Watching the scythe made me wish that I was also slaughtered like that, and not by a bunch of old dudes who looked like they watched too many edgy anime with their crimson robes, black eyeliners and what seemed to be a strange symbol carved between their foreheads. And among them was a young couple, Jake and Anne who were glaring at me like I was trash, so intensively that you can't even imagine that we had breakfast together this morning, which I thought would be a regular anti-climactic day, but I guess fate thought otherwise.
" Yaawn…. How the hell do you even get up this early Vicky." Jake said, walking out of his bedroom inside which I could see Anne laying on the bed half nude fiddling with her phone.
Oh yeah, guess I never introduced myself, Victor Lockhart or Vicky for short.
A 19-year-old Cerberus student who is decent looking if I say so myself. Not much of a fighter, but I can confidently say that not many can beat me in IQ.
But sadly IQ is not what is needed of the predators, it's strength.
Sometimes, I get the feeling that I am living in a novel.
That's what it felt like to me when I first learned about the Elite Predator Corps—a group of special forces soldiers who were formed to fight against the monsters that have been running amok for nearly 2 decades now. They came from dungeons that popped up anywhere and countless lives were lost. This was now referred to as 'The Judgement Day'.
After this massacre by the monsters, mankind started working on advanced weapons and training to combat them, and it wasn't long before we had these elite warriors ready to take on the threat.
This caused the whole education system to rebuild itself, as a way for the newer generation to fight against the monsters. The government established the Cerberus Academy designed to train students for the predator Corps. When they were first created, they had just one schoolhouse with a few dozen students. Now? It's just one schoolhouse, but there are thousands of them! The education system has become so advanced that it's now even teaching things like coding and physics at these academies to create scientists that work alongside the predator Corps to upgrade and develop their equipment, this branch was called the Exoskull.
A ranking system was introduced that represented the potential of a person to separate the powerful and the weak.
The highest rank was SS+ and the lowest was F-.
The SS+ rank were considered to be gods by some, role models for others and some might say that they had more influence than even the president himself. Whereas the F- was considered to be trash and a burden to society. F+to D+ rank was given to people with weak bodies and high intelligence and were usually a part of the Exoskull.
I was one such student, with my rank being D+, the highest rank that can be attained through a high IQ which made me one of the smartest minds in the country. But the Exoskulls were looked down upon by the predators since they think of us as slaves that fix their weapons after they have their fun with the monsters.
This is how the world is now, merciless to the weak and catering to the strong.