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Chapter 1 — The Age Of Exotics And Technology

Ding!! Ding!! Ding!! Clark was startled awake from the familiar ringtone of his military pocket phone. “Ahh, don’t disturb me,” he complained in a grumpy tone, as this just destroyed his sweet sleep experience.
“Wait, what says the time?” He suddenly questioned in alarm, as his consciousness quickly cleared up. His eyes immediately flew wide open, as he stood up to search for the phone.
“Oh, thank God, the time’s still at 530 am. I still have 30 minutes before the morning drill,” he exhaled in relief. He went off to wash his face with water before he suddenly recalled.
“Why the hell did the phone ring if there is still time? Oh shit!!” He cursed as he bolted back to his room.
There he saw the phone as he quickly unlocked it, prompting a message notification to be displayed. He opened it reading
“Good morning cadets, there’s been a change in plans, all cadets will start the advanced technology training today. So be prepared, wake up early, and freshen up for this new phase of training. Good luck, from Captain Spoky.”
“What!!?” He questioned loudly while jumping up.
“We are starting the advanced training today? Oh my God, that’s awesome”. He exclaimed in surprise, as he directly entered a completely giddy mood.
He rushed to dress up, as he reminisced inwardly on the lessons that he learned about the advanced technology training. All cadets looked up to when the training commences, as it meant that graduation day is nearby.
And because of the rumors spreading about how the government provides some of their machinery, elite armor clothing, guns, and other ammunitions for the cadets, it was even more attractive.
Rumors even talk of the provision of the legendary stealth armor that was used in the assassination of the former Aragan president to the best cadet, after points are calculated.
Araga is the largest, most populated, strongest, and most prosperous country in the world at the moment. His country, tsk tsk, is just a small country at the corner of the world here with slightly middle-grade military strength.
Sparta, yes, that’s the name of his country, it was named after the ancient Greek civilization. Sparta is among the lower-ranked countries, in terms of military power and technological development.
This is the 22nd century, the age of exotics and technology. Technology is at its peak in humanity at the moment, quoted a famous professor from his country’s military. At this age, there’s nothing like going to school, only virtual learning.
Technology has advanced to the state where all children are augmented with implants to boost strength, intelligence, and other attributes, as well as to access the internet through their implants.
These augments are now compulsory in every country, that from the age of 10, every child is expected to be augmented and to learn everything that he/she needs through the implant online for a period of 5 years.
Then as from the age of 15, most children are allowed to focus on any profession they want. But 95% of parents push their children to the military, to help build their country’s strength by becoming soldiers.
This is kind of like the primitive ages where strength speaks. But in this case, military strength and technology speak.
Through the combination of exotics and technology, advanced military and medical techs have been produced to the extent of treatment being made available for life prolongment.
Law and order are in the hands of the new superpowers, the 5 biggest organizations in the world.
The Mercenary alliance, The Apocalypse military organization, The Sea Farers alliance, Oakland, and Araga are the rulers of this era. Araga is widely known as the strongest force with the most territory.
Araga and Oakland are the only 2 superpower countries. The 5 superpowers always fight and restrain themselves for exotics, to gain more technology to enable them to be the strongest power in the world.
This tug of war has not yielded any significant impact for decades, as the big 5 are mostly evenly matched in terms of military strength. Even if one was superior, the margin was too small to make a significant impact.
This even concentration of power led to the suppression of all other lower countries and organizations for years after the great battle, which brought the law of fight for survival.
Invasion between lower countries is a must, because of the low concentration of exotics and resources left by the big 5 being too low to serve the needs of all other powers.
The suppression by the big 5 led to a lot of resentment, but at this age, only the ones with the biggest fist get to speak. Clark came from a relatively average family, with both his parents dead. They both died on the battlefield.
The dream of every country in this era is to get a soldier who is exceptional enough to be recognized by the big 5. This indirectly led to a sharp increase in the number of people becoming soldiers, in the last few decades.
If a soldier is picked from a country by any of the big 5, that country will immediately undergo vigorous changes for the better as they can lean on that superpower.
