Halter Academy 2

Mark swipe the card onto the ID reader. It was normally just a card reader sticked in the wall. 'zing' a mechanical sound could be heard. A faint rumbling could be feel. mark looked at the gate as it opened the robotic guard didn't move in it's spot since it's protecting the weak spot of the school for infiltrators.

The door opened horizontally. It seems like a smart AI door who could recognize the recent registrant. It was a fast door, open or close but it only closes whenever the registrant didn't enter the door with 20 second or when it detected that the registrant already entered the door and goes on its way. Mark rushes in.

While some student was still verifying their ID. He was finally inside is usual school. He saw 4 armed robotic guard who look like metallic statues standing near the gates unmovingly. He also sees many student was walking in the school plaza chattering and gossiping asides.

He also saw zeldrin a best friend of his and a gaming budy who was emmerse in his tetragram. It was the hologram like watch who are most used in the current era.

Zeldrin was sitting next in the plaza bench. The surrounding was just like a normal plaza with some wonderful and refreshing decoration but was completely virtually assimilated.

But there are still real flowers in the flowerbed only the grass, a few flowers and three of the five trees are virtually assimilated. There are 6 benches on each side of the flowerbeds. One of the bench in a south-east section is where Zeldrin was sitting with 3 students. Those three was also a member of the guild. In the middle or at the center of the plaza lies a fountain and a statue of an ancient god. It seems like one of the norse gods but no one know what name or what pantheon it does.

'looks like theyre planning something fun' mark thought when he saw zeldrin and his guild-mates chatting like there plotting something.

Mark saw his sister in south-west section, chatting with her friends. Though mark didn't know what were they talking about 'is it games? no, there more on social media than being a gamer, but i hope it not something that will make her ask me to give her money'.

Mark look around a bit and he was slightly suprise and gulps in fear as he saw his brother chatting with mark's homeroom teacher with his working jacket and an unique engineer uniform on the jacket was. ' that must be the reason why my brother didn't pursue the matter' mark thought.

A lightblue with a symbol on the back, two tranforming wrench crossing each other it look like a normal repair wrench but the difference was the blue orb in middle of it the uniform as well as the jacket was made of special materials still unknown to mark including the wrench and other kit for spaceship repair or creation Only a few of them are known to mark. His teacher was also wearing the usual school gear. The professor was prof. haiden and he was a senior of anti-matter engineering association.

Mark wipe his sweat and heave a sigh of relief when he discovered that prof. Haiden recruited his brother to help him build something which he thought his brother was asking the teacher about his rulebreaking mistakes.

Is it a new 'machine'? Or a small design of spacecraft? Well mark wasn't bother about it but he will be looking forward to whatever it is. He walk by the plaza and sit next by zeldrin where there was a space left in the bench. the each bench was six meter in length so it was enough for 8 or more people to sit mark looked up and saw a big ball of orb that emits sunlight was called 'miniature sun'. It emits yellow light like the sun but it's not powerful and hot. It only useful at keeping the plants alive giving it temporary sunlight and as a source of light. It also supply power to the virtually assimilated background. It seems like the school looks more like a huge bunker that was decorated to be more beautiful if you look at outside. The miniaturize sun was fueled with anti-matter battery which could last for a millennia.

Zeldrin has black eyes, green hair and was wearing eyeglasses.

Zeldrin spoke while looking at the screen of his watch "hey, mark look at the forum, there were heated discussion about the failed raid. And there are four of our guild member insult the guild master and got kicked from the guild like this look"

Mark gaze at the screen then saw one posted insulting the guild master for losses he gained.

"guild master how could do this to us you forced us to join you in an expedition of uncertainty but loss

Instead--" then he curses him but the post suddenly got deleted after mark read halfway of it.

"what was that? well, let's not instigate the guild master. He might pk you even though were in the same guild"

Said Mark as he sigh. Then, Zeldrin patted mark's shoulder saying

"you should do your homework"

"homework? But the last one was three days ago. We still got no homework"

"What i mean is calculate the finance first our later when going home you might not have a chance"

Said Zeldrin as mark remembered that he has to send financial report to the vice guild master this afternoon.

"right" as mark opened his tetragram. Even if mark loved the phone, it didn't mean he don't have tetragram. He goes directly in the guild forum started counting the transactions and amounts in the treasury he also sigh, while saying

"as expected, but i didn't expect the guild would downgraded to 15th spot in rankings also only more or less 250 thousand guild mates left most of them are the loyal to the guild"

"yup, it's like it won't take long before your done calculating with less people" zeldrin replied.

Mark was halfway nearly done to his calculation when the bell alarm ring. It was now class time. The two went in the class before the professor came. Mark was done a minute short before the professor starts his class after sending the finance report. Prof. Haiden main lecture was mecha-engineering.

Mark schedule has 3 courses he have to attend one is city management. It's also an ideal course for civil servants. Not only it include governance but also military tactics. And advance mathematic he also attend military training in his spare time since it's a voluntary training and a physical activity.

Mark attended those courses per usual he was also focus on his studies

For the 'city management'. The mars was vast. Almost only 30% of it was Inhabited by people 10% per empires the government of the 3 empires encouraged people to explore and claim it and build a city there even thought the land the empire has. They still hold a large amount of planetary spacecraft than the earth. Because the mars has a main source of the energy core only dug in mars to create the core of the spaceship. The mothership itself has 235 energy core to sustain the huge floating space fortress. The mothership. TK-ares74.

Only those who completed 'city management' was allowed to pioneer a place or become a city lord in the empty lands in mars. It was allowed as long as the city will be under the empire they were born. There were also many people migrating in mars but still there were still hidden danger for the rest of this planet.

Last 5 year scientist started researching the milky way exit. Though, there some result, the space was chaotic there and coordinates are hard to determine it's easy to lost in the sea of vast space than the actual sea Or the ocean this year last november. The exploring spaceship 'codexhima' successfully came back after the exploration mission last 3 years ago and found some gateways of another solar system. Today they was still preparing for the next exploration.