Chapter 17 - Zero Percent!

In a large room with almost nothing inside, if you were to guess you would immediately know that the room was meant for sparring matches and other forms of training which required space. At the far end of the room was a wall where lots of weapons were being displayed.

Two students both wearing the white uniform were standing opposite each other, both of them in a fighting stance, they were surrounded by lots of students all of them wearing the white uniform, then there was a man who was standing close to the two who were about to spar. The man was Kel, a teacher of level six students, he was there to make the match official and stop the fight when any of them went too far in trying to hurt the other.

"Are you ready?" Kel asked placing his hand in between the two.

"Yeah I would love to his ass" the boy at the right flung his long hair, George was arrogant and loved to praise himself too much, many of his mates hated him because of that, but that didn't deny the fact that he was one of the best when it came to fighting. The other person was Clerk, he wasn't as popular as George because he wasn't as strong as him but he still had skills and wasn't regarded as one of the weak ones.

"Fight!" Kel said and quickly stepped backward to give them enough space to fight. Both of them walked around in circles, waiting for the other to attack, but it wasn't happening, George became impatient soon and was the first to charge in.

With the fight still going on not everyone was paying attention, Pearl had very little interest in what was happening at the center, she was standing near the exit door and constantly staring at it like she was expecting something. Pearl would usually be interested in things like that, but right now she looks worried about something else. The crowd of students cheered and Pearl turned to the fight scene to see that George was winning and Clerk was well, struggling, she didn't expect any less, her attention was immediately switched as she heard the door move.

"What took you so long?" She asked Tammy who stood in front of her with a serious look on her face.

"I forgot that the sparring matches were today," she said with an apologetic voice.

"That's okay, it's already started," Pearl said."George is fighting with Clerk"

"That idiot, always looking for the weak ones" even though Clerk wasn't generally considered as weak, Tammy still saw him like that.

Both of the girls turned their attention to the fight. Kel had stepped in to prevent George from hurting Clerk anymore, he had a couple of scars on his face and was panting, in short, he was exhausted and would have been knocked out by George if Kel hadn't stepped in. Some medical personnel soon entered and left with the Clerk.

"Who is going up against him next?" Kel asked that question alone was enough to stir up murmurs.

"This is a sparring session, not a tournament"

"How do you expect someone to go against that animal" one chimed in.

George was hearing their murmurs and knew that no one would be willing to go against him when he still needed to kick some little asses, but now none of those weaker than him would like to go against him, so a stronger opponent needed to volunteer or he could choose or else he was going to step down. George scanned the room with his eyes until his eyes found Tammy, then a smile quickly made its way to his lips.

"I pick you," he said pointing towards the direction where Tammy and Pearl were standing.

"You mean me?" Pearl asked.

"No her" George said pointing specifically at Tammy.

Tammy had been disinterested in the whole thing since George won Clerk, but now had an interest was back once more as a smile appeared on her face.

"Very well bastard," she muttered as she began to make her way to where George was standing.

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Back at level one class, Luis was surprised by how his exact thoughts had been said by another person, he had raised his hands to ask the same question but he was surprised when another person stood up and asked the same question he wanted to ask.

"How fast can someone get to level six?"

There were some chuckles in the class that made Luis wonder if the question was that hilarious.

The teacher cleared his throat to stop the chuckles.

"You have a good question boy, but how fast one can get to a certain level depends on the person," the teacher said, the students all gave him a confused look and he knew he needed to explain more."You see while all of you are level one's now, you are all in the same class, but as you move on some you will have to move ahead to other classes faster than the others, some will still progress but slowly while others…." He seemed to have swallowed that last part.

"What happens to others, sir?" A boy asked.

"They may never get to grow and end up dropping out to go look for other purposes in life," he said."But all that depends on your body, so don't blame yourself if you are not able to grow"

"How can we know if we will be able to grow sir?" Someone asked and this time it was Luis.

After hearing the words of the teacher, Luis was curious to know if he was going to be able to grow and since he wasn't really from this world there was a high chance of that happening.

"There is a way, I didn't want to do this today, but since you guys brought up the topic, follow." He gestured to them and walked out the door while the students followed behind him. Luis' heartbeat rapidly increased as they walked down the hallway, he had many thoughts going through his mind, he hated the idea of not being able to grow and not catching up to Tammy one day, he was afraid and panicking in his mind and it didn't take long for someone to notice.

"Hey, are you okay?" He heard a familiar voice ask, it was the girl who sat beside him, he had completely forgotten that she was walking beside him when his thoughts came in.

"I'm okay," Luis said trying to act normal.

"Really? Because I can hear your heartbeat"

"You can?" Luis asked surprised.

"Yeah, and it's beating in a faster than usual rate"

'What the hell is wrong with all these abilities!" Luis screamed in his head.

"You have an eavesdrop ability?" Luis was curious to know, before her the only people he believed to be able to hear like that was Tammy's family.

"No that belongs to the Philips, my ability allows me to heighten any part of my body."

"Oh." That was all Luis said, he found the ability quite interesting, with such ability she could see farther than any human being, pick up smells even a dog can't pick up depending on her level, hear better and even taste things better and do things better overall

"What's your name?" Luis never bothered to ask even in the classroom but now he thought it would be useful to have someone to talk to.

"Ella." She smiled.

"Luis"

They had gotten to their destination and their teacher opened the door to lead them into a room, it looked empty except for three machines standing at the end of the room.

"We are here, but only one of those things is working so we will go one by one," the teacher said.

The started the process, a student will go into the machine which will be closed for thirty seconds, the first student came out and the teacher looked at the small screen which was attached to the machine and it read 50%

"What does that mean?" the boy asked getting impatient with the way his teacher was looking at the screen without saying anything.

"It means you will grow at a steady pace which is good." He said and then turned to the rest of the class."As long as you get something like this or above, you are okay"

The student walked back to the others but he had a sad look now, he wished he had gotten something higher. The testing continued with the students getting fifty and above, it was only once that a student got forty-nine but their teacher assured him that it wasn't that bad. It continued until it finally got to Luis' turn, as he stepped in front of the machine his heart skipped a beat, he was panicking and that only got worse when he stepped into the machine and it closed up, the process started, he couldn't feel anything except for some light ups inside the machine.

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He received the message from his system immediately the process stopped, he didn't have time to figure it out, because the machine opened up and he was now looking at his teacher and some of his classmates who were close enough to see the screen, and they all looked horrified.

'Why are they looking at me like that?' Luis thought, but he got the wrong idea, they were all looking at the screen like they couldn't believe what they were seeing.

"Zero percent!" The teacher shouted in disbelief and that was when Luis realized what was happening.