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.

the permission and sponsorship of the central government, decided to set up their

that would be the pillar of their

greater good of humanity. The main reason why they built their academy was to retain their talents and keep them in their city so that in the

was currently in

that's how the four great

that although weren't at the level of the Lock, were the closest thing someone could get

— Park

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academy —

although most of you know that information already, that's

Donna took out a pile of papers and

you guys need to fill in order to apply for an academy exchange

an exchange to the Lock, next year, during

...Right.

class will be filled with exchange students coming from

knew who some of them were as they were either going to become

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

just like this year, it will start two months

my eyes as I listened to Donna, I glanced at the

my attention as she spoke was

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

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

...No.

Code breaker, Academy virtual guild wars, Abyss scavage, Tower defense, and many

one of the games was a retouched version

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

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

very different from

was that it would be broadcasted throughout

popularity was enormous. Rivaling the Olympics and World cup of

that tensions

select applicants based on your performances by the end of the year...and from there we will place you

class, Donna brushed her

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

Donna' spoke, I couldn't help but notice a lot of the student's

...Their reaction was understandable.

gain both honor and fame, and if lucky, they