Capítulo 9: Doubt.
After stepping outside the elevator, a woman dressed in a business suit greeted me. The man didn't step outside the Elevator.
"Please follow me,"
She said.
"Ok."
I replied with half enthusiasm and other confusion in my voice to appear indifferent to what was happening so they would think I was clueless. I wonder how long I need to do this, it's tiring.
We went down the hallway, and I observed the surroundings.
And Damn, was this place looking good.
There were paintings all over the hall, along with pedestals in front of them holding small statues, and other precious artifacts. The 'hallway' itself seemed as if it was out of this world. Instead of carrying the futuristic theme like most of the world I had seen outside, the area carried the medieval aesthetic.
If it wasn't for the fluorescent lights on the ceiling, I would have been certain we were in the castle of royalty or something.
We reached a massive metallic door, The woman scanned her card on a small display beside the door and it opened.
She gestured for me to come inside, and what greeted me inside was not a room like I had expected, but rather an open field.
"Please put your hands over the orb in the center over there."
She said with a gentle tone.
After I had entered the field, I felt…strange. It was as if my entire body was laid bare…
'People are watching me.'
I looked up to find multiple people looking at me from the balcony that was present in this area.
'...it feels weird.'
I am used to being stared at, but their stares felt oddly unusual…I am certain the people are using a skill or an artifact.
Mentally sighing, I went over to the orb and placed my hand on it.
It shone with a bright white light once again, and when I noticed it turning black…I repeated the same thing I did previously.
"...it truly is SS rank.''
"Unbelievable... "
"So the orb down there wasn't faulty huh…'
The people on the balcony commented, I stared at them in silence, trying to portray the act of a scared child.
'Now it's time for 'that''.
I thought, referring to the lie detector machine.
'Never let chaos be shown…never.'
Two men came inside the area, dragging a large, metallic pod with them, the hatch wide open.
"Please enter the pod."
Preparing myself, I entered the pod, and the hatch closed once I was inside.
The pod was a stat measurer, more often than not used for the truly great talents that many had their eyes on, it would inject my body with a ton of needles and other such apparatuses to examine and display my stats.
…And It was also a fucking lie detector.
I remembered the protagonist mentioning the pod was incredibly painful. The procedure wasn't painful because the body was pumped with anesthetics…but the days after it were.
Pretty soon, the needles were injected into my body, at various points…Strangely enough I didn't feel as much pain as I had expected…
'Did they administer the anesthetic already?'
That couldn't be so, I would have noticed it.
'Ah.'
Pretty much a second later, I could feel my veins being filled with something, something that numbed my body and made me drowsy.
White smoke(?) was also being released from the pod…and it was making me dizzy.
I tried my best to resist it…But I could do nothing but slowly watch as I lost my sense of touch and my eyes struggled to stay awake.
I had been reduced to such a state after only 10 minutes of this…
"Why hasn't he fallen asleep yet?"
"Is his tolerance that high?"
I couldn't hear what they were saying…I could only faintly make out the sight of their mouths moving…
'Uh…'
And then, I lost. The gas and the liquid inside the needles overcame my tolerance and I lost all control of my body.
The pod vibrated, and began doing its job.
The people outside watched with anticipation, they had already been surprised by the absurd tolerance of the young boy. They eagerly waited for the machine to do its job and show them the boys stats.
Their wait was rewarded with an absurd display. The machine slowly began to read the boy's stats.
And with stat revealed, their eyes only widened.
[Awakened: Alan Peccator. Age 15, Strength: E+
Agility: E Endurance: E+ Mana: D Intelligence: D
Recorded affinity Ice (Superior)]
Boom!
It was as if an explosion had occurred inside their mind…they all thought only one thing.
'I need to get him to our guild!'
That was all they thought, to get this young man into their guilds and families.
No matter what.
If there wasn't another procedure left, they would have already jumped over.
The second affinity test, that was all they were waiting for. The boy had already shown them stats and affinity so good they were almost salivating at the thought of having such a prospect in their guilds…
But could there be more to add to the dish? Something that would enhance the flavor even further?
