“No way… From all the people here and I was the one who got chosen? Why, just why is my luck this bad?”

  Unfortunately, she’s one of those who did not want to get chosen. As I often have said, fate is cruel and it likes to play around with people's lives and emotions. The complaint is quiet, basically to herself, one with a defeated tone of voice, one with a sad and yet angry look on her face. She complains to herself and to the world for this undesired, unfair and unpredictable situation. Well, it was predictable but not desired and just like that delusional young man, she also prayed to the gods so that she wouldn’t be chosen, however they did the same thing as they did to him, they didn’t listen and, in her case, it made it worse.

  Aggressive Teacher- Anya Pandora, come here, we don’t have much time to waste.

  Reluctantly, Anya walks up to the teacher and while she does so, everyone and I mean everyone, Kiana included, they quiet down to see who it is, who is the “lucky” one. As their eyes lay on this innocent and unfortunately average looking young lady, disappointment quickly fills their face. “Her? She is the one who got chosen?”, “From all the people here, this one was the one who got chosen? Unbelievable.”.

  “Well, at least we are going to see someone getting beat up.”

  Ah, people can really be crude and cruel. I pity this girl, but there is nothing that I can do about it. Right after this, or in this case once Anya was near them, the teacher asked them to introduce themselves. Alice volunteered to be the first one, facing the crowd and whoever is lucky enough to be in front of her. However, Kiana and Roxy do happen to be right in front of her.

  Alice- I am Alice Florence, a second-year student in the Golden Eden Academy. I decided to be in this Academy because I saw an opportunity from it, one that could help me out achieve my goals and dreams.

  “To be part of the Royal Elite Army.”

  Alice- As some of you might know, this is a small army made of extremely powerful and talented individuals, ones that I look up with utmost admiration and desire to be like them. That’s why I am here. The Golden Eden Academy has allowed and facilitated me to fully focus on becoming a better and stronger person. To get in the Royal Elite Army, one needs more than strength and talent, after all, a battle can easily be lost with a bad strategy for example. However, the Royal Elite Army's main focus is to protect the capital city and its citizens. To do such a thing they also need to learn how to deal with people. I have to be caring, understandable of people's pain and of course, I have to have a desire to protect them, as if they are my own family.

  “The past year that I’ve been here, I’ve grown so much thanks to the help that I had from the Academy. From all the teachers here, all my fellow students, everyone that is part of this fantastic Academy.”

  She starts with a normal tone of voice but with a serious look on her face and as anyone could expect, her voice matches her looks. Perfectly feminine but powerful at the same time, easily making its way into our ears followed by our minds and at the end, our hearts. Then as she starts her small “speech”, a gentle smile appears on her face, completely changing anyone's perspective on her, as even I didn’t expect for someone that looks like her to look this cute. However, it’s more than evident what she has learned here, and I dare to say the results that her hard work accomplished. While she, anyone really, might have talent, one that makes them to be distinguished from others, if not properly explored and from there developed, it can be considered a waste of talent. But even then, with all of that talent, if you don’t work hard, the results will be the same. A talentless guy for example, can become a professional with enough hard work, while a talented one can become the very best with it. You can say that my yapping has nothing to do with what she said, however, for her to be recognized as the strongest here, already speaks volumes about her, about her dedication and hard work.

  Aggressive Teacher- Excellent Miss Florence, excellent! You truly deserve what you are trying to achieve.

  Well, while I was on my normal jabbering, the people there slowly shortly after, they started to clap at Alice's small speech, or introduction I would say. It was a good one, so it’s normal that the people there would get excited per say, but as one of them is filled with confidence the other one seems to be staring at the devil itself, waiting to make a deal with him.

  “Hum… I-I’m Anya Pandora, a pleasure to meet you…”

  Shy, fidgety, filled with fear and despair, she quietly and quickly introduces herself. A simple introduction of course, however I didn’t say it yet, but this poor girl has already introduced herself earlier, she was one of the people who participated in the mock battles. I never mentioned her because her battle was more than boring, nothing to note really, the only thing is that she won. She is by no means a fighter and that by itself could tell why she has a dreadful look on her face and why she seems this close to breaking down crying. Hang on there Anya, Alice does not seem to be that bad, maybe you will just get a bone or two broken.

  Aggressive Teacher- Alright, what a fantastic introduction! Moving on then, get ready!

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  Nice comment you idiot, but from there they both go to their starting points and once they are there, they get ready to intercept one another. However, before Anya gets a new face and maybe a new body, let me tell you how she looks.

  She’s roughly the same size as a Kiana, just a tiny bit taller than her, roughly between 155-157 centimetres tall. She’s also for the thin side, but in her case she’s skinnier than “fit”, at least Kiana has some decent muscle definition but Anya straight seems to be a living walking skeleton from some angles. Don’t get me wrong, she’s not bad looking or anything like that really, it’s just that, compared to our gracious and wonderful Kiana, she unfortunately falls flat into oblivion, but even then, she has some nice features. Now imagine how they would look if she ate a piece of meat or two. Yes, I said it.

