Sasha's Pov
As much as I hated this place. I can't complain because this was my safe place. The Academy imposed punishment. It carved boys into monsters, stripped weakness from their bones, and called it strength. But today felt different. Harsher. The air itself thrummed with tension, thick with the promise of suffering.
A test was announced at dawn.
"Mental Endurance Trial," they called it.
But everyone knew what it really was, a sanctioned breaking point. No rules. No mercy. Just wolves and instinct, and a long dark room filled with everything we feared most.
We were herded like animals into the underground chamber beneath the South Wing. The walls sweated with moisture. Chains clinked overhead. The floor was slick with old blood and mud, and the air reeked of iron and sweat and fe
