The Mutant System

Chapter 1

Pass the level.

"You are late!" A deep male's voice said as he puffs out smoke from his mouth.

Four huge teenagers could be seen on the rooftop surrounding a skinny boy.

The skinny boy fell on his knees as tears rolled down from his eyes as he began to plead.

"Please Draco" the boy pleaded while grabbing onto Draco's legs "When the teacher Kent found the jelly weed in my backpack, he punished me real bad, I had to go to the clinic."

The skinny boy is known as Ajax Hart. A 17 years old boy goes through hell every day of his life just because of his poor background.

His father ran away when his mother delivered his kid sister. Everything turned upside down for Ajax's family ever since that day.

His mother did a double job so she can gather enough money to buy Ajax's little sister a skill slot since you need to have at least a higher grade skill slot to survive in the current world.

Ajax didn't want the load on his mother's shoulder to be too much, so he decided to enroll in the Mutants Academy.

The Mutants Academy is a school where they help teenagers rank up their mutant skills and also train them on how to survive without a skill.

Ajax enrolled there in hopes of training and getting stronger and in the future, he'll use his power to provide for his family.

But Ajax's little dream was cut short when he arrived at the school and was being treated like trash and a slave.

He quickly realized he was only being delusional and you can never survive in this world without a good graded skill slot.

"First you didn't deliver the jelly weed and now you're showing up late with some stupid excuse!" Draco shouted as he swung out his fist aiming for Ajax's face.

Pah!

A loud slap was heard as Draco's fist connected to Ajax's cheeks.

Ajax fell on the floor with a red swollen cheek and blood trickling down his mouth.

"I promise it won't happen again" Ajax pleaded with fear written all over his face. But it all fell on deaf ears.

Pow! Pow! Pah! Pah!

Draco sent out a barrage of punches toward the helpless teenage boy, and Ajax couldn't do anything but take the hit.

"I don't pay you 20 tokens to disappoint me," Draco said as he wipes the blood off his fist with a wiper "Hope it doesn't happen next time" Draco added before he walked away with his remaining minions, leaving Ajax beaten on the floor.

'Curse this current government. Curse those mutants that shared their powers. Curse the day the mutants showed up on earth' Ajax cursed internally while laying on the floor.

The whole world changed after a reckless scientist known as Gilbert Manchester mistakenly creates a portal that led to another world.

Powerful creatures known as Mutants crawled in through the portal and began to wreak havoc on the human race.

The few good Mutants who didn't have any bad intentions towards the humans decided to share their power among them.

To harness the mutant's powers, they extracted the power from the mutants and did some work on it to create something called a skilled coin.

The Mutants wield different kinds of powers, fire, water, ice, air, lightning, telekinesis, transformation, and many more.

But it would be dangerous to bestow the raw power upon a human, so they created a skill coin and a skill slot.

The skill slot is like a belt that's tied around the waist with a hole in the middle and a switch.

Once the coin is inserted and the switch is flipped, the human will now have the power behind the coin whether water, fire, or the rest.

After the war was over, the government decided to create more of the skill coin and slot but is being sold at a high price.

And now those who aren't able to afford it are considered useless.

'Only if I can just get powerful enough to teach those people at the top a lesson' Ajax thought as he clenched his fist.

Now that the pain is starting to reduce, Ajax lifted his body off the floor and wipes the blood on his face with his sleeves.

'I guess I'm just going to continue that game, maybe truly there's a power behind it once you pass level 1' Ajax thought as he made his way down from the rooftop and inside the school building.

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Minutes later he arrived in front of a room with the signup front 'Mutant Game'.

Ajax pushed the door open and walked in.

Among the Mutants who remained on earth, one of them that's the strongest decided not to share his powers.

He was the strongest Mutant and he wields all the powers a Mutant could ever have.

But before he died, he created a metal doll that was not more than 4 feet tall.

He said anyone who could defeat the doll and get past level one will instantly receive his powers.

So for years everyone has been trying and trying but with no luck, it seems to predict all their moves and even if they manage to land a hit on it, the level won't change from one.

So they concluded it was all a lie and the Mutant was only messing with them.

But Ajax didn't give up, he still had hopes that there might be some sort of power behind the doll.

"Ok, let's try again today," Ajax said as he stood in front of the metallic doll.

The doll had a round big head with a little body and two thin legs. In the middle of the doll was a green button.

"You just wait and see what I have planned for you," Ajax said as he clenched his fist and made his fighting stance.

Ever since he got to the academy, Ajax has been coming down here to try and defeat the doll but he couldn't.

So with every defeat, Ajax will return to make calculations on why he lost.

"Level one activated" a robotic voice was heard.

Ajax wasted no time, he charged in and swung out his fist towards the doll's head.

Woosh!

The doll moved backwards and Ajax ended up punching the air.

Ajax leaped two feet in the air and swung out a kick heading towards the doll's body.

But this time the doll crossed its two arms to protect its chest.

'That's strange' Ajax thought.

During all the trials and attempts to defeat the doll, never for once has its hands moved to dodge any attack.

All it does is move around.

Ajax sent a weak punch towards the chest area again and the doll raised its arm to block it.

'Does that mean I'm close to completing it? If my theory is right then this should do the trick' Ajax thought as he swung out his fist again towards the doll's head.

The doll moved backward to dodge the attack, but it was too slow, for Ajax already sent a kick aiming for the button in the chest.

Bam!

A metallic sound was heard as Ajax's leg hits the button.

"Level one passed" the robotic voice was heard again.

'Wait, I did it' Ajax thought with a big smile on his face.

"Scanning winner of the level," the robotic voice said again as it began to scan Ajax from head to toe

"Scanning completed, powers will now be transferred to the winner"

After Ajax heard those last words, he fell on his knees as he began to feel dizzy and his vision was now becoming blurry.

"What's...ha..pe..ni.." Ajax finally passed out and when he did, a green window screen appeared in front of him.

[TRANSACTION COMPLETED]

[AJAX HART HAS NOW RECEIVED THE MUTANT SYSTEM].