The Grand Champion Academy was part of a group of 10 academies created 50 years ago to train humanity's next generations of chosen. Tho nowadays, there are close to 1000 such academies present.
It was created at a time when humanity had just reclaimed Earth from the magical beasts after 40 long years of struggle. They were symbols of humanity's victory over the magical beasts.
And now Ronav was standing in front of one such symbol. A place where he would spend the next year if his life before going to the outerlands to fight in the war between humanity and magical creatures.
"Alright, everyone, first submit your luggage and then head to the cafeteria for lunch. Tomorrow will be your soul beast summoning ceremony, and then the initial tests to determine your ranking."
Hearing about the soul beast summoning, everyone couldn't help but freeze for a second.
The summoning of the soul beasts was the most important event for the students, after all, it would determine their powers and the front to which they would be assigned.
"Hey, Ronav. Hurry up, what are you even thinking about right now?"
"Hmm, nothing. Just something trivial."
"Oh don't hide it from me, I already know what you're thinking about. I'm thinking about it too after all"
"You are?"
"You bet, you're totally thinking about how pretty the girls are and how much we lucked out, aren't you? Don't try to deny it. I get it, after all, I bet every guy here is thinking the same thing."
I was an idiot for expecting something else from this guy. Even in such a life-changing moment, all he can think about is the prettiness of the girls here.
" You're really incredible, Lucas."
" Is that praise?! To hear such words from you. I wonder if an asteroid will fall on me tomorrow."
He actually didn't recognize the sarcasm in my words, he really is an incredible guy.
Well, although his guess was wrong but the words really weren't. All the girls here look like models. Even the guys look extremely good.
Everyone here looks incredibly pretty especially that girl close to me with her beautiful yellow hair, her eyes were like a serene lake that radiated kindness which sat upon her beautiful round face, and her body which felt like it was made by a godlike sculptor -
"Oh, you got your eye on someone already?"
" I-It's not like that, hurry up or we are gonna get left behind."
"That guy still can't be honest with himself, can he?"
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"Whoo, are these our rooms?! They are far more luxurious than anything I've ever seen. I can't believe the government is so generous."
Luke was jumping in joy upon seeing our rooms that we'd got for the night.
The rooms were randomly assigned to students for the night and were also a way to motivate students, As the higher the room's rank, the more luxurious it was.
This first night allowed students to experience different rooms than the ones they'd probably get after the rankings, which would make students who experienced higher-ranked rooms more motivated to get those rooms back and motivate students who experienced lower-ranked rooms to work hard so their ranks don't fall.
"These are the rooms for the top 10 ranked students, so of course they would be this good. We should enjoy them today since we might not get the chance to ever experience them again."
"Why are you so negative all the time, think positively. We will definitely make it this high in the rankings and get these rooms back."
"I heard there are around 500 kids this year, so it would be pretty hard to make it to the top 10."
Still, Ronav couldn't help but want to receive a top 10 rank, after all, this room was the best room he'd ever experienced, far better than their rooms on the train and hotel. He couldn't even believe that such luxury even existed.
The bed felt like it was made from feathers taken from the wings of the angels themselves, and the walls had such beautiful and pleasing designs that it would be hard to believe that a human mind could come up with them.
"Hey, did you take a look at the kitchen?"
"There's even a kitchen in the rooms?!"
Ronav soon found a door that he'd completely missed initially.
"Whoa, this feels more like the kitchen for a 5-star restaurant than a student's dorm one."
The kitchen was filled with all the latest cooking technology, and it had a large variety of ingredients, all of which were high-quality ones.
"Hey Luke, you hungry for a snack?"
"Hmm, sure I could go for one. Are you gonna cook right now? Shouldn't you conserve your energy for tomorrow?"
"I will be fine, I slept too much today anyway. And it'd be a damn shame not to use such a kitchen."
"Alright, cook something good then."
"You got it."
Ronav quickly got to making the dish; he'd never felt this much joy baking something. After all, the difference between the equipment in this kitchen and the kitchen where he used to work is that of heaven and earth."
"Alright, here's your dish, enjoy."
"You made cupcakes? What flavor are they?"
"Just some fruits I found in the kitchen. All of them have different fruits in them tho. "
Captivated by the smell and appearance of the cupcakes, Luke quickly took a bite of the cupcake.
"Holy hell, Ronav. Your skills really have grown, these might be the best cupcakes I have ever eaten."
"It's because the ingredients were so high quality, although I can't deny my skills have grown. I can probably win in a competition with the head chef of the bakery from our village."
Boasting about his own skills, Ronav took a bite from his cupcake too; instantly, a fresh blueberry flavor flowed in his mouth.
'Damn, I really have outdone myself.'
He wanted to offer such cupcakes as a gift to the girl he had seen earlier in the evening.
"Hey, the taste of this cupcake is a bit weird. What did you put on it?"
"Oh, that one, that was the most interesting cupcake I made. I put the most spicy chili I could find in it."
"YOU MOTHERFUCKER!"
"What? You still can't handle a little spice, you really are a little baby."
"Damn it, stay still. I'm not gonna do anything bad to you."
"Like I can trust you when you've got the look in your eyes that screams 'I want to kill you'."
"That's right, I'm just gonna kill you, I'm not gonna do anything else."
"Like hell I will allow you to."
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"Damn it, we are seriously late. This is all your fault, Ronav."
"What! Who was the one who chased me for half the night?"
"And if you had just let me kill you, we wouldn't be so late."
"Stop arguing you morons, run faster."
A scary bald teacher was screaming at us from behind. Damn it, most of the teachers here are way scarier than normal teachers. Well, that's to be expected as most of the teachers here are retired hunters who fought on the battlefields.
Soon, they could see a crowd gathered in front of them. A young teacher with red hair was standing on a podium while addressing everyone.
"Alright, has everyone gathered here? We're going to start with the soul beast's summoning right now, so please line up. We will call you one by one."
'So the main event is finally here.'