On the seventh day after the departure, finally, an announcement was made…
[Attention all the students.]
[We would be landing on the grounds of the Emerald Garden in 2 hours.]
[All of you are requested to pack up your bags and be ready.]
[All of the students we warned, if you leave anything behind then that thing would be considered garbage and would be thrown out. So make sure that you pack everything.]
While this announcement was made, Solaris was meditating silently. He heard the announcement and had chosen to ignore it. After all his earthly possession could easily be fitted in a small satchel. So he didn't have to worry about packing his things up.
So 2 hours later, another announcement was made that all the students have to start gathering in the cafeteria. Solaris then got up from his meditation. He took his satchel bag and was about to move on. It was then he thought that maybe he should lighten some weight that he was carrying…
He had an old piece of bread that was rotting in his bag. So he took out the bread and kept it on the table. He then took a big cloth that he used to wrap his body in. He didn't need it anymore. It was then Solaris remembered that he also has a wooden ring in his possession. It belonged to this body's mother.
He took the ring from her corpse intending to sell it later. He thought that he would be able to some coins for the ring when he would sell it. But now that ring looked irrelevant and useless junk to him. So he thought that maybe he should throw that ring out too. So he took out the ring and was about to keep it on the table when he stopped in the middle.
As Solaris had become a Rank-1 warrior he became very sensitive to mana. His sensitivity was the result of opening some meridian nodes of his body. So when Solaris was putting down the ring, it was then he started to feel some mana being emitted by the ring. The mana that the ring was emitting was very little in the quantity. It was so less than any normal being would not be able to feel a thing. But Solaris was able to feel the mana.
As Solaris felt the mana he instantly knew that this ring is very special. It is no ordinary ring. Right now he didn't have time to play around with the ring. So he kept the ring in his pocket for now. He thought that he would check it out later. With that Solaris started moving towards the cafeteria…
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In the cafeteria, students had started forming 4 different lines. And when Solaris reached his line it was then he saw that all the people there had a tremendous amount of luggage with them. He saw that some students had several big suitcases that they dragged from the room to the cafeteria. Almost every student there had to make two or three rounds back and forth from their room to the cafeteria so that he could get all their luggage.
While on the other Solaris looked at these people and then looked at his satchel…
Solaris looked out of the observation window and he could see that the sun was about to set. Looking at that setting sun, Solaris started thinking about the ring that he possessed. From Solaris's memories, he saw that his mother has always possessed the ring. But from her intelligence and demeanor, it was very hard for him to imagine that she could have been a warrior. After all, she was a very weak woman.
But how the hell did she come into possession of a ring such as this? There was a chance that her possessing this ring might have been a simple coincidence. After all, there was a high possibility that she found the ring somewhere in the dump. But while searching through his memories he started feeling suspicious that maybe she knew what this ring was.
As a woman with a loose character and drug addiction, she loved that ring. She would never take it off. There was this one time when she went toe to toe with some thugs when they stole from her. But in the end, she was able to get the ring back when she let all the thugs have a good time with her in return…
But seeing her unscrupulous obsession over a wooden ring, Solaris was started to believe that maybe she did know what was that ring…
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"Attention everyone!" Arnold screamed. As he did, everyone started looking at him. He was standing right in front of the lines that students have formed.
"Now we would be landing in the school in just a few minutes. What I want you guys is to take out the identity token that you got from the room. Then make a pile of your luggage and put that medallion over your pile of luggage. Some men would come and take your luggage to your respected rooms." Arnold said.
Listening to his command, everyone started making piles of their luggage. While everyone was busy making their piles, Arnold shouted one more time…
"You guys will get back your token when you will reach your room. And don't worry Emerald Credits being taken from your token." Arnold shouted.
After everyone made a pile of their luggage, everyone fell in line again. Soon the ship landed and everyone started getting out of the big ship…
Arnold had specifically said that no one was allowed to break the line. Everyone must walk in line in a disciplined manner. When they got out they saw they were in some sort of plane ground. And around the ground, one could see dense shrubbery. It was like that place was surrounded by the jungle.
And it was indeed. While following Arnold, Solaris and other people came to was a road made of rocks which was also surrounded by shrubbery. So it didn't take a genius to determine that they were indeed in some sort of jungle.
It was only 5 mins walk Solaris was finally able to see the 30 feet high wall that they were walking towards