The dean of the academy stared at the monitor with wide eyes as he watched the numbers on the screen continue to rise. 5000, 6000, 7000, 8000, 9000! Once it reached 9500, the speed of the rise slowed substantially. The dean looked at the two people in the room who had the same expression as him. And was about to tell them to be quiet but when he saw one of them reaching for their phone, he quickly reacted and then a scream was heard. The doctor who was sitting next to the man who reached for his phone fell out of her chair and quickly backed away as the man was burned alive right in front of her. She turned towards the dean with fear in her eyes. "Dean?"
The dean humphed and kicked the smoldering body out of the chair before leaning down and changing the numbers on the screen to 5000. He then turned to the female doctor on the ground and said coldly: "No one is to know this young man's true power. We will need to nourish him well and allow him to slowly show his true strength. Otherwise, those bastards from the first tier cities will try to take him from us like they tried to take Ben. Miss Basly, make sure you keep that boy healthy. If he gets injured, fix him no matter what! Do you understand?"
"Ye-Yes!" Miss Basly was the same doctor who had done Yi Tan's physical. And for the man in front of her, she felt nothing but fear every time she met this man. Dean Transcel. A man whose ambitions were higher than the sky. She could already tell this man planned to use Yi Tan to make Valant City number one again. Valant city, in the past few decades, had degraded from a first tier city to a second tier city. During the worldwide city tournaments, it had been last ever since the Earth God Ben Freeman turned nineteen, leaving the resources it could gather limited.
Only those 18 and younger could join the tournament. This meant with the appearance of these kids who have such strong power ratings, they would be the new hope the Dean will be betting on to win him glory.
"Also..." The Dean suddenly continued: "Put Tim Beekal, Shindo Mei, Adriana Worthswood, and Yi Tan in the same dorm apartment. It seems that Yi Tan is friends with the other three, which is good. They will make a good team. As for the last person… I will wait to see who else catches my eye."
Dorm apartments were made for five people to live in, and normally it was segregated between male and female to make sure no funny business was going on, but now this dorm will be mixed between male and female. Miss Basly frowned and wondered if the Dean was actually hoping for something to happen as if he wanted to breed more powerful offspring. But when she looked at the numbers on the screen for Yi Tan, she could understand the Dean's actions. The one thing that did confuse her though, was that she could not tell what Yi Tan's ability was.
Inside the chamber, the light of the room was slowly dimming. Yi Tan's eyes were much different from before. Although they kept the same blue color, there were now green lines running through them, which closely resembled a circuit board. "Now, this is interesting!" Sei's voice appeared in his mind. "The soul capture system seems to have fused with your ability. To make things even more interesting, your ability is also quite unique as well."
"Mmm… I can see that..." Yi Tan looked in front of him. He had what resembled a game HUD in front of his eyes. On the top left corner was a small bar that was empty, and next to it read 0%. Besides this, there was a small icon on the bottom right hand corner. Yi Tan reached out with his hand and tapped the icon. A new window opened up. The title of the window read: "Soul Coding."
"Soul Coding, what is that?" Yi Tan was confused. He hit a few buttons on the transparent window and caused a few sub menus to pop up.
"This is actually quite a good ability! Brat, you are kind of overpowered. This system allows you to code any kind of program you wish and will take effect in the real world. As your power rises, you can even reprogram the world as you wished. But… I suggest you keep low key on your abilities unless it is absolutely necessary. " Sei said this out of concern for Yi Tan's safety. If powerful people found out about his ability, they would definitely end up either kidnapping him and forcing him to do many different things or outright killing him so he could not become a threat.
"Mmm… I'm not that stupid. But Sei, I have to ask why are you floating around me in the real world?" Yi Tan couldn't help but notice the naked soul floating around his menu.
"Your ability and the soul capture system have fused together, meaning I am now part of your ability. Don't worry, I am only visible to you. The same goes with this screen here. I do not want others seeing me naked anyway. Oh! By the way, we need to program a few things here to extend the system a bit. I figured it would be a good idea to have a program that you can keep track of your body statistics. And another one for quick program access, so you can create programs then save them into the system to have readily at your fingertips when you need them. " Sei replied as she floated over to the screen and began pressing a few buttons here and there.
Yi Tan watched with great interest. It seemed the way to code things was done with nodes. This meant he could easily create programs as long as he understood what each node did and how to interconnect them.
"See this? This node here is a body monitor and allows you to access different variables stored within the node. From here, as you can see, I used this node over here to create a small widget on your main screen and placed in a few different labels and inputs to allow information to be displayed. I then named each input and dragged the connector from the corresponding variable to the correct input, and now we have an automated body statistics widget for your system's main screen. Now, look at the main screen here." Sei minimized the screen so that Tan could see what was created.
[Name:] Yi Tan
[Age:] 14
[Sex:] Male
[Current Evolution:] Mortal
[Soul Power:] 0%
[Mana:] 10,000
[Power:] 9,999
[Strength:] 5
[Intelligence:] 6
[Stamina:] 8
"So question… What did you add my name, age, and sex to the program?" Yi Tan was a bit confused on this since he knew his name, age, and sex.
"Hmm? It makes it seem more game like, no?" Sei asked as she grinned at Yi Tan.
"If you say so… So what should I do now? I need to leave here soon, and we need to figure out what I should be using as my cover ability." Yi Tan wanted to stay low key as Sei suggested, but he was not sure what he should start off with for his starting program.
"Let's do this. I will write a base lightning program to give you a bit of an idea of how this works so you can study it later. I will do it quickly so you can leave here as soon as possible to use it. You will just need to call out its name for now. We will add some more options to your system later. To be honest, this whole system is rather overpowered. Not that I am complaining, this means my host will be very powerful." Sei smiled as she went right to work. Yi Tan couldn't help but stare at her bare butt as she wiggled it back and forth as she worked.
"You can now exit the chamber." A voice filled the room. Yi Tan looked over to see the door on the far wall open. He took his first step forward since getting the system to see if the menu would follow, seeing that it did he walked out of the room.
"Tan!" "Tan!" "Brother!"