章 15: Destiny Plateau

After some time, Eric regains his conciseness. He was the first in his group to wake up. Which is different from the past.

'Fucking transportation I will never get used to this shit'. He cursed under his breath. His mind is still in disarray. He remains laying down and starts thing about his past and present Aptitude test differences.

His experience of the Aptitude test this time is much different from the past. In his first test there only one warrior came to the village for the test. This time instead of one warrior 2 warriors come into the city, maybe it is because there are more children in the city compared to the village.

He still remembers that the warrior who came to his village was from White Griffin Academy. At that time 5 children had warrior potential. That warrior had offered him a direct offer to join White Griffin Academy which he agreed without much thought. At that time he was very happy that out of 5 that warrior only offered him entry and nobody else. Now that he has more experience he laughs at how naive he was at that time.

In this test, he saw that Black cloth Warrior wants to give the offer to a few children but because of the white robe guy, Black cloth Warrior does not speak about it. Most probably both are from different academies.

Slowly Eric and others regain their focus. Eric finds that he and the other 120 children are all laying on the ground with lots of grass. Getting up he finds himself on a large grass field. Looking up he finds that clouds are very close to the ground. Strong wind is blowing and long knee-length grass is constantly moving with the wind. This is the second time he is experiencing nature this close. He just stares at the clouds.

He finds there is no one else near them. Without care, he just enjoys the embrace of nature. Slowly other children start waking up one after the other. After everyone wakes up a middle age man comes to their group. That man is in a black robe. Seeing the robe everyone understands that he is a warrior. Coming near them he starts speaking.

"Hello everyone my name is Mark. I will be your group guide. All you have to do is quietly follow me."

Saying that Mark starts walking away from them. After coming to their senses people start following Mark. Although many are not happy, what can they do to a warrior?

After following Mark for some time, they come near the edge of the grass plane. They see that is a large camp. There are many large tents present there. Just as after the camp there is no ground. It's like whole the green plain ends there.

This camp is known as the selection camp. There are 20 tents with different academy symbols present there. There are thousands of children like them going from one tent to another. Some are talking with each other and some are surrounded by many. They find 2 more groups like them which are guided by different warriors to the camp. This site looks more like a fair in everyone's eyes. Reaching the gate of the camp Mark turns toward the children and speaks to them.

"Guys we reach the place. In front of you is the famous site of the Destiny plateau. This is the place where you will decide which academy you want to become part of. You have to decide before midnight. I hope everyone behaves well here".

Finishing his last sentence with a creepy smile Mark walks again toward where they came from.

After Mark gets out of their sight everyone sighs in relief.

They start to make their group and go from one tent to another.

The largest group contains rare element children with Miya being part of them. Although Miya has a fire element she is still surrounded by many guys.

Currently, Miya and Jin seem to be arguing over something Eric chooses to ignore the other and starts walking on the street examining each academy tent.

In total there are 20 academies 12 of them have white in their name and others have black. As he freely examines each tent someone calls him from the back.

"Hey Eric wait for me"

Raising his brows Eric turns back. Jin comes running toward him.

"Dude why the fuck you are following me? Just go do your own business."

He irritatingly shouted at Jin. Jin ignores him and asks.

"Which tent do you want to go to first? I better be with you than those suckers,"

He seriously stares at Jin and then chooses to ignore him. Both of them start going to each tent one after another. These then only have very little information and recent achievement of the academy. Just based on them it is difficult to choose which academy is better than others.

They're also a warrior present in each tent. Those who wanted to join needed to talk with them.

White Academies' tents are more crowded than black academies' tents. With relative no prior information it is quite difficult to choose.

Although Eric knows about White Griffin Academy he chooses to avoid that place. He wants to start fresh without caring about the past.

Time is ticking and there is only the last hour left for the selection. Current Eric and Jin both sat at the end of the camp. They both just enjoying the view. After some time Eric asks Jin.

"So, what prior information do you have on Academies."

Jin calmly replies.

"It's nothing to hide but I do know that black and white in the name of academies are related to the method Academy operate."

"Method to operate, what do you mean by that."

"Who knows? I only hear that the Death rate in black academies is higher than in white academies. Black academies are called a paradise for the strong while grave for the weak."

Eric fell into his thoughts. Although he knows a little bit about the white path that is not useful as he was too weak to know more useful information.

Jin ask him

"Hey which academy do you want to join."

"Why should I tell you that."

"Come on If you tell me your academy, I will tell you all the information my family collected on academies"

He turns toward Jin.

"You seriously want me to believe that you will tell me all that important information without anything."

Jin smirks and speaks.

"Well hiding information will not do any good for me in the future. I have a gut feeling that telling you will benefit me".

Seeing how serious Jin is he just sighs. He thought to himself.

'It's not like telling him will result in any problem for me.' Eric starts speaking after making up his mind.

"OK. But you tell me first."

Jin just chooses to comply with the wish.

"ok. Here it is."

Saying that Jin handed a paper to him. Reading the paper Eric now knows that there is nothing important other than top academy names present in it.

According to the paper, there are 12 white and 8 black academies. Out of which

White tooth Academy is first.

White Griffin Academy is second.

Black Skeleton Academy is Third.

White Rose Academy is fourth.

Black fang Academy is fifth.

Well although he does know something about academy ranking. He does know that this rank always changes based on every regional war performance of the Academy. He speaks after reading the names.

"Well, there is nothing important in it."

"I never say it will be important. Now tell me which academy you decide to join."

"I will join Black skeleton Academy what about you."

"What!!!! why do you want to join the black academy? Did you not hear the warning about the black academy."

"I have my plans."

"Tsk. Whatever my plan was to join 'White rose academy'."

"Was??"

"You know that before coming to you, I fought with Miya."

"Why Miya comes in your academy choice."

"Well, Miya's cousin is a warrior of 'White rose academy'. As mine and Miya's family are always close that was why we decided that if either of up has an aptitude we will join White rose academy together.

Early Miya declared to me that she will only help me if I listen to her. I mean seriously I am her friend, not some dog that will always listen to her."

Eric suddenly starts laughing. Jin becomes more depressed as he watches him laugh.

"Well, Jin let me tell you some of my information. If you have a huge connection then White academies are best for you. A huge connection is like a warrior teacher in the academy.

Otherwise, there should be a reason why black academies are called the paradise of strong but White academies are not"

Saying that Eric gets up and starts walking toward the Black skeleton academy tent leaving Jin alone.