After the bell rang signaling the end of the class, Dayo escorted Seth directing him to the lieutenant's office where he filled out a form detailing his basic information such as his abilities and seed and his other related details.
After that He then was given his learning materials and a key labeled D4, which was going to be the key to his dorm, according to Dayo everything in the whole academy was divided based on groups, from the cafeteria to the campus to even classes.
The higher groups get the better resources while the lower groups get scraps, the group D campus was the lowest with four people sharing a small room and coincidentally he and Dayo were roommates along with two others.
While in the cafeteria, they were limited to only two items on the menu which were rice pudding and bean pudding.
The academy system was built to directly favor only the talented, but according to Dayo the school gave them a chance to fight for resources a person from a lower group was allowed to challenge an individual from a higher group to a duel, and if they won they were to be promoted and the loser demoted.
But so far no one has been able to defeat those of the higher groups, which showed how far apart they were both in talent and power, and the gap continues to increase with each passing day.
This was one of the primary reasons Seth was demoted for coming late those who had spent more time in the academy were believed to be stronger, and cause of the intensity of the competition in the school it was believed that he would barely be able to keep his seat as group B student.
Also, there was another interesting fact Dayo told him, apparently the lieutenant in charge of the school was one of the weakest officers in the whole school, he had no offensive abilities, but it was also his ability that kept the school running.
He had three abilities, the first was what made the whole -45th floor look as it was, even though it was underground, it looked as though one was outside above ground on Earth he was manipulating the atmosphere to mimic the surface.
As for the other it was a shocking ability just by hearing what it did Seth could understand why such a low rank official was the head of the whole academy, the ability allowed him to warp time, which caused a dilating effect making a day on the surface become twelve here, it cause a 1:12 ratio for time.
This was a reality-breaking ability, now he could comprehend more of why he was demoted, the so-called 8 days he missed were actually 96 whole days of training, which was three whole months! He missed three whole months and with all the training and resources available here one could just imagine how strong these talented individuals had grown.
On the contrary, although Seth's ordeal had benefits he doubted if he could defeat those guys, after all, they spent three months focusing on improving themselves in every way possible.
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Finally, after a brief tour around the building, Dayo took him to the campus, and he had to say the disparity between the lower group's residence and the higher group's residence was akin to those of the slums and that of paradise.
On their way to their campus seeing the layout of others with how big and luxurious their hallways all looked Seth felt the balant disparity.
The campus building consisted of six floors, it was a pretty funny layout of floors within an underground floor.
The first floor was the staff residency, the second floor was for the most talented, Group S and so it went on and the highest floor belonged to their group, and to even show how poorly the lowest group was treated, the elevator of the building stopped at the fifth floor, and they at the top had to use the stairs from the ground floor up, to make matters worse the campus was built in a pyramid shape, so yes they had the smallest residence and they also had the highest amount of students in their group, numbering 67.
Reaching the narrow corridor of their hostel, one that would put that of a back alley to shame, with the poor lighting faded paint and numerous doors, one could imagine how small the rooms would be based on the poor distance between the doors.
The left side was for the ladies and the right for the guys it was evident of the faded paint on the doors the left was pink and the right blue.
Seeing this sight Seth's eyes twitched previously didn't care about the demotion sanctioned on him for his late coming, but now....
Sighing in resignation he was led to the door that matched his key also having the label D4, Dayo stepped aside allowing him to open the door since it was his first time whilst wearing an eerie smile.
Opening the door, Seth was met with a foul smell of rust and stale, and before him was a cramped room with two bunks at the side of the room, there was something else through the lighting of the rooms he could see it even if barely, at the very end of the room the was a shower-like device protruding from the wall and at the side was a what seemed to be a pit?
Suddenly the atmosphere seemed a little chilly all of a sudden as a layer of goosebumps crawled out of his skin and his hair stood on end as his eyes widened in horror "F***K NO!"Seth yelled.
There was no way in h*ll he would stoop so low to use a pit, looking behind him he could see Dayo sniggering with his hands covering his mouth.
Glaring at him, Seth requested seething with anger "Tell me this is a joke!".
Dayo replied still chuckling but this time his eyes had a cold gaze "This is no joke, we are treated no different from prisoners, what are you dissatisfied?" then a smile that wasn't a smile spread on his lips "If you are, you can go downstairs to and request a duel".
Seth who was still trembling in anger started considering the option after all he couldn't be that bad right? At least he should be able to defeat those of the C group at the very least.
Seeing Seth considering the offer, Dayo stated bluntly "Not to be rude bro but don't even try, you'll just be signing up for an unnecessary beating, even the lowest of the low in group C has once defeated a Captain in combat, according to the higher-ups our generation is the best ever seen so far in the federation even the trash could be called a genius in their time, and guess what, group C is the trash we of group D can't even measure up to trash"
Looking at Dayo's resentful gaze Seth understood immediately this wasn't a game, this was survival of the fittest and the weak would stay prey while the predators would reign as king.
Now he could see why his uncle was so angry, he had a chance and he just missed it…..