The Reluctant Superhero Book 1 by D. Levesque

Author:D. Levesque [Levesque, D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-08-18T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

After I gave Jim my banking information, he had Mike take us to another room. This one was much larger than the first, and inside were just large pieces of metal. Box-shaped. The first one was the size of a small car. Looking down the line, the biggest one was the size of a fucking old aircraft carrier.

Jim grinned and waived at the first one.

“I think we can forgo this one. Let’s jump to something bigger.”

He kept walking until he was not at the second, not the third, hell, not even the fifth. He stopped at number seven, which was the size of a small two-story home.

“Let’s go with this one.”

I looked at the large metal block and nodded. Should I make it look easy for this one? Or seem to struggle? I decided since they knew I was at level 5.8 that I would, or should, be able to handle more than this. Right? I didn’t want to make it look like I was weaker.

I nodded and snapped my fingers, using my Power to lift the item a good foot off the floor.

Jim nodded and grinned. “Next one.”

I lowered the large metal box gently to the ground and walked until I was in front of the next one. It seemed to be about 25% larger and I lifted that one easily as well.

Within minutes, I was at box number 22, which was the size of a four-story building. That one I lifted, but I figured that was good, and so I slowly made it look like I was struggling, which was a total blatant lie.

“Damn,” Jim muttered under his breath.

“Let’s see if you can lift the next one,” he said, almost physically pushing me there.

Once in front of that block, I really grunted and pretended I couldn’t lift it. I even kept snapping my fingers over and over to make it look good. But in the end, I pretended not to be able to lift it.

“Damn, I was hoping you would be able to lift that one too, even an inch,” Jim sighed deeply.

The one I had failed at was the second to last one. The last one was the massive aircraft carrier-sized one.

“How heavy was that one?” Jim asked, turning to Mike and pointing to the third last block I lifted.

Mike took out his phone and pressed something, and his eyes widened in shock.

“That was 64,000 metric tons!”

Jim turned to me with an even bigger grin. “Damn, boy! That’s amazing. Too bad you can’t lift that last one.”

I lifted an eyebrow. “Can anyone lift that one?”

He sighed deeply and shook his head. “No. Actually, I think even the one you lifted, you’re the first.”

He looked at Mike, who nodded in confirmation.

“Then why have them?” Linda asked, frowning.

“Because we need to test people!” Mike uttered as if offended.

“But also,” Jim said, glaring at Mike before turning back to Linda. “We can’t test folks if we don’t have the equipment. So it was built a couple of years ago.”

“How is the floor even able to hold up so much? Aren’t there other floors below us?” Linda asked.

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