I remember now, Asmodeus that was my name, I never knew what the meaning behind it since I don't know my parent I grew up in an orphanage with many other in a backwater planet called Fleon which is one of the nine planets where our race hide. We cant even go out in advance planet without some disguise or risk being slaved, because of that we became some rare creature in this universe. I also remember that I'm one in fifty-two that was chose to undergo an operation that makes us sensitive to magic.
"So how are you 22?" I heard someone asking.
"I'm fine professor Zach, by the way how was it? My operation"
"Good, it was good, which I want to tell you that you don't have any power-"
"What? I undergo that insane amount of pain for nothing?"
"Yet, I wasn't finished, your power is ... peculiar for lack of better word"
"What so peculiar about it, can I shoot fire out of my hand? Bend titanium with ease? Or hypnotizing someone without the use of tools? Which is it, prof?"
"None of that, also all of that. You see you have some sort of mutation on your gene that makes you different from the other patient, so if you want to shoot fire out of your hand first you must find someone that can do that and absorb his hand into yours and discard your current hand"
"What the hell does that even mean?"
"It's hard to explain in detail, right now you just need to come with me to the morgue"
"So after a failed experiment, you're just gonna ditch me?"
"That's not it, you fool just come along and I will show you your true power"
After I ponder for a while, I decided to follow him to the morgue. There were so many corpses of alien species here, some which can be considered a mage by the uniform they wear.
"Since the body of a mage is a precious thing because of their research value you can only choose 2, this one his hand can shoot fire like the one you are saying before an Elementalist we called them, over here is the body augmentation his skin is as hard as diamond with the flexibility like regular skin." He shows me two "precious" thing which actually an alien corpse one without the head and the other is just the upper part. And then he takes three other corpses from God knows where.
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" This other two is good for a fight while this three is good for espionage and scouting, this one can bend the light around his skin to make the illusion of disappearing except for his eyes since he can't see without it. He, on the other hand, can see the mana in the surrounding area so you can spot someone hiding. And the last but definitely the least is this shit which can spread some awful odour with your ass or some may say superfart"
"The hell with the last one, how do you even know that?"
"That is one question that I cannot answer you'
"Fair enough. You know me, prof, I'm a coward so I will take the disappearing and the super eyes." I move to their corpses and I freeze.
"Umm prof, how exactly one use his power?"
"I don't know exactly but what I do know that you need to concentrate"
I follow his instruction and I concentrate, after a while I can see some sort of glowing thing flying around their corpses, I focused all my mind to it and then it happened. My body just sucked in the corpses and I have the feeling to throw up but then it stoped and I can feel something on my skin and my eyes like some itching thing. When I try to scratch that.
"Wow, you disappear but I can still see your red eyes maybe try to hide in the shadow will help" I heard the prof says, and when I try to look at him, I can see him right through all his mechanical part, like looking at his soul or something.
"So how was it prof?"
"Now you are ready, stop disappearing or your mana will deplete. And follow me to my office"
Once again I just following him like a duckling following his momma duck.
"Since you choose the scouting power over the combat one you will be deployed to the main planet of the Galactic Alliance, Ibex. You know that the Galatic Alliance and the Nexus Empire is at war so your mission is to make the two factions hate each other even more besides from collecting intelligence for our forgotten species, Humanity"