"Bye, I have to train so I can forget what happened here," Jack said, "And Ray why aren't you dueling to raise your rank?"
"Don't worry am coming for you"
"In your dream..." Jack left Ray and went to the training ground.
Ray returned to his room.
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A week had passed since then and the students were all waiting in the training ground for further instructions.
They were all dressed up in full armor except Ray, the school provided them with body armor for protection but Ray refused to wear his own saying he didn't like it.
"Are you all ready" Authur shouted.
"Yes sir" the students all shouted back.
"Okay... hey why are you not dressed?" Authur said pointing at Ray and all the students turn to look at Ray.
"It's too heavy, I don't like it," Ray said.
"You will need it for defense, last time we meet wolves you ran away, so I think you need the armor more than anyone here," Authur said with a serious expression.
'I hate this guy, maybe I would get to kill you someday' Ray frown his face.
"I told you to wear the armor you wouldn't listen" Ivan whispered in Ray's ears.
"I don't like it, besides it's heavy"
"It's not heavy, with this basic tier beast can't scratch you," Ivan said.
"I already explained what we would be doing right" Authur shouted.
"Yes sir"
"Good, we'll meet at the city gate," Authur said and walked away.
The students began to walk towards the city gate. The students would be divided into 3 groups, with each group having around 34 students.
The students arrived at the gates after walking for a while, Authur, Alfred, and one other knight were already at the gates waiting for them.
"Huh, I thought we left them at the school, how come they are here"
"They are showing off" Ray sneered at Authur secretly.
The gate was opened and all the students followed the senior knights outside the city, the grasslands stretch wide around the city and a large forest was visible from afar.
"That is our destination," Authur said and pointed towards the forest.
"Sir isn't that too far," a student said.
"Sir, would we be able to go there and still make it back today?"
"Who told you were are going back," Authur said and the students all looked at him.
"One full week of survival training"
"One week, how would we survive sir, without food or water"
"We are all going to die in the forest"
"There is food, water, and shade, all you need to do is go hunting every day and return with beast crystal as proof and you pass," Alfred said.
"But sir, I don't see any carriage carrying food or water"
The knights didn't answer any questions following that, and the students didn't have any choice but to mumble and follow the knights, but there was one person who was brimming with happiness.
Ray was overjoyed with this arrangement, not only is he going to kill beasts but for straight one week, if he's lucky and gets enough quests he could level up.
Ray smiled all the way to the forest and Ivan couldn't help but ask him about it.
"Hey Ray, why are you so happy?"
"Why won't I be, one week of survival training is the best thing that will happen since I joined the knights' academy," Ray said.
"You are acting fearless, I can't wait to see your face when we meet a beast" Ivan smiled.
'Damn that Authur, now everyone thinks I'm a coward who will run away'
But even that couldn't take away the joy Ray had.
'It has been long since I saw silver, I wonder if he's okay, too bad I won't be able to summon him because other students would also be there'
The students were almost at the forest but from the looks on their faces all of them were exhausted.
The senior knights, on the other hand, didn't even rest a bit, they were already far ahead of the students, Ray who was brimming with joy was really tired from the long walk.
Even if his stamina level wasn't dry, he was mentally tired, the sun was also one of the causes, all the students were sweating from the heat.
With every step, the forest was getting closer and finally they arrived at the forest, but the senior knights didn't stop them, they kept walking inside the forest till they came across a camp.
A sheltered place in the forest, tall trees acted as shade, and tents were set up, few knights were there along with some girls who were cooking.
The base was covered with wood that surrounded the whole place protecting them from attacks.
"Where is this?"
"So this is where the survival training would take place"
"Settle down and await further instructions, I need three groups, so divide yourselves and get ready," Authur said.
"Are we starting now, aren't we supposed to rest after that long walk?" a girl said.
"I'm very tired, I'm not even sure I can wield a sword right now"
Most of the students complained while Ray waited for the knights to return and tell them to start.
After going into the forest, he had planned to toss the sword he was given into his [Void] and use his blood spears, it has been far too long, and he couldn't wait to get his hands on it.
"Settle down guys," Gabriel said.
After a month the knights had given a chain of command, the student in rank 1 was given class captain, while the student in rank 2 was the assistant.
So Gabriel was the class captain, while Leia was the assistant, any student who defeats the rank 1 automatically become the class captain but even after 3 months no one had managed to defeat him.
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Author's note
Hey guys, I'm thinking of creating a discord group where we can talk about the book, I don't know if I should carry on with it, please give opinions.
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