Thus their first day had ended and those unwilling to eat were taken to their own rooms to rest.
leaving only a few whom didn't really care about the food looking bad.
Christopher was gulping goo as if it was water, after all it had a rather strange or magical drunkness inducing sweetness.
Christopher was drunk and each time he got drunk he became depressed and depression causes appetite to grow, doubled by his already big eating capacity which he probably took from his parent or rather from his childhood life.
When he was young there were some times that their family hadn't food to eat, thus them having to sleep hungry and being just a kid he didn't understand that he could ask his parents to buy something to eat, well not that they could have done so even if he asked since when his parents immigrated back to greece, they only took with them the bare minimum they could carry, the whole journey from Russia to greece was a large expedition of funds and his parents even had to sell some of their belongings to make their way to greece.
Only later he understood why his parents immigrated but at this moment he thought that it was because of the cold war that was then in place between america and russia.
Truth however was that it was the will of their now deceased grandfather, whom was an immigrant from greece.
In the end Ten people gulped all of the remaining food, since they were told that it would spoil even if they didn't eat it today.
It was a pity that they couldn't see their stats or they would have seen their stats rising crazily 0.1 points each time they consumed something from the table.
Time passed and the day wasn't short, it was now midday the ones resting were once more summoned to the hall, this time there was no tables nor food awaiting, but a large stone that was evidently cut to have one side as strait as a mirror.
On closer look they could see strange letters carved on its surface.
"Since we have summoned you we would like very much to see your stats and abilities, of course since it's a personal thing, you are free to tell us if you prefer it to be done one at a time or all together"
The Archmage said as his hand was placed on the stone's surface.
"It's best if before revealing things like stats, the student first form their groups, whom of you want to take the responsibility to lead your fellow students to safely leave this place alive?"
The teacher's words, made the students somewhat puzzled, but they understood that the teacher had somehow came to a agreement with reality, thus thought that they should at least be safe.
"Teacher, can I be your goup"
A young short girl said, her name was Areti, which in greek means Vitue.
"I won't be going on adventures at my age, but I will stay and do research in the library I saw not too far from here, I hope the Archmage won't forbid me from reading some of the books there?"
The teacher's words made many of them tremble with excitement, of course they already knew that this would be dangerous, but there were fourty of them there.
Slowly Four people were Nominated for leaders.
First being Chris, the leader of the football team and of course the boys would willingly join his group, second was Nick the basketball team's captain, third was John, the football team's ace scorer and lastly it was Mina whom was also the Classes president as well as a member at the student council, which however was mostly composed by the third years.
Of course there was a reason why the third years would forsake their final exams to do so, the reason was called the final 3-days excursion, other than that they didn't care less about the matters of the school, all they did was close the school for no reason at times to demonstrate against the cantene selling round cheese pies, instead of rectangular ones, in general anything that would allow them to lose classtime.
The Leaders talked between themselves and came up with a way to form their goups they would each select one person at a time and of course the main targets for this selection were the boys available, since most of the girls would be more of a bother than help if they were to fight with monsters and since they didn't know what abilities each other had they selected based on likes and dislikes.
Of course there were also dropouts whom were the last of the boys being selected, Funnily enough Christopher was the one of the last four boys selected, the other three being all his friends in school, of course he wasn't the first of the bunch to be selected, first was his Friend Kris, whom was known to study martial arts, second was Christopher himself and next were Nicko and Alexi, of whom one was short and slightly fat and the other was probably weaker than the strongest girl.
The selection of the girls was somewhat strange or rather it was the girls whom selected groups for themselves, ending in three groups of ten and a single group having nine members.
"We are Few but we are strong"
That's what Nick their 2m tall leader said to encourage them, but just looking at him was enough to calm them down.
Of course fate is a strange thing, for Christopher to end up in the same group with Alexxa, although the main reason for that was that Mina their leader used to be Alexxa's friend.
"Now that the groups are ready, each group should enter one group at a time, since we don't want disagreements to break out because some of you got better abilities than others or some got crappy abilities, you are now officialy team mates and your leader is responsible for your safety"
The teacher said as if they were going on an excursion or something.
