Ch 9:- A small step towards strength

After Vorden had stormed off, Rayne, Peter and Quinn decided that it would be best that they head back to class for their next lesson. They walked for a while but just before they got back to the first-year building, a group of first-year students were standing in front of the staircase.

There were three of them in total and on their wrist watch they had a power level between 2 and 2.5.

"What are we going to do, Dan asked for 50 credits by the end of this week." One of the boys said.

"I know, why did they have to pick on us, just cause we're weaker than him." Another boy replied.

Credits were the School's and city's currency system. Even though they were at military school, the rest of the city functioned as normal. There were still restaurants and shops and even fun activities and games to play all around the city. If you wanted to do these things you would have to pay with credits.

Students received free food while at the school but they also received a daily amount of ten credits that would be sent to their wristwatch.

Rayne, Peter and Quinn continued to walk past the boys to head the class, that's when one of the boys called out to them.

"Wait, stop right there you three!" the boy shouted.

Peter stopped immediately while Rayne and Quinn continued on walking.

"Hey, are you listening I said stop." The boy said, then another boy immediately got in front of Rayne and Quinn and pushed him back to where Peter was standing.

Rayne was once again confused because he hadn't offended them or had done anything to them.

"I think I might have just solved our credits problem; you must be the only level ones in this whole school." The boy said. "Hand over 10 credits each and you can go inside."

"But that's all the credits we have," Peter complained.

"Look I don't want to do this but if I don't, then my arse gets beat. Hand over the credits now."

Peter looked at Quinn with hope in his eyes, perhaps thinking that Quinn might have been able to do something like last time but after trying to hit Mono, he knew he would have no chance. Besides, these were level twos even at full strength he might not be able to beat them.

In the end, Quinn decided to hand over the ten credits, He placed his watch on the other boys and the credits were transferred over. Peter and Rayne ended up doing the same and the two of them were allowed to enter the building.

"Hey that was a great idea man!" one of the boys said, "Should we just stay out here until we find someone weaker again."

Suddenly Quinn stopped and started waiting.

"What are you two doing, scram unless you want an ass-kicking!" A boy said.

Then Quinn clenched his fist and shouted.

"Rylee!"

All three boys turned their heads at the same time but not one of them replied. Quinn bad luck continued but he had one more plan to find out which one of them was Rylee.

"If you pull this sort of thing again on me Rylee, your dead!" Quinn said.

Suddenly the boy stood in the centre of the three with red hair got up and shouted.

"What the hell did you say to me you little punk?"

"Run!" run Quinn shouted.

Like a bolt of lightning, Rayne, Peter and Quinn ran as fast as they could to their next class.

"Why did you do that for?" Peter asked.

"I just wanted to annoy them a little."

Peter couldn't help but think Quinn was a little mad but he liked the fact that Quinn didn't seem to take crap from people stronger than him and kind of looked up to him a little.

Rayne on the other hand was thinking 'Is he mad or he had some kind of plan for revenge nah that can't be possible he is to weak to that.'

Classes for the day had finally finished, since it was the first day most of the classes were just introductions and about what they would learn during their time at the school.

Rayne, Peter and Quinn did their best to avoid most of the other students for the day and it seemed like after everything they had been through, they weren't going to get into any more trouble.

Once classes had finished it was time to go for dinner. Quinn still had this hunger in his stomach so he was looking forward to dinner more than usual. This time, Quinn and Peter both sat on their own at a table in the low-level area. Then Peter started to look around the room as if he was trying to spot someone.

"I don't see Vorden anywhere, do you think he's okay?" Peter asked.

Quinn then scouted around the room and he too couldn't see Vorden at the canteen.

"I wouldn't worry about it too much, trust me when I say this but he is a lot safer than us at this school."

The three continued to eat and once they had finished dinner decided to head back to their dorm room.

Once entering the room he changed from his school uniform into some comfortable pajamas. After that he spoke.

"So would you mind telling me about what is my purpose in this world because I still can't figure it out."

[For now your only objective is to grow stronger and survive.]

"OK, another question am I chosen for some insane gods amusement."

[No you are not chosen for that reason and I don't have the authority to tell you the reason.]

"Oh Ok I understand so I am really for amusement purpose. What ever I really should sleep what time is it 9:00 PM it is really early to sleep."

"Good night."

[Good night host.]

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Early morning at 4:00 AM

In a dorm room on a single bed Rayne woke up lazily and checked his clock to see that it was 4 am in the morning so slowly rose up from his bed and brushed his teeth and freshened up after that he wore a track suit and went outside at around 5:00 am he greeted the guard.

He slowly made way toward the park. After reaching the park he did some warm-up to loosen his muscle a little bit after that he started to do some exercises like push-ups but failed to continue forward after only 10 reps, so he decided that he should run around the park a little bit before he decided to return to his room before and rest a little bit and it was already 7:00 Am a new day at school.