Five-Thousand Steps

Physical class was headed by a one-eyed teacher, named Master Romonov. The complete opposite of Professor Thorn. He never smiled and had an unblinking one eye. It almost seemed as the man only knew one word. 

"Run."

 The Iron Hearts and Queens Hand weren't part of this class. 

Maybe the Academy realised it probably wasn't the best idea and decided to seperate the factions into different classes. 

Atleast that's what Aziz thought, they wouldn't want their main prodigies to die on the first day. That would be too soon.

His classes were meant to teach Physical Arts. But it seemed Master Romonov wanted everyone to prepare the foundation of the bodies before doing that type of training. 

The first to reach the top would be moving straight to learning Physical Arts and while the others would need to run a bit longer. Something no one wanted to do.