The Real Prodigy

Chapter 14 - Tristan Hesitation

Looking at the information in front of him, Tristan was shocked at the achievement of his former classmates and couldn't help but clenched his hand while holding the document.

He thought he was already ahead of his classmates because his progress was really obvious compared to the past 2 years ago. In Station 92, most people are afraid to trouble him, except for some people. He has also a legacy of the famous characters in that (Earth) world.

So, seeing this information, Tristan began to understand a new thing. He was not the only Protagonist of the world; the world doesn't revolve around him. If he was progressing, the other was also progressing, he didn't think that he was so ignorant to think something like that before.

"It seems my effort was not enough" Tristan put the document unwillingly in his hand on the table. He really didn't expect the progress of his previous classmates was great.

Although he was surprised with the progress of Gerald, Lorraine, and Astrid, it's still slightly reasonable for him, although he wants to deny it. But Eric, Amir, and Patrick, what the heck happened with these three? These three scumbag young masters already catch up with him? or maybe already ahead of him.

He didn't know if the information was reliable because most of the progress written on the documents was based on analogy and speculation. But this information was already enough to see their progress. Although he was also one of the former four young masters, he thinks he was ahead of them because 2 years ago he was at the peak of Proficient (E) and almost reached the (M) while these 3 people just entered the Proficient (E) but now they are also in the same place where he standing now or maybe already ahead of him in few steps.

Then finally, when he saw the information about Alfred, he was shocked by this guy's speed of progress. He still clearly remembers in the past he was just bullying this guy as a 'Son of Prisoner', and that guy was only a Starter (M). And when the Top 10 qualification starts, he's just upgraded to (L) and luckily defeat him when he was still devastated by his father's death.

But now the guy he insulted in the past was already ahead of him, Tristan recalled his day in this Station 92 and asked himself

(Did I slack off?)

Then he tried to remember how many times he slacked off, days, hours, minutes, but he quickly shook his head. Besides eating, it seems he didn't slack off. Or maybe he rests longer than Alfred?

Impossible, as a person who stays in Black Region, it's impossible to rest longer than the people of the safe region. As long as you here in this region, every day, for hours, you must be alert because there are always invasions happening in this Region whether it's a small, medium, or large incident, it's always happened every day, if it's not day, it's 5 days, weekly, half month, or month.

So, when it comes to effort it's impossible to surpass him, he will convince if it's on par level of his effort or lower. But within a par level of effort while having a lower rank compared to him, that guy managed to be ahead of him, how could it be?

Is that guy more talented than me? Tristan was really not convinced and unwilling to believe.

But when he was in a state of confusion, he feels the hands of Major Anderson patting his shoulder and said: "Don't deny your effort young man, you must believe in yourself. You are behind on them because you're lacking resources here in the Black Region. That's why I said you're wasting your talent here in this region."

"You MUST not doubt your strength, because as a Major and Crown Stages, I can testify that you are extremely talented, there are only a few people in your peer who can manage to reach your achievement here. Fighting and killing an Enhanced best alone, killing countless beasts, killing senior and proficient stages, fighting an Expert Stage one-on-one, and managing to kill Expert in a dire state, it's really rare. So, there's no need to doubt yourself. But of course, you must not be proud just because of your achievements, there are many talented people in Artheran who succumb to their past glories and forgot their current situation, the result? Fall, they fall like a shooting star. So as for you, you must maintain your state, you only need an opportunity and you can catch up with them."