Wardogs

Chapter 42

Chapter 42

From within the crowd, three students in white and purple school uniforms walked towards the stage. Two of them were females while one of them was a male.

The principal proceeded to call out the next names after the first set of students settled down.

"Ardimi Ankles, Frier Ezekiel, and Johnson Adrian from Brair Bullet High!"

Three students clad in green and blue uniforms moved towards the stage after the vice-principal called out.

This was how students were being called out for the next ten minutes.

Eagle wings high!

Reflection academy!

Mount Eve high!

Salvation Academy!

Ascension academy!

Black Rock schools!

Finally, it got to Echelon Academy’s turn.

"Maltida Avans, Drako Turk, and Gustav Oslov from Echelon Academy," The vice-principal called out.

Gustav had a look of confusion upon hearing his name.

’Why was my name called?’ He observed his surroundings and noticed that his classmates had the same look of confusion.

Although they knew that Gustav was academically brighter than they were, they hadn’t expected that Gustav would be picked by the principal.

Maltida already stood up when her name was called but she paused her steps when she heard Gustav’s name and turned around.

"Let’s go together then," She proposed.

"I’m not going, you can head over," Gustav said while remaining in his sitting position.

Angy was seating on Gustav’s right all this time. She didn’t understand why Gustav would not be interested in representing his school.

"Gustav, aren’t you gonna go?" She asked with a confused look.

"Not interested," Gustav answered while staring at the first stage where dignitaries were seated.

Principal Erwin was staring at him from there with a nervous expression.

Maltida noticed the look of disinterest on Gustav’s face and turned around to head towards the stage.

Gustav felt a vibration in his sleeves area and pulled a blue-colored button from his sleeves area before placing it on the side of his forehead.

"Yes miss Aimee?" Gustav spoke with a straight look.

"Is there a good reason why I should?" He spoke again.

"I get a cut?"

"Hmm, fair deal besides he only asked me to participate,"

"Does this interfere with our deal in any way?"

"No?"

"Alright then,"

Gustav ended the call with miss Aimee after two minutes.

At this time the students participating from all the schools present today had been called out completely including Atrihea city’s high school.

They were wondering why Echelon Academy’s third seat was still missing a person.

Chatter! Chatter! Chatter!

The hall was noisy due to that.

Gustav suddenly stood up from his seating position and started walking towards the front.

The noisy crowd quietened and everyone turned to stare at him.

Gustav didn’t even mind the looks of everyone, he kept walking towards the second stage with elegance.

Everyone figured that he was the one who didn’t come out earlier.

Gustav climbed onto the stage with an unbothered expression and sat on the third seat reserved for Echelon Academy.

Maltida was in the middle while the other male student was sitting on the first seat.

The three seats were placed side by side and there was a circular glass panel in front of the participants.

"Now like I’ve said earlier, the rotation is based on numbering," The vice principal said again.

On the glass panels, different numbers lit up on the surface.

Echelon Academy’s glass panel had the number . This meant that they would be the fourth to ask a question.

"Let the exchange of knowledge begin," The vice principal said and went back to his seat.

Three faces were displayed on the large screen at this moment.

The first school that would be asking a question was Cheryl highschool.

The girl in the middle proceeded to stand up and speak.

"Our first discussion will be about the laws of gravitational exploration," She said.

"If a spacecraft was getting pulled into a level wormhole what would be the best line of action for the captain?" She asked.

The screen above projected the question and the difficulty level. The difficulty level wasn’t above the high school level.

A red glowing button appeared on every school’s panel. The first school to tap on the panel would be allowed to answer first.

’Tch, is this even a question?’ Gustav snickered internally but he didn’t take any action.

Beep!

The first school to tap on it was Briar bullet high. They were fast enough to tap on the red display before others.

A male student stood and started answering the question.

"The strength of a level wormhole can be calculated based on the size and the attraction force it emits, the pilot could choose to do a split-second analysis and gauge if the amount of attraction force can..."

The male student kept speaking for several minutes before concluding.

