"Good day students, by now you all know about the state of things outside the walls of the school." Principal Lovren Immediately began delivering his speech the moment he appeared in the hall.
"The beast tide has arrived way sooner than we all expected, and because of this we wouldn't be able to complete our curriculum, because you all would be sent out to the walls." There was a lot of murmuring in the hall, but it didn't take time for the murmuring to die down.
Normally an announcement like this would throw the entire hall into chaos, but the reason they were relatively quiet was that they had been informed right from the beginning of the semester.
"The exam aims to give you all real-life experiences on how to work in a large group with specific goals and to have a firsthand experience of how dangerous the magical world is.
Of course, none of you will be placed at the frontline instead, most of you will be placed in positions that require team coordination." Principal Lovren explained.
The elite class was way stronger than the normal class so they were to be positioned at the city wall, while the normal class would be positioned at the inner wall. When compared, the elite class were to face the brunt of the beasts head-on, while the job of the elite class was very peaceful.
Their main task was to be the last line of defense, but it has been decades since the city walls have been breached by the beasts. So, until then, the students in the normal class would be assigned tasks ranging from aiding those at the outer walls by supplying resources or community service tasks like distributing food to those in need.
"At this point, I wish I was in the normal class." Brian shook his head as he let out a helpless sigh.
"You know, You could ask someone in the lower class to challenge you, then you lose on purpose." Castiel suggested.
"I highly doubt anyone in the normal class would even agree to challenge you. Their skills and what they are being thought is very low when compared to that of the elite class, so accepting the challenge would be as good as giving themselves a death sentence." Blake said.
Blake was 100% correct. The normal class made up 80% of the 1st year population, that was why it looked like almost everyone wasn't happy with the school's choice of exam. Now that they had been informed that they would be stationed at the inner wall, the hall had become less noisy.
"Everyone especially the elite class would be awarded points by the number and strength of beasts you kill, but that doesn't mean you should put your life at risk because everyone would be too busy to save you." Principal Lovren looked at some students of the elite class who were notorious for acting stupid before continuing his speech. "Also, the city has decided to make things fair by paying you in exchange points for every beast you kill, just like they pay noble families and adventurers. The exchange points would be added to the one gained so far and the highest would determine the top positions for the semester."
"There are only 2 ways to fail are by either dying or being dismissed by the captain in charge. So do everything to survive and obey commands." Principal Lovren stated with a stoic expression.
As for the normal class, they were would gain exchange points the same way as the elite class, but since they would most likely not come in contact with any beasts most of their points were to come from the community services etc.
"Our task on the city wall isn't as dangerous as I thought." Brian said, but that was when he turned to Blake and saw him frowning. "What's wrong?"
"Everything…" Blake continued pondering for a few seconds before explaining. "I can't see anything right with this exam, Principal Lovren said the ash corps wouldn't be able to monitor us every time meaning there are very high chances that I students would try to sabotage each other so they could get disqualified."
"Also, introducing the exchange point system tripled the chances of it happening, because someone is to end up dead then they would be entirely removed from the rank list." Blake brought their attention to the reality that they weren't only fighting with beasts, but also humans.
"Thinking of it, If they wanted us to have an experience of defending the beast tide, then there is no reason for them to make it competitive." Castiel pointed out.
"What if they want to force us to learn healthy competition." Everyone turned to Brian with raised brows causing him to think about what he said.
Everyone knew it was an impossibility. Most noble students in the same and different families were in a nasty competition with each, and are ready to do anything to win, talk less of when they see a commoner doing better than them. They wouldn't even think twice to eliminate him when they got the chance.
"You guys have to be extra careful because most of these nobles wouldn't be alone on the wall, members of their families would also be present." Luciano warned them.
"Since there are no questions, I would be handing over to Instructor Zirrack who would assign you all too different parts of the city wall." With that said, Principal Lovren warped out of the hall and Instructor Zirrack came forward.
"From the start of the semester, you have gone through different team exercises with your most trusted friends, meaning it would be counter intuitive to shuffle you all into different teams. So the school has decided to keep the teams the same way.." Instructor Zirrack's words gave the students a certain level of assurance because the decision would highly increase their level of survivability compared to if they were grouped with foes and random students.