"Yes! We have the same color!"

Breaking the silent atmosphere, a youth with corper hair shouted as he held out his token, glancing at the busty girl beside him.

’hehehe, fool’

Just like the whole crowd had been attracted, the stern woman focused her gaze on the joyous youth, who froze seemingly to realize his grave mistake.

"Ten percent points deducted" the woman said in a stern voice, then simply brushed the youth off.

Whilst the other two men behind her studied the youth’s appearance a bit before resuming their aloof self.

"Ashford- Red"

"Singh- Cyan"

" Cyprus- Purple"

"You’ll be assigned to each of this House through your stay here, till you either breakthrough to the Sky Rank or clock 35 years here and be expelled"

...pausing, she then spread out both arms in a welcoming gesture...

"Welcome to Avalon"

Just as she said these words, the grand wide gates parted open to reveal a chiseled paved path with white bricks, shinned upon by the bright sun from above, there was a long stretch of spirit flowers at each side, lush green with fluttering rare butterflies around it.

Looking further, the paved path suddenly parted, dividing into three, each with a flag planted beside, very noticeable. The first one was Red with a flaming lizard drawn on it, the second one Cyan with a Seahorse symbol, and the third Purple which represented House Cyprus only had a single curved horn as a symbol drawn on it.

Without much thought, it could be easily guessed that each path lead to the signified staying ground of each house. But more surprising was that the area was filled with pacing activities, groups of robed students walking in groups of two, three four, despite the difference in the color of the Mystic Robe they wore. While they were dwelling in surprise, some of these youths turned towards them with smug looks.

But more captivating was the huge tall buildings mounted on each slope of hills that protrude from the mountain. The way they were constructed seemed to merge with the mountain, in an unprecedented way despite the irregular geography around it.

One, two, three... there were five of such tall buildings positioned separately on each hill in total. Even attached to them were big vines and trees growing freely. Everything looked amazing like it was a merge between man and nature.

Meanwhile, Andrew glancing at the token in his hand one more time, turned to stare at his step sister, whose face looked down. Sensing her resentment, he revealed a smile, while tightening his grip around her palm in support . Naturally the cheeky and sneering gaze of those around them didn’t escape his notice.

As it turned out, when they dipped their token into the cauldron, Andrew’s own turned purple and Ava cyan. Shattering most of his vile plans. For example the plan of using Ava to fish out all the arrogant powerful scions, then selectively going after the girls around them, to land a successful NTR blow on them. Sisters, finances, top admired talents, he had planned to fuck them all. Or much cheap stake... he would attach himself to Ava like a clingy junior brother who was suffering from sister complex. Since Ava was a top talent, there would probably be some arrogant prideful idiot that would invite her to their cycle. Linking him up to those that really mattered. He still had a much grandiose plan that, using hid naive clingy skills he would try to get on the good sides of the true geniuses of Avalon, those ladies who were probably around 26 upward that were trying to break through to the Sky Rank would be thrilling to fuck. And if luck had it, he would also shoot shot on the female teachers. But for now he was ignorant about their quality.

"It’s going to be alright sis, I’ll take care of myself..." sneering villainously his heart as he said these words with a saddened look, then pressed Ava into his arms, hugging her tight as he established his role before the audience as her junior brother.

Whilst at first, to my surprise, Ava reacted in the same manner not caring of the audience.

"Ah, that bastard idiot just happened to have such a sister" a lot of the spectating youths cursed lowly as they gritted their teeths in anger. Of course the ban of no talking had been lifted as everyone walked through the gates.

"What a spectacular sight" glancing at the Faust siblings who acted dovey with each other, the stern-faced woman hovering in the air scoffed, albeit surprised that such things still existed among noble families where the competition was the most fiercest. But then as if remembering something, she flew before the moving crowd beneath her.

"Your rooms have been assigned on the token, you’ll receive a guide shortly" she stated plainly, using Mystic Essence to buster her voice for the crowd to hear before vanishing towards one of the tall buildings on the hills.

Meanwhile, not long after the woman and the other two men left, several young men looking to be in their twenties and clad in colored Mystic Robe of the three houses, appeared apparently on gallant spirit beasts.

Upon arriving, they unmounted and unsummoned their ride, each puffing their chest in pride with smug smiles as most of the gathered crowd marveled at their ride.

However, appearing calm and collected with his expression seemingly unimpressed, the guy assigned to Andrew’s group which had been formed accordingly with 200 per group numerically to their numbered tokens.

’A genius?’ Andrew nodded as he weaved his eyes a through their group of 200.

’Hehehe, there are no girls?’ he thought glancing at the other group not far from them to discover that it was opposite to their own.

About two hundred girls gathered before a purple robed beauty, her face expressionless as she spoke s few words to her group, but then glanced towards him seemingly to have noticed his lecherous gaze and casted him a disdainful glance.

’Hehe...’ but right as he was about to let outt his evil laugh in his heart, he noticed the striking resemblance between the girl and the young man leading them, both clad in purple robe.

’Siblings?’ he thought, casting an observing glance at the guy, before turning to stare back at opposite group which had several veiled beauties among them.

’Such arrogance’ he commented as his eyes kept on observing, noticing several other girls worthy of earning his nod to their unique appearance or packed a handful of blessings on their chest.

"Follow me"seeing that everyone was probably done assembling their self with whatever proper goodbye they could mouth out off to their friends, the guy ordered as he turned his back, walking before the group.

But unlike they had expected, that he would keep quiet and just lead them to their supposed building . He pointed at the far hill where the most tallest of the buildings was, held with tall pillars like the entrance to Pharaoh’s palace.

"That’s the Mission Hall, where anything concerning mission, points, merits... will be awarded, received and claimed."

"That’s the Cafeteria where you get your foods"

"That’s the Martial Hall where you train and test your skills"

"That’s the Meditating Hall, you’ve heard of it"

" And that’s the Treasure Hall, Runic Armaments and Spirits Plant are exchanged there" his words were curt, simple and short, not bothering to go into details he only mentioned the common and single basics.

Though Andrew felt tempted to shun their guide and tell him to go into details, being the voice of the people, he held back and instead focusedly admire the guide of their counterpart. Who had an uncanny resemblance to theirs yet, two contracting temperament. Just whose fault was it.

Meanwhile, the thankful crowd at first that their guide hadn’t been a show off like others now felt utterly dissatisfied by the way they were being treated... but of course it was left a remaining feelings since it couldn’t be expressed.

But then, the guy stopped, staring up the mountain he pointed at nothing in particular, finally retaining some bit of emotions in his voice.

"Only the top one hundred of each house is allowed to go up the mountain every six months and meditate for a month." And that was all, the dude went back to his usual demeanor and led them in silence across the wide paved path,until finally they arrived at the side of the mountain, before a long stretched three story building, constructed a medieval manor style, each floor topping about six meters in length.

"Here this is where you’ll be staying"

"Here in Avalon, there is no separation of class and first years. As you’ve noticed the Mystic Essence on the way thinned out as we got here, reducing back to Mystic Energy..."

" Based on Mission,Ranks, quick progress and merit... You can advance alongside your room mate to the next building forward to the area with Mystic Essence, back to the path where we began."

" Each room by 2, assigned to the number on your tokens you’ll be sharing." The guy stated, seemingly unable to avoid blabbering for long.

"That’s all" he added finally before summoning out his Feral Cat mount and leaving them to stare in daze.

’Wtf’ Andrew cursed absentmindedly as he cursed the departing figure of the guy.