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Chapter 3 - History of Energia

"When energia was first discovered…It was actually by a mistake. The scientists weren't looking to find any new power source but to create a device that could receive signals from other galaxies by warping space. However, due to an error in the code, energia was found. At first, the scientists didn't know what to do with it as they could not use it in any manner. But the first prime Dr. Frank Howard invented a device that could detect, source and convert energia into a particle form within a vacuum. But they still could not harness its power. Dr. Frank had a crazy idea, as you might be able to guess..it was to inject energia into a human being and see the reaction. But before that, it was tested on mice. 

"But nothing happened to the mice when energia from the vacuum tank was released into the mice through an injection. The result was quite underwhelming but Dr. Frank didn't give up. He tried various means. Only one worked, it was when he combined energia with Liquid Nitrogen , as for the process it is a state secret and many dark organizations are still trying to uncover it."

"You all must have felt that terrible pain in your neck, it is due to leftover liquid Nitrogen that has no whenever to go your flesh"

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After learning the history of energia, I was not surprised when the instructor mentioned it all happened by mistake, i mean how do you possibly make a device to intentionally detect a power source when you do not even know the power source itself

But the instructor gave us a short break before he'd be back 

So I decided to introduce myself to my fellow newbie primes.

"Hey, I am Adam Osman from Silverdale town"

"Hello, I am Alex Morgan from Twilight City" said the blonde-haired man

"Hi guys, I am Mike Peralta and I live in this city…Nice to meet you two" said the brown-haired man 

"Nice to meet you too" Alex and I said at the same time.

"Did you guys hear? There was a genius-level prime awakened in this branch today" Alex said

"Yeah I saw him awaken right in front of me" 

"Me too" I added

Before we could get any further Derek came back into the classroom.

"Now I will teach you guys about the different rankings in the Prime system"

"First we have how we measure our strength"

Derek moved his sleeve to show us a smartwatch with a white wristband.

"This is called a Prime watch. Every Prime has one and must have one to know their exact level. As you already know strength is based on what level you are, the max level is unknown but the highest a human has reached is 99. You can also guess your level or your fellow primes by sensing the amount of energia in their aura. This is used to gauge the strength of your opponent. The prime watch is always more accurate, but you can only detect your own strength with it unless you have a sensory type skill"

Then Derek proceeded to hand us each a prime watch

"This is a gift from the PA to new primes"

I guess the PA gives free prime watches to have good relations and positive view of the association to new primes

Well good for me, I got the black one.

Derek continued his lesson,

" As you may have heard today, there was a birth of a genius-level prime, and the whole branch was freaking out about it."

"What is meant by a genius-level prime? It means that individual has not only unlocked one skill but two."

"There are also ranks of geniuses in the Prime system, and it follows, Genius, Super Genius, True Genius, Complete Genius. Genius is one who unlocks two skills when becoming a prime. Super Genius is one who unlocks three skills, True genius is one who unlocks four skills and Complete genius is one who unlocks five skills"

Hearing about the Complete-level genius was shocking to me. To have 5 skills, how powerful must they be? 

"Only 2% of primes are genius level. And there have only been two complete-level geniuses in history. The strongest prime Anthony Jackson who was level 99 and the current strongest Byron Jackson the brother of Anthony Jackson"