Eye System

Chapter 5: Central High School

After registering and paying the 200 spirit coins fee to the registration department of the academy, he made his way to a clothes store and brought some simple clothes for 100 spirit coins.

With his new identification as Lex Luther, that he paid for and gained illegally, and with the Eye System, Lex was ready for anything with the new and improved version of himself.

Lex went to a dark alleyway that he found somebody sat in the corner and asked about fake identifications.

It was known throughout the slums where to get a fake identification, which many used to move to a different area or attempt to get jobs after having a bad record.

At first, he was told to go away, but after showing that he had 200 spirit coins, he had gained a new Mortal wristwatch that also acted as his identification and he chose the name Lex Luther, as he wanted to keep his first name.

He didn't have an official surname anyway and chose Black as his surname when he was younger and had no attachment to it.

Rushing towards the heaven soaring academy, also known as central high school, Lex was hurriedly controlling his hoverboard, praying that he reached it in time.

As he sharply turned left on the last residential corner, he saw massive walls covered with a golden foil and had exquisite carvings of different divine beasts and humans surrounding a large area big enough to be a city with a long line of youths queuing outside.

Lex was mesmerised by the sheer size of the academy and walked in the direction of the academy while noticing the various flying hovercars zooming past him and parking

He saw the doors opening and many handsome men in expensive clothes with their maids or girlfriends joined the queue, while flaunting their superiority and wealth. 

[As expected of the top academy of the earth] Lex thought.

He retracted his hoverboard inconspicuously and joined the queue of youths silently.

[I have finally reached central high school] he thought to himself joyously, excited for his next adventure.

Lex stood there for about 10 minutes until his watch made a quiet 'ding' signifying it was 8:00.

As soon as that occurred an elderly man with a long white beard seemingly weightless, leapt over the enormous wall and gently landed, not even making a noise in front of the youths queuing.

From his outside appearance, he seemed frail and it seemed as though a gale of wind was sufficient to sweep him away, yet the ability he displayed by jumping over the tall wall was extraordinary.

"All those willing to enter the central high school must be under the age of 16 and LVL 5 if you are not please leave immediately or lest I eradicate your families if you annoy me!" declared the old man in a soft yet powerful and authoritative voice.

[How Bold] thought Lex and everybody else who heard his threat.

[He didn't shout at all, yet it was plenty for everyone in the range of 2 km to hear him clearly] observed Lex.

The elder while observing that no one left, out of the tens of thousands of youths that stood before him, sighed.

As a school that was the hope of the youths and with the headmaster as the strongest leveller on Earth and one of the leaders of humanity, he could do as he pleased on Earth.

He believed that allowing kids to undergo the cruel world early on, would make them more powerful and mature and improve humanity's overall power in the universe.

The headmaster was a very fair-minded person and didn't like going through the dull and monotonous process of signing and going through documents.

Alternatively, he would prefer to examine newcomers first and then enable them to begin training and empowering themselves straight away.

Examining his aura thousands of foolish youths believing they could sneak in or use their family's status or wealth to get in, began quivering uncontrollably.

They believed they could use the family's wealth and power, until the elderly man released his aura which caused those youths to be pale-faced.

They were currently suffering the burden of 10 times normal gravity, some of them almost genuflected and some were reclined down or plummeted unconscious.

Witnessing this, most of them withdrew and escaped with their tail between their legs.

What stunned Lex most was that nearly 70% of the youths standing there ran away or took some sort of transportable vehicle to escape in fear.

Seeing the space before him, after so many people ran away, he paced forwards to make the queue denser.

"All those left follow me inside" commanded the elder man as he swung around and began to stroll into the large city-like structure filled with a huge building made of celestial ironwood and sliver blue stone, which stunned Lex.

After refocusing on the elder, he realised despite seemingly walking he was very quick and commenced running after the elder.

As he ran with all the thousands of youths, that were racing with all their haste, they were only barely able to keep up with the seemingly walking elder, whose feet appeared to be hovering above the earth and any step he took would traverse 10 meters of terrain.

Sprinting as fast as he could Lex only barely managed to keep up while some others started to lack behind.

[This elder is managing to keep precisely the same distance between us and we are traversing at our absolute speed as an LVL 5, so the ones that can't keep up must not be up to the academy's standard] observed Lex perceiving that the distance between him and the old man didn't change even as he ran at full speed.

After sprinting for approximately 30 minutes the elder man finally reached a halt.

