Setting Up

Walking through the long grasses, along with the sun shining upon all the students. Sweat dripped from the face of the students as they repeatedly wiped it with a napkin, panting again and again.

The students had started to scan different plants that they saw, giving in a group effort, unlike Rael who was more interested in humming a tune, at least that's what the others thought.

No.

Rael was indeed humming but his spirit sense was spread out, his eyes closed as he tried to sense beasts around them, it was known that demonic beasts were naturally stronger than demons, it was like how tigers are like to humans.

The beasts would always be stronger, although that is a dangerous thing... the demons don't disturb the demonic beasts and destroy their territories except when needed. To compensate for their shortcomings they focus on mana-tech, a modern approach.

But the survival assessment was more like an olden maturity tradition so no one was allowed to carry modern equipment.

The Assessment also had a hidden agenda which was clear to everyone by now.

Raid and defend.

It was like a game of capture the flag, people would raid for sure upon the weaker ones just to dwindle their points. That is the first reason, then the other is, School War, the assessment is clearly to see which school is better.

If a member of a different school meets someone from another school then there is only one option for that student: Kill or Run.

No one is naive enough to give someone refuge or help him especially if that person is not from their school.

Raiding supplies and stealing better territory the employment of killing was sure to take place.

There was a good chance for Rael's class to also fall prey but luck shined upon them and they were blessed with Rael.

"Hey!!" The president of the class turned to look at Rael who was still humming.

'Now what does this bitch want?'

"Yeah? What do you want?" Rael asked nonchalantly.

The lady bit her lips but then sighed letting the vice president take the lead to find a camping place, coming near to where Rael was walking.

"I wanted to say that I am sorry." She looked down onto the ground kicking some stones on the sidewalk.

"Huh? Sorry, but can you repeat that? Maybe a little louder?" Rael blinked his eyes he couldn't believe what his ears were hearing.

"I SAID I AM SORRY!!" She shouted turning red thinking that Rael was doing it on purpose.

Rael observed her expressions which spelled genuineness and couldn't help but break into a bright smile. He patted her head looking her right into her eyes with that dazzling smile.

"Apology accepted."

The smelly girl stared at his smile as a huge blush covered her face due to which she ran away covering her face with her hands in order to not let Rael see her red face.

The funny thing was that she even tripped a few times before going to her original position, leading their class.

Rael who was chuckling felt proud of himself, he truly felt that he had become a harem protagonist. He turned a nemesis fall for him, or at least blush.

Thinking about nemesis, his mood became a bit bitter as he started to think of Ishtar but then he quickly shook his head and started to cultivate while moving.

The trick to this was creating a compartment in the mind, where he could hide himself and cultivate over there. That way he would be truly calm, nothing would be able to faze him, he would be truly emotionless, a puppet being controlled by the real him in the mind.

After a long time of walking, they came across a great camping spot, it was in between willow-like trees, it covered the entire spot like a circle. It was very hard to slip in through the cracks but at least in that spot, they would easily be able to kill enemies who try to trespass.

Large beasts wouldn't even be able to enter due to the many large trees. Even if they tried to enter they would make a lot of noise so it was the best spot to camp.

After slipping through the cracks, they started to observe the interior. It was like a normal grass plain except with willow trees as boundaries. Golden-green grass would seem a bit dark due to the skies being mostly covered by the huge leaves.

"Alright everyone start setting up your tents then we will form groups and make a plan, chop-chop!!" The class president yelled as she sat down on a rock, exhaling a heavy sigh.

Just when she sat down trying to relax a bit, a new problem came. A girl came running towards her frantically.

"Class head! There are only two tents!!"

Her face paled, 'Fuck this school!! They didn't even give us separate tents!'

"Show me the two tents." She growled.

Observing the two tents she sighed again, 'At least they are big enough to accommodate all of us.'

"Alright! Start setting the tents, we should be able to make do with it, one tent will be for the girls while the other will be for the boys!!"

"But what if they try to sneak inside?" A girl called Shizune asked.

As she said that all the females turned to look at the males who were pretending to not have heard anything..... if only a stupid sneezing bastard didn't speak.

"Ooooh, you girls! That is a very nice idea."

All the females started to pound him, while the boys started to dig into the ground to make a grave for the poor sot.

"So will you guys peek?" The class president asked with a not so innocent smile.

All of them shook their head in order to comply and reassure her.

The boys like the slaves they were of the girls started to set up the tents, almost crying due to the stupid bastard because of whom they were having to do more work.

While they were doing all the work Rael sat down in a secluded place and started to cultivate properly this time.

After a total of thirty minutes, some students came near him.

"Ira, let's go. Class President is calling everyone." A boy called Nano said.

Rael opened his eyes, coming out from his mediation, and nodded, getting up to follow them.

"Let's go." He spoke with his tranquil voice.

Arriving near the rock where the president was atop everyone formed a circle near it and sat.

The President then started to speak.

"Everyone now that we are done setting up the tents, we will make the groups."

All the students near the rock nodded obediently and started to hear what she said with keen ears.

"There will be five groups in total!! The first group will be doing chores and making our camp better!

The second group will be the hunting group, you will go and look for food!

The third group will be the night guard, they will be in charge of the lookout for monsters and raiders.

The fourth group will be the raid team, as the name says it will be in charge of raiding.

The fifth group will be the defense team, it will be in charge of defense in case of someone attacks in general.

REMEMBER OUR GOAL ISN'T TOO SCORE POINTS!! YES, IT IS IMPORTANT BUT THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS TEST IS TO SURVIVE!!."

She paused to have a sip of water, her throat was getting dryer as she yelled, Sona( Class President) scanned the area to look for Rael and the corner of her mouth started to twitch when she saw him sticking out his tongue while looking at her.

Sona clenched her hands hard, 'Bastard.' Then she cooled her head convincing herself that anger wouldn't take her anywhere.

In total there were fifty students in their class.

"The first group will consist of..., the second group will consist of...., the third group will consist of..., the fourth group will consist of..., the fifth group will consist of...."

She ended her announcement leaving everyone on their own to do their tasks.

Rael's ears perked up when he noticed that his name wasn't called. He raised his hand with a frown upon his face, although he didn't mind doing anything and just lazing around work, he still chose to ask her.

"Sona my name wasn't called out. Which group am I in?" He asked with an innocent expression upon his face.

She looked at him condescending, her face even flinched when he called her by name.

Of course, it didn't go unnoticed by the classmates, they all started to snicker due to it, except the girls who were enchanted by him. They were looking at the class president with a deadly gaze.

Imaginary sweat dripped from her forehead as she wiped it. 'What is this pressure?!'

She glanced at the girls who were staring at her and swallowed her saliva. Then she turned to look at Rael with an indifferent gaze.

"As you are the strongest in our school, you will be an all-rounder except for night guard and chore duty." She spoke in an authoritative tone.

Rael nodded, he actually preferred it that way. He would never do chores and would never do night guard duty.

He loved his sleep just like everyone else. Even if demons didn't need it, sleep would make everyone calm even if it wasn't needed, it was a necessary thing.

"All right, then everyone get to work!!"

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