The Second Era

Chapter 1: The Elites Exam

Chapter 1

The morning was bright. The sunlight shines upon the windows of the tall buildings. With the rays of the sun, there accompanies a beautiful breeze of the wind making it a perfect time to go outside to have training activities and exercises, especially for the members of the safe haven's three divisions.

In the grass field, there was an organized group. It has two lines, 4 people in each. You can see some of them have the disciplined posture with their chins up like a true squad member, but most of them are barely awake, their eyes are barely open and they have a gloomy aura as if they are going to fall to the ground and fall asleep. They were groaning like zombies complaining about their very short sleep. They get too much training from the academy that their training reaches up to midnight, which gives them less than 4 hours of sleep. Now because of the new training, which was just announced on their time of sleep, about 4pm, they only get 2 hours to rest.

One of them said in a weak and sleepy manner. "Why did they have to make surprise classes? I can't believe they just shouted from our room speakers."

"Good morning Lads!" shouted lively by the man in front of them. The instructor just ignores their gloominess, ignoring even the trainee who still wears his sleeping hat. The trainees also noticed the hat and all of them took an expression in their faces as if they were saying "Is he serious?"

It is the start of their new exercise session for their training. It is very inconvenient for them, having a sudden training listed on their schedule, but being ready for anything is what safe haven wants for them. (Actually it's because they have unstable schedules because of the crisis). "You are one of the best here, being in the 3rd tier, it means you got talents and skills, and some more time you will promote to 2nd or even 3rd tier-1st class for our defense, and by the time you excel or achieve great things in combat, you might become candidates for the Safe Haven elites! Just always attend all these given classes to improve your skills and surely you'll have a better-..." in the moment of his cheerful speech his mood shifted downwards, completely opposite to the mood of his speech, as he noticed something. His face turned red, and he murmured in annoyance.

"Again!?"

"WHERE THE HECK IS HE AGAIN!!" He shouted, and scared the trainees in front of him turning their face purple, as if they are about to be tackled. He looked around but he didn't seem to see him. "WHERE IS LUX!" Everyone also looked around. A lot of the trainees started murmuring at each other.

"He's not attending again?"

"Such a slacker"

"I don't think it's necessary for him to attend anyway"

With all the conversations mixed in the air and the trainer, 3rd rank-Elite Mr. Griggs didn't seem to like the noise. "but no matter how good you are already, you can't just ditch academy sessions like that" another replied. In so much noise the instructor's temper got higher and started yelling on the trainees.

"HEY ALL OF YOU! QUIET! You will do today the activity we did last week!"

The air suddenly went silent, and all of the heads of the trainees started turning purple in terror.

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Safe Haven Military Defense dorm -floor 14

In the military's dorm hall. Footsteps can be heard. The person walking is a woman, wearing office clothes, she is about 5'8" on height, and her appearance is like a typical strict teacher along with her sharp looking eyes that you can see within her glasses that she pushes up. She is about 23yrs old which is not a common age to be a member of the office. Despite her sharp looking personality she is known to be nice to everyone and a beautiful girl but still a scary person to be an enemy. The staff in the hall greets her cheerfully. Having a descent and nice image among the academy, everyone tend to be nice and tends to respect her.