The world's a strange place.
1945: People started evolving, adapting, and deciding the strong and weak.
Only 12 people with powers, 12 classes; however, it only became more widespread around the 1990s to 2000s, such as an absorber, a class in which you can absorb the energy of one energy store, such as kinetic energy, gravitational potential, nuclear elastic potential, internal (thermal), etc.
Once absorbed, you can store it within and release it, sort of like a gun; however, people are only granted one store they can manipulate, and it's heavily luck-based and gene-based. Another class is the advanced mind; as the name suggests, their mind is advanced.
This could vary from being able to identify anything to being a genius and all the way to mind reading and telekinesis.
Although telekinesis is a mix between gravitational potential, aka an absorber, it falls under advanced mind, as you don't absorb; you can manipulate your surroundings, and depending on how blessed you are, you can be really strong or really weak.
Amplifiers produce mana to the extent of people being able to enhance themselves to being on par with titans; however, they either can amplify their whole body, allowing them to even it out, or be really strong in one area, such as arms, or push it into weapons.
Summoner's magic This is different from absorbers, as they have to use items and place a spell on it, which allows them to summon animals or monsters; however, they can only summon anywhere from -1 to 12. I say minus 1, as they can sacrifice themself for a monster. These are the most common 4, as people use them in everyday jobs, all the way to fighters and hunters. Hunters are people who specialise in killing monsters, which arrived around 1945, just after World War II. It's now the year 2145. 200 years later, as we evolved, the monsters did it too.
You may ask about the other 8; well, they aren't as simple as magic or science magic; they are much harder to explain, so I'll dumb them down. The first one is luck manipulation. You might be like, That's OP. It's not the way classes work; they're either weak or good, and luck manipulation is the weakest.
If you're unlucky, isn't it ironic?
The first stage, the weakest, are fortune tellers—people who can see the odds of things like falling over or finding your keys and slightly changing it so it's a higher chance to happen or not happen. stage two are the "gamblers" people who manipulate things like the lottery to win this almost caused another wall street crash in 1965 but thank god for "the system" a man made device that allows users to see life as a video game cliché right this allows people to see there class powers and specialities allowing people to stop them from gambling and now we are on to the third stage luckweavers people whos luck is manipulated imagine a looney tunes character its basically toon force for me its the angrier i get the luckier i am the calmer i am the smarter i am my dad had the advanced mind class and my mum had the luck manipulator class being a fortune teller you could say im lucky managing to get dual classes but no it isn't as i have a lack of control i even almost got kicked out of my last school because an anvil fell on a dudes head it wasn't my fault i promise ;).
The other seven are healer, marksman, muls (half human, half dwarf), warpsmiths (creates warps for travelling), ocean dwellers (allows humans to live in water and land), duplicator, and an illusionist.
Anyways, my name is Benedict. Its Latin meaning is blessed. I'm a 5'9", 14-year-old British student currently in the Isle of Aetherion, as I've been put in H.A.R.P.S., aka Hunters Advancing Research and Pioneering Solutions, known as the best school in the world, and I've been put in because I'm smart and dangerous, apparently. I look at me. I'm a black-haired, grey-eyed, unassuming white dude.
"You've been talking for half an hour. Do you mind?" said the lady in a stressed tone, looking as though she just wanted Benedict to shut up.
The bus stopped and pulled up to the warp gate interchange. "Sorry... I seem to overshare," said Benedict, who quickly shut up. I then headed inside and showed my ticket and sat down waiting for my gate to be announced.
"Warp gates 12-13 H.A.R.P. open; please head to the warp gates." We get off the bus, and I hastily run to my warp gate, not wanting to make a bad impression on my first day.
After going through passport control and entering the warp gate, I arrived In front of me was a Greek-esque building with a harp as its logo. It looked as if they went back in time and robbed it. The school's main building looked like a Greek temple; it even had a colonnade behind it next to a massive colosseum. I entered and signed in and made my way to the main hall. After getting lost a couple of times, I found it and took my seat.
The hall filled up with people, and the principal entered onto the stage.
the principal started his speech. "I welcome you all to H.A.R.P. As you all know, we measure people from schools all around the world and pick the best; however, this doesn't mean you can just joyride your way through. Only the best can achieve, and that's why there are different ranks: S1 is the highest in the S rank; it goes from S1 to S25; in A rank, it's A1 to A50; in B rank, it's B1 to B75; in C rank, it's C1 to C100; in D rank, it's D1 to D125; and then E rank is the worst, which is E1 to E150. However, the ranks include your classes, so let's say you're a healer, and you're in S rank; that's measured on how good of a healer you are and so on and so on. I will now call up the S1 rank individual..."
I feel sorry for him,I said to myself. "Man, it must suck for that dude, everyone aiming for his rank.".
"BENEDICT ORTHWIN," the principal announced loudly.
"benedict poor dude man... WAIT, THAT'S ME," I thought to myself. I slowly walked up on stage and received my rank S uniform badge and special system upgrade for identification. As I looked into the crowd, I was met with piercing glares. I knew I was fucked.
Slowly but surely, each of the S-ranked individuals walked up. The Rank S2 was someone I recognised from the press, an absorber and enhanced dual-classed figure called Aiden Ignatius. He was tall, brunette, and looked as if he was a model. He came from the current Rank 1 hunter, the fire titan, nicknamed after the monster's titans for his brute strength. He had enhancer and absorb class, a deadly duo that allowed him to climb the ranks quickly. If his son was just as deadly and fierce as him, I was a dead man walking.
Rank S3, an illusionist and enhancer dual class, Amara Isadora, a beautiful Arab girl with dark hair and a butterfly cut, her body was a perfect hourglass figure, yet when you looked into her eyes, it was as if they were stabbing you. She hailed from a rich family.
Behind us were the other 23 students in rank S. We got escorted to our dorms and showed where our classes would be and the layout of the school. It was practically an ancient Greek city, or as if we were in ancient Rome. In the middle of the school was a monument of the first twelve class users. After walking around, I headed back to my dorm. Outside in the living area was the rank S8 student and S5 student, 1 girl and 1 boy. It looked as if they were twins. I greeted myself yet was ignored after a minute of standing there I headed to my room wondering what I had done to be number 1. I swiftly forgot about it, locked my door, and went to bed.
The next morning I got up early, did my workout routine, and headed to class; today was duels.
The teacher, Ms. Vivienne, started the lesson: "Today we will be doing duels. Whoever wins takes their ranks. Understand?" The class was silent. "I said, Do you understand?'" The teacher yelled; the class responded quickly, agreeing.
"First up, Benedict and Aiden." Ms. Viviene announced my heart sank.
We were standing in the middle of the colosseum, some students in the stands watching to see whether I was strong or not.
I got into a stance; I had my guard up and my fists ready. "So peasant, ready to be humiliated? I'll fuck your mom. Once I win, I bet that fat whore will love it," said Aiden.
At first, I was shocked and mad, but I kept my calm.
He went in with a right hook.
I ducked and swerved.
I planted my back foot, and I right-hooked him.
He swiftly dodged and started laying into me.
His punches felt like a baseball bat. I realised classes were allowed; I started remembering his insult about my mom and the ones he was saying to me in that instance.
I was standing still; his punches were doing nothing. Energy radiated off my body.
I started throwing a barrage of punches, knees, and attacks at him, just beating the crap out of him. He starts using internal energy, aka thermal energy.
It's an even fight; our punches are blocking each other.
The damage to the arena started getting bigger and bigger, and fires were everywhere; our attacks made the area shake.
Ms. Viviene quickly stops us, calling it a draw, keeping me in first place.
I'm still mad but am trying to calm down.