--Ray's Pov--
[NEXT MORNING]
'What's the time right now.' I said to myself while rubbing my eyes.
[6:00 a.m.]
It was already 6 in the morning. Since classes were going to start at 8, I decided to go for a little jog before getting ready for the classes. Putting my shoes on, I started jogging towards the nearby park.
There were a lot of people in the park. Most of them were jogging, while others were doing exercises. There were more old people in comparison to the younger people. Around 90% of the people present were more than 50 years old.
The reason for it was, that the people weren't allowed to practice their art or unique ability in a crowded park like this. If they practice their abilities out here in the open, it might hurt others.
Because of this most people prefer to go to training facilities rather than parks.
After completing my jog, I got ready for the classes and went to the supermarket to buy something to eat. I bought some cup noodles and ate them. I bought the cheapest cup of noodles as I am poorer than a beggar. Yes, you heard me right, even a beggar has more money to his name than me.
I might need to find a job so that I could earn some money. In this world, money is as important as power. Someone with an enormous amount of money but no power can easily be killed in this world.
Similarly, someone with power but no powerful position or money is merely a puppet in the hands of Supernova.
The world of [The Third Calamity] is very unfair. It bows infront of the strong and fucks the weak upside down.
While I was busy in my thoughts a humongous building came into view. It was bigger than every other building I had ever seen. It was the main building of Avalon, it had 70 floors and each floor was as big as a football stadium.
It had everything in it - training facilities, classrooms, canteen, club rooms, etc. Whatever you could ever wish to be in a school was present here.
I made my way up to the fifth floor because that was where my class was located. I was in [1-A] class. The (1) at the beginning represents the year I am in and the (A) at the end represents the section I am in.
'Talk about having some bad luck.' I thought to myself while whistling and looking at the section I was in. [ Section A ] was the section in which the main characters were and I am in the same section as them.
I am unlucky because a lot of events in [The Third Calamity] took place in or around this class. Being in section A was as good as asking for death itself.
Taking a deep breath in I entered the class. Each and everyone's eyes were focused on me, I felt like some celebrity. But as soon as they saw my rank they lost interest.
Ignoring them I made my way towards the seat assigned for me. In Avalon, each student is assigned a seat. It's compulsory for them to sit on that seat only.
After a few minutes, the door of the classroom opened and 4 students entered the class. As soon as they entered the class, the noisy class became so silent that one could hear someone's breathing.
Everyone was looking at them as if they have seen some God. These four were none other than our main characters Noah, Luke, Hannah and Alice.
"That was quite an entrance," I said while whistling. As soon as I said that everyone's eyes were on me.
'Fuck I said that out aloud.' I cursed myself while looking at the people that were glaring daggers at me. They were staring at me so intensely as if I had asked for their kidneys.
While all this was happening, Luke came and sat beside me.
'Why is my luck so bad?' I said to myself while tears were flowing out of my eyes. First, the whole class became my enemy and now the arrogant second-generation rich kid is my partner.
While I was busy cursing my luck the door opened again and an old lady entered the class. She had a kind smile on her face and a soothing aura around her.
"I am Mabel Sifer and I will be your class teacher for the next 3 years." She said in a gentle tone. She was none other than the Vice-Principal of Avalon. Her unique ability is called [Divinity] which enhances her strength and gives her healing powers as well.
She is the wife of the Principal of Avalon and an S+ rank hero. The vice-principal herself is our class teacher. It's because this batch has been named the golden batch that has the best students seen in the past 50 years.
"Today is the first day so we will keep the class short. Everyone move towards the training facility 005 to choose a weapon of your choice." Mabel said after taking the attendance. After hearing what she said everyone started walking towards the training facility with an excited smile on their face.
Most of the students come from poor families and can't afford a proper weapon, so the thought of getting a weapon of their own makes them excited. Getting a proper weapon is one of the perks of getting into Avalon. Avalon gives personal weapons to everyone so the rich kids don't use their weapons which could be artifacts against other students who don't have proper weapons.
'Damn, that's a lot of weapons.' I thought while looking at the number of weapons infront of me. More than a thousand weapons were lying infront of my eyes. While I was busy dreaming about myself swimming in a pool of weapons, Mabel came and said -
"Choose a weapon carefully, each one of them costs around 25k silean."
Silean is the currency that people use in this novel and each silean is equal to one real life dollar. The price of these weapons made my heart almost jump out of my mouth.
After looking for a bit I took a long sharp spear which was blue in colour and started swinging it, after swinging it a few times I decided to choose it.
While I was making myself familiar with my new spear someone tapped me on the shoulder. I turned around to see who it was. It was Noah.
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