7.1

The students were probably on their mid-teens, guessed by Chun but still it doesn't matter 'cause she would be their handler and so calling them children was appropriate.

The silver haired youth side-stepped as she avoided the barraged of attacks from Han. Until the fight lasted an hour, Chun just did was to dodged the attacks of the assassin.

"Good. You're competent." Han nodded to himself.

Rin gazed at her wristwatch and intervened to the fight, "Okay, that's enough. Han, where are your classmates?"

"They're in the class hall," he simply said and started to walk away but he paused due to what Chun uttered to Rin.

His face darkened as he stared at the youth, "We don't have a 'useless' sloth team leader on the group."

Then he turned around and left with his dark aura.

Chun looked at Rin with an inquiring gaze.

"As I've explained before that he had an enmity with Lerrent for some reasons so note that you must avoid mentioning the word 'team leader' in his presence."

The silver haired young man affirmed Rin with a look, "Are we proceeding to the class hall?"

"Let's go"

The sun was high above in the middle of the sky, emitting a burning heat. The two of them arrived in the most lavish and exquisitely intricated carvings inside of the building. The hallways where designed and colored with fine maroon furnishings and some were with silver swirling patterns on the wall.

The young man observed the patterns of the building and their elements that stood as a decoration but if one look closely, there were some runes that was etched on it.

Chun opened the mind-link communication and contacted Art.

"Art, can you examine this runes later?"

"Yes, young lord."

Rin discussed once again on the things that she must be prepared on and left her to her own devices.

Chun fixed herself infront the maroon double doors and gripped the doorknob with her wicked smile plastered upon her face.

She opened the door carelessly as the electrical net suspended at the top of her head. The mechanical trap of Li Li for the first time did not activated. The youth stare at the top of her head and smiled lazily, dusting off the nonexistent dirt on her white robes.

"That's a good prank," then she continued her walked towards the podium. The structure of the class hall was like a big gym. The chair tables where fixed in an ascending order and the most center of it was the class podium.

There were many vacant seats but only six students were present and one can obviously saw three students were far apart from the other three.

On the left side was a sleeping youth with curly hair sprawled on his desk table and he was on a deep slumber. The two girls were talking, mostly the short blonde girl was comforting the pouting Li Li who was the previous girl Chun encountered. As the silver haired youth walked in, the girl who was pouting, sullenly gazed at her.

The other three on the left side was the one who the silver haired youth fought named Han and the other two was busy on their business, talking on a gadget phone and typing something on a high spec laptop.

They only glanced at Chun and ignored her.

Chun smiled at them while counting the students on her mind. 'Six? Where is that gossip king?'

Bang!

The double doors of the class hall sounded as it caught the attention of the six people, the dark brown haired boy panted and announced, "Our instructor is an albino! A silvery white haired young man named Chun!"

While hearing it, the so-called 'albino' stretched a more prominent lazy smile on her face.

"Mr. Kai, this is the first time someone called me an albino," taking the attention of Kai Sun. The former has suddenly turned silent as he noticed the presence of the person he called an albino.

The six people instantly stopped what they are doing, the sleeping youth was awoken by the bang of the door and confusion was displayed on his face.

"And the first time the mechanical trap of Li Li has failed," Han changed the topic as he perceived a hint of dangerous aura leaked out from Chun while his eyes had an unreadable glimmer on it, finding something amusing.

"Hmm. Mr. Kai, you can take your seat," the silver haired youth waited Kai Sun to take his seat as she continued, "You're very welcoming, 'my' students. Because of your burning passion and heartwarming welcome to me I prepared a surprise for you all."

Lerrent finally realized what he was tasked to do, "Right, you're our handler and instructor now. Sorry for a late welcome, teacher, I've forgot."

And the sloth young man cleared his throat and uttered an emotionless 'welcome'.

After he said that he just nodded at Chun and went silent.

"Useless," Han 'whispered' to his breath which was heard by Chun and the others, the students on Lerrent side glared at him.

Han dismissed their glares and smirked at the silver haired youth, "So 'teacher' what is your surprise? We're interested."

The seven students stared at the unmoving youth at the podium when suddenly some kind of foreboding feeling crept on them.

("Thank you, Art" )

("As you pleased, young lord.")

The simulation effect on the class hall was triggered and it was in the difficult level C, three times higher from a normal mode.

A mechanical voice sounded inside the class hall, "Seven participants are being loaded in the simulation game."

"Loading sandbox..."

"Loading materials..."

"Loading participants' data..."

"Simulation loaded."

Each of the building of Harconia Institute has its own simulation room but it was different from Li Li's construction on their own class hall. It's a level different harder from the constructed simulation room of the institute. While on the normal simulation room, it had only three levels of difficulty: A, B and C. The most difficult is A while the easiest is C and its specialized for the cultivators.