  She has short hair, or medium size or maybe it’s long? It’s a mix of all of them to be honest. From the front you would think she has short hair, you move a few centimetres around her and from ? view, you start to see more hair giving out that impression of medium size, once you see her from profile them you see the rest of her hair going all the way down and finishing once it hits the end of her tights. She has her hair tied down to something akin to a ponytail, but in this case the “tie” only happens at around the back of her shoulders, pushing all the front hair into that single point creating that illusion that I talked about. The object that ties the hair is nothing more than an overly sized hair ribbon, coloured in a red violet. Until that tie the hair is completely straight and smooth, after that point it starts to get loose as it descends down her slender and curvy back, slowly getting wavy as it reaches the end. Coloured in bright green colour, one that easily calls the attention of anyone that just happens to cross vision with her, however, it gets darker at the tips creating a good contrast between colours. It’s beautiful, not eye-catching as Alice hair and not with an unparalleled beauty as Kiana hair, but still quite nice to the eye.

  She has a soft and somehow also a sharp look on her face, her chin is for the round side just like Kiana, the same happens on her cheeks, however her eyes are what gives that sharp feeling that I referred to. They are just almost like Alice, but for the average size and extremely sharp looking. Her eyelashes are small but well defined, while her eyebrows break the formula, being thin but long and following the same colour philosophy as her hair. Her eyes have a darker shade to them, but unlike her hair and eyebrows, they are filled with the same colour. She’s pretty I do have to admit that, but unfortunately nothing breathtaking like Alice or “your soul leaves your body because a goddess is right in front of you” like Kiana, but still pretty nonetheless.

  Her dress code follows the same I would say, she’s dressed quite simple, modestly should be a better word to describe her outfit. A rather simple dress, one that is long but still good looking. It reminds me how a rural girl would dress if she went out to visit the city, nice but nothing special. A beige-like colour is the main colour of her long dress. While at it, the dress seems to be made of wool, thanks to its small imperfections that you can somewhat make out and of course the material itself. A few words ago I said that she seemed like a rural girl and it actually might be true.

  Anyway, with only her arms exposed to the world, her dress covers basically everything that needs to be covered, however, it's tight enough to show “off” her figure, and just like the flow of this conversation is right now, it’s nice to the eye and especially to a man of culture. Nothing too special, everything seems average if not a tiny bit smaller. A metal pendant around her neck breaks the contrast of the colour of her outfit and with her own skin, that in this case they almost seem the same. Her skin is just like Kiana, for the pale side although not the same extreme as Kiana. Said pendant seems to be one of those that holds a small picture on it, inside a small “box”, round in this case, completely hidden from the world.

  Around her waist she has a belt, though its purpose seems to be more structural than anything else really, it tightens up the dress around the waist, creating a curve right before and after it, one going down towards the waist, and the other one upwards towards her legs, her tights. Everything is covered by the dress, nothing is exposed to the naked eye with the exception of her ankles, the dress is smooth all the way down until that point, however on both of the sides, she has pockets breaking out the simplicity of the dress.

  Her shoes are coloured in grey, a dark shade of grey to be exact, creating quite the difference between the colours of the rest of her outfit. They seem quite sturdy, made of leather, I would say maybe cow leather? A sole that seems to be made of rubber, roughly 5 centimetres tall brings her height higher, but nothing out of this world. They still look simple, but for shoes that might not be that bad. Enough talking about Anya, let’s keep going, after all, a battle is about to start.

  Bam!

  With the same ol’ small Pyro spell exploding in the air, with it the anticipated battle begins.

  Anya- Aaa! Take this!

  Woosh!

  Using her Pocket Dimension skill and as quickly as she can, she takes out two bottles from it. An odd choice I would say, is she some type of scientist or something like that? Those two bottles are made of glass with quite the “exquisite” liquids on them, however the shape of them and even the colours of the liquids, it does remind me of potions. Maybe rather than being a scientist, she’s a witch? An alchemist researcher? Anyway, with each bottle in a different hand, she first throws the one on her right hand towards Alice with all of her might. Then as quickly as she can, with her now free right hand, she prepares a magic circle from it, a small one coloured in purple, an Electro spell to be precise. Actually, I’m surprised by this! It does not even seem to be the same person, after all, mere moments ago she was shaking to her boots, ready to run away from here at any moment and yet, here she is carefully executing her plan.

  “Lightning Spark!”

  Spark noises!

  Mere moments later, a line of lightning comes out from the magic circle and towards the potion, hitting it mid-air. The distance between Alice and Anya is roughly 30 meters, however, the distance between Alice and the potion is at around 15 meters when the spell hits it. In other words, a bit too far for something to happen in my simple and humble opinion-

  Blast!

  Well, I sure was not expecting this to happen, the moment that the Lightning Spark hit the potion, an explosion follows it, and a decent to be honest. It seems that, whatever that potion had inside of it, the moment that it reacted with the electricity from the Electro spell it caused it to explode. But as I was commenting about the distance, the explosion was nowhere near Alice, in fact, she probably didn’t even feel the shockwave from it.

  “Too soon… I was too early…”