Entering this academy which was renowned throughout the empire was the first step towards gaining enough power to make a difference in my fate and fill the huge gap left by the lack of information.
Now the only important thing I had to do was,
Get stronger.
And this academy is going to help me do just that.
My lack of knowledge and power in this world can lead to fatal consequences.
I was quickly getting ready while thinking about all this, as, the results of the third round as well as the overall results were about to come out.
I knew I had passed but I still had to see by how much and what ranking I would get, so I quickly got ready and went to the field outside of the huge dorms where we, the students who had passed the 1st and the 2nd trials were staying.
In the crowd of children situated in front of the stage, I too was of course present.
As I was weaving through the crowd I found my partners of the 2nd trial, Louis and Frnraya.
"Well then, did you both pass the third one?" Frnraya asked.
"Hopefully." was a great reply by Louis as the guy had finally started becoming a little more.. well let's say positive.
"Only time will tell." was my reply.
We all started searching for our names in this ginormous list consisting of 200 names that had appeared somewhat miraculously in front of the student body.
Not to brag but I was expecting something great as my challenge in the third trial was WAY above the league of the others.
Starting from above, my brows kept furrowing as I noticed I couldn't see my name, after getting off the rankings and searching the only passed list I came across my name, THAT TOO AT THE BOTTOM.
"Welp, what could I even say at this point, I was pretty sure that no one had managed to kill the wolves, and since the krw pressure in the first round had ended when the number of students required for the second round was fulfilled, everything should be based on the third round. In that case also my ranking should be near the top." I thought.
"Get away from the rankings." a guard said.
Although many of the kids got away, some haughty noble brats stayed there and one of them even told the guard haughtily, "How dare a mere guard order me, do you ha-"
Before the child could continue with his nonsense the guard shook his head and quickly used the earth element to make a stage right in front of the rankings, where the arrogant brats were, he didn't kill them and just made a hand of earth to slap them out of the way.
Suddenly the principal appeared on the instant made stage.
Either he was just so fast that we couldn't see him, or he just used the space element.
Since I had too high of an affinity with space not to detect the space ripples after teleportation, I presumed he was just that fast.
There was also the fact that the principal and I had too big of a gap in power so I could only sense the ripples in space after he had already appeared. But since the ripples were not felt at all, he just moved very fast.
Sensing the space around me was not a very big task, "It feels like a part of me." were my exact feelings.
The same was true with blood, both mine and others.
"First of all, these rankings are not yet applied to you all yet, which I see is a quite common misconception you all are facing. These are for 1 month later when you all will be given a chance to demonstrate all that you have learned."
"There will be competitions at the end of every month which will decide your rankings, and just to motivate you," said the principal as his tone took a turn towards playfulness, "I will be telling you that everything, ranging from your housing arrangement to your food's quality and quantity, to the amount of attention you will receive including the amount of resources, everything will be determined by your rankings. For now, since you all have none, you will be given equal treatment."
"With that I conclude, classes will start from tomorrow, be at ease while you have the chance."