Highschool
Highschool
That was because he had wanted to practice the Heaven's Hell technique as early as possible before reading some more.
After everything was finished, he would eat breakfast and go to school for his first day.
With his soul energy reaching 6.5 units, Jason was satisfied as it was increasing rapidly with each passing day.
Greg had already told him about Vanguard´s affiliated school's average strength some time ago, but rather than blindly trusting him, Jason decided to do his own research in the morning.
This was only possible because Jason had received permission to browse through the school website the same morning where he could access the student's basic profiles.
Each student could visit the school website and set their profile to private causing their Mana core rank, age, and so on to be hidden, but Jason would be able to see, at least, the average strength of some of his future classmates and seniors.
After looking at the profiles of his future classmates, Jason began to frown deeply.
Each of Vanguard´s six affiliated schools accepted more than 15,000 students each year while the Vanguard school accepted at least 10,000 students.
This meant the Vanguard school with all of its branches accepted 100,000 students which astonished Jason a lot.
But after thinking for a while, Jason understood that each of Cyro's schools accepted only the best students residing at Astrix island except the ones who got accepted because of nobility rights or through other back doors.
Astrix's population averaged to around 300 million humans and for the past few years, the population growth rate had been high due to the birth of around 10 million babies each year.
Considering the fact that most of them were born into poor families, their access to quality education was limited and they couldn't gain decent resources to rank up their mana core or at least contract a good soulbond.
These poor youths could be deducted from the 10 million due to their low chance of entering one of the big three schools in Cyro-City or their affiliated schools.
There were always exceptions who fought hard to change their designated fate and demonstrated incredible results in their exams or awakened a unique soul with 3 stars or more.
While there were many poor people out there, this was not everything as many youths could be raised with high-quality resources in order to establish an extremely high qualitative foundation.
Jason was one of the lucky ones who had enrolled into one of the six affiliated schools through a back door but it looked like he wasn't the only one.
There were a few who looked like they didn´t meet the requirement even if Jason couldn't see their soul-awakening.
It looked like they had received a scholarship either because of their soul-awakening or due to a noble who decided to support these kids due to whatever possible reason.
Some nobles were known to take in innocent children with great soul-awakenings to nurture them and turn them into their lifelong slaves with a soul contract.
A soul contract was a tricky subject within society.
Once a soul contract was formed one couldn't break it.
If one were to break a soul contract, his/her soul would immediately shatter and one would lose the soul world, soulbonds, and each benefit from it.
All that would be left later would be a mana core, without the ability to use affinities ever again.
It would be fortunate if one was able to defeat a beast at the same rank as them because the gap between the strength of a beast and a human increased once higher ranks were reached.
Only soulbonds could partially shorten these gaps.
With the amplification received from soulbonds and the shared affinity, mankind was barely able to fight these beasts head-on.
Only due to the soul-awakening and soulbonds, humanity could have survived their race's near annihilation more than 300 years ago.
Nevertheless, Jason was still lamenting…
These back door students had stronger cultivation than him, even though the gap between their ranks wasn't too huge.
He continued to look through the profiles, trying to find someone at par with his combat power.
After skimming through a few hundred or maybe over thousand profiles, Jason concluded that the average strength was at the 4th or 5th Adept- rank which was the Intermediate-stage for the Adept rank, without anyone weaker than him.
There were still many Adepts at the beginner stage, but somehow they were admitted into the 6th affiliated school which was underlined in bold by the school forum.
The Adept rank was divided into various levels and corresponding stages. 1st to 3rd level was the beginner stage, 4th to 6th the Intermediate stage, and 7th to 9th the advanced stage. It would continue for the following ranks like Beginner Expert, Intermediate Expert, and so on, while the smaller hurdles were called 1st Expert rank, 2nd Expert rank, and so on.
While most students were at the Intermediate-Adept rank, Jason was still at the 5th-Novice rank, even if he was very close to the 6th Novice rank.
This gap was extremely big and Jason wondered if someone would try to bully him because of that.
He was determined to endure it for the time being, because he was sure that there was no way for him to beat Intermediate-Adept ranks with the addition of their soulbonds' shared strength.
This frustrated him and Jason pondered if he should use the Holy white baruci fruit for himself or not, which he disregarded after some thought.
Looking at the clock, he noticed that it was already 6:30 am and Jason jumped out of the bed to do a wake-up workout for 20 minutes.
After that, Jason went into the bathroom to take a shower before he changed into his new prescribed school uniform which consisted of a white shirt, a dark blue blazer, a black tie, and dark blue trousers.
The dark blue blazer was outlined with black color and one could see a golden brocaded open book, representing the Vanguard symbol, embedded on the right side of his chest.
There were small letters and weapons floating above the book, symbolizing the power of knowledge and its equality to strength. However, the thought didn't sit well with most of the schools and people who criticized it.
Even though it was the Vanguard school´s motto, Jason was sure that most students didn't really care about it, as learning theoretical things were not something many would want to do in their free time. They would instead prefer to absorb mana, hone martial art skills, or do other more important things in the same amount of free time.
Jason wore the perfectly fitting uniform and it was hardly possible to say that he looked hideous, rather he looked incredibly handsome right now.
His black hair had grown a bit longer and he wanted to trim them on the sides while his hair in the front were already falling on his eyes.
But his golden eyes couldn't really be covered as they shone through the thin black veil of his hair.
In the end, Jason received his haircut from Gabriella who liked to do it for the rest of her family members as well.
Because Gabriella did it, instead of Jason himself, he received a decent haircut and he didn't have to worry about his disheveled look anymore.
As he looked into the mirror, Jason himself didn't know what to say and Gabriella shrieked like a little girl upon seeing Jason.
Mark and Greg were looking at him weirdly while Malia scanned Jason from head to toe thinking in her mind
`Hehe...Finally, I have a handsome brother….Am I allowed to boast about his looks? Kekeke`
Over the last week, Malia had accepted Jason as her family member or rather as her brother.
She completely threw away her fluttering heart, at the chance of getting such a cute and handsome brother.
She found him handsome and all that... But he was too young for her and after making up her mind, she noticed that the incidents that had occurred in the past had obviously been too embarrassing and Jason hadn't done it on purpose.
Malia convinced herself that she would have had a similar reaction like that to any other stranger in place of Jason and decided to omit the possibility of harboring any feelings for Jason completely.
But it was easier said than done, as Jason was not only hardworking but also extremely handsome and smart.
He was younger than her and she would at most have the same feelings for him as she had for her brother, at least, that was what she told herself.
After eating breakfast, everyone went their separate ways While Greg and Malia went to the central district to the Vanguard school, Jason took the path that led to the 6th affiliated school which was also seen as the weakest.
Even the affiliated schools were classified from best to substandard because there was a way to enter the main school while attending the affiliated schools.
Everyone tried to get into the main school because of various reasons like the yearly tournament among the big three schools which awarded the top 100 performers with specific treasures.
But that wasn't all, the instructors of the affiliated schools were definitely good, but still a whole level below the ones of the main school, and the whole teaching system was also designed differently.
At least, that was what Jason had heard and some even called it "The difference between heaven and earth" which Jason found quite amusing.
But he didn't care about that at all, as the resources in terms of techniques he would receive in addition to knowledge were what Jason really aimed for.
Additionally, he was already fond of attending the worst affiliated school, because it was probably a million times better than the best C-grade high schools and probably even some B-grade high schools.
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