Of course people who didn't know him will think that he was simply a spineless coward whom was too afraid to fight monsters, but reality was that he was too eager to study the history books of this world, he wanted to know everything that could of even a small use to their group.
The reason as to why he divided them into groups, it was because he knew full well that he was unable to look after them by himself, thus some of them would eventualy get lost in this strange foreign world.
The first group was inside for about an hour, they could even hear things like "holy shit", "too crazy", "Overpowered" coming from inside.
But lets go through with their leader's ability.
Chris was a Heroic General, his stats were rather low, but his Heroic aura ability fully made up for it.
Attack and defense up, was the description of his aura and the moment the nine of others were registered as his group, his aura simply poured into them, making them feel stronger.
In general ir raised the Physique by 1, making their feeble bodies into q more buffed up version of themselves.
Even Chris himself was boosted by his own aura and even better his friend Christo had a strange magic ball power, that made a football appear which he could shoot at his enemies, the last thing was of course overpowered it was their healer in their group, whose ability although was a little weak, but it was fucking healing, it could even make old wounds disappear raising their physique by a little, the most important however was that it closed wounds at a visible rate.
From the second group that entered they could also hear sounds like "Cool", "What the fuck is this!", "Come I want a title!".
Of course they didn't at the time know what they were refering towards, in truth the Coolest thing was their leader's Nick's healing finger, its effects were even greater than the healer's from the first team, the second phrase was a flash of light which was only useful against the undead, making it a pointless skill, lastly the had a girl in their group whom could grant titles to others that could raise their stats or some trivial stuff like looks.
The third group was rather low tone
"What you too?" "Well at least we got a healer"
The you too was meant for the leader's ability, which was exactly the same with another member's of the group, both had an ability called indestructible sword, while a third member had the indestructible mace, of course they did end up having a healer whom was for some reason registered as a mage, she could summon a strange drop of water, called the water of life, which could be accumulated overtime and used when needed.
Of course when Christopher's group went inside they were in for a big surprise.
"Young lady come forward and touch the stone and your stats will be recorded in tha Anuals of our kingdom"
The archmage said while pointing at a big book at a pedestral they hadn't noticed before, of course it was much smaller than the stone before them, thus making it harder to notice.
Name -Mina
Class-Heroic Enchantress
Power-Power bestowal
Skill-Leadership
Of course she herself already knew about her own skills and for some reason the others couldn't see her stats.
"What's power bestowal?"
"Sounds so Powerfull!"
"Well it's not that great, it says that I can raise the health points of a target for a short period of time, although I don't know how much and how effective it will be"
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Mina's explanation left and hole in their hearts, it's like being given a candy and then find a wrapping inside instead of a candy.
Second was Mina's twin brother, of course they looked nothing alike and if people didn't know they were twins they would think that they were simple brother and sister.
Like his sister Angelo had tanned skin and short pitch black hair, he was however shorter than his sister and could even be called a shorty, but his fighting spirit was something not to be underestimated.
Name-Angelo
Class-Heroic Mage
Power-Mirror force
Skill-None
Of course Angelo's ability didn't promice much and seeing him produce a mirror image, only confirmed that his ability wasn't much, he could just create an illusion of himself.
"Don't be disheartened, your abilities still have the possibility of growth and even evolution, not to speak about skills, you can easily learn any skill your heart desires"
The archmage encouraged them as he pointed for the next person to come up, whom however was rather unwilling.
Name -Costas
Class-Heroic Warrior
Power-Level Modifier
Skill-Magic Calculation
Of course his ability and skill had lots of puzzling points, but after a little nugging they learned that the level modifier simply raised his stats by a percentage depending on his level, something that was simply useless at the early levels, since his raising modifier was 1% and it only raised his health points.
Disappointment flooded the room as people looked at him as if he had just betrayed god and country.
"Don't mind them, Once you all reach a high enough level, you will see them change their opinions about you"
Costas however had the same smile on his face, not really caring about what others thought about him, after all he knew that few from the group could have stats that rivaled him, in general only Christopher and Theo, since they were part of the ten people that ate all the leftover food.
