P.O.V Aadi

I wake too a headache and a cup of water and toast sitting on my bed side I blink then remember that Wyatt was still here last night when I was tipsy and the act of falling asleep leaning on him, I feel heat on my face as I sip the water and nibble on the toast.

I was only a little tipsy so the headache fades quickly and by the time I am showered and dressed I am fine, high energy grade for the win.

I go out and stop there standing in the kitchen with a coffee mug an boxers was Wyatt although I know he was still here when I fell asleep last night him still being here and so undressed was unexpected. I look at him and can feel the heat from earlier return because he truly is the best example of a masculine but not over muscled body with slim but tight and clearly defined muscles and long legs with a clearly workout look too them and a 8 pack on his abdomen, his pecs are well defined and nipples are a dark tone compared too the rest of him with his perfectly proportioned neck and face it is truly unfair for other men with him around.

He huffs and my attention returns from my strayed thoughts as heat increases on my face but I look away and cough before asking, "Why are you still here shouldn't you be getting ready for training in your room?"

He sighs and says, "I got a alert last night that all soldiers entering the tower need too attend a meeting at ten O'clock and then will be sent into the tower immediately in their teams, they sent a high grade team in last night and they have some important information that needs too be said so you have 2 hours before anything needs too occur."

I stop as I look at my already cleaned and dressed look, I could have slept in more but now no shot so I sigh and fix myself a cup of milk with some scrambled eggs and bacon.(American bacon not what you brits call bacon)

I sit at my counter too eat when Wyatt nocks his hand against the table too get my attention, "I am heading back now meeting is in the mission hall and it will be quiet crowded so get there in the next hour not hour and a half too get a good location." He is wearing his uniform from yesterday and leaves while locking the door behind him using the key chain he has that allows access too all of his teams dorms for checks and visits.

I finish eating and stretch some too get my body ready for what is too come, I arrive at the mission hall already half full and am glad Wyatt told me too come early before heading to his room.

I stand around the middle of the pack by the time the meeting begins and the person too step out isn't Wyatt's father but his brother who is wearing the black mask with a white swirl, Griffin walks up the raised dais and begins too speak.

"As you all know from yesterday those in here are going too be undertaking the job of climbing and mapping out the new scenario within the tower we are sending you in first too check the danger and risk level for those in the tower now that it has changed, the government will give handsome rewards for information too those who find out potentially useful information on the interstellar integration we are undergoing and what is likely too occur ten years from now."

Many people in the room shifted slightly clearly thinking it shouldn't be too hard to get that bonus reward.

"If you give false or not enough information it will not count and you will be punished for false information, this is a very serious matter and all things will be treated with war like seriousness." He continues.

It is clear this is being treated in the same regard they are giving too the other world soldiers and with that all said Griffin steps down and the meeting ends.

I leave the room too go to the team meeting room for a debriefing with everyone here from the tower. I see them when training and practicing but we don't really spend much time together as we are not doing missions or task together so our times of vacation are off making it so that we can't just sit and talk, but everyone is still pretty okay with me and even show a certain amount of relief I am rejoining.

With a break and time too talk before Wyatt come me and Adrian begin too joke around and I get the news that Bree and Conner are now in a relationship, Amara is still explosive in temperament while pierce is still as introverted as ever.

Kian is apparently engaged as his family got him and arranged marriage with a high standing woman and Terrance is currently courting someone.

But Catrina isn't here and the face they make when I mention her makes it clear something happened and it wasn't pretty but they say nothing so we wait in awkward silence until Wyatt comes and there is another woman next too him with green hair yellow eyes and is a lizardman race.

She has a crossbow on her and a uniform on with a badge showing her as a senior colonel with 7 black sword over the symbol of the council a yin-yang symbol.

We stare at the new face when Wyatt explains her presence, "Because we are not a full team anymore they have given us a talented member from there guard and she will be acting as back line attacker and secondary support, her name is Ruki Munkar her father sits on the council and he hopes we will help her get a better understanding and knowledge of the army during her time with us."

