Chapter 53 Before The Exam

A week had passed since our meeting with Crystal and Elly. I had finally finished completely upgrading one of my organs. I had four more to go, but it was excellent progress.

I met the remaining group member the day after our meeting. She gave me a headache when I first met her.

At first, I thought our group wouldn't have made it due to the personality of our combined group. However, now that we had met up, the atmosphere had improved with the fourth member joining.

I made some credit from the arena. Unfortunately, it took me five more battles to earn a magic pouch. I had ranked up to 1396, and there wasn't any noteworthy opponent for me to fight.

Waking up early for the survival test, Olivia, beside me, was sleeping naked. We had a lot of action last night.

We haven't spent that much time with each other because Olivia needed to spend as much time as she needed with her partners. So I didn't want her to be in danger because of a miscommunication or cooperation issue.

We wouldn't see each other much during this test, so we spent every second of our love-making session. First, I had to wake Olivia up so she wouldn't be late. I was eating our breakfast with Olivia, and I could see her nervousness.

"Olivia, it's ok to be nervous, but don't that nervousness overcome you when you're in danger." I was serious when I said this. I don't know what to do if Olivia was hurt or, even worse, dead. She is the person I felt closest to.

Olivia, who heard me, was lost in thought when I said that. I don't know much about Olivia's group other than Jenny, but I hope they won't slow her down. Then, having finished our breakfast, we prepared to head out.

I gave Olivia one last hug before we left. Olivia, who felt my feelings towards the hug, gave me a hug with an equal amount of emotional value. She was less nervous when we finished it.

We were to head to the gym with our group members. Unfortunately, I had to split up with Olivia and meet with my members; I will miss Olivia's food during our excursion.

When we arrived, there were already many people, so I had to search for my members within the crowd. It took me a while to find them. However, they were already together when I saw them.

"Good morning." I greeted them, getting their attention.

"""Good morning.""" The three of them replied, each with a different tone. Elly was still nervous when greeting me. On the other hand, Crystal was pretty chill when greeting me, and the final member of the group Trista happily greeted me.

Trista, unlike most people I have met, was flirty towards females. She was the type of person interested in girls instead of boys. On the other hand, Trisha, who had flirted with the three of us, was quite energetic.

Instead, she was on the boyish-looking side; she had purple hair and purple eyes. Trisha was pretty tall. She was 5'10 and was rather bold with people. Like most people here, it wasn't hard to distinguish what she looked like compared to everyone.

It was pretty crowded as time passed, and more and more people appeared. There were thousands of people here waiting to be transported to our test location.

Seeing that no one else was going to arrive, I felt a presence that had danger all over her. A figure could be seen in the front of the gym. She is the headmaster of this academy. I felt the mana she had released earlier last month. The headmaster used her mana to attract everyone's attention.

It was a good thing that there was some kind of form of restraint that she used against us. Overwise, everyone here would've been crushed.

"I have an important announcement to make. Now that all of you are here, listen well." She spoke quietly, but it was loud enough that everyone would listen.

"Due to some problems, there has been a monster infestation in the Forest Of The Dawn." The Forest Of The Dawn? I had heard of it from Charlie's memories. It was a forest that was said to be moderately dangerous once you reached the core of the place. It was noted that a powerful monster that would devour anything it saw would awaken during the start of dawn.

We should be fine if we don't go too deep into the forest. My group members weren't too worried about where we would go, so I hope nothing went wrong.

"After this survival exercise, prizes would be handed out to the top ten earners each year. To win these prizes, the more credits you earn while defeating these monsters, the higher chances of you making up on top of the list."

The headmaster explained the rules, and we began to leave the gym. Apparently, the school had a teleportation circle. Again, I heard it was extremely pricey, but luckily, it was free this time.

It took a while for us to use the teleporter. We teleported to a town called Dawn Creed City. The place itself wasn't that impressive. In fact, it seems that this place was instead in lousy shape.

Checking the reactions of the surrounding students, they didn't seem surprised. Was every town or city like this? If so, I wasn't looking forward to traveling.

Apparently, it would take at least two hours to go to the forest by walking and another two hours to return.

People who don't want to sleep outside in the forest would have to lose four hours' worth of time just to get a bed in this town. It was efficient doing so.

We were free to do what we wanted, the teacher didn't force us to fight the monster immediately, but we would lose money if we wasted time. So I told my team that we should go to the forest immediately, and they agreed. With that, we went to the forest.