'How would you feel if you were squashed like a bug by a mere bug?'

     The boxelder bug. Distinguished by their red or orange lines, an agile flier, a resilient army, bugs that creep and crawl in the cracks. Truly a terrifying bug if it had the capabilities of evolving into a meat shredding army, it'd kill while armies swarmed while they suck in the nutritious nectar from its victims' blood.

The Triatomine or Kissing bug. Nocturnal bloodsuckers flying and crawling only to meet with a plump set of lips. Yet what lays horror is not its bite, but it's capabilities of infecting its victim with Chagas disease. A parasite living and dwelling inside only to lead to serious problems in the body if left untreated.

"Hey, bug loser!"

Upon hearing the approaching group, Fahallan hurriedly stashed the book away titled "Bug encyclopedia" before raising his head and saying in a cowardly tone. "W-what do you want?!"

"What do we want?! Ha, kid you better watch your tone or you'll regret it. We only came here to tell you that from today onwards your desk is in the farthest back left corner, our Bro Oru will take your seat and sit next to Miss Faya his future woman." The group was Oru's underlings, having Oru's reputation no one would dare obstruct in his way, even the teachers feared him as he had an overpowering background and ranked 1st in the school leaderboards in terms of power. He was obviously in the top echelons of society.

Knowing Oru's reputation Fahallan immediately stood up and carried his desk and backpack with him to the back of the left corner in the room aligning his desk in order before sitting on his seat.

'Damnit, why can't those people just leave me the fuck alone?! I've been trying to improve my control by looking up more information on bugs from my school library yet these assholes just keep getting in my way' 

*Sigh*

Knowing Oru he held back his intentions of starting a scene plus knowing that he would get in trouble if he did so he was forced to just shut up and keep on his own progress than starting trouble. Fahallan was ranked 503rd, dead last he knew he had to keep improving. With his bug control ability, it was one of the worst abilities—ranked as a Grade F ability. Every ability was unique in this world rankings ranging from S, A, B, C, D, E, and F.

Bug control or as a universal term for such abilities "Live Control". Abilities as such were ranked F only because such abilities were hard to control the living beings one was controlling with, with difficulty it also came with the unbearing toll in the controller because each movement relied on a lot of energy. Breathing and moving muscles and such all relied on large amounts of energy to control living beings.

Another yet big factor was the fact that regular animals and such were too weak compared to humans since humans have evolved to the point that such supernatural abilities dominated the majority of the animals in the world. With humans having such power would animals even have a chance of killing a human? Let alone a mere bug?

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But with all this Fahallan only kept going, why? Well, that's because there is one way a 'mere bug' can actually rise. From mutation, ability mutation is natural and can even make a garbage can into an expensive kitchen appliance. Though the chances of mutation are low and random, there were rumors going around that if you had an ability that had essence in the world you could mutate your ability.

An example is if you had an elemental ability like fire you could possibly temper with fire in various ways and possibly make a whole new ability—like ashes, a byproduct of the fuel of the fire changing the ability to use ashes connecting the two into one whole ability making it even more powerful.

While thinking about mutations the teacher for the class finally arrived it was his last class for the day—ability class and the teacher giving the lecture today is Mrs. Yuna. She was 27 this year and pretty serious about graduation and the students' future. In this world, there were only two paths you could take the 'normal' path. In simple terms just live a normal life as a civilian and do 'normal' work in society. The second path was the 'Hero' path, the hero path is self-explanatory, train to become stronger, save people, be ranked, and obviously uphold justice and peace.

As Mrs. Yuna was explaining their future and what they wanted to do, she caught Fahallan ignoring the lecture and merely sleeping in the class. Before saying anything Mrs. Yuna cleared her voice and yelled in an annoyed tone, "Fahallan, are you listening?! Stop sleeping and listen, this is important, I know you're ranked last and unmotivated, but you can't just waste away like this and do nothing in your life!"

Hearing Mrs. Yuna, Fahallan raised his head and stared at her before saying in the rudest manner possible, "Can you shut the fuck up? If you know I'm a waste stop wasting your time trying to motivate me with your sweet talk and just keep that shit in your mouth bitch."

Before Mrs. Yuna could say anything Fahallan stood up and threw on his backpack and walked out of the classroom afterward hearing, "FAHALL—." Before she could finish Fahallan had already slammed the door closed on her and then casually walking towards the school's backside exit left from the corridor of the classroom he was in.

Everybody knew that this was pretty normal for Fahallan who wasn't a respectful person, but he obviously didn't say anything to classmates that were rude towards him it was simply because two-thirds of the school's students come from high influential families that no one wanted to mess with them even Fahallan also kept that as a rule of thumb. But it was obvious he wasn't in that group, he was poor, parentless, and living by himself only being able to provide mostly enough for food and rent.

As Fahallan exited the school, he walked backed to his apartment suite that was only a fifteen-minute walk back. Walking to his apartment the only thing he kept thinking about was mutation and all the information he found out in the book that he had borrowed from the school library about bugs and their anatomy and abilities. As he kept thinking he abruptly stopped and said in his head 'Status' a blue transparent window appeared in front of him showing his stats.

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Name - Fahallan O. (Orion)

Ability - Bug Control 

[Stats]

|Strength| - 8

|Agility| - 6

|Endurance| - 5

|Energy| - 3

|Intelligence| - 18

|Ability Level| - 3

|Ability Score| - 43 (TOTAL STATS)

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