As Ning approached the center, he asked the system a few different things.
"What rank is Void?" he asked in an attempt to gauge what sort of potential would be okay for him to get.
"Oh!" Ning said with a bit of surprise. "What about Frostveil?"
Ning was surprised. There was such a high difference. Maybe the girl who had just gotten Rank 4 hadn’t actually done as badly as he had thought.
"What about Waveshot?" he said as he heard a woman call out to him, instructing him to sit on the ground and close his eyes. Ning obeyed.
That was troubling. He was hoping to go higher than Waveshot’s rank, but that would firmly place him in the sa category as Frostveil, the woman who ranked first within this city, and fifth overall in the entire world.
"Screw it," he said softly. "Just produce the sa effect as what I had when I fought Waveshot. Let them determine the rank themselves. We don’t need to bother with that."
With the system doing its thing, Ning just waited for the machine above him to start. The machine ca alive a few seconds later, glowing bright with colorful lights.
Ning felt sothing strange happening to his body, like so sort of strange pulse moving through him in search of sothing—sothing it could not locate.
The system replicated whatever effect would have taken place, and Ning’s body appeared above him in spirit form.
As his spirit’s eyes opened, his body began to transform, slowly turning into a giant, humanoid bat.
Ning heard a soft murmur around the room, all of which his ears picked up.
"Transformation powers. That’s quite rare."
"Was he a vampire? Oh, a Daywalker."
"Isn’t there a rumor that vampires can turn into many bats? Could this be a mutation on that power?"
"Sally, I’m a vampire. I can’t turn into bats. You need to stay off the internet until you can tell a fact apart from a hoax."
"Maybe you just haven’t tried hard enough."
Ning heard so chuckles from the group before a head tester told them to get back to work. Strange items began appearing around Ning’s spirit, which it moved to grab.
Anything he grabbed, he cut through them. Clouds appeared around him next, and he flew through them. When the sun appeared, he kept flying.
They continued checking on things, and Ning calmly let them go through all the tests.
It was honestly quite a boring process overall. He had hoped he could show them his powers physically, but they simply used the machine to determine all of his powers.
It was effective, but that didn’t stop it from being boring.
Ning sighed and just waited as they continued testing his spirit against various things. They tested things from transformation speed, transformation requirents, half-transformations, and the sort. They wanted every bit of information, holding back none at all.
They wanted to see how the weather would affect him, how temperature and pressure would change his transformation.
He just waited. It rained in the simulation, and he waited. It snowed, and he waited.
It stord, and lightning crashed onto his spirit’s body, and he still waited.
Gasps rang around the room, causing Ning’s ears to perk up. Had sothing happened?
"Try a gun," soone said.
Ning frowned. ’How is a gun relevant?’
Soone appeared in the session and shot at him. The bullet hit his body and fell to the side.
Ning shrugged internally. That was supposed to happen considering he had survived Waveshot’s attacks. He had to have thick skin.
But that wasn’t all that they stopped at. Many things began appearing in the simulation as more and more harmful things were thrown at Ning, and he just brushed them off as if they were nothing.
Even stepping on a landmine didn’t kill him at all.
’Wait, that’s not right,’ Ning thought. ’I should co out wounded at least. System?’
’My power then was my transformation ability. What’s happening is more than that,’ Ning said.
’My strength...’ Ning said with a dull look as he realized what was happening. His regular strength, which he had during his transformation, had counted toward his powers as well.
’Shit!’ Ning thought. ’Do sothing, system. Look, they’re throwing such strong acid. I need to be hurt at so point.’
When the strong acid splashed on Ning’s face, it suddenly burned through his skin, revealing his bone. The testers did a few more tests with the simulations, testing so more violent things, but System had already limited Ning’s strength in the simulation, so anything stronger than what he had already shown hurt him.
Only when he was eviscerated after being struck by a cot did they finally stop.
The machine shut down, and Ning’s spirit vanished.
No one bothered to wake up Ning. They were all so suddenly busy with hushed discussions that they had forgotten about Ning completely in that mont.
Ning slowly looked up and waited for soone to turn toward him. It wasn’t nearly three minutes later that soone turned toward him and realized what was happening.
"Oh, we’re so sorry," a woman said. "Please, stand up. You’re done."
Ning got up and dusted his clothes. "It’s over then. Are you finished with the... discussions?"
The woman gave an apologetic smile. "I’m sorry. It’s so very rare that we get to see such things. Please wait for a mont. We must still discuss a few things."
She returned to the group and joined in the conversation between her colleagues as though she had never stopped talking. They were all pointing toward so screen, trying to argue against each other as to what his proper rank had to be.
Ning stopped listening at so point and let them talk things out. He wanted his rank to be a surprise.
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