"I will first be taking a asure of your soul core's rank. Please restrain your willpower and do not resist this process, otherwise the results will not be accurate."
'Hmm?'
The woman spoke to him as soon as he entered, not wanting to waste any ti as there were still thousands of other students to get through.
As it turned out, testing the power of a person's soul core rank was actually easy to asure, and every awakened university had the ans to do so.
It was just an expensive process.
That was why Alex had never gone through this when he excited the Primordial Expanse, and was required to go through the legal procedures before he was allowed back into society.
The governnt just hadn't deed him worthy enough to use their more advanced equipnt to assess him, as he was just a lowly runt from the slums of one of the many mining colonies in the star system.
The more expensive and advanced testing equipnt was only affordable for those in the middle classes upwards to use.
But it was free for every student in Capital Pri, which just boasted their prestige and resources even further.
Shortly, the woman positioned an ominous looking device over Alex's head, encompassing his entire cranium with its many testing apparatuses.
"Please don't resist, you may feel uncomfortable at first, but the results need to be accurate in order to be valid."
She gave him a polite warning once again before she activated the device.
'Ugh, I feel nauseous!'
Imdiately Alex was hit with a weird feeling, like his brain was being prodded by a burst of energy.
The feeling was uncomfortable indeed, but it wasn't painful.
Alex just felt a little sick from the effects of the device, but the woman turned it off a few seconds later.
"All done! Your results will take a few seconds to compute, before they are available for you to view on your communicator."
'That's convenient.'
After a 10 second wait, a little longer than the woman predicted, just as she said his communicator pinged with a notification while the woman's own device received the sa notification.
"Wow… Looks like you're quite the strong one!"
She was speechless when she first read the report, with his rank unmistakably being D- rank!
"It seems this year will be quite interesting, I look forward to your performances in the Combat assessnts. With your rank alone you'll be able to make it into the top 10,000 on the first year rankings!" The woman's professional deanour subtly shifted into an energetic one as she read out Alex's results.
Though, Alex didn't have any reaction at all.
If he wanted to see his soul core's rank, he wouldn't ever go through this uncomfortable process again.
He'd just open his details…
"Next we have the talent assessnt. This one will be much less uncomfortable than the previous one. Unfortunately, the university doesn't afford you the option of privacy like the external assessnt centres do. But it is good for you to let your talent be known here anyway, as it increases your chances of a high ranking drastically."
Alex listened to the woman closely as this was the one assessnt he was really worried about.
The fact that the university didn't offer the option of privacy was what worried him the most, as that ant that his Soulforge talent would likely be discovered and reported to the university's higher ups.
He didn't want this to happen at all, as he'd just end up as so lab rat, or even worse as a slave to so high rank human for the rest of his life if they found out he had a thod of 'producing' Soul orbs.
"Excuse , but before this test begins, can you explain to how exactly my talents will be tested? The association assessnt centre I went to when I first ca back from the Primordial Expanse said that they can't test for them, they can only see activate my talent directly? That would be troubleso for as I have quite a destructive talent…"
He asked the woman in as careful and as curious a manner as he could muster. Alex really wanted to know if there was a chance of his Soulforge talent getting found out or not. If it was just like the previous talent assessnt he had, then he wouldn't need to worry.
But he had a bad feeling that the university would have so more advanced testing process that would uncover his talents whether he liked it or not…
"Sure thing, unlike those other testing centres, we have a much more simple way of doing things. This isn't common information until you co into contact with organisations like this university, but the system has contracts that govern an exchange between two parties. We call these Soul Contracts. These are what we use to record student's talents."
Alex was confused, 'Soul Contracts?' he thought.
'So there was such a thing?'
"Can you explain to what these Soul Contracts do?" He didn't feel good at all when he heard of such a thing.
Just the na alone seed ominous enough, and he could glean their use just from the ntion of the word 'Soul' in the na.
"Soul Contracts act just like our normal legal contracts in the federation, only they serve a much higher power and have much more dire consequences for breaking them. Both parties agree on the terms, and if either party breaks their side of the deal, their Soul will be dealt a varying degree of punishnt." The woman paused to see Alex's reaction.
And she was satisfied when she saw the shock on his face, and continued.
"And in this case due to the severity and secrecy of the information we wish to gain from you, the punishnt to both parties will be the complete obliteration of the soul. There is no coming back from that, and if you believe in an afterlife, well good luck getting there without a soul…"
"..."
'Fuck.'
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