chapter 11: a genius? No, more like a cheater

/multi-thought Lv14: separation of the mind +7/

'It didn't give any bonuses after evolving, but even after that it's still so good!'

Aster was going to school to get his grades of this year, but while at it he examined the changes of his skills

'before evolving it, I could only do different things at the same time, but after evolving it I can directly separate my mind on each action that I'm doing, tiring me less mentally and making it more precise. If it were to evolve again, in what would it evolve?' he was thinking of his future skills, ignoring everything around him.

'in the description of prediction, it says something about future knowledge. If it were to evolve more, whould I be able to see the future itself instead of the just the attacks of my enemies or incoming danger? If that's correct, then I would have a great advantage on discovering dungeons with life changing knowledge and artifacts! Hehe, that's possiblle as long as I get more stronger, more and MORE stronger than anyone else' he stopped walking as he reached his classe's door, he entered and sat down on his seat.

"so, how much do you think you will get Aster?" said Zale, behind him.

"mmh, I think I did pretty well. But not as well as you, I can sense you will be at the top of all classes and all schools" 'The exam was pretty harsh, even the smallest of mistakes would rest you points'

Zale and Aster started talking over other things, waiting for the teacher to come and give them the exams results.

And as they waited for some minutes, the teacher finally appeared.

"everyone come get your exams as I call you. Jeremy, Susan....." as the teacher was calling some students, when they took their exams almost all of them had mixed feelings, a small part had lifeless faces when they saw their grades and some were crying of happines.

"Zale, come here" the teacher said while holding a stack of papers. Zale got closer, saw the results and went back to his seat silently.

"...." he was silent.

"so, how was it?" Aster asked, concerned for his friend.

"....he.....hehehe....HAHAHAHAHA! Don't put that face, I was just procesing what just happened" Zale said, changing his face from serius into a happy one "basically the grades will be out of 500, so, what do you think I got?"

"mmh, I think a 499/500?"

"nope, it's a 500/500, a perfect score!" Zale said happy. While he was considered a genius, he still had to study things, including this extremely stressfull exam.

'.... I hope I don't fail....'

"Aster, come here" Aster stood up, and went to get his exam.

"....." Aster was really nervous 'what if I failed it? What will happen to me and my future?' Aster looked a bit at his back and saw Zale '.... well, I did study a lot with him, so I'm sure it will be great!' Aster relaxed himself and got the courage to look at it.

'495/500' Aster tought of the results.

"...... is this r-really the results?" Aster couldn't believe himself and asked his teacher.

"yes, yes they are. I don't know what you did to go from the middle of grades to the top, but you did it" the teacher was very surprised when he saw Aster's grades, he couldn't believe that someone who never payed attention in class would get almost a perfect score on the most difficult exam.

Aster, after seeing his exam, went back to his seat. Meanwhile Zale talked with him after hearing what the teacher said.

"so, how was my special study session?"

"....It was great, oh my grand teacher" Aster said in a gracefull tone.

"ok ok, but I told you to not call me that, then we should go now. Wanna come play something again?"

"I think I can afford a day off from training"

"oh? You are training now?" Zale said curiously.

"yep, I want to train my body before awakening and also learn some self defense"

"if you want to, I can also train with you. My family made me train since childhood, so I'm quite strong myself" Zale said while puffing his chest.

"...really?"

"yes, my family has the resources for training, so they made me do it"

"then we should spar another day, right now a I want to play because you said it earlier. Let's go to your house" an the two of them went off to Zale's house.

-city 0, sorcerer's school, care center-

At the care center, the people were reading multiple papers and notifications from their computers, organizing all the information from the students from the grade's 8 exams. They were looking at the best students, to keep an eye on them until they awakened so they could take them without a problem to their school if they were to awaken mana.

"director, this year there is a lot of students who has gotten more than 450 in their score, we could get almost the double of students next year. But before that, we should hire more teachers and also investigate the background of the top students. We sure don't want any spy from outside" the deputy director of the sorcerer's school said to a 60 year old man.

He had white hair and a long white robe, he was the director of this school.

"good, the more students we get, the more civilization will advance towards a safe world. Now tell me what students will be the shining stars in for the future" the director asked, looking at the deputy director.

"well, there is one of them who got perfect scores, he is an absolute top genius" as he said that, he passed three papers to the director.

'Zale laurer' and 'Stephan erly', that was the two names he saw on the paper.

"mmmh, Zale laurer, a kid from a rich family whos ancestor greatly contributed on the war and now they have a top genius. He will be a priority on admission of new students" the director said will looking at Zale's information, but he started looking at the other paper "could you explain to me who is this child?" he said while looking at Stephan's paper.

"well sir, that's.... something difficult to explain. He was found by our top teacher, Gasphel. After he felt a disturbance on the energy, he went towards the place where it was ocurring. And there, inside a house, he found a unconscious human covered in blood with three corpses around him, it was Stephan. After taking him to the hospital, he woke up not remembering anything at all. We tried to investigate his mind with hypnosis and other mind abilitys, but it was useless. The only thing we know is that he is an early mana awakener" the deputy director explained.

"mmh, but why is his paper with Zale's?"

"well, because Gasphel said so, he talked about sensing something special with him, we may think he could be a genius"

"...." *sigh* "let's allow it, but I hope he isn't mistaken" after they finished talking about the two students, they started talking about the other ones.

"also, there is one student whose grades are quite rare, here" he gave the director another paper.

