I would like to keep this short. Before we start, I would like to apologise. I lost the first two chapter of this book and we are actually starting at chapter three.
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Seno sat down by a wall and began to catch his breath, heaving to a calmed composure. He glanced at the bow in his hand, his eyes shaking with pure awe and fatigue.
"The replica weapon is too draining... overwhelming... Scary. Too scary."
He whispered between breaths, each time acknowledging the sheer difference in strength he gained through the weapon.
Metal was like paper, concrete plain butter. His shots destroying them with with ease. This matched the destructive capabilities of his ability and to achieve this with just his Disruptive force was too scary of a thought for him.
Bomg!
"They are coming near... *huff*"
I shouldn't talk.
He quietly listened to the sounds of the battle that was nearing his place and after pinpointing the number of people, he decided to remain hidden and wait for them to lower their numbers.
[Third Examination criteria:
Free for all.
The trial will commence in the training halls 1-7 until the last man standing or 3 days later.
Limitations: No ability usage. No lethal attacks.
The participants must use the replica weapon of their choice and their disruptive force to attack, defend or maneuver. Each successful take out, defence or strategic retreat will be graded so choose what you excel in and strive to do your best.
Our educators will be watching your every move so feel free to be reckless and ingenuitive without fear. You will not die, we will not let you.
The one who wins the trial will get to keep a replica weapon of their choice.]
*sigh*
'I should have known it would have been something ridiculous when they allowed us to choose weapons, rations, armour and strengthening drugs.'
'An all out battle without our abilities though? What else do we know except that? Luo Xing Academy is being too partial to their students.'
Seno unconsciously shook his head in frustration and immediately got up to fire two shots at the remaining two students who were mid battle and hurriedly repositioned himself to how he was before.
This is too tiring.
He regretted choosing a bow, he should have chosen a stick or sword or anything else, completely out of breath and sweating such that even his undies were drenched, he regretted eating the exhilarating candy more.
I should have chosen dried rations and some liquid instead of this exhilarating candy.
He looked at the remaining two exhilarating candy and threw it away.
If I eat this anymore, I will definitely pass out....
My Disruptive force is running low and its not even an hour... definitely should have taken food and rations instead of this battle viagra.
The increase in the sense of hearing and strength and agility is incredible along with this huge boost in the Disruptive force except it's too much and it's leaking all out.
"There is someone sitting ther—."
The thrown candy attracted the attention of a student and mid way of her speaking, Seno took her out.
Seems like the other Academies had no preparation as well. Who destroys a chance to sneak attack by talking? Everyone's just mindlessly naive.
"You are... out... no hard... feelings"
Seno spoke to the student who was dazedly looking at him before vanishing away.
I can't even use the bodies to hide myself.
Clutching his chest to calm his senses and nausea, he sat there in silence for a few more minutes and only when he was sure that there was no more sounds of any battle, he decided to move out.
He got up with difficulty and slowly trudged into a different ground with a ruined church terrain.
He was trying to find the stronger students because stronger students=more points and he wanted more points because more points was always good.
In his condition where he could pass out any moment, it was better to go holler at the students than to sit and do nothing but wait.
"I have taken out 6 students. If I can get a bonus points student, I would likely be under 200 in the rankings. I wonder what I would get."
He wasn't stupid to pick the exhilarating candy. It was a boost to his combat strength, he was just unknown of the actual potency of the candy and just how overwhelming it was.
I think I can create two more shots.
The limitations of non lethal attacks really puts me in a headlock as I have to channel my Disruptive force which we haven't been taught yet.
Wasn't this the college level stuff, pertaining to how dangerous it was.
And add to the troubles, I have to channel the energy through this piece of gorgeous beauty that I haven't used in my entire life, and for which, I am too weak at the moment.
I wish I suddenly gain some system or power up to win the competition and take the Szar 97 Elyneum Anti-Material Ion cannon replica weapon with me.
No point in dreaming though.
Seno alertly made his way to the areas in search for the bigger fishes and wondered why they couldn't steal from others, or take their things after death. That way, he could have taken some rations to replenish himself.
I need water. Is there no training ground with a waterfall or something?
Water...Fall.
Oh! Oh! Ohhhh!
This can work. Duck the Berserker Plan.
While he was wandering around in search for the prey, Seno got an idea. Tentative idea.
He inspected the training grounds and going further and further while avoiding any and all kinds of students until he was on the camping terrain(jungle terrain). He found a place to hide and went to sleep to recover his physical strength and Disruptive force and wear off the effects of the exhilarating candy.
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"This year's applicant are good as well. They are all able to easily adapt and plan to their advantages."
A Bald Monk sad to another Bald Monk. Both of them were watching over the final trial along with the others involved.
This was the Nuo City Apprentice Disrupters final year examinations.
