The students watching and the instructor stood there were both shocked.

Jane
hadn't experienced anything like this before. In her five years working as an
instructor, it was the first time someone with no ability had rejected the book.

"Please give me one moment." Jane then stood away from the group of students
far enough so they wouldn't be able to hear anything.

"Yes, Yes, he says he doesn't want the ability book what shall I do?" Jane said
speaking on her earpiece.

"let him take the test." The mysterious man on the phone said.

As the man hung up, he couldn't help but think that Quinn was an interesting
student. He started to look at Quinn's file and what he had said seemed to be
true. The student had no ability and didn't seem to have any relations with the
group Pure.

"Let's see how long you can survive in this cruel world Quinn." The man said.

Back at the testing field, Jane had finished the call with her superior and started
to head back over to the group.

"Sorry for waiting, "Jane said. "Since you won't be taking the ability book, we will
still require you to take the test please."

Quinn thought the whole thing was a joke. If Quinn truly had no ability then they
already knew what the test results were going to be. Was there really a need for
him to take the test. If felt like the only reason they wanted Quinn to continue
was to make himself feel humiliated and small. Eventually, then he would choose to
go to the military and beg for the ability book they were handing out.

"Please follow me."

Jane then took Quinn a little further out onto the field where Quinn noticed that
there were huge craters in the ground, burn marks, and all sorts of things. This
was all done from the previous testing contestants.

"Please proceed to destroy the targets in front of you as quick as you can." Jane
said, " the test will begin immediately."

As soon as Jane finished talking, three targets popped up around randomly around
the wasteland. They were metal round targets with a red dot in the center.

The problem was when Quinn tried to look for the targets, everything seemed like
a blur in the distance. Quinn then realized that his perfect eyesight, suddenly
wasn't so perfect.

"Is this because I'm out in the sunlight?" Quinn thought.

Quinn had no choice but to slowly run-up to each of the targets and hit them with
his fist one by one, his time was incredibly slow of course.

There were then two further tests that Quinn needed to complete. The next test
was a strength test were Quinn was asked to punch into a huge drum-like machine.
Quinn gave it his best shot and hit the drum as hard as he could. The drum
vibrated and made a small sound eventually displaying a digital number in the
center.

"5, strength," Jane said as she noted it down on her tablet.

When the final test had arrived they had brought out another machine. This
machine was a big circular object with many holes on its front. Once the test
started the machine fired holographic spikes at the contestants. All Quinn needed
to do was avoid being hit by the spikes.

The machine went up in levels and eventually got faster and shot out more spikes,
in the end, Quinn managed to get hit and the test was stopped.

"Agility, 5" Jane said once again as she noted it down on her tablet

Quinn had heard the words from Jane's mouth and it started to make him think if
there was some sought a link to the score she had given him. The last test was a
test of strength and Quinn had scored a 5, similar to his system which had stated
he had 5 strength. Then once again this test focused on agility and scored a 5
which was the same as his system.

This meant if Quinn was to take the test at night all of his scores would have most
likely doubled. This also meant as long as he leveled up he could always increase his
score it was as if his ability was the ability to evolve but had some drawbacks with
it as well.

"As expected." Jane said, "Unfortunately your current power level is a level 1."

Quinn clenched his fist and went back to stand with the others. He knew that the
days ahead of him as a level 1 user would be tough but that wouldn't be for much
longer.

Chapter 7 Same Ability

The Test continued with Layla taking the text next. She was the only one there
who had a weapon on her back. The weapon she used was a bow but it didn't look
like a regular bow that people used to use a long time ago.

This bow was carved using parts of a beast. It was black in color and looked almost
as if the entire bow was made of gems. Even the string was made of a special
material. The reason the bow looked so different, was because it was what was
known as a beast weapon.

A bow made from the body parts of a beast. When the human race was attacked
by the Dalki, our technology advanced fast by replicating their technology, with
this, the humans learned the ability to travel to other planets using portals.

These planets would often contain different levels of beasts. The stronger the
beast was the better weapon you could make out of it. It was the first time Quinn
had ever witnessed a beast weapon before as no one at his previous school had
one.

It was strange to see someone of such a young age who has most likely never been
to another planet, to have a beast weapon.

Layla stood in the centre of the field and waited for the test to start. Unlike
when it was Quinn's turn, they waited until she was ready before starting. Quinn
could already start to see a difference in treatment.

