Both students were standing opposite each other, Earl's left arm was shattered, while Jake was standing there ready to attack, Earl was sweating as the stinging pain in his arm was unbearable, he clenched it with his right arm, but never once removed his gaze from Jake, he saw a message pop up in front of him, but ignored it immediately, he already knew what it was, it was probably just his HP depleting, but he didn't care, although his left arm was shattered, the adrenaline was still rushing through his body and all his senses were alert, Jake began gathering air in his hand once more and repeated the same compressing process until he had gathered pressured air in his hand, he then readied his legs to burst out towards Earl once more, as he gathered the air around his feet, his black buttoned up shirt and black trousers began flowing up about in the air, he readied himself and stomped his black shoes in the floor, as he looked Earl dead in the eye, "Shit!!", Sidney said s
"Earl White, number 345 and Jake Philip, number 601 eliminated", those words resonated through it the stadium as both the crowd and the students were all shocked at what had just happened, Jake was the student who had the most eliminations, and Earl was the student who hadn't shown any form of Alchemy in the exams, they had originally aimed that he was hiding it for later on in the match, or wasn't a physical form of Alchemy, but after seeing him get his arm shattered, they began wondering if he didn't have any form of alchemy what so ever, if he was hiding it, he would've at least tried some form of attack against Jake after being damaged so badly, but all they saw him do was grit his teeth and bear the pain while launching physical attacks, they also had the suspicion that he might be a strong Alchemist, but they're suspicions were quickly gone, because if he was a strong Alchemist, he should've knocked him out in one punch, but the attacks they saw looked like regular old punches,
All Earl could remember was speaking to some weird guy and then he suddenly appeared in his house, he appeared right in the middle of the shop, where his grandfather was, his grandpa was laying on his back in his chair, relaxing behind the counter with his trusty clay pipe and monocle, after seeing Earl suddenly appear on the floor, he rushed to meet Earl, he immediately noticed that there were now casts on his left arm, and bandages on his stomach and neck, "Earl, what happened?, and where did u come from?", Earl was still rubbing his head as his vision was still blurry, he tried moving his left arm but immediately felt pain, it wasn't as immense as it was earlier, but it was still pretty painful, he then remembered everything that had happened today, "Oh my arm?, I was fighting Jake that's all, and for how I got here, I don't really know", after hearing what Earl had said, grandpa Ollie was furious, his eyes almost popped out of his face, "Jake did this to you?!!!!!!, I'll
It turned out that the dorm system had all teammates who participated in the entrance exam become roommates, Earl just learned this after walking into his room, he saw everyone, Henry, Sidney, Ruby, and Annie, they all had different tours at different locations, with different people, so they hadn't noticed each other until they had approached the dorm rooms, they were all getting more acquainted with one another as they each introduced themselves and where they were from, "Okay I'll go first" Henry said, "You might already know, but I'm Henry Brice, and I'm from Greyhedge village, it's a really unpopular place, so I'm not suprised if u haven't heard of it, you guys already know, but I use ice Alchemy, and... oh yeah I'm 16 years old", the introduction was short, and informative, most of the things he said, they already knew about, but the place he said he was from didn't ring any bells for anyone, even Earl who was a total nerd for all things alchemy, had studied about almost
Earl stood in front of Jake trying to figure out a way out of this situation, his left arm was still broken, and he knew close to no alchemy spells, of all the people he could face right now, Jake was the worst one he could think of, he needed to escape this and fast, he began scanning the halls to see if he could see any sign of his teammates, but saw none, once again, he sensed the attack, but before he could react, Jake dug his knee into Earl's gut, Earl's face contorted, and he clenched his stomach tightly, before he could even think, a fist came flying at his face, but unlike the other two, Jake gathered compressed wind in his hand before punching him, luckily Earl was able to react in time and threw his left arm to defend against the attack, it was a natural reflex for him, and he hadn't thought about the fact that it was already broken, but due to the sharp pain, most of the attack had landed, and only a small percentage was blocked by his arm, he was sent flying through t
The words of the principal resonated throughout the entire crowd of students, "You are hereby expelled from the Wallace Alchemists Academy'', everyone was dumbfounded by the sudden statement, and didn't know what to make of it, "Expelled?, on our first day?" Henry complained while walking out to the front of the crowd, he then walked up to the principal before continuing, "you can't do that Mr. Glenn, you can't expel all of us", "and why can't I?", Horace said with a smirk on his face, "Well, you can't expel all of us, if you do then.. then...-", "-Then what Henry?" Horace asked, everyone kept quiet as they couldn't find a proper reason for not doing so, "Then your school would have expelled hundreds of students for no viable reason" Ruby said stepping forward, "although you do run this school, expelling all one thousand or so students stood out here will be worse for the school than it is for us", shifting his attention to Ruby, Horace slight smirk left his face as he answered h
Everyone was still a little shook by what had just happened, out of the one thousand students that started the day with them, only a mere hundred remained, they all didn't exactly know how to feel, they hadn't really interacted with most students, and hence didn't exactly have an emotional attachment to any of the expelled students, after all it was only their first day, but regardless it was obvious that many students were already acquainted with one another, it was evident for people like Earl and his friends, and Ralph and his crew, some other students also had acquaintances they got close to, but ultimately chose different decisions, even though most students didn't know each other, just the thought of having a knowing that 900 students decided to leave the school seemed surreal, many began wondering if truly they had made the right choice by choosing to stay at the cost of signing their lives away, all in the name of pursuing their 'dreams', however now was not the time to
Earl, Annie, The strange girl and the other student all stood shook and confused, as well as a little scared, the man that stood in front of them seemed a little sketchy, he hadn't opened his eyes since he appeared out of the Oak tree and hadn't spoken since his invitation to the group, they all stared at him confused and approached him cautiously, "do not fear my younglings, come with me into the sacred tree", the mysterious man then turned around and walked into the alchemy circle, once more the circle glew and just like that he disappeared, everyone suddenly stood in place once more, thinking of what to do next, he had invited them into his 'sacred tree', but he seemed a little too weird, and the students weren't that trusting of a weird person, "what should we do?" Earl asked the group, he looked at Annie hoping to get an answer out of her, but she just raised her shoulders while saying "I don't know", he then shifted his focus to the other girl, "Well, you only live once don't