Great Freya Academy, Rio's Dorm Room.
For the whole month, Rio trained himself in the small training room provided by the academy. Every student has a private training room in this academy.
There are only 1000 students who are selected from all over the world to enroll in this academy. He was rather surprised at how the previous Rio got into the academy without any connections.
And it turned out that there is a system of fixed seats. Children from common families or Orphan children are randomly selected among all the students who have applied.
Around 100 seats are fixed for such children and they can enter the academy even if they do not have any connections, free of charge.
Surprisingly, the original Rio was one of these 100 lucky children. The main protagonist is also from these 100 children and he has a family of ordinary people.
"let's check my progress this month."
[Name: Rio Flash]
[Class: Swordsman]
[Rank: D-] [Max Rank Potential: No limit(X)]
[HP: 1000/1000] [MP: 400/400]
[STR: 42/100] [SPE: 33/100] [AGI: 31/100] [DEF: 39/100] [INT: 29/100]
[Talent: Limitless(X), Sword Aptitude(X)]
[Techniques: Basic swordsmanship(D-), Elemental Sword Art(D-)]
[Skills: Body Strengthening(E+), Lightning Sword(E+)]
[Evaluation: You are an absolute anomaly!; although you are weak now your potential is unlimited!]
"I have already reached rank D-; it's because my sword aptitude has increased, due to which my growth was so smooth, but after reaching D-rank it will slow down considerably."
Well, it looks like my hellish training was successful.
'Now, I should leave for the entrance ceremony; I will get punished if I am late for the entrance ceremony. This academy is very strict on its schedule.'
...
Academy, Ceremony Hall.
After walking for about 15 minutes, Rio was already in front of the ceremony hall; he entered without hesitation.
Rio looked around and was surprised to find out that many students had arrived quite early.
'So many students are here already! I should find a seat too!'
...
At correct 9 am, the gates of the ceremony hall closed and all the lights turned off, except for the lights on the stage. Then a beautiful lady walked onto the stage and started her speech:
"Hello Students, Nice to meet you. I am Raji Croft, the principal of this academy and an SS rank awakened."
After hearing this, a commotion started in the hall, and all the students started to talk to each other excitedly.
"Oh my god! The legendary Raji Croft, one of the only 3 SS rank humans, the strongest frost mage is right in front of me!"
An excited kid who was sitting on my left side was shouting this at the top of his lungs. Rio was also surprised when he saw her, not to mention she is a great beauty; she is one of the only 3 SS-rank humans present on Earth.
There are no SSS ranks in the human race or any other race in this world because it is very difficult to reach SSS rank, due to which SS rank people represent the power of a race.
The Elfs have 4 SS-ranked people in their race. The very presence of an SS rank is enough to maintain the survival of a race in this world.
The races which do not have SS rank awakened can only live as subordinates of other races, and some even get destroyed due to the opening of an SS rank dungeon in their territory. There are very few SS-rank dungeons that are recorded in history.
And there has not been any SSS rank dungeon yet. But as you have already guessed, the main protagonist will become an SSS rank in the future and will save humans from an SSS rank dungeon, thus becoming a human savior, getting beauty, and taking other races as subordinates, just the regular bullsh*t blah blah blah.
...
After about half an hour of speech, the highest-rank student was invited to the stage.
'here comes the main villain'
"We would like you all to welcome our first ranker from first-year students of this year, Link Rex."
Link Rex is the main villain of this novel, he comes from the highest background possible, he is the only son of the SS rank awakened and the head of the awakener's association, Ashtel Rex.
Link is said to have the potential of an SS rank, and he has been trained by his father in martial arts since he was young.
He is a very talented individual, and if given enough time to develop, he can even become an SSS rank by talent alone. Link is the biggest challenge, which causes the protagonist a huge headache.
On the surface, he is kind and good but is a sadist on the inside. He can go to any limits to achieve what he wants—a perfect and terrifying villain.
Link has a huge amount of subordinates under him and even an S-rank person guards him every time from the shadows.
'This guy is dangerous; I should never get involved with him.'
Only the main protagonist, Fade Crest, can contend with that bastard.
But it will take a long time for Fade to become strong enough to defeat this guy. Link is already at D+ rank right now and according to the novel, he will become C rank after the mid-terms.
"Now you all can go to your respective classes, I wish that all of you will work hard and become a support for humanity in the future!"
All the students started to leave the hall one by one, and Rio also followed behind.
'Finally, the boring things are over... Principals and their boring speeches... it's the same in every world it seems... sigh~'
...
After a few minutes, he was already in front of his class.
"A-3, this is the same class as the protagonist and other named characters. It looks like my academy life won't be peaceful."
He opened the door and walked in without hesitation.
'Hesitation is defeat...'
After scanning around, he sat on the desk on the right side at the third desk, which is near the window. After a while, all the students sat at their desks and some of them started to chat.
Well, Rio has always been a loner in his previous life anyway; he doesn't have an interest in socializing.
After a while, a cold-faced lady walked in and started to inspect the students with her gaze. She was a great beauty too, although not as good as the principal.
"I am your Class teacher from now on and I expect that you already know my name."
Yeah, she is an S-ranked fire magician, Anna Datt.
...
Important world lore.
One thing to note: Their world faced a massive disaster after mana came to this world, so all humanity combined and nations ceased to exist, so all types of people live together; they have different names and cultures.
Which means that you will find characters with all types of names. Don't blame the author's naming sense; this is all a part of this world's lore.