"Hello, my name is Charlie Yorkson, and these are my companions Jasmine, Dornbar, and Kuchi. Nice to meet you."
Alexander was operating his personal terminal, chatting with his friend Sam about his request for leave, when suddenly a voice came from the side.
He saw the four young men standing aside just now, greeting him.
"Alexander Pompeii." Alexander looked at the young man standing at the front and asked, "Are you also here to unlock extraordinary abilities?"
Charlie nodded, smiled at Alexander's curious gaze and said, "Yes, the four of us elders have a relatively close relationship with each other, so we came together to inspire the extraordinary ritual."
Alexander showed a look of understanding and was thinking about the reason why the other party was talking to him. He heard Charlie take the initiative and said: "This must be your first time coming to a place like this. If there is anything you need to know, I can provide some help."
When Alexander heard this, his heart moved. He happened to have many questions that he wanted to know, and it would be great if someone offered to help him now.
So, he began to ask this "enthusiastic person" about some extraordinary abilities. Little did he know that Charlie was also frustrated by some of Alexander's "common knowledge questions."
"Isn't this person just an ordinary upstart with no background as I judged?"
Fortunately, the two did not communicate for long. A man in strict formal attire, who was obviously not an ordinary staff member, came to Alexander and said: "Mr. Pompeii, I am Rune, the person in charge here, to inspire you with extraordinary rituals." The preparations have been completed, please leave with me."
"It seems that our pleasant conversation has come to an end." Alexander stood up and bowed slightly to the four of them. "In this case, I would like to say goodbye to you all. I, Alexander Pompey, will be very grateful for your help."
Charlie Yorkson also said with a humble smile: "Friend, I also wish you to inspire ideal extraordinary abilities."
"As you just said, all results are determined by fate. The only thing we mortals can do is to accept it calmly." Alexander said loudly, bid farewell to the four of them again and left here.
After he left, Dornbar, who was standing there with a mohawk, suddenly said: "Obviously we came first, but it turned out that this rich man performed the enlightenment ceremony first, and the person in charge of the center received him personally. It seems that the charm of money It’s really huge.”
Charlie shook his head and was about to say something when he saw several other staff members approaching and was told that the preparations for their ceremony had been completed.
It was about their own future, and the few young people present had no intention of continuing the conversation. They looked at each other and left.
On the other side, Alexander followed the person in charge of the center named "Lun" on the suspension ladder and arrived at the upper level of the "Wallace Super Power Inspiration Center". After stepping off the suspension ladder, he walked a few dozen meters and stood in a room. In front of a huge metal door with V2 written on it.
After pressing a few times on the personal terminal on his wrist, the metal door automatically retracted and opened from both sides. Perhaps seeing Alexander's nervousness, Luen took the initiative and said: "Mr. Pompey, this is the best place for extraordinary ability inspiration in our center." The 'enlightenment instrument' in this room is provided by the B-class civilization 'Chimerado', and its technology is among the best in the Galactic Federation, and it is absolutely safe and reliable."
"Very good." Alexander nodded. Until now, there was no possibility of him going back on his word. He nodded to Lu En and walked into the metal room.
The metal door closed automatically behind him.
Alexander looked at the milky white metallic luster in front of his eyes, and the whole thing was a huge upright oval petri dish standing in the center of the room.
While he was dazed, a gentle female voice sounded in the room: "Dear Sir, you are welcome to use the 'Applicable L5 Generation Extraordinary Ability Inspiration Device' developed by Wayne Group, a subsidiary of the 'Chimerado' civilization. Now please take off your clothes. Lie down in the enlightenment chamber."
This scene had appeared countless times in Alexander's previous eighteen years of life. When he really faced this moment, Alexander's heart became extremely calm. He quickly took off his clothes and got into the open enlightenment chamber. Inside.
The next second, with a beeping sound, the door of the enlightenment chamber closed automatically, and a large amount of nutrient solution surged up from the bottom, quickly submerging Alexander.
Already he knew from the Internet that this was a normal process. Alexander tried his best to open his eyes wide in the nutrient solution. As expected, he did not feel a sense of suffocation. Instead, he felt as if he had returned to the comfort and warmth of his mother's body.
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At the same time, staff from the outside world who were already in place operated a multi-functional robotic arm to embed psychic crystals into the external devices of the indoor illumination instruments.
As the psychic crystals were placed in place, the inside of the instrument began to operate at high speed, extracting the pure energy from the psychic crystals and transporting it to the instruments inside the room.
Then, Alexander saw countless silver gauze mist like stars appearing in front of his eyes. They danced on the water surface as if they were alive, but after a moment, they playfully integrated into his body.
As the silver gauze mist entered his body, Alexander felt a wave of relief that he had never experienced before. The sense of fulfillment in his soul made him almost completely forget everything.
For some unexplainable reason, Alexander's body, which should have felt that his soul was completely "fed", was like a bottomless pit, constantly absorbing the pure energy of the psychic crystal.
In the outside world, as the energy of each psychic crystal was drained and eventually turned into ashes, the staff who were inspiring Alexander's extraordinary abilities immediately felt something was wrong.
