Universal Power System

Bill sat in disbelief as he heard the events that took place after he was knocked away like a fly by the Terra Beetle King. The female patrolling officer told him about how Iris’ eyes began glowing blue and how she fought the Beetle King and was very close to killing it.

She explained how the Beetle King became berserk and how it made the regular Terra Beetles chase after her in a crazed state, and how she heroically fought them off by using a very strong skill that created a massive tidal wave.

“Iris used that tidal wave to escape unnoticed by the beasts to come and search for you and when she found you in the poor condition that you were in she pleaded to us to let her heal you and to not disqualify you.” The female officer explained.

“We allowed her to do so until the medic arrived on the scene and she quickly began healing you with all her might and will. She was extremely exhausted herself, but she still managed to evolve her healing ability while healing you which boosted your healing progress a lot but it still wasn’t enough, given your condition.” The female officer continued.

“The medic was almost here and we thought it was over but then suddenly, her healing aura turned white and it began to heal you at a rate that I haven’t seen before, and that was when the medic got concerned and shouted at us to stop her which we did, and well… you know the rest.” The female officer finished giving all the details of the events that took place after his collapse and then also proceeded to quickly get out of sight, leaving Bill alone in the dark forest.

Bill sat there in complete shock and disappointment as he kept reimagining Iris’ face as he opened his eyes before she herself collapsed in the patrolling officer’s arms.

“This was your way of repaying me for what happened last time,” Bill said with regret in his voice, barely able to control his tears from falling again. 𝒷ℯ𝒹𝓃𝓸𝓿ℯ𝓁.𝒸ℴ𝓶

“Why did you have to go so far!? You could have died saving a pathetic piece of crap like me all so that I wouldn’t get eliminated from the test. Why…? Why?! WHY!” Bill shouted out as his grief and guilt started to rapidly convert into pure anger.

“You sacrificed yourself so that I could help the group defeat those damn beasts! I will do exactly that! I will murder each and every last one of them from the face of this island!” Bill proclaimed angrily as he suddenly felt an insane rush of power and energy flow through his body and growing even more as became even and even angrier.

His eyes began to glow the same darkish green color again and Bill could feel his wind aura get a lot stronger than before.

After receiving such a big boost in power, Bill quickly stood back up on his feet and without wasting a single second, began rushing back to where the fighting was taking place at an insane speed which was a lot more than his usual max speed.

‘Iris… please be alive so I can thank you in person for the sacrifice that you made for me today and I hope I can repay the favor in the future. Even though it had only been a couple of days since we met, you have given me another example of what true friends are like, and I can only wish to reach your level of kindness and generosity,’ Bill prayed in his thoughts as he ran through the forest.

‘And don’t worry about the rest of us. I am going to make sure that these overgrown insects wish that they were never born!’ Bill also added a vow at the end of his prayer as he continued running and almost made it back to the battle.

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[At the military camp]

There was a military camp built on a small island situated right next to the main island where the test was being conducted and this was the base of operations for the patrolling officers.

There were several buildings built on the island. Some were living quarters built for the officers who would sleep here at the end of their shifts patrolling the island. There was a huge cafeteria, a main building for all the superior officers, and also the most important building on the entire island which was the teleporter room.

The teleporter was an expensive and sophisticated piece of machinery that was capable of instantly teleporting to and from the island to the military camp. This was the exact same machinery that the patrolling officers had been using to instantly appear anywhere on the island in order to save a cadet’s life and then bring any injured cadets back to the infirmary which was also another building in the military camp.

Right now there was a lot of commotion coming from the teleporter room as the medic had just teleported back to the military on his hoverboard which also carrying a female cadet. He controlled the hoverboard to rush out of the teleporter room and go to the infirmary as quickly as possible.

He didn’t stop for any officers that were passing by in the hallways, no matter their rank and rushed Iris to the infirmary while continuously trying to heal her with his own healing ability on top of the hoverboard which wasn’t having an effect on Iris at all.

The board quickly reached its destination and the medic yelled at the nurses to bring a stretcher so he could transport Iris to a treatment room and instructed one of the nurses to page his master, Malik Ahmed to come to the infirmary at once, telling her to add the words, “Code White” in the message.

The nurse nodded and quickly rushed off to a page Ace-Ranked commander Malik Ahmed at the request of the medic, Alpha-Ranked Lieutenant David Chen.

The other nurses helped the medic transport Iris to the treatment room, some joined in with the medic to heal Iris with their own healing abilities while others prepared IVs prepared with concentrated healing medicine to give to Iris in order to help improve her condition a bit.

Through their combined effort, they were able to somewhat stabilize Iris’ condition as she wasn’t crashing anymore; however, her condition wasn’t improving either.

It had only been a couple of minutes since they began treating Iris, but in this little time, a certain someone had already received a message and quickly teleported himself over the military camp at his disciples’ request.

He rushed over to the infirmary at such speeds that he kicked up a lot of dirt and created strong wind he rushed over to the infirmary and straight into the treatment room where several nurses and the medic were constantly healing Iris just to keep her in a stable state.

The man who the medic said was his master was a beautiful and tall brown-skinned man with a great muscular physique and a gorgeous face with a thin beard and medium-sized black hair that was styled simply but elegantly. He was wearing a simple white lab coat over his regular military uniform and had glassing dangling off his lab coat’s front pocket.

This was Ace-Ranked commander Malik Ahmed!

Commander Malik quickly assessed the situation and Iris’ condition. He was quite surprised when he heard about Code White being called from the camp that was responsible for watching the new recruits because it was insanely rare for a cadet to delve into and use the power of one’s own life force, but the Iris’ condition was evident of doing just that.

Iris had accidentally tapped into her life force when she was trying all that she could do to heal Bill and with having no experience or training in what she was doing, she didn’t stop healing Bill with her life force energy even though it was causing her excruciating amount of pain.

This caused her to lose a lot more of her life force energy than what was the absolute maximum limit for beginners which made her body unstable and on the verge of self-destructing.

Commander Malik quickly got to work and he instructed everyone to remove their hands from the patient before he himself began to heal Iris. His aura also started off as green but quickly turned white and began to seep into Iris’ body, which absorbed it hungrily as if it was deprived of it for years.

Finally, Iris’ skin regained some color and showed signs of improving as her body received more and more white aura from Commander Malik. Her body regained some muscle and didn’t resemble a corpse anymore and soon Commander Malik was done with the procedure and he himself looked slightly weakened.

“She is going to be alright now. She just needs to rest and allow her body to recover the mana she had expended. Once she has recovered enough, she will wake up. Admit her to one of the recovery rooms and keep an eye on her. Once she wakes, notify me at once. I would like to have a word with her.” The Commander ordered.