Matthew Atkinson
London
"What the hell is this?" Matthew expressed his dissatisfaction.
This news was misusing the titles for clickbait.
Love? People wouldn't fall in love that easily, especially on the first day after transmigrating.
Besides, he had to travel to the supernatural realm. How could they expect him to have a love life when people were also waiting for him to die there? This news was really not reliable at all.
But Matthew was not surprised that his story became the number one trending news in the country so quickly.
After all, exchanging a rare Logia-type Devil Fruit for an ability that people consider useless was big news, no matter how you look at it.
It was simply unprecedented!
He clicked on it and saw that it was indeed about him...
{This morning, at XxX High School in London, a shocking incident of supernatural opportunity exchange occurred. A boy actually used the extremely rare Logia-type Flame-Flame Fruit to exchange a Kryptonian Bloodline Card with a girl...}
{As everyone knows, there is a rule in the Holy Land: the more powerful the extraordinary opportunity, the rarer it is.}
{However, this rule does not apply to Kryptonian Bloodline Cards. Although the probability of a Kryptonian Bloodline Card appearing is extremely rare, with only two recorded cases to date, no benefits of it have been discovered yet. Kryptonian Bloodline is one of the useless abilities.}
{Of the two Kryptonian Bloodline Cards that have appeared so far, the first one, an American, died in the Supernatural Realm over seventy years ago. The other one, a South Korean, was fortunate enough to have survived the first ten levels of the Supernatural Realm and is still alive, in his eighties. Records indicate that this person had tried every possible training method, yet still found no improvement from his Kryptonian Bloodline and his attributes…}
{So, it's a well-known fact that Kryptonian Bloodline is a useless talent!}
{So, knowing full well that this ability was useless, why did this student, Matthew Atkinson, still willingly exchange the precious Flame-Flame Fruit with a female classmate?}
{In my opinion, there is no other explanation except true love...}
'What a stinky and long-winded news content.' Matthew thought.
Following the content, a complete video was placed, and the video content accurately depicted what happened at that school today...
Matthew was there, so naturally, he had no interest in watching the video.
He scrolled directly to the bottom of the video to read the comments from netizens.
"Holy crap! Is this true? I've never seen anything like this in my life!"
"Are there still people so stupid nowadays? Why can't I come across them?"
"True love? I feel like he's just a hardcore simp, right? The girl doesn't seem to be very familiar with him."
"Whether it's true love or just simping, I have to say this guy has pretty good taste. This girl is so beautiful!"
"She's indeed beautiful... Even so, giving the Flame-Flame Fruit away is a bit crazy. Isn't he afraid of getting nothing?"
"If this is true love, I can't understand it. But if this guy is a simp, I can understand it, because I have seen how terrifying an infatuated simp can be..."
"Hahaha, this guy is famous now."
…
After reading a few comments, Matthew chose to close it and stopped reading.
What netizens said was similar to what his classmates said, and they all thought he was a simp.
This was actually a good thing, as it can help him keep the Kryptonian Bloodline secrets hidden for a while.
Matthew knew that once he became stronger, the secrets of the Kryptonian Bloodline would be exposed sooner or later...
He didn't really want to keep it a secret forever; that was impossible. His idea was simple: keep it a secret for as long as possible, at least until the other Kryptonian Bloodline user died.
By then, he would be the only Kryptonian on this planet!
As for whether there would be other people who would obtain Kryptonian Bloodline Cards in the Holy Land in the future...this was not something he could control.
However, there was another saying about the opportunities in the Holy Land. That was, the powerful the user of a supernatural opportunity, the smaller the probability of the same ability appearing in subsequent Holy Lands!
For example, the most powerful individuals in the world today possess almost unique abilities.
Researchers refer to this theory as the Singularity Rule. If an ability user could achieve a high degree of fusion with the ability they've acquired and become a sufficiently powerful supernatural, that ability would reach Singularity, and the Holy Land would stop distributing it.
Initially, the Flame-Flame Fruit had only one user, a powerful one, but the previous user had died in the Supernatural Realm... Only after that, a new Flame-Flame Fruit appeared.
Suppose this statement about abilities and the Holy Land were true. In that case, Matthew should hide the secrets of the Kryptonian Bloodline and wait until he becomes more powerful and reaches the Singularity with his ability.
"Dear passengers, please note that the Oxlo-1267 train is about to depart. Passengers taking Oxlo-1267, please proceed to..."
A loud broadcast interrupted Matthew's train of thought.
He looked at the ticket in his hand and found that the train he was going to take was Oxlo-1267, so he stood up, took his luggage, and went to the ticket gate.
…
The University of Oxford, located in Oxford, was relatively close to London, where Matthew lived.
Just 45 minutes later, he arrived at Oxford Train Station.
At this time, it was already past seven in the evening, and the sky had darkened.
Matthew took a taxi at the station and arrived near the University of Oxford Supernatural Division campus. Instead of entering the campus, he chose to stay in a nearby hotel.
It was so late that the person in charge of registration at the university must have already finished work or gone home to rest, so he planned to go to school the following morning.
After storing his luggage in the hotel, Matthew went outside. He first found a restaurant to have dinner and then took a taxi to the nearby "Sunshine Dream – Oxford Branch", according to the map.
This sunbathing experience center was one of the chain stores he had visited before.
When Matthew entered the store, there were still customers present.
This time, Matthew did not waste his money and chose an hour-long experience. The equipment of both stores was the same.
However, when Matthew was lying inside enjoying the sunbath, there was no movement on his attribute panel.
"No effect. It seems that there is really a time limit. Hopefully, it will be just a daily limit."
Matthew was not surprised by this, and it could even be said that he had guessed it a long time ago.
The reason he came here was just because he wanted to give it a try. What if it worked and he could raise his attributes twice in a day? That would be really good. Alas…
…
When Matthew returned to the hotel, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening.
He took a shower, lay on the bed, thought for a while, and decided to send a message to his mother to let her know he had arrived safely.
{Mum, I'm at school. I arrived around 7 pm. It was too late, so I didn't go to campus. I booked a hotel near the campus, and I am planning to go to the campus tomorrow.}
Not long after, his mother replied, {Okay, I got it. Lock the door when you go to bed at night. Tell me if you don't have enough money.}
Seeing this message, Matthew hesitated.
He really needs money now because he wants to buy a sunbathing device directly, rather than going to the experience store every day.
But… At the moment, he was a little hesitant to ask his mother for money.
After all, he just caused chaos at home, and he couldn't want hundreds of thousands of pounds after that. If he did that, he was afraid it would really piss off his parents.
After hesitating for a moment, Matthew still didn't mention it.
{Mom, is everything okay at home? }
{Don't worry about things at home. Study hard at college and be sure to come back to see Mum next month!}
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