Everyone raised an eyebrow, clearly surprised. “Alexi Novikov? The quiet guy who sits in the back?”

Erin looked thoughtful. “I’ve heard he really put on a show during the power weapons class on the first day, but he’s always so reserved. How did you manage to get him on board?”

Mako’s grin widened. “Oh right, you guys didn’t join the class at the beginning of the first day so you all missed out on everything that happened.”

The group was now quite curious as although they had heard a lot of whispers and gossip from the other students, no one ever wanted to tell them about what actually happened.

Mako began from the beginning as he explained to them in detail, all the events that took place during their first power weapons class.

He explained how they were suppressed and couldn’t use any abilities and then a horde of robots were just dropped into the empty hall to attack us without any warning. He told them about how some cadets ran forward and fought the robots head-on while others ran away in fear and cowardice, and then there was Mako’s group who defended their position passively and didn’t overaggress, becoming the ones who earned Magnus’ favor the most.

Alexi was among the cadets who were proud of their strength and went to fight the robots head-on, defeating 12 alone before finally getting defeated; however, after Magnus had revealed the true purpose of the test and had humiliated him and everyone else who foolishly just ran forward to fight, ALexi couldn’t himself back and challenged Magnus’ authority.

Mako explained how they both battled right in front of the whole class and how Alexi was very proficient in using the Lightning ability, even going as far as unlocking the purple Lightning variant and had even resonated it with the Earth ability to contain the Magnitisim ability which was quite rare and hard to control.

The whole group was quite shocked to learn that there was an actual Magnetism ability user in their class as in the 3 months that they had been together in class, they had only seen him as a reserved and troubled individual with the regular Yellow Lightning and Earth ability.

Mako described the epic battle that took place between Alexi and Magnus and that even after Alexi portrayed some very powerful and complex techniques, the battle was completely one- sided as Magnus easily defeated him without even breaking a sweat.

Since then, Alexi had taken his defeat to heart and had done nothing but train and become stronger. He had made it clear that he didn’t want anyone talking about his humiliation and thanks to the epic display of power he had shown on the first day, all of the cadets in the class complied and kept their mouths shut.

Following that Mako and Alexi both signed up to get special training lessons under Magnus and that was where Mako was able to learn a little bit more about him through small conversations they were able to have.

In no way the two of them had become friends but since they were training under the same teacher who would often put them to spar against each other to show their improvement, they had a general respect for each other’s skill and strength.

Since Alexi had no other friends and had also been assigned the high-tier planet, Mako believed that he would be a great addition to their team, and with his help, they might just be able to clear the special exam.

“Wow,” Erin said, shaking her head in disbelief. “I had no idea Alexi was that powerful. He really kept that side of him hidden.”

“But Mako… Have you ever asked him if he wanted to be on our team yet?” Erin asked.

Mako’s confident smile was quickly replaced by nervous laughter as he scratched the back of his head.

“Uhhh… No, I haven’t… but just trust me on this, I’ll make sure he is on board with us *hopefully*,” Mako said.

“Considering his reserved nature I don’t think it will be easy getting him to randomly join our group and become pals,” Leon added appearing unimpressed by Mako’s optimism.

“Don’t worry too much, guys… Have a little faith in me, I’ll get him to cooperate,” Mako reassured them.

“Alright, man…If you say so…” Nathan reluctantly agreed. “That still leaves us with a member to find for our team… Any ideas?”

The group still needed someone who was assigned to the medium-tier planet to fill in the vacant spot in Nathan’s team and there weren’t any people that they had in mind.

Most of the students in their class had been assigned the medium-tier planet so it wasn’t going to be that hard for the third member, it was just that they had no connections outside of their group and they didn’t want to invite just a random strong person that they know nothing about or have nothing in common with to join their team.

The group was stuck on it for quite a while as they couldn’t think of any suitable person to approach and ask them to join their team, but the last thing they would have expected was for someone to approach them instead.

“Excuse me, Can I join you guys?” A feminine voice sounded from behind Nathan.

He quickly turned around to see a petite girl with short brown hair and glasses standing behind him.

“Sorry to intrude on you guys, but I was on my way out of the class when I overheard you guys looking for another member for your team. Is it okay if I can join you guys?” The girl requested with a polite voice.

The girl in question was Isabella Ruiz, the first person in the entire class to receive their planet assignment and the same person who had backed up Mako during Magnus’ test and helped him save the other cadets after they had defeated the main horde.

Mako’s group wasn’t very popular in the class to begin with as the rumor about them being demoted from special class because of failing their first mission had spread very quickly.

The rich and popular kids in the class had already made their own little groups and avoided them because they believed them to be a bad omen while the others in the class just followed in their footsteps and stayed clear of forming any relations with them which was perfectly fine with Mako and the group as well.

However, this meant that now that they needed one more person to fill the last remaining spot in their team, they had no one to turn to.

Fortunately, Isabella happened to overhear their prior conversation and decided to give it a shot and see if they would allow her to join.

She introduced herself to them but told them to just call her Bella for short. She already had a friend group of all girls in the class; however, all of them had been assigned the low-tier planet with the exception of her of course.

She also didn’t know many people outside of her friend group and not wanting to end up on a random team, she decided just to take the first step and ask if she could join them.

Since she already knew Mako and was quite impressed with his leadership style and skills, she believed that his friends would also be of his caliber and would be good teammates to have on a planet made completely from gemstones.

The group wasn’t completely against the idea of Bella joining the team, especially after Mako said that he would vouch for her as he was also quite impressed by her fighting abilities during Magnus’ test. fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cm

She also possessed great abilities as she had three decently leveled elemental abilities that being, Water, Earth, and Wind.

For most people, the limit of possessing the basic elemental abilities is two as unlike other abilities, the nature of elemental abilities heavily interact with one another and don’t like it when they are together inside a single core.

However, this is the same for everyone as many people end up possessing 3, 4, or even all 5 basic elemental abilities so having 3 abilities wasn’t anything to laugh at.

This made Bella a valuable asset to the team. Nathan and Leon both lacked elemental ability department as Leon only had one elemental ability that being the Lightning ability which was accompanied by his Speed and Hardening abilities, while Nathan had Hack and Advanced Perception. Bella’s elemental prowess brought much-needed balance and flexibility to their strategies, enhancing the team’s overall effectiveness.

With the final member of the team finalized much quicker than any of them had expected, Mako invited Bella to meet with everyone in the training hall that night to start training together, and Bella gladly accepted.

The rest of the group was also pleased with how things were working out and went their

separate ways with the goal of meeting in one of the training rooms later. Erin mentioned she would be visiting Bill to check on him, while Nathan and Leon went to their special training class. This left Mako with the challenging task he needed to complete by tonight.

He had to convince Alexi to join their team…