A week had passed as the announcent regarding the event 'Banquet of Obelisk' was announced that garnered different reactions from the students, and even so teachers, who didn't have any idea about the existence of the place called 'Obelisk Center Hall'.
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Last Friday, the day of the announcent about the 'Banquet of Obelisk, inside a personal training room with the room number 3, a woman with a bob hairstyle, having red hair, with ruby eyes, and with a height of 166 cm.
~Swisssh…~
A training dummy was cut in half by a chained sickle that goes both ways, it was swung by the woman as if it were a normal toy that its weight didn't even need to be considered.
~Ririririring…~
With the sound of a call from her smartwatch, prompting her to stop her ongoing training, she sat down on the ground of the training ground with a cross-legged pose and answered the call.
"How's my daughter?"
A voice of a man ca from the other end of the call, exuding a gentle tone yet one could tell that it possessed authority.
"I'm fine, Dad! You're disturbing my training."
Though the sound of her tone was quite harsh for a daughter, it contained sothing like gladness by having to talk to her father.
"Hahaha, forgive my daughter, I just want to tell you about the opening of Obelisk Center Hall."
The man on the other end laughed, amused by her daughter as if their relationship is sothing like of comradery.
"Dad, you know I don't like my na to be in there! Just your na would suffice enough attraction."
Her father was a doting one that provides everything she needs, the downside was that her father wants her na to spread like wildfire as if their family surna didn't have enough reputation!
"Alright, alright! See you on Wednesday, okay? I love you, Anya."
Giving up on his daughter, he bid his goodbye and proceeded to end the call without waiting for her daughter's answer.
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Wednesday, the day of the 'Banquet of Obelisk'
Classes were suspended for the preparation of the event, even for seniors who were not participants of the banquet with the exception of Student Council and Disciplinary Committee mbers. This gives them at least a day of rest.
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Room 26 of the Rigel Building
Russell Moon visited her younger sister, Freya Moon who is residing in this extravagant dormitory. He made an appointnt in advance as there's a restriction on eting students from A-1.
'My dorm is like stables compared to this five-star hotel-like building.'
~Knock knock~
Knocking on the door, with a plate signifying Room 26 above it, a 'click' sound was heard from the inside as the creaking followed next. Soon after, Russell went inside and saw the other two; Ary and Alie sitting on a couch beside the bed, watching sothing on the television provided also by the Obelisk Academy.
"Good afternoon Russell!"
Alie Rose greeted with her usual deanor; a cheerful who always smile, while Ary just nodded at as her greeting, maintaining her aloof atmosphere.
I nodded at both of them, responding to their greetings.
'I don't even have the will to open my mouth.' Russell lampooned, almost prompting him to scratch his hair. Though it's not evident in his expression, he lacked of sleep for a few days thinking about the shadows lurking behind Rumia, observing them for quite so ti.
"Oppa, have you prepared a suit?" Freya asked, wondering if her big brother managed to buy suitable attire for the banquet. Unsurprisingly, one could buy an attire inside the Obelisk Academy, in one of its 'Clothing Stores'.
"Yeah, I got one, how about you three?"
He asked, also referring to Alie and Ary.
"We bought dresses together, do you want to see 'Oppa'?" Freya asked, expecting an answer from her big brother.
"No," he replied plainly, prompting Freya to pout unconsciously.
"You two are really close siblings, you know?"
Alie interjected, saying what she thought about the interaction between the two.
As they keep chattering about many things, a piece of news on television was heard, prompting the four of them to look at it, and listen attentively.
"Crescent Weaponry Company will soon release various weapons and armor on the 'market'. These new types of equipnt were scientifically, and magically proven by renowned scientists and magic engineers…"
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"Tsk, I hope their types of equipnt are affordable, or else, it's always the rich who will get the opportunity." Freya voice her thoughts that simply resemble the gap between the rich and the poor.
'I guess it's ti for the first disaster outside the Obelisk Academy…' Russell thought, rembering the details of the novel he wrote.
'This will be a kind of evil on my part, but I guess it's ti to make so money… by buying shorts of their stocks in advance. Though I'm not stupid enough to walk through their doors and do such a thing.' He said inwardly as he thought of the upcoming future.
"Weapons…" Ary whispered, prompting Russell, Freya, and Alie to look at her, with her eyes shining like a star.
"This girl really…" Freya said in resignation.
"By the way, Russell, what it's like in your class?"
Alie Rose asked out of nowhere, with a look of curiosity in her eyes wondering about the difference in treatnt between A-1 class and other classes.
"Freer." He answered with a tone of mockery.
"Ah… is that so? Ours were strict as if there's no tomorrow, everyone is serious… right Freya?" Alie said, with a tone of dejection.
"What are you on about now?" Freya who was sitting on the bed took the glass with water placed on the desk and took a gulp of it.
"They treat us as more special than others."
Surprisingly, Ary voiced her opinion, and Russell agreed to it.
"She's right by the way, but that's all there is to it."
