An unfamiliar ceiling like the atypical main character found in any generic story Luon awoke to the first day of Luon’s new school life at Nexus University.
Luon sluggishly motioned his body to start the preparations for his agenda today.
According to the detailed schedule which was sent to his BMPU after checking in to the dorm he was supposed to attend a minor opening ceremony followed by his first class which would be assigned during the opening ceremony.
After making himself neat and tidy, he left his dorm room meeting his fellow dorm mates along the way to the opening ceremony.
Luon being slightly more proactive in the morning smiled to his roommates and greeted them while walking to the venue for the opening ceremony.
Bendan also followed suit and energetically greeted Luon as well, if one were to look more closely it seemed like he spent the morning exercising as he still smelled like sweat.
Tyron, on the other hand, was like Luon – neat and tidy as he bowed to Luon to express his morning greetings.
The worse of the trio was Gizmo as he was very ruffled and unprepared for the day as he was still nodding off every few seconds. It seemed like he spent the night doing some activities just like Luon.
Compared to how Luon met them yesterday they appeared more formal wearing the Nexus University’s mandatory military uniform. This stylish pitch black suit had a slight golden trims making them look very mature and professional akin to a group of office workers.
Along the way, the group met with other students and eventually they got to the large venue that held the opening ceremony.
The room was an amphitheater which was used for entertaining large groups of people. The number one feature of this place in Luon’s case would be the incredibly comfy leather chairs. The dim lights that were present and nice chairs created a harmonic, quiet atmosphere. A perfect place for sleeping if one was tired midday and Luon who had less sleep than usual was very tired.
When the opening ceremony commenced not a single word was able to enter his ears as he fell in a state of minor hibernation due to lack of sleep.
After a while, the opening ceremony ended, and the energetic Bendan woke Luon up to go to class.
Luon who woke up refreshed was slightly confused and suddenly realized that one of the most critical segments of the opening ceremony was to decide the placements for his classes. Luon quickly inquired from Bendan on the content of the presentation.
However, Bendan wasn’t that much help at all. About 70% of material covered was lost in translation from his mouth as Bendan was unable to comprehend most of the content and even if he did understand he didn’t know how to explain it himself.
Luon was slightly frustrated due to his incompetence, luckily Tyron was there and filled in some of the gaps that Bendan was missing, however, even with this they only covered about half of the content.
On the bright side, they knew how to attend their next classes as their BMPU schedule updated after a few minutes.
By this time Gizmo was also more awake now, and the crew headed down to their first classes which they were all assigned together.
In an arena about the size of the football field, Luon is attending his first class, combat training.
All the students were lined up in a single line as a man walked down the row evaluating his new students.
The teacher’s name was Captain Waver, and he previously worked in the military only to retire later due to an injury.
There a few things that surprised Luon in this class, one of them being the strength of the instructor. After learning more about skills he recently was able to realize the limitations of his Eye of Insight skill. Skills and combat levels are mysterious entities that people cannot comprehend at all, whether racial or self-developed there were just too many things to understand about them.
Who decided these values? Who wrote the description of these skills? Luon theorizes that if he were able to increase the experience value of his Eye of Insight skill then maybe he would understand more of the hidden mysteries of the universe.
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[Eye of Insight – Lv4] [Requirement – Analysis target must be within two realms within the user’s domain and below] [Description – The ability to theorize and estimate the target based on natural properties and composition.] |
Luon contemplating on the potential of this skill used his ability on Captain Waver.
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[Captain Waver] [Race: Human?] [Job: ???] [Combat Level: 62??] [Racial Skills: ???] [Active Skills: ???] [???] |
Most of the values were hidden, and this was because the difference in strength was too vast, however, with the information provided it clearly shows that Captain Waver was out of Luon’s league.
The other thing that surprised Luon was that he saw a few familiar faces in his group of classmates.
In his class, he is reunited with Belle Mirande, Shizuka Ichihara, and Arisa Nightwalker and for some reason, they appear to know each other.
Just as Luon was staring over at the group girls, the instructor clapped his hands and started his class.
“Alright folks as you may know from the opening ceremony I am the head teacher of the combat division, I don’t have much to say, but for our first class, I will be evaluating your combat abilities. I hope that within the three years you attend here that you all become great powerful warriors wrecking havoc against the damn Inzektors.” The instructor calmly said as he sent gazes all about.
