Chapter 10- Incompetent Genius

Dubs and Lilith entered the room and shuffled quietly along to where Mrs. Isabelle was standing. Lilith looked away, her face slightly red due to the outburst she had caused earlier

"Do not be ashamed, child. Whatever you may have been through to come to this point, it must be hard to believe. Your reaction was not out of the ordinary. The majority of people who were unaware of the truth have reacted similarly.", Isabelle tried to comfort Lilith.

"Raise your head, you are now a proud member of the resistance."

Lilith raised her head, gave a smile and stated "Yes!"

There was a glass prism, with a metal handle on it in the center of the room. Isabelle opened the door and motioned for Lilith to step inside, and she did.

Isabelle began to wave her hands and an array of numbers and quantities appeared in front of her. Bolts of light flashed from within the prism, and scanned Lilith up and down. After a minute or two of number crunching, the numbers stopped changing and became green.

"Hm I see... It appears that we will have to expel quite a bit of remaining radiation from your body." Isabelle stated. "I'll begin immediately, then we will have a look at your magical affinities after the process is complete."

Isabelle once again waved her hand and began to focus immensely on the array in front of her. Streaks of various colors began to emerge from the bruises that covered Lilith, and they gathered at the top of the chamber like smoke, however their colors remained separated and distinct.

5 minutes passed. 10, 20. After 45 minutes, the amount of smoke that had gathered at the top was extremely compact, and Isabelle waved her hand to cease the process. "I've expelled any harmful magical energy from your body, but I managed to leave in an amount that would not be harmful to you. This energy that is not harmful to you is your mana limit, and each person has a different mana limit for each class of magic."

Dubs noted this information and continued waiting patiently for his turn.

Isabelle once more began to channel her energy and used the spell "Evaluate Status"

A final display of statistics appeared, and she looked over them intently. "Interesting.. It seems you have a high affinity with both light and earth magic after the experiments you underwent. Your physical strength is about average, and could improve with training, but focus mostly on improving in those two areas.", Isabella analyzed

Lilith stepped out of the chamber and bowed towards Isabella. "I will do my best! Thank you ma'am!"

Lilith then exited the room and the door shut behind her quietly

Dubs stepped up next to get himself evaluated. He stepped into the chamber and shut the door, and Isabella began the expelling process. After the numbers had appeared, her eyes opened wide with shock as she looked at them.

"What on earth? This cannot be right. Allow me to redo my analysis. Pardon my mishap, Dubs.", Isabella apologized.

She once again ran the analysis, only to get the same results. "There.. there is no mistake. Dubs, haven't you been under experimentation your entire life?" Isabella asked.

"Yes, I have. What is the matter?" Dubs responded.

"There is not a single piece of harmful radiation within you. According to this data, it seems that your body has developed complete resistance to all 6 of the elements. This is extremely odd, however what is more strange is the fact that despite this full resistance, you have absolutely zero ability to use each element! Your resistances are at 100%, however your affinity with each element is zero!"

She thought to herself and asked Dubs. "Have you ever tried to use magic before?"

Dubs had not, for he was merely a test subject during his days in the lab. He had never considered trying to use magic, much less to try to master it.

"Even without ever attempting, for a person to have zero affinity with magic, there must be some sort of interference with my numbers."

"Um, could it be this?" Dubs asked, and pointed to the dagger on his waist.

"Ah, of course! Why had I not said so before? Please place any magical items outside the scanning area so that I may re scan.

Dubs took the dagger off his belt and placed it outside the door, and stepped back inside. Isabelle scanned once again, and this time was intrigued by the results.

"Fascinating.. Your resistances remained at 100%, however your affinities with each element have changed. Your current mana for each class is equal to that of a regular non-magic user, however you have a highly resonant affinity with dark magic, and your affinities with all the other types are above average. With some training and time, you could become an expert in every class!"

Dubs pondered this information. This meant that he would be able to train his skills in wherever he wished to specialize, and he determined that he should find out the various uses of different classes before starting to train in one.

Isabelle continued. "On top of your high affinities, your resistances to all types of magic are unheard of. You could literally walk into a highly concentrated enemy spell and come out unscathed. According to your physical stats, physical attacks are the only way people can harm you. You shouldn't rest easy, though. You will still need to go through intense training to use even the most basic of spells, without which you will be nothing more than a training dummy for veteran warriors."

Dubs nodded. "I too will do my best to improve myself through training."

Isabelle gave him a motherly smile, and let him go. "Starting today you will be training under Ivan. His sector is stationed on the outskirts of Lardis, the city in which you came from, which is multiple cities away from the HQ. I most likely won't be seeing you for a while, so do take care."

Dubs bowed, grabbed his dagger, and slid it back into the rope. He then left the room quietly.

Ivan was waiting in the hallway, discussing matters with Lilith.

"Ah, Dubs, perfect timing. I was just given the data on you. What a surprise that was. We'll be traveling back to Lardis on foot since we only have a teleportation portal here in the city of Silith, at the HQ." Ivan stated

"And most importantly, we wont be able to get you trained until we get back. Both of you, make sure to stay by me at all times during the journey. We'll be taking the surface route since it would look suspicious for a mercenary like me to be dragging along two kids wearing nothing but rags across the country. On top of that, we don't want your identity to be revealed Dubs, so were gonna have to keep you hidden from the public for a while until things settle down."

Dubs and Lilith understood, but Lilith had a worried look on her face. She seemed to be somewhat concerned about Dubs, but also curious about him. She didn't know much about him, or who he was, and had no idea what to say.

Ivan lead them to the exit of the headquarters, which was a long staircase that seemed to continue on forever. After half an hour of climbing, they reached a wooden trap door that Ivan unlocked and opened.

They emerged to the surface, and began walking.