Quinn couldn't help himself but start to read the book.

It was a long shot but

maybe he would find something he could relate to.

After reading and skimming through the book, Quinn found most of it was useless.
A lot of the things that Vampires did, didn't relate to him at all. Vampires were
required to eat human blood. Some could transform themselves into bats and cast
illusions. While others were incredibly skilled with the sword and hypnosis but
Quinn had none of these things.

The only thing he could relate to in the book was being weaker in the sun.
Eventually, Quinn decided to close the book and call it a day. It didn't seem like he
was going to find anything from the first floor of the library.

As soon as Quinn closed the book though. A familiar sound was heard.

*Ding

\u003cYou gained more knowledge about the system\u003e

\u003c10 exp received\u003e

\u003c15/100 Exp \u003e

"It couldn't be, could it?"

Chapter 10 New Ques

Quinn stared long and hard at the message and reread it multiple times.

"It couldn't be, did I get exp from reading that fantasy book?"

Quinn immediately had to test it out, after reading several different books about
abilities, not one had given him exp but for some reason this book did. Quinn then
immediately picked up another fantasy story, one about dragons this time titled
"Reincarnated into a human?".

He did the same as before and skimmed through most of it but made sure to read
the crucial parts, then when he closed the book there was no reaction. This of
course was expected.

Then Quinn wanted to test another thing out, he picked up another book that was
also about Vampires and did the same. When he closed the book though the same
thing happened, the system had no reaction at all.
In the end, Quinn theorized that after reading all the books, he had gained so
much knowledge about abilities that the system had rewarded him for it. That
maybe the system had just given a delayed message.

He couldn't believe that the book about Vampires was somehow related to his
system. Well, he didn't want to believe it.

When Quinn finished checking things out at the library, he noticed that Vorden
had disappeared from the table and was no longer in the library.

"Huh, he must have gotten bored and gone somewhere else?"

Quinn looked outside the window and noticed the sun was starting to set. He had
been in the library for a total of six hours so far and the time had gone flying by.
Then when Quinn was just about to leave, he received another message from the
system.

<Daily quest has been completed>

<Avoid direct sunlight for 8 hours>

< 5 exp has been awarded >

<20/100 Exp>

Quinn had finally completed his second daily quest. The ride from school had taken
them around 2 hours and with the time spent indoors and in the library, Quinn was
able to complete the task with ease.

Each time Quinn received an announcement, he got a satisfying feeling seeing the
number go up closer to 100. He couldn't wait to see what would happen once he
had reached the goal.

His best guess would be a level up. After all, the system even stated that he
couldn't use his shop feature until he was at least a level 10.

The only thing Quinn wished for at the moment was a quicker way to level up. With
just the two daily quests a day it would take days until Quinn reached level two.

Right now though there wasn't much he could do but go by his everyday life as
normal. As Quinn left the library, he decided to head to the battle arena, there
was a theory that he wanted to test out.

But as he was walking through the school hallway, he could see a kid being pushed
up against the wall by another student. The boy on the wall looked like he had
already been hit a few times and had markings on his face.

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"So it's started already." Quinn thought.

Quinn managed to catch a glimpse of the boy's wristwatch and saw that the
number on it indicated that it was a 1.2 power level. Quinn was quite surprised at
this as the person doing the bullying was quite weak himself which was a rare
occurrence.

The only people he would be able to bully were people who had a power level of one
like Quinn or Peter. That's when Quinn suddenly realized who was up against the
wall. It was in fact peter. Quinn didn't recognize him at first because his face was
turned the other way.

Quinn was debating with himself whether or not to get involved in the first place.
He hated bullies more than anything. They had ruined his school life and it seemed
like soon he would be a target as well.

Of course, Quinn also wanted to test out his current strength and he had found
the perfect guinea pig. The student in front of him was only at a power level of 1.2
so there was a high chance he could win.

The student lifted his fist again to give peter another punch.

