Three weeks later, all the academy students gathered at the edge of the forest just outside the city. They were divided into several large groups. The first-year S-Class Group—Ard, Eva, Alicia, Milia, and Beatrice—was leading three A-Class groups, consisting of fifteen people, and four B-Class groups, consisting of twenty people. Everyone was carrying a dimensional backpack to hold their respective group's camping gear and food.
The purpose of the outdoor field exercise, which looked like an expedition and survival training in the wild or on a front line, was to sharpen the abilities of the academy students who would one day become knights. After the briefing, the instructors began separating the teams and taking them to the locations where they would undergo their training.
Ard, Eva, and their group stood at the edge of the forest, preparing to go in. The A-Class and B-Class groups went in first, while the S-Class group, which was Ard and his friends' group, followed behind them.
