chapter 39: number one

Massaging his temples and sighing, Luke who could still see the waves with his eyes closed was greatly exalted by a new discovery: Within the ten meters area he could normally see the waves, when he closed his eyes, the waves weren't limited by his field of view anymore. This means he could see the waves in a 360° angle for ten meters. Not only that, his teammates who were all within that area unconsciously affected the waves, making them take their forms.

This pleasant surprise provoked a maniacal laugh to escape his lips. Something Lion and Andrea used to beat him up also became his weapon. This made him even more eager to meet Lion and beat him with his new powers. Of course, adapting to them and being able to effectively use them in a fight would still take time.

His poor teammates though were quite scared by his actions. For them, Luke suddenly closed his eyes and after a few seconds began to release an evil laugh, full of malice.

As he opened his eyes with a grin plastered on his face, Luke saw them slowly stepping back. Rolling his eyes, Luke just asked " Will you guys take a mission today? "

Lou, as the chief/leader, answered " Yeah, but as we need to be in a group of three for a special mission, we were debating who wouldn't take part of it and do something else. "

Grinning at this, Luke simply said " Then you go with Milfa and Abacus. Ozz stays with me. We will do another mission. " Looking at Ozz, he added "Are you alright with that Ozz? "

" Ozz eat, Ozz happy " Taking a second to translate Ozz's answer to a yes, Luke, with Ozz in tow went to the monolith.

Once there, he asked for available missions. * 3 missions are available, please choose wisely

1. Destroy the T2 enemy base in Galaxy S6785490213.

2. Rescue team Shadow reapers, a normal Champion's battlefield team in Galaxy G3908765124.

3. Take the advancement trial. # *

Seeing the weird sign, Luke tried to know more about it without success. In fact, even when he tried to select it, he couldn't. ' What's the point of saying there are three missions if in actual fact there are only two. Shaking his head, he turned to Ozz and asked him which one he would rather do.

Looking intensively or rather sending his intent towards the second, Ozz said " Ozz save, Ozz happy. "

Actually surprised by the expanded vocabulary, Luke smiled and selected this mission. * The mission begins in 3 hours, prepare well. *

" Then, let's meet back up in 3 hours Ozz! " " Ozz... okay " Now Luke was really surprised, it seemed like Ozz was really expanding his vocabulary. From what Andrea said, Ozz's species shouldn't be very smart innately, yet, Ozz's intelligence doesn't lose to a 2 years old human kid. He really is special.

Getting back to his house, Luke sat on his bed and resumed trying to make more connections with less mana. He was really impatient that the mission begins though, as, he will be able to observe the teleportation process which he tried so hard to just feel.

While he was practicing, his system informed him of something he already half expected

* Congratulations soldier Luke on becoming the number one of Lord seventh's potential ranking. For this achievement, your species non-combatants treatment has been upgraded from ordinary to special care. *

Immediately after that, he received a call from both Andrea and Lion. Answering to both, Luke saw their stupefied faces and immediately knew why they were like this.

Lion, who had more information than Andrea was the first to get out of his daze. " Did you know that you just became number one in Lord seventh's potential ranking? " He nodded " My system just informed me literally three seconds ago. "

Andrea who regained her calm in the meanwhile looked deeply at him and asked how he did that. The potential ranking was just that, a potential ranking. Even if someone miraculously raised his strength, they wouldn't rise in this ranking. Furthermore, as Lord seventh's ranking was very accurate, there were extremely few cases of it changing, even more so in the top. So a situation in which the fouth became number one was anything but normal.

Understanding her confusion, Lion told her about Luke's space vision. Now knowing the actual reason of this weird phenomenon, Andrea looked at Luke's shining eyes in wonder and said " I was curious about why your eyes were shining, turns out you are really a special case. It seems like your main element is space in the end huh... Anyway, so you can see space? What does it look like? "

" Just gray, translucent waves that keep undulating. It's quite mystical, though, it's extremely useful for lots of reasons. " Now staring at Lion, Luke added " Reasons that you will experience first-hand, after next week's squad mission. We will have a rematch and this time I will beat you up so badly that you will want to end your life in shame. "

Still smiling, Lion answered " We will see... I might not be as special as you but I've got to keep up my grandfatherly image in your mind after all! "

" F*ck you! What image? The only image you deserve is a piece of dirt in the road. " Like this, they began to argue with Luke always having to resort to swearing while Lion laughed all the time.

Laughing at their antics, Andrea changed the subject " Anyway, if the change was really just yesterday, then your superior should be a tier 8. Tier 7 usually have to wait a few weeks before being able to meet a Lord. You are very lucky, already made a connection with a tier 8. "

Frowning, Luke was not very hyped by this information " Really? F*ck! "

Not understanding his obvious dissatisfaction, they asked why he wasn't happy, after all, tier 8 is still the peak of the universe. No one would spit on an opportunity to befriend one.

With a scrunched up face, he said: " Yeah, that's cool and all but I want to beat him up."

Both massaging their temples at the kid's statement, Lion shook his head and snickered " Well, good luck with that. The fastest to ascend to tier 8 up until now is Lord Second. It took her six million years to do so. As I'm pretty sure you don't have much patience, you will suffer my friend. Anyway, I'm quite curious about the... tutorial that new species have to go through. I heard they are quite deadly because they just brutally put new species in an almost real battlefield atmosphere. "

Taking a few seconds to think, Luke replied " Well, I don't think I'm the most qualified to talk about it as I only took the first three quests but let's just say that it should be like you described. People died like cutting grass, and only the strongest survived. Even I almost died multiple times " He said this while thinking internally ' I did die multiple times in a way. '

" Really? But can you describe in details how it went? " " Sure... " Luke talked about his quests, fights and how he perceived others while tweaking the story a bit as there are some things they didn't need to know.

" So it's like this huh... " After thinking for a bit, Lion evilly smiled as he added " Now it's certain, your superior is tier 8, with space as his element. Good luck with beating him. If and whenever you get to tier 8, a fight between you two will be like you basically trying to hurt him with healing spells. "

Rolling his eyes at Lion's teasing, Luke disconnected and got back to training. He almost finished with a part of it that will greatly help him in a fight against him.