Hunt (Start)
After reaching the villa, I found that Amelia and Aisha were already there and had selected their room.
If I had to paint a picture of how the villa looks, think of a modern place with a bit of a fantasy vibe, like the fancy mana crystal on the outer wall.
We all decided who would take the last two rooms on the ground floor and who'd stay upstairs; we finally decided that.
Aisha, Amelia, Ren, and Theros were going to stay downstairs, and I'd be sharing with a teacher.
Yes, a teacher. Did you seriously think that the academy would allow young boys and girls to live alone to live together?
Well, that was their statement, but the real reason was that five of the top ten students would live together in the villa.
Academy teachers were not naive enough to think that there were no abyss walkers among faculty members or students.
While living together, we can be an easy target for a sudden attack by an abyss walker teacher.
You might be wondering, Why not come up with a way to detect them?
To answer this, Abyss Walkers don't get their power from drinking demon blood or making contracts with them.
They're just like other contractors, but the big difference is their contracted gods, who want to destroy humanity or gods who made the demon races.
That's why the academy has a teacher keep an eye on us, and what better way to make them live with us?
[Samuel's Room]
"So boy, what are you going to do next?" Therion's voice rang out in my mind while the system screen appeared in front of me. The system not only helps contractors to see their status but also translates the gods' world so the contractors can understand.
"If everything is going according to the novel, Dylan would have already gotten his first quest to make his harem, and I want to stop that. I answered him and continued.
"To do that, I have to stop tomorrow's event where he will try to clear his name by saving Amelia from a wild wolf elite monster."
"Did you not fear that if you changed the events from the beginning, you would lose the advantage of knowing the future events?"
"No, from the moment my soul merged with Alex, I never planned to follow the novel."
"So how are you going to deal with that golden snake's boy?"Theros asked me with a hint of amusement in his voice.
I grin and appear on my face, and I answer him. "Well, he likes to think that he is super smart; we can test it tomorrow how smart he is."
*****
"You idiot. If we get late because of you, then I am going to tie you up and hang you from the top of the academy building." I complained to Theros.
Because of this idiot, we were running so we could reach our class on time, as this idiot did not wake up on time.
"Hehe... I do not have a fear of heights, and with my strength, I can hang on for more than 4 hours, so this threat doesn't work on me." Theros replied feeling smug.
"If you are that smug, why not? I will strip you and then hang you; surely you will love it when everyone sees it." Ren spoke.
****
[Forest L-21]
When we arrived at the class, Serlynthia was just about to enter the class; we entered, followed by her.
After taking attendance, she announced that we would go to the wilderness to hunt the monsters, and we were going to be separated into five students per team.
Like that, here we are at the entrance of the forest where the team selection is going to happen.
'Well, I already know about Dylan and Ethan's team; what I'm curious about is who is going to be on my team.'
"Students, pay attention; I am going to announce your team members." Serlynthia's voice rang out, and all of my classmates surrounded her.
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Team: 1
Ethan Aldric
Verina Frost
Ryan Ember
Grace Arden
Kaven Blake
Team: 2
Samuel Drakewill
Ren Luxvail
Ryu Harukaze
Noah Ember
Maya Silva
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.
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"and the last team"
Neo Silver
Dylan Glenwood
Aisha Sliver
Amelia Walker
Kaya Alber
*****
'Well, as expected of harem protagonists, most of the female lead characters were in his team.'
'And Amelia being in his team makes his task even easier.'
"Your task for today is to kill at least 10 E rank normal class monsters of 2 E rank elite class." Serlynthia, explain.
Let me explain the ranking of monsters well all of them were divided into F- to SS+ same as hunters/contractors.
And each rank has a different class monster being
Normal Class --- E- and early stage of E
Elite Class --- E and early class of E+
Boss Class --- last stage of E+
She continued, "After you kill the required amount of monsters, you can kill extra monsters if you want. Every extra kill of an E-rank normal monster, every member of your team will get 10 AP."
"As for E-rank elite monsters, they will give 50 AP per extra monster."
"And before you go running around risking your life thinking that I will save you, keep in mind that I am not going to save anyone, so fight with the monster you are capable of, and now go and don't waste my time." Serlynthia, warn and vanish.
'Well, the term 'vanish' will be wrong here, as she just sped the time around her and just simply walked away.'
'And if you ask how I knew, well, that's just her old habit of almost forgetting I have never told about Ethan and Dylan's status.'
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Name ➡️ Ethan Aldric
Race ➡️ Human
STR ➡️ E-
DEF ➡️ E-
STM ➡️ E+
AGI ➡️ E-
INT ➡️ E
Charm ➡️ SS
MANA Capacity ➡️ E -
Rank ➡️ E-
Stage ➡️ 2
Profession ➡️ Swordsman
Techniques ➡️ Elemental Strike (D+)
Affinity ➡️ Fire, Earth, Water, Air, Ice
Spells ➡️ Fire Lance, Fire Sword, Earth Wall, Water Slash, Ice Spear.
Ability ➡️ Energy Manipulation
Ability Skills ➡️ Mana Control, Mana Regeneration, Absolute Energy Convergence.
*****
Name ➡️ Dylan Glenwood
Race ➡️ Human -------- Drake9(....3.33%....)
STR ➡️ E-
DEF ➡️ E+
STM ➡️ E
AGI ➡️ E
INT ➡️ E-
Charm ➡️ SS+
MANA Capacity ➡️ E -
Rank ➡️ E-
Stage ➡️ 1
Profession ➡️ Dual Wielder
Techniques ➡️ Glenwood Sword Art Ver1 (D+)
Affinity ➡️ Lighting, Earth
Spells ➡️ Lightning Strike, Lightning Lord, Earth Spikes.
Ability ➡️ Geomorphing
Ability Skills ➡️ Earth Embrace, Earth Manipulation, Wrath of Earth.
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'Well, as expected of a protagonist.' And if we were thinking that Dylan's stats were almost the same as the top 10, then why did he get such a low rank?
Well, the reason was his father; he wanted to show off to the world that even if his good-for-nothing son Dylan didn't participate, even after that he became so strong.
And how did he plan to reveal well by beating Ethan or one of the top 10 candidates other than me, of course?
But we all know what happened. Well, the main reason was that Dylan just got 'transmigrated' and was not used to his body.
When he is fully used to his body, he can easily beat Ethan in a one-on-one duel.
"Well, let's go meet my teammates."
[author here- thanks Headshot_Gaming for both of the golden tickets I am very grateful for it and I have never expected that someone even use their golden ticket for this novel thank you for your support]