Lex and the approximately 1000 personages were able to keep up, pantingly, and anticipating for the elder to announce something.

Some of them were like Lex who was tired, exhausted, and covered in sweat, however, while they were racing, others seemed to be trotting and weren't tired at all.

"We have now weeded out the fraud who used temporary strength-enhancing medicine and burned to get above LVL 5. Now every one of you can go to that young lady over there and get a credentials badge that will be implanted into your wristwatch, and you shall start your first task of reaching LVL 50 by the age of 20 to stay in the academy premises. We will present the portal to the Mortal Beast Dimension and the safe zone there. Although you will have to utilize your personal ability to gain beast cores and strengthen your body " he declared pointing towards a frame where a beautiful fashionable woman sat.

Those that were rich and had high status would always attempt to use their wealth to fund ways to artificially boost strength, through forbidden medicines or sacrificial methods, but it would have remarkably low probabilities of success and were incomparable to real levellers.

Lex was bewildered when he learned about those that artificially rose their LVL with forbidden drugs.

All the youths were considerably startled.

All they had to do was rush after him and queue outside the institution, and they were authorized to enter the Heaven soaring academy.

Nonetheless, no one refuted and crowded around the woman who sat at the counter and formed a queue.

It was that simple and all of them became a student Heaven soaring academy.

Not rushing, because he didn't want to attract attention to himself, he gradually walked along with the other thousand youths that had successfully enrolled with him.

After about 20 minutes, he finally reached the front desk.

"Name please" she uttered lazily.

"Lex Luther" he replied.

"LVL and age" she enquired.

"14 and 2 months, LVL 5" he replied.

She lay a tag onto his wristwatch which then appeared to blend and fuse with his watch.

She pointed towards a small residence and lazily stated, "Head to room 467 and you may relax there until tomorrow morning where you will be given the authorization to enter the Mortal Beast Dimension".

Lex strolled towards the building with a pleased smile on his face.

[I have made it this far, and will commence from here my goal to help humanity evolve and develop for the greater] he said in his mind pleased that he had developed thus far.

With his state of mind, he wanted to act like a hero and overshadow the negativity with positivity, but he was gradually discovering that, that wouldn't work and the further he was wronged the less of an obligation he felt to care.

Despite that, he felt an overwhelming sense of accomplishment that he was able to join the most prestigious academy on his planet and was beginning his journey as a leveller.

A week ago, he was still an LVL 1 scrap and was almost killed by ruffians, but in a single week, he had come so far.

As the gateway to the elevator opened, after examining his watch, he walked into the elevator that headed up, then left, stopping right in front of his designated room.

Walking in, he found a clean set of uniform and common wear, that were of much higher quality with higher protective capacity with the thin metal woven into them, from the standard clothes that he wore.

It was a simple bedroom with a simplistic lavatory and a bed, but to Lex it was luxurious.

He had a delightful and long shower, and after everything he had been through in the former week, he still hasn't had time to really shower and relax.

After half an hour of showering, he changed into the new clothes and lay down on the comfy lodging with new sheets, and instantly fell asleep allowing his fatigued body and spirit to get some rest.

12 hours later.

RIZZNG...RIZZNG.

A very sharp and unbearable ringing alarm resounded throughout that whole small building which almost made him yell due to irritation.

"Please head to the portal to proceed to the Mortal Beast Dimension immediately" announced a voice through the speaker, that he hadn't noticed was in his room.

Spontaneously he jumped up and dressed into the new uniform as he ran straight down the stairs without taking the lift.

Rushing down the stairs and exiting the building, he saw other youths rushing towards where the elderly man guided to as the portal area.

Soon he was engulfed by the swarm of youths who came to a halt, as he was trying to squeeze through to see where he was going.

"Be cautious, if you die, we are not responsible and you are here to empower yourself and become pillars of humanity, those afraid of death and full of cowardice please return your identification and leave before it is too late" advised the elder.

After viewing that nobody backed off, he smiled.

"You may enter now!" he declared.

The swarms of youths carrying Lex with them ran into the huge barrier that appeared to be made of a semi-solid liquid and everything that touched it was instantly engulfed in and disappeared.

Along the edges of the portal were mysterious patterns, runes, and symbols, that Lex didn't recognize and was radiating with purple colour and seemed to be the mechanism for portals to work.

As Lex ran through full of excitement and being propelled by everyone around him, he felt a warping sensation and spontaneously felt himself being engulfed into another place.