Lock

**Lock** is the ultimate training academy in the human domain, created for the sole purpose of raising heroes who will lead the charge to reclaim Earth. It was located inside Ashton city, the center of humanity and the last barrier that protects humanity against any outside threats.

## Overview

Lock was a huge facility that spammed over kilometers and boasted top-end training facilities. It had over 20,000 dorm rooms, 800 training facilities, 1,000 classrooms, and 2,000 highly trained professionals and teachers to tend to the students catering.

Most professors are 'geniuses' that have once studied here or had several achievements under their belts. They all had their own pride and thus only actually paid attention to the top students whilst ignoring the mediocre ones. Although they don't say it straight, the teacher's expression could tell it all.

Each students are given a rank determined through measuring potential, stats, and academic achievement.

There are many privileges in being a student from the Lock, one of them is gaining access to all public transportations for free.

The three-year enrolment fee is 30,000,000 U.

## Security

Because the academy is a medium to nurture talented individuals which would later be the future pillars of humanity, the security is high and informations regarding the students are tightly secured. Excluding the professors who were all respectively strong heroes, the security alone comprised of B and C ranked Heroes.

Each professor, be it an assistant, staff, or regular professor must sign a mana contract. This is for security reasons. A mana contract can't be escape without massive amounts of resources and the penalty of having their lifespan shortening by a large degree due to the fact that their soul would get split in half in the process.

## Uniforms

Uniforms were separated into three different colors, **Celestial Blue** (later changed to **Azure Blue**), **Dark Green**, and **Blood Red**. the Celestial Blue was only worn by first years, the Dark Green by second years, and the Blood Red uniform by third years. It was arranged as such so that this way guilds who came to observe/scout students would be able to differentiate between first and third years. With third years being their primary target as they were only a year away from graduating.

## Elective

The Elective fair was an academy-wide event where the third and second years tried to recruit new members to their elective. It is held in **Section B.** Once an Elective was chosen, you couldn't change it until the start of the new year. This was the time when first years would come to contact with the senior years. The more students recruited, the more budget the academy grans them.

There was a wide selection of electives available for each student to choose from. Such as a Specialized Combat course, a Programming course, a Dungeon Exploration course, and many more.

But one has to be careful of **hidden politics** in certain electives as many electives were secretly a recruitment process for certain individuals to their factions. Choosing one faction means being an enemy to all other factions.

Although professors should be no longer part of a faction, they still indirectly help the faction that they used to be a part of.

### **Factions**

There are many factions inside the academy but the ones that has the most influence and members are [Blood supremacist], [Noblesse], and [Empire's sword].

* The [Blood supremacist] faction think that only those who had special bloodlines are allowed to stand at the peak.

* The [Noblesse] faction had a similar concept to [Blood supremacist] in the fact that they only accepted people with certain statuses. However, in contrast to them, they weren't as radical. They didn't despise people just because of their lineage and wealth. Most of the members in [Noblesse] didn't even get to choose to join the faction as it was decided beforehand by their parents. It was the case for Emma and Melissa.

* Lastly, the [Empire's sword]. Unlike the other major faction, they didn't select members based on their lineage or status. It only focused on individual strength. In order to enter, you must prove that you were worthy of holding their name. As such, the requirement to joining the faction was to defeat a senior member. Only upon proving your strength could you enter the faction.

Ranks within the faction are also determined by strength, with the head of the faction being their strongest member in third year.

Professors are technically no longer part of a faction, however their loyalty is still there. Most Electives are under the control of a faction. Once you join a faction, you will officially be an enemy of all other factions that are against the faction which you are a part of.

## Campus

The campus which covered an area of five kilometers squared was divided into 8 sections, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H. The **A section** was where the lecture halls were located. The **B section** was a no-student area and it's where the professor's offices were located. The **C section** was where the labs and researching facilities were located. In order for someone to access the lab, they needed to be supervised by a professor. The **D section** was where the virtual reality room was, it was located underground and was a few kilometers away from the dorms, which were located in the **E section**. The **G section** is where the training facility was located inside a large squared architectural building. It was approximately 2 minutes away from section A, and 5 minutes away from the E section. Because it was a public training facility one needed to book a spot in advance in order to use the facility. Lastly the **H section**, the area that contained the library as well as the 'cube'. The 'cube' was a forbidden area where only the highest-ranked individuals could enter, it was where all the secret training manuals were stored, as well as godly medicine and herbs.

### **Dormitories**

In the E section, dorms were separated into five different buildings with each building bigger than the other. You can access them with money (up to the Hydra building) or if you're ranking is high enough.

* **Golden Rat**: The furthest building and also the shabbiest looking one. It was the cheapest dorm on the campus and was where people that couldn't afford to pay for facilities stayed.

* **Horned Sheep**: Right next to the 'golden rat' building was the 'horned sheep' building. The conditions were a bit better than the 'golden rat' building, but it was still nothing compared to the next three. It's the building where Ren was at the beginning.

* **Manticore**: Starting from the 'Manticore' building, each person had their own personal training facility installed inside of their room followed by a personal designated butler that catered to all their needs. The fees are 100,000 U per months, 1,200,000 million U in yearly rent.

* **Hydra**: Like the 'Manticore' building, it provided personal training facilities as well as a butler. However the training facilities were much more advanced, and they also provided students with personalized meals and diet plans. The meals were all cooked by professional chefs, and the ingredients provided by them were all made from rare herbs and monsters.

* **Leviathan**: The only building that could not be accessed with money. This was where the 'elites' resided. No matter how rich you were, unless you proved that you were a one-of-a-kind talent you would never be able to step in here. Heavy emphasis was put on the creation of this building, as it was where the future pillars of humanity would be nurtured. Whatever you wanted, it was there. Training facilities, high-end food, butlers, swimming pool, VR rooms, highly secured research facilities, if you felt like something was missing all you needed to do was just ask and it would be built the next day. It's resedents could design their rooms to their liking.

## Staff

* Douglas R. Barker - Headmaster
* Donna Longbern - Teacher/Personal Instructor
* Gilbert von Dexteroi - Assistant Tutor
* Alfonse Thibaut - Teacher
* Theodore Rombhouse - Teacher/Researcher
* Thomas D. Shurle - Teacher
* Ren Dover - Assistant Professor(Temporary)
* Kevin Voss - Professor(Temporary)

## Students

* Amanda Stern
* Amber Rose
* Arnold Kane
* Ava Leafz
* Donna Longbern
* Elijah Turner
* Emma Roshfield
* Fabian Parker
* Gilbert von Dexteroi
* Han Yufei
* Jin Horton
* Leo Smith
* Liam Nefeli
* Kevin Voss
* Melissa Hall
* Monica Jeffrey
* Ram Johnson
* Ren Dover
* Troy Derekz

## References

1. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 2
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The Author's POV - Chapter 13
3. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 16
4. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 2
5. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 75
6. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 37
7. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 476
8. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 35
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 The Author's POV - Chapter 36
10. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 51
11. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 107
12. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 135
13. ↑ The Author's POV - Chapter 48