Disrupters, or what they are generally referred to as by the strongest country in the world (Bald Eagles Flying), are people who are capable of channeling an otherworldly force (referred to as magic by the tea drinkers) that defies the laws of reality and science.
This force is called the Disruptive force, the name quite literally explaining a lot, and it gave certain people an ability. It can be anything from breathing fires to heat vision to producing Mango coffee kumquat jelly to supernova (the actual one).
This all started 5000 year when all around the world, people suddenly began to awaken powers beyond anything that made sense and it threw the world off of it rails. To counter the troubles caused by this, studies were done, experiments happened, special organisations were formed and after 5000 years, 13 world ending wars and countless invasions and such, we are now in the era of peace.
Humanity has thrived and withered hundreds of times reaching beyond the solar system to just being limited to their towns. Nowadays Everything is not much advanced compared to what they were 600 years ago or maybe 1300 years ago but it was a good life.
Humanity had learnt that controlled and careful advancements was the key to longevity.
"It's all Dean Shuo's work. She works wonders, producing elite students year after year."
The other Bald Monk spoke, his voice magnanimous and magnetic. From how everyone was towards him, it was quite clear that he was the highest honcho in that room.
Every year, students entering high school are checked for their Disruptive force and those who have it are then awakened and sent to the Apprentice Disrupters Academy in their area to further their kind's studies.
After three years of that, they took their final examinations and it could be anything the Educators decided it to be.
"The other schools have some exceptions. Some purposely trained, some shining through their own efforts."
"True on that, I didn't even think that anyone of the district Academy would have a student who can channel his Disruptive Force. This isn't taught to them until they are in college."
"True. Raise his ranking within the 50s."
The Magnanimous voiced Monk spoke and someone adjusted the rankings.
Although there were Special Academies for the Disrupters in every district but most of them, if not all, were poorly ran, often lacking basic things and with little to no regard to the teachings that the students were getting.
This was mostly due to the government funds for the Disrupters' Academies suddenly vanishing in the middle, long before it could reach the pocket of the city or district management and thus leading to them neglecting the Academies because it wasn't bringing them any personal "profits" or vote bank.
The World was in the era of peace for a long time and the people had become nonchalant of the Disruptive force users, often times regarding them no different from special needs disabled person or retarded people. Thinking them as anti social elements in their society. It wasn't hate, but blatant disregard and ignorance.
And it wasn't a fault of theirs.
There were no wars among the humans and even if there were, Disrupters weren't allowed to participate in it since 4000 years ago. There wasn't much chance for the people to feel afraid that the random person walking on the street could blow up the whole continent if you swear at him for no reason.
In the present time, Disrupters were being seen as beings beyond their time, just like war veterans. They were treated like them well. The world is a big place. Lots of things happen.
The Educators watched the performance of the other students as the room was slowly filled with conversations and murmurs, all applauding the students performance and grading them.
Suddenly it became quiet. Their gazes fixed on the silhouette of a teenage girl.
"She is Luo Mengxue, daughter of Luo Mengnan(and my niece). The strongest student of this batch and the one whom had defeated the Tsing Mountain university's 2nd year Disrupters."
Dean Shou proudly commented as the person in question was fully showing why she was proud of her.
To the outside world of the normal people, the Disrupters were some extra care people, but in the world of Disrupters, would you care if ants bark? They didn't.
Strength was all that mattered and character was placed second.
Disrupters were humans but they were never taught to limit themselves to just that.
....
On the training ground, a teenage girl just broke a knee cap of one of the students while flinging the another one by their hair.
"Give up. Do not waste your time."
She turned around, tilting her head to dodge a kunai without any trouble.
The people in front of her, looked at her in fear.
"I will take that as a no."
She lunged towards the crowd of people and what followed was bones crunching, bodies getting slammed and thrown and faces getting slapped (this one was definitely personal).
She took them all out and took out her water bottle. She washed her hands and face and began to ate her rations leisurely.
Five hours had passed since the beginning of the competition and there weren't many students left. Unfortunately for them, the exam will end with the last man standing and Luo Mengxue had intention of spending the night in the training grounds.
Finishing her food, she chose a direction and began to take down any one that got in her way.
Soon she was in jungle terrain and wandered around until she felt a presence. After figuring out where the being she was sensing was, she zapped to the place and found someone sleeping without a care in the world, hidden in a dark and damp crevice and covered with a blanket of leaves.
Inspecting more, his clothes were soaked, his lips dried up and he was looking deathly pale, likely a side effects of having the exhilarating candy with a weak constitution.
"Pathetic."
Luo Mengxue decided to kill this bitch later. Looking at his peaceful face while sleeping in the middle of the jungle, she was feeling a special kind of irritation and rage and she was not going to let him pass away without knowing that.
Taking one last look at him and stopping herself from stomping his face, she left the place.