She bows at his greeting and then says, "I am a acid based energy user so my arrows will be coated in acid that will weaken creatures defenses and cause a lot of harm too them, I hope too learn enough to aide the world when ten years are over."

She is very neutral and emotionless but it is fine as long as she does her required stuff all is well for her, so we talk of the current situation in the tower and we get a shock as apparently some people entered the tower last night and came out with information that all peoples tower floors had reset and although the money is still there it has almost no worth now as the worth of tower coins have drastically decreased but the worth of a revival token has increased and the tower now is you more competing with other worlds instead of just performing task.

It is a complete change too a show of what is most likely too come in ten years, we all remain silent as we know it means far more deaths from the tower then ever before will come once we reach past the tenth floor and a lot more internal fighting and sabotage.

All we can do is wait and see as that is all the information currently obtained and can be said without the tower preventing speech.

We are set too enter the tower at eight O'clock tomorrow morning so we turn in early for the night and all of us are up and ready come 6 O'clock tomorrow morning as we wait with other teams being sent out around this time, we arrive at the tower entrance spot and look at the unchanged look to it but is was now very different things behind it then before.

We enter together and like that we are pulled too a military field similar too the tutorial floor before but the introduction the person gives has changed.

"Welcome too the interstellar tower where you will undergo training too survive the upcoming wars that are too come, your world is new too this and the ten year period started two days ago making it so your world is behind some of these other worlds but you will be given three choices for learning. You can learn the interstellar grade fighting, interstellar grade support, or interstellar grade manufacturing be warned you will have too reach the basic requirements in the chosen field before your are allowed too advance and the time warping effect is still the same as the tutorial before the change so you have all the time you need too truly adjust. This is only given too new worlds in there adjustment time as in ten years you will loose the time dilation effect of the tower, make your choices wisely."

We do not have on weapons or armor but a pure white shirt black cargo pants and combat boots, it is set too fit each persons body and it is easy too tell some look better then others. But the largest change is there is easily several thousand people here and I can see the entire team I entered with, I wait for any more information as another person came up.

"I am the head of combat all who intend for this come too the center of the place." He is a dark brown man with the same hair and eye color of caramel brown with a well proportioned muscle build.

Next is a slim man with green eyes and light brown hair, "I am the support teacher all those intending for this go to your left my right side of the field."

A woman comes out with a thin but lightly muscled build with platinum blonde hair and white eyes with black sclera's with no pupil she didn't look anywhere but straight forward and even as she addressed the group she still looked straight forward not at us. "I am the teacher for manufacturing classes and all those thinking of this make sure you are capable enough cause if not I will throw you too another group to be rid of you, now with that said all those thinking of this move too your right and my left."

I move too my right and only a few others choose this with Wyatt, Kian, and Amara also choosing this while all the others move too the center from our group no one chose the support.

I see there is about 1000 people in the manufacturing side while easily 2000 in the fighting and almost 5000 in the support, few want too fight on the front lines and that is exactly what the fighting one would mean while the manufacturing is even harder with little chance for furthering ones political standing but support is like with supplies and treasury making many do it.

We are moved too a massive city like location filled with bustling streets, many different stalls and stores all over and many new and never seen species are all over the place, we are on a path and whenever people see us they get out of the way making the journey quite easy.

We arrive at a apartment like complex with many of such buildings around and a massive gate surrounding them.

We enter too see the area is like a park with side walks splitting off too different sections and a few people dressed in different military uniforms are walking around talking they all quiet down when we pass before the clear sign of gossip of one leaning over too whisper is done when we are almost completely passed them.

The buildings are white with black décor and the building are similar too the college dorm where it is two rooms attached to a single conjoined spot and the bathroom is a public one along with the kitchen and recreation room.

Fortunately there is some privacy though so it shouldn't be too bad we are all told that we will be assigned empty dorm spots and we may be assigned too spots that are with other planet inhabitants, we are give a bracelet and a backpack as in this floor spacial items won't work so they will need them before leaving us too make do on our own but we are told there will be a meeting in the common room at 8 o'clock tomorrow and too be on time.

