Dust rose as bodies moved, swords clashed, and the sound of steel striking steel echoed across the training yard.
Christina coughed out blood, bruises already forming under her torn uniform. She lay in the dirt again, her limbs aching and breath ragged. Around her, the other trainees were already moving on, focusing on their drills as if her humiliation was routine—because it was.
Even though Christina was bleeding, no one came to help her. But it wasn't bullying or anything like that. The simple reason was that they were in the well-known Knight Training Sector of Sturgon Academy—infamous for being a faculty that crushes newbies. Many students were too afraid to even apply, given how tough life in that faculty was.
