Several days has past since Kiato and Miguel started practicing at night...
Dark orbs were seen flying towards a Kaito but he remains calm and stretching out his right towards the orbs, several bandage extremities swiftly extends shattering the balls of darkness and continuing on towards Miguel at a swift speeds
Miguel adeptly sank into the shadows projected by the moonlight, as the bandages missed him then stopped briefly before moving towards the shadows on the left wrapped around a figure that and pulled
It turned out to be Miguel in his usual black get up
"Hey! I give up" he said dejected and goes on to say "Dude! You are a freak! others take take a long time to master their ability, even I have only managed to unlocked three skills and, I'm almost at the intermediate level, but you... nevermind" Miguel says as the bandages retract and he lands on the ground safely
The difference between a Beginner level and intermediate level ability user differs depends on the ability, the the common benchmark is the power of skills, number of skills, control over skills.
For example a Beginner level ability user has three initial skills, and their power is not really all that strong and their control and mastery over the said skills are really not too good and the intermediate level improves said benchmarks as they now have four skills and more power and control just like that till the advanced level, as for master level and above, it is said to be a qualitative change much more prominent that from the beginner level to advanced level
Take a fire ability user for example, they can have the initial skills to be fire ball, as it is easily mastered, the power can at most burn a tree plus impact power, as for control? The ability user can only condense one fireball at most without losing control and...shoot straight while someone close to the intermediate level can control almost twenty fireballs without losing control and the strength of the attack has improved to slightly, one can also alter the trajectory of the attack a little... The main thing is that every ability has untapped potential, how much of the ability's potential you can draw out determines your level
Kaito wearing an all white sports getup, a white top and white short, and don't forget the bandages underneath
"well it's just the nature of my ability that makes it easier to control" Kaito said as he walks towards Miguel who is also walking to meet him
"Tomorrow's the day" Miguel said with a serious expression appearing on his face
"Yes, tomorrow is the recruitment exams" Kaito nodded as Luke's face flashed across his mind and he narrows his eyes slightly
"Thinking about Luke heh?" Miguel said seeing his face
Kaito calmly nods, it's been several days since they started their night training and there has been tremendous improvements on both parties
"Let's go you don't have to worry about Luke, he wouldn't dare do anything in front of so many teachers and bigshots tomorrow, plus if he encounters you, he would be the one at a loss" Miguel assures him
With a sigh "okay" Kaito says then both of them starts walking back to the dorms
'I have mastered the control over the bandages it hardens when I enter combat, then it becomes really deadly, plus the perception of the bandages, in battle it is really useful though I haven't been able to do that energy absorbing thing again tho' Kaito thought as he looked towards Miguel who seemed to be also lost in thought 'Even Miguel also improved he developed a new attack, a long range attack dark ray, he says he's now at the intermediate level though I haven't really seen his fourth skill'
The Silence lingers till this we got to the dorms, Kaito's bandages already retracted wrapped only around his arms as they walked into their rooms and they went to bed each having their own thoughts
....
Early the next day, on campus ground in front of the teaching building, several buses were parked, and there were so many students gathered there with their luggage, and the teachers were trying to maintain order
There were several officers in a formal black suit, there were all surrounding the buses and there stood like statues, cold and quietly looking at the rowdy crowd
These guys were actually the military, as for why they are are wearing suits let's not talk about it
A casually dressed middle aged man was seen walking leisurely, slow but steady then he stood in front of the lined up buses and faced the students
Seeing this, the students gradually began to calm down. Well, this middle aged man was the principal, one should not look at his uncle next door vibe, he is actually a very powerful ability user, Mark Dickens, nicknamed Death Star
Take note that those abilities users that are powerful enough to have nicknames are advanced level or above
"Now that I have your attention, I will say a few words to you all before I talk about the exams, ever since the appearance of the disasters and those monsters along with the change in humans that grants them abilities this have been different since, now humans fight those monsters for survival and also try to explore the and expand our area of influence in the world and also regain our position as the most dominant species in the planet....."
The Principal talked a lot about common knowledge, but the students weren't interested in all this, they were quite impatient
While the Principal was still talking and the students impatiently waiting, Kaito and Miguel walked in and found a corner where no one would notice them, just then the Principal was concluding his boring speech
"....now I urge you all to try as much as possible to be the best you can be and protect humanity against these perils"
"On that note I want everybody to locate there homeroom teachers and register for the exams in the next few minutes"
With that several teachers walked out of the teachers building with a pile of papers
With that the rowdiness continued as the teachers voices were heard all over the place and the students trying to get to their teachers through the crowd
"Senior year class 4 over here!!"
"Class 6 over here!!!!"
"Class 3 here!!!"
The teachers voices were all over the place. Miguel and Kaito didn't move until the restlessness of the crowd died down a little, the they began walking towards a female teacher wearing glasses, Ms. Camille. She just stood there quietly, she was beautiful and breath taking
She didn't shout like the other teachers, she kept her cool and the students from her class just walked to her, a cold beauty one would say
Anyways Ms. Camille is the homeroom teacher of class 2, Miguel and Kaito's class. As they were slowly moving through the little crowd but then a figure came before them
Stopped in their tracks, Kaito looks up, seeing who it was, his eyes flared up on anger and his breathing heavy with fury
"I see you managed to survive" Luke smiled as he said
Yes it was Luke Kaito was furious but Miguel held him back and he managed to calm down
"Tho I am indeed curious as to how you survive, not only surviving, you even recovered so much..."
"Get out of the way Luke, what are you going on about anyways?" Miguel cut him off while he practically dragged Kaito with him towards Ms. Camille
Luke was livid, he was cut off and then ignored if he wasn't on school premises...
'and the look that ant gave me... next time I'm going to finish this and that Miguel...'
With gritted teeth he walked towards his homeroom teacher
"Why did you hold me back" Kaito said through gritted teeth
"What were you going to do to him, you should learn to be calm and collected and to not let emotions cloud your judgement, besides, we are on school grounds but he's going to get what's coming to him and at that time...heh." Miguel said with eyes as cold as ice
With that Kaito finally calmed down a little as they arrived before their homeroom teacher
Seeing as everyone in the class was there including Sam, when he saw Kaito he's eyes widened in shock and his face loses colour but no one noticed
"Okay then, I'm not going to say much, I'll say just enough to" Ms. Camille's voice sounded like refreshing bell chimes as she continues "first of all, these forms fill it while I talk"
With that the forms in her hands disappeared and appeared in front of each students as they took it and started writing
"Now, you will fill in your name, parents contact information and also next of kin and finally your ability, tho not necessary, as it's your personal secret, about the exams I'm not going to start telling about changing your faith in one fell swoop, in truth you can but the risk is very high and you might die for real, tho there measures taken to avoid death, the only thing I want to say that might sound like an advice is to put your life first, you can only change your life if you are alive to even have a life"
In the short time, while she was talking most of the students have finished filling the form in didn't really take much time as the required things was not really much as the papers disappeared again and appeared in her hands.
"What is Kaito doing here?"
"Kaito? Wasn't he sick?"
"But he doesn't have an ability right? Everyone that came for the recruitment exams has an ability"
"Yeah , those without ability are having written exams elsewhere"
The voices of the students weren't really low so Ms. Camille heard their mutters then looked Kaito
"Kaito, come here"
Kaito went to meet her
"Good morning Ms. Camille" Kaito greets respectfully
"You shouldn't be here without an ability" with a nod she gets straight to the point
"Teacher I awakened my ability few days ago, so I have met the criteria for the exams right?" As the bandages on his arms then unwraps then begins slithering across the air...