Level 1.

Going through the portal, as soon as Xadia's body touched the portal, something unexplainable happened, the portal started warping into him and Xadia was overwhelmed with energy.

His body was somewhat absorbing the energy of the portal, and fearing he won't make it to the other side Xadia quickly pushed in and he alighted on the other side at a precise destination.

In a wide room, a tall man with wild scar marks on his face stood assertive by the portal operating machine, the room was almost identical to the portal room from Xadia's departure room, only with only the floor as the exception, the floor was an opaque plain glasslike ground.

"What took you so long," hex said

we had been notified of your arrival about an hour ago"

"Uhm there was a problem with the power engine, it had a leakage releasing toxic smoke that knocked everybody out, only to have stopped after it had been taken care of by the portal workers," Xadia said omitting everything that had to do with mentioning the gang intrusion

That place with all its problems Hex said putting his palm on his face

"Anyways my name is Hector Drake, but you will be calling me counselor Hex, I am your weapons and combat tutor and expert, since you're the only new student I'll be your guide today."

This is your power watch Hex said with a watch in his hand gesturing at xadia to take it.

Collecting the watch from Hex xadia examined it, it was a futuristic watch with a Pentagon-like shape, looking at the watch Xadia smiled as it reminded him of a cartoon character he enjoyed in his previous life.

"It is your lifeline, it will identify you as a student of the academy, It will allow you to access certain areas, pay for food, and all sorts of other things, be advised any form of credit card is prohibited all credits in your credit card should be transferred to your power watch as soon as possible, when not in use the watch will display a number-your corresponding power level".

Thinking about the card in the briefcase it had appeared in his hands, Xadia had done this away from Hex's prying eyes, and by pressing the button on the watch a holographic display could be seen.

Placing the card on the screen all credits had been transferred, Xadia's face changed as he could see the credits contained in his watch, it was a hundred and twenty thousand credits.

"No wonder they wanted the briefcase so badly, seems like have robbed the gangs of their arms and legs," Xadia thought giving the now useless credit card to Hex

"I will immediately begin testing your capabilities to assign you to a respective power level, although you're not a siphon it is a necessary test, follow me," Hex said

When the creation of siphon had first been introduced, people quickly, discovered that some were more powerful than others.

Not long after came the introduction of the power level system, which differentiated between a total of ten power levels, after reaching the power level ten, the individual would now advance to something called a deviant.

In this category there were only two power levels, the power exhibited by deviants are on a whole new level, their siphon abilities increases making the deviants able to create matter with their energy, their deviant power was either in three states solid, liquid, and gas, the deviants are the highest form of siphon ability recorded.

Now Hex had led xadia to a certain room, looking at the room it was a very wide room, there were strange equipments all around and Xadia was staring at all of them trying to see if there was any one of the equipments that looked ancient like, Xadia had only recognized three types of equipment in the room, the punching bag and some weight plate disc and a weight bar.

The room was divided into two, a blue area and a red area, the way the blue area looked it looked as if it had been built specifically for the conjurers and range passives with a port at the center with a black orb hovering above it.

While the red area looked to have been built for the augmenters and mutants, a big circular drum-like machine was in the center of this area, all in all, there looked to be a wrestling ring at the center of the two rooms.

Hex then led Xadia to the big circular drum and instructed him on what to do.

Putting all the strength in his fist xadia hit the drum giving it his best as hard as he could, the drum vibrated and made a ping sound, eventually displaying a digital number in the center.

Five points, that's quite weak for a boy of his age Hex thought.

Leading xadia to another device in the red area the second test was soon to begin, the device in front of xadia and hex was two big circular machines with many holes on both of their front, there were placed eight meters away from each other hovering in perfect range.

Turning on the machine and giving Xadia the instructions, the test had begun, the machine fired Lazer spikes at Xadia from both directions all he need to do was avoid being hit by the spikes as long as possible.

The machine went up in levels and eventually got faster shooting out more spikes, it was a process that required agility and environmental alertness.

The instructions given to xadia were to avoid being hit five times by the laser spikes, soon Xadia was getting tired of dodging and the last laser hit him.

The laser spike was like a pinch as its laser power had been reduced, after that the machine whirred and ceased working.

"Your overall current power level is level 1" Hex informed him

The words from Hex did not affect Xadia as he had no high expectations of himself, at the beginning of the test he had tried summoning the sensation of the energy that took over him while fighting the gangs but it was to no avail.

"And with that, the test is over, now I will be showing you to your dorm roommate, but before that"

Pulling out his watch, a holographic display of xadia's picture was seen, and typing on the screen buttons he had inputted Xadia's level

A ping sound was heard by Xadia and looking at his new watch, a glowing number could be seen, confirming his power level.

Now shall we go meet your new roommate Hex said

I haven't made any friends of my age in this city or this new civilization, I wonder what he's like, he should be a boy right? Xadia thought excitedly as he followed after hex.

Soon Xadia could see a slick blonde-haired boy with a chiseled face and a diamond jawline, he stood before him at a height of 6 feet 2 inches tall compared to Xadia's 5 foot eight inches. he looked to be the type of boy that usually got the most attention, with his hair being as flashy as ever, "literally".

"Tyson here will be giving you a tour around the school" and with that, he made his leave.

"The name's Xadia by the way" xadia introduced himself as he placed his hands out.

My name's Tyson, but you already know that Tyson said as he shook Xadia's hand bearing a smile.

"Welcome to my domain," Tyson said with a mischievous face trying to crack a joke

In his head, Xadia played an epic background music "let the tour begin".

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we will warm the herd

and shake the stars.