The door to a new height

"Your room was designated for no more than eleven, so from now on you all will cohabitate together. You fated eleven...You might cooperate with each other, and also betray each other, you and the rivals you have to trample... Are Blue Lock's team X." Ego said before the screen turned pitch black and the lights of the door lit up.

"Thanks for getting him kicked out. That bastard asked us to blame it on our weakness then couldn't handle his when he was asked to leave." Ichikawa went to high five Jude while still clearly annoyed by what happened to his little brother. During the entirety of the tag game, the one he was aiming at the most was none other than Izumi.

"No need to thank me, I just shot it there because I knew it would hit someone and my instincts told me to do so, I have no interest in revenge or trying to act like a hero." Jude said as he turned around and walked to the door.

But before Jude could reach the door he was stopped by Akira who had the same shining light in his eyes as he bombarded him with questions. "Heyy! You're way too amazing! In which high school were you? Why didn't I hear of you before? You're a foreigner, right? Which foot is your strongest?"

"Since when are you suddenly so talkative?" Jude asked in an annoyed tone as Akira stood in front of him and blocked the door with his hand.

"It's because of your last shot! I never expected myself to have to instinctively dodge... It was as if my whole body was scared of that shot, it's so exciting!" Akira replied with a bright and happy smile on his face.

"Keep your masochistic thoughts to yourself." Jude sighed before pushing away Akira's hand away and going to search for the dormitory.

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*Jude's pov*

[Player status:

Name: Jude Sanchez

Age: 16

Title: "Osaka's Emperor"

Version: Professional

Ego: B Rank.

Total: E (44)

Offence: E (46)

Shooting: E (44)

Dribble: E (45)

Speed: E (45)

Defence: E (41)

Pass: E (40)

Professional points: 0

Random professional points: 0

Special Weapons: Greed (Z), Eyes of the Lord (Z), Excitement (C), Emperor's aura (C)]

It's finally done, I've reached the professional version. All my stats also went down a lot but that was to be expected, with my ego reaching B rank I'm sure I will be able to get way better quests and rewards I might finally get to compete on equal grounds with geniuses such as Itoshi Sae and Nagi.

The biggest change I could notice other than the stats was that now I could see the rank of my ego directly from the Status window, and my stat points turned into professional points.

From what I remember the system telling me, once I reach the professional version my body would change once more and I will be able to improve my stats way faster than before. If not for that I believe I would have to rely solely on quests since it used to take me over a few months just to increase one stat.

With my B rank ego, I could also see way more details when I looked at other people's status windows. I couldn't help getting excited after seeing how much potential I unlocked just by joining Blue Lock and completing a single quest.

In the first minute of the tag game, I focused on observing everyone's stats and making up the best plan to kick out someone and succeed in my quest but after finding out that many of them severely lacked in the composure stat I knew that the best way to do it was to make use of their weakness and panic.

My [Emperor's Aura] special weapon allows me to intimidate opponents and boost the morals of my teammates, that's the perfect weapon in a situation where everyone is already under a lot of pressure and have a hard time handling that pressure.

This special weapon alongside the effects of the [Excitement] special weapon allowed me to easily take control of the game as soon as I touched the ball, I made sure to group them up before letting my instincts take control as I shot the ball towards the crowd.

Now I've officially become part of the blue lock project, we'll have 3 days of athletic tests and then the real fun will start, I can't wait for it, I'll finally get the chance to go against true geniuses who care about nothing other than football.

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*3 days time skip*

"How can you last so long? Are you even human??" Akira asked as we went back to our team's room. In those few days, I've shown some of the best results in almost all of the physical tests other than strength in which Akira ended up being first.

"If you think that this is inhuman then you still have a lot to learn, I've met people who are way crazier than that, compared to geniuses like them I still have a long way to go hahaha" I said with a smile.

Stamina was by far the craziest. Now that I've unlocked the professional version of the system I was able to finally increase my stamina once again. For the first time in a while I've seen more and more of my stats increasing.

Even if it was supposedly way harder to increase my stats now, my new body made it possible for me to keep on improving and surpass my previous limits.

'Now all I need is to gain more quests to be able to improve even faster.' Right as that thought entered my mind I heard Ego's voice echo through the entire facility. "The 3 day athletic tests are done. Return to your rooms at once. We will now be confirming the new Rankings."

After listening to Ego's announcement I went to our team's official Room which was the same room in which we played the tag game. The room had 12 lockers, each locker had someone's name written on it with Izumi's name being crossed out of his locker.

As soon as I entered the room I could see that a few people were already there including Akira who already put on his new uniform. "Hey look, Jude! I'm number 241! I told you I would surpass you sooner or later hahahaha." He went up to me while pointing towards his new rank number.

"Wait? That's your new uniform?" He asked with the shine in his eyes dying down as he saw the number 240 written on my new Blue Lock shirt. After everyone got their new number and wore their new uniforms, they all started chatting among themselves about the huge increase in their jersey number before all coming to a sudden stop as the huge screen on top of the room started lighting up for the first time since our arrival here.

"Nice work you unpolished gems, are you enjoying your life in Blue Lock? I'm sure most of you realized that the five blocks of the blue lock facilities are here to separate all of the initial 300 players. All teams between B and Z are separated into 5 compounds to live together, to add to this 1 player was eliminated in every team leaving the total of you at 275 players." Ego said as everyone started looking at their new numbers with a different perspective.

"Your team is currently in the worst of the 5 blocks, this team of 11 players is made up of players among the worst of Blue Lock. The ones in the higher blocks get to enjoy better food, better sleep and better training facilities, if you want to enjoy such luxuries you'll need to earn them. And your only way to do so is now going to start. Let the first selection begin." Ego said with a wide smile.