The Author's POV

Soon after the professor initiated the simulation, my surroundings started to change.

Thick lush trees started appearing from beneath my feet followed by soft and crumbly soil that caused my feet to slowly sink.

My visibility slowly started getting blocked by the towering trees that started sprouting from the ground at an incredible speed.

Extending my hand forward to touch a tree, I was immensely surprised by the realistic sensation that spread through my fingers. Running my hand along the tree trunk it felt like I was touching the lines and wrinkles of an old man's face. It had an uneven surface where I could feel the flaky nature of the dark exterior, that crumbled and peeled, with a crackling sound at the slightest pressure exerted by my fingers.

It almost felt like I was touching the real thing.

It didn't feel like I was touching a bunch of codes, but an actual tree.

"How intriguing..."

[Rank 1750 Ren Dover - Team points: 6]

As I was busy being mesmerized by how realistic the trees were, a notification popped up in front of me.

Seeing the notification, I quickly swiped left to discard it and fell into deep thought.

The game was simple.

Each student had one point, and every time a teammate died the team would lose a team point.

The teams that reached 0 points would then be automatically eliminated and hence lose the game.

The only way to gain points was through completing the hidden tasks available on the map.

At the end of the test, there will be a ranking list that ranks the teams in accordance with their performance.

Taking a good look at my surroundings, my teammates were nowhere in sight.

In fact, although the professor never mentioned this to us when briefing us on the rules, I already knew that everyone was going to be separated from each other.

Well, I was the one who created the scenario in the first place.

The main goal of this test was to survive for 1 hour.

Although it sounded easy, it was in fact not. If it were that easy what sort of test would this be?

The lack of information provided by the professor was intentional because this essentially meant that there was only 1 rule.

And that was to 'survive'

Each person was directly given a weapon, which was automatically given to them depending on the weapon that they had registered on the first day of the academy.

In my case, a sleek black katana rested on the side of my hips.

-Shua! -Shua!

Swinging it a couple of times to adjust myself to the weight of the sword, I nodded in satisfaction.

It feels identical to the katana provided to us by the academy.

Sheathing the katana back into the scabbard, I warily glanced towards my surroundings.

When telling us the rules, the professor never mentioned anything apart from the fact that you must survive, and the more teammates survive with you at the end of the test, the more points your team had.

He purposely left out the details in regards to killing, and because of this, the students automatically assumed that killing was allowed.

Which was his true purpose.

the 'competent' and 'incompetent' students. This was so that he

easily lure students into making a

was to turn this test into a

a couple of scenarios where some

such example was building a grudge against

in the hundred's challenged Kevin and lost miserably, their pride would cause them to build

would of course

themselves and Kevin's overwhelming talent, they fall

would finally

by the offer a make a pact would be

test was

forwards, I was trying to get a

thus knew the general features

should be on the east

top of the mountains, while Emma is on the south side where the desert is located...Melissa and Amanda should both be on the west side near the ocean, thus meaning that

the main character's locations, I started to

not because I was obsessed with them, no, rather

not what will happen to me, as I have never written anything outside of the

grasp on what the protagonists were up to, I could make a

to survive for 1 hour, while it does sound easy, excluding the high-ranking students, strong simulations

thing that the

roughly guess that some sort of creature would be hunting them in the test, they would've never expected that the creature that was hunting them could perceive their location through their acute sense of smell, resulting

made so that students wouldn't only focus on hiding, but actually try to

of his surroundings before making his way towards the middle

with Jin, but they then decide to work together when they

to survive is thus to make my way

head I quickly discard

definitely going to gather at the center, that's where

options I had were to either directly get killed by one of them or get

only left me

group, or complete a hidden task so that even if I die I will have one

first option. Just the thought of interacting with Arnold pisses me off. Moreover just because I know what will happen, doesn't mean I know

likely make his way towards the center, and if I follow him there, he won't kill me, but he'll definitely find ways to

As for the rest?

don't even have the slightest idea of

leaves me with only

Complete the hidden task.

map. One in the north,

differed from the other, in the sense that the goal of each task was different, moreover, the difficulty of the task should be something that a rank 1750 like

is if I

wasn't just your regular rank 1750, I

where I

clue as to where the

main characters have ever stepped foot on the east side, where I currently was, I knew nothing about this place. Apart from the fact that this was a

myself and aimlessly walk to where

had a general idea of where the hidden tasks could be located, allowing me to

Johnson has

where I estimated the hidden task was located, I saw a notification once again emerge on the

here you were ignoring

having more than

not a bad score, but for someone like Arnold, this could be considered a humiliating score, which will result in more troublesome

I really don't want to involve myself with

I didn't lash out against him last time was because of the annoying things that could come as a consequence of

if that were to

of some stray dogs that didn't know their place. Though, at the