Universal Power System

"Huh?!" Mako and Alexi exclaimed at the same time.

"Just the two of us? What about the rest?" Mako asked Magnus.

Magnus just gave a guilty nod as he expected this kind of reaction from his students after they found how low they were in numbers.

"Honestly, I was expecting to at least take 10 or 15 students, but I guess I made my first impression on them a bit too hard. Most didn't even come near the hall... and the ones who did either chickened out after I presented them the two options or utterly failed for being too overconfident." Magnus explained.

"You too were the only ones who were able to impress me and now I only have two students to teach," Magnus added.

Mako was a bit taken aback by Magnus' explanation. There were many strong kids in the advanced class including Alexi. He couldn't really fathom that he and Alexi were the only two who had the courage to speak with him after witnessing his teaching style in the morning.

Similar to Mako's class, the other classes of the advanced class also had a similar experience in their power weapons class, with some of them not having anyone to create order within the class like Mako did resulting in greater injuries and a worse experience.

Many of the students didn't like Magnus's guts from the start which was why even though they would have been strong enough to enter the special power weapons class, they just stared completely away from him.

"Alright listen up you two, Since you are the only ones in my class, it would be a waste to hold a proper class with just two students," Magnus said.

"So what are we supposed to do about it?" Alexi immediately cut Magnus off.

Magnus was visibly annoyed by the rude interruption but continued as normal for now as he began explaining their schedule.

"As I was saying... Since you are only two students and I have a lack of things to do around here, you can come to the weapons hall at any time you want after school." Magnus explained.

Alexi and Mako were once again surprised by Magnus' statement. The military school was all about punctuality and discipline and here their teacher was giving them free reign to choose their own schedule.

"Hell Yeah!" Alexi exclaimed as he finally showed some joy after hearing the good news while Mako was still a little confused.

"It is mandatory for all students who are part of a special class to attend 4 sessions every week. You can come to the weapons hall at any time for your lessons and don't worry I'll always be here, and if you can come here outside of lessons and keep me company, that's fine by me as well." Magnus finished explaining.

Alexi was happy with that explanation and proceeded to leave Magnus' office soon after, stating that his business here was over and that he had more important things to take care of.

Mako didn't wish to know nor did he care about whatever Alexi had going on and paid no attention to him as he left. The thing he was stuck on was the fact that Magnus told them that he would always be here and that they could come and give him some company.

What did he mean by that?

"Uh, sir? Please forgive me if I am crossing the line, but why did you say that we could come and keep you company? I'm sure many strong teachers in the school would be great company for you," Mako said as this was the only thing that made sense in Mako's mind.

Magnus lightly giggled after he heard Mako's innocent comment.

"Mako, do you not know who I am?" Magnus questioned with a hint of curiosity.

Mako was a bit uneasy after Magnus asked him the question because he really had no idea who Magnus was and he didn't want to insult him by not knowing him if he was some kind of war hero that demanded respect and recognition.

"I'm very sorry, sir... but I don't know who you are," Mako said slowly, anxious and slightly afraid to see what kind of reaction Magnus would have.

"Ah... I see... *sigh*... Well, that's probably for the better." Magnus stated.

Although Mako was glad that he hadn't offended his new teacher, he was now more curious than anything as he wanted to know who his teacher really was.

"Please, sir, if it's not too much trouble, I'm genuinely curious about you. You must have quite the story to be so well-known," Mako spoke with utmost respect, eager to uncover more about Magnus.

"Hmm? Do you really wish to know?" Magnus asked.

"Yes of course, a person so much power as you and is well known must have accomplished great feats to reach that level of fame." Mako praised Magnus.

"Ha Ha Ha!" Magnus began to crackle up and laugh at Mako's statement, but the laughter wasn't filled with arrogance or pride, but rather it was tinged with despair and regret.

"It is quite the opposite young man, you see... I am known as the "prideful disgrace of the military"," Magnus stated.

"A... A disgrace?" Mako stuttered with shock as he wasn't expecting such a title for someone as strong and amazing as Magnus.

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"Indeed... Two years ago, I was a second in command of an entire fleet of military ships that were traveling to the far ends of the galaxy to face a new threat or whatever. I was a rising superstar within the military, the fastest person to reach the rank of general in history." Magnus began to narrate.

"Many people thought that my progression wouldn't end and I would go on to become a great commander and I thought so too. However, my judgment day came and I was not prepared."

"Halfway through our travel, we received an urgent distress signal from a nearby solar system where we had established a colony, requesting immediate backup because the natives of the planet had broken the terms of the treaty and had united together to kill all the human settlers."

"I immediately wanted to delay our current mission and help out our brothers who were trapped on that planet and were being slaughtered by the minute, but... the commander of the fleet stopped me from taking action, saying that our mission was just as important and that other reinforcements would arrive there in a day or so,"

"I couldn't believe what my commander had just said to me. I couldn't abandon my fellow brothers and leave them to die and so I decided to go against the commander. I along with a handful of my trusted men, all snuck out of the fleet using a camouflaging ship and headed to the planet."

"The planet that we were going to wasn't as technologically advanced as us and so I thought that the human settlers were just being overwhelmed by the sheer number of the enemy as how could 1 colony stand up against the population of the entire planet? I thought that I could quickly resolve the issue and make it back on the fleet before anyone would even notice, but that decision ended up costing me everything."

"When we landed on the planet, the only way I could describe the state of the planet was absolute and utter chaos. We landed in HQ and the leader of the human colony gave the details of what had happened. The natives of the planet had somehow gotten their hands on class 5 weapons and a lot of them."

"Those weapons could instantly kill any human who was at the ALPHA rank or below, and those natives were committing mass genocide to eradicate every single human with those weapons. All teleporters and ships were sabotaged meaning there was no way out, they all had to stand and fight."

"Me and my men decided that we would take the fight to them and try and talk things out with their leaders before there was more bloodshed, but it turned out that their leaders had expected someone to come and talk to them so that the fighting would stop and had laid a trap for us,"

"The trap was some kind of kinetic polyelectric barrier that entrapped a person and restricted them from using abilities. While I was speaking with the leaders, trying to make them come to an agreement, they suddenly activated the trap and captured me and all of my men."

"The leaders then gave me a choice, either I swore my fealty to them and helped them in the fight against the humans or I could watch all of my men die in front of me..."

There was a slight pause in Magnus' story and Mako could see the anger and pain in his eyes.

"I watched... every last one of my men that were like brothers to me, die right in front of my eyes while I was helpless to do anything. They left me to die last so that I could witness every single death, but what those creatures didn't know was that humans are very emotional beings, we crack through our limits when we are at our lowest point and I... had never been lower."

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