Next was Theo, he was was the local bully of their class, his family situation was however rather miserable to begin with.
His mother was the school's cleaning lady and his father worked all day long, leaving him and his little sister alone at home, of course that wasn't the reason he was bullying people, the real reason was that he found them easy targets.
People like Christopher and his friends whom were like outcasts of the school's society were of course easy to target since they didn't have many friends.
Of course that was before Christopher had transfered schools, in general Christopher wasn't someone whom let others bully him without fighting back, which ended in making more of a ruckous than needed most of the time.
In truth Christopher had more fights in his life than he would have liked to, but he never learned martial arts or anything, simply throwing a punch in the face or making his oponents feel some pain made it worthwhile the beating, and of course their clothes most of the time ended in rags after their fights behind the school building in middle school, after that there were only fewer and fewer fights, since not many dared to mess with him, it was simply not worth the effort and as for pocket money, till high school Christopher didn't even know what pocket money was supposed to be.
He had after all two brothers and two sisters, how on earth could their parents allow themselves the luxury for more expenses.
It's funny remembering that at a time he even had a fight with Angelo about not throwing him the ball back or something as lame. In simple words he was in a rather stupid company.
Name -Theo
Class-Heroic Warrior
Power-Crushing force
Skill-None
Theo was of course happy to demonstrate how his muscles bulged each time he activated his skill.
Theo was of course tall and although you couldn't call him handsome, he was okay looking and could easily be passed for an adult, of course the reason behind it was that he was already two years older than the rest, out of his own stupidity he had to repeat the same class twice in a row, of course the class was the last class of middle school, making his parents mad at him, all he knew was that his father had a rather heavy hand.
Well his power wasn't bad, becoming stronger and all it was a lot more useful than creating a mirror image or raising some invisible stat called heath points.
Name -Jonny
Class-Heroic Rogue
Power-Aetherial Spirit
Skill-None
Jonny was rather average and all there was to know about him was that he was Theo's lackey, he was an underdog, that barked without even having the courage to bite.
of course his ability was shit, he simply changed the color of his skin, which however was just that his skin, his clothes remained the same, making his ability rather pointless, some even mocked him to take off his clothes to use the ability, but he wasn't so stupid as to try it, he simply turned red from embarashment.
Name -Christopher
Class-Heroic Mage
Power-Blinking Soul
Skill-None
Well not many understood his ability, after all not everyone would connect blinking to teleportation and to begin with non had the interest to ask him about it after the Aetherian spirit appeared, letting it simply slide as the next one went to the stone.
Name -Alexxa
Class-Heroic General
Power-Holy aura
Skill-Singing
Of course Alexxa was more than happy to disclose her ability, her holy aura simply complimented three of the abilities before her, since it raised Health point regeneration, meaning that everyone would heal faster, although they couldn't say how good it was, after all no one wanted to try injure themselves just to see the effects of it, and neither would Alexxa ask that of someone.
Name -Dina
Class-Heroic Warrior
Power-Hero's staff
Skill-Indestructible staff
Dina was one of Alexxa's friends and of course her ability simply made a staff appear in her hands.
Name -Anna
Class-Heroic Mage
Power-Forcefield Barrier
Skill-None
Anna was Alexxa's overprotective friend and her power was much to her liking and probably the best ability of their group, only problem was that they didn't know how the shield talismans she could create worked.
"You simply insert some magic power inside them"
The archmage said hinting her to give him the paper talisman she had just produced from thin air.
Suddenly a large round shield appeared in front of him, they then asked Theo to punch it with his strength, but disappointingly it crushed and crumbled in a single blow, which although couldn't be called a bad thing, since it could still take one blow, was probably disappointing since they knew that Theo wasn't too strong to begin with even with his cheat power activated.
Name -Giota
Class-Heroic Alchemist
Power-Alchemy
Skill-None
Giota was the last person to touch the stone and although she was a rather pretty girl, her ability to turn stone into iron and iron into stone was of course a rather disappointing one, since it couldn't br esily used in battle.
