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.

goal was to further divide the line between the 'competent' and 'incompetent' students. This was so that he could exploit the feeble mentality

could easily lure students into making a pact with a demon, turning

turn this test

scenarios where some talented individuals built a grudge

was building a grudge against an incredibly

lost miserably, their pride would cause them to build a grudge against Kevin, not because he was strong,

some would choose to give up right away, but certain prideful and arrogant individuals would of course not accept their defeat and seek revenge at every possible opportunity they could

slowly passes and they slowly realize the gap between themselves and Kevin's overwhelming

reached this point, professor Thibaut would finally make his move by

the offer a make a pact would be made, and a

was full of

get a grasp

cheat, and thus knew

be on the

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

I started to formulate a plan regarding

was not because I was obsessed with

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

what the protagonists were up to, I could make a rough estimate

simulations of beasts will be roaming the map preventing me from staying in a single place for too

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 in many students dying without knowing

to develop survival skills for situations where they were being hunted by an

surroundings before

with Jin, but they then decide to work

make my way towards the center where a large group will be gathering,

my head I quickly discard the

gather at the center,

were to either directly get killed by one of them or get used as cannon

left me

my group, or complete a hidden task so that even if

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

most 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 make things hard

As for the rest?

don't even have the slightest idea

leaves me with

Complete the hidden task.

hidden tasks placed on the map. One in the north, south, east, west,

different, moreover, the difficulty of the task

that is if I was really

that I wasn't just your regular rank 1750, I

where I thought

clue as to where the hidden task

fact that this was a forest-type terrain and that there was a hidden task hidden somewhere

could only harden myself and aimlessly walk to where I thought the

of where the hidden tasks could be located, allowing me to have some

Johnson has died - Team points:

task was located, I saw a notification once again emerge on the corner of my view, prompting me to bitterly

here you were ignoring me because of

I don't really see our team having more than 2-3

someone like Arnold, this could be considered a humiliating score, which will result in more troublesome

honest, I really don't want to involve

that could come as a consequence of my actions. Moreover,

if that were to

I knew many ways to get rid of some stray dogs that didn't know their place.