The Author's POV

"It's about the multi-academy exchange"

Listening to Donna, I couldn't help but massage my forehead.

...damn, with everything that had been going on lately, I forgot all about this.

hmmm, well, more than me forgetting about this, it was more like it slipped my mind. After all, we still had a couple of more months before this event would happen.

"As most of you know, during the month of March, we will have exchange students staying at the Lock for a month in preparation for the Multi-Academy youth tournament"

"This time, the academy has decided that only students from the four great academies will participate in the exchange, as the district and regional academies have agreed to exchange with one another..."

Listening to Donna speak, I couldn't help but find my brows knitting slightly.

The four great academies.

The four other human academies that could almost rival the Lock in terms of their educational system. Though they weren't on the same level, they were the closest substitute out there.

"Lutwik academy, Theodora academy, Kuzk academy, Vellon academy..."

Those were the names of the four great academies.

The human domain had five great cities. Ashton city, Park city, Lewington city, Dromeda city, and Conviction city.

Altough each city wasn't far from each other, because of the threat coming from beasts and villains along the way, it took about five hours for a person to make it to one of those cities. With Ashton city being the reference point.

Thus, if a person from one of those cities wanted to send their child to the Lock, they would have to send them all the way to Ashton city.

As a result of this, they may not be able to see their children for a very long time...

Some people were willing to do that for the sake of their children's future, whilst some couldn't do it.

Be it for economical problems, or the fact that they couldn't part ways with their children, some just couldn't send them all the way to Ashton city to make them join the Lock.

...and that became an issue.

A lot of talents weren't being nurtured properly.

Very talented individuals that could rival some of the most talented people in the Lock were being provided with lower-end education.

This was a big problem that cost humanity a lot of talented people.

this situation, each city mayor, with the permission and sponsorship of the central government, decided to set up their

that would be the pillar of their

course, each city mayor wasn't selfless enough to set up an academy for the greater good of humanity. The main reason why they built their academy was to retain their talents and

each city was currently in a tough struggle against the

four great

although weren't at the level of the Lock, were the closest

academy — Park

—

— Dromeda

academy —

that's not the reason why

pile of papers and placed them on the podium

are application forms that you guys need to fill in order to apply for an academy exchange with one of the four great

to the Lock, next year, during your second

...Right.

March, our class will be filled with exchange

knew who some of them were as they were either going to become Kevin's ally in the near future or become

to be an

exchange will only last a month or two, and just like this year, it will start two

Donna, I glanced at the papers on

my attention

human domain, be it four great academies, the Lock, regional, and district academies, they

academic year, and it wasn't like the usual tournament arcs where it would be a 1v1 tournament to decide who was

...No.

as the Code breaker,

one of the games was a

tournament was extremely unique. More so than it being something to display the individual achievement of each student, it

you would usually get in novels where it just consisted

it was very different

about the Multi-Academy Tournament was that it would be broadcasted throughout the whole human

the Olympics

that tensions were high whenever the

end of the year...and from there

everyone in the class, Donna brushed her ponytail to the side and

refuse. Two months prior to the tournament, you will be exempted from all classes and will be directly put under strict training from the best professors in the academy...and during that time you are training, according to your performance, you will

notice a lot of the student's beside me breathing

...Their reaction was understandable.

all, if they stood out, they would without a doubt gain both honor and fame, and if lucky, they could catch