52 Departure (1/2)
The sky was clear, perfect for the first day at school. As it was the first day, everyone was called in front of the courtyard for the principal's speech. Xin Fan quickly got dressed and exited the dorm with Chilong and Tianfei. The assembled into class lines awaiting for the principal to enter the stage. Principal Yao headed up towards the shoddily constructed podium wearing a summer outfit holding a small scroll. He unrolled it and gently placed it upon the podium while adjusting his glasses.
”Ahem...Welcome back everyone for a new semester of school. As you probably can remember, this semester would be one of the more exciting ones. I hope you are ready to face what ever challenges that may come at you. I also hope that you will stay unified in the fight against demonic beasts. Well, I'm afraid to say that this may be as usual, a hard semester for you fifth year student's as you would be spending hours on your study and training to get into the military. The fourth years, you will be going to participate in a cadetship program in the military. The second and third year students, will participate in the cross schools tournament which is held throughout the state. May I wish you all the best in your ventures.”
Principal Yao pushed up his glasses as he read the last few lines from the scroll.
”And finally, the first years. We are starting a new program in tower city, City of the abyss. In case you haven't read the newspaper, we finally broke through and made a controlled abyss environment. I won't go too much into it as your teachers would elaborate onto further detail.”
The principal carefully rolled up his scroll after reading the final lines before looking over to the crowd once again.
”As I said before, Good luck and have a good semester.”
He slowly got off the stage before disappearing back into the building he came. The classes were reassembled and returned to the class room. As the students sat down, many had questions on this so called 'program'. Wang Mei was not a person who liked lengthy explanations but today, she made an exception.
”Hah...so bothersome. Oh well I've got to explain this some way or another. Well, you kids, are gonna go to tower city. It's a city close to a controlled abyss. What's an abyss you may ask, It's where all the demonic beast emerge from. We can destroy it all we want but more keep popping up. That's why we are training in tower city.”
Xin Fan was the first to raise his hands and ask a question.
”What will we be doing there?”
”Good question. Well, you would be in groups of 3 or 4. To make a long story short, we're gonna chuck you kids in a controlled abyss, and see how long you can survive. Of course, we will be able to monitor your every actions. The point is which ever group survives for the longest gets the most points to their report. Oh and bonus points if you kill demonic beasts. You don't have to worry abut dying either. Someone would be there to save you at the last moment. It would be fun.”
The teacher chuckled for a moment before turning back towards the class.
”Is there any more questions?”
”What is there to do there?”
”Well, there are ruins to explore, a crucial part of abyss diving. Normally it is littered with treasures. To some degree, you may enter them but don't go in too deep for the depth's as it has not been fully explored. It is after all in ruins where most cores exist. Anymore questions?”
Seeing that there was nobody putting their hands up, she decided to finish the class early.
”Well, we assemble here in 3 days to head to tower city. I already contacted your guardians beforehand so we already have permissions. I advise you all to get ready.”
As she left the class, the class was in uproar. Many rushed out the door to get prepared. After all, soon, all the supplies would be sold out.