The Ultimate Star

"Edric, come on stage for your strength assessment."

Edric with a frown on his face stood up and slowly walked towards the stage. He was a student who was regarded as a rare talent by the teachers and students of the Seven Stars Academy.

Then a student not far away shouted sarcastically: "Edric, are you okay? Why do you look so weak? You are really embarrassing us in the strength class. Why don't you pack up and go home. Don't embarrass yourself here and ruin the reputation of our academy."

Edric glanced at the man coldly. The man who spoke was called Skylar, and he was unruly and sinister. Since Yasmin, the class belle and school belle, had always been very close to Edric, and Skylar, who had been pursuing her for a long time, naturally confronted Edric everywhere.

"Oh, Edric is angry, I'm so scared ..." Skylar continued to speak sarcastically, and the boys around him quickly laughed and agreed with Skylar.

Edric just snorted lightly and walked towards the stage faster.

"Edric, come on, ignore that guy. I believe you can do it." Yasmin said to Edric with clenched fists as she walked past the front row.

Edric responded with a grateful smile, and Skylar behind him immediately stopped laughing and looked at the beauty and Edric with cold eyes.

Yasmin was one of Edric's only two friends in the Seven Stars Academy. Because of her beauty and her powerful Latham family, she had many admirers. She was considerate and generous, with boundless beauty and wisdom. Every time Edric saw Yasmin, no matter how much grievance and pressure he has, they would be dispelled.

The host of the meeting was the Dean of Education, Yanis. When he saw Edric coming on stage, he nodded at him, turned to the audience, and said in a sonorous and powerful voice: "The assessment now begins. Student Edric, please use your most powerful punch to attack the power assessment instrument."

Edric took a step back, took a deep breath, looked at the assessor with a burning gaze, and suddenly roared, clasped his right hand into a fist, and used his greatest strength to attack the assessor.

There was a bang and the numbers on the large display screen on the upper part of the evaluation instrument flickered. After two seconds, they finally stopped at the number 2000.

Edric and Yanis sighed softly at the same time.

"Student Edric, punching force is 2000 kg, and the level is inner fifth stage." Yanis shouted loudly to the people below with a blank expression on his face.

"You see, I told you that you're a waste. Like I said, Edric, you should go home early and don't waste your parents' hard-earned money here." Skylar immediately made a sarcastic remark without losing the opportunity to trample on Edric.

"Skylar, don't go too far." Yasmin slammed the table and stood up.

“Forget about it, Linda.” Edric stepped down and grabbed Yasmin, saying self-deprecatingly: “Actually, he is right, I am really a waste. A normal Strength Star student below 800 kilograms can condense light. The top student of the fifth stage of Inner Condensation is around 800 kilograms, but I am already at 2000 kilograms in strength, but I still can’t reach the Outer Condensation stage. What does this mean? It means that I have no ability to move forward. It seems that I am really like that bastard said, it’s time for me to leave the Seven Star Academy.”

"Edric, don't say that." Yasmin was so anxious that she almost cried. Suddenly she thought of something, wiped her eyes, leaned close to Edric's ear and whispered, "Don't forget, you are the only seventh star in our Seven Star Academy. If life wanted to abandon you, how could you have this star that no one has received since the doomsday?"

After she spoke, Yasmin pulled Edric's left arm.

Edric was deeply moved, and looked at the skull-shaped tattoo that was hidden on the left wrist that Yasmin touched. His expression slowly warmed up and he regained his confidence.

Skylar looked at the ambiguous actions of the two with extreme displeasure, and his fingers clattered. He had coveted Yasmin's beauty for a long time. He thought that with his current status as the first place in the Power Star Class, plus the reputation of his father, it would be easy to get her 

However, Yasmin ruthlessly rejected his approach many times, and she actually fell in love with Edric, a famous waste of the school.

This made Skylar even more furious, and he wanted to cripple Edric immediately, and then take Yasmin for himself.

Thinking of this, Skylar's eyes lit up. This was a good idea.

After the school year assessment, it would be two months of summer vacation. Students and teachers of all grades would prepare to leave school and go home.

The assessment results would be announced at the "New School Year Ability Assessment Conference" also known as the opening ceremony after the holiday.

It had been a year since he came to the Seven Star Academy. The strength assessment just now was the ultimate assessment of the school year before the summer vacation, which was equivalent to the final exam. 

He didn’t know what’s going on in the other star classes, but Edric knew that he was the only one in the Strength Star class who was in the basic introverted stage.

The others, without exception, have all reached the basic extroverted stage. They could condense the power light where they exert force.

Although the colors were different, it was there at least.

