Chapter 10
The next class for the day was combat class. And the class was going to be held on the field that was used as their testing ground on the day of the assessment.
When they got to the training grounds, Jake noticed that it had been changed to suit the class better. The whole testing equipments were shipped somewhere else to allow the whole class ample space.
"Welcome, students of Aurora Academy." The instructor said.
Jake turned around to see where the voice was coming from. Turns out the voice belonged to Sergeant Lee.
"Welcome once again. For those of you that doesn't know me, my name is Sergeant Lee and am your combat instructor." Lee said coming over to stand in front of the field.
"So every weekday, we will have classes that involves physical training and a little bit of combat." "So let's start with the physical training. First up, I want you to run several laps around the field now."
With a sharp whistle, sergeant Lee signaled the start of the physical training, and the students took off in a sprint around the field.
Jake's legs pumped furiously as he sprinted around the field, his heart racing with each lap. He could feel the burn in his muscles, but sergeant Lee's voice and his determination pushed him to keep going.
He was reminded of the run he did around the academy during the early hours of the day.
"Oh, for heavens sake. After running for about 10km this morning, am still told to run again." Jake's thought complaining.
"It's for your own wellbeing so quit whining and focus on your breathing." Zee scolded.
Jake stopped complaining and focused on his breathing. Jake and Vynn were the only ones that were behind, the rest were all so far ahead.
And after a few minutes of running, they were stopped by Lee to move on to the next training.
"So for the next training, it's a strength training. You are required to do some heavy lifting."
Sergeant Lee led them to the weight lifting area, where rows of dumbbells and barbells lined the shelves.
"Today, we are working on building your strength and muscle endurance;" He announced, handing out weights to each student. "Begin."
The whole students started lifting weights, the type of weights they could lift anyway. But Jack and Peter stole the show by lifting heavy weights.
They were both competing to see who will tire out faster.
After some minutes of weight lifting, sergeant Lee decided to stop the physical training and do something else.
"Okay. That is all for now. I want you to all rest up for 10 minutes because you're going to be sparring with each other now so that I can evaluate your skill level. Also your watch also acts as a rank to monitor your rank after sparring." Lee explained.
"Startimg from now, your watch will display your rank from sparring. Your starting rank will be decided by your score from the assessment."
Just as Lee finished speaking, the whole students watch started displaying ranks from 1 to 200. With Jake's number displaying the number 200 while Jack's was displaying rank 1.
"The only way to rank higher, will be for you to spar with each other. When you defeat your opponent, your watch will ding and also change your score, letting you take the position of your defeated opponent." Lee explained.
"So now pair up and spar with each other only using the wooden equipment provided to all of you. The equipment is also yours to keep."
"From now on, students will have the opportunity to spar with each other outside of class, allowing for faster rank progression. However, this comes with responsibility. You must register as authorized sparring partners and log your matches." Lee said.
"Now let the sparring begin. You're only allowed to spar with the person rank above you meaning of you are rank 10 you can only spar with rank 9."
Jake decided to pair up with the person who was ranked above him and the person was Vynn since he performed a little better than Jake on the test.
They sparred for some few minutes. Jake was unable to beat Vynn because Vynn was still a little bit stronger than Jake.
Meanwhile, Peter who was ranked 2nd decided to spar with Jack but no matter the skill Peter used, he wasn't able to defeat Jack.
After some minutes of sparring, they were stopped by Lee telling them to go back to their dorms for the class was over for the day.
While they were all heading towards their dorm, they couldn't stop talking about how they enjoyed the day's training all except Jake who kept thinking about how weak he is.
"Oh, will you just cheer up." Zee said. "You do know that you have a cheat. If you complete quests and also take your academy's training serious, you will become strong."
After that pep talk, Jake finally cheered up and went to his dorm to get some rest.
Meanwhile…
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In a distant place, far away from the academy and civilization, a huge castle stood on a valley surrounded by cliffs, mountains and trees.
"What do you mean the orb went missing?" A voice was heard angrily saying.
"I don't know how it happened." Another voice replied.
"You had one task, just one task to do and you messed it up." The voice said again now terribly angry.
"Am sorry, I had the orb but then during the chaos, I bumped into someone and I think it fell into the person's body or something. Am not really sure. Please forgive me and give me one more chance." The voice which belonged to a middle age man said while kneeling and bowing his head down to a young looking man with a huge body build.
The young looking man looked like all those old professional wrestlers but this man had a more menacing look In his eyes making the other man shiver in fear.
"There's no second chance for you. That orb was only meant for one person to activate. What if the person you slipped it into activates it. Therefore, for making such a huge mistake, you are not allowed to live for even one second more."
The mean looking man said while flicking his finger towards the kneeling man and the nail pierced the man's heart killing him on the spot.
"Clyde!!!" The man called out.
And a young athletic looking man answered.
"Find that orb or whoever has it and get rid of them. And I'm not going to tolerate any more mistakes. Got it?"
"Yes, my lord." The other man responded while bowing down and leaving the hall.