“For now I will be pairing your matches randomly using the randomizer, the contestants listed please stay down here and show me an entertaining fight. As for the rest follow me to the spectating seats” Then Captain Waver pressed a button on a remote which he had at hand.
With a few mechanical noises, a televised display appeared above the arena with the list of names of the students in the class. A few seconds later a green box highlighted 2 of the names listed and started to appear and disappear on different names only stopping at the first two contestants who were going to fight.
Coincidently the first two were Tyron and Gizmo. Captain Waver seeing the result brought the other students to the spectating stands leaving only the two in the arena.
The two of them were spaced about 100 meters away from each other and with an electronic signal the fight began.
Gizmo started off by pulling out a rifle out of nowhere and immediately shot an array of bullets to Tyron. Luon was carefully inspecting the scene and found that Gizmo had an intraspatial bag just like him.
Tyron appeared very calm as the bullets swarmed towards him. Within arms reach before the bullets reached him Tyron stuck out his hand which then emitted a mana generated shield blocking all of the bullets.
After halting Gizmos attack, Tyron then used mana again to construct a bow and arrow and rapidly shot towards Gizmo.
The two of them used a long-range tactic and the battle displayed were just a series of bullets and magic arrows flying all about. The instructor at first was quite surprised at the display and was pleasantly happy until about 10 minutes later where they were still shooting at each other without any progress at all. Growing tired of the fireworks he stopped that match between the two calling it even and began to randomize more battles.
However, the battles after the first were incredibly dull and nothing to keep note of. Captain Waver grew wearily seeing how pathetic his first batch of students were until a few particular names on the randomizer caught his attention.
The randomizer after pairing each battle would remove the contestant names on the list, and it was already halfway in the list of students. At this moment the next matched group of students to do battle were: Arisa Nightwalker and Shizuka Ichihara.
At this moment a commotion rose within the group of students, everyone knew what the top families were in the Nexus solar system, even the ignorant Luon figured it out later. This match was between the next generation of the Nightwalker family against the next generation Novera Corporation head.
The two girls approached the stage, but they didn’t have an easy going atmosphere, it was more like they had something to settle and the stage was the perfect opportunity for the two.
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As the two girls walked towards the stage, Shizuka looked at Arisa with her stern face and said: “Like I said I was first, why don’t you just settle for being second.”
“No, I’m pretty sure I was first.” Unfazed Arisa replied at her remark.
Before going to school Shizuka and Arisa had once met each other in a party between the major families. Both of them were tired at the stifling atmosphere and left together to wander about at the venue.
There they met Belle for the first time who became their best friend, however, when it was mentioned who Belle first and best friend was between the two they had always fought for it. Belle clueless on what to do stayed silent on the matter and eventually the two came in agreement to decide through competitions. As long as one of them had at least two victories more than the other match would be settled but they were evenly matched.
So before this battle, they decided whoever won this battle would be the first and best friend of Belle vowing to let the heavens be there witness.
The battle began with the two of them trading blows with swords. In terms of skill, they were evenly matched but since Shizuka was an engineer she was using her customized weapon with an acceleration feature. Eventually, the battle began to tip in her favor.
Dodging the slash, Arisa quickly retreated, the power behind Shizuka weapon was too strong for Arisa to cope against and it was also too fast to respond to. She gritted her teeth thinking how underhanded Shizuka was using such cheat weapons.
“Come on why not pull out your customized NG-Arms? I heard that you’re quite good at it just like your sister.” Shizuka with the upper hand at this match taunted at Arisa.
“Fine, how about I show you the power of my Nightwalker family.” With those words, Arisa eyes grew into a deep hue of red, and her aura grew more bloodthirsty.
She then summoned up her NG-Arms covering the limbs of her body and prepared her stance.
Seeing Arisa taking her comment earnestly Shizuka only smiled and did the same, she summoned her customized NG-Arms and started to pose for combat.
The two after preparing their NG-Arms dashed and clashed against each other, and a huge puff of dust flew from the aftershock blocking everyone’s vision.
Luon who used his Eye of Insight to evaluate the combat level of the two after equipping the NG-Arms found the values change considerably.
‘What the heck, that’s broken.’ Luon yelled in his mind.
The outcome of the match? Nobody could tell who would win.