It wasn't common. Hell, it was fucking rare. The appearance of a second affinity was so low that only 4.8% of all awakened possessed it. And the rarity increased if the original affinity was of a high rank. The higher the affinity of one element, the more rare it was for the individual to possess another one.
There was a good chance that he had another affinity whose grade was pathetic when compared to his [Ice] affinity.
Unfortunately, they could only wait.
The pod opened up and the youth that was inside emerged from it. He was still connected to the tubes, which now had the purpose of detecting whether what he said next was true or not.
To their surprise, they had expected him to be fast asleep. The number of chemicals dumped into his body would have made even anyone fall asleep…but the boy's tolerance was just inhuman.
"Ugh…."
They gave him some time to collect himself.
The final test was a lie detector test. Because the orb could only sense the highest grade affinity of the participants and disregard the lower grade ones, they had to do it by this method. Humanity only had this option for now.
And I was fucking glad it was the only option…
Of course, the dwarves had even better instruments that could accurately judge how many affinities a person had, but they were on their planet. The humans also had no way of contacting the dwarves because the latter much preferred to stay alone and experiment.
Unlike the elves who had spatial magicians and could go whenever they wanted to and from the earth at will. Humanity had no spatial mage, thus limited chances of meeting with other races. And the elves also rarely came to earth because they didn't have a likeness for humans, A majority of them hated humans who were so prideful and disrespectful to nature, in fact, most of them loathed humans.
One of the men who transported the pod inside the field asked.
"Can you please open your status?"
I, trying to act drowsy, asked back. I was thankful for the time they had given me to calm myself…If not for that the chance of me slipping up and making a mistake were high.
"huh…What?"
"Your status, Can you please open it?"
"Okay…"
I lazily replied and said,
"Status!"
In Front of me, my status screen, which only I could see materialized.
"Can you check if you have another affinity instead of ice?"
"Yes."
I answered, thankfully the question isn't 'Do you have more affinities? How Many?'
If it had been, I would have been fucked.
"Can you tell us what it is and its grade?"
Taking a deep breath, I answered.
"It says Space (High)."
…
…
…
There was silence, no one spoke. The only sound present in the area was the vibration of the pod, along with it glowing green.
Indicating that I had told them the truth.
The audience had expected there to be another affinity…But never did they expect it would be of an element never before seen in Humanity before…Never!
And with such a high grade at that!
The day could be called historic…for.
Capítulo 10: SS Rank talent.
It was 3 years after the second apocalypse that mankind first made contact with other races. The first came the elves who were looking to invite humanity to the Fantasia alliance.
An Alliance made by Elves, Dwarves, and orcs, these three major races that had a lot of power, Banded together with some of the lesser races to save their races from the common threat of demons and other evil races of the Abyss. Although the demons had a much more powerful enemy the Alliance, which was the Celestials, The complete opposite of demons. The War the demons had started with these races was just to gather resources to fight against the Celestials.
They saw how a portal to the Abyss had formed on earth and soon deemed it to be a planet that would be conquered relatively soon, not expecting that it would last for quite a while against the invasion of the Abyss.
When they visited they were soon disappointed by the lack of power humanity had and the only reason the planet wasn't taken over was that a relatively weak layer of the abyss had attacked it, coupled with the distance between the land the demons conquered and the land where most
of the humans existed.
They were left disappointed but still left a few methods for humanity to contact them for help if they ever needed it.
The Alliance had hoped for the new race but were quickly disappointed by them, mainly by the fact that the humans had no Noteworthy quality.
For the Orcs, The frail body of humans was a liability.
For the elves, The pathetic affinity humans had to the elements was trash.
For the dwarves, They could not stand the fact that humanity prided itself on its technology when to them it was so primitive.
All these factors led to the races quickly leaving disappointed.
However, they still left some techniques and blueprints for the humans to help measure and quantify their newfound powers.
The Affinity checking and Talent measurement orb were great gifts to humans.
