Aiden woke up as usual, It was just another ordinary day of his life, as he woke up, he just washed his face, prepared his breakfast, took a bath and got ready for school. Unlike other students, Aiden didn't have a roommate. He was alone their so he didn't have to worry about almost anything.
He went to his classroom very early since he had nothing else to worry about, and he didn't want to wait for the school to become crowded. He'd just be bumped to by everyone since he was so weak. There were also people that discriminate him for having no abilities and many people who wants to vent anger by hitting or wounding him.
For the past 8 years of his life, he would always be full of bruises and wounds, sometimes some of the wounds would also be deep from a sharp object the person used. Although Aiden has a good physique, unlike others, he still gets wounded easily since he had not an ounce of mana.
Mana is something people use in they everyday life, they even coat themselves with mana everyday so they can push to their limits. Because of these they wouldn't get wounded easily unlike Aiden. He also learned how to conduct first aid himself because he knew himself that he's bothering the nurse in the infirmary. Its very unprofessional but Aiden can't really do anything about it.
As he was waiting there sitting on the middle sit, a girl with a shapely figure and imp thin body came in. She had eyes that were very charming for its amethyst color, and long silky black hair. Once Aiden saw who she was, he quickly averted his gaze in order to avoid eye contact. Although the girl was someone who was very charismatic that seems to catch the eyes of boys, or even girls. Aiden didn't care about this for he knew that any girl he could see would be beyond his reach, even if he had a slight chance, he still wouldn't gamble because the girl was someone bestowed with a huge mana pool and also a great ability.
The girl sat at the very front, her name was Sara Croft, she's a very popular person in school, not only for her good looks, but also for her combat prowess. Maybe you could call her a genius, but there is no such thing as a genius. The only one that's giving a gap between so called geniuses and ordinary people are the materials used. If one was rich, they could buy cores that can increase their power exponentially, and if one was poor, all they can do is wait for their time to shine.
Although A huge mana pool could be domineering, a good ability is even better, if someone from a poor family does awaken a powerful ability, some powerful people would surely try to make that person on their side by making them indebted to them, just like what almost happened to Aiden.
They just sat there for around 30 minutes before other people start going in, Aiden just put his head down in order not to attract unwanted attention and be unrecognizable. It was before another 30 minutes before the class was full, the teacher went in and everyone stood up to greet the teacher good morning.
Aiden was about to graduate not having an ability and only physical prowess in 1 year. He was quite dejected about this but he couldn't do anything about his own fate. Although his life wouldn't be filled with people wanting to uh, take him. He still understood how lonely it is to be alone your entire life.
School ended in a flash and Aiden directly went out the gate the second it ended stealthfully. As he was walking home, he suddenly had a flashback of mind, it recalled him back to what happened 10 years ago to when he was 5. He sat on a near bench and drank water because he was feeling dizzy and he had a headache afterwards. He saw everything again from the point of his recklessness. When his headache wore down, he had the sudden urge to visit the place again.
Strangely enough, he knows the directions of where to go. He arrived there, but all he could see was a huge crater. "Just what the fuck happened here?!" He said in response. He suddenly received another reminiscence, when he fainted after killing the girl, he suddenly exploded killing all the goblins and all the running survivors.
Once he finished thinking about it, he suddenly knelt as if all his energy was sucked away. He couldn't believe that he was the reason they died. "But, but Jay said they were alive... WAS HE LYING?" jay inwardly thought. He couldn't cope that he was the reason his family died. Even though not related by blood, it was where he received the most love he ever gotten.
After knowing he did that explosion, he also came to the conclusion that Jay was gonna use him. He came to this conclusion very quickly because it always happen around him. "What a bastard" he inwardly thought. While thinking about all of these, he could only also think about the people he killed, he may not have killed them by his bare hands but he was still the cause. While also thinking about killing with bare hands he again thought about the girl he stabbed.
He suddenly felt the urge to puke but he held it all throughout. He also held his urge not to cry and just went home. Although he went home, he still couldn't rest peacefully thinking about everything. He spent his days being disturbed by this and couldn't even focus on anything, even his grades at school declined, there was also a time that he was getting beat up but he just stood there being confused about it. After a month, he decided to visit that crater again.
He felt the warmness that was long gone once he closed his eyes, and when he opened it he could only see one big hole. He could only smile wryly at the situation in front of him. He walked towards the crater and stopped at the middle of it. He only said one word after that. "Sorry"
He then moved to the other end of the crater. It was still a forest with some broken tree's and some slice marks that seem to come from a sword. Without thinking he went in more and more and some people. They seem to be detectives and there were also some people with abilities that were known. He hid instantly accidently eavesdropping to the situation.