Now Speaking from a perspective of attack abilitites, only Theo was battleworthy out of the ten people in the group, although Christopher too could make use of his ability in some rather cruel ways, like teleporting something inside a creature's body, although that might not work exactly as thought since he lacks knowledge of the local creatures' biology.
"Well although your early average powers might sound weak, you should rejoice since many of you have potential of being rather strong later on and our country won't just sit and see you all die"
The Archmage's words brought a hint of hope to the group, a hope they needed quite much.
The four groups were then brought together to a meeting room with chairs arranged around a large round table with a map in its middle.
"This is the World of Axis as we know it and this room will be the gathering spot where we will be talking about your progress in your quest to slay the demon king, of course there are also four other similar smaller rooms established as your group gathering spots, in general all I have to say is that the strength of all four groups is rather low at the moment, thus you are not allowed to enter the dungeon Pillar"
The Archmage's words made all the students somewhat shocked, especialy those of them whom thought themselves as dragons between men, simply because of their slightly higher stats.
"You probably don't believe me right, well this is the strength stats of the weakest rank monster in our country's territories, the little slime"
Name - Lil Slime
Physique - 2.5
Mentality - 10
Magicality - 10
Power - MP-HP conversion
Skill 1 - Bouncing tackle
Skill 2 - Facehug
"Now how many of you have a physique stronger than it, well only around ten out of all fourty and this is only the weakest monster out there, even an average human in our world has a physique of 10, making them more battle worthy than any one of you, but of course that's because they are all around level 100 and you are only at level 1, the level of a newborn in our world"
His words hurt the student too much, even made them curse at that so called light God, whom had made their level to be at 1, saying that they would be fine with an increased growth rate.
"Don't be so tense everyone, after all the coutry will help you take your first steps by providing you some bodyguards, a group of adventurers whom will babysit, wrong help you raise your levels till you hit level 10, at that point you will not have to fear anything from low ranking monsters"
Tha archmage said, his mouth however felt somewhat dry at the moment, he had really spoken for too much, he clapped his hands and asked two servants to bring them refreshments.
Of course it was regular fruit juice they brought over, but and not the goo from before. Well it was sweet, but they couldn't put their mind on which fruit this juice was made from.
"Now that the drinks are here, lets continue, the kingdom has decided to sent all four groups to seperate hunting grounds, accompanied by meceneries whom are experienced in trapping monsters, all you will have to do is kill the monsters and gain experience and level up till everyone in your group hits level 10, after that will come the second phase, the kingdom will be providing you with a veteran advisor whom will give you hints of how to fight and train you in combat skills, at the time you will be able to hold your ground against most monsters in our kingdom"
The plan was rather concrete, although it would have been much easier if they simply propelled them all the way till they hit level 100, but knowing that it took the average person at least 20 years to reach that level, it was evident that even 1/10th of that was still 2years.
"Em where is the bathrooms?"
A boy called Mike suddenly asked, he was somewhat slim and looked sikly with his glassing hunging on his nose, he was Dimitri's cousin and Stelio's friend and was a member of the first group.
"What is a bathroom?"
The archmage asked not understanding what they were talking about.
"The place where you eject the useless bodily fluids and matter from your digestive system"
The teacher explained and the Archmage laughed at the eplanation and simply waved his hand and Mike and all whom wanted to go to the bathroom, experienced a sensation as if they never need to go in the first place.
"This is a rather common spell that all low level servants in the castle use, called the Conditioning spell, which returns your body to its best condition, of course the effects also depend on the person casting the spell"
The Archmage said not really caring to explain further.
"Now lets get down to business, tomorrow you will be led to the armory and the training hall, where you will have some light training in weapon handling"
The Archmage said and in truth the teacher wanted to shout "You are going to give children weapons" but he held back his urges since he now understood that this was a world with different values, they would probably die without a weapon for self defense.
The students were once more led to their rooms and since it was already afternoon and everyone needed some time to themselves they took the rest of the day thinking about today's events.