Every other occupation is no longer as attractive, as only soldiers are better paid and treated, especially the exceptional ones.
In his cadet training base, Clark was not the best but he was definitely among the better ones. He had to make mama proud in heaven by joining a superpower, that was the dream of every soldier.
By this time, he already had his bath and was set as he quickly got ready to go.
“Clark!! Clark!!”
An exceptionally loud voice suddenly started yelling his name, startling him and almost making his thought process go haywire from the noise.
“Ahh, who is that?” He suppressed his irritation and ran to the door, fully dressed in the standard Spartan cadet uniform and boots.
“Clark Pendragon, where are you? Shit, this fool will make me late again,” Leonard grumbled.
Leonard is Clark’s friend from camp, both of them are 18 years old. They met on camp 3 years ago and they flowed together well personality-wise, hence their friendship.
“Oh, it’s Leonard the drunken hands. I’m coming”. Clark replied sarcastically in a lazy tone, as he quickly identified his friend’s voice.
“My name is Leonard Bane. Clark, try me this morning and you will get your fair share of pummeling.” Leonard retorted with a dark face.
Leonard is fair-skinned, slightly too muscular for a boy his age unlike Clark, who is slightly dark-skinned and has a mild athletic build. Both of them are of the same height, as they face each other stone-faced after Clark opened the door.
The tension built as they just stood there before Clark burst out laughing and bonked his friend on the head.
“I’m ready bro, let’s go for training before 600 am knocks. Or do you want to earn the captain’s ire?” He asked, as he slightly raised his brows to form a nefarious curve.
“No, Penrabbit”. Leonard replied as he tried keeping a poker face, but he failed miserably as he immediately laughed the next second, before gesturing for them to go.

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Chapter 2 — First Phase Of The Advanced Tech Training

“FORWARD MATCH!!” Anderson yelled as the young cadets did their daily morning parade. He is the best cadet among this batch. Very good in leadership, marksmanship, and fighting abilities.
He is dark-skinned and slightly muscular, just like Clark. He stood out from the rest cadets, as he led them throughout the parade.
Sitting to the side with a batch of soldiers in Spartan military uniform behind him, is Captain Spoky, the leader of this military base leisurely watching the cadets.
He suddenly stood up, after they ended their parade, as he faced the cadets. “Good morning cadets”.
“Good morning captain,” they yelled in reply.
“I know a lot of you are excited because you will start your advanced tech training today. Let me give you a piece of advice cadets, don’t be too excited because your suffering begins today”.
“No time for pampering. Your training is two years early, so I expect you to all be two years more competent. After three months of rigorous training, I expect all of you to be officially soldiers of the Spartan republic, so act like one.”
“Your training today will not be the usual one,” he continued while keeping his stern face.
“The government provided standard guns and bullets for you all. So be prepared, because you will all be going to the forest. Your first training is to survive by yourself in the tropical forest for five days”.
“Do not expect to go there and sleep, because the government personally provided genetically modified predators, more dangerous than anything you’ve seen before”.
“Your implant may have boosted you in various ways, but so are the animals. Don’t be too hopeless though, because after these three months is over, the survivors from you three hundred will be given benefits you didn’t expect”.
“Good luck cadets, be dismissed for thirty minutes for preparation. Do not carry any accessory,” he reminded before they left.
“All you need will be provided by the military here. Your three months of suffering starts here,” he said, as a grin slowly morphed on his face.
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“Oh, shit. Leonard I’m dead, we are going to the forest alone. They want to kill us; I swear, they want to kill us”. Clark blurted out, looking troubled as soon as they reached his room.
“Shit, stop it. Clark, stop behaving like a fly and let’s think of how to survive this man” his friend replied.
“What are we thinking of drunken hands, you can’t possibly think we are guaranteed to survive right?”
“I know Clark, no guarantee, but it is also not a sure way to death. Clark, I thought you were the fast and accurate guy, skilled in fighting and marksmanship. Just because of going to the forest, you want to soil your pants, chill man”. Leo said in a slightly provocative tone.
