1 Chapter 1: Typical info dump chapter

**Ezra Aderhold POV**

'Nom Nom Nom'

"This fried chicken ain't bad."

It's almost been an hour since I landed in this body. This place was no longer the same 2-bedroom flat that I used to live in Bangalore.

I was riding my Interceptor 650 to work, and suddenly this pothole came out of nowhere. After that, darkness was all I could see for a while before finding myself in this place.

It did not take me a lot of time to accept the fact that I had transmigrated into some kind of fantasy world. Before sorting out my situation, I decided to cook some fried chicken.

Alright bois it's story time…

The name of the boy that I have taken over from is Ezra Aderhold. He was an orphan who grew up in the city of West Buttercup, which was situated in Baggwa Kingdom. Unlike most typical reincarnation stories, this was not some kind of backwater place situated in the middle of nowhere, in fact Baggwa kingdom was the most powerful kingdom in the Fantasia continent. Currently, I was in a log cabin situated near the outskirts of the Star City, which was central to the Baggwa Kingdom. I had been selected to enter Fantasia Academy which was in this city.

*Ding*

System: "Hello host. I am your system and I will help you face slap young masters, make elders cough block and turn the entire worl-"

"Shut the fuck up !!"

My ears are paining. This damn system needs to turn its volume down.

System: "Alright host, I'll reduce my volume."

So it can read my mind too, huh?

System: "Yes, host, I can read your mind. Also, just to clarify, only you can see and hear me."

"So what all can you do system?"

System: "I can do a lot of things host"

"That's a very vague description. "

System: "For example, I can build a training routine for you to improve your skills, I can create a navigation system for you to move around the city without problems, I can give you different martial arts skills, I can create pocket dimensions for you to train your magical powers and a lot more."

"Sweet. So you are more like an AI system than a typical gaming levels system huh."

It's already nighttime and tomorrow will be my first day at the Academy. I'll go to sleep now.

*Next Day*

I woke up fairly early, around 5:30 am. Made myself some light breakfast and left my log cabin. This will also be my farewell to this small temporary home.

"Hey system how do I reach the Academy?"

System: "Host you can either rent a carriage and reach in 20 mins or you can just walk all the way to the Academy which should take you 1.5 hours. "

"The Academy starts at 9 am, so I'll just walk till there. This way I can do a bit of sightseeing since Star City is the central city of the Kingdom, so it should be fun."

System: "Alright host. I'll initiate the navigation system for you."

I took my time sightseeing, eating some street food and finally reached the academy around 8:30pm. The Academy looks exactly like a giant palace. I will also be staying in the academy campus from today.

The classes are divided into two groups: Standard and Elite. All the students are ranked based on their performance. Only students from rankings 1 - 1000 are qualified to attend the Academy. The Top 25 students are sent to the Elite Class and the rest of the students are sent to the Standard Class. Keep in mind that it is possible for students from the Standard classes to make it to the Elite Class, but it is almost next to impossible.

I had the exam certificate in my hand, which had the following text:

'Name: Ezra Aderhold'

'Rank: 8'

It seems I was qualified to take admission into the Elite Class. Damn!

The qualification exams for the Fantasia Academy are completely tamperproof. Nobody can buy their way into the Academy. Once the exams are finished, each student will receive the exam certificate in an envelope which can be opened only by the student. This way, rankings aren't known by the public unless the student decides to make it public.

The powerful families of the kingdom end up making the rankings of their clans children public as a way to show-off or to compete with other clans.

So what I want to say is that my ranking is not known by anyone other than me.

According to the exam certificate, I need to go and register myself for the Elite Class. While I was reading my exam certificate, I noticed that there is some kind of commotion near the gate. I ask the kid standing near me as to why there was such a huge crowd there.

Random kid: "It's because the golden generation are making their entrance. The top 7 ranked students and each of them individually are once in a generation talent in their families. "

"Oh I see. Thanks for the info"

No need to know more about them. They are probably the main characters of this world or something like that.

I walk away from there as fast as I can before someone has any chance to talk with me or ask my rank. Now how tf do I find this registration office?

"Hey system can you give me directions to the registration office?"