"You think you can just bump into me like that and say sorry!" He shouted as he
swung his fist.

Then as Quinn was walking past, he pretended to fall over and bumped into the
student, causing him to fall off balance and miss.

"Quinn?" Peter said as he looked up.

"What the hell was that for?" The student said as he looked at who had just
pushed into him.

The student then immediately looked at Quinn's watch and suddenly the
confidence in him grew.

"What the hell is a level 1 piece of rubbish like you doing?"

"I was waiting to see how long it would take for someone like you to appear. It
seems like I lost a bet with myself. I thought it would at least take a couple of
days."

"And what are you going to do about it?"

Peter was starting to feel slightly worried about Quinn. He knew at the test site
that Quinn had no abilities while the student he was facing did. Peter thought
they might stand a chance if the two of them fought together but Peter, in the
end, was too afraid.
He had been hurt his whole life and didn't want to be hurt anymore. This was just
how the current world worked. The people at the top with the strongest powers
bullied the weaker ones and in turn, they bullied the even weaker ones.

It was the first time the student had ever met someone weaker than him and
suddenly all the pain he had experienced, he wanted someone else to feel it too.
That way he didn't feel like he was at the bottom of the food chain.

Quinn then noticed that the student had both of his hands held behind his back as
if he was preparing something and the next thing that happened confirmed his
thoughts.

<An ability has been detected>

<Initiating battle mode>

< New quest has been given >

<First fight, power level 1.2>

< Win the fight to gain 50 Exp >

Suddenly, Quinn had a huge grin on his face. This was how he was going to level up
faster.

Chapter 11 New Skill

The student stood opposite Quinn was still holding his hands suspiciously behind
his back. Even without the help of the system, Quinn could tell the student was
obviously hiding his ability.

"Come on, what happened to your big balls?" the student said.

"I think you're playing with them behind your back," Quinn replied.

That immediately angered the student which was what Quinn was going for.

"You weak piece of garbage!" the student came charging forward and slashed his
hand out at Quinn.

Luckily Quinn's reflexes were fast and he managed to lift his arm in time to block
the attack and move back a little. However, the student's hand managed to slice
right through the skin of Quinn's arm and caused blood to be drawn.
"Dam it!" Quinn said.

<HP 8/10>

Quinn looked at the student who now had his hands out in view. The student had a
transformation ability that was limited to only his hands. They caused them to
slightly resemble a tiger claw and hardened his fingernails.

Although Quinn was able to block the attack in time, the claw managed to still rip
through his skin.

"Is the system saying if I take four more attacks like that, I'm dead?"

Suddenly everything became a little bit more serious for Quinn. The stinging pain
he was feeling on his arm was real and this was a real fight. The game-like system
had caused him to take things a little too easy. But he was quickly reminded that
this wasn't a game.

The student then immediately started to charge at Quinn once again with his claw-
like hands. As the student swung his right-hand Quinn managed to duck and throw
a punch of his own into the student's stomach.

"What the hell, this guy hits hard!" The student thought.

The student didn't quit there though and decided to strike at Quinn's open back
causing another claw mark to appear.

<HP 6/10>

"Shut up I know!" Quinn shouted as he lifted the student using both of his hands
by the legs and threw up against the side of the wall.

"How did Quinn manage to pick him up like that?" Peter thought, "There roughly
about the same size and he threw him with ease, does he really not have an
ability?"

Quinn didn't stop there though. It was important for him to teach people like
them a lesson, otherwise, they would just come back for more. Quinn needed to
show him to never mess with him again.

Quinn ran up to the student who was lying and the floor and kicked him in the
stomach with full force. The kick was so hard that it caused the student to cough
up a little bit of blood from his mouth.

<Congratulations Quest has been completed>

<50 Exp Received>

<70/100 Experience points>

"Is he dead?" Peter asked.

Then the student suddenly started coughing some more.

"No, but if he attacks us again, he's going to wish he was."

