The time passed by, the exams were over and today was the day of the graduation ceremony. In this world, the graduation ceremony was celebrated with great enthusiasm as this is the indicator that a new generation of humanity is ready to enter the Star Space and support the progress of the race.
Early morning at 8:00, the ceremonial ground of the school was decorated with bright colors, there was a small six-story building behind the stage used for contestants and makeup and changing rooms as well as for VIPs. The top two floors of the building were extended glass pavilions with sofas making it relaxing and easy to observe the stage. While the space in front of the stage was filled with neatly arranged chairs with the first row of seats for the professors.
At around 8:10 the chairs were filled with the students and parents or their relatives. This was a moment every family wanted to witness.
At 8:30, from the main building of the school, few students and parents with obvious arrogant attitudes and luxurious clothes were led to the pavilions by the principal and other school committee members.
These were the higher-level citizens and their class S children. From the time when the Earth and human society were reconstructed and the first rebellion movement was crushed these people have declared themselves as the higher-levels. They have their own world with their rules, more luxurious and vast. When reconstructing the Earth their ancestors created a road high up in the sky with unknown materials, from then onwards the higher-level citizens never use the roads on the surface and the lower-level citizens are not allowed to enter that road. It was named 'The Golden Path' due to its shining golden texture. All the highrise buildings have their higher floors connected to this road.
After the arrival of these people, the ceremony was started. The first event was naturally the award distribution, this was also separated for S class and other classes. Class S was awarded in front of all other classes to maintain the feeling of superiority among these people. As soon as the ceremony began each class S student was called along with names with honorary titles they have earned which only belonged to higher-level citizens their activities were announced for which they received the awards, these students had a different type of curriculum similar to the one in James previous Earth. They also had the resources from their families at hand and personal tutors for any extracurricular thing. They also received a large amount of free time to do all those activities.
There were constantly names being called, and there were even a few that interested James such as a blonde-haired youth wearing a high-tech looking gauntlet like things on both of his hands he received the award for achieving expert rank in mecha driving skills, and another for participating and winning in a Mecha battle competition. Mechas were fantasies for all males but to get hands-on a real combat mecha is difficult for someone like James.
Then there was a beautiful girl with an ice-cold expression, she wore a tight white blue robe with few cuts near her belly showing the snow-white skin. She has received a total of six awards for her achievements in her sword fighting techniques. What made James amazed was the whispers from nearby students, she belonged to the moon clan from the twin sun and moon clan. This puzzles James as this city was not big enough for those six big clans to send their younger generation here and what was even odd was they had their own schools teaching their own secrets.
After the announcement of few more students, the ceremony came to an end and the class S left. They didn't even bat an eye at the award received by those below. The ceremony was even simple as the CC of each class called for their award-winning students and handed them the awards. Though it was simple there was still enthusiasm among those who received the awards.
James obviously didn't receive any. At the end of the ceremony, all the student were given their graduation result, certificates, and identification watches. These watches were used by all the citizens, it was needed everywhere they went in the human society. They were made from some secret formula in the Star Space and hence can be taken along with them in the Star Space for the first selection.
James looked at the bronze-colored ordinary-looking watch, it had a time indicator, stopwatch, and few other common features and a fingerprint scanner, and a barcode option. It was completely screen touch, as he observed this instrument he was surprised to find that there was no way to open this thing as if it was molded from a single piece. Even the belt was automatic fitting, one only had to place the watch on the wrist and it will get itself attach according to users convenience. Such a high-tech thing.
Soon the ceremony came to an end and also the school life of these students, now they will have to face the world they were getting trained for. Perform their duties for the progress and survival of mankind. They are like small individual pieces of vast machines.
What no one knew of was that one of these pieces was going to change the entire machine one day.
Or might affect more than that, who knows? Keep reading.