My Mastery of the Vampire System

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David thought the whole thing was ridiculous. It was quite clear to him that Jane already had all the information on him from his previous school. They knew that he never had an ability before, but the problem was that David was struggling with deciding what to do.

Before coming to military school, David had done a bit of research himself. He knew that the military gave all students who had no ability an ability book. Each ability book given was the same one—it was an Earth ability book.

The reason they did this was so students who didn’t have an ability before would suddenly feel indebted to the military. Not only that, but the military also had a hold on nearly all of the Earth-type ability books. This meant that if you ever wanted to be loyal to the military, and in return, they would give you more power.

Before David had discovered his own ability, he actually thought this was the best option for him. Even if he didn’t want to join the military after two years, the Earth ability was handy to have. It was easy for employment because the Earth's ability was useful in construction.

This was where the problem came in—David already had an ability, which meant he was unable to learn a new one. The ability book was practically useless. Not only that, but David was pretty sure they would keep tabs on every student they had given the ability book to, meaning the teachers would expect him to use Earth powers the next time they saw him.

David took a deep breath and said, "I don’t have the ability."

Just like before, the hooded man standing by Jane’s side handed her a book, and then she handed it to David.

David took the book from Jane at first, but then suddenly, a notification screen appeared.

Unable to learn this ability

Would you like to convert the book into 10 Exp?

David had somewhat expected the system to display the first message, but the second one truly surprised him. He was really tempted to take the book and use it as a form of Exp, but he knew there would be questions asked later on.

"I’m sorry, but I don’t want it," David said as he handed the book back to Jane.

The students watching, and the instructor stood there, both shocked. Jane hadn’t experienced anything like this before. In her five years working as an instructor, it was the first time someone with no ability had rejected the book.

"Please give me one moment." Jane then stepped away from the group of students, far enough so they wouldn’t be able to hear anything.

"Yes, yes, he says he doesn’t want the ability book. What shall I do?" Jane said, speaking into her earpiece.

"Let him take the test," the mysterious man on the phone said.

As the man hung up, he couldn’t help but think that David was an interesting student. He started to look at David’s file, and what he had said seemed to be true. The student had no ability and didn’t seem to have any relations with the group Pure.

"Let’s see how long you can survive in this cruel world, David," the man said.

Back at the testing field, Jane had finished the call with her superior and started to head back over to the group.

"Sorry for the wait," Jane said. "Since you won’t be taking the ability book, we will still require you to take the test, please."

David thought the whole thing was a joke. If David truly had no ability, then they already knew what the test results were going to be. Was there really a need for him to take the test? It felt like the only reason they wanted David to continue was to make him feel humiliated and small. Eventually, he would choose to go to the military and beg for the ability book they were handing out.

"Please follow me."

Jane then took David a little further out onto the field, where he noticed that there were huge craters in the ground, burn marks, and all sorts of things—evidence of the previous testing contestants.

"Please proceed to destroy the targets in front of you as quickly as you can," Jane said. "The test will begin immediately."

As soon as Jane finished talking, three targets popped up randomly around the wasteland. They were metal round targets with a red dot in the center.

The problem was that when David tried to look for the targets, everything seemed like a blur in the distance. David then realized that his perfect eyesight suddenly wasn’t so perfect.

"Is this because I’m out in the sunlight?" David thought.

David had no choice but to slowly run up to each of the targets and hit them with his fist one by one. His time was incredibly slow, of course.

There were then two further tests that David needed to complete. The next test was a strength test where David was asked to punch into a huge drum-like machine. He gave it his best shot and hit the drum as hard as he could. The drum vibrated and made a small sound, eventually displaying a digital number in the center.

"5, strength," Jane said as she noted it down on her tablet.

When the final test arrived, they brought out another machine. This machine was a big circular object with many holes on its front. Once the test started, the machine fired holographic spikes at the contestants. All David needed to do was avoid being hit by the spikes.

The machine went up in levels and eventually got faster and shot out more spikes. In the end, David managed to get hit, and the test was stopped.

"Agility, 5," Jane said once again as she noted it down on her tablet.

David heard the words from Jane’s mouth and started to think if there was some sort of link to the scores she had given him. The last test was a test of strength, and David had scored a 5, similar to his system, which had stated he had 5 strength. Then, once again, this test focused on agility, and he scored a 5, which was the same as his system.

This meant that if David were to take the test at night, all of his scores would have most likely doubled. This also meant that as long as he leveled up, he could always increase his score—it was as if his ability allowed him to evolve, but with some drawbacks.

"As expected," Jane said. "Unfortunately, your current power level is level 1."

David clenched his fist and went back to stand with the others. He knew that the days ahead of him as a level 1 user would be tough, but that wouldn’t be for much longer.