16 I change my mind

When we first got to the world, most of us were all excited to be in a different world. Almost all of us.

(EA) All of the people we know are insane people. I mean, they are excited about killing monsters with special powers when the forget the fact that a low level chicken almost committed a massacre.

Honestly, I think it was only us that suffered that hellish nightmare.

(EA) You're right. We were the only people who got eaten up by that thing.

I gave an involuntary shudder. To any young child reading this right now, never ever get swallowed by anything. This is a personal warning from a person with plenty of experience.

To prove my point, a couple weeks after we arrived, a couple of cocky boys who just awakened went out to hunt monsters. The very next day, their AI signals were lost. We mourned but quickly moved on.

We didn't have time to despair, only time to grow stronger.

While the high tech civilization might have cast an omnipotent image of humanity, truth was we only had a meager 7% of the worlds land. The dragon claimed 29%, the merfolk claimed 23%, dwarfs claimed 21%, the elves took 20%.

And this was only middle plane.

There was the Underworld plane, Heavenly plane, spirit plane, elemental plane, and the demonic plane. With each of the planes' inhabitants exponentially stronger than those in the middle plane.

Humanity has managed to claim towns in other planes however, it was a joint effort between the other races.

Basically humans were the bottom feeders and the only reason they were alive were because of the kindness of the other races and because of a few exceptionally strong individuals.

(EA) ... That's depressing.

(Dawn) It is indeed so.

And the second reason why this place is so horrible is... this.

I glared at the immense building in front of me. It was a white building that was shaped as a circle and it was about a mile long in diameter. On the front of the building was a sign that read Agna Empire Academy, or AEA.

Yep, it's exactly what you think it is. School.

(EA) Except that this school teaches a mandatory curriculum that focuses on survival skills and teaches kids to kill each other in a virtual reality program that DOES NOT DULL PAIN.

(Dawn) ... is is for the survival of mankind.

Did I say that there was a law that made attending school mandatory until the age of 18? If you refuse, then you will be forcefully detained and have a one on one tutoring with soldiers? DID I FUCKING MENTION THAT THE MOTTO OF THIS SCHOOL IS PAIN OR DEATH? DID I MENTION THAT WE ONLY HAVE SUNDAYS OFF?

(Dawn) ... the curriculum may be a bit difficult.

Yes, a bit difficult is correct. Every month, we have this thing called combined drills where basically the older students bully the freshmen. Unless you are strong enough.

Sadly I am not.

I probably died like a hundred times.

I glanced to my side where James and Kali were excitedly talking about their last combined drill results.

I sighed.

These people are insane.

As we walked into the building, we were hit with a blast of cool air.

Oh yeah, a positive thing about this world is that we figured out a solution to global warming, otherwise the elves would've destroyed us by now.

(Dawn) Stupid tree huggers that stop the advancement of humanity.

While on our way to our class, we saw a group of elves and beast kin.

Although humans might be the weakest, our technology is the best.

I mean the elves still live in wooden houses, dwarves focus on weapons and architecture that are a bit different from human tech. Dragons don't even use technology, and merfolk live underwater.

So the elves send some of their offspring to human schools to learn.

Which some consider a great step for men but personally, I find elves annoying. I mean sure they are beautiful and pure. But they are hella lot arrogant. Some of them are kind but still have this aversion to humans.

(EA) ... that might be because of the human elf lovers...

Oh...

James and Kali finally came to a stop at a door with a symbol of a white sword.

I pitifully glanced at James and Kali.

"Can you guys please tell the instructor that I'm sick? I'll actually get sick so it won't be a lie."

Kali rolled her eyes.

"It's not bad and you know that."

I shuddered.

"That old man has something against me I swear."

"Stop exaggerating."

Kali opened the door and guided me inside.

There were five rows and six columns of tables. All of them held students except for three seats in the front.

Fuck.

I glance towards the teacher desk in the front and sure enough there was our instructor.

Our instructor was a young man with white hair with a dagger on his right hip.

The instructor smiles.

"Hello James and Kali."

"Hello sir."

"Heya teach."

The instructor glanced at me with a smile.

"Hello Ark."

"... Hello instructor."

He smiled even more.

"Ark... you are late. As punishment, I will be teaching you one on one today as well."

"But James and Kali were late too."

"Probably because of you."

I glared a James with a I'm not going to wake you up tomorrow so suffer look.

James shuddered.

Did I say I loved school? I change my mind. Fuck school.