Hmph, I'm waiting to see what this one does in two years!"

  "What to do? It must be a good act!"

  "So we're all his grandparents from now on?"

  Hearing the sneers coming from the crowd of onlookers, Ashen's face went a shade of green and purple as he bowed his head and sent Nina back to her dormitory first.

  Before he left Nina comforted him with a few words, but he didn't have the heart to listen. Because the bet agreed upon with Liam Frost was like a knife, and Faye Ri's words, going back and forth in his mind over and over again.

  Ashen could even think of his own miserable state two years later, depressed but not knowing what to do.

  Disgruntled, he walks alone to the school building and dodges into the Superpowered person Qualification Assessment Center, standing on the ring of Metal's Assessment table.

  It must have been a wrong reading! I'm going to try again! Ashen muttered, flipping the switch on the Tester Metal, followed by a flash of White Light from underneath the table.

  White walls on all sides projected the words System Activated, followed by White Light sweeping over him from bottom to top.

  Again he saw Light and Shadow projected onto the walls on all sides, displaying large: Read Code, Tier 1! as in daylight, mocking what was left of his faith.

  In that instant, it was like he was finally broken, and he plopped down on his knees, disappointment and despair not even enough to describe his feelings.

  He clenched his fists and slammed them consecutively into the concrete floor, yelling, "This can't be! It can't be!!!"

  "Impossible much.Ashen, did so little Strike beat you up?"

  Ashen was yelling when an abrupt voice suddenly emanated from the empty halls of the Superpowered person Assessment Center, causing him to momentarily think that he was so stressed out that he was hallucinating.

  After reflecting on it for a few moments, he thought again that the voice was odd, as it was clearly not a high-pitched voice like his own. This voice was much more hoarse & dull.

  He looked around the hall for a moment, but the hall was empty except for a few Mechanical's Ring Devices, changing to just the white walls that projected the results of the Assessments.

  "Don't look for it, I don't exist in a material form that you can imagine, although right now I'm part of your BODY!!!"

  "Part of my body?" Hearing him say that, Ashen subconsciously looks down and sees a Golden Light flash across the Black scar on his tiger's mouth. "This is you?"

  "That's right!"

  "You XXXX!!!" Confirming that it was Black Scar speaking, and thinking about everything he'd been subjected to over the past year, Ashen was out of his mind with rage, picking at it viciously.

  You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.

  "Hmph you're not going to get anywhere with this!!!"

  "Who are you? What are you going to do?!!!" Realizing that this really wasn't working, Ashen stopped, but the fire didn't die down.

  "Who I am is not important! What's important is that you actually managed to survive this year without retreating to Blank, and remained in the Tier District, which is really an Alien Code that hasn't been seen in many years.It seems that Experiment has indeed brought about a change in you."

  As the voice spoke, a pinprick of sensation came from Ashen's tiger's mouth. A wave of Gold's Data and Symbol first flooded around Black's scar, and then violently burst out of Black's scar.

  Gavin Ray's center core is Black and hollow, and the Bright Light is emitted from the Gold surroundings that encase the Black core. It is suspended in the air, about one meter and a half in diameter, like a giant eye.

  "XXXXXX!!!" Ashen cursed again.

  "Heh! I still have you to thank for this, I'm afraid I'd be dead if it weren't for you! Thankfully Experiment had enough Data Equivalent self-produced on you to help me get through the year." Gavin Ray shifted not caring how angry Ashen was.

  "Fuck! It's you Scumbag.

  Ashen, who had never been good-natured and didn't like to lose his temper too much, suddenly came out in anger. He swung his fist at the Gavin Ray in a thunderous rage. The moment he hit it, he suddenly felt that his fist didn't hit anything and realized that his arm went through the Gavin Ray.

  Then the whole body.

  Modules of Gold's Data and Symbol appeared around him first, reorganizing back and forth before his eyes.

