At the 147th floor of the High City Skyscraper, a white-haired boy in boxer briefs was free floating in a luxurious pool as the sunlight fell on his upper body.
While it looked like he was simply dozing off, he was currently channelling mana to propel his body not to fall in the pool, while also maintaining his exact same position. Even his breathing was synchronised with his mana channelling.
And then he slowly stood up and
-Splash
Fell into the pool as he let himself free fall for a moment before getting back up to the surface. He then swam to one side and checked the time on a stopwatch, which was exactly 15 minutes and 34 seconds.
'Well… this should be enough to cross the lake, I suppose,' he thought as he sighed, hoping he could get some more time, but it was already 2 weeks and Elle should be leaving for the airport on the western continent.
It has been 2 weeks since Zero began his training with the same regime which he started on day one. At this point, he looked more like a normal healthy boy of 15 compared to before, where he looked like a malnutritioned skinny child. Some of his muscles, like those of his biceps and chest, became a bit more prominent.
Other changes were also there. Like now, he could bear the gravity of three times that of normal gravity. There was also that mana channel he unlocked a week ago.
At this point, he could more or less increase the density of things around 2 metres of his body while also enhancing his muscular powers by 2 to 3 times. Though, the max amount of time was about 15 minutes and 34 seconds, which he recorded just now, that too while he was still.
"It should be about 60 to 70 percent of what I can do without moving, so that means about give or take 10 minutes. Hmmm… for safety, let's take it as 7minutes max," he mumbled as he took a towel and began walking inside the apartment.
'For someone living alone, this apartment is really huge…' he thought as he walked around the area. There was a pool, a training centre, a gym, a huge kitchen, 4 separate bedrooms, a master bedroom, a separate office side filled with all the work oriented furnishings, and many more things to count.
He then shook his head as he began thinking about the future and moved to the computer. He hacked into the airport's system and got the flight's schedule and found Elle and her sister's flight's timing. It was set to be about 4 hours from now on a high-profile flight for special people.
He then began checking for other passengers on it and found some very influential people and their families. More or less, all of them were going to the Arcadia Academy for the enrollment that was going to occur in about 2 weeks or something.
'Hmmm… since I will be going to Arcadia Academy too, I should also apply for enrollment now. It will be easier to get in touch with a number of people on my list,' Zero thought as changed the platform and began searching for the enrollment procedures.
After looking through the site, he found the enrollment to be over last week and he couldn't apply anymore. He yawned a bit before hacking into the Academy's system before finally reaching upto the point where he included his own name into the 'Specific General' part of the list.
Basically, it was a slot where the unorthodox people tried their luck to get into the Academy. As long as you have something special that interests them, they will allow you to join the academy and it's fine, since Zero wouldn't be joining using orthodox means, anyway.
'Hmmm…' he looked at the computer to find that someone had already begun inspecting the unorthodox general category from the Academy and smiled a little before sending a message to the man searching for the changes Zero made.
After that, Zero removed himself from the Arcadia's system and began stretching as he moved to the washroom and began dressing himself.
He changed his hair colour to black and wore a mask before changing his eyes, which were earlier white, to blue coloured ones. He then began making other minor changes as he began whistling to himself.
Meanwhile, in the Arcadia Academy
[Meet you at the Academy Examination, Aeron - Zero]
A message was present on the Arcadia system's screen. The creator of that system, Aeron Flintstar, was sitting stupefied as he looked at that message with the Academy's principal standing right behind him.
"Can you find him?" the principal asked with a curious expression. She wasn't angry at their security being breached really, it would take only a really capable person to actually break through the system. What interested her more was the motive of the sender. He could have easily kept himself hidden, but he purposely showed himself by sending that message.
"No…. I…. can't. He erased his whole pathway as if he never even breached through the system… all we know is.. his name … Aidan Williamson," Aeron spoke as he looked at the principal.
Hearing Aeron's words, the principal's expression changed as her eyes widened a little and she looked at the screen, fixated on the name and that message.
'Who… is he?' she thought as she tried her best to keep herself calm but almost failed to do so before Aeron called her out,"Miss Amelia?"
She looked at Aeron with a slightly blanked expression before she spoke,"when he comes to take the examination. Make sure to send him to me. Whether he gets enrolled or not, I will see to it personally." she spoke before she hurriedly moved out of the room.
Aeron looked at the principal with a dumbfounded expression before he looked at that name again.
'Aidan Williamson aka Zero… to make Miss Amelia show so much interest in you just with a single name and message… just what are you?' Aeron thought as he looked at the screen over and over before moving back to his work.