James woke up later than normal and his vision was blurry a bit as he was very tired. Getting up he got ready for school and got some food to eat. After taking a moment to eat some waffles that he cooked with some syrup on it, He cleaned his plate before walking out of his house saying bye to his parents. It was December and it had started to get cold. Though luckily James almost always wore his black hoodie which was filled with fur and had a golden zipper. His breath was visible as it started to snow out and he started to run to get to school faster as he would like to get to class with a bit of extra time. The snow fell lightly as his shoes left footprints on the ground and he ran towards the building down sidewalks. Each step came with a crunch of the snow, leaving behind a trail of prints. Finally, he arrived at the building. As he walked inside he dragged his shoes on the rug to dry them and get the snow off.
Walking into his class he sat in the back of the room and put his stuff down. Letting out a sigh he relaxed his body and calmed his breath. Soon the class entered the room followed by the teacher and they all got ready. The teacher sat at his desk and waited for them to settle in. After a moment of seeing the class had settled down, he turned towards the class in his chair. " As you're all aware of the stats becoming a reality and no longer a fiction, the way society works has changed. The board has decided that it would be time to change as well."
A student in the middle of the seats, " Like what kind of changes?"
The teacher looked towards the student before responding, "A few things, for now, some of them will be things like dueling will become something you can do, within the "arena". There will be also official battles in which will decide a form of ranking in this order, [F] [D] [C] [B] [A] and finally [S]. These ranks will hold various benefits the higher rank you have obtained. There will also be an annual tournament with other schools from all over the country. This tournament will not only have a ranking on the school but also give the top 10 participants with a large money reward."
After all the information spoken by the teacher was given everyone was in silence, processing what they had just heard. After a minute a lot of students shared different emotions, excited, worry, anxious, and more. This could give them a bright future if their school did well, no, everyone in the school a better future. Although they weren't all sure how strong they were in comparison to the other schools, they still believed that school would become a much more interesting place soon.
James was glad about this development, he thought it wouldn't happen this soon. However, a surprise well welcomed. It was similar to things both in his past life as well as shows he's seen here. This also would let humans get stronger quicker, and hopefully, stabilize theirs over being in this new life. They were also notified that there would be martial art type classes, as well as weapon training. They would vary in each class however it would help them overall. James thought about what weapon he would like to use. In his previous life, he knew a decent it about weapons. Although he could think of many different weapons that would be good for different scenarios, there was always one that stuck out the most to him. Out of the weapons that he liked only a few were currently possible, or useful. One stood out the most to him. Though it was a kind of a cliché weapon, the dual Katanas was what he would practice. It would offer him a lot of benefits with only a few problems. Though due to his strength he could probably overcome a few. Plus if he found a supper metal of sorts he could probably get an amazing katana which would have better strength(would be less likely to snap) of the blade.
As they came and went he was in deep thought and didn't notice much else around him of what had occurred. Although for the most part, it was nothing that happened other than students talking and discussing the news. One of the subjects was him and his group, and how they fought the other day. This caused people to speculate what their ranks were but at the moment it was only guessing. When he got home he cooked some dinner for his family and then they ate. shortly after James went to bed and thought about his day and how the future is. He then realized he had homework to do and started on that. Night came and he laid down sighing.
"ughhhhh...Finally done. why'd they have to give us 3 different projects in the same week? Whatever it's done now so it should be good."
Pulling on some headphones James listened to some music and played a game on his laptop. The night went on as the Moon shined on the earth. The wind blows and snowy mist is scraped from the ground into the air.
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