Right from when I could understand my memories I've always been plagued by questions.

No matter how I try to rationalize I could never understand why.

I simply couldn't understand, why was I abandoned? the nightmares didn't help, I always wake up in cold sweat gasping for air with the left side of my face throbbing in pain, a parting gift my parents gave me before being left outside a rundown chapel. I know who my biological parents are since I see them almost every day on the news and in magazines, do they think of me?.

The omega family is the most talked-about in the past decade, My mom was a singer, songwriter, and actress, my dad billionaire philanthropist, and c.e.o of Omega tech the biggest tech company in the world a very powerful couple as if that wasn't enough their kids are all geniuses all four of them, genius song composer, Olympic gold medalist figure skater, youngest lightweight boxing champion and from what I saw on Megatube the last child just became the youngest master swordsman at the age of 10.

I always thought that something was wrong with me, It wasn't really a logical leap my siblings are all geniuses, so I wanted to find out what made me different. From the doctor's test and full-body scans over the years I knew I was physically healthy with no deformities or anomalies of any kind notwithstanding the disfigured half of my face so what was the reason, they left ?. All that was left was my mind, I knew I was different from most, I saw things other people couldn't see, my nightmares plagued me every single night and according to my therapist although I was more mature for my age although my emotional intelligence was too low.

I can remember every detail I ever saw, my birth, my first birthday, and even faces of strangers I had a brief glimpse of, yes I was different mentally but not really in a bad way I had an eidetic memory, that was a con, right? so why didn't they keep me?.

My parents decided my fate in less than five minutes after my birth, I still remember the look of disappointment on my mom's face as she held me for the first time and my dad's piercing blue eye's as he stared at me for almost a minute before he sighed in sadness, what did they see at that moment?.

When I turned 12 my questions were answered, the world government announced the appearance of wielders people with abilities straight out of comic books. my biological parents stood behind the prime minister with my 4 siblings, after the long drawn out speech from the prime minister they each stepped forward and displayed their abilities for the world to see and at that moment I instinctively knew without going for an energy reading or awakening that I wasn't a wielder.

When my biological parents stared at me on that day what they saw was an ordinary boy, I was abandoned because I was normal, I wasn't defective but I was unworthy of their love, I felt empty when I finally figured it out.

I was left in an orphanage a continent away and forgotten, no name given in a basket outside a chapel, for the longest time I had wondered why? no matter how mature and logical I tried to be I always found myself wondering if there something wrong with me? was I broken in some way? for years I was obsessed with finding out the truth but not in a thousand years did I ever imagine that the reason they tossed me to another continent was all because I was like 90% of humans, I couldn't bend metal with my mind or run faster than a car, did that mean I was unworthy of their love.

"Ulf! Ulf! it came" a boy shouted as he sprinted down the hallway, giggling as he ran.

Ulf could not help but smile the young boys' joyful voice brought him out of his thoughts "Thomas!! how many times must I tell you no running in the hallways *sigh* what happened this time?"

Thomas a little boy of about ten old years with scraggly brown hair and deep blue eyes jumped onto his bunk and said "Ulf! Ulf! Ulf! your letter from college arrived " he said with a squeal and showed the parcel to the youth named Ulf.

"Thank you little one" the little boy was his only family, he found Thomas abandoned in the alleyways of Dresden malnourished, he had begged the caregivers of his orphanage, and only after he promised to start working did they accept him, it's been almost 4 years now before he could grab the parcel the mischievous boy jumped back and tore it open.

"you got in! you got in!" he shouted

Ulf smiled in happiness, the other world was calling, Ulf had found a goal, after years of therapy he had made peace with himself, he only wanted a home for him and Thomas his past mattered no more. The new world would provide that, ever since its announcement five years ago wielders and non-wielders flocked over to the gate a huge portal floating just above the sea in the Bermuda triangle that leads to a habitable planet rich in resources and the only place one could find cores.

A good exploration could provide enough money for an explorer to live in abject decadency for the rest of his\her life. A tier 1 shard alone cost over $10,000 enough to feed a middle-class family for a month. even with sparse details coming out of the New world people flocked towards it non-wielders and wielders alike. The most successful exploration to date was by clan Omega, 5 tier 5 shards, 30 tier 4, 120 tier 3, a countless tier 1 and 2, and most importantly an expansion of earth's territory in the other world by over a hundred square kilometers. power, fame, money, territory the new world offered it all.

Ulf celebrated with Thomas and a few of the other children, though they didn't have much they danced, ate, and played the day away, he watched their unadulterated joy and he couldn't help but wish for the moment to last forever, how he wished he could protect them from the cruelty of the world.

Ulf carried the now sleeping Thomas to his bunk and tucked him in, as he stepped out of Thomas's room he can face to face with Lukas a caregiver in his late fifties.

"don't go Ulf the new world is too dangerous," Lukas said, he had cared for Ulf since he arrived here

"you know I have to, I have the skills to survive don't worry"

Lukas gave Ulf a hug

"be careful my little wolf, don't forget... "

"without pain and suffering life is a dream" replied Ulf

he watched Lukas walk away before heading towards his room, it felt like Lukas wanted to say more Ulf shook his head and switched on his Megatab with his college credentials from the parcel he signed into the Explorer association app, the process was smooth the usual non-disclosure agreement, terms of condition agreement, profile upload, and boom he had access to more information than 90% of the world.

He couldn't help but feel unusually excited but he needed to curb his excitement he had to prepare, courses started in a week he needed to pick his electives, as a non-wielder, there are only two slots for electives, he skimmed through and was disappointed, most of the electives were tailored for wielders.

He finally decided on monster structure and monster dismantling, these are the only classes for both non-wielders and wielders.