"How dare you hurt my friend!" Orion lunged at him, and they began trading blows. "Haha! Not bad!" He choked Orion and slammed him into the ground. "Agh!!" Orion groaned in pain. "Is that all you've got?" Just before he could stomp on Orion's face, suddenly...
CLINK!
"A... knife?" He looked up and saw someone on the roof. "Only brave enough to pick on the new kid, Pretz?" The person suddenly appeared right in front of Pretz. "Tch..." Pretz and his gang retreated, leaving them alone. "Are you okay? O-r... Orion." He read the nametag on Orion's uniform. "Yeah, I'm fine..." Nikola approached them. "They kicked my head so hard I feel like I'm about to pass out." Nikola rubbed his head.
"People like them are truly shameless... Oh, by the way, my name is Hone." He smiled.
"Hone? Nice to meet you, I'm Orion."
"And my name is Nikola," he added.
"Orion and Nikola... So you two are new here, huh? Why didn't you use your Archetypes?" He picked up the knife from the ground.
"I can't really control it yet..." Orion replied.
"My head was spinning earlier, so I didn't get the chance to use mine." Hone simply chuckled at their answers.
"Well... The guy who attacked you earlier, he was at the Glint tier..."
"Glint? Wait... What's that?" Nikola asked.
"Wait, you guys don't know? Try turning on your phones and open the Axiom app."
The two of them did as they were told.
"What's this? Ember?" Orion said.
"Yep, so your rank is Ember. There are 7 ranks at Eldoria Academy, you know. Try tapping on the exclamation mark."
They tapped it.
"Whoa... What is this?!" Nikola exclaimed.
"Hehe, Ember is the lowest rank... The score goes from 1 to 100. If you want to rank up, you have to keep training. That's because the Axiom system syncs with your body..."
RING!!! RING!!! RING!!!
"Oh, I have a mission call, so I guess that's all for now. See ya!"
They both watched Hone slowly walk away.
"Let's go back to the dorm," Nikola said.
When they arrived at the dorm, Orion sighed.
"This is going to be a long time, huh? It's only the first day and we already got beaten…" Orion muttered.
"From what Hone said, if we want to increase our score, we need to train," Nikola replied. He turned his body so he could look at Orion from his chair, then opened the Axiom application.
"You're right. I'll sleep first, okay? Aren't you going to sleep?" Orion asked.
"I want to study things about the academy first. Good night, Orion."
"Good night," Orion replied.
The next morning, on the way to class.
"So, what's the result of your studying last night?" Orion asked.
"The result… nothing," Nikola answered.
"Idiot!!!"