Cosmic Ruler

Chapter 75 Aftermath

Next day, Jake woke up to find his friends sitting in the living room.

"Don't you guys have classes today?" Jake asked as he approached them.

"It seems you were sleeping all this time," Mark said and then turned on the T.V.

Jake looked at the T.V., which showed the destruction of a big estate, various houses broken and corpses laid here and there, the workers collecting and disposing of the corpses.

"What place is this?" Jake asked.

"Granvis Clan," Mark said.

"What about Dio?" Jake frowned and asked.

"We don't know," Emily said.

"We tried to contact him but he wasn't picking up his phone," Jimmy said in a sad voice.

"[He is alive]," Nexus said. With the system's help, he has marked all his friends, so he knows Dio is alive.

"He is fine, don't worry," Jake said.

"How? Even Peak Emperors ranks were slaughtered," Mark asked.

"I meant, let's stay positive," Jake said.

His friends nodded, and then after some more talk, they returned.

"Luna, can the academy find the whereabouts of Dio?" Jake asked.

"They can," Luna nodded, and then Jake asked Luna to find about Dio.

"I wonder what he is doing?" Jake mumbled.

Time flies, and a year passed by.

There was no news of Dio. Jake's friends thought Dio was no more, while Jake thought he might be trapped in a secret realm.

While in reality, Dio was training with Rami to control his impulses and his now half-tainted nature.

He didn't contact his friends in fear that he would attack them and might kill them. After all, after becoming half-tainted, all those resentments pushed him to S rank.

Jake, after a year, has now reached C+ rank, while his friends are also in C rank but at C- and C rank.

It was a cautious move of Jake, or he might have been dissected by now if he raided Gates and improved quickly.

Jake looked at his status and saw he is now level 89.

"11 more, and I can have a job in real life too," Jake mumbled as he wiped his sweat after training with Luna.

"Your swordsmanship is improving, good," Luna said.

Luna's advantage as a robot allowed her to download any type of Weapon arts and weapon mastery, making her a perfect training partner.

"Well, it is rewarding being trained by you," Jake said, and then Luna nodded and went to the kitchen.

"7 a.m., huh?" Jake mumbled, seeing the time, and went to shower.

Coming out, Jake ate his meal and then went to class.

Today is his year-end examination, which is made up of two phases, Knowledge and Practical test.

The written part was easy for Jake, who had Akashic Eyes, allowing him to see the answers as easily as having a book next to him.

Jake then went with everyone to the hall where their practical tests are going to happen.

Jake reached the hall and, spotting his friends, he went to them.

"Yo," Jake said, and everyone greeted back too.

"How was the written test?" Mark asked.

While Emily gave him a kiss.

"It was moderate," Jake lied.

"Hmm, it was difficult," Jimmy nodded, and Mark agreed.

"What about you, Emily?" Jake asked.

"It was easy," Emily said.

"As expected of the bookworm," Jimmy mumbled, but Emily heard him and gave him a good smack.

Jake and Mark shook their heads seeing this and talked about the practical test.

"What kind of practical test is it?" Jake asked.

"Last year, it was one-on-one match and survival in a Sand biome," Mark said.

"So, a fighting and survival ability test, huh!" Jake nodded and said.

"Yes, though every year it changes, so we don't know what will be this time," Emily said.

Jake and others nodded, and then lined up when the teacher appeared.

The teacher standing at the stage looked at everyone, he first looked at the special admissions who are standing proudly at the front except the top Rank who is standing with his friends, and then at the rest of the students,

Seeing everyone present, he started, "As always, the Practical Test will take place in World's End," he said, and everyone nodded.

"If you expect me to say this, then all of you are wrong," the teacher said, and students looked at each other.

"This time, it will happen in the real world," the teacher said, and everyone gasped.

