Lower Realm, Mastavata, Portal to Eariga.
Zeke fixed his tie, and stretched his head with a few cracks while taking deep breaths. He gulped and stared at the portal that connects Mastavata and Eariga for quite a while before finally making up his mind to step in.
"Wait a minute! Dear, I hate this sort of last minute request! Ohohohoho!"
"Suspicious..."
Arteus called out to Zeke hastily, he pulled him by his collar and dragged him away from the portal. Afterwards he gave him a letter and coughed before explaining it.
"Underworld wants to know something about what that Holy Maiden is planning, thus they decided or more like, they had no choice so you have to investigate there at the academy! Ohohoho! Do not worry! I used my surname for your application so you just have to observe the other apprentices, and...ahem....beat their ass okay?"
Arteus whispered the last bits to Zeke while letting out few breaths from his nose, making his lit moustache flutter along. Zeke really wanted to to get away now, but sadly his teacher keeps his away from doing so.
"I...I think I'm gonna take a dump first!"
Zeke hurriedly went back inside the cabin as an excuse and silently cheered himself for finding an appropriate excuse to get some courage first. Time was ticking, and his poop was plucking.
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Middle Realm, Eariga, Eariga Academy Grand Stage.
A red haired woman wearing a white dress, walked in front of the stage. She stopped just in front of the mic while 6 other people stopped behind her, this was the 7 rulers of the 7 capitals of Eariga and the woman was none other than Sarah Dawn the 1st cardinal, ruler of Dawn Isles and principal of the academy.
"Old students and New students! I welcome you to Eariga Academy, an academy that focuses on core values of another rather than status and connections. Although we value strength as well, we also value leadership, brains and most importantly teamwork between fellows!...Or so you thought, but screw that! EARIGA ACADEMY IS FOR THE TRUE ELITE! BE STRONG AND CARRY THE FUTURE! LIVE AND WIN SO YOU CAN MARK YOURSELF IN HISTORY! I DECLARE THE OFFICIAL 5TH OPENING OF EARIGA ACADEMY!"
CHEEEERS!
WOOOOOO!
Countless students roared and cheered, all of them were fired up and in their eyes were the blazing passion to keep being an elite. Among all these students, some scowled, some were burning with rage and others were proud. All these different emotions, all these different goals, they will only scorched by one man that will truly mark history.... Sadly however that certain future man is apparently still shitting and completely missed this bloodcurdling event.
...
"And you're telling me, you were late on the first day because you shitted and big log?"
Zeke was sweating profusely, and kept his beaming smile while nodding like a pecking chicken at the guard who was questioning him. He recognized this guard as the overseer from before and it seems that he was a high ranking military official of Hubert City, along with 6 others who stood as guards too. The sheer pressure they had nearly made Zeke want to shit again but luckily they were only giving him looks of disappointment and nothing else. The man sighed and signaled using his chin that he can go in.
'This is embarrassing...and suspicious...'
After he entered, the guard stopped Zeke and looked at a paper before his eyes widened. He then bowed lessened his aura and tone while telling Zeke where to go.
"I'm sorry for failing to recognize you, Zeke Machton apprentice of 2nd cardinal Arteus Machton. Your class is in A-2"
'Hmm, suspicious...'
Zeke nodded and continued on. After walking around for a bit Zeke realized that the school wasn't really on any of the 7 capitals, instead he overheard an employee complaining about how he's having hard time going home from an island in the middle of nowhere back to Hubert City while the other is trying to cheer him up while saying that it was close to Dawn Isles. Judging from those info Zeke accurately deduced where the place was.
'Yes...I...don't really know where the hell this is as well and they were suspicious...'
Oh, sorry never mind, Zeke wasn't a detective but he was a brilliant navigator and he can find his way to the class with only one look at the campus map. In case I forgot to mention, the school was 'too big' yet again or actually it depends. If your school has their own everything just like a city, and they also have dorms that houses at the very least 1 million students then the campus was bound to be big. Despite those however, the academy city as I'll call it now, is very similar to modern day Japan. There were billboards and and large skyscrapers that were actually businesses and...roads and...and...trees...and cars...and c'mon you get the picture.
