Chapter 294: Beginning of a new Chapter
Moby's figure stepped in those automatic scanning doors with a contrasting expression, a deep smile yet with watery eyes.
He looked up to see the entire inside of the building. It was much smaller than he expected yet far more futuristic-looking with all the robots and the electrical flowing designs on the walls and floors.
There, in front of one of the desks in the distance, he saw Ryker and HikariYami waiting in line behind one of the reception desks.
There, he once again took a deep breath and steeled his resolve. From here on out, there was no looking back, there was only moving forward.
He wiped the tears from his eyes and brought his face back into a natural position before jogging towards the other two that were supposed to be with him. And, by the time he arrived, it seemed like Ryker had already finished all that was necessary.
"Okay, We're all set. Let's go, follow me,"
There, as they walked through the wide, expansive hallways of the white and blue building, he heard nothing but the sound of footsteps, light whispers and machinery scanning. He finally had time to clear his mind, ponder and think to himself. And, as he let his mind drift, it landed back on Abby's words that at first made him smile yet on further inspection, made him slightly nervous about one line.
'I love you…'
His mellow eyes immediately shot out wide. What if Jayden misunderstood what she meant by that?! What if she now thought that every time he went to see Abby, it was not to talk, but for s…
He was too much in shock to even finish that thought. Instinctively, he tried to open a mind-link with her to clear the potential misunderstanding. Although he knew it would be a rather awkward conversation after the heartfelt goodbyes they had, he still felt it necessary.
Yet, when he tried to do it, it would not work… There seemed to be anti communication crystals in the building. That was when he tried a trick up his sleeve that might work… He tried to open a small dimensional shift, that was usually solely meant for teleportation, and use it to send his mind-link through to a marked location outside, yet, it also seemed like dimensional magic and abilities were either severely weakened or disabled within the building.
Reaching her was impossible it seemed… He once again took a deep breath to calm himself down, and just hope he can establish contact soon enough and that Abby in her state would be sensible enough to clear up the misunderstanding.
But, would that even be possible? If this base had this much security, he imagined the school might be even worse…
The hallways around him seemed more like a maze or a labyrinth. Nearly everything looked the same and the only distinguishing features were room numbers and hallway numbers.
And, after walking for about five minutes, they finally reached the main area of the building and the silence was immediately replaced by chatter. The sight gave him flashbacks of the teleporter hub tower; robots, transport rails, and teleporters were as far as the eye could see, there were even restaurants on the side for soldiers to eat and converse, various gates on all the floors that were clearly seen since this middle section of the building possessed no roof to be heard of.
Yet, there seemed to be no time to fully admire the grandeur of the building as Ryker followed a certain path to a teleporter that led him to one of the top floors, getting noticed and saluted by his fellow soldiers along the way almost like a celebrity.
'Floor 52…'
It was one of the top floors, and it was a known fact that the higher one went, the more important it was meant to be.
It was a floor reserved for elite school teleportation and rarely used after all.
The entire floor was blank, other than one, massive hallway that most likely led to the teleporters, and that was exactly where they went.
The hallway was dark, lit by dim blue lights. They began to hear frail beeping sounds with slight tingles on their skin that seemed to do nothing. It felt like it spanned forever, but, for some reason, as soon as it started, they already found themselves at the exit.
It was a fairly small room with only two people inside of it, both wearing military uniforms with a hardened look on their face, their uniform displaying their ranks, the man being a rank of captain and the woman a lieutenant.
"High General Ryker!" He saluted, he along with the girl behind the desk, "It is an honour to meet you! I assume these two are heading to elite school today?"
"Yes, they are, captain. They are my prized students, please take care of them for me. Sadly I can't stay here for much longer, I have other duties to attend to,"
"Yes, I can imagine… A man as important as you are must be constantly busy. I promise to do all that I can sir!"
"Good," He nodded at the man before turning around, putting his hands on both Moby's and HikariYami's shoulders as he whispered with a smile on his face," Good luck…" before he turned around and left through where they first came.
"Greetings future elites! I am captain Schneider! And this is my trusty lieutenant Martha," He pointed at her, making her bow. "I've heard a lot about you two! And, I'm rather impressed! I know you all have been informed about everything along with all the rules of Elite school. However, under the rules I must do it again… And, it seems like you both have your old school watches intact. Martha, can you please take them off and replace them with the new ones?"
"Yes sir!"
"The new watches will function nearly identical to the old ones. Even at elite school, the military must follow the privacy policy so we don't go around stealing family secrets and techniques. The only difference and boundary that is pushed now is that we will be able to track you anywhere within the school premises. Oh, and now the watches go off when someone is severely injured, and not just killed. We don't need any violence, or god forbid, killing at this school. You all are the future of our planet. We can't afford anything like that."
"The only fights allowed in here are organized fights set up with the watches. It needs two consenting parties and the watch will start beeping when on the losing end when a fighter is too injured to fight, continuing the fight after that will warrant security."
"Communication is enabled on the watch only for your fellow schoolmates, any other form of communication is banned and I will be checking your clothes and storage rings very shortly."
"Oh, and the watches can also read power levels up to 100,000 before becoming useless, but considering everyone can simply suppress their power levels at will, it won't be that useful other than for your personal use— most people just have it reading the time anyways."
"Do you have any questions concerning the watches?"
They both stood silent, taking in everything that was just revealed to them, not asking any questions.
"Okay, and I will now be going over the rules! First off…"
Moby pretty much blanked out and began training some of his skills and magic while listening to what he knew was going to be almost ten minutes of non-stop talking about small, petty rules. Yet, he did leave one ear open just in case something new was revealed.
After he finished his speech, the two new watches were installed on their hands, their clothes and storage rings were emptied and searched finding nothing suspicious. They were all scanned once more and got their picture taken to receive their new student cards, and now they were standing in front of the massive blue teleporter, ready to say goodbye to earth for a full year, in a place filled with rich elites where he knew absolutely no one… He did not know what to expect other than from stories about how it used to be decades ago so it might have been far different now for all he knew.
"Don't forget! The first thing you need to do is look on the massive board to find your class!"
He heard a voice coming from behind him as soon as he was about to step in.
"Yes, we know sir! Thank you for caring!" Moby turned around and smiled before looking at the blue beam of energy ahead of him, taking a deep breath, looking at the smiling yet nervous HikariYami that seemed to be shaking too much to even move, looking at him with shaky eyes.
'Was she told horror stories about this place or something?' He inwardly sighed before holding her hands abruptly and walking into the light with her...
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