Chương 60: The team

Not only were Quinn and the others shocked that Erin had approached Vorden but so was the whole class. In Del's class, Erin was the strongest student there, nearly everyone wanted her on their team but over the last few days, when people had tried to approach her, she had always given a cold response.

It seemed like she was disinterested in everything apart from getting stronger.

"I'm sorry." Vorden said, "But I've already decided to make a team with these guys."

Vorden's response to Erin seemed to be even crazier to everyone else as well. They had seen Vorden fight that day when they were surrounded by the second years. After witnessing that, no one would say he was any weaker than Erin.

If the two of them were to combine powers and found a few other strong people, it meant they could easily come up with the strongest team in the class.

Erin then looked at the group of people who Vorden pointed at, to be honest, she didn't seem to recognise any of them.

"Who are they?" Erin said.

"What, we took the test together, I even helped you out at the assembly hall!" Layla complained.

The truth was Erin never took the time to remember people's faces, she only cared about those who were strong. When she saw how weak there were in the test assessment, she didn't even bother with them any longer.

Although there was one person who had caught her eye other then Vorden and that was Quinn. She remembered him throwing the black beast balls at a lightning-fast speed and taking out a student. Then when she looked at his wrist, she saw he was only a Level 1 user.

"Why would you stay with these weak people, surely you can get a better grade if you join me and a few others," Erin said.

The first assessment and future assessments in the portal outing would determine their final grade. For those who had a cosy family to get back to, it didn't matter too much but to rest it determined their future.

The grade they got when they left military academy would decide whether they could join a strong private company, or whether they would just end up joining the bottom of the barrel being treated even worse than now.

"I don't care about the grades, I just want to have fun while I'm still in school," Vorden replied.

But Erin was determined to not give up.

"Fine, I can accept the girl and the strangely strong boy but I can't accept him," Erin said pointing at Peter.

Peter heart suddenly started to thumb louder, a fear started to take over him as he heard Erin speak these words. If he didn't get in Vorden's and Peter team, he would be in huge trouble.

"Why do we need you anyway?" Vorden said.

"Wait a minute," Layla interrupted, "I think she would make a good addition to the team, besides Vorden, doesn't your ability rely on those around you to be strong as well. As far as I remember beast doesn't have abilities so you would have to rely on us, and we don't exactly have strong abilities."

"Layla, I understand what you are saying but for once I agree with Vorden," Quinn replied. "I don't care how strong she is, she can't just come in and kick one of us out. She can join the team but only if Peter stays."

It was good to have strong allies but at what cost. If Quinn was to kick out Peter to replace him with a stranger, he would just be as bad as everyone else who had treated him like crap just for being weak. He didn't want to change into one of those types of people.

Erin then started to look around the room before looking at Vorden once again. She thought back to how Vorden was able to deal with Momo quite well before the use of the soul weapon. After looking around the room there didn't seem to be a single person in Del's class that matched up to him.

"Fine, I will join but I wish for the five of us to have a re-testing to see where we stand," Erin asked. "Perhaps we can go visit the training centre, display what we can do to the rest."

Layla and Quinn looked at each other with a half worried look in their eye.

The five of them then headed down to the training centre, it was the same place that Layla had first spotted Quinn who had sneaked in the place at night.

Right now the room was filled with multiple different people from all sorts of different classes. All the other classes had also been informed about the upcoming test and had decided to find out what each other's abilities were.

This would give them the best chance of defeating and capturing as many beasts as possible and increasing their chances of survival.

"Well, what do you want us to do?" Vorden asked.

"I've already seen your powers, but I can't remember too much about the girl and the other two, perhaps the girl can go first on the strength machine."

Layla went up as asked and went to the large circular strength machine. She concentrated her mind and threw out her fist at the same time she used the force of her telekinesis to push her hand as strong as she could.

The numbers slowly went up on the machine's display until it had eventually reached number eight.

"Damn it, same as last time, looks like I haven't improved much," Layla complained.

"For a level two that's quite a weak strength score but judging by the bow you're a ranged user anyway, it will be quite handy to have someone like you on the team," Erin said.

She then walked up to the two boys, Quinn and Peter.

"Well, I'm hoping that both of you can at least get the same score as her."

Quinn was starting to get annoyed by all her taunts, but he took a deep breath and held it in. With her on the team, it would cause fewer troubles with the others. Even if they did defeat beasts and obtain their crystals, there was a high chance that another team might target them and try to steal them.

But just having Erin on the team would stop that.

Peter walked up to the machine holding the mud staff in his hand.

"Looks like he's still level 1 then," Erin said.

Level 1 earth user didn't have the ability to extract earth from the ground, all they could do was reform the earth in their hand, they could only control earth they were touching rather than the earth around them.

As Peter went to punch the machine the earth around from the pole started to form around his fist, as he hit the machine the numbers started to go up and finally, it stopped at eight. The same score as Layla.

