"Who doesn't want extra money? It's not like we can use the serum anyway." Asfa reluctantly replied.

Steve : Hahaha, told ya already. You need to read more. I wouldn't mind buying some serums from you, but I need to look at every serum you have. Some of them might benefit us. Anyway, leave me your account number, and here is my contact number.

Asfa left the laboratory since he only got an hour left before class started to practice at the gym. He met some of his students practicing there, while Lawrence was so excited to meet him there.

When they were sparring, Asfa failed to control some of his punches, yet Lawrence had no problem tanking it without getting hurt. Asfa learned that Lawrence is definitely an enhanced human with physical ability.

He left the gym and went to his class half an hour earlier. After unlocking the door, he discovered that Olivia had been waiting at the end of the pathway.

Olivia : Good morning, Sir! Thank you for bringing me to the garden yesterday.

Asfa : Morning. Glad that you like the place, you should explore the college more.

He left her there to turn on the hall's facilities.

For PE class today, he has to teach them about self-defense which will eventually lead them to learn martial arts. The thing is there will be a test to measure students' martial art proficiency, but the college hasn't told them how it will be done.

Awhile later, the students start coming and Asfa starts taking their attendance with his phone. Asfa hates doing it since he has never been a phone person. While waiting for them, he checks for any important notification through his phone.

Due to how small Asfa's circle is, he rarely gets any messages from someone else except his family. His parents rarely contact him on the weekdays so he always calls them on weekends. He was checking his account balance and suddenly he saw a lot of zeros on his screen.

'10 000 000'

Someone just transferred him 10 million credits!

He checked his inbox to see there was a message from the old man a few minutes before the transaction happened. "I will buy a few serum bottles for my research for 10 million. Don't worry, it is an untraceable transaction."

Asfa was stunned for a while, he doesn't how to react. He thought he was mentally prepared for this, but it was so different from what he imagined before. He wasn't so sure if the money is real or not, so he tried to pay his loans with it.

"Woooooooooowwwww!", Asfa shouted in front of the class and the students looked at him weirdly. The loans he took were supposed to last for more than decades, but now they are gone.

He lectured them for 2 hours with the help of the smartboard in front of the hall. Every student could Asfa smiled for the whole 2 hours. During the lecture, he has been thinking about what he should do with the money, and he decided to continue working here since he signed the contract for 2 years.

Before the martial arts class started, he tells the students to find a suitable sparring partner so that they can execute moves that he will be showing later. He will be practicing with a human dummy since the college won't allow instructors to spar or practice with the students.

He thought them a lot of defensive maneuvers which are safer to practice among them. There were only 12 pairs so Asfa had an easier time guiding them properly. Some of the students got hurt, but it was just a scratch due to failing to land properly from being thrown. After an hour, the class is over and students start leaving since they got tired from practicing.

Surprisingly, Olivia left early too. He seated on his chair there to think about what should he do next with the money. Asfa decided to buy a place to stay in the Capital but he still need to check the price of the properties here.

Meanwhile. somewhere in the Capital.

"Are you sure the serums are gone? Did they betray us?". A man with multiple scars on his face looks at the people in front of him. Roy Lambert is the current leader of the bandit across the country, and they have been prospering well under his leadership.

"We went to the quarry and checked twice, but there was nothing there. We searched the surrounding area and found traces of people fighting, but it was cleaned up by the rain. We are now looking at the surveillance cameras outside the forest entrance to find any suspect."

Asfa was just done with his lunch in his office. There will be a meeting for instructors this evening. He guessed that the meeting would be about students' fitness tomorrow.

(Kid, come to the laboratory now! I need your help)

Asfa ran from his personal office to the laboratory. When he arrived at the laboratory, the place was so messy and disorganised.

"Where are you old man? How do you turn this place into this in 3 hours ??" Asfa had to scream since he wasn't so sure where the old man is.

(That's why I need an assistant! Help me to clean this place)

Asfa simply waves both of his hands, and all those things on the ground start floating. He then puts them back to where they belong.

Steve looks shocked, and slowly approaches Asfa, "Wow, kid! Didn't know you could do this smoothly. But you are still weak tho."

After 10 minutes, the laboratory looks like it was in the morning, clean and organised.

"I told you already, old man. It's not even half a year since I got my ability. I tried so hard okay without any support!"

Steve : Ay ay, chill. I believe you have been sparring with Lawrence in the morning, right? It's kind of dumb why you are so obsessed with physical training when your ability is not a physical enhancement.

Asfa : Urgh, you think I don't realise that. There was zero guidance out there to use, yet I still made it to live to these days. I have been doing my best ever since I got enhanced!

Steve : Well, sorry for that then. I always thought you were a veteran or an elite enhanced because of your large mana pool. I guess you are really new to this.

Asfa : Wait, what mana?

Steve got stupified by Asfa's question.

.....

"Mana is the energy we use to use our ability. For people like us, it is easier to identify enhanced humans since we are more susceptible to mana. Basically, you just do this by channelling enough mana to your eyes. Once you are able to do this, you could start seeing a coloured aura on an enhanced human. Yours are in white colour, which is quite rare since this is my first time seeing one.

Asfa frowned immediately and realised how naive and lucky he was survived to these days.

"Prof, how bad I was in controlling mana before this?"

Steve raises his right hand and makes a '0' sign.

"Kid, you literally never control your mana! Just now when you were cleaning, I got suffocated by your mana since it filled the whole room. I thought you were going to kill me, but you are just dumb!"