When the test started, 5 targets all appeared in different areas of the
wasteland. Layla immediately took out 5 arrows and placed them in her bow,
shooting them all off at once in the same direction.

The arrows shot out fast and strong but then suddenly, the five arrows split off
into their own direction, each of them heading to a different target.

"What a good combo." Vorden said, "She was the ability of telekinesis but it's
quite weak, so instead she uses her ability combined with the bow to control the
arrows."

In an instant, all five of the targets were hit at the same time and she had
completed the first test. Quinn for the first time saw how useful beast weapons
were. Even if you had a weak ability you could make it strong.

Quinn wasn't completely sure what his ability was yet but even if it just increased
his stats as he levelled up, then he thought about how handy something like a
beast sword or something similar would be.

On the strength test, Layla didn't do so well. She used her powers to try to move
her fist even faster when punching the drum but, in the end, her score was only an
8.
The last test Quinn also saw her do quite bad. When the test first started, Layla
tried to use her ability on the spikes coming at her, unknown to her because they
were holograms and not the real thing, it had no effect.

Meaning all Layla could do was rely on her actual body to avoid the spikes, in the
end, Layla ended getting the same score as Quinn.

"It looks like you have the ability level of a level 2 User," Jane said and
immediately the number 2 appeared on Layla's wrist.

Quinn could tell Layla wasn't happy, she stropped back as she walked over to the
group. Quinn thought the test wasn't really fair. Her ability level might be that of
a level 2 but when used with a bow Quinn felt like she could have easily beaten
some level 3 or 4 users.

Quinn was starting to take note that the academy really did only measure the
power level of your ability and not your fighting ability.

The next person to take the test was Erin. She walked forward confidently
without even looking at anyone else. She stood in the centre of the testing field
waiting for the test to start.

Then, 5 random targets appeared across the wasteland. Immediately she formed
an ice spear and chucked it at the target hitting it dead on. She did this one after
the other at an incredible speed, nearly clearing them all just as fast as Layla did.

The next test Erin was even more impressive. She started to gather ice in both
her palms and then after a minute or so of gathering her power, a huge ice collum
was shot from her hands and hit the centre of the drum dead on. The drum rang
out louder than it had before and the number kept going up until it had eventually
reached 50.

"No wonder she's so confident, "Vorden said.

Quinn suddenly thought it was a good thing the two of them didn't fight otherwise
Vordan would have been a dead man.

Finally, when the last test had arrived the instructor told her she wasn't allowed
to use her ability and should just dodge. Erin had no reaction and started the test
immediately. She managed to do well moving swiftly avoiding each spike but
eventually, the machine had gotten too fast and she ended up getting hit.

"Impressive!" Jane said, "best result so far, power level 5."

Erin continued to walk back to her group as if she knew what she was going to get
all along, either that or she didn't really care about the whole thing.

Finally, the last person to take the test in the group was Vorden.
"Time to show you what I got, wish me luck."

Quinn had no clue who Vordan was talking to, but Quinn quickly realized it was him
after Vordan gave a wink in his direction as he walked off to the centre of the
field.

"Could that idiot actually be strong?" Quinn thought.

Most of the time people who strong were either arrogant about their powers or
kept it quiet but Vorden was a strange person. He wasn't exactly arrogant but
more flashy.

When it finally came to his turn and the test had started, everyone's mouth was
left wide open at what they were seeing. On every single one of the tests, Vorden
had done the exact same thing as Erin.

He had used the same ability, the ability of Ice, and had performed just as well.

"See, I told you I was strong!" Vorden said as he showed the number 5 to his new
best friend Quinn.

Just what was Vorden's ability Quinn thought.

Chapter 8 Fate

After seeing Vorden perform well on the test, Quinn couldn't help but think about
what Vordens ability was. When Vorden went to shake his hand that time, it said
that Vorden had tried to use his ability on Quinn. Yet for some reason, his ability
didn't work.

If Vorden's ability was ice, surely his hand would have just frozen, unless Quinn
had an ability to block all ability's but that was highly unlikely. Not only that but
straight after even Vorden had a strange reaction and had asked Quinn what his
ability was. As if he knew his ability didn't work.

