In a big hall with pods, the students of the elite class stood before their teacher listening to her debrief.
" To day you would all enter the simulation to test whether or not you have any skill. The time limit is 12hr anything under twelve hours is failure. Now enter the pods with your partners."
The students then proceeded to start their simulation.(It's just like Superman's pod but imagine it was built wider for two people.)
Ini pov
The first thing ini saw were trees. He looks around and realized he was in a forest. He looks at his partner by his side and whispers
"We have to be careful for all we know something could already be watching us "
she just nodded and moves forward but the first step she took broke a branch on the floor which triggered rustling in the bush then
*Swoosh* *slash*
A small animal that resembles a squirrel but deadlier apeared from the bushes and tried to attack but was quickly killed due to ini's fast reflexes.
"Ini we need to go" ayo says looking worried
He just nodded, takes her hand and starts running the opposite direction the squirrel came from.
Not long after they left the rustling in the bushes started to get very loud and noisy.
See the kind of squirrel ini killed is famously known as ameild squirrel. Although the are stronger and faster than normal squirrels thats nothing as mages can easily take them out as ini just did.
The fact that makes them well known is the fact that the move in hordes not 20 nor 50 they move in hundreds some even reach a thousand.
To make things worse they have very acute sense of smell and are drawn by the blood of their kind. So they basically called and horde of enemies when ini killed the squirrel.
Ini's pov
We've been running from those Goddamn squirrels for a while but they aren't slowing down but even closing up.
(Tough luck) Few had already caught up to them and they had killed them making the hordes of squirrels even angrier.
Ini looked at ayo and asked our of the blue " do you trust me?"
Although it was weird she nodded
Ini then suddenly stops and uses all of his strenght to throw her very far away
Then almost immediately a feiry lotus blooms in the sky
Ayo wanted to scream his name but remembers some beasts might be near . She just waits where she landed or was thrown and looks in ini's direction while trying to make sure she isn't in danger from other beasts.
After 30mins she hears some bushes rustling then ini appears lookimg slightly tired.(I mean he literally blew up)
She runs towards him and kisses him through his mask and hugs him (in case you're wondering yes when they did this and that he was wearing his mask. It might be weird but it's his choice not mine )
Ini just hugs her and return then they start leaving the scene.
They entered the simulation with evening scenes but it was almost dark and they wouldn't want to become night food for the beasts so they went to look for a cave.