1 Unfortunate Genius

Blue Star Plane

It was very crowdy in the 3rd City of the Blue Star Plane. As the number of planes being occupied by humans increased, they stopped naming every city. It was fairly populous place in hundreds of cities in plane.

In the city center, a group of people started coming out of the City building lead by couple of middle-aged men. They led them to a huge beast driven carriage in the center, these carriages are used to transport people in various planes. As petrol and diesel got exhausted humans went back to old ways. Now beast carriages became main mode of transportation in various planes.

Cars and other mechanical vehicles can only be seen in proper human settlements. Human planes were divided into two categories, Settlements and Colonies.

Human Settlements are the places where humans live, these are the places where humans live, the mana density in these places in very low, which will not affect children. Even though mana is very beneficial to humans, high density mana showed adverse effect to kids and normal people. High density mana is dangerous to humans and was suppressing humans and also these planes are occupied by stronger beasts and they formed significant threat to humans.

Human's can't process Mana until they are 18 years old, so federation divided planes to human settlements and colonies. Human settlements are planes where humans live for majority of life, their mana density is low, which is suitable for humans to live also not compromising in positive effect caused by mana.

Once, humans reach 18 years old, they undergo awakening and become first grade warriors starting their martial path. After awakening they can enter colonies and experience higher mana regions.

Blue Star Plane is a low-grade colony, here mana density is not very high and also not low, these colonies are used to train low level evolvers. Evolvers are divided into mainly nine grades. Once human awakens, they become 1st grade evolver, each grade is further divided into ten levels. Once they break through the limits of evolvers, they become demigods.

Low grade evolvers are evolvers below fourth grade. Even though they are evolvers, they are not much different from human, low grade evolvers live up to 150 years without any accident. And each grade increases their life span further by significant amount.

Currently there were hundreds of settlement planes and thousands of colonized planes.

Evolvers are again divided based on their paths/professions. These paths were divided based on the ten original demigods. Humans used their experiences to create a standard path to train. There are thousands of universities, specialized in training the future power houses for human races. Among them there are 5 universities which are considered best amongst the best, North Star University, University of Argos, Central Federation University, Heaven Star Warriors Academy and Mages Academy and Eastern Star University. These five universities are each led by a 9th grade evolver who are just below the demigods.

These group of evolvers are students from the Eastern Star University, they are led here to have their practical combat training. There are over dozen students led by two teachers. These two middle aged men have more than ten decades of experience in combat, they have been teaching in Eastern Star University for more than ten years and have led many batches for combat training.

Aron enquired with the carriage driver and signed to students to get in the carriage. Aron is 6th grade heavy weapon wielder. As students entered inside the carriage. Two middle aged men were waiting outside.

Aron "Chen, do you want to change bets?" smirking

Chen just smiled "Why will I change, my choice, you should think again though." Chen was confident in his choice. Chen is a Healer. He was wearing clean white robe standard to healers.

Aron "Willie is really good but you should know mages have highest attack output, Bai Fei is a better choice."

Chen just smiled listening to it. He has better understanding of mages compared to Aron.

Chen "Aron, then why are you betting on Oliver then? Buddy, don't try to fool me. I may not be combat expert but I have been part of fair share of battles." Was laughing smacking Aron on shoulders.

Just as they were about to board carriage to their destination, they saw someone coming towards the carriage. He walked towards the carriage driver and enquired something. Carriage driver signed towards them and spoke something.

Youth was hesitant and came towards Aron and Chen and greeted them politely.

Aron "Where are you going lad? Where is your team?"

Arthur "8th Valley, can I tag along, it would take a lot of time to get another carriage. I can assure you, there won't be any delays because of me." Asked politely.

Aron looked at Chen and nodded agreeing. Their destination is nearby it too.

Taking permission from Aron, Arthur got inside the carriage and settled himself in the carriage.

Aron "That lad is brave, going to 8th valley alone."

Chen "He is bit interesting. He is trying to hide his age, but I can guess he is less than 20."

Aron "Forget it. As long he doesn't mess with our group."

Chen "He is not a spy." He said seriously.

Aron "Good if he isn't. Its time."

They both summoned a ride beast from beast bag, and got on them.

Inside the carriage,

Arthur was sitting silently in a corner not bothered about rest of group. He was thinking about something.

He got few curious glances from other people, it just stopped at curiosity. They are students from East Star University, they are extremely proud.

Among these curious gazes, one pair was looking at him surprised almost shock. Bai Fei couldn't believe what she was seeing.

Willie who was sitting beside her asked trying to distract her " Bai Fei are you confident in today's training?"

Bai Fei was still in shock and couldn't hear what he said. It took her couple of seconds to react to Willie.

Willie "Do you know him?" he asked a bit cautiously.

Bai Fei nodded "Arthur Root, he used to be our class president in high school."

Willie "Oh! Then why are you looking at him surprised? Is there anything wrong."

Bai Fei was silent for a moment thinking something and then started speaking, "His situation is bit special, I thought he, he gave up his evolver path. Even if he didn't give up, he should not be here this soon."

Willi understood, two things from her words, he is not his romantic rival and there is an interesting story behind. With his jealously out, his curiosity took lead.

Willie "Is his aptitude that trashy? He has to give up on his evolver life"

Aptitude is measured when taking college entrance exam, they measure aptitude of various attributes like Strength, physique, agility, mana affinity, mana density, mana range, elemental affinity and other factors.

Each profession needs aptitudes of certain attributes.

Bai Fei "Trashy hmm, that is one of the words we can't use to describe his aptitudes."

Willie "I don't understand."

Bai Fei "His attribute with lowest aptitude is mana Range, and it was B."

Bai Fei "All his attributes reached A-."

Willie was shocked hearing this, lowest aptitude of B, how can he be trash. Minimum standard for any profession is C.

Bai Fei "His bad luck is none of his attributes reached A. Else he would have reached standard for top 5 universities."

Willie "Pity." Understood and was silent.

Rosie who was also listening to conversation beside them asked confused " Bai Fei, but he could enter other universities right, he meets requirement for all other universities."

Bai Fei "He offended someone with background in our high school. He was deliberately plotted."

Bai Fei "Greenfield Company, they wanted to sponsor him, he joined University of Argos under special recruitment category."

Willie "He is student of University of Argos." He asked in bit excitement. ESU and UA are rivals.

Bai Fei "No, his admission was cancelled after three months."

Willie and Rosie both were shocked hearing this, they understood what it meant. Trapped.

Bai Fei "For three months on trial period, his sponsors repeatedly changed the branch he joined, he was in Mage department a week, then shield bearer, archer, assassin….. He couldn't solidify properly in any department, then siting this as a reason, they cancelled the contract. They paid him ten million credits for cancelling contract."

Willie "They went little overboard. Now, he can't even enter any first line university."

Bai Fei "It didn't end there, to prevent him from joining battle parties, Greenfield Company gave a silent warning to all major companies and no one was willing to form a party with him."

They now understand why he was alone, there are no one to party with him.

Bai Fei "After that, he left our planet. No one heard anything about him from then. He didn't even collect his graduation certificate yet. I heard they are planning something else to stop him from getting it."

Willie and Rosie also felt pity for Arthur, if he was allowed to grow properly he may not be weaker than any of them.

Willie "Unfortunate. If even a single Attribute of his was A, he could have entered a key university without a need for sponsor."

Rosie "Really and unfortunate genius."