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.

with the permission and sponsorship of the central government,

be the pillar

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 keep them in their city so

in a tough

four great academies came

of the Lock, were

academy — Park

— Lewington

— Dromeda

academy — Conviction

information already, that's not the reason why

out a pile of papers and

before me, there are application forms that you guys need to fill in order to apply for an academy

academies' turn to do an exchange to the Lock, next year, during

...Right.

will be filled with exchange

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

helped. There was bound to be an arrogant

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

eyes as I listened to Donna, I glanced

that had caught my attention as she spoke was the

tournament between all academies in the human domain, be it four great academies,

wasn't like the usual tournament arcs where it would be a 1v1 tournament

...No.

a tournament with many unconventional games such as the Code breaker, Academy

games was a retouched version

the individual achievement of each student,

would usually get in novels where it just consisted of plain

was very different

it would be broadcasted throughout the

was enormous. Rivaling the Olympics and World cup

that tensions were high whenever

the end of the year...and

everyone in the class, Donna brushed her

exempted from all classes and will be directly put under strict training from the best

spoke, I couldn't help but notice a lot

...Their reaction was understandable.

honor and fame, and if