Chapter 7: Big Foot
Prad sat on the bed of his allocated room and fell into thoughts
A lot had happened today first he was escorted to the Hero Academy Test Venue by a High level minion under the orders of a unknown master.
After that he had encountered the prince of the Scholar's City, who was also apparently the one behind the murder of Ray.
From the brief talk he had with him, it was quite obvious that once the test was over, the things won't be easy for him.
He also gained quite a lot of Intel regarding the test after talking to the group of people that approached him, due to the commotion caused earlier by the Grade 7 minion.
This years physical examination test will consist of two parts, The first part will be about testing the physical capabilities of the participants, like Punching power, reflexes, endurance and mana handling.
The scores of the physical test would solely be determined from this first part.
The second part is non-compulsory.
The second part will consist of actual combat between the participants, but only the top 32 participants will be able to take part in this. A ranking will be created among these participants depending on their performance.
The top 4 on this ranking will be directly allowed to take part in the final selection test held in the Hero Academy, regardless of their performance in the academic test held before.
Apparently Prad, or we can say Ray was absent in the academic test due to his assassination.
Now since the academic score of Prad will be marked 0, the only way he can enter the final selection test of Hero Academy is by securing one of the top 4 positions.
"Ahh... This will be more tough than I thought." Prad said scratching his head. A total of 1000 people will be participating in this test, to secure the top 4 position among these wasn't an easy task. One must know that all these participants are the well-known geniuses of their respective towns and cities.
After thinking for a while, Prad said with determination in his eyes "I can only get stronger, I don't have any other choice."
"There are still a few days left till the examination, I need to increase my cultivation level as much as I can." Prad said seriously, while sitting cross-legged on his bed. "It's finally time..... to order some food."
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"Sir that customer is back again!!! " A staff member of the cafeteria worriedly reported to a wigged old man.
"Again? " The old man exclaimed loudly.
The ration and expenses of this cafeteria was fully sponsored by Hero Academy, but it doesn't mean that the expenses were done blindly.
This old man was responsible for managing the ration and quality of food in the cafeteria.
Sweat rolled down the forehead of the old man thinking about how to explain the current situation to the higher ups.
This young man reported by the staff was Prad, who ate food enough to last a day for 20 people in a single sitting in the morning and even after that, this young man had already visited thrice before in half a day.
Prad was also troubled, He tried to order food food from cafetria in bulk to his room, but his required quantity was denied to be provided. That was to be expected since the expenses of food in this test center was sponsored by Hero Academy.
Hero Academy has mentioned that a person can order food to their room but the serving and quantity was limited. If ordered beyond the regulated quantity, the delivered food would have to be paid by the participants.
However participants can eat for free without a limit in the cafeteria.
Prad was worried about his remaining bank balance. Ray had accumulated quite a lot of money on his own in the bank account, but with his humongously increased expenditure on food, the money wouldn't last much long now.
Thus Prad cherished the generosity of the Hero Academy to provided free food in the cafeteria. Although it was a trouble to come from his room to the cafeteria everytime he reached a limit in his cultivation. But it was still saving him a lot of money.
"Gathering Mana and environmental energy into my body is much easier at this center, But the resulting hunger is also several times more" Prad said to himself while waiting for the ordered food in cafeteria.
Prad was quite happy in his heart, he hadn't expected that cultivating his dual cultivation method would be so effective in this test center of Hero Academy. At this place he can absord more that thrice the amount of mana and environmental energy in a single circulation done at previous pace, than what he absored back in his apartment.
Although the resulting appetite is also multiple times more, but he still preffered cultivating here more than back at his apartment.
Prad suspected that this abnormaly high amount of mana at this place was due to Hero Academy employing state-of-art technology and some high level magic arrays to gather the surrounding mana to its test center.
Since mana and environmental energy are somehow related, thus this place was also brimming with environmental energy too. But Prad knew that anyone that didn't have a way to absord the environmental energy into their body, could never feel this energy.
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At this rate the stocks of food will not last much long. The old man was troubled.
Suddenly the old man got an idea, "This will do! This will do! Hahahaha" The old man laughed out and went to the cafeteria.
He planned to directly record the video of this young man and send that to his higher ups, that will make the explaination for expenses much easier. He was so excited that he almost wanted to dash straight to the cafeteria to record the video of this young man.
Upon recahing the cafeteria, The old man noticed that all the seats neaby Prad, He found it quite troublesome to secretly record his video.
But just when the old man was looking for an opportunity, he noticed something.
It was quite well-known that a thief can identify another thief easily. Similarly, when the old man was trying to sneak a video recording of the young man, he noticed that he wasn't alone, Various participants who were sitting near this young man were also sneakily recording his video.
Some were even boldly clicking pictures of this young man. The old man also picked up various talks happening among the others present in the cafeteria.
"He's here again? How can he eat so much."
"This commoner must have never enjoyed such a feast in his life. His videos are pretty viral on the social media now though."
"Hahaha you're right, I have also seen those, Do you know he is already famoused by another name on the social media now? "
"Hehehehe Yes of course I know that, He is the well known Big Foot of the Scholar's City, Hehehehehe"
Various boys and girls were chatting similar topics all around the cafetria.
Prad had also catched on to these talks, It was just that he couldn't care less about such petty opinions and views of others about him. His life was on the line in this competition, He can not afford to shy away from increasing his power due to embarrassment.
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