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.

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

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

this test

scenarios where some talented individuals built a grudge

building a grudge against

them

individuals would of course not accept their defeat

slowly passes and they slowly realize the gap between themselves and Kevin's overwhelming talent, they fall into depravity

point, professor Thibaut would

a pact would be made, and a new villain was

test was full of

to get a grasp of my

cheat, and thus knew the general

am surrounded by trees...I should be on the east side

where the desert is located...Melissa and Amanda should both be on the west side near the ocean, thus

main character's locations, I started to

was not because I was obsessed with them, no, rather it's because all the events that will happen will be centered on

will happen to me, as I have

protagonists were up to, I could make a rough estimate

sound easy, excluding the high-ranking students, strong simulations of beasts will be roaming the map preventing me from staying in a single

thing that the

people could roughly guess that some sort of creature would be hunting them in the test, they would've never expected that the creature that

but actually try to develop survival skills for situations where they were being hunted by

a good grasp of his surroundings before making his way towards

then decide to work together when they encounter

best way to survive is thus to make my way towards the center where

head I quickly discard

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

rank were to go there, the only options I had were to either directly

only left me

a hidden task so that even if I

Arnold pisses me off. Moreover just because I know what will happen, doesn't mean I know where

follow him there, he won't kill me,

As for the rest?

don't even have the slightest idea of where they

this leaves me with

Complete the hidden task.

the map. One in the north, south, east, west, and center of the

the difficulty of the task should be something that a rank 1750 like

is if I was really rank

1750, I

I

fact, I actually don't have a clue as to where the hidden task

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

harden myself and aimlessly walk to where I thought the

the hidden tasks could be located, allowing

has

way towards where I estimated the hidden task was located, I saw a

here you were ignoring

really see our team having more than 2-3 points which would

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

be honest, I really don't

annoying things that could come as a consequence of my actions. Moreover, if he really wanted to, he could use some

that were to

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