I go too the team to talk about the situation and Wyatt orders us not too say a word pertaining to our world or it's situation, less information given the better and not to make any enemies here if possible while still obliging by the first rule.

I go to the fourth floor at the room 13 and see there is already someone there as when I open the door it has a someone sitting on the sofa in the center of the room.

There is a device similar too a T.V. in my world along with a door window that is opened would lead out too a balcony and a set of blinds pulled too the side already hung in front of it, my room mate is not from our world as he is wearing a uniform of a military I do not recognize and his feature are not the western features I have grown accustomed to but more oriental like my own making it a strange sight.

I see him look me up and down before promptly saying, "Female dorms are one building over you may have entered the wrong location, if you need aide I can help you."

His voice is calm and soothing with little inflictions of his thoughts but his wandering eyes say a different story to his gentlemen façade, I feel a hint of heat at such a thing but I calm down as I expected such confusion too eventually occur.

"I am a man I can remove my clothes if you wish too see it but I am in building 5 floor 4 and room thirteen which is this room." I try and sound polite but his stiffening body and Reddening face make it clear his embarrassment as he coughs and nods his head that I am in fact correct in my statement for this being the right room.

I enter one of the rooms and it is the right one as there is nothing in it and all the provided clothes in the closet is like the ones I spawned in, with 3 sets of pajamas and 2 extra pairs of identical shoes with a white bed and window with black out blinds already installed.

There is a night stand and a closing weapons rack in the room, I sit the bag down and open one of the drawers for the nightstand to bath items along with hygiene products put in a white basket.

All things needed for clean and tidy living is provided with a alarm clock in the top draw most likely for students too chose if they want too use it or not, I decide too head too sleep and change into the pajamas while setting the alarm clock for 6 o'clock tomorrow as it is better to be early then late.

I wake up, grab my toiletries and a new set of clothes before heading too the washroom that is almost full and will be in the next few minutes if the amount of people appearing are too go by.

I wash up get ready and put my stuff too head down too the common hall where nutrient packs and drinks based off one species are being handed out for free and anything else has a price tag but even one bagel with nothing on it is 100 tower coins meaning I will be eating free stuff so as not to waste money.

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I eat quickly and there is still an hour till the meeting so I do a basic stretch outside before returning inside too the common room full and Wyatt sees me and pushes people out of the way too grab me and pull me too the others.

We wait the last ten minutes with people talking and messing around when the time hits and silence envelops the room as it is a mix of people in military uniforms and the same outfit as us here most likely the whole building, a older man in his late fifties walks out in a doctors uniform and begins to talk.

"You are here too get your class schedules along with necessary items for those from new worlds your classes start in and hour and you are expected too attend them with utmost seriousness even if you already know the course being taught failure too take seriously will see you expelled."

Those in uniforms murmur and look at us in a smug way but I can feel a few of them looking at me in a less smug and more inappropriate way.

"There is only a 100,000 places and 50,000 of those are for the new worlds too fight over so if you wish too remain do your best as if you are kicked out you will have too find your own way of learning for those of the older worlds. For you newer worlds you who fail will almost all be sent too the military section so try your best." With that a bunch of assistant come out and begin too hand out the class schedule in order of oldest worlds too newest ones so we will be last to get ours meaning we will have to rush harder too get to the classes.

I look at the paper that says;

9:00am to 11:00 am- history of interstellar

11:30am to 1:30pm- basic weapon designs

2:00pm to 4:00pm- basic material studies

4:30pm to 6:30pm- basic biological structures

7:00pm to 8:00pm- basic self defense

8:00pm-10:00pm- free time/study time

All students are too sleep at 10pm any caught out of dorms will be expelled immediately.

This is far harsher then with the original tutorial floor as the curriculum is completely changed.

I rush to my courses as soon as I finish reading the paper using the maps on the wall too find my way to the right buildings and room which is written on a sheet next too the map for each different world too follow as a new world like mine with the name Ira meaning watchful one in ancient toungue of our world.

