It begins

The following day, news about Nathaniel getting kicked out started circulating among the Red Palace students. This made it so that many of them started searching for why this happened to one of the most promising students of this generation, as he not only started inside the Red Palace at inner rank 500 but was even able to reach the 370th in less than a month.

Obviously, this meant that the attention immediately shifted from Nathaniel to Erik. The young awakener wasn't new rumors about him: when he was in high school, people talked about him as a loser and a talentless waste of air; once he awakened, he clearly became a hot topic again, not only among Thorthon high school students but in the whole nation, since he was the only alive awakener there.