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Looking around the rest who had prepared just in case anything became calm everyone relaxing. Finally they felt at peace. Histone walked up to Ares who was sound asleep on the train floor and picked him up while staring at the innocent looking kid he turned round and shouted "Get the new ones into the implant lab." Everyone got back to their senses and started to usher the frightened looking kids out. The old student continued their training like nothing happened while the kids were led out, but one thing for sure that day would be imprinted in their brains. The kids led by a Rank A scientist while Hilstone followed them while holding the still asleep Ares in his hand his face did not show at all. They all walked into a lab with the name tag 'Lab 6'. The Rank A scientist swiped his card against the sensor and the door slid to the right opened. They all walked into the room which was filled with pods similar to the ones they just got out of. Each of them was led into one of the pods which had their names and test subject no. on the top. Finally the only one left was Ares which suprised as he raised a brow, almost immediately the PA system gave an announcement from the head scientist Cale "Hilstone please bring unique subject 0 to my lab now" going off as fast as it came on. Histone turned and carried Ares leading him to Prof. Cale's lab but on his way out he could feel the stares of two kids in the pod and when he turned to look, it was the subjects 'Ohiro' and 'Benjamin' "interesting" he thought to himself and proceeded to do as he was told.
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'Click, click, click' Hilstone's sounded as he briskly walked to Prof. Cale's lab immediately swiping his black unique card different from the other one his Rank S key card. The door opened as his name was announced to the in-built AI personally in Prof. Cale's lab "Hilstone Darings". "Oh you're finally here" Prof. Cale said without lifting his head from the microscope he was observing through . " Yes sir…. But we did encounter a few problems" Hilstone reported to his superior referring to the incident that occurred. " I saw" Cale said finally raising his head , writing something down then he turned to Hilstone who held the still sleeping Ares. "Follow me" he said as he stood up from the lab stool and moved to the other side of the room where the secret door was located as he pushed part of the wall to reveal a biometric scanner for fingerprint after which one opened and scanned his eyes
[IDENTITY VERIFIED]
[WELCOME BACK SIR CALE]
The inbuilt AI said as the wall started t warp, Cale wasted no time and passed through the wall shocking Hilstone to the core. 'S-Since when did such a thing get created' he thought to himself , but was broken out of his daze when Prof. Cale popped his head out of wall and asked " Are you coming or you're gonna stand there stupefied for eternity" he smirked as he entered Hilstone followed immediately. At the other side a room looked more advanced a pod at the end of the room two chambers at one side with a stone in one and the other empty the room looked unnatural for a scientist as it was filled mythical and mystical objects, objects that were categorised as cursed in the room. With all this spectacle and mystery only one word formed in his mind 'wow'. He had nothing to say, "Put him in the pod" Cale ordered and Hilstone followed suit by keeping the child in the black pod with a strange red lining after which he stepped back allowing the pod to close. The implantation was a very small and short exercise they did to skip the training stage of their subjects in basic things such as speech, standard and basic training moves and methods and finally a system to gauge or estimate their growth rate and strength . It also gave missions and calls straight from the officials and certain benefits for high rankers. It had other functions such as nerve connection and gauge an opponents. All these from a single chip, technology was truly amazing. He stepped back completing his thought and walked over to Prof. Cale's side. Cale looked intensely at his computer typing away speedily till he clicked 'enter' causing the machine to start up. Immediately Hilstone felt something seriously wrong as needles injected anesthetics into Ares before another set of injections clearly different from the first, injecting a black-red liquid into Ares, there was no reaction as red lines spread from his arms all the way to his head then it stopped. Tension filled the air as all of Ares' vitals froze
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