Leveling Up With My Dragon System

With Kai being the only person bearing a dragon node on prime earth and the academy, his life was slowly beginning to change with his secret out in the open. Eyes peered at him from every angle wherever he went some were envious some admirable. He was the new center of attention for the academy.

His relationship with Rerna had also flourished causing a mixed stir of reactions between the recruits. He was no longer the weak Kai they had all witnessed during the entrance into the academy. Kai had slowly improved making him just like an elite member of the society now.

"Hey! Hey!!" Frode shook Kai rigorously bringing him back from his thoughts. "For a minute there I thought we lost you." Frode joked.

"No, I'm just thinking about my sister, it's been a long time since we visited." Kai's voice came out low and focused.

"Oh!" Frode muttered. They were headed for the arena for an impromptu meeting with Colonel Skai. "Wonder what the Colonel will have to say today."

They soon arrived at the entrance to the arena building where they met Annika and Ingrid. "Thought this was supposed to be a team meeting, where's Erik?" Annika dumped the question on the boys.

Both Kai and Frode looked at each other, exchanging glances before Kai replied. "He left early, said he had something to prepare for."

The arena was packed with recruits as Kai and his teammates walked in and an uproar erupted from the crowd cheering Kai and his team. Kai noticed Rerna seated with her team as he waved at her.

"Over there." Ingrid's voice broke the silence among the team. She had located Erik amongst the crowd. The team joined Erik as they all waited for the Colonel to come in and begin.

The ranking board slowly descended from the ceiling, flickering to life. It displayed the new rank of the teams placing Kai's team amongst the top ten followed by individual rankings with Kai coming out among the top ten. The arena began to grow with silent whispers from the recruits.

Sergeant Valkyrie walked in accompanied by Professor Dastain, as they both made their way to the center stage. "The Colonel is unavailable right now but he will be joining us later through transmission." Sergeant Valkyrie announced bringing relief to the tensed recruits. "Let's begin."

"You've all seen the ranking board. And so far you've all been performing outstandingly, but we have to move on to the next stages of your training. You'll all be going through the power assessment chamber again but this time with different new features to assess your new power rankings before the next phase begins." The professor announced.

Kai felt a tingling knock in his stomach followed by tension 'What if my rank comes too high or worse I remain gray?' he thought.

"At the end of the exercise, the top fifty recruits will be proceeding to the next phase while the remaining minor will be sent off to do basic service to the community." The Colonels harsh voice came coldly from the speakers sending chills down the spine of the recruits. "Let the exercise begin."

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The recruits were separated into five groups as they lined up in wait to use the new power assessment chamber.

Ake Randi, brother of Annika was the first to step out from the assessment chamber. He was now the top recruit, finishing as a yellow ranked at level twenty. The joy was written all over his face displaying a wide grin. "Next." Sergeant Valkyrie called out to the next recruit.

The line slowly reduced as more recruits passed the assessment with the ranking board changing each time a recruit came out of the assessment. Ake still maintained his position as the top recruit with no one contending against him.

Rerna was the first among the friends to move into the assessment chamber. "Please move to the center of the room." Sergeant Valkyrie's voice came from the speakers while Rerna made her way to the center of the room. "The first exercise is target precision assessment, try to hit as many targets as possible and as quickly as you can." Sergeant Valkyrie called out the instructions before hitting the red button that indicated go.

Rerna quickly took a battle stance, observing the room as she waited in anticipation for the targets. The first target emerged from the floor of the room, it was a holographic flying object that looked like a drone but it had the shape of a bird.

BAM! The first rock from Rerna's fist came crashing into the flying destroying it into many pieces. Rerna was fluid with her movements as she moved with grace and precision in every attack.

"She knows how to make you want to love another node." Frode complimented from where he watched.

"Watch out!" One of the recruits voiced out as the holographic object came in contact with Rerna landing a hit before she could destroy it. Rerna's breath came measured and calm as she hit the last object sending it flying across the room.

"Congratulations, exercise completed." Sergeant Valkyrie said. "Total targets hit - twenty. Total hits sustained - four. Total time - four minutes twenty-seven seconds. Now move on to the next exercise, speed."

Rerna watched as the floor of the room began to move rapidly as she tried to keep up with the pace but just like every other earth node bearer, the weight of her powers slowed her down making it hard to perform well for the exercise. Rerna let out a heavy sigh of relief as the speed exercise came to an end with her performance being poor.

"Speed, 65 out of a hundred." Sergeant Valkyrie announced.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

The strength assessment was the next exercise Rerna was to undergo. Just like her node, earth node bearers were probably the strongest when it came to strength and Rerna was not ready to underperform in the strength assessment.

Rerna walked with pride as she moved to the object that lay at the center of the room. It was a barrel that had an indicator on its body of 50kg. The weight was just easily comparable to a chair for Rerna as she lifted it easily without stress.

"Increasing the weight of the object to 100kg." Rerna just nodded to Sergeant Valkyrie's instructions as she stood tall still holding up the object. "150kg, 200kg, 250kg, 300kg." The weight of the object began to weigh on Rerna as she dropped it down, creating a loud bang in the room.

"Strength assessment complete, strength, 83 out of a hundred." Rerna grinned from ear to ear as she heard her score. "You did out-perform yourself there Miss Ivar." Professor Dastain complimented her resilience during the assessment.

"The next assessment is agility and reflex assessment. You are to try as much as possible to hold off an attack against you for the next ten minutes. Please note that any skills are permitted for this assessment so do your best and try not to die." Sergeant Valkyrie's instructions came as cold as her voice.

"Are you ready?" Rerna simply nodded as the room light slowly dimmed with the room letting out a humming sound.

The timer began to count down, and with every second that passed Rerna waited in anticipation as she used her earth magnet skill to become part of the ground. The first target emerged from the poorly lit room, possessing the large body of a monster gormorker. Rerna quickly adjusted, taking a battle stance. The monster was quick, arriving in front of Rerna within split seconds as it landed a blow on her, sending her to the cold floor.

"Whoa!" The crowd of recruits watching her exclaimed as tension began to build up in the room.

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Rerna quickly got up on her feet, she was ready this time for anything. The monster attempted to make another blow but Rerna dodged, tilting to the side of the monster. She quickly used her earth fist to harden the punch as she landed her first hit on the monster. The punch was packed as it sent the monster flying across the room.

The assessment had only just begun as another monster emerged from behind her holding her in place. The first monster had already gotten up as it moved with speed to hit Rerna again.

Rerna quickly anticipated the attack as she wiggled her way out of the monster's grip. She used a rock pedestal to lift herself from the ground as the two monsters came crashing into each other with a loud thud.

"Impressive."

Rerna was now in the game as she didn't wait anymore before launching her next attack. She landed just in front of the gormorkers as she coated her hands into an earth fist again throwing a punch at the gormorkers as they tried to get up on their feet. Within seconds both gormorkers were knocked out cold by the earth node bearer.

"What a performance." The crowd applauded her but there was still enough time left and more monsters were bound to come out from the shadows.