"The force of acceleration upon using that amount of speed drawn from the emergency tanks would free it from the clutches of the wormhole after performing the previously mentioned procedures..." After he finished speaking the screen analyzed his answer for a few seconds before the result was displayed on the screen.

On the screen big green letters that said ’correct’ were displayed and a table appeared where five marks were placed in front of Briar Bullet schools

The audience applauded and the students sat down with a smile on his face.

The next school that was meant in line was Eagle wings high.

A female student stood from their midst and mentioned a topic based on mechanics before poising her questions.

The question and answer session continued for several minutes before it got to Echelon Academy’s turn.

During the previous four turns, Echelon Academy was unable to answer a single question and Gustav had not even tried to touch the red display button since the start.

Now that it was Echelon Academy’s turn to ask a question Draco quickly stood up with vigor and poised a question.

"A particle is moving around in a circle and its position is given in polar coordinates as x = Rcosθ, and y = Rsinθ, where R is the radius of the circle, and θ is in radians. From these equations derive the equation for centripetal acceleration." After he finished poising the question he stood with a smug look on his face.

Pin drop silence!

The students stared at Draco like he was retarded.

"A regular physics question?" Someone from the audience voiced with a look of ridicule.

Even the students on the stage had expected something a lot more technical but they were disappointed.

"Is this what Echelon Academy has to offer?" This was the thought on most of their minds.

Gustav was already laughing internally when Draco asked this question.

Immediately after the question was asked he had already solved it in a second internally. He wondered why the principal would choose such a bum.

One of the students from Atrihea city high school tapped the red button and stood up to answer the question.

"Without loss of generality, we only need to look at the equation for the x-position, since we know that centripetal acceleration points towards the center of the circle. Thus, when θ = , the second derivative of x..."

The student kept explaining until the screen above shown that he had successfully answered the question.

Draco sat down with a look of shame.

Principal Erwin had the urge to facepalm from his sitting position. He was already starting to feel frustrated after noticing that Gustav just sat there with an unbothered expression.

He didn’t look like he was he was concerned with what was going and or like he had intentions of participating.

’This kid... Why isn’t he trying to answer any question?’ Principal Erwin questioned internally with a dark look while staring at Gustav.

- Opponent Sighted

- Opponent Sighted

- Opponent Sighted

Gustav just sat with a look of disinterest as the event carried on.

The next school participants went on to ask their questions.

Atrihea city high had the number on their panel so they were the last school in line for asking questions.

When it finally got to their turn a slim-looking white-haired male stood up and stated that his question was going to be based on spacecraft before poising a question.

"The Slarkovs spacecraft that landed about two thousand years ago, functioned with what type of engine?" He asked while pushing his glasses up.

Silence!

The students stared in confusion after hearing that question.

It was a question based on old technology, which no one paid much attention to these days.

The question was displayed on the large screen and according to evaluation, It wasn’t above high school level difficulty.

After a few seconds of silence, one of the schools tapped the answer button and stood up.

"A Hyperthrerlamic Endrophibic madget series, Said to..." Before he could answer completely a loud beep resounded in the environment.

This was a sign that the answer was wrong.

The student sat down with a crestfallen look after hearing that.

After a few seconds, Salvation Academy tapped the answer display button. One of their female students stood up to answer, only for her to also miss it.

After this, another school tried answering the question which led to the same outcome.

They were all getting it wrong!

This happened seven times in a row. About seven schools had tried answering in ten minutes but ended up missing the question.

Five more minutes had passed and not a single school tapped the answer display button during that time frame.

The male student had a small grin on his face and pushed his glasses up again causing a kind of profound reflection of light to bounce off the frame.

The students had looks of contemplation as they thought hard about the answer.

Gustav stared at the students around like they were clowns.

A few minutes ago they all had looks of haughtiness on their faces like they had knowledge on everything that existed in the universe but now their pride had been shattered by a question he considered to be simple.

"Hey, Gustav why aren’t you trying to answer any question?" Maltida asked Gustav who was slouching on his seat with his legs crossed.