No matter how hard Edric tried, no light appeared for him. He knew without waiting for school to start that he was the last in the Power Star class assessment.

Back in the dormitory, Edric sat at the head of the bed depressed, staring at his left wrist in a daze.

After a moment of pause and a look around to see if there was anyone around, he scratched the skin under his wrist and found a piece of tape edge popped out. 

He tore it off suddenly, and the flesh-colored tape wrapped around his wrist was completely peeled off, revealing a terrifying skull symbol on it.

It was a demon skull with two horns on its head, bulging and ferocious eyes, and a terrifying grin. It appeared in the middle above Edric's left wrist like a watch.

This was the sign of the Seventh Star on Edric. He was also the only Seventh Star in the Seven Star Academy.

When Edric first came to the Seven Stars Academy to receive his star a year ago, his friend Yasmin received the Star of Medical Care, the Star of Technology (Biology), and the Star of Summoning for auxiliary attack, a total of three stars.

Another friend Hubbard received the Star of Mecha and the Star of Cognition. Edric received the Star of Strength and this mysterious seventh star.

According to Yanis, the dean of studies who was in charge of identifying the Seven Stars at the time, Edric had just come into contact with the Seventh Star when a black light suddenly spurted out and enveloped him.

In the end, his entire body looked like a black sculpture. He himself lost consciousness just after seeing the black light.

When he woke up, he was in the academy's medical room. The black light on his body had all faded into his body, and a flesh-colored mark was wrapped around his wrist to prevent the skull from showing.

The Dean of the academy suppressed the news of the appearance of the seventh star. The only people in the academy who knew that Edric had obtained the mysterious seventh star were master Yanis, Yasmin, Hubbard, and the blonde beauty, Miss Alice Caterina, a school teacher who made this tape for Edric to conceal her identity.

Due to the concealment of the information, Edric only had one power star in his seven-star appraisal report. In the previous seven-star appraisals, no one had ever received such a single star, most of them were two or three stars.

Edric, who only had one power star, was laughed at as a weirdo by everyone in the academy. He had reached the inner stage at 2000 kg power in the past year, but he still couldn't condense the light to reach the outer stage. 

He was discouraged many times and wanted to give up. It was these three people who encouraged him again and again, which made him emotionally stable.

Miss Alice was also three stars, just like Yasmin, but her summon star pet was an attacking cat named "Colorful Cat". Her technology star was mastering the two subjects of physics and chemistry. 

Although she was only two years older than Edric and the other two and was a third-year student, due to the importance of these two subjects in the Federation and the extraordinary status of the Katerina family in the Federation, the dean promoted her to the position of a teacher and tshe began teaching the two subjects of physics and chemistry in the academy.

Alice prepared a large roll of flesh-colored tape for Edric. After admiring the skull, Edric tore off a piece of tape and wrapped it around his wrist.

It took time to discover the ability of any star, so the dean sternly asked Edric to pay more attention to see what ability the Seventh Star would show. 

However, what made Edric depressed was that the Seventh Star was particularly quiet in his hands over the past year, and there was no intention of revealing its ability.

Sometimes, Edric even forgot its existence.

"Don't worry, the special tape I researched can change to the same color as the skin. It's prevent people from mistaken you as a member of the evil organization, The Harbingers. As long as they don't look too closely, no one can tell the difference."

These were Alice's original words. Edric, who was only sixteen years old, seemed to understand them, but he still understood the meaning of the word "evil".

After packing up and preparing to leave the dormitory, Edric took out his father's portrait from around his neck as usual, touched it lovingly, and kissed it before hanging it around his neck again.

Edric's father, Carter, died when he was four years old. The cause of death was strong acid corrosion. As a federal policeman, he had to perform missions outside the safe zone all year round. Even though he had a star of strength, he could not withstand such frequent acid corrosion. 

Year after year, the effect finally defeated Carter's will. When he died, his body was not even brought back but was directly cremated. The young Edric only saw an urn.

Fortunately, the federal government issued a pension, which allowed his mother Linda and Edric to barely make ends meet.

Edric's home was located in Federal District 64, which was like a slum. Thinking of his mother, Edric couldn't help himself from being sad. He had been in the Seven Star Academy for a year, but his ability had not reached the external level of radiance. If he told her this, how sad she would be.

There was no other man in the family except Linda, who works hard every day and is exhausted. She had just passed middle age but looked a little older, which made the very filial Edric feel a little bit sorry for her.

After thinking about it, he thought it was better to hide the fact that he had not reached the stage of external radiance from her, so as to avoid her worrying again.

It was time for him to go home. His mother might be sitting at the door waiting for him.