The protagonist group
Kane said to him. [In a week or two, you are going to see the rise of many alliances in the class. The way things are progressing, I feel it might not take that much time. Hehe guess who will start the first alliance in the class?]
He thought for a moment and then it hit him, < Don't tell me it Jenny?>
[Haha I love the smart people.]
This cleared everything for him. It hit him that Jenny might want to explain this alliance thing to the class, and if Sam did not stop her, then she might succeed in her plan.
But doubt crept into his mind. <Hey Kane, Jenny knew everything about this alliance from the beginning, right?>
[Yeah, most likely someone from the family had explained the working of pre-academy to her.]
<But you said she did not do any kind of speech in the novel. Why? I mean must have information novel also, right?>
Kane was at a loss for words. He was busy filtering what might be true and false in the novel all this time.
It completely skipped out of his mind to compare the present to the novels, and Drake took a moment to point it out.
Kane was more amazed by Drake's way of thinking so deeply. He stopped praising Drake and focused on the question. After thinking a long time he said, [I think it's fear.]
<Fear of whom?>
[Well, take the formation of an alliance as a game that will happen in each class.]
<okk >
[This game will end with the merging of many alliances that formed a massive alliance that will compete for not one but 2 top positions. Each class will have one of these massive alliances. Those who become part of this big alliance will be winners and those left out will be losers.]
<mmm >
[In the novel, the Duisberg family is the most influential in the class. So her approach to forming the alliance was a bit passive to gain the most out of it. She knew that with her alliance being the most powerful, she could easily merge with others and become part of the winning group.]
<Oh 2 now I see. Her surety to form this massive alliance around her as the core is key confidence, but with legendries in class and response of those students, she feared that Chris Sam may a more powerful than her.>
[Correct and if that happens, they may leave her out of the final alliance. That is why she tries to take everything in her command from the start. Hehe, she is a cunning bitch.]
<mmm so many things happen and most of the class don't even have any idea about it.>
[Hehe Drake, that's why Miss Luna told everyone that this competition is not a war of strength. There are many factors involved in it.]
He thought for some time and then asked, < The core of all this massive alliance is 2 teams, right? So who are the members of these teams? Will all the strongest members of the class be part of this team?>
[About those 2 teams of the massive alliance, hehe I already told you much about one of them. It's the protagonist group.]
<What! > The answer sent him a jolt. Right from the moment he entered the academy, Kane talked about one group of people that was the protagonist group.
Thou he did not know all the members, a sudden headache came to him when he thought about the other possible member of the group.
Now he understood why Kane said that the only way for him to get into no conflict with this protagonist group was by joining them.
'Shit! Jenny is going to be part of this protagonist group. Then there will be Chris, Sam, Ayaz, Elie, and 2 more members. None of them are below epic potential. If all these people move against me, then I will doomed in the competition.' His mind went into chaos.
Multiple bad thoughts flooded his mind, especially the image of him being tied to chains covered in blood. He stared, shaking, in his seat.
Kane shouted, [Whoa Drake, calm down man!]
This woke him up, and he started taking deep breaths. A few students around him noticed his weird state, and they were staring at him. He did not care about them and asked Kane, <Jenny will be part of the protagonist group, right?>
[Yeah.]
He smiled at Kane's confirmation. <So that's why you were so are keen for me to join them.>
[Yup, if we join them, they will not move against us.]
<I 2 see, but tell who are the other members of this team?>
[Not two, just one more and that guy will be Udo Amon.]
<Why one?>
[Well, even if the max size of the team is 7, there will be rarely any team with that size. Most of the teams will have 5-6 members.]
<But don't those lower teams go to oppose as one seat will get wasted?>
[Haha some will do but the moment the protagonist group shows what they can do, others will just quiet down. It's competition bro, not some charity.]
<mm, I think get it. What about elves? They joined them?>
[Yeah, most of them will eventually join them.]
<mmm so almost every part of the class will join massive alliance. Will there be anyone who gets left out?>
[Well, it will be complex as there will be many powerful guys who refuse to join the massive alliance because of different reasons. So anything above 30 students is a massive alliance and class 1 would be the only class to have 2 massive alliances plus some who are part of none.]
<Wait really, who is part of this new alliance?>
[Don't overthink about them. Alliance is all about the top ten positions. If you do not get it, the alliance will break after the competition. This other alliance will be full of betrayers and they could not even get in the top 20. Forget about them, we may perform better if we start our own team than joining the second alliance.]