"Why should I?" Gustav replied with an unbothered expression.

"Erm, because you’re here and not in the audience?" Draco replied from the first seat before Maltida could.

He was starting to get pissed at Gustav’s non-challancy towards the event.

"I didn’t ask to be here," Gustav leaned his jaw on his fist as he slouched even more.

"You..." Draco pointed at Gustav with a look of anger.

The other students on the stage were wondering why they would be arguing instead of thinking of an answer to the question.

"You know the answer to the question right?" Maltida asked While staring at Gustav.

"I guess we’ll never know," Gustav answered with a slight yawn.

Draco was incensed upon hearing that.

"You little piece of s**t! Do you really not plan on answering any questions all through?" Draco said with a look of anguish.

He could understand why the Principal would decide to pick Gustav. No student in class three could say they had more knowledge than Gustav on topics like science, history, and the likes. This was also one of the reasons why he was bullied. Although he was seen as trash due to his bloodline, he still had academic intelligence which outstripped that of every student in class . Some of the students that bullied him were jealous about the fact that trash was better than them at something.

They just couldn’t stand it that the so-called trash could do something that they couldn’t.

Gustav didn’t bother answering Draco. His look of disinterest was answer enough as it is.

Maltida also noticed that with this Gustav’s new attitude there was nothing they could do to convince him.

The other students on the stage stared at Echelon Academy’s team with a look of pity.

’They just had to bring a liability along,’ This was the thoughts in their minds.

When the five minutes mark hit, a beep resounded in the hall meaning, all of the students had failed to answer the question so the student who posed the question would have to answer it.

The male student with the glasses moved to the middle of the stage with a smug smile and started explaining the type of engines used by the Slarkovs for their spacecraft in the old days.

"The engine of the old age Slarkovs spacecraft was constructed from a mixture of three fundamental properties Which uses a midan crystal as fuel..."

The explanation went on for about ten minutes.

While the student was voicing out the explanation outwardly, Gustav was answering inwardly.

After the student was done with the explanation, the screen lit up with a purple mark which meant the explanation was graded excellent.

All this time the others had only been getting green ticks when they answered a question but his answer to the question happened to be better explained.

Cheer! Cheer! Cheer!

-"As expected of Holland!

-"Such brilliant explanation from Holland!

-"He’s the most knowledgeable here, after all, the students from other schools won’t be able to hold a candle to him,"

From the side of the hall where Atrihea city high school students were positioned, cheers could be heard.

Some of them praised the student who had just finished explaining.

This same student had managed to answer seven questions out of nineteen prior to this.

He looked like the typical wimp with his glasses and tiny build which was why he wasn’t noticed at the start. The other students practically didn’t notice his presence until he started answering questions correctly and managed to score thirty-five points for Atrihea city high school. Now they were feeling intimidated and saw him as a great opponent.

Holland went back to his seat after explaining, and the event continued.

It was Cheryl highschool’s turn again.

- Persistent Principal

- Persistent Principal

- Persistent Principal

A male student stood up this time to ask the next question.

To his disappointment, his question was quickly answered by Holland again.

As the event went on, other schools were getting more and more intimidated by Holland’s intelligence and knowledge.

Out of seven questions, he had already answered three during this time.

Echelon Academy was finally able to get up to fifteen points after Maltida answered another question.

She had given the correct answers to two questions in total while Draco had only answered on correctly. As for Gustav he only watched the entire scenario.

Principal Erwin was already sweating in his seat as he watched the event play out

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An hour went by and every school had taken turns two times.

On the ranking board, Atrihea city high school was in the lead.

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. Atrihea city high school » points

. Cheryl High school » points

. Briar Bullet High schools » points

. Black Rock schools » points

. Eagle wings school » points

. Ascension Academy » points

. Echelon Academy » points

. Salvation Academy » points

. Mount Eve high » points

. Caldruis Eva high » points

. Reflection Academy ». points

. Rose High school » points

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