Aftermath of the Incident

Lance was first shocked by what had just happened. What was that feeling he had just had? What was that golden flash?

When the clapping started though, Lance began to sheepishly giggle as he realized that he had taken his revenge. This instant satisfaction was something that one could get addicted to.

Realizing that he was giggling, Lance controlled himself. As he turned around to look for the proctor , he felt a weakness in his limbs as he promptly fell to the ground.

Darius and Entsy ran up to him to see if he had fainted again, but thankfully he was still conscious.

He just couldn't move. It felt as if every last bit of energy in his body had been sapped in that instant that the golden light had flashed.

His friends propped him up between their shoulders as they started walking towards the comprehension test area. They had both already passed their tests with flying colors and were very happy that Lance could join them. Seeing his shocking performance, they couldn't believe that this was the same friend who had meditated in a puddle of his own blood as his injuries healed night after night.

Perseverance truly gave great results.

A few minutes after they walked away, a proctor walked to the area seeing the commotion.

This was a fair middle aged balding man wearing a ceremonial Chinese gown. As he came to the site, he found it strange that the robot wasn't present.

Seeing a crowd in the distance, he quickly walked to it fearing the worst.

As he sifted through the rows of people in front of him, he could see the outline of a leg twitching under a lather wrapped torso.

He ran forward, grabbing the half-ton robot as if it were nothing and throwing it to the side.

Under it lay the pride of his faction, Apollo.

His head was bleeding and most of his body parts were bent in weird angles. Although he was alive because of his sturdy body which was the result of a breakthrough, he was still very heavily injured.

His eyes going red, he screamed:"WHO DID THIS? ATTOK! We agreed that people of the level above master wouldn't intervene! Our leader won't let you off easy!".

A Chinese youth who was standing to the side walked toward the man reluctantly to sort things out before they got out of hand.

"Sir, it wasn't anyone above master level. It was just Lance who had been taking his reflex test." He went on to explain in detail what had happened.

The proctor's jaw fell more and more as he listened to the amazing tale. At the end, he could only sigh and point his hand at Apollo, making him float in the air after signing that Lance had passed the test. Disabling the robot directly gave the highest score to any Initiate, as each robot was designed keeping the average power level of an Initiate in mind.

"Dammit. He can't possibly be this powerful. It must just be a weird strength based IN which hasn't been discovered yet. Yes, that must be it. Damn that Xuan Long!", he muttered under his breath as he walked to the infirmary.

Meanwhile, the trio had sneaked to the cafeteria for some quick enidra before going to the comprehension test area.

Lance was feeling much better with the heavenly enidra in his stomach supplying him with energy.

The comprehension test was just a simple IQ test that was given on Earth. It was to make sure that each initiate at least had the minimum IQ to understand and act on mission briefings. This test had actually only been added in the last few centuries, as cases of people who had not been able to even read any language and comprehend simple sentences had appeared. No one knew why this occurence had started.

There was only a pass or fail with this test, and all three of them had no problem with it.

They walked to the briefing area which was again the central area that Donovan had given his speech.

Giant holographic arrows in the air pointed towards areas where they needed to go, just in case someone got lost or confused.

The area started to fill up as the trio waited for the briefing to begin.