Because the 25 units of psychic crystals allocated for this enlightenment ceremony were about to be completely consumed, Alexander in the enlightenment instrument showed no sign of successfully awakening his extraordinary power.
You must know that although the enlightenment ceremony nominally requires 25 units of psychic crystals, this is only a theoretical limit data. In fact, it often does not require so many units. With a total of 25 units, perhaps around 20 units can successfully inspire the extraordinary abilities of the person involved. The rest is "extra income" for the center.
An event like Alexander's, which has exhausted its quota but has not yet succeeded in enlightenment, has never happened at the "Wallace Center for Extraordinary Power Enlightenment" in at least several decades.
Seeing that something was wrong, the staff waiting outside immediately contacted their superiors. When the person in charge, Lu En, arrived, they happened to see with their own eyes that the last unit of psychic crystals belonging to Alexander had been completely consumed.
Without enough time to investigate the cause, Lu En immediately instructed his subordinates to continue embedding psychic crystals to ensure that the enlightenment ceremony would not be affected.
However, as time passed, the faces of everyone present became extremely ugly. After consuming five units of psychic crystals again, Alexander in the enlightenment warehouse showed no signs of success.
"Damn it! Could it be that the psychic aptitude test was wrong? Impossible. Obilas is a second-level force warrior. How could he make such a low-level mistake? Moreover, the spectral effect emanating from Alexander Pompey has also passed through Instrument testing is absolutely impossible to make mistakes!”
If Alexander's psychic qualifications are correct, then the only problem lies in this batch of psychic crystals. Rune once heard that a certain batch of psychic crystals appeared to be intact on the outside, but in fact, the energy loss inside greatly reduced their value, and they were basically useless. Less than the estimated energy index.
"Manager Luen." As another psychic crystal was consumed, his staff quickly asked him for instructions.
At this time, Lu En could only temporarily suppress the annoyance in his heart and shouted in a low voice: "Don't panic! How much psychic crystal reserve do we have? Let's transfer some quota first."
Soon a subordinate gave a reply: "There are still 35 units of psychic crystal reserves in storage room No. 1."
With a wave of his hand, Rune immediately arranged for people to embed all the psychic crystals of all units into the transformation devices.
In the next half hour, Luen watched helplessly as all 35 units of psychic crystals were consumed. However, Alexander in the inspiration warehouse was still a little short of the ability to inspire.
"Bang!" Lu En clenched his fist and slapped the operating table hard, but he didn't know who to vent his emotions to.
"Manager, do you want to continue?" a subordinate asked cautiously.
"Continue!" Lu En said through gritted teeth.
The reason why he is like this is certainly not due to conscience. As Wallace's only "paranormal power enlightenment center", the center's status is transcendent and special, and it does not care much about the local government of the Earth's special administrative region.
However, Alexander's ability to inspire this time was in a special situation. Not only were all the psychic crystals purchased at the center, but there were also descendants of other extraordinary families on site.
It is conceivable that once today's events are known to outsiders, it will greatly affect the credibility of the "Wallace Super Power Inspiration Center" and is likely to trigger a series of chain reactions.
So no matter what, he wanted to ensure that today's enlightenment ceremony was a success.
With this idea in mind, Lu En could only urge his subordinates to insert the psychic crystals into the equipment again and again, and watched helplessly as these psychic crystals ran out of energy and turned into ashes.
Finally, after consuming nearly 70 units of psychic crystals stored in the center, a white light flashed in the V2 enlightenment room, and the entire instrument stopped functioning.
"Finally, it worked!"
Lu En couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't have time to calm down, and immediately ordered several subordinates present not to reveal anything about today's events.
After receiving a clear reply, he waited at the door of the V2 enlightenment room in person with mixed emotions.
Alexander, who knew nothing about what happened not long ago, walked out of the room feeling very good.
When I woke up in the morning, I was still an ordinary person, but now I just took a short nap. I have become an "extraordinary person"!
"Mr. Luen, thank you very much for your attentive service. I am very satisfied!" As soon as he walked out of the door, he saw Luen, the person in charge of the center, standing at the door. Alexander greeted him happily.
Resisting his inner impulse, Lu En asked with seeming concern: "Thank you for your compliment, Mr. Pompeii, how are you feeling now?"
"I've never felt better."
Alexander could clearly feel the difference in himself, but the current location was inconvenient, so he could only suppress this impulse temporarily.
"Really? That's good, that's good!" After listening to Alexander's words, Rune couldn't help but murmured.
As for the extra psychic crystals consumed, we can only find ways to make up for it slowly in the future.
Not noticing anything unusual about the person in charge of the center, Alexander walked briskly back to the previous hall. He saw four young people he had just met before, sitting on the sofa in the hall talking to each other with smiles on their faces.
"Guys, it seems that your ceremony went well." Alexander laughed and said loudly.
Looking at Alexander who was the first to enter but the last to come out, Charlie also smiled: "Pompage, it seems that everything is going well for you too."
"Of course." Alexander nodded, thought for a moment and offered to exchange contact information.
After exchanging contact information with all four people present, Alexander said goodbye to everyone and left the place that changed the essence of his life for the first time.