The Extraordinary Ordinary - Chapter 19 Irregularity

The one who was the third in Alice’s queue, Bryce, hesitated as he reached the moment of truth, he was getting stressed out now that he finally confronted his first real test.

He had also tried out the Awakening Pill on a gamble, just like Chrome did, and he was surprised to have heard a strange incomprehensible voice in reaction as he felt that there was something willing inside his body.

Unfortunately though, he couldn’t afford to pay for an assessment center’s fee to get his unknown ability appraised, so all he could think off was to join the examination since he was sure that he did receive something, and hope it’s a good ability and not just one of those ‘Nulls’.

Yet, now that he was in front of the machine that tested his Exos rating, he already started losing confidence, he did know that his Exos rating wasn’t that low, but he was also pretty sure that his Capacity rating was around 30 according to that last time he checked and his growth rate, which meant that he was bound to be a laughing stock if he got his ratings measured now
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However, Bryce also knew that he couldn’t just skip the test as he had to bear it even if it was just to get a chance of getting his ability tested at the very least.

“The other student is almost done with his test, get in already or just get lost and withdraw from the examination,” the one who was standing behind him, Krig, was already getting impatient as he hurried Bryce up.

Bryce’s stress only escalated more as Krig shook him from his shoulder, but he at least built up enough resolution to do or die anyway as he finally stepped into the capsule.

“Tsk, what a coward,” Krig added as he slightly grinned, actually looking forward to the possibility of Bryce having a big failure scene.

He was unlike Fred, who didn’t really care about bullying in general and only pestered Chrome and sometimes did so with Bryce due to him being Chrome’s friend, as he genuinely liked to bully the weak in general.

By this point, the other student had already come out, scoring an exact 50 point Capacity rating, as another student from Future High got in while Krig still waited for Bryce to get out.

“Finally.”

As the capsule finally opened, Bryce was still feeling stressed after going through the laser scanning and strange vacuums inside the capsule, he really didn’t want his values to get displayed on the black screen

However

“Is this capsule bugged or something?!” as the first one to glance at the result, Kring couldn’t stop himself from throwing that question out loud as he had a baffled expression on his face

“Wow, are these values for real?” Another student also thought there might be something wrong with his eyes as he checked more than once

For the values that appeared on the screen were

[ 99 l 8.08 ]

A 99 Exos Capacity Rating!

The whole crowd of students and teachers froze as they all stared at the numbers in disbelief, including the owner of these values, Bryce himself!

“Ah, first a ‘Physical Aspect’ Awakened and now an ‘Exos Generator’ Awakened, the batch of this year is quite interesting” Opening his eyes and standing to take a closer look of Bryce, the aged examiner mused as he broke the ice.

“He is an ‘Exos Generator’?!” Jack questioned with a dumbfounded expression, why were the other two schools sending one irregular after the other all of the sudden?!

He was already pretty satisfied with the fact that his school had 15 candidates who have managed to awaken their abilities, as he couldn’t help but act smugly after he saw that the other two schools could only have a higher count if they were combined together

Yet First, Crow’s group pulled out a magic card in the form of a ‘Physical Aspect Awakened, followed by Link’s group pulling out two top rating students and even an ‘Exos Generator’, these great results were pulled out from the smallest group at that!

He had managed to ignore Crow’s meddling that stopped him from showing off as he still believed that his group was still the best, but he wasn’t even sure of that now!

“What does an ‘Exos Generator’ mean?” Bryce, who still didn’t believe himself to this moment, couldn’t help but ask as he couldn’t find an explanation to how he managed to perform that well

He was prepared to hear laughs and insults when he came out from the capsule, but what he saw was nothing but surprised reactions and total silence, he really wanted to slap himself to check if it was a dream or not!

“Let me explain this simply, an ‘Exos Generator’ is the nickname to those whose awakened special abilities are actually Exos Capacity and Emission boosters, which is the only way to explain your Capacity rating which already reached the first threshold, and your insane Emission rate which is almost double the normal ones You did great Bryce, Congrats!” Link didn’t wait for the others to explain as he couldn’t hold his happiness and did so himself, he really felt too great today, Future High’s future was really bright!

The reason he felt especially elated was that he was bound to be rewarded for this, after all, he was the one who supported investing in the special class as a whole!

He wanted the school to act as the class’s patron and give every single student in the class one Awakening Pill, yet he was faced with blatant refusal

After all, everyone in the school’s staff knew that the students in the special class were a mix of students with good grades and those with high Exos ratings, simply giving everyone a chance would be simply an overreaction.

Of course, Link didn’t give up as he used all of his favors and resources to make it happen, he had one important task to fulfill and he wasn’t going to back away!

Nonetheless, his efforts that had other reasons had actually paid off in advance, with one student who normally wouldn’t have afforded the pill being an irregular Awakened!

Link was officially on cloud nine by now, but he still couldn’t let go of his anxiousness, after all, he was yet to see the vital result of the task that he promised to achieve

‘I really hope that he would perform well’