Karl and Dana headed back for the main floor of the dorms, where there should be dinner served right now, and silently hoped that the other students had not noticed who got out of the helicopter.
That hope was in vain, as the moment that they entered the cafeteria they were surrounded by other students that they trained with, including all the others from the special training class.
"Alright, spill. What happened to you two that you came back a day late in an army helicopter? That is badass, by the way, but our mission barely took an hour." One of the other first year students asked, while the girl beside him nodded.
"Well, you see, it was just a minor lack of communication. The town we were sent to, with the intention of having us eliminate a group of Irontusk Boars headed by an Awakened Rank beast, had been overrun by Goblins an hour before we left. It was too late for the Academy to see the update, so we were delivered to an empty town with no idea what we were supposed to do.
