There were 10 students in total who were qualified to enter the room. Once Ottar had notified Anka of the room's purpose he left to officially conclude the Aptitude testing.
The room wasn't anything special, it contained some couches, refreshments and books to prevent the students from becoming bored, the tests were long full-day processes and could take 7 to 9 hours.
After Ottar's leave, Anka was left face to face with the other students. He was the tallest in the room and he saw that there were 5 boys and 4 girls. There was an instant atmosphere of competition and they all eyed each other. This continued for a minute before Pheobe decided to speak.
She had wanted to speak to the others when she'd first arrived but they did not look like they wanted that. so she waited in silence reading a book on the hidden war. It was called this way as the majority of what had occurred had been hidden or removed. It hypothesised what occurred based on the aftermath of the war but it was mostly unconfirmed and it would probably stay that way. It was interesting nonetheless and looked like it could be finished within 3 hours.
During the course in which she was reading 3 others had joined, two boys who were twins and one girl in that order. when she finished reading the final page, Anka entered the room with Sir Ottar seeing and seeing how there would be no more students She spoke up.
"You know it would be nice if we could at the very least introduce ourselves, it doesn't take that much from you and it's quick. I will start. My name is Pheobe Cranbell and It is nice to meet you all, who wants to introduce themselves next"
The others were all staring at her and seeing how much positivity she was radiating, they started to speak, staring with the twins. "I am Isiah Angus Heartcrest and this is my brother Jibril" Isiah said while pointing towards his brother next to him. Jibril nodded in acknowledgement. They had been with a girl who shared the same brick-red hair and green eyes. "This is our cousin Penelope", she smiled in response. "Nice to meet you all"
A boy stood up from the couch, his long black hair covering his eyes preventing the onlooker from knowing who he was looking at if anything at all and decided to speak next introducing himself as, "Harvey Oleman". The other students' eyes enlarged, it was quite surprising to hear how... girly he sounded.
The others followed in quick concession of one another. The five who had been in the room before Penelope had entered all introduced themselves, they were Glen Olpe, Hasan Frizil, Robi Harp, Lyonel Hantratenpon and Bartholomew Water.
Anka looked at the crowd, and their expecting eyes and he eventually said "Anka", he said it with a tone he thought had made it clear that he didn't want to speak but Pheobe didn't seem to have understood that asking him about his last name this time with a more which Anka decidedly decided to ignore.
Before she could repeat herself, Ottar entered the room but this time he came with a tall and buff man. The aura which he exuded was insane. It was unlike anything they had experienced before and it was clear that it was released unconsciously. this showed his strength in the simplest way possible.
"This students, is Grandmaster Sonic and he is the assistant head of the Novaium academy you will be admitted to in a week. There will be a week's wait until you enter the academy and I will be explaining to you what will happen once you enter the academy but before that, I will let Grandmaster Sonic speak, he is the vice headmaster"
"Hahaha, hello students. Always nice to see so many potential geniuses always brings a smile to my face. Do not get cocky though, aptitude and soul power aren't everything and you will still need to study very hard to not get overtaken. I hear that there are other students that were very close to entering the Special class and they will be very happy to surpass you. Do not waste your talent.
Pheobe being naturally inquisitive perked up and asked "Grandmaster, say talked about the special class, what is that?"
"Ah yes, I was getting to that. The special class is separate from the Fysicas, Paraxenos and Elementas classes that the regular students would be placed into. One reason for this is because of how small of a group you are so it makes sense that we can invest more heavily into you secondly, because of your aptitude grades most of the regulars will not be able to compare to you, do not dismiss them as weak however. To prevent them from becoming dispirited for being forced to compete with those they mostly cannot compare to we created the Special Class"
"The Special class is only accessible to those in this room and it is special as you will receive more personal education with the top teachers at our schools, better accommodation and a monthly allowance of 10,000SP. I will allow you to find out the extra benefits on your own. you will be pleasantly surprised."
"Due to your status as Special class students you will be given a different uniform to the other students upon arriving. Since you know that the academies are boarding schools make sure to bring any personal belongings that you would want to keep in your dorms. Ahh, I almost forgot but you will be given your own personal rooms that are large than the other students who would have to share with a roommate. This is also another one of the benefits they you would receive. However, in exchange for all these luxuries you will have to achieve satisfactory results and complete the tasks that you will be assigned. I would have loved to speak more however, I am very busy and so I would have to cut it short. please ask any questions that you have after I leave Sir Ottar will answer your questions."
After digesting the large amount of concentrated information he had just received, Anka quickly found some important questions to ask, "Grandmaster, how will I get to the academy, in fact, where is the academy.", this was an important question as the locations of the academies where unknown. No one knew where the academies were and when children would ask their parents they would be unable to answer. This was a security policy decided by the Syvernisi and the Temple of Ilios because they didn't want to subject the students to harm from the outside world and disrupt their education. They knew that parents would want to see their children since the academy was a five-year-long education program. Children would be allowed to go home every break.
"I believe your name to be Anka, I've heard of how gifted you are but that is a weird question as you would have been taught this by your parents." upon looking at Anka Grandmaster Sonic incredible intuition gave the answer to his question. To not pry into Anka's past he continued "Well, to answer your question you will be picked up by the school by the Sanctum guards. These men and women are very good at their jobs and do not compare to the lower-ranked guards as they are all purple band guards, this is only a right given to those in the Special class as we cannot allow other organisations to 'retrieve' you, the other students will make do with the regular guards. As for your other question only specified members are allowed to know that, sorry son but that is classified information"
Pheobe and the others had looks of confusion as this was thought to be common knowledge but then they realised they didn't know anything about their peer members with Anka simply being the more mysterious one, so they focussed on Asking more questions to the grandmaster. They had more general knowledge than Anka and so they tried to find very interesting questions that they wouldn't have known the answers to and this was an opportunity they probably wouldn't have for another few years. They also had to ask quick questions as the grandmaster was busy. He was exuding so much aura that they couldn't keep him waiting.