Meanwhile, the difficulty level of the simulation that was made by Li Li was specialized for high IQed people like them and it has six levels which are A, B, C, D, E, and F. The highest is A and lowest is F.

"Who trigerred the simulation effect?"

"Li Li, did you open it?!"

"N-no!"

As they were being loaded to a game area, Chun just seated herself on the teacher's table. The desk has something emerging on it, a tri-screen monitor which would be surveilling the participants. The suited butler suddenly appeared behind his young master.

"Let's watch the surprise I made, Art."

"Yes, young lord."

The seven students that were sent to a game sandbox stabilized themselves as they realized that they were tricked by their handler.

"Oh that creepy albino is so capable. Tsk," Kai Sun murmured to his breath.

"Maybe this is a performance task by our handler."

"Yes. He's observing us."

Lith and Li Li stated as they're roamed their eyes around looking for something suspicious that could stood for a micro camera.

The place that the seven students loaded upon was a normal size living room, a fireplace was there at a corner unlit, a four person velvet couch by the other side facing the fireplace with one love seat at side of the couch.

There was a small coffee table behind the four person couch and a glass of water on top of the table. A wooden chair was left knocked down to the red carpeted floor. The walls were painted oak brown and there was only one door present in the room with a biometric lock on it and no sign of windows.

The living room was well-litted even though there was only a fluorescent light attached on the ceiling and no presence of electronic device on the room, only the light and the biometric lock.

As they observed the cozy living room, they had two words on their mind.

'Escape Room'

"Rye, you're the one who was in charged of designing this simulation. Maybe you have an idea on what was going on here?" Li Li asked the silent young man.

The former just communicated his respond through gestures and the six of them knew that this was not his design.

Lerrent with a calm face headed to the couch, seated himself on it. The others followed suit and they started discussing. When it comes to this kind of predicament, these seven students are suited on this. They have a tacit understanding that they must put away first their disharmony and solved their current situation.

"Let's first find clues on how were we going to open that biometric lock. It's a biometric lock so we need some kind of DNA of the person living on here," Terra opened up and the others agreed.

"You two first try your means on opening that lock as we find some signs of biological organisms here," Lith directed Li Li and Rye as the others started to examine the room.

Lerrent was the only one who remained seated himself while in deep thought. Han just glared at him and continued inspecting the carpeted floor.

Suddenly, Kai Sun found something buried on the ashes of the fireplace and he took it out.

"Guys! There's a black parchment paper here," the others neared to his location as the young man was examining the blank black paper.

"May I?" Kai Sun nodded at Lith and gave her the paper.

The young woman illuminated the black paper through the fluorescent light, instantly words was displayed on it.

"It's a secret clue! What does it say?" Terra exclaimed as she peeked on the paper.

Lith slowly dictated the letters that was on it, "RKABO QEB QXYIB."

The lazy young man was jolted awake from deep thought when he heard the letters, "It's a ciphertext of Caesar shift."

"And what it means, genius?" Han taunted him.

Lerrent stood from the couch and walked near the coffee table, "With a right shift of three," then he putted his hands 'under the table' taking out a neon green sticky notes.

"What lives as long as it eats but dies when it drinks?"

"Obviously, it's fire," answered by Terra as she twirled her hair, "So what we will do? Lit up the fireplace?" She said as of a matter of fact.

"That's a nice idea, I found three matchsticks here but there's no matchbox," coming from Kai Sun near the fireplace. He gave the matchstick to Lerrent and the sleepy young man put out his right hand infront of Han, signalling the latter to lit it up.

The youth sent a piercing glare at the other but he still received the three matchsticks.

"Sorry, I'm not good at strength based work," Lerrent simply explained.

"How do I lit it?"

"Draw your pants leg tight against your skin and then draw the head of the match across the tight fabric, generating heat by friction. The matchhead will bursts into flame from the heat," the sleepy young man laxly uttered.

(A/N: credits from a searching site)

Han followed suit, drawed his pants leg tight against his skin and lighted up the matchstick through it. It lit up and then burned out after a minute.

"Hey! Why did you litted it up?! Your wasting it. Now we only have two left!" Kai Sun angrily stated at the former, receiving a death glare in retort.

"I'm just making sure if 'team leader' knows what he's doing."

Lith just shaked her head from this bluntness and gestured Kai Sun to stop. Terra ignored them and started preparing the wood that was left on the fireplace. The sloth young man goes back on the couch, lying on it, ready to dozed off.

Meanwhile, on the class hall. The silvery haired youth was sweeping her gaze at the tri-screen monitor. Her left hand was prompted on her cheeks while a hint of smirk was presented on the corner of her lips.

Her butler steadied his glasses on the bridge of his nose as he asked his young master for her snacks.