Level Rankings

Chapter 5

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General Paul started calling students one after the other and giving them the watch, their rankings. Some left the stage cheering from joy while others were sad, grumbling and complaining.

Finally it got to the newly formed roomies turn. The first to be called was Jack. Jack got down from the stage with his face neutral, no emotions were showing on his face till he got to the table. Then Vynn was called, he got his watch with all smiles at the ranking.

Vynn was walking towards the table with a hop in his step. Then it got to Peter's turn, he went out confidently, collected his watch with a smile on his face went to his seat to join the others.

Kate was called next. On her way going, she couldn't help but feel nervous about the ranking. She was slightly sweating. She finally got to the stage collected her watch with shaky hands and then went to her seat with a sigh of relief after checking her ranking.

Jake was called next to get his watch. He walked towards the stage nervously. In fact Jake was now a nervous wreck. His legs trembled while walking towards the stage. In fact he might have fallen over if not because of him thinking of how embarrassing it would be.

Finally after what felt like an eternity, Jake managed to get to the stage, collected his watch with shaky hands, glanced at the number being displayed. Jake's face fell when he saw the number. He left the stage dejectedly with his head looking down.

Then last on the list was Sophia who confidently strode towards the stage with a cold face and expressionless face. She got to the stage, collected her watch, glanced at it, bowed towards the general and came to her seat.

"Great. That is all for today, eat up and rest. Since tomorrow is Saturday, you're free to do whatever you please." Paul said. "Classes starts from Monday. You will have normal class that will update you about the current world and how it came to be. Then you will have combat classes in the afternoon. The finer details will be explained to you in your homeroom classes." Paul ended his speech and then he and all the high ranking military officials left the hall to allow the students a little privacy.

After the officials left the hall, the students decided to eat their foods. Some students were too sad to eat while others were too happy that they happily stuffed in their mouth with all sort of foods but one table was a mix of emotions.

"What is your ranking?" Peter asked Jake.

"Am not really comfortable sharing my ranking, if you don't mind." Jake replied still looking at the watch with sadness.

"No, I mind. We are roommates so we need to know each other's ranking, pasts or background. You cannot keep secrets like you did when we were all introducing ourselves." Peter retorted angrily.

"Do you think I care about forming friends, alliances or pal?" Jake asked with anger evident in his voice. "I have my own agenda okay, so I don't need anybody's friendship or concern." Jake stated angrily and left the hall to go to the library.

"What's up with him?" Vynn asked confused about Jake's outburst.

"Maybe it's not a good idea to pry into someone else's privacy or matter." Sophia said while staring at Peter.

"Do you think we should chase after him?" Jack asked feeling concerned.

"No, let him be. He just needs to cool off." Kate said already eating.

"So Kate, what's your level?" Vynn asked.

"Oh, it's 3.5." Kate answered still stuffing her face with food.

Power levels could be divided into sub divisions.

"How about you?" Kate asked Vynn back.

"Oh, it's 2.5." Vynn answered.

"What about you Sophia?" Vynn asked while dishing out food for himself.

"Its 7.5." Sophia answered eating her food unbothered.

"Wow. That's awesome." Vynn said.

"What about you Peter?" Kate asked.

"7.5." Peter answered seemingly pissed about his argument with Jake.

"It's like the universe just wants you and Sophia to be rivals." Vynn said while chuckling. To which Sophia gazed towards Peter.

"Yoo, Jack what's your level." Vynn asked.

"It's nothing much, just level 8." Jack stated while drinking a kind of juice.

"What!!!" The whole table almost shouted out at once.

"How did you get the highest level?" Sophia asked with her gaze narrowed, her eyes fixed intently on Jack.

"I don't know. I think I just performed well." Jack answered while shrugging.

"Looks like you have got a new rival on your hands." Vynn commented while facing towards Sophia.

"Hold on a sec." Vynn said suddenly realizing something. "What's your family name again."

"Dem. Am Jack Dem any problems?" Jack asked.

"Dem? That name sounds oddly familiar. Why do I feel like I know that name somewhere." Sophia said trying to search through her memory bank.

After that, there was no more argument or discussion among them, they decided to eat their food in peace.

Meanwhile, after storming out, Jake decided to go to the library to read something's. He wanted to know how the current world came to be and who managed to push the werewolves back a bit.

After inquiring and asking around, Jake finally got to the library. The library was quite a tall looking building, nothing out of the ordinary. He stepped in, went to the books section, selected a bunch of books that looked relevant to him and went to a table to start reading.

After an hour worth of reading, skimming through the books, Jake didn't find anything of relevance there. The books were just saying things that everybody knew. Like how 200 years ago, portals opened up in every corner of the world.

Bringing with it deadly and ferocious creatures that was only known in myth called the werewolves. The werewolves destroyed anything that didn't look or smell like them.

But they weren't non intelligence creatures, they had good intelligence. After 10 years of fighting a losing battle, that's when 3 particular families with some strange equipment, powers and knowledge rose up to challenge the werewolves therefore pushing them back.

"Ahh damn." Jake cursed before closing the book back. "I already know all this. This is general knowledge. Even with the humans gaining a little bit of upper hand, it didn't stop those filthy creatures to send strays to attack us one by one. I lost my parents because of one of those damn strays. I promise I will make them pay."

"But first I need to get stronger. But how do I do that." Jake thought while looking towards the watch in his hand. Well I can't get stronger while being here in this library."

Jake then stood up and left for the dorm.