"Where do you think those goblins came from, its already been 10 years and there still isn't an answer, when we first went here there wasn't even any abnormality of magic, if it was a dungeon break then there would at least be" A man said.
"You think its a work of another monster, maybe with teleportation ability or something?" Another one said
They kept chatting about this and it made Aiden a little angry, because there still wasn't a cause of a situation. He just exited the site without getting noticed. He once saw the huge crater again. He left there without batting another eye inwardly thinking if the people there would even forgive him. But he knew the most that what he should do first was forgive himself and that's what he did.
He woke up the next morning because of a weird sound.
[Task 2 Completed]
[Ready to Sync]
When Aiden saw these he instantly realized it, it was the one from 10 years ago, that said Task 1 completed. He ignored it because he thought it was only a hallucination of his but didn't expect it to appear again. He thought it was just a hallucination so he went directly to the bathroom to wash his face. He also brewed some caffeine on the way.
The text did disappear after washing his face but as he sat down the chair with his coffee, another text appeared.
[Would you like to sync now]
[Yes/No]
"No." Aiden abruptly said.
[Please input what time would you like to sync]
Another text appeared again. "No." He said again, this was how he spent the morning today. The text disappeared and thought it was over after saying no about more than 10 times. He went to his classroom after bathing and eating breakfast.
Once again he was the first person to come and after him was Sara, and then the rest of the class. He dozed off while waiting for the other people to come and also woke up to the same text.
[Would you like to sync now]
Aiden scoffed at this and when he was about to say no the teacher suddenly called him, he didn't realize that the teacher already came in.
"AIDEN!" he was called.
"YES MAAM" Aiden suddenly said in instinct. "Pay attention next time, I don't want this happening again" The teacher said. Aiden only nodded and sat back to his seat, but the next thing he saw only displeased him.
[Now syncing]
When these exact words appeared, he suddenly felt a painful effect all over his body, causing him to fall of his chair.
Thud!
Everyone focused their attention on Aiden, some were whispering to one another and some were laughing by themselves. "Great, its early in the morning and you're already causing a commotion Aiden." The teacher said. Aiden didn't respond causing the teacher to go to him, when she rolled Aiden, she saw a pained face of Aiden.
"Can someone bring Aiden to the infirmary" The teacher said when she stood up. No one answered and they seemed to ignore the question. The teacher was about to ask someone do it when Sara volunteered.
Sara then carried Aiden in a princess carry to the infirmary, this became the main topic of the people whispering around the classroom.
"QUIET!" the class suddenly focused their attention on the teacher, The teacher made sure that everyone in the class was now focusing on her before the moved to the lesson, on the other hand, Sara and Aiden already arrived at the infirmary. When Sara opened the door, she saw the infirmary nurse sitting there with an annoyed expression.
"Ms. Naveah, please take care of Aiden, he seem to collapsed just this morning" Sara gently said with her softly spoken voice. "All right, all right, just leave him their on the bed I'll have a look at him later" Ms. Naveah replied.
Sara did as instructed and left Aiden on the bed. "Thank you Ms. Naveah, have a good day" Sara said before leaving. Ms. Naveah smiled at her before going to check Aiden. First thing she did was check his temperature, and surely enough it he was hot. "I guess you only have a cold and you over exerted yourself" Ms. Naveah muttered.
She then casted her ability to Aiden, his pained expression then went away and the nurse went back to her seat and just started reading the novel she was reading.
2 hours later, Aiden woke up and saw a familiar white ceiling. "The infirmary?" Aiden questioned himself. Ms. Naveah saw Aiden get up. "Looks like your awake, you only had a fever, just take a rest and you'll be fine, you can go home know I'll just let your teacher know". She said.
"Thank you" Aiden softly spoke. He then saw his bad at the side of his bed and went home. As he opened the door to his house, he saw a black screen with white letters and numbers in front of him.
Name: Aiden
Health:100%
Mana: 10/10
Level: 1
Abilities: Divine-Demonic Force Manipulation
Rank: Null
Title: Null
Strength: 5
Speed: 5
Vitality: 3
Intelligence : 1
Endurance: 3
Skills: Null
Aiden thought it was another hallucination so he rubbed his eyes and surely it didn't disappear. He inwardly thought. "Disappear", then the profile information in front of him did disappear. Then at his point of view he could see a little white and black box. When he focused on that box, his status would then appear. But first he decided to check all of this when he was in his dorm.
What surprised him the most though was the ability. He was curious what Divine-Demonic Force Manipulation was. He rapidly changed his clothes and jumped to his bed, he focused on the little box at the side of his pov and the status appeared again.