Ren's badge chimed at exactly 4:00 AM, and the notification that unrolled above it took nearly four full seconds to finish loading.
He stared at it in his study, coffee-not-coffee cooling forgotten in his hand, and felt something in his chest that he hadn't experienced since the worst weeks of Project Chaos — the specific, hollowing sensation of realizing a problem was substantially larger than his initial estimate.
[COMPULSORY FIRST-YEAR CURRICULUM — ACADEMIC CYCLE 1]
The scroll kept unrolling. And unrolling.
First Period (5:00 AM – 9:00 AM): Physical Conditioning & Rune-Suppressed Endurance Trials.
Morning Block One (9:30 AM – 11:30 AM): Curse Zone Resistance & Miasma Tolerance Training — controlled exposure, resonance collar monitoring, live-field emotional contamination drills.
Morning Block Two (12:00 PM – 2:00 PM): Applied Carving Anatomy — Soul Pathway Mapping, Rune Compatibility Diagnostics, Resonance Induction Practicum.
