After finding out about this revelation, Jack couldn’t believe it. Slowly, it was starting to make sense of how they knew his every move and how they could plan against him.
’Of course, Pure would have put a Student spy into the school system. Just how they rescued Peter before, they most likely used him to do the same here as well.
’You were always one step ahead of me, and now I know why, but now I’m one step ahead of you." Jack said with a smile as he got up from his seat.
"Where are you going, Jack?" Oscar asked. "Are you not going to watch the rest of the fighting events?"
"Ah, there are some important business matters I need to look into. Don’t worry; I shall be back soon."
Jack left the room and started walking at a fast pace out of the booth to head back to his room. There were still a few things he needed to think about before he could make his next move. Even if Quinn was a part of Pure, that didn’t change the fact that he had a rare ability that no one had seen before. Suddenly, claiming the student was part of Pure, might make it harder for him to obtain the boy’s powers.
He wanted both Pure, and the shadow power for himself. Quinn was the key to that. Once Jack had returned to the room, he had contacted his headquarters back at Dreamland City. A digital display on his wall, connecting a video call. Immediately he had called for his old Guard Kenny, who had made the report about the shadow powers before.
"That’s right, sir, everything you said matches up with exactly what I saw that day," Kenny replied.
Just then, another message had appeared on screen, which was from sergeant Duke.
’The information about the student I requested.’ Quickly he started to read through the report. ’Quinn Talen... only child... Orphan, pfft the perfect backstory for an agent of Pure. No surprise there.’
While Jack was busy talking about his team and doing research on Quinn, over at the arena, the reporter had just finished talking with Multiplier.. She was now moving on to the star of the show, Quinn.
"First, I have to congratulate you on your upset victory. Of course, we all saw your impressive martial arts skill when fighting the clones but what we really want to know about is your ability. My research says that you’re not from an original family. Still, I don’t think any of us here have ever seen an ability like that before. So what we want to know is just how and what ability is that?" The reporter asked.
Quinn looked at the big screen, and he could see his own face maximized for everyone to see. Everyone in the crowd was waiting for his answer. He then thought back to what Vorden had said, and he was ready to reply.
"As you said, I am not from an original family. I grew up as an orphan. The detail of how I learned the ability is a story and a half, so bear with me. An incident happened at school a while back, where I was transported to a red portal planet. The whole place seemed abandoned.
"While I was there, I came across an ability book I had never seen before. I currently didn’t have an ability, and I thought my luck had finally changed. The school eventually found me and returned me safely, but I chose to keep the fact I had found the book a secret. This event had happened a few months back. Due to it being a high-level ability book, it took me a long time to learn. Even after learning it, with no teacher or reference on how to use the ability, it took a while to come up with my own skills. I wasn’t ready and chose to hide this from everybody.
"As an orphan and no family or factions to protect me, this felt like the right thing to do. However, today a good friend of mine had offered in return for giving them the ability book, I would become a member of their faction and family. As for the ability itself and which family that is, I think you will all understand why I won’t go into further details about that now, as it’s not fair to the original family who took me in.
"Before I end this interview, I have one last thing to say." Once again, Quinn looked up above the arena, where his friends and Vorden would be standing.
"If you chose to still go after me, then the chains that have been locked away for centuries shall be broken by the Blades."
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