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!"

both hands in the air his imposing figure

the middle of the stage, the whole stadium erupted

"Waaa!"

"Yes!"

"We will definitely join!"

will do our

off one of my earpieces as I looked towards my left and right where students could be seen cheering everywhere. My face couldn't help but scrunch up as my

...seriously?

that

was purposely posing to make himself

the world

audience before him, and seeing everyone pumped up as a result of his speech,

from talking, the instructor continued as

as most of you know we have decided to push forward

Sean carefully glanced 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 started

granted. Situations might change when you least expect them to...therefore what you need to do is

his message, instructor Sean looked towards his

-Clap!

nodding his head slightly, instructor Sean clapped

that, let's get back to

a piece of paper from his pocket, instructor Sean started reading it. As he read the paper, his tone

apparent that he

will shortly be separating each year, and from there, we will once again split

will compete with another class from the respective year, and the matches will

pointing upwards where four large monitors that were each the size of a large truck stood, instructor Seans' monotonous voice continued to ring across

examination will take part in the virtual world and thereafter, based on performances, the teams that perform the best will directly be

started flipping through a couple of pages before he resumed

simple. It will be a six vs six code breaker competition. One of the main competitions in the tournament. The rules

the instructor speak, I couldn't help but roll my

so much? Going from being an overly dramatic individual to this monotonous

must really hate boring

didn't matter at the moment. Currently, he was explaining the rules of the codebreaker game and as I had made the game, I already knew the rules hence

The rules were simple.

it was basically like capture the flag with some twists

which was selected at random by the professors...and from there, each team, in order to defeat the other team, must insert a specific code on a metal pillar that they each had to protect. Sort of like

code was put in, the team would

there was a

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

random as the team could

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

of the game was not inserting the code...but actually finding the code, as one of the six people