BOOM! An explosion blew up part of a building killing many people. People seem to be running to escape the deadly attack." Ahhhhh" a man screams as rubble from the building crushes his leg, fury twisting his face as he looks at the man in the center who caused the explosion with his ability, also known as a Core.
"Why. Why are you doing this, we don't deserve this⌠just why." The man pleads as he knows he is about to die.
"Because I would rather die here than ever have to go back to that god-forsaken continent and work for this stupid country!" The man with bright red hair and a burned face said, as his hands started glowing and smoking. After a second a loud blast could be heard and the man with the crushed leg spoke no more.
***
In class about 5 miles away from where the attack was taking place.
The loud blast and some panicked woke up many students. " What happened, Mr. Longly?" Said one young male student with an extra eye in the middle of his forehead.
"Another disgruntled former government-endorsed explorer who doesn't want to fulfill his contract is taking his anger out on normal civilians. Come on guys you are in 8th grade and you're about to go to high school, this stuff shouldn't faze you" Professor longly said while looking around the room at all the students who just woke up from their unwelcome naps, and sighed." Guys and Girls, you will have to show the Talent Scout in two days that you have what it takes to go to one of the Big Schools andâŚ"
"Ugh, we know professor you've told us a million timesâŚ." One of the students woke up from his nap and still looked groggy from the boring class assignments.
"Make it a million and one, as I was saying. If you don't get into one of the big schools just know you won't get the fame, money, knowledge, and power that comes from being an Explorer gets you. Don't get me wrong it's still possible to become an A grade or a good explorer just know that it will be infinitely harder." The teacher looked around at the students, noting that many students had amazing talents.
He continued noting that the class was now paying attention." I know that this one person will decide the rest of your life but that doesn't mean you can give up, there's
 always a chance you can go. Any questions?"
A boy with the most beautiful blue hair asked, "You keep talking about becoming explorers, but what's the point? What will happen if we do, and what will happen if we don't? My parents have told me how amazing it would be if I could go, but I don't even know what that means."
"Great Question Eram!" Mr. Longly looked excited to have finally had someone ask a question that he could answer." First Of all let's talk about the riches, All 37 Countries have bounties of more than Billions of ELLS our country's currency as you all know which can buy you anything you can ever dream of." he looked at all the excited kids who would give anything to have a chance to buy anything they could think of." I bet that entices you but there is more. Of course, there is fame, you instantly become a star, and everyone knows you and keeps up with you so much that it is intoxicating. The knowledge is something everyone searches for as well but I can't tell you exactly what it is, I just know it's there."
Eram's eyes lit up with excitement knowing what the knowledge entails because his parents talked about all the secret knowledge that the 6 different continents try to keep. Eram then looked back at the teacher expectantly waiting for him to explain the powers and the teacher did not disappoint.
"Lastly the power, you all know at least a little bit about your cores but going to the great academies spread throughout the human continents will change what you know about yourself and unlock your potential and you can see things you've never even dreamt of." he looked around at all of the 30 students and smiled knowing how excited they are.
The students jolted once more as they could hear another explosion in the distance as 5 men and women blitzed passed the window on the outside of the classroom. Some students got excited and some were confused because they had never seen them before and the teacher promptly explained."Those are the latch force, They are like a latch to a treasure chest if you couldn't guess by the name they are a force designed to eliminate defectors like the guy that they are going after now, yes the one who caused the explosion though there aren't much defectors."
A bell rang and all the students got up after being told they could go home by the teacher. Some even started practicing with their cores.
***
Eram's house after he got home from school.
"Hey, Eram how was school?"
"Good mom, how was work?" Eram said excitedly.
"It was pretty good. Tell me, you look excited, what happened at school?"
" It was good, we got to see the latch force and we talked about the upcoming talent agent."
Eram's mom smiled knowing that he'll most likely get in with his core being extremely useful in a team." OOH I bet seeing the latch force was exciting, I heard about it on the news so I didn't get to see them unfortunately"
"I know it was so cool seeing them fly and run at speeds faster than the eye can keep up with" The mom looked at the son's smile and smiled even wider. " Well, I'm going to go practice my core, let me know when supper is done!" Eram said while sprinting upstairs.
Eram's mom looked out the window while smiling, happy to see her son so excited about school, knowing that he would become an amazing explorer and get a chance that she and her husband didn't. She then looked back at her son as he sprinted up the stairs.
'I can't wait to practice my two abilities' he went to his room sat down on his chair focused as hard as he could and grew an extra eye in the center of his forehead like his classmate. He then ran to the mirror to look at his hard work and he was ecstatic at the fruits of his labor, not only was it centered but he could also see out of it when he closed his other two eyes. It has taken him months to be able to get this much down, but even though it took him a while he was happy.
He had been able to make other abilities work as well such as growing extra arms or splitting his arms and making mouths all over his body though it drained him to do anything complicated. One of his prized body changes was he managed to make a second head though it was extremely small and barely functioning, he didn't care.
"Honey, I'm home, is Eram home yet?" Erams' dad yelled as the door opened and he came inside the spacious house.
"Yes honey he is home he's upstairs practicing as usual, I'll call him down because food is ready anyways." she said calmly "Eram come down now!"
"I'm coming!" Eram sprinted down the stairs excited to eat and to see his dad.
After a second Eram ran down the stairs to show his parents the fruits of his labor and ask his dad how his day went. " Hey Dad, look, look! I made an extra eye and it works! Pretty soon I'll be as good as Mom!"
"I bet you will." His dad said back with the biggest smile on his face. He had blue hair and eyes like his son but he stood up instead of lying down, as well as he had a toned body from years of muscular labor.
"Yubok, he will be an amazing explorer won't he?" The mom looked at the husband.
"He will be Rue. He inherited both of our cores as well as a grade-A soul, It's almost double the size of ours when we were his age on top of that all of his core synergizes well with itself.