I followed behind him and stood on the platform looking at the faces of students.
Some were looking out of the window, some asleep, one was playing with a handicraft plane, some were busy chit chatting, a few were curious and some were.... excited I guess.
" Attention!"
The teacher spoke in a groggy tone but with mana imbedded in his voice, made it sound like a scary deep voice, bringing every students attention.
" We have a new student in our class. Go introduce yourself."
He gestured me to speak.
" Good morning everyone, my name is Rudra Reddy. I came from a far away place in the hopes of learning new things. I get on well with all kinds of people. Please take care of me."
I bowed a little after finishing my introduction. I spoke the second last sentence purposefully.
" Keke..."
" Welcome to our family."
" Another ugly dude."
" I thought a beautiful girl will be joining us."
" Don't worry little brother we will take reallllllly good care of you."
My fake smile twitched a little after hearing their comments, but the last sentence sent chills down my spine.
" Go take your seat."
The sleepy teacher gestured me to take a seat.
I walked down from the platform and searched for an empty seat.
The classroom had five rows of wooden benches each having five seats. As I was the last one to join the class, I got a seat at the last row.
I sat down in the corner on the empty seat and looked to the side to get a good look at my bench mate.
Short yellow hair and brown eyes, a bulky body, he is what we call a tiger-kin.
He looked at me amusingly with an eerie smile.
" Stop scaring him, Steele."
I tilted my head to look at the person who spoke.
" President, What are you doing here? " I let out a confused voice.
" Huh? I am a student of this class. Why won't I be here? "
" But aren't student council president normally third year student?"
" Yes, but I am in a different league you know."
She puffed her chest and gave me a proud look.
' How can this dumb girl be the student council president, and that's my line.'
" Quiet."
" I will start the attendance now."
" Evan."
" Present sir."
Snow
Ethne
Kyla
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Rudra Reddy.
" Present."
" Now that the attendance is done, class monitor your turn."
" Yes! Major."
The teacher dropped his head down on the podium and let out snores. The girl who replied walked to the platform in an enthusiastic manner.
She stood on the platform and spoke in an energetic voice. Her manner and short height made the scene quiet funny.
" Line up cadets, it's time for morning exercise."
The girl had silky long black hair, blue eyes, a cute face and modest body.
" Aye Aye captain!"
The whole class replied in unison.
I was confused, what's with these weirdos?
" Who's that shorty?"
I muttered unconsciously.
" Oh! you have got the guts to insult our class monitor."
The tiger-kin who sat beside me spoke in an amusing tone.
" Ah! sorry, I didn't mean that."
" Don't apologies to me, instead you should apologies to her."
He pointed at the platform.
I turned around and found that the whole class was staring at me, the class monitor looked at me furiously with a pout and spat in an angry tone.
" Cadet Rudra, It seems that you need some discipline."
She spoke each word slowly which only made me nervous.
Gulp.
" Today you will be the one to complete Training schedule no. 10."
The whole class burst out laughing as they heard her words.
" Erika don't be too harsh on him, he is a newbie."
Ethne said while yawning.
' Did she fell asleep during the class?'
" No! I am the Captain of this class, how dare a cadet call me shorty?"
While they were arguing, I was lost in my own thoughts.
What is this mess?
And what is this Training schedule no.10?
" I won't change my mind cadet Ethne. Now, let's head out to the Training grounds."
The whole class followed behind captain Erika in lined up manner except me who was being dragged by her.
We passed through many corridors before arriving at our location the mighty tree which stood in the middle of the academy.
We entered through the door on the ground floor and arrived at the Training grounds.
The ground was clean and the upper ceiling was illuminated by a bright light bowl, artificial clouds were spread throughout the area to create a natural environment for training. I am not sure how they created a training ground in the middle of the tree but anything is possible with magic I guess.
The training grounds were divided into four sections close combat, long range combat, magic application, physical training.
I know all this because of the manual given to me by the old man- principal. I haven't finished reading it, but I got some basic information.
We entered the physical training section-
An oval shaped running track of at least 20 km. spread throughout the section, gym equipments like dumbbells, treadmills, rowing machine, barbells, kettlebells were arranged at the center of running tracks, locker rooms were located on the south side.
We entered the locker rooms, changed into sports wear provided by the academy. A blue coloured t-shirt and a sky blue shorts.
We lined up in two rows in the center as ordered by our captain Erika.
" Cadet Rudra, come forward."
My body tensed up as I heard that voice. Erika stood before at a distance of 5 meters from us and gestured me to come forward.
A few seconds passed by, but I didn't move from my spot. Erika's glare intensified as she waited for me to come forward which I will never do.
A hand grabbed me by the shoulder and threw me in front of an evil demoness named Erika. I looked back to find the traitor who threw me, only to find my bench mate Steele looking at me with an eerie smile.
' That traitorous tiger bastard.'
I cursed him inwardly, how dare that bastard threw me out?
" Cadet Rudra, you know what's so special about Training Schedule no. 10?"
Smiling from ear to ear Erika lifted my head by my chin and spoke in an alluring voice which made a chill run down my spine.