Leon woke up the next morning and waited for Dr. Lehad to arrive. During the time he was awake he stretched and did some simple exercises. He noticed that his body had gotten even lighter than when he was released from the table. Shortly after he finished exercising his meal rose into the room from one of the tiles in the floor. Leon walked over and sat down to eat. After he finished his meal, he noticed that there was a note under his plate on the tray. Leon read the note and was slightly shocked by the contents but, not by who it was from.
Leon the code to the door is 1969816. After you exit the door turn left, go up the stairs, take the first right, follow the hall, go up the next set of stairs and go out the door. I have your papers and you are to call me master or father if you prefer since you can only leave due to me adopting you and placing you in the most prestigious academy. -Elliot Lehad
Leon had no idea what any of it meant other than Dr. Lehad had adopted his experimental subject to be his son. Leon had decided that father was better than master. Leon had no idea what Father meant by most prestigious academy. He soon left and followed the directions in the note. Once Leon walked out the door he was able to a skyline he vaguely remembered. It had changed a lot but most of the Denver skyline stayed the same. The main difference was the fact that there was a large bore hole through the mountain along with several craters with tall buildings towering out of them.
Dr. Lehad spoke and got Leon's attention,"Hey kid we better get going if we want to make it to the academy in time for your first class. It's gonna a be a bit of a run there, we gotta go into that bore hole. We are currently around 10000 cheeseburgers away from the academy and class starts in 3 hours".
Leon was really confused by the distance his father had said but, quickly realized that maybe more of the USA may have made through than he thought. Leon still asked,"How far is that actually, father"?
Dr. Lehad smiled and said,"About 15 miles to the front gates of the academy and another 5 miles to get the school building. Better start running kid, I'll follow and help you navigate. I'll give you a crash course on how the next year of your life is gonna be like"
After Dr. Lehad finished his statement Leon decided to look over the railing on the roof. He noticed that it was only about 15ft to the ground. He then thought back to all the pain of trial 1 and jumped off the roof without any hesitation. Leon felt a crunch when he landed and realized he landed hard when he couldn't stand up immediately. His knees had buckled and were quickly repaired by his body. Leon stood up and started running toward the bore hole. Dr. Lehad aslo jumped from the roof but he landed much more gracefully and running as well. Lehad quickly caught up to Leon and began giving him directions to Mana Well Academy. During the run there Lehad also explained to Leon that his time in Mana Well will similar to a boarding school from when Leon was alive the first time. Lehad also said that it was necessary for all warriors to go through an academy as the trials are usually conducted there. Lehad also told Leon that during his introduction he may have to share what experiment apart of. Lehad told Leon to say he is the only success of the enhancement injection experiments. During Lehad's explanation Leon learned that the ranks of creatures and items were different.
Creatures are given a different ranking due to the fact that they don't have a set capacity. One can go through all the ranks albeit rare. For one to advance through the commonly accepted ranks it would normally require exceptional talent or money to get to an extremely mana rich planet. Lehad explained that the common ranks for creatures are Serf, Guard, Noble, Prince, King, and Devil. Lehad also shared that the leader of the Union is only at King-Rank, while Lehad is at Devil-Rank placing him above most of the law. Lehad also mention that there is a rank above him but, he only met one thing with that amount of power. Lehad told Leon about his encounter with the Eru-Human God.
It was around 10 years ago when the Eru-Humans tried to invade one of the Union's mana rich planets. Lehad was at the peak of King and was deployed to aid in the evacuation. There was one Eru-Human warrior, he wore the uniform of their elites. Lehad had apparently encountered some of the elites before and they called themselves the Glirak but, they never worked alone. As Lehad was protecting the last shuttle he left his men to defend it while he went to buy time. The lone warrior supposedly had azure wings, a broadsword, and a large worm of Devil-Rank. Lehad fought him as long as he could but the warrior seemed tired of fighting. That warrior eventually kicked Lehad in the stomach and Lehad landed on the shuttle ramp. That one warrior took that planet himself, an estimated 900k warriors and 200k civilians. Among those warrior there were 5 at Devil-Rank, 100 at King, 10k at Prince, 880k at Noble, 10k at Guard. The civilians were all of Serf-Rank or not able to become warriors. However since that incident there has never been a sighting of that Lone God and his Worm.
Shortly after Lehad finished his story they arrived at the main building of the academy. Lehad walked up to the teacher at the gate few hundred yards from the building. The teacher seemed to recognize Lehad and immediately opened the gate. After the gate opened an older man walked through and greeted Lehad warmly. Lehad introduced Leon to Director Kain as his son and also mentioned his complete amnesia. Director Kain shook Leon's hand and told him to follow him to his first class.
Leon arrived in his first class and was told to go in. After he entered the teacher of the class greeted him and asked him to introduce himself, the experiment he was apart of, and a fun fact. Leon said,"My name is Leon Lehad, I am the only success of the Enhancement Injection Experiments, and I have total amnesia of everything before the experiment". After Leon finished his introduction as Dr. Lehad told him to the faces of everyone including the teacher dropped. If their jaws could have gone lower they would've gone through the floor.