Nier stepped out of the changing room with the other guys, his gym shorts riding low on his hips, and his badge number still clipped to the waistband.

  Of course his hoodie was off, but he had change his face to a more younger one, to that a nineteen year old, and of course completely different.

  He also hid his face behind his own hair as both his eyes where cover up by waves of thick bangs, basically acting a mask to further protect his face.

  "Let's get this over with."

  Nier said as he walk closer to the front, there, the same man that delivered the uniforms was talking to the people here.

  "Alright guy's please line up by number. We start with raw lifting strength. Then we will move on to sprint and agility. Then the fun part, the durability test, I will give a fair warning if you can't handle pain, I would advise you drop out, and quit being a hero... Do I have any questions?"

  Nobody raised a hand in that moment, not even Nier it would seem they all just want to get this over with as well.

  "Good, now let's get this test started, don't worry, it's not in order, I will call your numbers at random, first up for the lifting strength test is number seventy."

  "Right here."

  The dark skin man answered.

  "Good, you see that machine over there, it's earned the nickname of The Crush, like hydraulic-press it will crush down on you slowly, on its own it is about two tons of metal, of course you won't be burdened with the full weight, but with every ten seconds that pass the weight will double down till it reaches its limit, good luck."

  The man looked at the giant metallic machine.

  So too does the others, as he shook his head and said,

  "Alright Jeffrey you can do this."

  With that Jeffrey went to the machine, and position himself.

  "I'm ready when you are sir."

  He said to the instructor.

  "Good, by the time I count down from 3 to 0, it will start pressing down on you, don't worry, that thing has advance sensor it will sense what your lifting limit is, and will retract itself on its own."

  Jeffrey rolled his shoulders, cracked his neck like he was about to walk into a street fight instead of a government strength test, and slid under the Crusher's main bar.

  The instructor then said.

  "Are you ready?"

  "YES SIR!!"

  He shouted excitedly, after all he was confident, as a Flux user, strength was actually a perk of his, he had absorbed enough fire too to buff himself, still he wanted to make good impression.

  This exam they were not supposed to use their abilities the problem here however this was a passive, Jeffrey could not turn his ability off as such it his default strength by nature that his Flux item give him, and since he can't really remove it, it would be considered as such, unless the examiner wanted to remove his tattoos.

  The thing looked like if a car compactor had a baby with a torture device: matte bck, thick hydraulic arms, red warning lights blinking zy.

  The instructor hit the button on a small remote control.

  "Alright here we go... Three… two… one… now."

  The bar dropped.

  And Jeffrey grunted immediately.

  Two tons to start.

  For him this was easy, he barley felt it.

  Albeit His knees bent a little, then locked in pce.

  Ten seconds ter the machine hissed, and the weight doubled to four.

  Eight.... Then Sixteen.

  "Wow that guy is strong."

  One of the girls said, and another replied.

  "Yeah, is he a Hesta?"

  "No, base off observation subject has Flux energy coming from his tattoos, it a Flux item."

  Eva expined strangely she was the only one with her clothes on, as girl wear sports bra, and underwear.

  Still no one question why.

  That aside though the other participants was here to expin.

  "So he is cheating basically."

  One of the guys said.

  "No some abilities are naturally passive, if you are unable turn off your power, it naturally count as your base stat."

  "... Fair enough I guess."

  Nier on the other hand watch as Jeffrey's body began to heat up, and after looking at him with his eyes, he found out that Jeffrey got his powers when he went to get tattoos at a tattoo parlor by a girl that just started working with his brother, as he owned the pce, sometime st week, and he quickly found found out it gave him powers.

  When he went back to meet the girl, and asked about the girl, he shock to find out brother had no memory of ever hiring that girl, nor any memory of him getting that tattoo at its shop.

  Over the years, several other people got mysterious tattoos that gave them abilities, all of them saying a mysterious goth girl gave it to them.

  Jeffrey Flux ability is the power to increase his strength by eating fire itself, he could manipute these fmes, and the fire passively empowered him too.

  The more fmes he ate, the stronger he became.

  "Wow, that guy is busted."

  Nier whispered to himself, and Kaly still hiding in his hair responded.

