2 Psychic children 2 (1/2)

On an artificial island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.

The leading members of the government and military authorities met secretly and periodically to change the coordinates of this artificial island. At this place, humanity's last remaining weapon, psykers were being trained.

They were the symbol of hope, but at the same time, this place was a place where power struggles between countries continued.

Vrrrooong.

Han Lee woke up due to the engine. The view outside had changed. All he had seen was endless ocean, but now he could see many gray buildings below.

As he was told, this was an artificially made island.

This island was itself.

”Wake up you brats.”

Major Kang shouted. The children woke up while rubbing their eyes.

The first wave of aggression had decreased the world population so the alliance gathered to work together, but even then, they could only manage to find twenty-one psykers. Additionally, amongst this batch, about half were estimated to drop out because they would not be able to withstand the harsh training.

'Damn it, the number of psyker children decreases every year.'

Major Kang chuckled bitterly. The psykers who were of appropriate age had mostly already attended Ark Institution at least once. These children should be of the last few batches of psykers that could be found any time soon. Genius and strong psyker children were generally admitted and discovered at the ages of five or six. In some extreme cases, new-born babies had even been taken away right then and there.

'It's too bad, but we got to do with what we can. Nobody expects great things from any of these newly admitted children anyway.'

Major Kang gazed toward the children.

The predicted wave of aggression would occur in three years. It would take time to help the children grow and train. This last batch of children should be near the last few that would be able to go out and contribute to the war.

The following years, even if there was great potential in the young children brought in, there wouldn't be enough time to train them.

'A prospective kid…'

Major Kang suddenly looked toward Han Lee. The kid was daring.

'But the boy was a mere D rank. It was no different than being at the lowest rank. Would he be able to grow at all?'

The person in charge at Ark was waiting for Major Kang to re-verify everything. As soon as Major Kang completed the transfer process, he once again stepped onto the plane.

A handful of the children burst out in tears seeing an island surrounded by nothing but ocean. They were so far away from their homeland.

”All I need to do is work hard, then my younger siblings can live happily for the rest of their lives.”

Han mumbled to himself and suppressed the rising feeling of loneliness in his heart.

To him, dragon invasions and wars all seemed so unrealistic. He would be happy as long as his younger siblings could eat to their heart's content.

They were orphans that had no direct blood relation to him, but they had survived all this time depending on one another like a real family.

All orphaned children joined gangs or syndicates in order to survive. Han was no different than the leader or oldest brother of the group of homeless orphans.

'I'm the oldest brother. I can't cry. I must become stronger.'

Han repeated this over and over while walking forward.

The officials of Ark carefully observed each child one by one like they were studying a specimen, checking over the documented files word by word.

Most children here were oblivious. However, Han calmly observed the adults of this place.

”Come in, rookies. It's time for a complete medical examination.”

A researcher clad in a completely white gown spoke. Before the official admittance, they would examine each child's health and psychic abilities and grade them by rank.

Each child came in with this information from their home country, but a majority of these documents had errors and exaggerations. They did everything they could to get their own country's psyker count to increase.

”People are so hopeless that they are sending over Rank Ds now.”

”It doesn't matter because anyone's rank can rise through training. According to the rules, all you need are psychic abilities.”

Official psyker soldiers were required to be at minimum a B rank. Also, it was limited to only B rank psykers who could display their abilities.