Primordial Expanse: I have the Strongest Talent! - Chapter 48

Chapter 48: Strength Test
The more Alex thought about it, it seemed like a decent idea.

There wasn’t much risk in him telling them about his flame talent. It basically just gave him a free affinity, along with the ability to crudely wield the element.

Since they were going to test for any affinities anyway, it wasn’t a big deal for him to reveal where that affinity came from.

Not to mention that his talent wasn’t really a big secret anyway, Rowan had already seen it in the Primordial Expanse, and he had already escaped back to the Federation when the city was overrun.

He had no doubt that other people on the battlefield at the time also noticed the bright flames, and it wasn’t hard to find out he was the source.

Who knew if there were some outsiders in the mix who also escaped back to the federation and reported on what they saw?

Since the federation probably already knew about an awakened called ‘Alex’ who has an elemental talent, he might as well get some rewards out of it.

‘I’ll think more on this later when it comes down to it.’

Alex parted ways with the girl and the man guiding them when he reached the reception area.

***

After filling out some forms at the front desk, Alex was told to go to ‘testing room 12’.

But with how massive the building was, it took him over half an hour of confusing directions to get there.

However when he arrived, he was greeted with a sight of dozens of different types of machines.

Apart from him, there were two other people in the room.

Another, more mature man who was probably in his mid twenties, sweating bullets trying to keep up with the reaction testing machine he was using.

Other than him there was a slender woman with golden blonde hair wearing a tight fitting tracksuit, standing behind the machine the man was using with a tablet in her hands.

When Alex walked into the room, she noticed his presence immediately.

“Your test is over, you can go and check your results on the ranking board when you’ve cleaned yourself up.”

The woman spoke to the twenty something man before she shifted her attention to Alex, whom she was already walking towards.

“I am Distinguished Kyla. You must be Alex. I am assigned to watch over your fitness test, I’ll watch over you and test your parameters up to a point where I think you can’t go any higher. Understand?”

Alex nodded, he understood.

“First we’ll test your strength, head over to the punching machine.”

Alex just stood there.

He didn’t know what the punching machine looked like.

Seeing this, Kyla looked confused at first, then just pointed to a machine with a black, padded cushion centred around a bunch of testing apparatuses.

“Just punch the padded area as hard as you can. Do this five times and the average across all tries will be your result.”

‘This simple?’

Alex was surprised the testing of Awakened was so easy and straightforward.

He was half expecting to be hooked up to some machines and have some scientists and doctors check his body or whatever.

But it seemed real life wasn’t like the novels he had read.

Doing just as Kyla instructed, Alex readied himself in front of the machine, took a few deep breaths and stretched his arm back.

Aiming for the centre of the black pad, he thrust his arm forward with all his force!

BANG!

The pad dipped inwards momentarily, before a mechanism was activated and it returned to normal shortly after.

‘That felt good!’

This was the first time since he had awakened that Alex got to test his full strength on something that could handle it.

The feeling felt very refreshing!

He turned to look at Kyla on the side and was surprised to see that her expression had changed for the first time since he had entered the room.

It was a mixed look of surprise and seriousness.

‘They finally sent someone talented to my room!’

Her thoughts revealed her true emotions, and she was eager to see how far this new kid could take it.

Waking up from her shock, she looked at Alex and spoke:

“Continue.”

She tried to make herself sound calm but she failed to hide her curiosity.

Just as she asked, Alex performed the same action of punching with all he had four more times, feeling just as refreshed and free each time.

When it came to the final punch, a ding sounded out from Kyla’s tablet and Alex stopped his movements, waiting to hear his results.

“What’s your name kid?”

Instead of the expected numbers and explanations, something much different came from Kyla.

“Huh? It’s Alex.”

He responded, confused.

“I already know that, but what’s your surname?”

Kyla continued, as if this question was more important to her than his results from the test were.

“I don’t have one, just Alex is my name.”

This time it was Kyla’s turn to be shocked.

‘No surname?? Is this kid not from a prominent family?’

The more she heard about Alex, the more she was interested.

If he were from a family renowned for their strong awakened, then these results should be expected.

But the fact that he had no family name at all was even more impressive to her.

It meant he had gained his power through his own hard work and luck.

“Have you thought about joining the Federation?”

She asked Alex as soon as she heard he had no affiliations.

“I haven’t thought about joining an organisation yet, can you tell me my results already?”

Alex was starting to get annoyed with the constant question after question. He was here to test himself and register as an awakened so he can finally decide what to do with his life, not for an interview.

Cough

Realising she still hadn’t told him his results yet, Kyla’s cheeks went slightly red.

‘How could I forget…’

“Ahem, on average you scored 1485 kg, with a highest score of 1552 and a lowest of 1399. This puts you on par with a weak E+ rank Evolver or a strong E rank.”