of the weeks, other than Mondays on which the tests were held, for training.

She had self-trained since young, but she always did so covertly, and only in her scarce free time, but now she could do it freely and even use all of her time for it. Jake also trained with her and, as he had professional training, it helped her further.

The one hundred people gathered in the massive Amphitheatre located in the heart of the Academy. They had become quite close to each other in the last month, but now everyone was wary of the

other.

On this day, out of the one hundred still remaining candidates, only ten would get to be admitted for

the watcher course, and everyone wanted to be in those ten places.

A fierce battle was sure to take place...

"Lady and gentlemen, congratulations for passing the previous tests. You are truly the elite of the elite. Unfortunately, as you already know we only have 10 available positions for watchers this year. So to decide the final candidates, the last test will be a melee war between all of you.

The purpose of this fight is quite simple and that is, the last ten people to remain inside the circle you are now standing in, will become the new watcher candidates that we will train for the next two years. After undergoing the course and final exam, those ten people will become full watchers.

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