It didn't take her much time to find the remaining survivors and for them to run away from her since strategic retreat was also an option and since it was her they were running from, it would definitely be added as points.
Even if they couldn't defeat her, they can try to save themselves for as long as they can. Survival would definitely grant points since it will showcase their thinking and "ingenuity" against calamity and disasters.
They hoped so.
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Author's Notes.
The Nuo City is geographically in the Thailand but since those names are hard to write every time, I have opted to use Chinese, Japanese and other easy to write names. This also helds true for names that are Vietnamese and Filipino.
The first arc of the book happens in these areas: Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Phillipines, Malaysia and Australia. Geographically. The countries and such don't exist anymore in the book and what remains are just the landmass in their geological mapping.
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Author's Notes.
The Nuo City is geographically in the Thailand but since those names are hard to write every time, I have opted to use Chinese, Japanese and other easy to write names. This also helds true for names that are Vietnamese and Filipino.
The first arc of the book happens in these areas: Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Phillipines, Malaysia and Australia. Geographically. The countries and such don't exist anymore in the book and what remains are just the landmass in their geological mapping.
And about the chapters that are missing, I will tried to find them for the past two weeks and I likely have lost that data. I also don't remember the complete way it was written and only a few details so I can't re create it at the moment.
Once I either find it or recreated the first two chapters, I will post them in. Till then, you can use the summary here.
It is year 1191 of the New World Calendar.
Mori Seno was on a bus ride with his class to the Nuo City's Ruoding Academy for their final exams. After this, they can go to colleges and pass a test there to become a full fledged Disrupter and live the life of their dreams, after finishing their college.
Ruoding Academy was a privately funded academy, different from the trash that they go to study, and was the examination ground for all the apprentice Disrupters final examinations in the Nuo City.
It is spread within 500 acres, is outside the city, has 800 in total and has around 600 staff. It has gardens, cafeteria, dorms, and all kinds of facilities that the Disrupters Government funded district schools were lacking.
When they got to the Ruoding Academy and joined in with the students of the other districts and were offered free meals that was freshly cooked 16 meal set by professional chefs, the District Academy students truly wanted to kill whoever was taking out the funding for their district academies.
The exams started two hours later and the first exam was to showcase their skill usage and everyone cleared it with ease since this was what they were practicing their whole year.
The second exam was of knowledge and written test and all of them cleared it as well because they were taught.
A Lunch break happened before the third exam and the students vowed to kill the corrupt person who was shifting their funds once more.
After that, they were taken to the Ruoding Academy's training grounds and were asked to choose a replica weapon, Armour, food essential or strengthening items. In front of them were 1200 types of different weapons and the 453 students were given an hour to pick whatever they wanted.
A replica weapon was a replicated armament of real life weapons and were created for the Disrupters. They, depending on their properties and such, were used by the Disrupters instead of the normal weapons because replica weapons used the Disruptive force as ammunitions or power source and can simulate the same or higher effects that what a normal weapon was capable off.
A Disrupter needed to use his Disruptive force to use the Replica weapon.
Seno looked at the 1400 options and decided to go with the long range attack weapons since his ability was a ranged attack and he had experience with it.
There were quite a lot of options for range attackers like Bows, kunai, shuriken, assault rifles, throwing darts, grenade launcher, anti material sniper rifles, shotguns, hunting bows, rocket launcher, short bow, handguns, throwing knives, ionic cannons and a siege Machine gun.
Among the 40 options of the ranged replica weapons, he chose a bow since it was the easiest for him to use among all of the other options.
He couldn't do much and just enviously looked at the other options, his eyes liting at the Szar 97. It was an extremely mythical weapon appearing in every moba game he had played with his classmates. It was a legend, it was the city cleaner. Seno so wanted to use it.
Unfortunately, he couldn't even activate it.
Taking the bow and a simple light Armour and exhilarating candy as his equipment, Seno joined the rest of the students and once they had all gathered up, they were teleported to the training grounds, all scattered around.
An announcement rang telling them about the final trial and they were left to their own premises.
There were seven training grounds in the Ruoding Academy and each ground has a specific terrain to it. For the exams, all the grounds were connected and the students were all to roam and hunt others.
Seno was teleported to the urban city mazescape ground, he took in the environment, doddled around a bit and once he found other students, he ate the exhilarating candy and aimed his bow to create the arrows to take them out.
His Disruptive force control was basically a beginner and the arrows that he created appeared more as heavily broke tree pieces than anything resembling an arrow.
He fired his first shot instantly missing and hitting the wall around the target and was then on a run.
Slowly and slowly, the exhilarating candy was absorbed by his body and he was using it to fire the shots at his pursuer and finally took him out but by then he was becoming out of breath, his senses incredibly hard to manage and his body extremely painful and exhausted.
He continued on and took two more people out before finding a place to rest down.
The next chapter starts from here.