Chapter 64: Team Assignment
"The test will be used for placement of teams, as you have already been told. So it is in your best interest that you perform to your utmost capabilities," the professor announced after a lengthy theory class, elucidating the weaknesses of vampires and certain beast races, like werewolves and nymphs.
Ding
Dong
A bell resounded through the theater-like room, and the professor snapped his book shut with finality, adjusting the glasses perched on the bridge of his nose.
"Head for Paragon Hall," he said simply.
Everyone’s face twisted in horror.
"Of fucking course, why not just kill me?" one student groaned.
Voices of displeasure sounded throughout the hall, and literally NO ONE had seen this coming. Not even Asher with his extensive knowledge of the game had expected this. This had never happened in the original storyline at all.
Something’s changed, he realized with growing unease.
[Perhaps your interference has affected the future you know,] came the familiar voice in his head, and it made him frown even deeper. This wasn’t totally unexpected, but a change in the plot at this level was completely unprecedented.
I have to be careful... if the plot diverges too far from the intended path, I would lose my major advantage—knowing the future, he thought with mounting concern.
The implications were staggering. Every carefully laid plan, every strategic decision he’d made based on his foreknowledge of events, could now be completely useless. He felt like a chess player who’d suddenly discovered the board had been rearranged while he wasn’t looking.