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.

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

be the pillar

why they built their academy was to retain their talents and keep them in their city so that in the future they would become high-ranked heroes that represented

was currently in a tough struggle against the

that's how the four great academies came

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

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academy —

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academy — Conviction

most of you know that information already, that's not the reason why

a pile of papers and placed

are application forms that you guys need to

turn to do an exchange to the Lock, next year, during your second year, it will obviously

...Right.

in the month of March, our class will be filled with exchange students coming from the four great

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

bound to be an arrogant

and just like this year, it will start two months prior to the

eyes as I listened to Donna, I glanced at the papers on

attention as

academies in the human domain, be

the usual tournament arcs where it would be a 1v1 tournament

...No.

many unconventional games such as the Code breaker, Academy virtual guild wars, Abyss scavage, Tower defense,

games was a retouched

the individual achievement of each

would usually get in novels

was very

it would be broadcasted

popularity was enormous. Rivaling the Olympics and World cup of back

tensions were

on your performances by the end of the year...and from there we will place you in the first year squad that will

in the class, Donna brushed her ponytail to the

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

help but notice a lot of the student's beside me breathing

...Their reaction was understandable.

doubt gain both honor and fame, and if lucky, they could