"You must be feeling really happy," instructor Kayle said with a teasing smile and a taunting expression on her face as she looked at instructor Alex.

"Honestly, I am feeling happy as senior Theodore has finally permitted me to use my ability." Instructor Alex replied with an outstretched smile.

After committing atrocious misdeeds that offended the top brass of the federation, Alex lost his status as a citizen and was labeled as a criminal. A few years ago, he was hunted down by the experts of the federation, captured, and imprisoned in the second-lowest layers of the Hell's Prison for three thousand years.

Though the sentence could be lessened by hundreds of years by accepting the hardest missions with the death rate so high that causes even the most powerful ability users to step back in fear.

Naturally, he didn't accept such missions.

After a few years of imprisonment in darkness, rays of sunlight shone upon him, and someone granted him, a ruthless killer condemned by the society as a devil, a chance to redeem himself. However, he needed to adhere to the rules set by his guardian and follow the norms of society.

Although it seems like he was allowed to live a normal life, most of his actions were controlled by his guardian. Moreover, instructor Alex also needed to follow certain rules set by his guardian, if he didn't want to be punished. Among the many rules set by his guardian, one of them was that he isn't allowed to use his ability in any form, be it a simple activation or one that bends the very reality of his surroundings itself, once he is out of danger.

In normal situations, he could only use his ability after obtaining the permission of his guardian.

For now, he could use his ability as he has gained the permission of his Guardian.

With a beaming smile on his face, Alex stretched his arm out before him.

"Ability Kingdom: Devil's Words Bending Reality!"

The students felt terrified as an alarming amount of energy flew out of instructor Alex's body, and it wasn't magic power or mana that are usually used as a fuel to activate magic techniques, abilities, and a lot of new world's technology but a unique type of black energy. One they have never seen before in their entire life.

The black energy emitting out of his increased in quantity by severalfold and soon squirmed and stretched into tidal waves as they spread out in all directions, covering every inch of the room including the floor, roof, and walls.

"Stay where you are and don't panic. This is a stronger form of using an ability called Ability Kingdom, but it won't harm you in any way," Kayle announced as she looked at the baffled examinees.

Ability Kingdom can only be manifested by charging a large number of ability cells with a massive amount of high-grade energy. The user's ability expands outwards in a gaseous form with the user as the center once certain conditions are met. As the ability expands, the area it covers changes into the user's ability kingdom. The ability permeates into the surroundings and spread far and wide to create a spherical ability kingdom. The length and width of the ability kingdom can be increased by using massive amounts of high-grade energy.

After manifesting his ability kingdom, not only could instructor Alex control the size of everything inside of the boundaries of his kingdom including using an extravagant amount of energy to change the size and shape of carbon bodies, but even increasing the density of gravity and compressing the air inside of the boundary of his ability kingdom was possible for him.

"Space Expansion!"

As soon as instructor Alex said those words with a snap of his fingers, something happened that caused the student's eyes to open wide as saucers with their jaws dropped as they looked at their surrounding with an expression of bewilderment vivid on their face.

"What the hell?!"

"Isn't this too extreme?!!"

Not just the eyes of Nevis and Peter, but even Vincent's and Leila's eyes opened wide in surprise as the roof above their head and the floor below their feet stretched to become several times wider than before. After a few moments, one look at their surrounding was enough to tell them that the size and length of the room has increased a lot of times.

Instructor Alex could change the size of the examination room as it was within the boundaries of his ability kingdom.

'Ability Kingdom: the supreme form of an ability that affects the climate, terrain, and landscape of the surrounding areas with the user as the center and bends them according to one's will. So this is it, huh?' Vincent's body slightly trembled. He internally exclaimed, 'It's freaking cool!' 

"Big brother, are you fine?" Leila asked with unconcealed traces of worry in her eyes once she saw him trembling.

"Thanks for worrying about me, but I'm alright." Vincent's face leaned down and Leila's eyes closed as he kissed her on the forehead once again.

"Are you sure?" She asked after a moment to make sure whether or not he was fine.

"I am fine," Vincent reassured her with a calm smile.

Due to witnessing ability kingdom for the first time in his life, he was just feeling excited. It wasn't him as a lot of students couldn't help but exclaim and marvel at the sight of instructor Alex's ability kingdom.

Sometime later, Alex finished redesigning the room according to his guardian's wishes and said to the students,

"The race will start in a few minutes. Hurry up and line up behind the starting line in an orderly fashion, and be prepared to make a run for the finish line on the opposite end once you hear the resounding sound of a gunshot."

The students followed Alex's instructions. A few moments later, all of them could be seen standing behind the starting line.

"Before he expanded the room itself, the position of the finish line was some hundreds of meters away from the starting point. But now, it's nearly 20 kilometers!" Vincent said as his gaze flickered with a thoughtful and calculative glitter. "The difficulty of the agility test has increased exponentially."

"Buddy, it wouldn't have been fun if the race had taken place without any expansion in the size of the room. For combatants like us, covering a distance of a few kilometers is a matter of minutes," Nevis said, eyes gleaming in excitement. "Let's give it our all to reach the goal! I hope you can keep up with me," he added.

"Good luck, Big Brother," Leila said to him. "Don't stop no matter what!"

"Since you've wished me well, lady luck is already on my side," Vincent kissed the back of her hand like a gentleman. "Leila, I will be waiting for you on the opposite end."

"I won't keep you waiting for too long," Leila said as a sweet and enticing smile blossomed on her face.

Lastly, Peter said to him after balling one of his hands into a fist and giving a thumb-ups towards his direction, "Big brother, get the first place, I am rooting for you!"

"Try not to cause your sister too much trouble," Vincent said with a smile as he looked at Peter.

"I won't!" Peter replied with a determined expression.

As the students stretched their bodies and prepared themselves for the race, a notification popped up in front of Vincent's face. 

‹ New Mission Activated! ›

‹ Task: Ace the Test of Agility ›

‹ As the one with the blood of one of the fastest races in the entire universe, you must topple the geniuses of the many planets in speed. ›

‹ Completion Reward: +7 Agility, +7 Constitution ›

‹ The reward you receive will gradually decrease if you place below the first position ›

Vincent's eyes squinted in pleasure once he read the notification. "So many rewards for winning a single race, I must do my best to place first! First, I should increase my agility."

Immediately after, Vincent added the five attribute points he received from leveling up yesterday into his agility stat.

‹ Your Agility has increase to 50 points › 

As soon as the notification popped up, Vincent could feel that he was now five times faster than an average human.

After a few seconds, a gunshot rang throughout the running track, indicating the start of the race.