Efy sat alone in the cafeteria. He was eating the average cheese sandwich with water as a drink, as provided by the school. He looked around and found a very interesting detail, the lower ranked you were, the more basic your food was. There was not much else to do in this situation anyway, he had no friends to eat with. He sat, observed and ate his food amidst the volume of sound.

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Bang!

A single noise erupted through the ears of the class, striking everyone into immediate astonishment.

“And that, class, is how to enhance your strength.” the teacher explained, dusting off his hands with a smirk on his face.

Efy was also in complete disarray. What he had just witnessed was not supposed to be possible by just anyone.

Are the teachers of this school experts? No that couldn’t be, experts make a fortune, why would they subject themselves to teaching?

The longer he thought about it, the more it seemed to pain his mind.

Mr. Choppo, their Xor Utilisation teacher, had demonstrated his strength using a punch metre machine. As he winded up, it was noticeable that not only Efy, but the class felt an unusual sensation, but the punch was even more exhilarating.

Mr. Choppo had punched the machine through 9 walls of the school as if it was nothing! To emit so much Xor is simply immaculate. Not only had he the confidence of ultimate strength, but he had also used Xor to protect the machine from total annihilation. It was a stunning sight to behold.

Mr. Choppo looked over to the classes at which he almost murdered hundreds of children within a moment. “Hoho, it’s okay, I knew where I was aiming.” he jokingly giggled at the other classes. The nearby teachers appeared sick of his antics.

Within a second, Mr. Choppo teleported the machine inside class and instantly closed up and fixed all the damages he had done, this kind of Xor Utilisation was incredible.

Efy judged the reactions of his peers, sheer excitement lighting their faces like fireflies in the night.

I guess he became a class favourite, Efy thought to himself, smiling as well.

“Now then, everyone line up, I am evaluating your Xor strength enhancement.” Mr. Choppo said with a face of interest. All of the students lit up with excitement and kept shouting to go first and whatnot, however, Efy started to tremble.

I’m going to have to show my uselessness in front of the whole class? This is terrible! I can’t do this, I can’t do this, I can’t do this! Efy wanted to go use the bathroom and skip the assessment, so he raised his hand to ask.

“Ah, yes! You all ought to be more like this boy over here, stop shouting and put your hand up and you’ll have a better chance at going first.” Mr. Choppo disciplined the class. Efy was in complete horror, although he wanted to correct his teacher, his voice would not come out.

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As he walked towards the forefront of the class, he felt as if the noises he heard from his neighbouring classmates were the barks of dogs. He felt their stares as if they wanted to assassinate him right now.

“Good, give me your best shot.” Mr. Choppo grinned. He looked completely excited to see what I had in store for him, however, didn't he know I'm ranked #5001?

Here goes nothing. Literally.

Efy sent the hardest punch he could muster. Everyone looked astonished. They all spoke amongst each other in pure amazement.

Efy’s punch was so abysmally horrendous that everyone flew into pure shock. One by one they all started laughing. Their laughter was like knives to Efy.

If Efy’s heart was stomping beforehand, his heart now was similar to a stampede. With every beat he could feel pulsating out of his chest, as if his heart would escape at any moment.

He looked around the classroom to see his bickering peers, frightened to even move an inch, as he felt as if every motion he made would be as loud as an elephant.

“CLASS!” Mr. Choppo screamed. His face had looked as if someone had just killed his own family and he plotted to seek revenge.

“I do not condone such treachery inside my classroom, we are here to learn! Everyone has some things they're great at and some things they are bad at, it's how you deal with it that makes the person. You may choose to only do the things you can do, focus on the things you need to work on, or both! I simply cannot accept that you would verbally murder a classmate because of something so trivial.”

Efy looked at Mr. Choppo with a glimmer in his eyes, questioning his life for a moment.

Where had these teachers been all my life? I did not know there were additional people who respected me.

This was the first time someone other than Boha had stood up for him. Efy pondered.

“Return to your seat. Come find me at the staff room after you have your rest when school ends today.” Mr. Choppo rested his hands onto the short lad’s head. Efy smiled with excitement and ran back towards his seat.

The barking dogs were nozzled and Efy no longer heard their bickering, although he did sense a lot of jealousy from these hounds, he merrily sat down and continued to watch.

“Next!”

The day continued on with everyone trying their hand at the machine, the lowest scores being several times higher than Efy’s. Efy had not cared in the slightest, not after his experience with his esteemed teacher. The only highlight Efy could remember was Audrin setting the highest score in the class, but that was to be expected, he’s good at everything, Efy thought to himself.

“Alright, next class we will be doing track and field, so all of you speed-type combatants, prepare yourselves.”

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Efy returned to his bedroom and let out a sigh of relief, his first day at the academy was quite interesting, but he was satisfied.

“How did you even manage to score 15 on the punch machine? Without Xor, the average person can score around 70 at least. Are you that weak?” Xander teased Efy, although he also looked a bit curious.

Efy did not give an answer. It was not because he didn’t like Xander, but that he felt it was too much to say and would hinder Xander’s time anyways.

“Fine, stay quiet, loser.” Xander responded to his silence. Audrin was also in the room, but he usually did not speak unless he was spoken to.

In about two hours, Efy would visit the staff room and find out what Mr. Chappo had planned for him, until then, he could only bathe in excitement.