Then another thought came into Quinn's mind, why was Vorden so adamant on
shaking everyone's hand he had just met? If Quinn remembered correctly, Erin
refused to shake Vorden's hand but in the end, Vorden still went to touch Erin on
the shoulder, at the time it seemed like a weird thing to do but now Quinn realized
it wasn't and everything was starting to make sense.
Touching was the condition. The last person Quinn touched was Erin, it couldn't be
a coincidence that both of them had the same powers. Which meant most likely
that Vorden's ability, was the ability to copy other people's ability.

It didn't work on Quinn because his ability wasn't straight forward. Quinn
couldn't help his curiosity and had to ask.

"Hey, Vorden is your ability..." Quinn whispered, "are you able to copy other
people's abilities?"

Vorden looked at Quinn and smiled.

"I'm surprised you figured it out so fast, how did you know?"

"When you shook my hand, you were surprised when nothing happened."

Vorden thought Quinn was quite amazing to be able to guess something like that
just form a handshake. After all, it was much more likely that Vorden had
obtained the Ice ability from an ability book. The power for copying wasn't
available as an ability book which meant one thing.

"Are you an Original?" Quinn asked.

Vorden didn't say anything but simply gave a wink back at Quinn, which pretty
much confirmed Quinn's thoughts.

Vorden was an Original, a person from a family who decided to not share their
abilities with the outside world. Someone who was usually able to surpass the
power level of 8.

Once the test had been completed, the hooded man teleported the students to
the front of the academy where they would be staying. The academy was huge and
the tallest building in the entire city. It was as if someone had put together three
hotels.

There was a total of ten different teachers that were currently standing in front
of the academy. In front of them were groups of students who had all finished
taking the test. The students were told to wait with the teachers until all the
students had finished conducting their tests.

Once in a while, a group of five students would be teleported in front of one of

the teachers. Finally, where Quinn was standing, there now was a total of 20
students.

"Okay, you all need to follow me as I take you around the school." The teacher up
front said.

The teacher was a middle-aged man with blonde curly hair and wore Glasses, his
name was Del.
While Del walked around describing the various places of the academy he couldn't
help but smile. It looked like nothing was able to upset him.

"You guys should start to get to know each other a much as you can," Del said.
"After all, the people you are with now will be your classmates."

Suddenly everyone started to get chattier with each other as they were being
shown around the school but there was something Quinn had noticed. The mid-
levels were trying their best to get friendly with the higher levels, while the low
levels were being completely ignored.

And Quinn and Peter were the only two level 1's in the class. Without realizing it,
they had been pushed to the back of the class, and Peter was plodding along with
his head held down. It seemed to have affected Peter a lot more than Quinn but
Quinn had already suspected this would happen.

Suddenly though, a familiar voice was heard calling out Quinn's name.

"There you are!" Vorden said, "Man people just started jumping all over me, then
all of sudden I look to my right and you're gone. Come on let's look around
together friend."

Quinn truly thought Vorden was a strange person but that wasn't a bad thing.
Vorden then noticed Peter was on his own as well.

"Come on, you come over too, stop being a downer."

Peter looked up and pointed a finger at himself.

"Who else do you think I'm talking to," Vorden said.

The three of them continued to hang at the back of the class while the teacher
continued to tour around the school. They were shown a battle arena, where they
had similar testing equipment to the filed on the wasteland, as well as several
square fighting platforms.

They were also shown their homeroom classes, battle classes, sports rooms, and all
sorts. Del would explain a little bit about each area of the school they visited but
Quinn was uninterested in most of it until they had finally reached the library.

"The library here is split into three floors as you can see. First-year students are
only able to access the first floor, second-year students can also go on the second
floor, and finally, the last floor is only for Military personal."

Quinn was interested in the library because it contained books that weren't
available to the public. Here, Quinn just might find some information about his
ability, he just hoped it would be on the first floor.
Finally, the tour was coming to an end as Del stopped just outside the school's
dorms.

"And this is where you will be staying during your stay here, once you have
dropped off your things, feel free to explore around the academy. There will be
no lessons today so you will get to have the rest of the afternoon to explore."

Each student was then handed a number on a piece of paper one be one which
displayed which room they would be staying in.

Quinn then noticed form the corner of his eye Vorden coming towards him.

"Hey, Quinn what room number you got?" Vorden asked.

"Err 23."

"No way you're kidding right, I got the same number, maybe its fate bringing us
together," Vorden said excitedly.

"Maybe," Quinn replied.

Meanwhile, somewhere down the hallway, two other students were having a
conversation.

