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A few minutes earlier,

"Dylan, what the hell is going on?!"

"I-I don't know! I'm trying to see if something's wrong with Athena's system!"

Inside the VR room of Global Military Academy building 5.

Neatly arranged in rows, numerous high-end VR pods stood with their sleek, semi-transparent metallic frames revealing the cadets inside them.

All of them were still – breathing as if they had been sleeping all this time.

In the front end of the room, a spiky orange-haired guy stood with a panicked expression.

He had his right hand raised to his chest, on which he wore his smart bracelet. From that device, several holographic screens were projected out in front of Dylan.

Click, Click, Click—!

Sounds of his finger tapping against the holographic keyboard echoed in the room, his panic-stricken face growing increasingly with each passing second.

"Dylan?!"