"Virtual world tests have made all of you ignorant,"

"In the virtual world, you fight like it's your last fight,"

"Injury for an Injury,"

"But in the real world, this is not how you fight,"

"In the real world, no fight is last until all your enemies are killed,"

"Therefore, to make students come back to their senses, Practical Tests will happen in the real world from now on,"

The teacher said, and students showed mixed reactions. Top rankers didn't mind this. Among the rest, some were excited, while some were worried.

"Follow me," the teacher said, and students followed after him.

"This will take us to your test location," the teacher said as he told them to board a big Drone-like vehicle.

Students nodded, and then took their seats inside.

After some time, the teacher appeared once again but as a hologram.

"The test is called 'survivalist,'"

"It's simple. Soon, this Plane will malfunction, and all of you will be crashed down to ...um, unknown location,"

"And the passing criteria for the test is to Survive a month,"

"Every plane has a captain to choose, but since there is a Special student here, he is now the captain,"

"Best of luck," saying so, he vanished.

Next, students saw was Pilot coming out of the pilot seat and jumping from the plane.

Students: "..."

Arggggghhhhhh

Arghhhhhhhhh

"Help us,"

"Mommy,"

Mayhem started, and Jake yawned, and then, taking a deep breath, he said, "SILENCE."

Everyone fell silent.

"Now, first check if this thing can be driven," Jake said, and then a student in the Top 10 stood up and reached the cabin.

"Everything is broken," he returned and said.

"Check if there are any supplies," Jake said, and then everyone started to check the Plane.

After some time, everyone brought what they found to Jake. Jake then told all of them to carry the amount they can.

Everyone nodded and started distributing the supplies among them.

After everyone got the supply, Jake said, "Those who have the ability to survive any fall on the right and those who can't on the left,"

100 students, that was the capacity of each Drone-like plane, and among the students in Jake's plane, 60 of them don't have the ability to survive a fall.

Jake looked at their numbers and sighed, "Pair up one on the left and right," Jake said, and then Jake paired up with the rest of the students.

"Jess, bind all of us," Jake said to a student who has the ability to control threads,

Jess nodded and then connected all the pairs.

"We will jump with one second gap," Jake said as he blasted open the door of the Drone.

The still-flying Drone balance started to break, and Jake jumped first.

"I am doing Skydiving again," Jake thought, remembering the past life.

"Spread yourself like this," Jake said as he stretched out, the students nodded and then did what Jake did,

Jake looked up and saw students in pairs of two following after them, each of them has a distance of 1 m.

Jake instructed them and then all of them reached at the same height.

"It's fun," one of them suddenly said.

And his partner, a blue-haired girl, smacked him and told him not to give their Academy any more ideas.

Others laughed seeing this, and then Jake, who was looking at the approaching ground, shouted, "NOW!"

As Jake signaled, everyone used their abilities, some formed a water ball around them to break their fall, some used wind, some gravity, and some simply flew. Jake too used Light Wings to help everyone safely land.

Arriving at the ground, Jake said, "I checked from above; this Island consists of many biomes, and we took the Forest one,"

Others nodded, and then Jake said, "Check and make the list of supplies,"

Everyone started working as per Jake's order, some girls took this task while Jake, along with others, went to create a ground for them.

The others broke the trees and cleared the ground; they laid the leaves on the ground and also made fences.

Soon, they started building some simple huts and also made a bathroom.

"Phew, it's better than nothing," Jake said, and the students helping him said

"Better than nothing? It's the best actually."

"Yes, Captain, we didn't know you have this talent."

Everyone praised Jake for his art, Jake smiled and thanked them.

"[Who would have thought, you will use Craftsman Authority like this]," Nexus said.

Jake shrugged and then took the list of the supplies girls have arranged.

"So we have food, and water and some other camping stuff," Jake nodded seeing the list and then told them to check their expiry date.

Girls nodded and checked, and their faces paled. "Captain, it's only until three days from now."

Jake didn't find it surprising and said, "Then let's eat this for now and go to hunt."