Chapitre 2: Roommate
Roan walked to his room through the map and live location in his new school watch.
While walking he noticed, not a lot of students were in the building. Or maybe there were but no one actually showed up.
The hallway was empty. All the rooms were soundproofed, nothing could be heard outside the rooms.
When he reached the dorm number 26 , he walked in. There were 3 students around same age as him in room.
Two of them were on same bed staring at their watches, expecting something to pop out of it and react the very second to it.
One of them was sitting on his bed in lotus position. It seemed as if he was meditating with a cold sutra.
A chilling cold air surrounded him, nearing his bed, a normal person could feel himself freezing.
All of a sudden he opened his eyes glanced at Roan who was abnormally staring at him.
The situation got awkward as both of them stared at each other without speaking a word. " Hi, I am roan" said Roan suddenly.
"Alex" said the guy before closing his eyes.
Other two of his roommates seem to have expected such reply from Alex, then they started by introducing themselves.
"Tom , fire ability user, Rank C" said the guy with red hair. He was about 170cm in height and had a sharp jawline.
"Peter, telekinesis user, Rank C" said the last guy still staring at his watch. He seemed to be a lazy guy with a chubby body.
He was around 180cm but the shape of his body made it seem like he was short.
"You don't have any abilities, right?" asked Tom.
"No, I am expected to get one at academy" answered Roan.
The privates not always had abilities, some could just make it to the top with the war machines and other advanced ammunition provided by research.
However, most of them still wanted to have abilities. The Authority ( government and big powers ) researched for abilities most suitable for late beginners.
Usually people cultivating with Sutra had to train from childhood. It made a strong base for their abilities and did not make it difficult to level up.
It did not mean adults could not begin to train, but they would have to be more suited to an ability to level up easier. It made the options of abilities filtered out, but the number of abilities available in world was still enough to leave them with more than hundred ability to choose from.
Even if the late beginner Private had difficulty level up, using the beast crystals and bodies from ranked beasts they could still somewhat strengthen themselves and level up.
Rich people could even have the element booster made from Biotech companies to level up faster.
"you are lucky then, Nates has publicized their beginner training space. If you are not dumb enough to die in that space, you will probably have same potential as Private from Nates." said Alex
"yes , we have watched the video. They teleport you to a small world or more like folded space which works like a video game. You have to hunt and train in there like the real world but the beasts there are more adapt for strengthening, and leveling humans up." said Peter in agreement
"You would not have trouble to stubbornly stick to a particular element ability, you can have 3 or 4 of them without much trouble."
"You can even have all of element affinity as long as what you train in is an element ability and not something unique ability other than an element type"
"Even normal humans can grow their body strength twice or thrice stronger than before. They just have to absorb some beast crystal for it." Tom nodded and explained
Hearing this made Roan look brighter. He knew there were some boosts and medicine that academy provided but he could never imagine a different space made specifically for leveling up could be available.
After getting to know his roommates Roan unpacked his bag.
He went through his watch. There were several features in his watch he could use.
The school had disabled all their connection from outside world. But still all the information except for what's happening in outside was made available.
You could use points allotted to you every month.
Some features had to be paid for, to be used.
One of them was Library, the library had books on beasts, Training Sutras, and books written by experts on their experience of leveling up.
Roan tried to search for books in library but except for most basic military training ability there was no ability book or Sutra available.
Military ability book was even available to normal humans. It was the most simple ability training available out their.
It reinforced the body of user. It seemed very simple and weak but one of the strongest Rank S private trained with it.
If not for the sneak attack or four or more S Rank ganging up on him, he could beat them all up alone. Military named it REINFORCE.
Not only it makes the body stronger it is also resistant to the damage from elemental attacks. Most people train it as their support ability only for it's defense.
[People can only use one ability type but many within that category. Those who use REINFORCE as support type ability have their main ability as body strengthening. They cannot abruptly change the category of ability they train in but abilities within that category. They can train in two or more Sutras of body strengthening if compatible. ]
Roan didn't dwell on the library more. He had already trained in a family sutra given by his grandpa. Most of its effect was same as the REINFORCE. The only thing different being his sensitivity and reflex.
Though he didn't know how his grandpa trained as a space ability user.
In the beginning he thought it was a Sutra for foundation and not something related to space.
But after cultivating it for years his increase in sensitivity made him realize he was wrong.
If he grew more and reached Rank D from Rank F , he very well might be able to sense space and even alter it a little. His grandpa only used it for space ability. It did not mean other elements could not be learned through this Sutra.
His Sutra reinforced his body while improving all his stats, Speed , Strength, Stamina, Energy all of it was balanced. It felt slow and useless in beginning but training further would yield more benefits.
He wanted to look for more information on Sutras but Tom asked him to rest. "Tomorrow, the academy will be allowing the no ability users of 1st year batch to access the new space" Tom said
Roan went to his bed and laid down. He was curious of the new hunting space and could not sleep.
He went through academy forums and looked for this new space. It was a space size of a city which could be controlled by Nates.
For seven years this hunting space was capitalized by Nates in name of research. When news of such space rifts began appearing then Nates publicized the information regarding control of hunting space.
Nates was one of the main families in control of the world. They had been training their members in the hunting space. The result was three times more efficient than the biotech medicine and other beast products.
It did not even take that much time. The hunting space was in different timeline. Five days on Earth was thirty days inside.
Only beginners below Rank C could access the space though. Ranks above C would only yield the benefits of time difference present there.
There were no beasts for Rank C and above to hunt and beasts below Rank C would not improve the abilities and bodies of privates.
After seven years of research Nates made a system to help the user see their improvement.
The device was just a watch. It sensed the live strength of user's body an even showed slight changes such as improvement of strength after absorbing a beast crystal and other products.
Increase of strength after ingesting a booster.
Increase in affinity and resistance of a certain element, etc.
These feature made the hunting space trend as game world. Breakdown of users strength in numbers made it same as games.
Roan did not know if he could access the hunting space.
All the trending forums had only mentioned of the hunting space.
No one mentioned if their is an eligibility criteria to access it.
He had no idea of his grandpa's condition right now. He thought if school knew his grandpa then they probably have details of his mission and his contact.
He could not just ignore the old man after he got enrolled in academy.
He was not well adapt in his family's sutra but still, he could sense the ground outside the room vibrate due to his high senses and perception.
There were three or four elements outside the door in hallway. It felt like someone was fighting with all his element but was not trying to break the dorms gate. More like someone practicing air outside their door.
But he had lots of questions and could not be bothered by some stranger in hallway.
All of his questions could only be answered by the academy's administration. He just went to the door and reached it when Tom shouted "Don't".
He did not know why Tom did react like that but he stopped from opening the door. He looked at Tom with questioning eyes as if expecting an answer.
Tom sighed and said " It is good that I was awake just now, if not you would have been beaten blue the moment you stepped out."
État de l’alimentation hebdomadaire
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Power Stone 
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