2 hours later…
''That was a nice training, but also tiring'' Blake said
''Yeah, I'm really tired right now'' Viro agreed resting his arms on his knees
''Quit whining, the instructor's coming'' I said pulling Viro up.
The group looked ahead and saw the instructor coming. They quickly stood with their backs straight and chins up, staring right ahead waiting for the instructor- who seemed to be taking his sweet time- to arrive. After a few minutes of waiting, the instructor finally arrived, accompanied by five people who seemed like seniors of the academy.
''Congratulations on passing the test, I'm instructor Sterling and I'll be in charge of you guys till the class allocations. The students behind me are second years and they are to be respected, they will hand over your academy watches to you now, don't worry, all credits you had on your old ones were transferred to the new ones, so your money is safe. Your watches would have your ranks on display, you can turn it off if you wish to though, it also acts as a mobile, so you can do whatever you want on it. The watches serve as an alarm, if anything that would involve you specifically or the students at large is going on, you'll be alerted. Last but not least, it monitors your heartbeat and health, in case of an accident, we would be alerted and the instructor closest to you would rush to that position. You will get your assigned classes tomorrow.'' He said and took a deep breath before he yelled in a loud booming voice ''Do you understand?''
''Yes sir'' all students replied at once. Seeing this Instructor Sterling motioned for the seniors to hand out the watches.
Looking around, I noticed the number of students had reduced drastically, they now numbered about half of the original number
''Guess they couldn't make the cut'' I said nonchalantly.
Getting my watch, I looked at it from all angles, it looked no different from the old ones apart from the symbol of a gun laid horizontally beside a line of magazines filled with bullets and a sword crossing them vertically, weird symbol honestly speaking. The seniors took us on a tour of the academy before we were finally allocated our rooms. It was a fairly large room, with two medium sized beds, two wardrobes and two reading tables on both sides of the room, a bathroom was at the far end of the room close to the door, in short, it is a decent space for two. My roommate happened to be Blake I room 503, Aria and Iria in room 505 and Viro and Laden in room 501, yeah we're all on the same floor, there was no such thing as girls get the left side of the academy and boys to the right, weird.
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8:00 the next day, all students were required to head to the auditorium.
The auditorium was located at the far end of the hall lined with classes. A massive door stood in front of it with engravings depicting the war against dragons, pushing the doors open, we were met with the sight of what held a striking resemblance to the kings' throne room of ancient times, grand with the majestic feeling surrounding it. At the very end of the auditorium stood a large platform, with majestic seats arranged in a semicircle facing the audience and a podium with objects that looked like microphones but with runic designs all over it, showing that it was an artefact. The seats were arranged in sets of twenties on each side with a long passage down the middle separating them. The students flocked in and filled the seats and the Instructors started to walk in when the students were settled in, they filled the seats arranged on the platform. It took about 20 minutes before the head instructor began his speech.
''Due to the war between humans and beasts, every individual is required to attend military school for the duration of four years, starting at the age of 16 (sixteen). Although the human civilization hasn't had an attack for the last four years, we can't let our guards down, because sooner or later, there will be an attack and we need to be prepared for it, for the worst. We still don't know why beast suddenly attacked our planet or where they even came from, but this has widened our horizon to notice we're not the only race out there, our world isn't the only world out there. We ask ourselves these questions once in a while, after we defeat and subdue the beasts, what happens next? Will another race just come up and declare war against us? At the end of it all, it all comes down to strength, how much strength do we have, do we need? With strength we can protect ourselves and keep the peaceful times, with strength we have nothing to fear. You're all here to gain that strength to fight for your lives, for your families, for your planet. Are you ready to give it your all!?'' he yelled throwing his fist in the air
''Yes sir'' the students replied with excitement and determination in their voice
''We expect nothing else from you. I'm proud of what I'm seeing here, we've got some promising youth's this year and I hope we can get good results from everyone here. Your elements report has been sent to us, your respective ranks would be displayed on your watches along with your classes. That'll be all from me.''