1 The Start? (2/2)

Nevertheless, a job is a job and he needs it to sustain his study since he'll be out of the welfare program next month after turning 16. Although orphans are allowed to work starting at 14, there are some who are like Ji Liu who would focus on studying and would only start to work when they near 16. Welfare is only up to 16 years old since people would awaken their ability to form contract with monsters at that age and getting a job as a tamer by then is easy.

And so, night falls and Ji Liu heads to his room in the school's dormitory exclusive for outstanding students. Although the bed is a bunk bed, there are few students who actually stays in the dorm so he doesn't have to share the room with anyone.

Ji Liu wakes up earlier than usual today so he could prepare for both school and work which would usually be impossible. Good thing there was a recently hired researcher that prefers starting to work late else he would not be able to get this job.

Preparing then eating breakfast, he greets the dorm guard Mr. Wei before leaving the dorm and walk towards the school. The school is separated to the dorm because there was no place for the school to fit the dorm so they just bought a separate small building for it.

Ji Liu bump into his usual mob classmates also heading towards school and without anything eventful, almost 4 weeks already passed and today would be his 16th birthday!

'Wow, weeks sure fly fast.' Ji Liu thought to himself.

Today is the day that he would awaken his ability. All he have to do is get an 'awakening potion' that he can afford from a government certified chemist, present his identification and drink it. Drinking it at another day aside from your 16th birthday would cause a rapid spreading cancer due to the forced gene mutation and only being at your 16th birthday would one not be affected due to the cellular state of the body complementing with the potion.

Abilities may differ greatly depending on what type of 'awakening potion' one drinks, one may be able to tame only fire type monster while another can only tame monsters with yellow color.

This is one of Meiji's discoveries that cemented their position as a global influence.

But since he is working on one of Meiji's branches, his 'awakening potion' was given to him for free by one of the researchers, the one who he is an assistant to, Doctor Fei Hua.

”Doctor, why is this unbranded?” asked Ji Liu as he look at the potion suspiciously.

”Wait let me put a sticker.” Doctor Fei Hua took the potion and set it in the table, then, took a piece of paper, scribbled something on it and took some transparent sticky tape and then taped the paper to the potion.

When Ji Liu got the potion back, when he read aloud ”rank 5 type-less” he wasn't even finished reading and he is already shocked.

”Doctor are you serious? Rank 5 type-less for free?” Ji Liu almost yelled asking. A rank 5 potion would allow him up to 5 tamed monsters, type-less is even more awesome as it would allow one to tame any type of monsters.

Although not rare, it is quite expensive. An aspiring normal tamer would only get around rank 3 or 4 type-less, although rich young masters would have rank 7-9, meaning he has advantage over normal tamers is enough of a boon for an orphan such as Ji Liu so he was grateful.