Lorain

The class went silent from shock even though they've witnessed this happening several times already, every single time this happens they still can't help but feel shocked. Added the fact that not only Alia and Atlas could answer questions at the speed of light another 2 students answered it at the same time with them.

Atlas couldn't help but look at Sophia who answered the question at the same time as him. He couldn't help but asked himself 'Are genius so common these days?'.

Alia looked at Sophia who's beside Atlas, she noticed that Sophia and Atlas are looking at each other, making her furious deep inside. She looked at the two of them with hate and she thought that it was all because of competition. She hates people who are on par with her because she considers herself a one-of-a-kind-genius. Her mood plummeted starting when Sophia entered the class earlier, she immediately felt hatred towards her despite not knowing why. And by the time Sophia took the seat beside Atlas and talked with him her face immediately turned cold.

The class's attention is not directed to Alia, Atlas, or Sophia, it was directed at Lorain's position. The typical nerd in the room, she wears glasses and has frizzy hair like how typical nerds are. Her presence in the room has always been negligible, she doesn't even have friends, and her first impression was not that good because she was so silent and shy. Some classmates wanted to talk to her but it's not working the more you talk to her the shyer she'll get. Right now that all eyes are on her, her face redden immediately. She doesn't really want to answer the question it's just that she unconsciously spout the things she had in her head, for the past few days whenever the professor asked a question she would calculate it in her head, it's just that she's so shy to muster up her courage and answer the question like how Atlas and Alia did. Her recitation a few seconds ago was unintentional, it was a pure mistake. All the attention she's getting makes her regret the mistake even more.

All the fuss about the scene was stopped when Engr. Gomez asked another question, "How about its Mass percent?" This follow up question isn't tricky like the first one, you don't even need a periodic table for you to answer this question, all you need is a bit of logic.

".99 percent benzene!" Almost all the class answered, their competitive side emerged. After seeing Lorain answer the first question their passion woke up, if even Lorain the shy girl could muster up her courage to answer they could do it as well.

This time Lorain didn't answer, she swears not to do that mistake again.

Meanwhile, Atlas still couldn't accept that geniuses are now so common, he resorted to the cube's powers that's how he was able to solve the problem without a hitch, but these people don't have one. Alia's immense calculating ability already defied the logic, but now here's Sophia and Lorain emerging like as if slapping his face with the statement 'I'm the real genius!'.

This small escapade in Atlas' life became the biggest motivation he has to learn and study more if others can do these things without a high-tech rubrics cube how could he, the owner of the greatest device ever invented be left behind by their achievements. He already has the greatest advantage and opportunity anyone in this life could ever dream of, but it feels like he's wasting it. He silently vowed that he'll study hard from now on.

Unknown to Atlas that old gramps is more shocked than him. He created the rubrics cube to do an instantaneous computation, even though these simple problems aren't that complex he was surprised to see that there are many geniuses in this normal university classroom. He decided to intensify Atlas' training in order to keep up, he can't let his sole successor lose to these geniuses.

"Okay good, how about the mole fraction?" Engr. Gomez asked once more.

This time the class who was burning with passion after answering the question went silent and turn their heads to the 4 people who just answered the first question earlier. This question is even trickier than the first question, Engr. Gomez is starting to shed her human skin and turn into a sly demoness like how Sophia described to Atlas earlier. In order to get the answer to this question, you need to get the mole of benzene present in a gram of benzene and divide it with the total mole of the solution. The sly part in this equation is that aside from the fact that the molar mass of benzene isn't given, the molar mass of water isn't given either. Just like the first question, you need to memorize the periodic table in order to get the answer to this.

".20% benzene!" 3 people answered.

This time Lorain didn't answer, making her classmates who turned their head towards her direction secretly cheering for her, disappointed. They were hoping that she would fight against Atlas and Alia.

The fans of Sophia who were captivated by her ever since she introduced herself cutely a while ago clapped their hands as if they were her parent. Sophia just smiled at them after seeing them cheer for her.

Atlas and Alia looked at each other with lightning in their eyes, their competitive spirit reached the peak. Atlas who vowed to defeat others by studying harder, and Alia who also vowed to make sure her name remains on top, began to consider each other as rivals. Atlas thought in his head that he would defeat Alia first then move on to harder opponents.

"Okay, last question, tell me the molality" Engr. Gomez asked again.

"1.28 mol/kg!" the majority of the class answered. This last question is purely based on a formula, they learned their lesson this time and searched for a periodic table in their phones. They also wrote and tried to compute the last few questions using papers, the majority of the class is diligent and can be considered top student to be able to pass the entrance exam here in the university. It's just that compare to those geniuses their intelligence appeared to be average. The hidden givens are solved by the class that's why they were able to get this last question right.

"Okay, that's it! I'm hoping that you'll remain this way, my expectation for you guys are now high don't disappoint me!" Engr. Gomez said as she goes out of the room.

After Engr. Gomez left the classroom went chaotic, they began to gossip and talk about just what happened earlier, some of it is about Lorain and most of them are about Sophia. Some girls even went to the back just to talk to her.

"Hi, Sophia! I'm Fay, you were awesome back then!" a girl introduced herself and began to talk to Sophia. And Sophia who has never experienced school life was elated when someone initiated a conversation with her, she immediately stands up and chit chat with them. The small group talking became a big group almost ¾ of the class is present, with Sophia in the center of attention. She was chatting with her classmates when one of them asked a question: "Sophia, you look so young can you tell me your skincare routine?" a girl asked after seeing Sophia's youthful countenance.

"Oh, that's because I'm young indeed, I'm 14 years old" Sophia giggled as she answered.

The whole group went silent after hearing her answer, surprises are always coming to them and they been silenced almost every day because of these surprises.

"REALLY?!" both girls and boys exclaimed after regaining their selves from shock.

"Yes!" this answer of Sophia caused the crowd to exclaim in surprise.

"Omy she's so young!"

"How did she enter college?"

"I can't believe I'm studying together with a minor"

Some of the boys became guilty for having a crush on a 14-year-old girl, they can't believe that they almost became a pedophile. However, being a 14-year-old girl only makes the crowd love her even more, they began treating her like a baby and gave her snack which makes Sophia giggle in happiness. The boys asked her to teach them someday and the girls began to untie her hair and do girly stuff to her.

It was fortunate that it was vacant after the chemistry class. Atlas left the room to go to the library while Beatrice dragged Flint out of the room for some reason. Leaving Alia all alone in the corner of the classroom, despite being cold she has a very fragile heart so being left alone made her sad inside she decided to just sleep and wait for the next class.