  Then he felt himself falling into the water, slowly sinking. Holding his breath, he realized that he was at the bottom of the sea, and the Module of Data and Symbol around him had disappeared.

  A huge wall of Black was created in front of his eyes. The wall is covered with Data and Symbol codes.

  "It's okay! Say something! I've unlocked Permission here!" Noticing that Ashen dared not breathe and his face was suffocating red, that Gavin Ray's laughter came from all directions.

  "Secondary World, are you a Basic Data Superpowered person?"

  "It doesn't matter if I'm Basic Data or not! What matters is that you should actually feel lucky that you haven't degraded to the Level of Blank!"

  "Lucky? Lucky to run into you, to have you take away all my Data Equivalent, to have the fucking IDIOTs laugh at me, to not be able to go back to see my mom! See my Bro! That's the luck you gave me!?"

  Ashen grunted rather meaningfully and looked around at the huge wall of Black around him. Realizing that the fact that his opponent had created a Secondary World so easily meant that he was at least a Superpowered person above F-rank Permission, and if that was the case his Data EquivalentTier was at least above Data Set.

  My god Ashen marveled.

  He knows that in the Secondary World where others have Permission, no one can break the opponent's offense, because Basic Data Superpowered person's most unique offense is to bring the opponent into his own Secondary World and use Permission to suppress the opponent's Superpower or even make the opponent's Superpower ineffective. The most unique offense technique of Basic Data Superpowered person is to bring the opponent into his/her own Secondary World and use Permission to suppress the opponent's Superpower, or even make the opponent's Superpower invalid.

  And it's all because of the Data World Permission Maximum ! Those Data Alchemists also became Data because they mastered the Permission of Data and Mathematics.

  The voice rang in Ashen's ears, and with a slight twist of his head he saw Gavin Ray flash before his eyes. He swung twice at his opponent, but he seemed to be in the water himself, his body was restricted in turn, and his strikes felt like they were in slow motion, unable to bring any damage to his opponent at all.

  "Cut! Do you think it's a thing? A man can't be mature without having seen the cold and warmth of the human condition. Besides, those childish Trust Fund Babies, who are in the honey pot every day, being spoiled by this and that, how can they become something great?" Hearing Ashen's complaint, Gavin Ray retorted.

  "Yeah, now I'm mature! But nothing is left." Ashen instantly slumped at the thought of Faye Ri.

  "Huh! One girl did this to you? As long as you haven't lost me, you've still got plenty of chances!"

  "So tell me, what can you do to help me? Help me become stronger?" That Gavin Ray spoke flashing back and forth through the watery environment, Ashen thought to himself this guy can create Secondary Worlds at the drop of a hat, if he helps himself then the road behind him is incredibly wide.

  "Become how strong? That depends on how determined you are, and it's two years that you agreed with someone today! What you do in two years is up to you!"

  Hearing Gavin Ray say that, Ashen was instantly energized.

  "OK! As long as you can help surpass Liam Frost and defeat him in two years time! You'll get a clean bill of health for absorbing my Data Equivalent!"

  Although Ashen had no Advantage in the Secondary World created by the other side , he was not soft in his tone because he thought the other side must have asked for it.

  "It's really grown, actually learning to do business and think! Oh but is that all you've got?"

  Gavin Ray clearly senses Ashen's thoughts and Scoff at's a smile.

  "There's no way we country folk can't be too greedy in business!"

  Ashen shrugged his shoulders, and said to himself, "I used to have the ideal of becoming King of Data , and this year of being pressed has resulted in really nothing left of my heart, humph! I'd like to see what you're capable of!

  "What's the skill? My skills have been evident for a long time now, ah, I absorbed and washed away all of your Low-Level Data and allowed them to redevelop without me" Gavin Ray paused in his voice.

  I wouldn't be so humiliated without you Ashen chanted in his mind, but didn't say so explicitly because he realized that Gavin Ray would surely still be talking.

  "Without me, you wouldn't be a Superpowered person at Basic Data much less a Data Alchemist!"