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Theon’s eyes fluttered open once more to the sounds of the cheering in the arena. He could still feel the sa nauseating feeling from being teleported, but he could slowly feel the effect reducing.
His eyes scanned the arena.
All around him were the other first year students. Few appeared unscathed apart from their uniforms being torn in certain places.
Others had cuts and injuries all over their bodies.
Others had snow or leaves on their hair or uniforms.
’I guess we really were teleported to different regions.’ Theon pondered quietly.
"Theon!" He heard a female voice calling out to him. He turned just in ti for Amy’s soft cleavage to crash into him as she wrapped her arms around his neck.
He was taller than her so her legs stayed above the ground while she hung on his neck.
"Amy?" Theon’s eyes widened, then softened.
"Glad to see you’re alright." He smiled softly.
"Hmmmmmm!" She nuzzled her face closer to his chest. "I’m fine—"
She hoped down from his neck and held his face softly, but tightly. "No one tried to hurt you right, cause if they did. . ."
Her voice suddenly grew colder.
"You can always tell ! I’ll find them and end their lives in the most painful way known or unknown to them."
Theon sighed and held her hands. "No one tried to hurt Amy,"
"Okay," she said sweetly, her voice nothing like the cold demon from before.
Theon could only exhale helplessly. He had already told Amy about his second awakening but it seed she still kept her protective tendencies.
’Old habit die hard I guess,’
"Theon!!"
He heard his na once more. Both he and Amy turned towards the direction of the voice.
Lucius, Reed and Damon could be seen walking towards them.
They all looked perfectly fine— well, other than a few cuts and scratches here and there.
"Well, how was it, give us the full update." Lucius grinned swung his arm over Theon’ shoulder.
"What are you even saying," Damon sighed. "Can’t you see he’s uninjured. . . It’s clear he did well."
"Hmmmm!" Amy nodded quietly, agreeing with Damon.
"Students, welco back from the first stage," A voice suddenly bood across the arena.
They all turned and saw the dark-haired instructor from before walking up to them.
"Firstly, I would like to congratulate you on finishing the first stage."
The first-year students all nodded their heads, while the crowd clapped and cheered.
"Now to show you the result of the first phase of the ranking events." The instructor gestured towards the screens.
The screen display changed. All the student’s nas could be seen as well as the amount of points they all had.
"Shit! I only got 210 points. I’m number 20." Lucius cursed under his breath.
"How about the rest of you?"
"215, number 19." Reed replied cooly.
"180, number 35." Damon sighed.
"430, number. . .," Amy said excitedly, then paused.
"What? Number what?" Lucius raised an eyebrow.
"Number 2" she whispered under her breath.
"What!?" Lucius exclaid, while both Reed and Damon mouths hung open.
They were all usually used to seeing Any in first place. This was— a new feeling for them all.
"So then who is number 1!?" Lucius asked but got no answer. In fact, the whole arena had grown completely silent all eyes focused on the screen.
"What’s wrong?" He asked quietly.
"Are you blind?" Reed asked, his eyes still focused on the screen. "Check it out for yourself."
Lucius eyes shifted towards the screen, it moved upwards slowly till it stopped at the number one student.
As he read the contents, his eyes and mouth slowly opened as though they would fall out of his face.
[Number 1: Theon Grey, Points: 520]
"What the fuck!!" Lucius exclaid then turned and looked at Theon who was scratching his head awkwardly.
All eyes in the arena followed suit, turning to look at the golden-haired student who was now the center of attention, before the arena instantly broke into a wave of murmurs.
All of the discussions being focused on Theon and his score. Most of them where positive— the rest, where just negative and hateful comnts.
"What the hell!! Theon Grey!? Isn’t he the weakest student in Academy?"
"Yes, now that you ntion it, I can see the resemblance but— he looks a lot different than I rember"
"He is way hotter than I thought he would be?"
"Theon. . . First place— that has to be cap, he must’ve cheated sohow."
Most of the students seed to agree with that claim the mont it was heard, especially the first years. They all knew Theon very well after all.
"Yes that has to be the only reason, he cheated. There is no way you will tell he surpassed even the Starlight goddess."
"He should be punished."
Suddenly, a huge amount of essence exploded around the arena releasing a crushing pressure that instantly shut all the students up.
"That’s enough!" The Director’s voice bood withing the arena. "I will assure you, that we all watched and reviewed the first phase of the ranking events from here and there was no form of cheating involved."
"If you all have a problem with the result—" the pressure as well as the essence being released suddenly increased bringing most of the students to their knees, beads of sweat pouring down their faces.
"You can co and challenge personally."
He said coldly.
Seeing no response from the crowd, he nodded then went back to his seat.
"You may continue."
The pressure instantly dispated, all the students to be able to breathe properly.
"Theon!!" Amy exclaid excitedly then wrapped her arms around Theon’s neck once again.
"You see, I told you all he was special! I told you he would dominate, and now here you have it." She said with a high pitch voice, almost screaming drawing the attention of the students close to them.
"I an, we knew your second awakening was special but this—" Reed folded his arms. "This is just different in so many ways."
"Who cares!" Amy turned and glared at Reed, her arms still around Theon. "What matters is that my Theon got first place."
Reed, Lucius and Damon all turned and looked at each other before speaking simultaneously.
"I guess—"
"Now that is all over with," The dark-haired instructor from before spoke firmly. "Let’s begin the second phase."
"This phase will require you all to split yourselves into groups of five. You will be teleported into a tower where your aim and goal is to reach the top floor. This phase is ant to test your capabilities when working together as a team. You will be giving five minutes to pick out your teammates, starting now!"
He backed off slightly, allowing the students to pick who they wanted to do the second phase with.
"Since there is already five of us, let’s just do the second phase together." Damon adjusted his glasses.
"Fine by ," Reed nodded his head.
" too!" Lucius replied.
"I will join too—" Amy replied, her arms still tightly wrapped around Theon’s neck and her face buried in his chest
"As long as I get to do it with Theon"
Theon nodded his head tirelessly, agreeing with their plan.
"Lucky bastard." Lucius muttered under his breath, much to Reed and Damon’s hearing.
"Fine, now all we have to do is wait!" Damon smiled awkwardly.
Soon, the five minutes passed and all the students had picked out their team.
"Good, you all are done," The instructor snapped his fingers and the students bodies began to glow once more. "Now let’s get the Second phase started."
The mont he finished speaking, all the students in the center of the arena disappeared.
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