Camelot City, one of the most advanced cities in the higher region was home to the Special Class Military Academy. The city was bustling with activities, but majorly the activities that originated from the academy.
It was a city built in the middle of a 600 acre dreaded territory of land, that was swarming with awakened beasts of different types.
The city was known to be safe, a surprising thing to say considering that the city was situated in the center of danger itself. The city had 2 Grand Sage level guardians residing in it. The Aura from the guardians instilled an instinct like fear on the awakened beasts near the city.
It also had safety against most form of attacks, as any potential attack will be spotted or even intercepted by the beasts. Not once since the city was built has there been any form of attack on the city.
The Special Class Military Academy built in the city was a decision made by the top managements of the military. It was a decision made to deter any escape of any kind from the academy and to put the student in an environment where they can easily access dangerous beast for training.
While the academy was not the only structure in the city, it occupied majority of the city. The city also contained structures where empowered items were manufactured.
Most of the empowered items in use in the higher region were forged from the corpse of empowered beasts, as the corpse of the beast sometimes channel the abilities of the beasts .
The military could not see a better source of combined free labour and training than sending the academy students on missions to get corpse of awakened beasts for it to be forged into empowered items. It was a win-win situation for them.
In front of the entrance of the military academy 2 ladies were having a discussion.
"Emma, I think they are not coming back to the academy. Did they defect? Did they run into trouble? Why are they 4 days late?" Lucia said, angry about the fact that the two officers that was sent to retrieve a single asset had failed to show up at the required time.
The special class military academy recruit's students every 2 to 3 years. Unlike other academy's they always take their time scouting for the best of the best. They even scout students that had yet to awaken.
Thanks to the abilities of one of the head scout, the academy were always able to pinpoint the best student with potential through a foresight like ability of the head scout. This year it was foreseen that a talented girl would be recruited, and she would grow in power to eventually rival their Godly Ruler of Earth 19.
The academy took the forecast seriously. To be able to rival their Godly Ruler required not just any type of talent, it required a monstrous type of talent, which was why they sent 2 of their best instructors to fetch her as quick as possible.
It had been a week since Xavier and Bubba were dispatched to bring in the chosen talent. This was a task that required a day to be complemented and 3 days at most, but the duo had taken a week and they were still nowhere to be seen.
Emma the actual head scout, was calm and reserved. She had a decent look with pink pony tailed hair. "Relax Lucia, they will come. Why do you think I let Bubba to follow Xavier on this mission, It was because I did not want Xavier to loose track of the objective and become distracted.
Which is obvious now to me, that what I did not want to happen eventually happened. Xavier got distracted. The girl Lucia will make it to the academy today. I have already foreseen it, that is why we are going to wait here to welcome her. She is a top asset to us, we have to greet her."
"I wonder what excuse, Xavier will give this time. Why did we even send Xavier on this mission? Bubba would have completed this task peacefully without any fault. Xavier is too loose to be completing a task such as this one" Lucia said, she had hated the fact that Xavier was sent instead of her to complete a task of such grave importance.
"Apart from the fact that Xavier is ridiculously strong and that he can fight above his rank, he is one of the core tutors that Layla will have in her life. At least the clouded future I saw, she mentioned Xavier as one of the reasons behind her strength.
I do not know exactly why she said that, but if I connect 2 and 2 together, it suggests that Xavier was the one tutored her. She might not reach that peak without Xavier. It is just a theory of mine, but that is the reason why I sent Xavier. They both have a role to play in both their lives" Emma explained.
Deep down Emma herself was not satisfied with Xavier being the tutor for the unique talent that was coming, but she just accepted it forcefully. Fate was really a mysterious thing to her.
A teen who seemed to be in his late 19's walked up to the 2 military officers. He was Aamon Shard, a 2nd grade student and the current top student of the academy. He had a blonde hair with a nice physique and charm.
The academy adopted a grade level system. The 1st and the 2nd grade belonged to the students while the later grades belonged to the other positions present in the academy.
Unlike other academy's that the students will move to the next class each year, the military academy system was far more complicated. To move to the next grade, one just needed to show an astronomical level of strength and to craft at least 4 new skills.
It was not weird to hear that a student spent 5 years in the 1st grade of the academy, but when a student spends more than 6 years in the 1st grade level, the student will be kicked out of the academy and will be sent to join the regular military.
The rule was very strict considering the level of intelligence, imagination and talent required to create a skill. Skill crafting was one of the hardest things do. While it was easier to learn a skill that had already been forged and recorded by someone else, creating one's own skill was a different matter entirely.
Creating a skill was like fixing a 10,000 thousand piece puzzle without having an idea what the final image of the puzzle looked like, and the academy required every 1st grade student to create 4 skills per student.
Even if a student were to be extremely talented and the student created multiple skills. The student still needed to pass the other requirement for the student to be promoted. The other requirement was that the student needed to be extremely strong.
How the academy gauged the strength of a student ready to promoted to the next grade was simple.
They just put the student in an arena with one of the ruthless tutors and tell the students to survive a 20 minutes onslaught from the tutor and the tutors the student fights with are usually 2 power levels above the student, because according to the academy only the strong would survive the wild universe that they were in.
Aamon reached the 2 of them and saluted the both of them. The salutation greeting was not something that was required by students to be doing, but most students used the greeting method.
"Greetings Commander Lucia, Officer Emma" he said.
"Yes, what brings you here? I don't remember requesting for a audience with you, and like I have said before just call us by our names." Lucia said with an unbothered look.
"I was told to inform you that the other Commanders are planning to start the ceremony, because they have other things to do than to be waiting aimlessly" Aamon said carefully, fearing that Lucia would take out her anger from his message on him.
"Who told you to tell me this ughn. Was it Commander Luke?" Lucia said, while her body was visibly getting engulfed with hot flames that seemed to be able to burn the world.
"Yes Commander Lucia" Aamon replied like a frightened puppy.
"That bastard!" Lucia said, as she suddenly took to the air and accelerated towards the ceremony hall. The Special Class Military Academy induction ceremony was an important ceremony that was done every time new batch of students were brought to join the existing 1st grade students.
The ceremony was always of the highest importance, because all the Commanders in Camelot city attended it including the Special Commanders. The only 2 Special Commanders in Camelot city were Lucia and Luke.
The both of them were the product of the military academy. With their authority once one of them was around for any event, the event becomes official and an event like the induction of fresh 1st graders once it has been done, any student not inducted will have to wait till the next induction to join the academy.
How Lucia going to let the new supreme asset of the academy miss the induction just because a lousy Special Commander had some other important thing to do.
BOOM!
The entrance of the closed ceremony hall exploded. A woman bathed with flames stood at the entrance, which now had the attention of all the occupants, screamed "You bastard!"