Following the rest of the students out of the hall the girl quietly slipped out of the group and hid behind a large pillar watching as the rest of the students as well as the guards moved past her. She quietly slipped back into the throne room just in time to see the king and Duke burst out into laughter.

"I can't believe we managed to summon such gullible fools as heroes, not one of the noticed a thing. They didn't even call me out on my story, oh gods it's too funny." the Duke laughed alongside the King's words "now now your majesty they may be gullible but at least they're useful, any useful one will be used to defeat the demon lord and any useless ones can be sacrificed for magical power, it's a win win situation."

The king nodded "That's true, they should be getting their statuses checked now, let's go watch to see who we need to keep an eye on." the two men continued laughing as they walked out of the room, completely unaware of the small girl hiding in the shadows who had just heard every word they had said.

"I thought as much." sighed the girl, she didn't really care for the classmates but at the same time she didn't feel quite right abandoning them, sighing again she ran to catch up to the king to silently join the rest of the group.

Several minutes later and the girl had followed the king to a large room filled with the students, sneaking back into the crowd the girl watched as one by one students approached a large crystal column in the center of the room and placed there hand on it before one of the robed men from earlier would nod and designate the students to one of two groups standing at different sides of the room.

"I bet they're trying to separate the useless ones from the useful ones." thought the girl as she noticed the smartest and most athletic students on one side and the mediocre students on the other. Deciding to get more information the girl raised her hand and walked forwards to go next to touch the crystal pillar, carefully approaching the pillar she slowly touched her hand to it ignoring everyone else in the room suddenly a screen appared in front of her

Status

race: Human

name: Lilly

gender: female

age: 15

level: 1

class: assassin

Health: 100/100

Magic: 120/120

strength: 12

dexterity: 204

intelligence: 213

willpower: 1500

vitality: 10

endurance 12

All of a sudden the display flickered then disappeared, the old man looked at the girl, Lilly in shock "excuse me but the crystal broke just now so i didn't see your status would it be possible for you to tell me what you remember about it?" Lilly nodded in relief she wasn't sure about strength vitality and endurance but her dexterity willpower and intelligence seemed way to high for her class, she would rather be put in the average group than the gifted group .

It would be easier to slip away in. "I had 10 points in everything, and i don't remember the rest." the old man looked at her in annoyance and disappointment. "go stand over there on the left side of the room then." said the man indicating to the mediocre side, Lilly smiled and slipped into the group of forgettable faces.

As she slipped to the back of the group she started to pick up snatches of conversation going around the group "I wonder when well learn to use magic." was the most common topic however Lilly just sighed unbeknownst to the others in her group they would likely get the bare minimum of teaching before they were killed for their magic power.

Wondering about what she would do she suddenly noticed that Will was walking towards their group to join them. This was perfect if she could warn Will he could help the rest of the group escape and maybe help them survive in the real world all she needed now was information.

Just as Lilly was about to ask one of the guards a question the old man spoke up again "Thank you for your help heroes we now ask for you to follow the guards up to your rooms and rest for training begins tomorrow. Mentally mindmapping the routes throughout the castle Lilly quietly followed the guards to her new room.

Once she had entered the room she noticed how the door was locked firmly behind her, she smiled such things were trifling for an assassin of her caliber, taking the lockpicks she always carried out of the sole of her shoe she quickly picked the lock and snuck outside her room. Within this castle their had to be information somewhere, she just had to find it.