After walking back into the line Zeb notices the others side eyeing him in disgust after only getting a measly 910 on his test.
"Yep now this is the reaction I'm used to."
After the last guy finished up and went back in line, Kano stood in front of them and held up a chip looking device.
"Now that everyone is finished and has their power level you are required to put this chip into your arm. Once that happens it will be able to access your whole body and show you and others what your power level is at one glance. If you were to grow stronger or wear armor it would update your power level, it will also be used as a tracking device to make sure everything is in order."
He then hands everyone a chip.
"All you have to do is press it up against your skin for 10 seconds and then it will attach, it will only be a pinch of pain."
Zeb takes the chip and presses it against his arm and waits.
After 10 seconds pass he felt a huge jolt go around his body and way more pain in his arm than just a pinch.
"What the fuck, more like a gunshot." He said in his head.
"Now all you have to do is look at it and you should see your power level." Kano said once everyone attached the chip.
And as he said, it indeed showed Zeb's power level to be 910.
"Your room numbers are also displayed on the chip, curfew is at 12 pm and classes start at 9 am. You guys are all dismissed."
Zeb checks the watch and it displays his room number to be 420.
"I should go check out my room and settle my stuff in." Zeb thinks to himself as he walks towards the dorms.
Before Zeb can reach his dorm he hears a familiar voice call out to him from behind.
"Hey human filth, domt think we're done talking yet."
Zeb turns to see the guy that pushed him earlier that day.
"Give me that ring or I'll make sure you remember the name Bryson Tali for the rest of your life" the bully says while putting his hand on Zeb's shoulder.
"This guy Really thinks I'm scared of him, I've got something to show him" Zeb says in his head.
Zeb quickly unsheathes his sword and uses
Bryson looks at his arm to see a small scratch and starts to laugh hysterically.
"DID YOU DO THAT? I COULD BARLEY EVEN FEEL IT PFFT HAHAHAHA" suddenly his wound closed up and the scratch was no longer there.
Zeb's ring begins to shine as he gets visibly angry.
"Me and you are gonna go to a very quiet place and have a little chat." Bryson then puts his hand on Zeb's face and he loses consciousness.
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Zeb suddenly wakes up and looks around to see he's in a dark forest, he stands up and looks at his chip and the time is 2:30 am.
"Either you give me that ring or I take it, scum."Bryson appears behind zeb, grinning ear to ear.
Zeb turns around tries to grab his sword but notices it's gone.
"Looking for this pathetic thing?" Bryson pulls out a sword that has been snapped in half and throws it on the ground.
Zeb's ring starts to shine brighter than it ever has before and tears form in his eyes as he remembers everyone that died in the dojo incident.
"I'll kill you. I'll kill everyone."
Bryson began to laugh and held out his hand towards Zeb.
Zeb's body starts to freeze until he can't move, he looks down to see his body is covered in ice.
Bryson walks up to the frozen Zeb and unfreezes his hand, he try's to take off Zeb's ring but after a couple seconds of pulling he notices that it's apart of his skin.
"Man you really are a weirdo, I guess I'll have to use this." Bryson pulls out a pocket knife from his back pocket.
Zeb was too deep in his thoughts to care what was happening. "My sword" was the only thing repeating in his head.
Bryson drives the knife into the palm of Zeb's hand then looks up at him "oops my hand slipped."
He gets mad when he notices Zeb has no reaction and starts to make slashes all over his body.
"FUCKING WAKE UP" Bryson starts screaming like a madman while he slices Zeb's body.
"You know what, fuck it, I'm just gonna take this dumbass ring."
With one fast and powerful slice Bryson cuts off the finger that has the ring on it.
Bryson picks up the severed finger from the ground and notices that the ruby has turned black, a couple seconds later a weird black liquid ooze's from the ruby.
Suddenly a message appears in front of Zeb.
7%
21%
42%
68%
100%
Zeb hears a deep manly voice in his head.
"I'm tired of witnessing this, give me your body. I'll return it when I'm done and explain everything."
Another box appears in front of Zeb again
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