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.

each city mayor, with the permission and sponsorship of the central government, decided to set

the pillar of their

the greater good of humanity. The main reason why they built their academy

in a tough struggle against

four great academies

level of the Lock, were the closest thing someone could

academy —

academy — Lewington

— Dromeda

academy — Conviction

that's not the reason why I

Donna took out a pile of papers and placed them on the podium

on the podium before me, there are application forms that you guys need to fill in order to apply

to the Lock,

...Right.

be filled with exchange students coming from the

as they were either going to

helped. There was bound to be an arrogant person here and

two, and just like

Donna, I glanced

attention as she spoke was the Multi-Academy

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

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

...No.

unconventional games such as the Code breaker, Academy

of the games was a retouched version of

the individual achievement of each student, it was more to display the academic might of

that you would usually get in novels where it just consisted of

very different from

Multi-Academy Tournament was that it would be broadcasted

the Olympics and World cup

that tensions were high whenever the Multi-Academy tournament was

your performances by the end of the year...and from there we will

everyone in the class, Donna brushed her ponytail to

you have no right to 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,

help but notice a lot of the student's beside

...Their reaction was understandable.

and fame, and if lucky, they could catch