"This place, is it challenging me? Are you trying to see if I'll get lost?! Hmph! You're only 5 years old and you dare try to make me lost? Me? Ezekiel who has seen a map?!"
Zeke slowly laughed and all the other employees were staring at him and whispering to each other. He was literally the only student there as of now, seeing as everybody was in class due to it being the first day. This continued on until Zeke was forced to take the unpopulated roads, this also made him take countless detours.
"Suspicious..."
...
THUD!
A black haired boy was knelt down at a gigantic street sign the showed 'Main Campus ->'. After a few, long, long detours, ever late Zeke has finally made it to the campus. Ignoring the fact that he was literally too late he slowly made his way to his class but before that.
"Oh...god...suspicious"
The campus was technically a town on it's own, and it was yet another confusing journey to the apotheosis of lateness. Compared to the previous excuses, finding 2-A was quicker since the buildings had a giant sign with S, A, B, C, D, E in them and Zeke immediately found his way to the class, but getting in? Nah, he's too shy. As Zeke was taking a meditative focus in front of the glass door it opened on it's own revealing him to the others, Zeke could only smile and this time he truly cursed the engineers of the school.
'A automatic open door huh? Heh, I'll burn the suspicious engineers of this school to ashes!'
A middle aged woman with blonde hair styled into a bun raised an eyebrow at our 13 year old Zeke who was smiling brightly at her, she was aware that a single student was missing from her class but she thought that he had an unfortunate accident or something not late...
"Well then Mr? Please come inside and pick your seat we're still in the middle of introductions so don't be shy~"
She smiled back at Zeke but the aura she was emitting was...pathetic, for Zeke at least as elf with big honkers exuded a far scarier aura whenever Zeke was close to Eynnar. He went in the class and much to his surprise nobody really paid him attention, the classroom was a college looking one with tables lined up going up but what really caught his attention was the fact that...
'Everybody is weaker than Eynnar?! HOW SUSPICIOUS!"
Oh dear lord! Somebody give him clear proof already! Zeke warily looked at his surrounding, he was opening the status of each and every person he landed his eyes on and to his surprise they were all weaker than Eynnar, wow, shockers. Zeke sat at the corner most lonely chair and sat quietly, beside him was a female who had orange wavy shoulder length hair who was continuously glancing at Zeke.
'Suspicious...'
[Cissneline Jenova]
[Class = Kunoichi]
[Rank = Chunin/ Silver]
[LVL = 35]
[Lore = ???]
Zeke was now curious at her class but he kept his indifferent face and pretended to only glance at her. Cissneline saw this and smiled back at Zeke, she then slid a little to him and leaned closer with a smile while placing her hair behind her ears.
"Are you a female pretending to be a boy?"
Zeke nearly fell off his chair and cursed at the original owner of his body, actually his parents too before sighing.
"I'm a male, nice to meet you too"
The girl giggled and went back to her original position, she didn't bother introducing because their turn was coming up and when it did she stood up full of energy and vigor.'
"My name's Cissneline Jenova! I'm a wind mage! And...uhh...umm, I just turned 13! Hehehe!"
Zeke saw faint traces of stars with her 'hehehe' but he could only call it suspicious...yes this flame lord is an idiot. When it was his turn he stood up normally, and observed all the eyes that were on him.
"Zeke Le- Machton... 13, Fire mage"
He briefly remembered what Arteus told him and played along with it, due to that the other students were now shocked and gasping, some even had bad eyes on him even the teacher was shocked and she had to check the roll call book and confirmed that the 2nd cardinal's apprentice was indeed here.
'Sus....picious...?
"YOU'RE RELATED TO THE 2ND CARDINAL?!"
"He was the super late guy right?"
"So he's a church fanatic as well huh?"
Zeke sat down in an instant and quietly banged his head on the table, Cissneline saw this and smiled wryly.
'I messed up, no wait! FUCK YOU ARTEUS!
A very chaotic first day is now about to start, Zeke is now famous and he got the attention of another loli! Ninja to boot!