"With that question answered, are there any more other questions before I pass the introductions to the other guides?" Andwelf ignored the hungry girl's follow-up question.
Seeing that no one else was raising their hands, Andwelf stepped down from the stage and the following guides went up and introduced themselves as well and asked for any questions the same way Andwelf did, to which many more students raised their hands to ask questions, much more than when it was Andwelf on the stage, almost causing him to go into an uproar, thankfully one of his friends managed to calm him down.
A few minutes passed by like this until it was finally time to go to the auditorium to attend the orientation.
"Now that the introductions are out of the way, we can go head to the auditorium, the others definitely can't wait to see the new students! Form a single file behind each instructor and follow us to the auditorium!" Sir Andwelf clapped and grabbed everyone's attention before leading the new students to a very wide hallway.
The hallway was about 10 meters wide, more than enough for the students to walk through in a line side by side, there wasn't really much of a design to the hallway, only the occasional candles hung on the wall to light up the way.
The students walked through the hallway in silence for a while before some people got bored and began striking up a conversation with others.
"Even the hallway is huge. Though, can this even be called a hallway anymore? It's more like a long house with only one room" Clay remarked, clearly stunned at the sheer size of the hallway.
"You got that right" Josh agreed.
"Oh yeah, I forgot to ask you this yesterday- how did you get those results at the test? I thought you said you had an F-Grade system" Josh asked Clay the question that had been sitting on the back of his mind for a while.
"Uhh, would you believe me if I said it was luck?" Clay nervously laughed as he scratched his temple.
Josh gave Clay a deadpan stare.
"I guess not... The thing is, I don't really know myself, it could be luck or some other reason but there is really not much that I can tell you"
Since Clay didn't even know why he was chosen, how could he explain it to others when he himself did not understand?
"Sigh, alright, keep your secrets" Josh shook his head.
"C'mon, I really don-"
A loud creak of a door opening interrupted many conversations causing everyone to look at what was ahead of them.
The huge door was dragged open by Andwelf who was less than half the door's size, which revealed what was waiting on the other side.
"Woah... Another room that's... bigger than the last? Do the rooms just get bigger?" Clay didn't even feel surprised anymore.
"Behold! The auditorium!" Andwelf acted like a kid showing their new toy to someone else.
It was safe to say that the auditorium was bigger and more luxurious than the teleportation room that Clay arrived in.
The stage took up a quarter of the auditorium's space many times bigger than the stage in the teleportation room that only was big enough for 4 people to fit in, and on the stage were people who looked like they had very high statuses in the academy.
"That guy looks scary" Josh raised his eyebrows as he felt a powerful aura emanating from a man with a scar on his face.
"Who?" Clay asked.
"The guy on the stage with a scar on his face" Josh jutted his head in the direction of the man.
"Ohhh, that guy. Yeah, he kinda looks scary" Clay agreed as he looked at the man with a scar that passed through his left eyebrow down to his lower right mandible. The man's eyes were currently closed but Clay could feel a confident look coming from the man.
"I wonder what caused that scar"
Suddenly, without any warning, as if feeling that he was being stared at, the man opened his eyes and looked in Clay's direction, directly locking eyes with Clay.
"Is he... looking at us?" Clay whispered to Josh as he clearly felt that the man was staring at him.
"Nah, he's just looking at the new students. I mean, why would he stare at us?" Josh assured Clay.
"I don't know, man. It feels like he's looking at me"
"Relax, bro, you're overreacting, there's a lot of people in front of us, there's no way he can see us" Josh reassured Clay again.
"Yeah, maybe you're right" Clay thought that Josh was right.
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'Hmm, interesting' The man who had a scar thought as he looked at a certain individual in the crowd of new students.
"Welcome, new students, to the academy that will be teaching and helping you unlock your potential that is just waiting to be unearthed! It is our pleasure to be able to guide you to become the person YOU want to be in your life" The headmaster welcomed the new students with open arms.
"But before we start the orientation, we shall first introduce ourselves. I am Lorei Swan Vramann the 14th headmaster of this elite academy, you may address me as headmaster" The headmaster looked like he was in his 80s but surprisingly didn't have grey hair, he had yellow hair instead, he was dressed neatly in a formal suit, and he also was holding a cane in his left hand, probably to support his body as he was quite old already.
The headmaster gave a subtle bow before he slowly walked to the side, letting the other faculty members do their introductions and welcoming speeches.
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"With all the greetings and introductions done, we shall now begin the orientation" A masked woman who had a voluptuous figure, named Charlot, who wore a red veil and a red dress of Asian origin announced the beginning of the orientation.