The evening sun bathed the academy campus in a warm orange glow.
Long shadows stretched across the stone pathways as students wandered through the grounds in small groups, chatting excitedly about the events of the examination.
Noah walked slowly along one of those paths.
Earlier that day, he had finally been discharged from the academy infirmary.
Physically, most of his injuries had healed.
Mentally he still hadn't recovered.
His footsteps were slow and heavy as he listened to the distant chatter around him.
While speaking with Instructor Morgana before leaving the infirmary, he had learned that the First Semester Examination had officially been canceled.
After the demon attack, the academy had decided it was too dangerous to continue.
There would be no retest.
Instead, the final rankings would be determined by the number of monsters each student had defeated before the incident, combined with the results of the VR Combat Unit Test.