The talent measurement orb measured the talent ranks of individuals according to the amount of mana absorbed and showed it in terms of colors, it went as:
F Rank:Green
E Rank:Purple
D Rank:Red
C Rank:Pink
B Rank:Blue
A Rank:Brown
S Rank:Yellow
SS Rank:White
SSS Rank:Black
The ranks were then further divided into subranks. If your Stat rank showed a - Sing after it then it was in the low tier, No sign Middle tier, and + Sign High tier and you were close to breaking through the - rank of the next tier.
Affinity measurements went differently. It was mainly dependent on the environment changes when the individual put their hand on the orbs.
If the environment around the individual started to heat up then they possessed the fire affinity, The grade of the affinity was based upon the magnitude of change to the environment. If there's a great change, Take for example the surroundings caught on fire then the individual most likely possessed a higher grade affinity.
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I walked out of the Field, Stopping by the door that led to the outside hallway, I found a couch nearby and quickly took a seat.
Based on my calculations the offers would be coming in right aboooouuuttt.... now.
BAM!
Exactly on time, the door opened with such speed I couldn't even see and dozens of people who were all wearing nice suits entered, The moment they spotted me sitting on a couch
they flocked over to me as little birds flocked to their mother who was about to feed them.
With their thunderous voices, they began to scream.
"Will you like to join the star fall Guild? We will offer you the best training facilities and even admission into shield!!"
"Please join our Darkness Guild!!"
I was immediately bombarded with requests to join their guilds when suddenly, A frightening pressure descended upon the area. Causing me to wince in a slight amount of pain.
Immediately after the pressure bore down the crowd in front of me separated and four figures surrounded me.
They each were representatives of the Union, And the top three guilds, which were Titan, Behemoth, and Twilight.
"Pleased to meet you Alan Peccator, I am a representative from the Union and am here to invite you to the Union. "
"The government can't raise a talent like him, My name is Samuel Jitt and I would like to invite you to the Number one guild on Earth, Titan."
"Nonsense, He deserves to be in our behemoth guild!"
Out of all four figures only the one from twilight remained quiet, seemingly looking resigned to his fate as he would never be able to combat the other representatives because honestly, Twilight was the weakest one here.
But no matter if he said anything or not I was already going to choose Twilight.
Not because of the cringe name but because they had no calamity magnets within.
And what did I mean by calamity magnets?
I meant the protagonists of The Ultimate Sin. All three groups had one of the Five protagonists within them, The Union Had two even!
First of all was Elijah, The Main protagonist who would later join the Union and the daughter of the number one ranked Awakened hero and president of the Union Harrison Soubuelle, Serena Soubuelle.
Titan Had Elena Parker, Daughter of the guild master of the Titan Guild, James Parker
Behemoth had Henry Fornum, Grandson of the guild master of the Behemoth Guild Steven Fornum.
The fifth One was also a girl from a highly influential family, She was Sabrina Wellington,
The 'Princess of the Wellington's.
No way in hell was I going to be involved with any of them. No way, They were complete danger magnets, Every event in the novel was linked to them and they survived against death again and again. The Entirety of the demons and villains were after them.
So no way In Hell was I ever getting involved with them.
With my recent performance, there was a very high chance that I would meet them more than preferred if I went to any of the three organizations! My dream to live leisurely and lavishly would be destroyed. So I started with pure confidence in my voice.
"I want to join the twilight guild. "
The three people that were arguing suddenly looked at me, the twilight guilds recruiter also did as well, with confusion on their faces. The Titan Guild representative asked me.
"My apologies for asking this but why do you want to go to twilight? We can offer much better services than them!"
I nonchalantly replied.
"Just because."
All of them just stared at me, Dumbfounded.
Before anyone of them could speak I turned to the Twilight guild representative.
"Can we please discuss the terms of the contract in private?"
The Twilight guilds representative, having renewed vigor In his eyes, Joyously said to me.
"Yes! Please follow me we will discuss the details of the contract inside the guild headquarters."
I followed him and he took me outside of the Union Building and took me to a Black and Purple Car that looked gorgeous
Gesturing me to get inside I entered the car and we were soon off to Twilight Guilds Headquarters.
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