“Would all students come to the hall immediately! Would all students come to the hall immediately! Would all students come to the hall immediately!”
Efy woke up to the sound of the public address system, repeating the same words again and again. He had learnt in Xor Theorem class that there were specialised persons who used Xor to speak loudly, speak in different places where they were not, or frankly, both. He figured that this system used both, covering his ears in annoyance.
“Oi, oi, oi, tell that person to shut up already.” Xander too, was also annoyed. He looked as if he had just woken up, his dark grey hair tousled from the bed and his eyes emitting tears from the yawn he just let out. Efy looked at Audrin’s empty bed.
“Where’s Audrin?”
“What do I know?? He probably woke up early today because of the competition.”
Efy figured this made sense. Audrin was not the type to let such an important event fly under his radar, he would be readily prepared for it. Efy changed his clothing from his dinosaur themed pyjamas into his very basic jersey and shorts, both coloured in milk chocolate, and put on the cheap shoes that matched this set. Though completely inexpensive overall, he did not look too bad, at least the clothing matched his mocha eyes and deep brown hair. Efy was ready to find out what the first competition was, running out the door in excitement. He wanted to test out the technique he learnt from Mr. Choppo.
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“Welcome all students! It has been 4 days since your initial examination. I'm glad to see that you all hold the same excitement as you once had back then. I hope you have all enjoyed your classes and made new friends!”
It was the principal we all hardly knew, but respected nonetheless, Miss Zeon, still as enormous and mysterious as ever.
“As you can tell, as today is Friday, we must begin our first competition with you being students of this establishment. Trust me, this contest is even more exciting than the last, as well as being much more difficult.”
Everyone next to Efy appeared as though they were going to combust in pure ecstasy. Their faces held a crescent moon and their eyes lit like stars. Efy similarly felt excited and overjoyed. With this, he can rise through the depths of being rank #5,001.
“You will all be transported to a sky island created just above our heads. This island, although 1/10th the size of Port Of BlackFountain, can hold approximately 10,000 people. It is relatively huge. You will be teleported to a random location, each individual different to the other. There are a lot of nuances to this island, such as abandoned villages, beaches, waterfalls and much more. You are ONLY allowed ONE weapon of your choosing to begin with, this will be ensured by the various teachers that would be in your presence 10 seconds from now. Ensure that you have taken out your weapon before they begin their plunder.”
Hurriedly, Efy took a sword from his Xor orb. He figured that since he would be limited to the control of one thing, it should be qualitative.
No one was able to tell there were teachers within their midst, however, they were all being stripped of their armour and orbs within a flash. Everyone was well aware of the fact that these teachers were more than just teachers at this point.
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“Fear not, as you may have learnt, Xor orbs can be pinpointed to their owner because of their connection through their Xor. Your orbs will be safely stored within my office.
Further regarding weapons, there will be various items within chests that can be found throughout the island, you can expect basic first aid kits, weaponry and armour as well stored within chests. In addition to this, you can also steal items from other participants. There are almost no limits to what you can do, after all, there are almost no rules. Similar to the last test, death is to be expected.
This competition is expected to last three days maximum. To ensure this, there will be a teleportation array at the perimeter of the island. It will start closing on the second day and by the end of the third day, there would only be room for no more than 10 people.
If you are the only survivor on the island, your rank will rise by 50%. For every survivor, that percentage will be divided by the number of people remaining. Additionally, if you are ranked #100 but lose when there are 2,000 people left, you will automatically become ranked #2,000.
Now that you all understand how the competition works, I wish each and every one of you the best!”Efy speculated why the school did not care too much about if students died or not. They probably receive funding from something other than population perhaps. In any case, I have a very exciting competition ahead of me, it sounds so difficult it makes my blood boil with urges to win right now!
Just then, the ground sprung from beneath their feet and everyone was zooming towards the roof. As this was only routine now, the expected portal spawned right before we were brutally murdered from impact and distributed everyone randomly across the island.
When Efy successfully landed, he quickly analysed his surroundings. He was surrounded by wooden walls with a window embedded. There was a single bed and various accessories on top of a bedside table. He immediately discovered that he was inside the bedroom of a house.
I wonder if I spawned into a village. Efy then checked out the window and saw a bunch of other houses neighbouring the one he was inside, confirming his speculation.
This is very fortunate, there must already be a chest inside here somewhere. Efy scoured the area, looking for a chest. He checked every corner of the room but found nothing. He decided to go downstairs, he was absolutely certain there would be one inside the house.
After a little searching, Efy finally found a chest located underneath a dining table within the kitchen. The dining table was dressed with a long cloth that made it impossible to see the chest that was hiding.
I wonder what’s inside. Efy opened the chest and found a steel chestplate inside. He sighed at the armour, as he still found it useless to him. Even if armour can realistically resist impact, in such a world as this, it can only be used as placebo. The average Xor user’s strength can easily slice a diamond in half, let alone steel. However, upgrading the defence of an item rather than your body was much easier and yielded far better results. Efy could not do either, so it was not helpful. Furthermore, armour was heavy without Xor and Efy was anything but a brawn.
Efy decided to keep it rather than let someone else find it.
Alright, all I have to do is the same thing Mr. Choppo taught me. Efy imagined that his sensei Boha was creating the Xor orb as he had before and executed Xor. He inwardly cheered at himself, even if the orb was slightly bigger and held half the storage (100 items), he was still proud of himself. He stored the chestplate into the orb and decided to venture outside.
As soon as he stepped out the door, an axe swung towards his neck with blistering speed.
This was an unavoidable attack.