The Author's POV

Looking towards the sky as I covered my eyes with my arm, I couldn't help but yawn.

The sun was exceptionally bright today, and even though it was early in the morning, 8:00 A.M., the sunlight was brightly illuminating the surroundings.

Arriving at section G, I was immediatly greeted by a large crowd of students. I'd estimate that there were a total of a hundred first years alone. They each stood on the upper areas of the arena as they all looked below where the platforms were located.

Usually, the platforms would've had many students sparring and fighting against each other, however, today there was no one present. It was a strangely odd sight.

After looking at the platforms of the arena below for a couple of seconds, turning around, I soon spotted Donna who was in front of the representative members of our class. Although I couldn't see clearly as I was still quite far, I spotted around twelve students sitting behind her..

Leisurely making my way there, I soon was able to see the identity of the members, and low and behold, apart from a few, they were the usual suspects. Kevin and his group.

"Hurry up you're the last one"

Spotting me from the distance, Donna quickly nudged for me to come over.

"Hm? I'm late?"

Checking her watch, Donna added

"Yes, by a full seven minutes"

"Alright"

Secretly clicking my tongue, I increased my pace.

Hurrying up, I soon arrived before our group and sat down on the ground. Thereafter, taking out my mp3, I put my earbuds on and played some music.

...it was too early for me to be socializing. Moreover, it seems like I wasn't the only one that felt that way as almost everyone was busy doing their own thing.

Ten minutes after I started playing music, appearing in the middle of the arena below, an imposing man wearing a black instructor uniform calmly looked at the audience before him. Thereafter, his booming voice reverberated through the whole area as he warmly smiled and introduced himself.

"Welcome everybody, my name is Sean O'lirey and today I will have the pleasure of hosting the tryouts for the intra-academy tournament!"

Stopping there as he waited for everyone to turn their attention towards him, instructor Sean clenched his fist and raised it in the air. Thereafter he started speaking, and with every word he said, his voice became louder and louder.

"Young aspiring heroes, this is the chance of your life!"

"If you are able to shine in this tournament, not only will you bring honor to the academy, you will also bring honor to yourselves and your relatives. This is the moment that all of you have been waiting for...the chance for you to spread your name far into the human domain. Let them know about you and your splendor!"

Pausing for a second and glancing at every student present, instructor Sean's already loud voice boomed even louder as it reverberated throughout the whole arena resulting in the handrails shaking.

"Instead of looking for guilds, make the guilds look for you...and what better way than by shining in this year's edition of the intra-academy tournament! So rise to the challenge and show them just what you're made of!"

there, raising both hands in the air his imposing figure basked underneath the

imposing figure in the middle of the stage, the

"Waaa!"

"Yes!"

"We will definitely join!"

do

left and right where students could be seen

...seriously?

that

notice the fact that he was purposely posing to make himself look cooler? Was I the only

world did I just

and seeing everyone pumped up as a result of his speech, the corner of instructor

hand in the air to stop everyone from talking,

have decided to push forward the tryouts. I know some of you may

at everyone present. Thereafter, he subtly lowered his head in an apology. After a couple of seconds of silence, looking back up, he once again

Situations might change when you least expect them to...therefore what you need to do is adapt and persevere through the setback. Only then will you truly be fit

they understood his message, instructor Sean looked towards his left where

-Clap!

after, seeing the old man nodding his head slightly, instructor Sean clapped his hand once

that, let's get

paper from his pocket, instructor Sean started reading it. As he read the paper, his tone started becoming more monotonous with

was apparent that he

be separating each year, and from there, we will

respective year,

pointing upwards where four large monitors that were each the size of

the virtual world and thereafter, based on performances, the teams that perform the best will directly be chosen

sure that everyone understood, instructor Sean started flipping through a couple

six code breaker competition. One of the main competitions in the tournament. The rules are

I couldn't help but roll my

from being

really

moment. Currently, he was explaining the rules of the codebreaker game and as

The rules were simple.

like capture the flag, no it was basically like capture the

professors...and from there, each team, in order to defeat the other team, must insert a specific code on a metal pillar that

the code was put in, the team would win.

there was

the code, they needed to first get the code that was given to a team member before

at random as the team could choose who held the code before the game

goal of the team was to first get the code before making their way towards the other team and breaking the code by inserting it in the metal

hardest part of the game was not inserting the code...but actually finding the