How To Survive A Calamity

With bright flaming red locks of hair, the girl from before sat ahead of me at the front row with a posture that exuded boundless grace and charm.

Staring at her made my eyes wince slightly.

As expected.

'She's dazzling.'

Not as dazzling as Adrianne, but dazzling nonetheless.

And I wasn't the only one to think so.

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[Name: Deandra Lunar de La'curt]

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'A Mage, huh.'

Deandra was a Mana user.

I was able to see one's class after Appraisal leveled up over the last year.

'Deandra Lunar de la'Curt...' something about that name sounded familiar, but that was beside my reason for probing her.

"... She's good."

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<STATS>

Strength: 24

Speed: 26

Agility: 25

Constitution: 24

Mana: 30/35

Luck: 30

Intelligence: 36

Charm: 34

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Terrifying potential.

Strangely, I didn't need an Evaluation device to tell. For a Mage, her stats appeared to be well balanced and more inclined to her job class.

Strength, luck, intelligence and charm. She was the package.

'I wonder what her ranking is.'

Having that fleeting thought, my gaze strayed to a different figure.

It was yet another girl who's looks drew the gazes of the others to her position.

She had platinum long hair, and icy red eyes. Her skin was fair, and almost white. There was a strangely oppressive, intimidating , and cold aura surrounding her, quite different from Deandra who's own almost made one want to stutter.

Her's was different.

It was down right intimidating.

She continued to stare icily into empty space with a sullen and distant expression.

But suddenly.

As if she felt my gaze, she turned slightly.

And instinctively,

I froze.

Pressure.

So much pressure in one gaze that made me freeze in place. It felt like being gazed by a predator.

'W...what is this?'

There weren't many things that could shake my psyche, and I was pretty confident in my mental fortitude above all of my skills.

But here I was.

My instincts screamed at me. This person was strong.

Unintentionally, I ended up holding my breath as a blue screen flickered before my eyes.

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[Error! Error! Error]

[Host's level is too low to read the targets stats. Summary may be provided.]

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Name: Ceres Walkern/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Level: ???

Rank: Hero

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I restrained my anxiety and casually pretended to look away.

'Ceres Walker...'

She was someone I might have to remember to be slightly watchful of.

After learning my lesson, I didn't go probing further at my classmates stats and remained hauntingly still in my seat.

At some point Ceres had diverted her chilly gaze away from me and the stifling sense of oppression I felt from her had lifted slightly.

Although my mind was still heavy, it was only because I thought of how to best avoid, or minimise my direct interaction with someone like her.

'No. She won't suddenly come up and confront me for looking, right...?'

That was a sceptical thought, actually. I knew she was strong, two ranks higher than me even, but I knew nothing about her. And it also wasn't like I was actually looking for people to pull to my side. Ceres Walker was just someone I deemed as possibly sensitive for now.

Well at least now I didn't have to think too hard about who Rank one was...half jokingly, I mused inwardly with a subtle hollow chuckle.

But in retrospect, there was no way someone like her would look at someone like me.

In any case, for now I'd pretend like nothing happened. It would do us both well if everything goes like that.

"Silence."

It didn't take too long after that for a young woman in a suit to walk in. Raven black hair tied in a long ponytail that reached past her waist, and donning a fitted suit, her violet glassy eyes coldly swept over each and everyone of us, filling the room with a certain chill.

It looked like our class teacher had arrived.

Her simple command plunged the previously noisy class into silence.

The beautiful young woman walked up to the front of the class and stood behind a podium and stared silently at us.

"..."

Then she just stared.

"..."

And stared.

"..."

And stared more.

"..."

'What in the world...'

I believe everyone of us thought this as the strange silence continued to stretch.

I swear I could see the light in her glassy violet eyes turn hazy and faint.

Wait. The lost expression she had on right there...

'It can't be, right?'

She couldn't possibly have...

"Snore~"

"She fell asleep!"

Everyone shouted in disbelief.

Immediately, our instructor flinched and wiped the drool off the edge of her lips.

"S-silence!' she tried to sound domineering again, but it was hard to take her seriously with saliva trickling from her mouth.

'At least wipe it all.' I wanted to face palm and hide myself in embarrassment for some reason.

This person... there's no way she could be our instructor, right?

"Ahem." She raised her fist to her mouth and coughed, before assuming her previously cold demeanor.

Her gaze swept through us once more.

"I believe we all are here now..."

It was as she said, the large classroom was mostly filled at this point, but everyone turned to glance at the figure who was standing just outside the door with their head poking out.

The person took a step out when he noticed all our looks and scratched the side of his face embarrassingly.

"U-uhm. I-is this First Year class A?"

He had pale white hair like snow during winter, and deep blue eyes that were magnetising. As soon as I saw him, something tingled deep inside of me.

A vague sense of familiarity.

Where had I seen him before, I couldn't tell.

But there was certainly something about him that gave me goosebumps unconsciously.

The black haired instructor coldly turned at him. The iciness in her gaze turned colder and the boy recoiled a little from pressure.

"And you are?" The instructor said.

But at that moment...

"I'm Alex..."

Something flicked before my eyes.

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[[Appraisal] has been forcefully activated...]

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'What in the world is this?'

My head kept buzzing with notifications incessantly.

First of all Appraisal was forcefully activated and my eye stung. Then came a long string of unfamiliar notifications, with each one making my head throb.

Then...

"Alexander."

Everything went red.

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[Warning!! You have met the Hero of Prophecy]

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