My first question is where would the selection be held, and my second question is, "what would happen to the families of people that get into the military academy.
Jason seemed to have asked the question on everyone's mind as most of the students who had their hands up quickly put it down.
Hearing Jason's questions Forrest said with a straight face, "your fist question does not have an answer as nobody knows where the selection is being held, but be sure that it would be held outside the domes," With a short pause he said with a serious face, "most of you would not be able to survive."
Hearing what forest said most gulped out of nervousness, already having second thoughts about taking part in the selections, the world outside the domes was a symbol of terror and death for normal people, monsters that could tear you limb from limb without batting an eye.
Outside the domain any living thing that was stronger than you would most likely try to kill you, humans included, and there where millions of monsters stronger than you.
That was the kind of idea everyone had about the outside world, and it was mostly true.
Hearing that he would be going outside the domain for the first time Jason felt his heart racing, "Thump!" "Thump!" all his life he had been confined to the seventh city, even though he had not seen all of it he still felt slightly suffocated, the city's inside the domes where as big as small country some even bigger, but it still felt confining to live inside a dome.
"Thump!" "Thump!" he felt his heart pounding in excitement as he silently put his hand on his chest to calm himself down, as if waiting for the students to calm down Forrest continued after a short pause "as for your family's don't worry about them, as soon as your accepted into the military academy they are giving the full protection of the alliance, and for the unfortunate ones among you, your family's would be compensated."
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For the rest of the day the students trained extra hard, some meditating inside their respective combat rooms, hoping to increase their strength even by a little, Ava and Uche went back to sparring and Cliff seemed to enjoy watching them.
As for Jason and Alayna, they seemed to be in a heated discussion, "ok here's the deal I'll give you back the time grass, and you get me one of those fancy weapons," Jason said referring to the chain whips she wielded while they fought.
Shaking her head Alayna said, "We both know you don't really have the means to sell the time grass, so how about I buy it from you," thinking about it a little Jason said, "how about I give it to you, how about I give you the time grass, in exchange for a favor in the near future, I mean that thing is nothing more than a glow stick for me anyway."
Listening to Jason's proposal Alayna felt like hitting Jason with a stick, as she thought to herself, "The chances of them meeting again in the distant future was really slim, after all the both of them where from completely different worlds, and even though he's has potential he would not be able to stand in front of her again," she was obviously looking down on Jason.
Quickly nodding her head Alayna said with a smile, "deal," after they were done with debating they finally calmed down as they talked about other things to pass the time, like for instance, Jason learned that cultivation was painful, and Alayna learned that Jason didn't seem to know anything about cultivation at all, suddenly.
Thump!
Thump!
Thump!
It's happening again, Jason thought to himself as he held onto his chest, "are you ok," Alayna asked as she saw Jason holding onto his chest, "no, I guess I'm just feeling a little off, I'll be leaving school early today," saying this Jason stood up as he walked towards Uche to inform him that he would be leaving.
Having informed Uche Jason walked out of the training hall as he intended to go home, he wasn't really leaving school too early, as it was already 4:43pm, walking over to his bike, Jason got on it as he drove off, "Thump!" "Thump!" as he was driving it happened again.
Suddenly Jason heard his name, being called out, looking to the side you could see a man in a black suite waving at him, slowing down a little, Jason looked towards the man who was now in front of him, "what do you need," Jason asked as he looked towards the man in a black suite.
"My name is Roy, I would like you to follow me, the boss wants to see you," feeling confused Jason asked, "which boss, what does he want with me, it's not like I know him" "Thump!" "Thump!" as they were talking, Jason's heart started acting up, as he held unto his chest.
"Are you ok," Roy asked as he looked towards Jason, who held onto his chest, "let's go see your boss," Jason said, obviously he didn't intend to answer the question, "ok, I'll walk you there," Roy answered with a smile, he seemed friendly and easy to talk to.
If Jason wasn't distracted by his heart, he would have instantly been able to notice the faint malice, coming from Roy, following behind him Jason had long set his bike on auto drive and sent it back home.
Walking towards a small car, Roy and Jason got in as Jason wondered who would possibly want to meet him, "so how strong are you," Roy asked intending to make small talk, but Jason who's mind had already cleared up had already felt the faint malice coming from Roy as a result he remained silent all through their trip.