I go there and see a large open hall similar too a college concert hall able to fit easily 1,000 students inside but looks like a normal classroom outside most likely a spacial fold but it is impossible with our worlds technology to make such a large one even one the size of a medium dog cage which can barely fit a smaller person much less an entire concert hall like this. Our world is far behind in our technology and information meaning we were certain to fail in a fight if pushed and we only had ten years to catch up with worlds that may have been in here for several hundred.

There are people from my world and one other world as we shared this learning hall with a world in cyberpunk militant style.

All but three people are here and those three are from our planet so when the teacher walks in to three empty chairs he immediately says, "Three less people to fight for spots with lucky you lot, now for those taking it seriously let us begin with the starting point most worlds have seen."

There is many pictures with different structures some like a colosseum others like a tower and a maze, there is even a few castles floating in the sky.

We look on the stage where these holographic pictures are being shown and the teacher starts his lecture, "Each world has slightly different structure, challenges and obstacles in the original system join location and at this spot is where people are able too grow and adapt to either a rapid change in there worlds or rally troops for internal fights for planets that already have large energy amount before the tower connects. Each world has a different reaction and belief but to get too this point your world had to enter another so you know this tower isn't just in your world. When the tower connects like this the challenges change to a more general type where many worlds will have the same challenges."

It is a basic explanation of the tower that anyone could figure out from the events that would lead one too our current situation.

"Now that the basics are done lets get to the more interesting parts, Each worlds energy is different and therefore hard too build colonies on but one can challenge another world and depending on the outcome is what will happen to each world. If the challenging world loses then they pay reparations in items and technology and if lacking in people. For planets that come to a stalemate or treaty then it remains as before the challenge took place, if one side willingly bows down then the fun starts as the winning world can make choices but the side that back down will probably put a requirement for proper treatment so those worlds will probably have you do a Mutualism type planet connection where both planets energy enhances the other and ceases rejection making it so you both increase in grade and potential."

I see stepping down willingly was better as you can guarantee safety and your future here if a truly powerful world comes this is probably the best option.

"Next is if you combat before they bow down then they have less protection in there agreements and can only demand basic needs while everything else is in the winning sides hand meaning it could go Mutualism or Commensalism where only your world grows by taking there excess energy and limiting there world too that grade until your world chooses otherwise."

It means your world will grow more quickly but as I know a quick growth isn't always the best and stability is a need and I am sure the same is true here, meaning Mutualism is the best choice.

"Last is if they do not bow down until the very end when you have already won and the tower judges it as finished with no chance of fighting back, then the choice of all three Mutualism, Commensalism, or Parasitism come in. Parasitism is when your planet takes all the energy the planet produces causing the planets energy too drop and eventually fall dormant, this is were worlds with tales of energy in the past exist because they did and lost."

My birth world was most likely one such world but what about my current world.

"The top worlds have all done these three and grown well from it, but they all come with risk. Mutualism means the world is equal to your own and therefore can break the agreement at any point with only a small material payment and start a fight with you to try and take you over meaning they can't be fully trusted or allowed into your military they are more like highly advanced treaty people then actual friends and help. Commensalism only last for a hundred years and once finished the possession of the world will return too normal and can start growing again, many small worlds do this too each other to not make other worlds worried as so too prevent parasitism as much as possible. Finally is parasitism a normal in mid grade worlds that are about to become higher grade ones so have less fear from this happening, it last until the planet runs out of energy but as you are sure too guess most planets abhor those that do it and often will gang up together to rid the tower of such worlds and prevent them from being targeted."

All three have worth but also ramifications as one wrong move could mean internal and external battle, but he hasn't mentioned the energy problem like I thought it may be a hidden danger that few see but is one I will point out to the higher ups after returning.

The rest of the class is about different beliefs and planets at the top with the top three being the main focus.

First place planet is Pravuil a neutral world that is mostly mutualism and no enemies even amongst there own planets, they are a powerful long lived species but have few births totaling less than a thousand true born Pravu in the universe with little known of there appearances.

