Chapter 28 28 - Beginning Of Entrance Exam

Of course, Leo hadn't forgotten the pain he suffered when he transformed from an Awakened Bronze 1 Star to an Awakened Bronze 2 Star, mainly because he did it lying on the floor instead of lying on the bed. But this time, Leo was already lying in bed when the transformation process began.

The transition from an Awakened Bronze 2 Star to Bronze 3 Stars was less painful than what he had suffered the first time, but it still hurt a lot. The sensation of hot liquid like lava coursing through his body made Leo control himself not to cry out in pain. But after the transformation, Leo felt that the muscle aches he felt were much less than his first transformation.

'Maybe this is related to my use of Speed-Hack?' Leo wondered in surprise before taking a break and starting the transformation from Bronze 3 Stars to Bronze 4 Stars.

This time the pain was several times greater than the other times, as Leo was doing it while his muscles were still sore from the previous transformation. Leo couldn't even scream this time, but even if he did, he would control himself not to do so. After all, he had neighbors and that could cause him big problems. But despite the pain, Leo held on tight, and after a few minutes it finally went away.

Of course, the pain itself didn't stop, only the feeling of the liquid running through his body completely disappeared, leaving only the pain of muscle fatigue. Since he had already programmed his cell phone to wake up at the right time tomorrow, Leo finally fell asleep. With the fatigue of hunting all day, added to the fatigue of the two transformations, Leo had the best night's sleep of his life. If he could, Leo wanted to sleep for another 12 hours, but the noise of his cell phone alarm was getting louder and louder, completely preventing him from sleeping, mainly because Leo felt that today the cell phone was several times louder than its normal volume.

As he raised his hand to pick up his cell phone and turn off the alarm while his eyes were still closed, Leo accidentally bumped into the bedside table, and instead of feeling a little pain in his hand, Leo was startled by the sound of wood being dragged through the house floor.

Hearing the cell phone drop to the floor as it continued to sound, Leo opened his confused eyes and saw that he had pushed the bedside table away without much difficulty. While the transformation from an Awakened Bronze 1 Star to a Bronze 2 Star increased Leo's strength from 130kg to 180kg, this time Leo felt the change was even greater.

Maybe he even went from 180 kg to something around 300 to 500 kg. After all, the growth in strength of an Awakened was always a few times greater than the previous one, thus making the strength of an Awaken Bronze 5 Stars hundreds of pounds more powerful than an Awakened Bronze 4 Stars.

And the difference in strength between an Awaken Silver 1 Star and an Awaken Bronze 5 Stars was bigger than the difference between an Awaken Bronze 1 Star and a Bronze 5 Stars!

'Damn, I'll have to adapt to my new strength before class. Otherwise, it might give me some negative points in the entrance exams..' Leo thought frustrated.

As he didn't get enough sleep, some pains still lingered in his body when he moved, unlike the other time he woke up feeling really good.

'I would give anything to be able to sleep more now..' he sighed as he went to the bathroom to take a hot shower, hoping that this bath would ease his pain.

As he woke up a few hours earlier than usual, Leo took a bath in the tub, and while he was lying in the tub, Leo was holding some weights to adapt to his own strength. To make sure he didn't break his cell phone, Leo just dragged his finger across the screen to turn off the alarm clock and left the cell phone on the floor anyway. After all, if he touched the cell phone harder than he should, the cell phone would probably break and he would have to go buy another one before class.

Waking up earlier today was the best choice Leo made. In an hour of training he was finally able to adapt to his strength. Of course, that wasn't a perfect adaptation, but Leo was confident he at least wouldn't break anything he held. During the tests some knives might be broken or bent, but Leo didn't care.

What surprised Leo the most was that the ordinary knife he used when he was an Awakened Bronze 1 Star now could hardly cut his skin. Only if he used more force the knife could make a small cut, but as his skin looked like a very tough leather, the knife blade was deteriorating very fast during testing.

'Now these knives are useful only for cutting food.' Leo smiled fondly as he looked at the knives that were his first weapons for hunting monsters. He remembered the Bronze 1 Star cows he had hunted and the Bronze 2 Stars cow that left him desperate thinking he was going to die. Now he only saw those cows as cute animals, as he could kill those cows very easily.

The night before Leo hadn't given Vulpi's corpse to the old man, so before going to school Leo decided to take a test.