Parking in front of an abandoned ally Roy walked forward as he opened a metal door at the side, "come in," Roy said, as he gestured him inside, walking inside, all Jason could see was a dark room.
Suddenly the whole room lit up, as you could see four men holding weapons, and not just any weapon, real genetic weapons "Thump!" "Thump!" Jason felt excitement wash through him, as lips had already curled up, forming a crazy smile.
Name: Roy
Race: Human
Class: Genetic warrior
Rank: F
Level: 9
Manual: wind dragon manual
Skills: {wind blade,} {spear mastery} {raging storm}
After looking through Roy's stats Jason didn't even bother to look through the stats of the rest as he picked up a used bottle of alcohol, suddenly he threw the bottle towards the light bulb and just like that, the whole room became dark, "Hahaha, you think we are scared of the dark kid, hey scorpion, turn on the flash light."
Suddenly "Ahhhhhhh" the sound of a short scram was heard, followed by the sound of a thud, a body just dropped to the ground, by now scorpion had already turned on his flashlight, but Jason could not be found in his original position, "Heehee, a creepy laugh that seemed to come from every angle of the room sounded out.
Pointing his flashlight in different directions the man named scorpion kept a cool head, obviously he wasn't bothered by losing a teammate, "come out kid" scorpion called out, but he received no answer, suddenly, "Clang!" the faint sound of metal clanging was heard quickly pointing his flashlight to the direction of the sound, scorpion was unable to find anything.
Roy didn't seemed to be convinced as he nodded towards two of his men to check it out, suddenly "Clang!" "Clang!" the sound of continuous ringing sounded out, as the two men walked forward cautiously, both of them seemed to be sword users as they were both holding a sword.
Turning towards the corner where the sound was coming from the two men stabbed forward, without even taking a second look at what was in the corner, suddenly the sound of a long cry was heard, "Hiss!" it wasn't the cry of a human, taking a look at the small injured cat in front of them, the two men turned around as they yelled, it's just a dumb cat.
"How did this kid just disappear," scorpion muttered to himself as he turned his flashlight away from the two men, but that seemed to be a big mistake, "AHHHH!" "Hel...." The continuous screams of two men could be heard, as Jason voice sounded out from all directions, "Two left Heehee" he seemed to be enjoying this.
By now scorpion felt extremely frustrated as he shouted "come out boy," at the same time he shot his arrows in different random directions, suddenly he felt a chill on his neck but it was already too late, a shadow had already jumped down from the roof stabbing scorpion on the head as his flashlight fell on the floor blood and brain matter gushing out.
Roy who had seen everything felt a chill run down his spine as he took a step back, by now Jason had already canceled {shadow movement} as he slowly walked forward, at the same time he asked, in a board tone, "who sent you," feeling that he got his chance to escape Roy said, "if I tell you you're goanna kill me immediately, just let me walk up to the doo.." he was unable to complete his sentence before he was stabbed in the head by a dagger seeing Roy's lifeless body fall to the ground Jason said, "on second thought, I don't care."
"Meow!"
As Jason was about to walk home he heard a weak sound coming from behind him, turning towards the sound Jason walked towards it, there you could see a small black cat as small as a palm with a bloody wound across its small body the cut was so deep that it was a wonder it was still alive, there was no way it was going to survive this as light faded out of its beautiful yellow eyes, it was dead.
"Thump!" "Thump!" Jason felt his heart beating, as he felt sorrow for the small cat, like human not every animal could cultivate, but unlike human must animals who couldn't cultivate would get oppressed by genetic energy slowly dying out.
As he held onto the cat Jason intended to put it in a paper bag and burry it latter but he got a system notification instead, {You have compassion for this animal, would you like to bond with it} "huh" Jason felt confused as he asked, "what is bonding," {would you like to bond with it} hearing the system repeat the same question, Jason agreed after a short moment of hesitation.
{Stand by, the bonding has begun} suddenly, a red light enveloped the cat as a cocoon like object enveloped it, Jason was not able to see clearly as the light was too blinding, after a short period of time, Jason was able to see the cocoon like object clearly, "an egg, is it going to become some kind of bird cat," Jason thought to himself while imagining a cat with wings.
Suddenly "Thump!" "Thump!" Jason felt his heart racing again as he put his hand on his chest, putting the egg carefully into his bag, Jason slowly walked home.