"Aster comet? What's wierd about him?"

"well sir, we believe that he may have cheated on the exam. Look at his earlier grades and into his final exam, there is too much of a difference, He was always passing the exams with fives, always almost failing it. But now on the final exam, how was he able to get almost a perfect mark? That's just too weird"

The director looked sharply at the deputy director "then, what do you think we should do?"

The deputy director looked back at him and calmly told him "that's something very easy, we send a mind mage and let the student answer by himself"

-Aster's room, 21:18-

"man, what a great day. I had so much fun with Zale and I got such a great score on the exam. But.... I feel something wrong" Aster couldn't sake off the feeling that something bad was going to happen, and he fully trusted it.

'is my prediction skill telling me something? Something bad is going to hapen tomorrow...' Aster started using all his mind skills to identify the problem.

"mmmmmmhhhhh...." he was concentrating with all he got "MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMHHHHHHHHHHHHH...."

And then he finally got it "that's right, the exam!"

'if a student who always had some low-medium scores suddenly got almost a perfect score, then something must be wrong! The only one who cares so much about scores are the sorcerers school, if it's them then they willl send someone to investigate me. Magic can be very tricky, if one is good at one thing they can do a lot of impossible things with it, but what will they send.... if they want information they will send a time or mind magician. Time magicians are capable of seeing trough time but are very rare, so it's more likely for the mind magician. How can I keep information from a mind mage?' he looked at his skill "mental library".

'if I were to evolve it again I think I could keep my secrets safe, but it's leveling slowed down by a lot after evolving, if I want to evolve it again the only way is....' he knew what he had to do.

"this night I will not be able to sleep..." he had to train his mind to the maximum.

-Aster's room, 13:06-

"uuuuuuughh...." Aster went to the kitchen and made his first ever coffee.

'uuggh.... my... head....' he trained his mind to the limits using multi-tought and remembering all of his live, putting it in order from his first tought to the present, tiring him completely.

/mental library (awakening) Lv50: tought organization +75%/

/multi-tought (awakening) Lv50: multiple thoughts at once +30/

'now I can remember all of my life, even my most forgoten memory. But now how do I evolve it?' while thinking about it, he tought of what he needed right now.

'let's make an undetectable safe in my mind' he went back to his room and entered his mind.

After visualizing his mind, he saw how it was.

"is literally a library..." he saw an abandoned but still clean library with thousands of books, each book beeing a memory with toughts.

"ok, first of all... won't this make it too obvious that I'm special? I need to change it asap" he wanted to make a ``copy´´ of all his mind and put it on a safe place and then later disorganize this place to make it look like it's from a normal person.

"ok, let's move all of this deeper in my brain" as he was doing that, he moved his memorys into another place separrated by multi-tought.

/"multi-thought" has evolved into "multi-will Lv1"/

"eh? What was that?"

"yeah, what was that?"

"I don't know what it was...."

"....." Aster became silent "what...was that?" he looked at his side slowly.

And he saw multiple humans exactly like him standing there.

"..."

"..." (x30)

He was silent.

they were silent.

"...." Aster slowly opened his mouth "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" an let out a very surprised scream.

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" (x30) they also screamed.

'OK OK CALM DOWN, THIS MUST BE THE NEW SKILL MULTI-WILL' Aster was starting to calm down.

"I think you are right, this must be it's effect. Separating our mind into multiple ones" another Aster said.

"yea that sounds very likely" another one responded.

".... first of all, I was the one moving the memories, so I will be the first one" the first Aster said.

"ok" (x30)

"now, how do we hide this? I'm sure the mind mage will detect this...."

"I think I know how, we didn't study psychology, but I think if we put everything in the nucleus of the mind, people will not be able to read our mind and important secrets. Well, of course, as long as they don't want to hurt us"

"mmmh, ok, I will call you M.Aster, M standing for Mind, so you will be in charge of organizing the mind. And I will be called OG.Aster, from original Aster " OG Aster said.

"and everyone who doesn't have anything specific to do will be extras for support and will be called EX Asters. And before anything else, let's go do what we were supposed to do, I don't want the mind magician getting here and seeing this"

"ok!" (x30)

and they started working, moving all the spaces were the separated minds where to the center of all.

-after a while-

/"mind library" has evolved into "mind archival Lv1"/

/mind archival will now give +1% more/

/mind archival Lv1: thought organization +150%/

After evolving it, Aster could feel his mind becoming extremely more clearer.

"finally, all the exterior part is disorganized and all the important stuff is safe, now we can wait for hi-" before he could keep talking to his other minds, someone called from outside of his mind.

"Aster! Someone is here to talk to you!" he heard his mother calling him.

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All skills till now:

/skills Lv-/

/obtainment/skill silencing/skill library/skill sealing/

/passive skills/

/pure breathing Lv23/blood creation Lv12/understanding Lv24/prediction Lv16/the six senses Lv18/multi-will Lv1/calligraphy Lv16/evasion Lv21/mind archival Lv1/evolving swordmanship Lv17/mana storage (sealed) Lv1/

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/active skills/

/power rush Lv15/fast thinking Lv26/cultivation Lv1/observation Lv18/deep slumber Lv13/charged jump Lv19/bullet speed Lv19/relaxation Lv16/blood manipulation Lv29/flesh manipulation Lv23/roar Lv14/strong punch Lv21/strong kick Lv21/strong slash Lv19/evolving footwork Lv17/