Second is Camael a fierce world known for fighting and most world under it are commensalism with only two worlds in mutualism with it, both worlds that immediately stepped down when they came and where allies with them in there early years. They are reptilian and combat focus so many of it technology and even biology follows that focus making them fierce and they use spirit energy like my own planet, they are known for some small parasitism early on but mostly kept the mid ground as although battle focused are also very conscious and moral in there own ways.

Finally the third planet and the one most in fighting the second one wormwood a more animal like style species with many kits born in a litter but due to in fighting and limited food only the mother can provide means of the 20 to 30 born if 7 survive it is overachieving while usually it is only four or five that make it too adulthood.

Essentially this planet and species only knows too fight and kill off weaker ones they are one of the few high parasitism planets and have no mutualism and little communalism making them targeted by other planets but there quick reproduction and higher then average population for powerful species makes them hard too truly beat and often only stalemates occur.

With that all covered and the pictures and more in depth explanation given for them like wars won or basic information on there smaller planets the class ends.

Next is weapons design and I know this will be more difficult for those of our world as I see videos of guns and cannons for starships in the video meaning although they won't teach us those they will expect things more like that than what our world has.

As I expect it all about more advanced weapons not existing in our world and I see Wyatt making notes on all those different weapon types most likely to study for future wars and fights so a new weapon won't be too much of a threat, I told them of my worlds weapons but seeing and hearing are two different things and I am sure Wyatt will ask me about them more when we have our break.

Material studies is hard for others but easy for me who has gained near perfect study and memorization capabilities from my act of energy forging giving me a heads up for many strange and not normally thought or studied materials made this much easier as I amused too such studies.

I have slight trouble in basic biological structure but Wyatt appears too have no such trouble I will make sure too go to him in the future for studying this subject.

Finally self defense rolls around and we enter a large room completely void of most things but many buttons and levers make it clear the things are probably just hidden and not shown then the room being blank.

The teacher makes us all begin with a obstacle course that pops out in the center of the area able too fit all of us and record our progress and abilities.

I enter the door and am brought in front of a long passage with no environment or signs of the obstacles as I approach the red line on the ground slowly obstacles rose out of the ground first up is a climbing wall near vertically straight up with a few spots to grab that you definitely need to jump for.

I scale it easily and next is a large pit jump too a log run followed by a rest point.

I make my way through and next is a swing test but this time sound of gunfire is heard and I focus too avoid the paint bullets that wiz by making sure to remain unharmed, followed by a collapsing floor and then floor and wall, finishing with a all four sides collapsing when I am through the collapsing section I am attacked by goblins on a stilt section with thin poles over a pit with the other side blocked I most likely need to kill them to get through.

I am barehanded with no weapon so I need to steal one from them, I take the knife as an axe or long sword would interfere in my running capabilities.

More enemies to fight in different elevation and situation as well as increase in difficulty in both along with attacks from all sides and using different items make it extremely harsh and the fact they make this the test for testing ones combat skill in the tutorial is horrifying, I make it to a safe spot out of breath and a small paint mark on my left arm but not deep enough to have interfered with my abilities.

There is still more I can do but knowing ones limit is essential and I am reaching that limit so I call out, "I give up I can not go further without risk to my life."

Like that the obstacles in front of me disappear and a door leading out shows up letting me leave this obstacle course that is as hard as the one Wyatt makes me do for training if it had alternating environment it would be harder.

I leave and the a paper is dispensed from the door I left out of so I take it and look at the score.

[World grade: E+

Main species: Homo Sapiens

Physical status:

strength-SS

speed-SS

agility-SS

Stamina-SS

Endurance-SS

Combat abilities:

Martial arts- High mid grade

Estimated level for one of this world: SS-level]

I am only a S-grade but my enhanced body made it so my outcome is an entire level higher an incredible thing.

I take the paper too the teacher who I see with an already large nearly toppling stack next too and hand it over as the teacher looks at me with interest, I am one of the last out as there is over 990 people from our class out with only the best remaining with Wyatt still in and both Kian and Amara having left at the 900 mark we are all in the top 10% not the best but better then most.

