Keith spent so ti with them in the public bath, but once they ca back to the church, all six of them got to work along with Clara who was waiting for them. By the ti the training program started, they were finally done with all the stitching.
The sound of bell reached their ears, and Keith who was busy learning how to stitch from Clara, looked towards the direction of the source of the sound.
There was one old man who was standing on a makeshift wooden platform at the centre of the training grounds.
"Everyone gather here, please! Everyone gather here, please!" the old man said, his voice amplified, which anyone nearby could tell that it was thanks to an awakened ability.
People followed his orders and gathered in front of the wooden platform.
"Hmm, looks like everyone is here." he said as he looked at the people below before continuing, "Alright, it looks like the news has spread and you guys found out about certain aspects of the training camp. We won't hold it against you, for those who don't know, I'll explain everything now."
"Firstly, you will all be put into teams that range from five to ten mbers. Next, like most of you have been inford, you will be sent to a random forest. It is actually a large island that has been recently discovered and it's as huge as the Baroma Kingdom. It has it's own two hills, a river and finally a thick forest.
You will be taken there by one of the arch bishops belonging to the War God Balmond's Church and once you're there, you will be given a ti limit of three days to do whatever you want, but from the fourth day onwards, there will be one instructor who will co to your team.
You must do every single thing that they say and based on your performance in their tests, you will be given a grade by every single one of them. At the end of the training program, every one of your team's scores will be added up and ranked from the highest to the lowest scores.
There will be no penalties, but the top three teams will get prize money and the first team will receive an additional cursed artifact." he said and paused as he swallowed so of his saliva.
"Now, let's go through the rules. Teams are allowed to fight over various things, but you are not allowed to kill or seriously injure soone. If that happens, you will be punished according to the damage caused. Which ans, if you kill soone, you will be executed.
Next, the things you're not allowed to bring with you. There are only two things and those are money, and food. You're allowed to bring water, but that's the only thing that's allowed." he said, but a nun who was standing behind him leaned forward and whispered sothing in his ear.
"Oh yes, you're also not allowed to bring revolvers, hunting rifles or anything that uses gun powder."
"Now Keith is useless in our team, tch tch." Alia whispered in Keith's ears, only to get elbowed by him.
She let out a soft grunt as she covered her mouth with her hand, "Ooof, you didn't have to do that."
"You should've just shut your mouth then." he retorted as he kept his eyes on the old man who was on stage.
"Now then, this is probably sothing that you guys already know, but there will be two people who will be tagging along with you to keep tabs on your progress. One will be from the sa church as you and the other one will be from any of the other four churches so that things stay fair.
They will not help you with anything, so do not expect them to do that. If you guys do have any of the things that have been banned, feel free to hand them over to the two people who'll be in charge of your team. Now, that is all for the announcent. Grab all your things and assemble here in three hours."
More than half of the people rushed back to their tents, but Keith's group was among the ones that didn't feel too pressed about the timings as they had most of the things packed and ready already.
But they still felt slightly depressed thanks to the ban on foods. And in Keith's case, he did feel a little under prepared now that he wasn't allowed to bring his revolver with him.
He looked at Laura, Caleb and Nathan who seed down and sighed, "Guys, don't worry too much about it. We prepared as much as we could and you guys contributed by buying food for us. It's just an unlucky coincidence, but don't worry too much. We have Laura who can turn into a damn python for God's sake! She'll be able to easily hunt animals for us.
Nathan is the best fighter among us, so he'll be the most important person when it cos to defending or attacking other teams and as for Caleb, he'll uh be very useful in keeping the fire hot.
Based on where we'll be sent, there could be various ways he could put his ability to use. From what I can see, it's only who's the dead weight in this team since I won't have access to my revolver.
Alia is good with the guns, but she's just as good with hand to hand combat. Clara on the other hand is even better than Alia, but that's what Alia and Brandon told . As for Brandon... he's our stone pillar. The front line fighter along with Nathan."
Clara crossed her arms across her chest, "Don't put yourself down, please. You were the one who prepared most of the things until now and you also taught us a lot of stuff when it cos to camping out in the wild. You're our team's brains, the one who knows his stuff and has a stable ntality.
Even if we don't consider that, your danger sense will be able to save us from a lot of potential dangers. Don't you guys think so too?" she asked as she turned to look at the others who imdiately nodded.
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