Extra Pages: The Author's Odyssey

Miss Lillian elegantly made her way to the podium after entering the classroom.

"Good morning Class." She said to everyone,

Standing there in front of everyone, she swept her gaze across the faces of the students present.

"There are eleven Students absent today," she commented.

"...."

"Yes, they were probably exhausted from the Doungen Dane exam"

From the front, a black-haired guy with amber eyes raised his hand and replied.

Yes, it was Kael.

"Out there in the world, you will face many more difficult hardships than the one you have faced. If something like an E-rank dungeon is difficult for you then you just quit the Hero course. Remember Hero must endure no matter what."

Just like Sunny said earlier, absent Students were not to blame here many of them at [G+] or [F-] rank. Many of the student present here right now had colour drained from their faces too aside from the top 10.

Again, it's not their fault.

"Anyway, I have two announcements to make."

At that many students fully focused on Miss Lillian.

"First, Congratulations Cadet Lucas, You have taken first place in the written exam in the whole of Nova Academy. Followed by Isabella, Evelyn and Isla. These four students will receive bonus merit points."

The class went in utter silence as Lillian finished talking, I could swear that 80% of the class turned their heads toward me.

They don't believe that I took first place in the whole academy and beat Isabella and others.

Most of them must thought that I would have cheated on the exam but the fear Miss Lillian didn't let them utter any words.

"Lucas bro, congratulations on coming first in the Whole Academy.

"You don't have to be this excited about it sunny," I said with a nervous smile on my face.

"Why won't I? After all, coming in the top ten means our team will receive a merit point bonus too."

I see, so that was his true intention.

"Congrats Lucas, I don't think you were smart when you were a kid. What changed you?"

Must you bring the past which I don't even have a memory, And what with that sweet smile?

There was a sweet smile on Evelyn's face, too sweet for my test.

"I'll let you know I was always smart but I never showed it."

"Praphas you are right..." Evelyn softly muttered to herself but I caught on it.

"Hey, what-"

"Now then I'm going to make a second announcement."

Before I could continue what I was going to say Miss Lilian Cut me with her voice.

"Originally, after the first announcement, I was going to start class today but after discussing it with other instructors Nova Academy has decided to give you four days' vacation holiday, Consider this a short vacation and release that mental strain."

-"A trip?"

-"So… we won't have to go through Instructor Ravi's class? We don't have to go through that hell?"

-"A vacation?! Finally!"

-"But where will we go? Oh, Novaclif maybe?!!"

Needless to say, everyone's mood quickly got better as soon as Miss Lillian mentioned a vacation.

"Where will you get to go, you ask? You will be going to Silva City."

the Silva City of Elves, the destination for our class trip.

"Lucas this will be fun, why won't we ask some girls from class for a date when we reach there?"

"Dude, what the fuck?"

"What? Is there some kind of problem?"

This guy...

"No, nothing at all."

I honestly didn't want to go. Why? When Adrian was there with everyone in his class S- the rank dungeon overflowed and soon the Silva City was full of [ A+] rank monsters.

The place Adrian staying with his class was far away from the monsters but within minutes monster reached there too.

So they have to fight against [A+] rank monster while they wait for S rank hero and near guild arrives.

In short, it was a massacre. This is the might of an S-rank dungeon.

According to the history of this world, during the starting days, when S rank was the mainstream and S rank people

were extremely rare. These S-rank dungeons were considered a huge disaster.

Although these S-rank dungeons would not release an S-rank monster, the number of monsters released below S rank was already a huge headache.

There's some kind of restriction which

prevents those of the same rank as the dungeon gate from using the dungeon gate.

There are only two ways for monsters of the dungeon world to enter our world, one is through a dungeon gate of higher rank than you and another one is by becoming SS rank or above.

A huge number of casualties have been caused by these S-rank dungeons over time, but with the emergence of SS+ and SSS rank Hero, these danger gates have been reduced to factories that provide several crucial things like mana stones for daily consumption.

"We will leave tomorrow, so if you have anything to pack do it today because we will leave first thing in the morning." Miss Lillia concluded.

'Look like I have to think of a way to save myself from this massacre at all costs.'

***

The next day, departure day to Silva City.

"Fuuu," letting out a deep breath, I slipped inside a black deep-neck t-shirt. "The next four days are going to be rough."

After combing my hair and putting on the most expensive watch from my collection, I looked in the mirror.

Damn, I was handsome.

Maybe I'm the most handsome on this planet.

...I think I got a bit overboard there.

I couldn't help but admire myself for a minute. Ahh, if only I had this face back on my Earth, I could've been a model!

Things are going to be rough for me from now so at least I should just check on myself before the upcoming tragedy.

Nodding in satisfaction, I slung a travelling bag over my shoulder and got going.

I've done my preparations for the Class Trip. It's time to go now.

I'm ready for the second arc– The Masscor of Silva City.