I can feel gazes on me from most likely my strength and looks as I am a very different look than the others, most have western features but only me and Wyatt along with Wyatt's family are more oriental eastern looks.

I look out of place in the group and as the group of the other world is very African dark skin people with no one standing out, all dark hair and eyes.

As time passes more leave and the final one is decided we have all but one of the top ten I can see the look of dissatisfaction on the other world as they realize we are stronger even with our production people so what did that say for our military and combat people, poor them not realizing we are both combat and production based people.

Wyatt is first place as expected and the teachers reaction is clear he exceeded all belief for him as he checks the paper, but Wyatt says next makes the other world tense.

"I finished the course I don't think I got as far as I could have I would like to request a further look into that." I see talks and murmurs breakout from the otherworld as they look at Wyatt as a monster if I am respected then Wyatt is seen as a monster.

Even the teacher appears slightly nervous about him but says nothing else and he pushes the button that caused the course too appear making it return too the ground.

The teacher a black male clearly of the other planets people, pushes another button and a square structure more boxy then rectangular unlike the obstacle course appears and the teacher explains the use of it.

"This is a test of senses and energy so like with the last one we will all enter and get the results after exiting." Both planets are mental energy planets so neither is at a loss due to energy type.

The test are similar too our group one of identify this, dodge that, put your energy here so on and so forth.

[World grade: E+

Main species: Homo Sapiens

Physical status:

strength-SS

speed-SS

agility-SS

Stamina-SS

Endurance-SS

Mental energy-

Energy amount: S

Energy purity: EX

Energy control: B

Spirit energy-

Energy amount: S

Energy Purity: Ex

Energy control: D

Mana-

Energy amount: F-

Energy purity: Ex

energy control: N/A

Combat abilities:

Martial arts- High mid grade

Estimated level for one of this world: SSS-level]

I give it too the teacher and he looks at the energy purity and different types in shock I am now probably like Wyatt in his eyes, a monster.

Wyatt comes in first again and we finish up our basic defense the teacher pretty much running after our test are done leaving us too do as we want for the next two hours, we immediately head to the library a spot with both old time books and holograms for research purposes we spend the whole time looking at different types of weapons and energies of these worlds.

Night comes and me and my roommate both are still awake reading after curfew but in our rooms so it is fine the roommate finally goes to sleep at around 12 o'clock but I don't rest until 3 o'clock looking at all that I need to catch up on.

I am awake at 7 o'clock and work out before eating and cleaning myself with half an hour to spare for class I head too the class room to study more.

My days pass and I keep up with ease along with Wyatt and Kina is also decent but Amara is struggling and if not for us would have been kicked out do to failing grades that with each passing month here get stricter you need at least a eighty now to remain on all test and work.

It has been six months and we are finally getting pass the beginner parts and the quota is almost reached and if by the end of the year it isn't reached the lowest ones on the final exam will be removed too make the quota proper, we will also be given a one day break or month long break depending on if we stay in the tower or out of it.

Me and Wyatt have been using the free paper and pencils too copy and write the books of the library in our free time along with the professors lectures and anything of importance, slowly we form a basic understanding of what being in the interstellar position means.

It means safety as the tower prevents one from killing the entire planet off but also risk as a portal will appear from the tower to our world during a announced war it also allows us to bow down to a higher level at the start and be guaranteed a mutualistic agreement from them, we are not informed of who will be at war with until it is over which explains why the top planets got away with so few mutualism for so long and hide there looks most the time or use other planets in the fight to throw the opponent off.

Slowly we learn all that we can on the politics between planets and different cultures to try and prevent such mistake in the future if it ever happens.

The end of the year comes and I still have no clue how to grow my cultivation and all of us remaining in the school moving up to second years and once one person from our planet graduates or the ten year period is over we will also gain a uniform.

Finally we leave the tower 12 days after we first entered with everything we could do for now complete and a report to give.