Based on the novel he wrote, A-1 Class were considered special among other classes, thus treating them with a more restricted approach when it cos to teaching the students, while the other classes, from A-2 to A-12 were treated as extras, but at the sa ti, a challenge for A-1 students because being in A-2 to A-12 didn't an that they're weaker especially if one would only consider the 'Entrance Exam' criteria of assigning the student's class.
"Oppa, I'm curious about your advice before..." Freya said, rembering one of this big brother's advice.
"Ohhhh… what advice? Spill it!" Alie, being more excited to hear what Russell has to say, while Ary also ford curious eyes.
Thinking about it for a while, though not the exact reason, but also equivalent to the truth, Russell answered what the three of them are curious about.
"I told my younger sister before we go to the Academy after the assignnt of classes that she shouldn't make friends with famous people in her class."
"Why? Isn't it beneficial to have a connection with them?" Alie didn't bother to ask for their nas as she knows who he was referring to.
'They're the main characters in the novel I've written! Pure trouble!' he repressed himself from saying such absurd things and gave an answer that is within an acceptable range in perspective.
"Many people will get jealous of people who manage to make connections with them. You will be a target of hate at so point."
'I can't say that so of them have shadows who will investigate you!'
"But… I think you could befriend one of them…"
Thinking about it now, Russell's early morning routine, when she encountered Samantha Hall, was repeated for a couple of days, though he couldn't totally justify if he made the right decision of talking to her, but considering her predicant, it's like he beca a trigger for her to be more carefree rationally, at least inside the Academy.
'Though it was supposed to happen sooner, I just fast-forwarded it."
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After more chattering, Russell bid his goodbye to her younger sister, and the duo who stayed in her dorm room.
"Freya, isn't your brother kind of weird?" Alie asked, with a curious tone, wondering about Russell's perspectives of things and his deanor.
"Yes, you could say that, but he's right most of the ti."
Freya, who didn't deny his big brother's weirdness sotis, praised him with her words.
"He has many secrets."
Freya and Alie Rose looked at the most-of-the-ti silent Ary, with a dumbfounded expression on their faces.
"What do you an?"
"What do you an!?"
Freya and Alie asked almost at the sa ti, also prompting Freya to look at the ceiling of her dorm room while lying on her bed, rembering the difference in her big brother's usual stature.
"No, she's right, I just rember sothing… but it's okay, we shouldn't talk about that."
pAn,Da nv,e1 The least I could do was to divert their attention away from my big brother.
"Right, sorry, we shouldn't pry about such things, everyone has a secret. Hehe"
This ti, it was Ary and Freya who looked at Alie Rose with a suspicious gaze, prompting her to scratch her cheeks.
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7:50 P.M, Banquet of Obelisk, 10 minutes before the start of the event.
~Whoaaaa! It really is open!
~What in the hell?
~I can't believe it's a kind of building, too.
Various opinions resounded inside the Obelisk Center Hall, the gigantic 'Obelisk' architecture in the middle of the Obelisk Academy that many people thought was only a symbol, but tonight, it was proven to be an outstanding infrastructure that could accommodate thousands of people.
"Whoaaa! Freya, why does it feel like bigger inside than from its looks on the outside?"
Alie asked in amazent, and a voice of a man they're familiar with answered her.
"It's a space magic."
"Oppa! I thought you'd be late!"
"Space magic? Isn't that rare?"
Alie asked in wonder, thinking about the 'space magic' that is a very powerful kind of skill considered among 'Players'.
"I don't have all the details, I just thought of Dinsional Inventory that we have."
Russell said, though he knew that this space was caused by an Artifact called 'Dinsional Square", such detail was controversial, and blurting it out would have him arrested imdiately. The Obelisk Scientists and Magic Engineers managed to utilize the Dinsional Inventory in a different way, thus creating the Dinsional Square artifact.
As if understanding what he thought about, Freya interjected.
"Right… we could store objects regardless of weight and size inside the Dinsional Inventory…"
"Hey, hey, is your brother a secret genius? Why is he in A-11?" Alie made a cheeky remark, prompting Russell to put on a frowning expression.
'I know because I've written it!' he lampooned inwardly, rembering that he knew, but not how it was thoroughly made.
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"What a beauty!"
"Is that a goddess on earth?"
"The goddesses have descended!"
Different reactions from so students entered the ears of Russell, and the others as the famous figures entered the Obelisk Center Hall, a minute or two before the start of the event.
'Though they didn't seem like close on the outside, due to their parents' connections with each other, they ford at least a bond.' Russell thought.
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The inside of the Obelisk Center Hall is a spacious ground where the floor was thoroughly cleaned as if it beca a mirror that one could see their reflection if they look on it.
Nurous round tables were placed across the venue that could accommodate at least eight seats each table, and on the side were different kinds of delicacies and drinks prepared by staff specialized in catering while on the other side were the technical staff responsible for music and lights that were not ordinary as Skills suit for relaxation were mixed on it.
"Good evening everyone! This marks the start of the 'Banquet of Obelisk!"
As the clock ticked at 7 o'clock in the evening, the alluring voice that could make a person like a living puppet entered the ears of everyone present, prompting each pair of eyes to look on stage where a beautiful woman with platinum hair, purple eyes, and a body befitting a model was standing.
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