"Well, what are you waiting for?" Erin said looking at Quinn.

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Chương 61: Grinding

As Quinn walked up to the strength machine, all he wanted to do was punch the machine as hard as he could. He wanted to shut up the arrogant Erin who felt like she was better than everyone else. Why did she choose to act like this? Simply because she had a better ability than others?

Because her family was well off enough to buy her a strong ability book? but Quinn couldn't reveal himself hear, especially in front of the others. They all had seen him on the test day and they all knew Quinn still didn't have an ability apart from Layla.

He looked at the machine and started to wonder, If he performed Hammer strike using all his strength would the number rise up. Surely the number would be above his sixteen strength.

He readied his fist and redid his footwork. The gauntlets were equipped on his hands and Quinn let his fist out. He tried controlling the power output hoping to achieve a similar score to the other two.

*Bang

His fist collided with the large drum-like machine and the numbers slowly started to rise.

8..9… and then finally the number had stopped at 10.

Quinn estimated if his current strength with the gloves was sixteen then he needed to use half his strength when hitting the machine to get an eight. But such macro-level control was nearly impossible to get right and he had managed to go slightly over.

"Hey man, didn't you get stronger!" Vorden said surprised, "I thought you got a five on the test last time, you been working out or something?"

Quinn started to laugh trying to come up with something.

"Actually, it was thanks to that game you showed me." Quinn replied "I met someone who really helped and showed me how to activate the beast weapons strength properly. I worked hard hoping I wouldn't be useless for you guys. When I threw that beast ball that time back in the assembly hall, I realised how useful it would be if I learnt how to activate the best weapon."

This was a lie. But Quin felt like it was quite convincing.

"Didn't the second years say you needed to treat it like activating your ability though, I thought you didn't have one?"

"Apparently that isn't a requirement but just to help you visualize activating your beast weapons," Quinn replied back.

Sweat was starting to run down his face, all he could do know was hope the others would buy it.

"Well a score of ten isn't that impressive, the only reason we are talking about it is because you're a level one," Erin said.

For once Quinn was happy Erin's smugness had drawn the attention away from him.

"Is this okay then?" Layla asked.

"Yes." Erin replied, "I still wish to join your team, I believe even with the extra luggage we have on board, with me and Vorden we can come out as the top team during this assessment."

After testing everyone's strength the group decided to discuss a few things. Such as formation and what to do. Although the discussions didn't last for long. If they were to travel as a group Layla would stay at the back for support and Erin and Vorden would be at the front.

Usually, the physical damage dealers would be at the front of the squad while elemental users in the middle. But in this scenario, Quinn and Peter were considered so weak, that they were placed in the centre for protection.

Erin felt like it was quite useless to practice anything else after finding out how weak the other two abilities were, so the groups meeting had ended early and she decided to go off on her own to train somewhere.

"Well if combat classes have been cancelled for the day is there anything you wanted to do?" Vorden asked.

"Actually, I was planning to head to the VR capsules," Quinn replied, "I've been trying out a bunch of abilities so I can decide what ability to pick in the future."

Suddenly Vorden started to shiver.

"You can go ahead," Vorden said, "I know I showed you how to play the other day but to be honest I'm sick and tired of that game. I played it so much growing up and all."

With Quinn heading off to the VR room that left Peter and Vorden all on their own.

"Hey so do you want to practice a bit more with your ability, I know you're saving up so you can buy a few more skill books. Maybe we can get you to a level 2 before heading off into the portal."

Peter looked around the room at the other students before giving an answer.

"Sure that sounds like a good idea," Peter replied.

But Peter's strange actions didn't go unnoticed and Vorden had a feeling it had something to do with those students he went to hang around with a few days ago.

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Quinn had finally arrived at the VR centre. He paid his ten credits for an hour and got into his Pod as usual.

At the moment it was the easiest way for Quinn to level up and get stronger. He decided while inside the capsule he would split his session into two halves.

For the first 30 minutes, he would spend it facing against level ones. On average it took him around five minutes to defeat an opponent in the level one stage.

Gaining 25 experience points for each opponent he defeated would allow him to gain around 150 experience points. Then for the second half of the session, he would use it searching for quick matches battling against opponents of all different strengths.

This would improve his fighting IQ out in the world.

Quinn entered the game and started his first match with his plan. He did the usual avoiding the enemies strikes and dealing with his opponent with either the strength of his two fists or by using a barrage of Blood swipes.

That's when Nate noticed that the ID Blood evolver was online. Nate was still interested in this person and decided to check him out. As long as they were in your friends list you were able to spectate their matches.

Nate then was suddenly transported into the arena and began to Watch Quinn's matches one by one.

And all that he witnessed was Quinn defeating weak level ones in a matter of minutes. But it was strange, for someone as strong as him just what on earth was he doing? When Nate thought of him, he never imagined Quinn to be the type of person to bully the weak.

"Let the grinding begin," Quinn said as he took down his next opponent.

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