Test

" I've made up my mind, I wouldn't ever run away again. I'll do it" he said clenching his fist and his voice hinted at hatred.

" I knew you wouldn't hesitate, I've made preparations already. All I needed is to run some tests on you, I want a gauge of your physical abilities" Jaus responded. John simply sat there and looked downwards lost in his thoughts.

" Ahem...Ahemmm. Theoretically, your physical abilities ought to skyrocket after we proceed with the modifications so claiming data prior to calculate the precise difference is important as well. If things go well, your boost up might be much greater than Melinda"

Jaus was a bit dumbfounded as the guy who was hot-headed a few seconds ago was suddenly lost in his thoughts and didn't pay any attention to him.

" I've been wanting to ask John. Why do you want to partake in this, Offering your body freely? I'm sure life has been tough on you"

" It's nothing important really"

" Ohhh, so you were simply ignoring me," Jaus said

" No No, it's not that. I was just thinking about my family"

" They're gone?"

" Yes, they were abducted by those monsters. I only managed to escape their grasps in a last-second struggle"

" I see, that explains your drive and intense hate towards them. Don't forget, you may think you're doing this for just their sake but the rest of humanity counts on us including you."

"Let's move then," Jaus said and stood up from his seat. He walked further down and went towards the door and the other side of the lab. After inputting the passkey, the metallic door shifted allowing for passage to the inner room. Jaus stood by the door and called out

" Come on!"

Hearing this, John stood up and walked towards him, the two then went in.

The room wasn't anything peculiar, it had dumbbells, a battle android, and some other gym instruments, the only thing that seemed unique was how long and spacious it was.

" Ok John, I'll test your striking strength first. Move over to that machine and strike the obvious center with all your strength" Jaus said and pointed to a machine at the corner. The machine appeared to be a huge around 10cm thick rectangular board, it was painted with different colors which formed circular patterns all around to the center.

BAMM

John struck the center with all his might and a sudden mild sound escaped.

" Twenty! Not bad, you're stronger than you appear to be" Jaus said and went for his tab and typed in some figures.

" You'll have to lift these weights, start with one of seventy kilograms" it took John all that he had to lift it, his veins became a lot more vivid and his muscles tensed up seemingly begging for oxygen.

" I see, let's not push it. You cap at seventy kilograms"

" Take this" Immediately Jaus threw a bottle of water toward him.

" Thanks," he said and hastily drank to satisfaction.

Five minutes later....

" This time, run back and forth over this distance" He pointed to a designated area that was painted different from the rest of the place indicating that it served a purpose.

A whistling sound escaped Jaus's device and John made a run for it. He pushed on as he ran forth and came back crossing two hundred meters in under two minutes.

" Not bad" Once again he brought up his device and made some tappings.

" Rest up a bit, you're going against that Android next," Jaus said and pointed to the Humanoid white bot at one side of the room spacing a considerable distance between them.

" Will this be the last test?"

" It should be"

" Let's go on with it"

" Your tenacity is admirable, young man! hahaha," Jaus said and laughed a bit.

" Let's end this already"

" I'm putting it on now, I set it to the average level difficultly. Let's see how you fare against it" The Andriod came on and lights appeared on its hollow eyes. It walked forward and soon covered the distance, Jaus instructed it to face John and so it did. Taking up a boxing stance by raising its robotic arms up with its right leg slightly forward and hunched.

Upon seeing the activity of the bot, John took on his stance as well. He simply just raised his hands up to his face region.

"Ahhhh" he let out a heavy sigh and looked forward to the chunk of metal in front of him.

" Ohhh!" Jaus was surprised by the sudden change in him, it was like he was a veteran fighter.

" Ok, Everything is set!"

" Fight!"