“Hey, I know. I am going to be the greatest soldier alive, helping my country ally with any of the big five, but I’m just being rational man. You understand what I mean”. Clark replied with a grin.
“Yes, I know Clark. Yes, you are the greatest. So, how are we going to go about this?” Leo finally asked the big question.
“I don’t know, what else? Go there, survive and save the country, that’s all. Or is there anything else?”. Clark asked, with a stop asking me stupid questions expression on his face.
“Ok Clark, be careful though, I want to eat before going, let’s go”. Leo ignored his friend’s expression, while calmly diverting the direction of their conversation.
“Ok Leo,” Clark calmly replied, as he also wanted to eat.
There was not much they could plan, so Leo [i.e short form of Leonard] quickly forgot about their little conversation, as they got ready to go. After eating, they both returned to the parade ground.
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“Hey, he’s here man,” Clark nudged his friend.
“Leo, I said the Captain’s here. Keep quiet,” he raised his voice a little before his friend heard.
“Ok cadets, you’ll be divided into groups of ten,” Captain Spoky didn’t waste time as he directly started giving instructions.
“You’ll have to follow the sergeant your group is assigned to. Follow the sergeant leading you, to your designated helicopter. You will be dropped in segments, one by one. Good luck.”
Luckily, both friends were placed in the same group. Though temporarily, Clark still rejoiced as they had time to talk a little. “Leo, I saw you talking with Anderson, what was the talk about?” He suddenly asked as he leaned forward a little, to get closer to his friend.
“Oh, he is in the other group. Ahh!! Bro come closer, what I heard from Anderson was surprising,” Leo exclaimed, as he suddenly remembered something.
“Bro, Anderson told me the reason that our advanced tech training was brought forward. It’s because the Moca republic wants to invade our country earlier than expected, so the change of plans.”
“Shit, those blood-sucking Mocans. I hate them,” Clark blurted out in hatred. His overflowing hatred was not without basis, as he had a rather huge beef with the Mocan republic.
“Leo, if that’s true, then good. I will prove myself during this invasion and massacre those bloodsuckers. If that’s the reason, then I’m more eager to survive this training and trash those Mocans”.
“Me too Clark. I wish you luck bro,” Leo said, as he also understood his friend’s feelings.
“You too”.

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Chapter 3 — The Moca Republic

The Moca republic is a country with middle-grade military power, directly opposite the Sparta republic in terms of territory comparison. They were neighbors in a sense, but that was just a title without any close sentiments attached to it this era.
Due to invasion being a norm in this century, the Moca republic has always coveted the Sparta republic’s territory. The Moca republic is more advanced than the Sparta republic technologically, but not by much. This has served as a catalyst, for the Mocans aggression against the Spartans.
Spartans are indoctrinated into the hatred between the two countries from birth, so there is hardly any good interaction between them.
No business transactions are made. Instead, they trade blows through small skirmishes and a major invasion attempt from either side. But the Mocans are more enthusiastic about it, as they are slightly stronger.
Clark, as a Spartan, was naturally indoctrinated into this hatred between both states as well.
He sat close to Leonard in the helicopter, as it flew into the big tropical forest. The only ammunition provided to them by the military, is a pair of daggers, a standard Spartan cadet uniform, a pair of boots, a pair of military gloves, and a sword made from reinforced steel.
What made them resentful, was that the government refused to provide guns for this part of their training.
He silently observed his ten teammates, who were all serious and stone-faced. He silently prayed, when he felt that no one was looking in his direction. He felt slightly nervous, “God give me the strength and brains to blast through this training”.
He suddenly felt ridiculous, when he realized what he was doing. “Am I afraid? No, shit, that’s for cowards, plants like Leo. I’m not afraid, I will crux through this man.”
As he thought, his friend suddenly turned to look him in the eye with a grin. His expression saying, “hahaha, nervous piece of shit”.
He almost wrestled him there immediately before Leo chuckled, suddenly saying, “Clark don’t die, please.” He jerked a little in his position, as his heart softened.