Quinn was actually quite relieved. He didn't know what the punishment was at the
academy for killing another student, even if he explained that he hadn't attacked
first. He also didn't want the burden of death on his shoulders at such a young
age, so he was happy when the system had rewarded him the experience points,
without having the need to kill the student.

Then suddenly another message had appeared.

<Additional Quest reward>

<Skill unlocked: inspect lv1>

Excitement started to fill Quinn's mind as he had finally received his first skill.
Quinn was hoping maybe this would help him figure out what type of ability he had
but the name of it didn't sound too promising.

"Inspect? So maybe it can tell me the weaknesses of my opponents?" Quinn

thought.

Quinn then decided to test his new ability out and looked at Peter who was
standing next to him. Now was the next problem. Quinn had no idea how to use his
skill but the moment he started thinking about the skill "Inspect." The skill had
activated on its own and a screen had appeared right next to Peter.

<Name: Peter Chuck>

<Race: Human>

<Ability: None>

<HP 3/5>

<Blood type A+>

?????

????

Quinn looked at the information that had been given to him and it seemed like
there were some sections blanked out. Quinn could only assume this was because
the level of his skill was still only at level 1 but the information it did give him, was
quite handy.

It told Quinn what type of ability they had which would be very useful in a fight,
it also told Quinn how much health they had. However, there was one bit of
information that Quinn found strange and that was the Blood type. It was weird
for the system to give him information about such a specific thing and Quinn also
wondered how on earth would this ever help him in the future.

Quinn then went up to the Student who was still laying on the ground in pain and
used the inspect skill on him.

<Name: Kyle Main>

<Race: Human>

<Ability: Transformation>

<HP 1/8>

<Blood type B->

Checking the status of Kyle made Quinn learn a few new things. The information
he was given about the ability, only gave him the type of ability. There were
hundreds of different transformation abilities so it wasn't able to pinpoint it.

The other thing was the HP, It looked like for his victory he only needed to bring
down the students HP to 1 but Quinn still didn't know if 0 meant death or not. It
could also just mean the person had been knocked out.

Right after inspecting Kyle though, Quinn had received another notification.

<Optional Quest has been granted>.

<Drink the blood of your victim to absorb a stat point>

"What the, is this thing crazy!" Quinn thought.

Even if it gave him a stat point there was no way he was going to drink someone
else's blood. The very idea of it made Quinn feel sick.

For a brief moment though Quinn looked to the ground where Kyle had spat out
some of his blood.

"Maybe a little bit wouldn't hurt… Quinn, you're going crazy stop it."

"Come on let's go," Quinn said to peter.

The two of them continued to walk down the hallway but while doing so Peter
noticed that Quinn kept turning his head to look at Kyle who was still on the floor.

"He must be worried about him, Quinn's a nice guy after all." Peter thought as he
smiled.

But what he didn't realize was that Quinn wasn't looking at Kyle at all, but was
looking at Kyle's blood that was on the ground.
Chapter 12 A second tes

As the two continued to walk down the hallway. Quinn started to feel a strange
surge through his body.

"Hey, shouldn't you go to the doctor, I'm sure they have a healer who can patch
that up?" Peter asked.

"Yeah thanks, I'll head there now," Quinn replied, "You don't have to come with
me, it will be a busy day tomorrow so why don't you head back to the dorm?"

Although Peter was worried about Quinn, Peter didn't want to stick in the halls
for much longer where other students were able to see him.

Quinn could see that Peter was hesitating about what to do.

"look don't worry, Vorden just went to the bathroom he'll be back any second so
don't worry about it."

With that Peter quickly rushed off and headed back to the dorms making sure to
cover up his wristwatch most of the time as well. He didn't want another incident
to happen again.

Quinn on the other hand, immediately rushed to the nearest boy's toilet just down
the hall. When he entered the toilet he immediately started to look at his arm
were Kyle had scratched it with his claws.

