Although Miles was testing his strength, speed, and other abilities every time he bought a new strengthening serum, he still wanted to conduct a private one before graders' preliminaries started. After all, he couldn't use his items while he was doing the testing in the headquarters.

After leaving the slum area, he hopped on the train and went to the central part of the city again. There, not far from the arena where he watched the graders for the first time, was the biggest gym of the capital with testing rooms. After all, Miles wasn’t the only one who wanted to see the results of his hard work.

Miles entered the building with his hood and medical mask as always. He walked to the reception and asked with a husky voice, “I want to rent the private testing room.”

“Please follow me, mister.” The receptionist girl rose from where she was sitting and led the way for Miles. After two turns, they arrived at a corridor with many rooms. “You are lucky, mister. The rooms were empty. How long would you like to rent?”

“2 Hours.” Miles thought and concluded. Tests would take about an hour, maybe less. But he didn’t want to be disturbed while being tested, and the fee wasn’t much.

“Certainly, mister.” She tapped on her wristwatch several times, and a barcode appeared on the wristwatch. Miles reached out Coin and the barcode was transferred to him. With it, he would be able to use the rooms for two hours.

“I want it to be private, no footage allowed.” Miles turned around and walked into the room after he muttered his last words.

“Will do, mister.” She nodded and looked at the back of Miles before a glint flashed in her eyes. “Mysterious is hot.”

After Miles entered the room, he looked at the devices all around the room. There was a punch strength testing device, treadmill for speed, shooting area for reflexes, another shooting area for defense, walls with many punching areas to test regular strength, and explosive strengths...

Miles entered quietly and asked, “Coin, are they recording?” For safety measures, testing facilities had to watch the people inside all the time through AIs. But in normal cases, the footage wouldn’t be recorded and would only be watched. So although the camera was active, Miles asked if they were recording or not.

“They are not recording.” Coin gave the nod, so Miles started to warm up. He first walked to the punch strength device and shook his hands. After getting sure he was warm enough, he raised his arm and punched as hard as he could.

“BOOM!”

After a deafening voice, the numbers on the machine started to scale up all the way to five hundred, before it stopped at 589.

“Not far from the peak.” Miles nodded.

“Speed, 200.”

“Reflex 210.”

“Pretty much as I expected. I am not that far from the peak of the third tier.” Miles nodded in satisfaction. The peak of the third serum was 600 punching strength, 210 running speed in an hour, and avoiding 180 bullets in 10 seconds. 18 in each. But after his eyes merged with the blood orb, his eyes evolved and his reflexes also improved slightly.

“Now with the armor.” Miles let the maroon armor cover his body, and tested his strength once again.

Power: 700

Speed: 290

Reflex: 280

So good! Armor was able to increase his speed drastically, but his power and reflexes increased slightly too. It was halfway into the peak of Grace-Rank, so Miles was more certain of his victory.

“Now my trump card,” Miles said and started to practice moves he learned not that long ago. After he finished one set and made sure he was warm enough, he used the first level of Exaltedness of the Creator. Miles felt his arms and legs were swelling, while his skin was getting tougher. It was a strange feeling. His thinking got swifter, and his eyes could see better, but he couldn’t let these feelings mesmerize him, because it was only temporary.

He punched the machine once again. This time even the room shook.

“BOOOOOM!”

Numbers on the machine changed so fast, Miles couldn’t see it before it stopped at 875. His speed was so fast, he could hardly take turns. 350 km/h! Reflex, 340!

Miles canceled the technique and breathed heavily. The technique was so strong, but it was only temporary and after each use, it would make Miles so tired. Miles tried to move his aching body barely, yet he did best to not convulse on the ground.

“Increase in strength is drastic, but the frame is short and side effects are unbearable. I am not sure if I can use it in the preliminaries.” Miles sighed and looked at the camera in the room. He didn’t show his pain too much, so AI would not send an alarm. After he left the room, an hour and a half were over, but he had nothing else to do in the room. So he left.

“How was it?” A young man approached the screen displaying the now empty room. Miles was in that room seconds ago.

“You will love it.” The man on the chair removed the camera in front of the screen. “I recorded manually because of the restrictions in the room, but this is Marooner’s recording testing his powers! It is not authenticated but it should be enough to bring some fame to our little shop.” The man laughed with excitement while holding the camera in his hand.