The beginning of the tests

Earthsea, Central City. Monday, February 7, Star Year 230, 2:30 PM.

Interstellar Academy - Enrollment Day.

Normally Ismael's life would not be what one might say. Interesting, in no sense of the word, from his birth to the length of his life process, being an average person the surprises in his life were not frequent.

Especially when it comes to women. Ismael was not shy, much less someone who suffered from depression, but he would admit that he was not someone classified as handsome.

He had had some bad experiences with women.

Like any child.

He was at the age where he was crushed by a woman. And also like many of them, he was brutally rejected, even making fun of others, he did not complain, he knew well that in terms of both social scale and power he was one of the lowest possible.

Understanding his position.

He stopped trying to pursue a romantic relationship with someone.

This is why the physical beauty of a woman ceased to seem important to him.

Or at least in the first stay.

Beauty could not affect him like the others. Even now, with Saitama's heritage, he could easily tell the difference between a real threat using this method and only when it was used to annoy him.

And this was precisely what was happening. The character of Ángel was someone natural for seduction, that was something very easy to see, but on no occasion did he represent any kind of danger to Ismael.

Shaking head.

Ismael logged out of the faction's virtual window. He had something important to focus on currently, while he was concentrating on talking to the other members, everyone inside the room took his place and eventually fully.

Analytical and judgmental looks were not long in coming. As academy hopefuls everyone inside that room was naturally a competitor, judging the competition is a natural thing in a world like this.

Where the line of the absurd had abandoned reality.

Ismael especially received the most attention. Only he wasn't for good reasons, his appearance drew a lot of attention, after all, it was rare to see someone who didn't fit the standard beauty parameters in a place like the interstellar academy.

Normally, these types of people were called acnegados, people who for one reason or another were born imperfect. Thanks to the integration of technology, the new births of babies were altered, the more beautiful and talented they were, the better status the parents had in the world.

One problem that arose from this was that regardless of technology.

It was impossible to alter the natural talent of a person, it was a huge setback for scientists. As consequence, the physical aspect gained more relevance through the years.

By your side.

Ismael felt like crying when he found out about this.

He wasn't ugly, at least he wasn't in his other life, before coming to this place and changing bodies. His life was already bad before he came to be poor, but now he was poor and ugly.

Curse.

How fair is this shit?

Fortunately, he had other advantages but at the beginning, it was a bitter pill for him.

"Attention."

A loud and elegant voice echoed throughout the place drawing the attention of all the people in the place.

"Welcome to the first day of tests, to enter the interstellar academy. First of all, you have to know the rules of the place:

Rule number 1: Any lack of subordination will be punished with immediate expulsion.

Rule number 2: Once inside the facility, you will be responsible for any fault and/or accidents related to your conduct, the sanctions will depend on the level of the fault in question.

Rule number 3: If you are caught cheating, you will be expelled and never allowed to take the test again."

Quite simple, but at the same time complicated. It was common knowledge that to leave a planet within the coalition, you had to go through the UNPDEYD and nobody with enough intelligence wanted to be wrong with them they were the regulators, the colonists, and the Forerunners.

Unless you want to stay on a planet forever, going through them was inevitable.

Well at least for a certain variety of people.

Since as in any world, humans will always suffer from the disease of corruption.

With enough contacts, you could access different privileges.

"Well, now that this is clear, I will begin to explain the fundamentals that you will have to know. Before starting the first test known as the harvest, everyone will have to sign the contract that will be appearing in front of you right now, this stipulates that they will not be responsible to the academy, nor to the UNPDEYD for any type of damage or death."

In front of everyone, as he had explained before, a virtual window was displayed where the contract was well stipulated.

Many of the faces of those present changed color. Coming to the pale white hue, they knew this was difficult but even before they started many had lost the guts to go on.

The cold gaze of the coalition representative fell on everyone. "This is your only chance to resign, those who don't feel ready leave this room in less than 2 minutes, the interstellar academy only accepts elites, the garbage has to go back to where it belongs."

The pressure in the place suddenly feels very heavy. Added to the administrator's merciless words, many faces turned gloomy in seconds, and before Ismael knew it he saw a little less than half of them get up and leave with a defeated look.

Only once they were out.

The administrator spoke again.

"Now that we get rid of the ones who shouldn't be here."

His gaze stopped for a few seconds on Ismael. "I will begin the explanation. The tests of the interstellar academy, are collectively called the harvest festival, they are a series of tests that will seek to test the candidates in every way, each action taken within these may bring both benefits and consequences. , in the end, an evaluator in turn will add the score obtained by the candidates.

Nickmerh|Test One: Candidates are tested mentally, taken to a separate dimension of reality where their worst nightmares take real form, they must survive their demons, as long as they keep their mind stable the first test is considered a success.

HumterGolodh|Test Two: No alliance lasts, the chosen ones will have to search and find coins scattered throughout the test map, each coin counts because with this they will have to pay the toll to the intermediate zone the last stop before completing the interstellar academy tests."

Pausing for a few seconds to make sure everyone was paying attention, he continued. "These two tests are only those required to be part of the settlers. Upon completing them you will choose the specialty in which you stand out the most, you will have more information within the group chosen by you. What we call the intermediate zone, is a refuge where the candidates can rest after going through the festivities, depending on the range of your points the treatment and the stay differ per person in this place they will have a little of what is necessary to adapt within the coalition."

Suddenly his gaze became sharper. "Also, the middle zone is where you can choose if you want, the first most important group of the UNPDEYD, that's right, I'm talking about the legendary Forerunner national defense group."

Here it was.

The most anticipated and loved by all but at the same time more dangerous. The heroes and saviors of humanity, even though everyone respected them, there weren't many who could enter even if they wanted to and most of the candidates from all years preferred the colonists since the Forerunners were on the front lines battling the Covenant.

They could say that they were loved but feared. And of 100% only 5% would dare to try to enter.

This place is exactly where Ismael wanted to enter.

"For those who are interested in being part of the heroes of humanity. There is a third test that you have to pass.

HéroesDanw|Test Three: Human desires are their enemies, in this test the candidates will have to be careful with their inner desires, there are many times that the interior can be worse than originally thought, if a candidate is carried away by his selfish desires will be cursed by the dark energy of a dead star turning into monsters that reflect their darkest desires."

Again silence reigned in the place.

Okay.

Shit.