The Rise of the Algorithm King

Chapter 8

The room door opened and another student walked in. He had jet black hair and a muscular build. Glancing at him, Storm recognised him as the guy who took the test first. Storm shifted his gaze to the boy's wrist and spotted the letter "A" on it. It was expected, the boy was exceptional during the test.

The boy ignored Storm like he wasn't there at all and made his way towards the bed to unpack his bag. Storm wasn't bothered by the guy's attitude as he also went to his bed and laid down. There was something he has been meaning to check for a while now.

[YOU HAVE SOME UNREAD NOTIFICATIONS.]

Storm called out the system after laying down on his bed. He got the notification after defeating the Orcs but hasn't had time to click on it.

'I wonder what it is.' Storm pondered internally as he clicked on it out of curiousity. The screen infront of him now morphed to a whole new one.

[YOUR REWARD FOR HIDDEN QUEST HAS ARRIVED]

'Hidden quest?' Storm mused with his fingers on his chin in contemplation.

[10 EXTRA STATS POINTS]

[1 EXTRA MANA RECOVERY]

[A PORTAL TO A HUNTING QUEST VENUE HAS BEEN ADDED TO YOUR ARSENAL]

Storm examined the rewards, but his attention was fixated on the last one.

'A portal to a hunting quest venue?' Storm pondered with a slight look of confusion as he clicked on it to see the description.

[ONCE PORTAL IS ACTIVATED, VESSEL GETS TRANSPORTED TO A HUNTING VENUE. HUNTING DURATION IS 10 HOURS]

'I think this is like the acceptance quest where i got transported to a strange train station to survive for five hours.' 

'I barely got out of there alive and now they expect me to go to a place like that on my own accord? I'm not sure if i will ever use this portal stuff.' Storm pondered disheartedly while dismissing the notification.

'I still need to get stronger, though..and i can't become stronger than being a coward. If i go to the venue and hunt monsters like the system says i might actually level up and gain more cool rewards.' Storm rubbed his chin with a smirk.

He has always been racking his brain on how to level up while in the academy. The academy won't send the students on expedition until 6 months after resumption, and 6 months is a lot of time to wait.

The portal us definitely a jackpot to levelling up, and he wouldn't afford to miss it.

'I will leave tomorrow morning and be back in the evening. I just hope no one notices my dissapearance.' Storm pondered internally.

Few hours later, the students were called in for dinner and Storm exited the room, but his roommate who hasn't said a word sinxe stayed behind.

Storm walked through the hallway and finally arrived in the cafeteria that was now crowded with different students. He made his way to the counter where a plump-looking griffin could be seen distributing the food.

The griffin glared at Storm in disdain before handinh over the tray of food. Storm retrieved the tray and walked to an empty spot at the very end of the cafeteria and began to eat hungrily.

He filled his mouth till he couldn't no more and munched down on it like a hungry pig. He hasn't had anything for a day now.

"Wow, you must be hungry." Lucy spoke as she walked to Storm's spot with Tana beside her and they both sat beside him.

"Easy so you won't choke on it." Lucy blurted out as Storm kept stuffing his mouth with food.

He munched for few seconds before digesting it with his juice.

"You can have mine if you want..i'm not really hungry." Lucy offered.

Storm glanced at the tray with watery mouth, but chose to remain a gentleman.

"Thanks, but no thanks." Storm declined.

"By the way, what class would you be attending?" Lucy brought up a topic.

"What do you mean? Aren't we all attending same classes?" Storm questioned with a slight look of confusion.

"Nope, there are three different clubs. Combat club, healing club, magical club." Lucy explained.

"Oh, i see. It's a actually obvious the club i will be attending." Storm bellowed.

"Combat club, no?" Lucy mumbled.

"Yeah. Since i am nothing but a human, i can't attend the magical club, and i also can't attend healing. Working on my fight moves is all i can do for now." Storm responded.

"That's neat. As for me i will be attending the magical club, while my sister here will be attending the healing club." Lucy informed gleefully while exposing her cute pointy fangs.

"Cool." Storm nodded as he resumed eating. While Storm was feating, he felt someone grab his colar from from behind and forced him to his feet.

"Well what do you?" The boy holding Storm's collar voiced with a smirk. The boy had long crimson hair, crimson eyes, sharp jawline, two black earings piercing his ears, and a tattoo on his neck.

Glancing at the boy's face, Storm recognised him instantly. It was Flare. The same guy that burnt down his grandfather's farm land. Standing behind him was his sister and plump minion.

"What is a trash human like you doing in a place like this?" Flare questioned, tightening his grip on Storm's colar.

Storm didn't respond as he just stod there with his head facing the floor. Images of how Flare burnt down grandpa Sikes's only source of income to the ground camw flooding and made his blood boil in anger.

"Hey, i am talking to you, trash! What are you doing in a place like this?" Flare repeated his question while tightening his grip.

After few seconds of staying mute, Storm finally spoke.

"You only have three seconds to get your hand off me." Storm uttered in a deep and menancing tone.

Hearing the words of Storm, Flare and other students in the cafeteria broke out in serious laughter.

"Can you all believe this guy, hahah..." Flare paused in his laughter as he felt Storm grab his arm and his bones began to twist.