"Woah what happened to you?" A student said looking at his friend.

"I don't know man some guy just came and hit me out of nowhere and swapped
room numbers."

"Man, should we try to get it back?" the student asked.

"Nah if I saw his wrist correctly, it said he was a level 5 it's best if we just leave
it"

Chapter 9 What system?

After Quinn had finished unpacking, he was free to do what he wanted for the
rest of the day. It was still noon so he had plenty of time to explore the academy
on do what he wanted.

Quinn was currently sharing his room with two people and to his surprise, he knew
both of them. One of them was Vorden while the other was Peter. There were
three single beds in the room each spread out from one another but other than
that the room was pretty empty.
Students were expected to spend most of their time studying or practicing their
skills. there was no time for pleasure.

"What do you guys want to do then?" Vorden asked.

"I'm still unpacking, you two don't have to wait for me, do what you want," Peter
replied.

Peter had opened up a little to the two of them, at first he was completely shy and
hardly said a word but slowly Peter seemed to be coming out of his shell especially
around Quinn. Peter most likely felt comfortable around Quinn knowing that he
was a level 1 ability user like himself.

"I was thinking of heading to the library," Quinn replied, "that will probably be too
boring for you."

"Boring, I can make anything fun, besides I haven't read a book in…" Vorden
paused for a while. "I can't even remember the last time I read a book."

The three of them laughed and then Vorden and Quinn decided to head to the
library together. Finally, they had arrived and the first floor was already busy
with students. Quinn noticed that there were multiple round desks spread out
where students were sitting and In the middle of the desk was a glowing orb.

"Ahh, you're probably wondering what that Orb thing is in the middle aren't you?"
Vorden asked, "It looks like they don't have them at public schools. If you touch
the orb, then it allows you to create a space, in that space, only those people who
have been invited can be heard. This way people are able to talk and chat as much
as they want while not disturbing others."

"Technology sure has come a long way."

Quinn and Vorden then chose a table that had two other people sitting on the
other side. Just as Vorden had said, Quinn could see the two talking but couldn't
hear a word of what they were saying. The orb seemed to only have a range of the
table though. Once you left the table others were able to hear you as normal.

Quinn went looking around the library and picked out as many books as he could
about abilities. Most of them describing what different types of abilities the
world had. Vorden wasn't too bothered and decided to just select a random fiction
book to read.

The two sat at their tables while Quinn started to flick away. After reading
several books Quinn had discovered nothing new. He already knew about most of
the abilities written in the book but not one of them mentioned an ability like
Quinn's.
Vorden had been keeping a close eye on Quinn and noticed the type of books he
had been picking out.

"What's with all the books, are you looking for something in particular?"

Quinn thought about it for a while before giving Vorden an answer. Vorden wasn't
the brightest person when it came to academics but he was quite knowledgeable
about abilities it seemed. He would have to be because of the type of ability he
had.

"I was trying to decide what ability to get since I turned down the school's
offer."

"Oh right, I forgot about that, I thought you might have been one of those Pure
members who hate abilities. Turns out you just didn't want to be a dog to the
military." Vorden replied, "Well is there anything specific you're looking for?"

"Not really, I have no clue. There was one that said something interesting though,
have you ever heard of an ability that is weaker in sunlight."

Vorden suddenly started to laugh out loud.

"What are you crazy, I've never heard of something like that. Abilities are
something our bodies learn. Sure some people have limits and can't learn stronger
spells or can do less than others but for one to get weaker because of the sun.
Sounds like you're a Vampire or something."

Quinn felt a little embarrassed by Vorden's reaction. Of course, Quinn knew this
would be the normal reaction when asking something like this but it was true. As
long as Quinn was in direct sunlight all of his stats would weaken by half.

Quinn continued to look around the library to see if there was anything else he
could find. He had finally gone through every single one of the ability books he
could find but there was nothing. Quinn then looked up at the floor above where
there were some second-year students.

"Maybe there's something up there but I can't imagine what the academy would
do to me for breaking the rules." Quinn thought.

As Quinn continued to walk around the library, he had eventually ventured into the
fiction section and his eyes were drawn to something.

A specific title of a book named "The Truth about Vampires."

Quinn took out the book and gave it a quick look. Vampires were things of fairy
tales, myths even. Even when people started to come out with powers, there was
not one person who came out claiming to be a vampire.