While looking in the mirror slowly Quinn could see that his arm was healing.
Though it looked slow, in reality, it was incredibly fast. For someone to be able to
actually witness his skin scabbing over and healing was an amazing sight.

Quinn had actually felt something strange happening to his body during this
process and he noticed it when he was talking to Peter. It was why Quinn was
trying to do everything in his power to get Peter to leave him alone.

If Peter was to see something like this, there was no doubt that Peter would think
he had an ability.

Quinn waited a few minutes and opened up his status screen. It was as he thought,
his HP slowly regained as well.

\u003cHP 8/10\u003e
Eventually, the wound on his arm and back had completely healed up and only the
rips in his shirt could be seen.

\u003cHP 10/10\u003e

\u003cYour HP had been healed\u003e

\u003cYour hunger has grown\u003e

Just when Quinn received the two messages Quinn suddenly started to feel
hungry.

"Does this mean the system uses food to heal my wounds? It makes sense, the
energy has to come from somewhere." Quinn thought.

The pain in Quinn's belly was very little. It was as if he had just missed breakfast
or something. When Quinn had the chance, he would get a quick bite to eat.

Before Quinn headed back to the dorms there was one more thing he wanted to do
and that was to head to the training room that they had been shown while touring
the school.

It was getting late and the students had an early start in the morning, so most of
the students had already returned to their dorms. This meant it was the perfect
chance for Quinn to head to the training room without anyone seeing him.

Quinn had finally reached the training room in the academy. It was a large oval
dome-like building with a huge empty space in the middle. At the edges of the
room were rows and rows of technological equipment.

There were giant mech robots, shooting targets, and things Quinn had no idea
what they even did but what Quinn wanted to see most of all, was the power level
testing equipment. Inside the training centre, Quinn had also spotted the same
machinery that was used at the testing field.

When Quinn entered the room was completely empty of people as he thought.

Quinn walked over to testing equipment while walking past all the other sorts of
machinery and finale he stopped just in front of the drum-like machine. This
machine was the same machine that tested the user's strength.

Layla had also come to the training room late at night and before Quinn had
entered, she had been testing out her bow and arrow skills, practicing. She always
practiced at night when she was nervous and she couldn't help but worry about
tomorrow.

That was when she suddenly heard the doors open to the training room, being her
shy usual self, she immediately hid behind one of the giant robots. Suddenly she
saw the student walk over to her direction then she noticed something.
"Isn't that the boy that I took the test with? If I remember correctly, he had no
ability." Layla thought.

Layla continued to watch Quinn as he approached the large drum.

"Here it goes!" Quinn said as he prepared his fist,

He swung his fist back and prepared to hit the drum as hard as possible. A number
appeared on the drum and the number slowly started to rise until it eventually
stopped at 10.

"Seems like I was on the mark," Quinn said.

Quinn had a theory after hearing his test scores that his status screen stats also
matched the equipment the school used. Although this was only a theory, Quinn
wanted to test it out for himself.

Layla who had been watching from behind one of the robots also noticed Quinn's
new score.

"Ten, didn't he get five last time? Was he hiding his ability? That score's higher
than my score."

Layla was suddenly interested in the mysterious student and continued to watch
him.

Quinn next went to the hologram spike machine. Last time Quinn managed to last
ten seconds against the machine before it got too fast for him to dodge the
attacks. If his theory was right, he should at least be able to last twenty seconds
now that his stats were no longer halved.

Quinn started the test and when the test eventually ended, he got exactly twenty
seconds.

"It looks like I was right."

With Quinn having confirmed his results, there was nothing left for him to do but
head back to the dorm and wait for the next day to start.

Meanwhile, Layla who had been watching this whole time had seen everything. She
couldn't understand why a student would hide his strength in the school. A low
power level meant you were a target for others.

Layla only had one thought while she looked at Quinn. "Interesting."

She decided from now on she would keep a close eye on Quinn.