The Quantum Games (Alchemists Academy #3) by Gow Kailin

Author:Gow, Kailin [Gow, Kailin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: theEDGEbooks.com
Published: 2013-01-31T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Morning came, and Wirt found himself collected by Ms. Burns, who took him down to the meadows in front of the school, where everyone was waiting. “Everyone” in this case meant all the pupils and staff of the school, plenty of parents, King Wilfred and Spencer’s father included, plus an array of magic mirrors that suggested the whole thing was being broadcast across the Hundred Kingdoms.

Walking down towards it, it looked a bit to Wirt like a school sports day, with flags marking out a competition area, stands for the parents, and the headmaster sitting right at the front, officiating. Except that for today, there were only two other competitors, both standing at the start of what looked like a running track marked out on the grass. Neither Spencer nor Roland met Wirt’s eye as he made his way down to the start. Spencer was stretching. Roland was standing there with that strange lead box of his sitting on the grass not far away, like a lucky charm.

“Now that we are all here,” Ender Paine said, standing, “I would like to welcome everyone around us to the Quantum Games. These three students seek entrance to our school’s elite class, but only one place remains in it. They will compete for that place. After the first few rounds, we will eliminate one of the contestants from the competition, assuming that the tests do not eliminate them in a more permanent way. Then the two remaining will compete with the quantum ball until we have a victor.”

The headmaster turned to face the stand. “There are those who say that this tradition is barbaric, but I say that it is part of what helps to keep our school strong, and that all three young men have shown the kind of drive and ambition we want in this school by putting their lives on the line. Our first contest is a simple one.”

Ender Paine began to chant, and so did several of the other teachers. The ground in front of Wirt started to shake, and suddenly it burst apart, so that a high wall appeared in front of him. Looking beyond it, he could see a pit filled with flames, a wide trench filled with water, and other obstacles. Many seemed to involve either fire or sharp edges.

Ender Paine waved a hand, and there was silence. “The first student to the end of the course, or the last student able to continue, is the victor. Begin.”

Wirt hadn’t expected it to start so simply, so he was almost caught off guard as Roland and Spencer raced forward. Wirt sprinted after them, leaping at the wall and clambering over it. Or starting to, anyway. It was only as he got to the top that he realized it was somehow far taller on the far side than on the one he’d come from, so that there was a drop of nearly twenty feet. Roland appeared to have coped with that somehow, because he was already sprinting

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