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Chapter 7 - Playground & Players

Zed sat in the car waiting outside and started reading the information.

Meanwhile, the car moved to the backside of the mansion.

After five minutes, the car stopped, and Zed also finished reading everything.

"Are we going on that helicopter?" Zed blinked.

"Yes. It will take two hours even with the helicopter," the young butler said. "This university is on an island. But from tomorrow onwards, there will be a special transport here from the university to pick you up."

"No need." Zed smiled. "I'll go with my own ride."

The butler was taken aback. "How?"

But right after he asked, a shade covered him and the helicopter both.

He looked up and saw a sleek and large jet hovering in the sky.

"T-This… How did it appear here?"

"I called it," Zed said as he closed the Unbound Shop after buying the jet.

"I'll reach the university on my own. You can go back."

'Teleport me inside that jet.'

[1 U.R point consumed.]

Zed vanished, and the butler's eyes widened in disbelief.

"W-What is going on? Did I smoke too much?" The butler rubbed his eyes and looked up.

Zoom!

The jet flew away in front of his eyes without making any sound.

'Erase his memories of this jet and my talk with him after the jet goes away from his view.'

[1 U.R point consumed.]

The university was 800 kilometers away, but this jet was freaking fast.

It had AI, autopilot, a map of Earth, and features like Jet Boost, Sound Barrier, and Stealth.

The interior was nice, and it even had a bedroom and seats better than first class.

Zed arrived at the university in just 20 minutes. It flew at Mach 2 speed, and that wasn't even its top speed.

But Zed wanted to exercise for 20 minutes at maximum intensity to test his unlimited stamina.

He did push-ups, sit-ups, and various other foundational exercises at inhuman speed and intensity without a break. He even tore his muscles and injured himself, but instantly healed because of the crown's power.

He required a lot of water during the period, but he just used U.R points to refill his body's water.

In 20 minutes, the room was filled with steam.

Zed just sat in the bathtub as the jet landed in the university's airspace parking for flying jets and helicopters.

It was massive, as there were already over sixty jets and even more helicopters. And there were four other parks like this.

'No wonder this university is on an island. If this Lionesia Country has such an academy, does that mean the other four nations also have such academies with secret forces?'

[Affirmative. That's indeed the case, my lord. But this university is not the base for these people. This university is just the top one in this country where all kinds of rich folks, rich professionals, and carefully selected prodigies from all over the country are collected and dumped by the government to enrich the overall development of the country.]

[There are also various branches of the government in sports and various other categories to select individuals who can become supernatural beings.]

'But what do these people do in secret?' Zed asked as he got comfortable in the bathtub.

He wasn't in a hurry to leave. His body was experiencing strange things. It was going through the process of several months within minutes because of the 20 minutes of intense exercise he had just done.

His Vigor increased by a whole 8.4, and it was slowly increasing as he relaxed in the bathtub.

[My lord, these people search for a phenomenon known as a Playground. These are special dimensions with certain rules inside. People compete against each other in Playgrounds as players to acquire resources to get stronger, earn riches, and treasures.]

Zed's eyes twinkled. "What the hell? There's such stuff in this world, and the general public doesn't know about it at all?"

[Well, it's easy to hide the news and everything. Media control can also erase all evidence and redirect people easily.]

"Yeah, that's not hard."

Suddenly, the jet's AI spoke. {Master Zed, there is a security staff outside asking for your appearance, or they will do a forced entry.}

A hologram appeared before Zed, showing that six people had surrounded the jet with some high-tech rifles.

"Well, time to enter my new Playground for now."

Zed got ready instantly with an informal-styled black open suit with a red shirt inside, and black pants, topped off with classy black specs.

His ruby-red eyes glanced around as he descended from the jet's stairs.

Since he was in a high-class place, he had to show off a bit to deal with this situation fast.

As soon as the man in charge of the staff approached him as he descended, Zed spoke before he could. "Hello there. I am a new student here from the Vaylith household. You must have heard and acquired documents from Tomen Vaylith."

After a simple verification of his face with his photo, Zed went on his way.

"Hey, wait! Where did that jet go?!"

"What the…"

Suddenly, all six of them completely forgot about the jet, and Zed also erased all traces of his jet appearing in any camera or data at the cost of 2 U.R points.

'Lives are cheap,' Zed wryly smiled. 'Lives of scumbags, I mean.'

He would have to go on a killing spree again if he continued to spend U.R points like this.

Zed headed straight for the reception and registered his entry as per the instructions in the file he got from Tomen.

It was easy to follow and very simple.

After registering himself in the Athletic category—Martial Artist—Zed went straight for the sports wing of the university.

It was a massive area only for sports. There was football, cricket, gymnastics, swimming, multiple stadiums, and arenas for boxing, MMA, and other sports.

Generally, students from all other sports who showed above-average performance among the people here would get scouted by the Martial Arts Club, where they would go through some training and a test of their aptitude as a 'Player'.

But there was no need to join any other sports, according to the file. He could just go to the Martial Arts Club and become a member there to train in martial arts and eventually get scouted if he showed exceptional results.

Arriving in front of the entrance, Zed grinned.

'Time to show exceptional results.'

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