No matter how his friend pulled at his nerves, they were still bosom friends at the end. These little antics were not harmful, as it’ll only make their bond stronger.
A friendship without any antics, nor mischievousness, is just a farce. He told his friend, you too, as this was the best answer he could muster. In his mind, he just fought a fierce battle.
Being 18-year-olds, there was a lot they have not encountered yet. This is their accumulation years; they were not ready to waste the joyfulness in it by being serious all the time.
“I’m going to use this training to train my reflexes and obtain real battle experience,” he muttered to himself silently, as he slowly clenched his fists.
Fifteen minutes later, Leonard was dropped in an unknown part of the forest. Ten minutes later, Clark was the last cadet remaining about to be dropped, he looked at their escort Sergeant Leroy.
The sergeant noticed his stare. He turned to look at him, smiled, and spoke. “Clark of this batch of ten cadets under me, you are the most exceptional, don’t disappoint me.”
He only smiled in reply, as he quickly dropped down from the sky. After the helicopter departed, he exhaled.
“Variant beasts, come on. I’m ready bro,” he suddenly said sarcastically, to improve his spirit for the training. You never know, the smallest gesture now, can be what will save your life in the future.
The area of the forest he was dropped, was kind of swampy, he wisely decided to leave this area to a drier environment. Five days of survival in the forest are not beans, he reminded himself to be self-conscious of his surroundings.
At last, he finally found a dry area. He quickly prepared and set up a tent to pass the night. He unsheathed his sword to cut down some trees nearby, to get their broad leaves.
As he worked, he was startled as something suddenly crossed his front with abnormal speed. He picked himself up with fast reflexes, as he hurriedly backed off. He looked, and to his surprise, it was a cat. He looked closer before realizing it was an augmented cat.
“Shit, this piece of shit scared the hell out of me,” he thought in slight anger and embarrassment.
“Shoo!! Get out of here, I don’t want to kill you,” he said out of sympathy, the main reason was mostly that he didn’t want meat at the moment.
To his surprise, this punk started hissing with obvious hostility. It suddenly lunged forward with startling speed, almost reaching his face in an instant. He was also very fast, as he reflexively blocked with his sword.
Dang!!! His sword was knocked away, as the cat tried to strike and claw at his face with its claws.
He remembered the fundamentals, as he immediately rolled back. He stabbed forward with a dagger which was stored in his boot. It connected to the cat’s back, as it meowed in pain but still kept its aggression.
It clawed with its other claw at his hand, as he suddenly felt a sharp pang of pain, almost disorienting him. He concentrated harder and pulled the dagger upwards to the cat’s neck, widening its injury.
Already expecting its retaliation, he jumped back. He left the dagger behind, as he quickly got his other dagger. He threw it with practiced precision, it connected to his target’s left eye.
Before jumping, he already calculated where his sword fell on. Upon landing there, he picked it up and immediately did a backward slash. The cat accelerated to him but it was within his calculations.
The sword connected, removing its neck with ease. Blood spurted out of its neck, as his tense nerves finally relaxed a little.
After killing it, he immediately turned around, scrutinizing his surroundings the way he had never done before. After feeling a little safe, he returned to the body of the cat. He stood there in a daze just staring at it, as he was still shocked.
“Jesus, man, augmented animals are really scary,” he blurted out, still shocked. “It seems I won’t be cruxing past this test after all.”
He picked the leaves that he cut down previously and arranged them in a slightly covered shape, to protect him from prying eyes in the night.
He scouted the surroundings for any latent threat, seeing none at the moment he lit up a fire. He roasted the cat and nursed his injuries with the forest medicinal herbs he got in his way. This was just common knowledge, he learned through his implant.
After eating a little, he suddenly wanted to sleep as it was already late. “What says the time? Where is my watch?” He asked himself before he remembered where he was, suddenly feeling foolish.
“I’m in the forest, I almost totally forgot for a second there. Ok, I can do this. Just close your eyes after entering your tent to sleep.”
He did just that, feeling satisfied that he could at least use the sun rays and his shadow for keeping check of time tomorrow. “That’s better, God is still with me”.

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