System: "No. Since this is your first time coming to this part of the campus, I don't have any recorded information about the layout of this place."

** 30 mins later **

I was still not able to find the registration office. This campus is too damn big. If I don't make it in time, then I might be in trouble. As I walk around the campus, I find a middle-aged man standing near the lake. Damn, he looks stacked.

"Excuse me sir? Do you know where the registration office is?"

That guy looked at me and said, "Hmm, It should be right at the entrance of the Campus no? How did you miss that?" (Referring to the registration office of standard class)

"Sir, I am looking to register myself for the Elite Class."

That guy looked surprised and said, "Can you let me see your exam certificate?"

I was a bit hesitant but decided to give in since my rank will become public in the near future anyway, and also I was in a bit of a hurry.

He took my exam certificate and looked at it for a few seconds.

He gave it back to me and said, "The registration for Elite Class is done by your head teacher. Her name is Diana Rutherford. I'll take you there. Follow me"

We walked for a while, and then he pointed at a building and said, "You can find her on the fifth floor."

"Thank you, sir", I said as looked at him.

"No problem. Also welcome to the Academy"

I thanked him once again and made my way to Ms Rutherford's office. It was not difficult to find it though since the entire fifth floor was reserved for her.

The door was already open, and I could see from the corner that there were around eleven people inside, including those golden generations kids. I was able to find the head teacher seated on the desk at the end of the room. She must be Diana Rutherford. She was currently having conversation with those golden generation kids. I was contemplating whether I should just wait outside until they finished their conversation, and suddenly I made eye contact with Ms Rutherford.

"Why don't you come in?" she said

I made my way inside the room as I was able to see everyone in the room. Those golden generation kids were standing near the table, and there were four other people sitting on the sofa near the table. They must be other professors. Every single one of these guys have that main character flag on their heads.

"Good morning. I am here for the Elite Class registration."

Great, everyone is now staring at me. They might not have been interested before, but now I have everyone's attention. This is why I should've waited till everyone else left the room.

Ms Rutherford: "Oh? Can you let me see your exam certificate? What's your name?"

"My name is Ezra Aderhold", I said as I handed over my exam certificate.

She looked at the certificate with wide eyes and then turned her eyes towards me and looked at the certificate again. After a few seconds, she put it down on the table and said,

"Welcome to Fantasia Academy, Mr. Aderhold. I'll prepare the Elite Class token for you. That token will let you access certain benefits inside the Academy and outside too."

She put my exam certificate on a wooden board and then activated some kind of spell which merged the certificate with the wooden board. She then handed it to me.

"This is your Elite Class token. It will act as your identity card and will let you access this Academy's different services reserved for Elite Class students. Keep it safe though. Even if you lose it, we can make you a new one, but it is again a long process. Also, only you can use that token, it won't work if someone else tries to use it.", Ms Rutherford said while putting the stamp back in the drawer.

"Mr Heinz please make your way to my office", she said while holding some kind of communication device which looked like a small circular makeup kit.

A few seconds later, a tall man with a beard that drops all the way till his pants made entrance into the room.

"Would you please allocate Mr Aderhold a room in the Golden River Palace? Also help him move in there.", Ms Rutherford said to Mr Heinz

"As you wish, madam."

"Please follow me, Mr Aderhold."

I quickly followed him out of the room while everyone was still staring at me.

I was eagerly looking around the campus while we made our way to the Golder River Palace.

"If you have any questions then feel free to ask me Mr Aderhold.", Mr Heinz said looking at me with a kind grandpa like face.

"Mr Heinz, is there any kind of map for this Campus?"

"You can find maps of this campus in the library, Mr Aderhold. However, keep in mind that right behind the Academy is thousands of km's of forests and mountains, which themselves are a part of the Academy. No maps exists for them. Students are advised against wandering around in the forest since a lot of powerful beasts live there."

"I see. "

"What kind of place is the Golden River Palace Mr Heinz?"

"It's actually thousands of years old building. When the academy was started, it was renovated into a student housing. Some of the most influential figures of Fantasia stayed at this place. I too request Mr Aderhold to carry on the legacy of your seniors.", said Mr Heinz reminiscing in the memories of this place.

"I'll keep that in mind Mr Heinz"

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