The Transmigrated Professor

Chapter 57: Tournament

"All right, class, listen up!"

With a single sentence, boys and girls turned their complete attention to Misa.

"This week's announcement is going to be pretty special! We are going to be selecting students for the Inter-Academy Sports Tournament!"

Seventy years ago, during the Catastrophe, the human world was split into 5 continents.

4 of them were later taken away by the other Races, leaving humanity with a single piece of land and a few islands around it.

They were later named the Human Continent and the Sanskriti Archipelago, respectively.

After a great deal of struggle, humanity was finally able to establish 5 major cities on their continent.

Capital City in the center.

Aquilo City in the North.

Auster City in the South.

Solanus City in the East.

Aqua City in the West.

To fight the looming threat of monsters, the League decided to build the Star Academy in Capital City, a billion-dollar educational institute where they could train and protect their future Heroes.

Unfortunately for them, many parents were against sending their young children so far away, either because of financial constraints or fear of monsters and the Fallen.

Because of this, the Hero League realized that many of humanity's promising talents were wasting their potential. To counter this, the League decided to build Academies with almost similar state-of-the-art facilities in each of the four major cities. And this intervention by the League was readily supported by the mayors of each of the cities.

Of course, their reasons for this weren't as selfless as the League. The mayors wanted to keep the talented Heroes in their cities so that they could protect their cities from future disasters.

And with the establishment of the Four Academies, emerged a tradition of an annual tournament. Academies from all over would send their students from all three years to the Star during December and have them compete in various tournaments.

The media portrays it as a friendly competition to foster good relationships between the students of the Cities and future top Heroes. However, if one looked a little deeper, they would see it was more of a ruthless showdown.

The students of the Four Academies aimed to get one up on the students of the Star Academy, while the students of the Star Academy tried to defend their #1 status.

With all the competition in the air, the Inter-Academy Tournament soon became akin to the Olympics of the past. Every year new competitions were added, and students of all years were encouraged to attend all sorts of competitions both solo and in teams.

"I will be handing out forms to you all today. Tick the competitions you are interested in participating in. And remember, everyone has to participate in at least one competition. You have the end of next week to hand in your forms to me. My office is open to all of you." Finishing her announcement, Misa distributed the forms to the class.

"Once all your forms are submitted, specialised instructors will be training you all-week round until your competitions. One week before the tournament, the instructors will choose students based on their class performance. Those students will be the ones that will take part in the tournament and represent the Star Academy."

Hearing this, one of the students raised his hand. "If only a few of us are going to be selected, what's the use of all of us applying to the competitions?"