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Echoes of Mastery
Chapter 3: Talent (UPDATED)

Chapter 3: Talent (UPDATED)

Jayce staring at his status window and seeing 2 hidden icons and a unique talent. Thomas trying to get everyone’s attention says out loud.

"As you see your class, talent and stats, we found out there are multiple types of classes and talents, they each have a rank. The ranks from worst to best are common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Legendary, and Unique. Unique is considered the best due to having multiple other talents in that one talent and the ability to adapt to its user, however they are extremely hard to find and get. Mr. Maverick would please show us how strong your talent is, since he has a unique talent."

Maverick starts heading to a test dummy inside the training facility, all the students go near the window in the observation room to watch him since it would be too dangerous to go inside there with him. As Maverick walks up to the dummy he simply puts his arm up and Lightning forms around him and compresses to his arm. He punches the dummy completely disintegrating it and as the duct clears the wall now has a large hole that was over 20 ft. long. The students look for a second in shock and then start shouting in excitement.

Student one shouts "That was CRAZY did you see that he completely destroyed that wall HAHA."

Student two responds with "I know, look at it, that is so cool."

As the rest shout and cheer Maverick on to punch another hole in the wall and asking him to do it again. Thomas grabs everyone's attention and speaks loudly.

"So everyone saw their unique talent, as Maverick has been doing this for years he has completely mastered his talent and his talent adapted to him so he can use it the way he wants. That is the power of a unique talent, however not all talents that are unique can be good, some could of course have drawbacks but that just depends on the talent and how good it can adapt to its owner. Alright as of right now you are now young hunters lucky all the young hunters are gonna be taking hunter exam next week, lucky you guys. Now head back to class you will be assigned new classes tomorrow however today you will not be allowed to any physical or any other activities until the class change has been finalized. Thank you"

All the students start going back to their classes, saying goodbye to their parents. Jayce sees Ariel talking to Maverick about something important. As Jayce waits patiently for them to be done, his sister calls Jayce over by waving her hand. Jayce walks up to them, Maverick is looking at Jayce and then proceeds to put his hand on his head.

"You will be a strong hunter, I know you will be just like your mother and father, don't worry about your sister. I will protect her with my life. Don't worry about the past as I'm gonna make sure nothing like that ever happens again, but right now you need to focus on what you want to do and get stronger. If you don't want to become a hunter because of what you went through, I understand. So tell me what do you want to do Jayce."

Jayce looks up and in deep thought questions. Wait what do I want, I know what I want, The only thing I want is my mom and dad. I want to see them again, I want to hug them again, I want the thing that took them away from me. I know what I want. I want to avenge them. I know my mom and dad will do the same as me. But I'm not strong enough to handle those creatures, but maybe soon, I will fight.

"I-I want to avenge my parents, I want no, I need to become the strongest hunter in the world." Jayce said, holding his head up high.

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"HAHAHA I now know what you, I will help you become the strongest, so together we can get those bastards." As he said those last words the power behind his voice and his magic accidentally went a bit out of control, as if he was holding in his pure rage.

“Sorry I almost lost my cool there, but anyway whenever you need me just let me know. I will put in a good word and recommend you during the hunter exam so don't stress about any of that, just perform your best. That is all you need to do?"

“What do recommendations do for a hunter exam?” Jayce asks confusingly.

“”To get you involved in guild activity sooner and a chance to show off a bit.” Maverick says smiling.

Jayce, staring at him and asks "How do you control your talent?"

"Mmm strange question but how do I put it, my talent is controlled by my mana core, the stronger and larger it is the more destructive power i can use. Also it is controlled by my emotions just a bit as you saw. However there's a lot more to that than just what I said. It's a lot easier doing it, than saying what it is.”

“I understand, Thank you. My class is about to start, I need to go. Hopefully I will see you later, goodbye."

Jayce waves his hand goodbye to his sister and Maverick as they also wave bye back.

"So Ariel, do I need to teach him how to use a weapon or fight?"

"For Ace? No you don't. He was blessed with amazing memory and muscle memory, he can perfectly copy anything so you don't have to worry about that, he only needs experience."

"Is that so, do you think he will copy what I just did during the evaluation?"

"He probably already has since he watches videos of you that appear on the internet of you fighting and little matches. Plus he also already knows how to fight like mom and dad, and learned kickboxing from me 2 years ago."

Maverick nods his head, “That kid is gonna make it big one day.”

Time goes by as school for the day ends, Jayce heads back home and waits for his sister to come back from work. As he is waiting he thinks about what Maverick said about his talent, he closes his eyes and tries to bring out the talents abilities. He feels mana flowing through his body, but the amount is extremely small that only little sparks are shown. Jayce sits down in a mediation pose and tries to forcibly increase his mana core using his new talent he received. Little by little the mana core expands, in his mind he feels the untangling of the core and slowly chipping away the restraints of growth. As it gets larger Jayce coughs up a little bit of blood, in pain he continues this process bringing him great pain as he coughs up more blood.

He stops as the pain gets unbearable and relaxes, taking deep breaths and is covered in sweat. As he gets up his body feels sore but continues to move forward, he once again feels mana flowing through his body and as he lets it flow, he feels the lightning, the storm through his body. As he tries to throw a punch his body is sore and feels great discomfort. Instead he grabs a training sword that is outside, and he imbues it with his mana and lightning but the moment he does that it explodes. He tries it again, but fails. Again, but fails again. He repeats the process a few more times until he is on the final one. As he does it the training sword explodes in his hand again. He shouts as he fails again and runs inside stumbling and grabs his sword his father got him. A katana that was very similar to his fathers, black all around with some hint of white in it. He imbues the weapon with his mana and holds it. As the sword begins to be surrounded by his lightning and mana, nothing seems to happen but a dark cloud forming above him.

As he looks at the sword confusingly noticing nothing is happening, he looks up to see the cloud. “Did I fail again?”

The moment those words leave his mouth the cloud above him lightning strikes at him and the sword.

"ZzZzzZZzz-PANG !!!"

As he is struck all is heard is the sound of the crackling of lightning and he feels the lightning surging through his whole body. The cloud wasn’t of his doing, but instead something else. The last thing he hears is his sister arriving home before fully going unconscious.