Straw@hat publication: Chapter-3: First Day at Academy:

On the next day all the new disciples were present in the academy ground."I wonder which class I am going to join" Huo Ling pondered for sometime, then his attention got to the other disciples who were discussing,

"Do you know Zhang Hong and Li Qing got an excellent grade tallent".

"Seriously? Isn't the excellent grade very rare"

"Heh, what do you know both of them are from the three great families, and are being tutored from childhood, also both the houses have strong people"

Another disciple added "Chen Chang is also from one of the three major families and he got an upper good grade talent"

Huo ling was listening to the group of people very curiously when he heard the instructor announce:

"All disciples form group of three people, three nearest to you we will conduct a little trial for assigning you to your new classes. The highest scoring people will go to elder Mo's first class , Middle scoring to elder Wang's second class and rest of you will make it to elder Yang's third class. Also keep it in mind that the rank of your class will also determine the future resources you will get"

Huo ling looked around and the other disciples began to form there three man parties, he also joined the group nearest to him. "Hello fellow disciples my name is Huo Ling" he said. One of the other two people said "I am Chen Bain and this is brother Chen Xuan he is going to be our team leader" he introduced looking down on Huo after seeing his cheap clothes. They then followed the instructor and reached a little hill with stairs up to the top.

"This hill is currently being reinforced by a gravity celestial worm so the gravity on it is 5 times more then the normal level. Your teams have to climb the stairs to the top and according to the time taken by your team you will get scores. Keep in mind the time taken by the last member of your team to reach the top will be taken as your team score so help the weak members of your team, also helping team members will gain extra points for individuals", the instructor announced.

The disciples nodded and started to climb the stairs. Huo ling was physically very fit as he practiced fighting techniques from childhood gaining him a active and strong body ge also had a strong determination so it was not going to be that difficult for him. "So we also have to carry these bags on us too" Huo glanced at the bag on his back and said. These bags had around 10 kg of weight but under the effects of gravity celestial worm it was feeling very heavy. They were climbing the stairs when he saw Chen Bian struggling to climb. " Huo Ling you seem fine so go help Chen Bian carry his bag for efficient results" Chen Xuan said. Huo ling helped the person carry his bag and they were starting to move forward at a faster pace as they reached almost at the top many students had already reached at the top.

"Hey Huo ling brother Xuan is not able to move on now don't you see go help carry him his bag" Chen Bian said. "But it is already hard for me to move with this much weight I don't think I will make it if I carry another one" Huo retorted. "You are free of weight from much time now why don't you help him" he said to Chen Bian.

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"You .... Hmph leave it what useless fellow " Chen Bian sneered and helped Chen Xuan reach the top. Huo ling frowned what was the problem of these two he helped them carry two bags and now the one who is empty all the time is calling him useless. But he sighed and ignored it.

The instructor recorded their score and said , "your team has arrived at an odd time, there are only two seats left in the second class so according to your individual score you will be assigned to class second and the Lowest one will go to third class".

Chen Bian heard it and his face sank he then hurriedly said, "instructor it is all this Huo lings fault he refused to cooperate with us and ignored big brother Xuan's orders" he was the last one in the team so he tried to push the blame.

Huo Ling heard him and became angry he helped these two and now they are trying to push the blame on him " what nonsense are you saying" he was going to speak more but Chen Xuan crossed him.

"Don't turn back on your doings I clearly told you to not give your bag to Chen Bian but you didn't listen and forced him to carry your bag for more then half the way up" he said in a angry tone.

The instructor looked at Huo Ling and shouted "Such delinquent behaviour is not encouraged in our academy you forced a teammate and then are turning your back on your crimes"

" But instructor i really didn't do it ...."he was going to say that he carried two bags and these two were framing hin but before it the instructor saud in a very angry tone " still not accepting your mistake, you will get your points deducted for it and go to the third class , Chen Xuan and Chen Bian you two will join the second class now go ahead I still have work to do" .

Huo Lings heart sank and he was feeling wronged he helped the teammates and then they ungratefully turned on him, the instructor also didn't listen to any of his words and punished him. " I was clearly the fastest among our team and if not for these two i would also have the chance to join the first class but now i am punished to join the third class, I already have such a low talent and now cannot even join some better resource providing class" he was very angry this was not fair he was clearly framed , he then listened other disciples laughing at him.

" Hah hah this guy is a country bumpkin he doesn't even know that the instructor is also from the Chen family and Chen Xuan is the heir's cousin"

"Ignorant, he doesn't even know that there was no point explaining it, did he think the instructor didn't saw him carry two bags".

"Sigh, such is the world strength is everything thing Chen family is one of the three great families even if he complaints to other instructors he won't get any results who would challenge the Chen family for some country bumpkin ".

Hearing to such comments from the surrounding disciples Huo lings face became stiff, he calmed his anger and said to himself in his own mind "again strength is required, i need to get strong but now i am in the third class and with a bad talent grade", but then he suddenly remembered his mother's words "for becoming strong you need to be smarter then others and put out more efforts"

" Yes mother is right if I was smart I should have known about these two scheming bastards and joined another team. And I think that even these other people are also just finding their own profits. From now on I will not join any other teams and keep my distance from others, there is the academy system too the instructor didn't even listen to me he just bullied me because i don't have background and i think it will be the same if I try to argue with other instructors " he thought all this and then decided.

" Fine you don't want to maintain fairness good i will join third class and will not think much about the other students and acadmy rules if they try to get in my way of getting strong if they cannot maintain fairness they should not expect me to follow the rules and limit myself from getting strong quickly just as now if it was not for the rules I would have easily gotten into the first class.

He then followed the instructions and went towards the courtyard provided to him by the academy after some investigation.

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