"My arrow couldn't penetrate Vulpi's skull mainly because of my weak Bronze 2 Star strength. Will the arrow penetrate now?" he wondered as he placed the monster's corpse on top of a tarp and walked to the other side of the room as he aimed the bow at Vulpi's head.

To be sure, Leo only used 50% of his strength initially, as he still had no idea how strong the arrow he would shoot would be.

Swoosh!

The arrow flew and went only slightly deeper than it had gone when he was Bronze 2 Stars. Leo took the arrow and aimed again, this time using only 70% of his strength.

Swoosh!

The arrow flew and this time pierced the Vulpi's skull lightly, surprising Leo. When he pulled out the arrow, he could even see that the arrow had opened a small hole in the bones and it was possible to see some gray matter from the head. After seeing this, Leo could guess that if he used 80% of his strength the arrow would probably completely penetrate the monster's head and destroy its brain. Of course, the arrow would be destroyed after that, but the monster would be dead.

After this test, Leo looked at the bow in his hand with satisfaction. Despite this bow being Bronze 3 Stars, Leo knew that the difference between this bow and a Bronze 4 Star one was very small, and while the old man sold it to him for $80,000, if Leo was going to buy a cheaper Bronze 4 Stars bow he would need at least $150,000 to $200,000.

'This bow will continue to be useful until Silver Rank..' Leo guessed as he smiled at the bow in his hand.

If other Awakened knew that Leo was planning on keeping this bow for just a few months they would probably die of rage. Weapons like this that were almost Bronze 4 Stars were weapons that many Awakened used for the rest of their lives. Even Awakened Bronze 5 Stars did use Bronze 4 Star weapons as their own weapons for decades. But meanwhile, Leo was considering a near-Bronze 4 Star weapon as an interim weapon for just a few months. Of course, Leo didn't know that other people would be mad at how he was acting, but even if he did, Leo wouldn't care what they thought.

After eating breakfast, Leo changed into the newest school uniform he had, did his hair, and headed to school. Today he was well prepared as he knew the Exam was going to happen.

Upon arriving at school, Leo didn't notice anything unusual. Students were talking at the entrance of the school; teachers were greeting other people while they came in with cups of coffee to stay more awake; everything was like a normal day. All this was so that the students wouldn't notify their friends who were missing to come to school after knowing that the entrance exam was going to happen that day. The students would only know this after class started and the school gate was closed.

p??d? n?ve? With so little time left until the end of the school year, virtually no one skipped class. Only a few troublemakers or spoiled students would do something like that. Unbeknownst to Leo, he was labeled by the teachers as one of those troublemakers who dared to skip school for several days in a row for no apparent reason.

Knowing that Leo had been labeled that way by the teachers, the students who didn't like Leo were overjoyed. Meanwhile, Leo was sitting in his seat in the classroom while ignoring the gaze of these people.

Now that he was an Awakened Bronze 4 Stars, if he was placed in a battle arena, Leo even had confidence in beating most teachers, as most of the teachers were Awakened Bronze 4 Stars and Bronze 5 Stars.

Only Silver teachers Leo didn't have the confidence to win, but the Silver teachers at the school were just Professor Edward and the school principal. And while the other teachers would be angry at how Leo was acting, they couldn't feel Leo's strength because the difference between them wasn't that big anymore. However, after Professor Edward passed Leo in the hallway he could still feel Leo's strength. Clearly, the difference in strength between them was still huge. This only further confirmed Leo's thesis that Silver Rank was a great threshold that would unlock many opportunities for Leo in the System.

Professor Edward's reaction was very big: he was quite shocked. The last time he saw Leo was the week before, and at that time Leo was still at Bronze Rank 2 Stars, and now a few days later Leo had already reached Bronze Rank 4 Stars?! This leveling speed was too high! In Edward's mind there were only two possibilities: either Leo had a monstrous talent that made him rise two Ranks in less than 7 days, or from the beginning he was hiding his own strength. And seeing as how Leo skipped class for the rest of the week and went back to school today for the entrance exam, Edward believed even more in the second alternative.

'He probably already has contact with the military, and with Bronze 4 Star force at 17 years old, his place at the Military University is guaranteed!' Edward was so excited to think that a student from his school would go to the Military University this year!

Soon the other students arrived and the gate closed. The entrance exam would finally start.

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