  "I am more interested in that girl hmm, say Darling when you are done can you use Collective Existence on that man, and rewrite his memory to make him join the cult."

  "Consider it done."

  "That's why I love you fufuf??"

  "Either way, let see how capable this guy is then."

  Alongside the others Nier watched Jeffrey continue to showcase his immense strength.

  And as the weight increase more and more, you could hear his breathing get ragged, and his Veins popped on his forearms.

  Thirty-two tons.

  Sixty-four.

  His whole body started shaking, sweat dripping off his chin and sizzling on the hot metal.

  At one-hundred twenty-eight tons his arms finally started to feel the immensity.

  "Aaaaaawwww fuck it's starting crusshhh meee…”

  And then his arms buckled.

  And then the right then the safety caught it an inch above his chest and yanked the bar back up. Jeffrey dropped to his knees, ughing and coughing at the same time.

  "Damn… one-twenty-eight tons, haha I have never lifted anything that heavy before hahahaha... I am so fucking gd I ate all that fire st night when I did."

  He ughed clearly content with his newfound feat.

  The instructor nodded his head clearly satisfied as he said.

  "It's the third best result of today hahaha nice, nice."

  He said writing down the score, and the crowd gave him a couple cps, giving him respect where it’s due.

  On the other hand the instructor then looked at one of the girls and said,

  "Number #74 your up."

  "Ahhh, that looks like it's going to hurt."

  She said timidly.

  Then the instructor said.

  "The moment you step on that machine, and touch the bar, it will instantly determine if you can hand it's default weight, before it drops it's first two tons."

  "Where... Fine, Finnee... I need my license."

  She said with tears in her eyes.

  And Nier could sense the Gaian energy in this woman, she was a Hesta.

  The machine like before came down and press against her. As she did her knees began to bend slightly.

  However after about six tons, she drop ft on her ass.

  And the instructor just nodded and said.

  "Not bad, next up…”

  After that the next few went quick.

  Some kid with wind base abilities managed get thirty tons before his legs turned to noodles. A girl with metal skin hit fifty nine and walked away bored.

  One dude tapped out at forty and was ughed out of the room as he vomited all over his uniform due to the weight.

  Nier just leaned against the wall, his arms folded, and his bangs hanging over his eyes.

  But then that's when it called her.

  "Number seventy-seven your up."

  The instructor looked at Eva, who responded.

  "Affirmative."

  "So the robot is finally going to show us her natural strength this should be good."

  Nier whispered to himself his hands folded.

  "Ready when you are."

  The instructor said as Eva made her way under the crusher.

  "I am prepared you may drop it now."

  "Ahhh sure."

  The instructor commented as he pressed the button.

  Right away it started to come down.

  Two tons, four.... Forty.... Two hundred..

  "S-She is fucking monster."

  "Oh my god she didn't even flinch."

  "Holy shit."

  The instructor watch in awe as he said.

  "...I...I can't remember the st time I have seen someone manage to get that high."

  And Eva continued to exceed expectations, as she continues to lift more and more weight.

  Four..Six... Twelve hundred... The number of the weight just keep on increasing more and more by the second, and when it passed the thousand mark, everyone mouth's dropped.

  And the people stopped talking altogether, utterly shock by this physical beast of a woman, that was not using any natural power at all.

  This continued more, and more until Eva started to show resistance, and the machine started to crush her, pushing her down. Without using her abilities she had finally hit her limit.

  "4800 tons... She manage to withstand the force of 4800 tons."

  "She is fucking monster fuck this exam, with strength like that she might as well just join those monsters in public safety."

  "Who the hell is this chick?"

  The voices of the other examinees all went off like a school bell till eventually the instructor shouted out.

  "Alright all of you calm down, calm down... Your starting to annoy me with all the unnecessary noise... Still #77, you have done extremely well, so well in fact, please go immediately to the elevator in the back, don't worry it is automatic, I already typed in the coordinates of where it will take you, I will inform my co-worker's upstairs that you are going there."

  Eva just nodded, and went for the elevator.

  Meanwhile, the instructor then looked at his paper and said.

  "We still have one more person left to take the strength test... #69 you are up."