Chapter 36: Hellish Exercises

"Attention, recruits!"

Rest.

The new recruits have already forgotten what the word meant, and it hasn't even been a full day since they entered the Defense Corps. No, perhaps rest doesn't even exist in the Fourth Division.

For the past 8 hours, they have been jumping up and down the Portal without pause. They were handed rations, but they had to eat them while falling. Some thought that by fainting during the fall, they would be able to rest; but they ended up even more exhausted than they already were. They haven't seen a bed, or even the rooms where they are supposed to be staying in if they even existed in the first place.

And so, suffice it to say-most of them didn't even know what they were doing as they just instinctively gathered in front of a superior officer they hadn't seen before.

And of course, this superior officer noticed how exhausted everyone was, it was a sight he has been used to for the past 10 years.

"My name is Sergeant Andrew Tate! For the next 24 hour