After the events of the gamer space’s complete level 1 upgrade, they decided to get a short break. It should be said that winter break starts on the 18th of december and ends in the second week of january.
After a week, on the week of christmas, Kevin contacted Robin about a great event they could do for christmas eve.
What surprised everyone was that in the week prior, a massive monster horde suddenly appeared in central north america but what was even more surprising was that both Chasm Might and Server Admin went but took Kevin and all the gamers along with them to test out a very important system, the Loot system.
They had done small tests in the city to figure out how taking down criminals worked.
In a city setting, criminals are marked as mobs and their ‘loot’ came from the bounty which actually made the system produce totally legal money as well as produce a crystal called an exp crystal which contained experience points that could be used in the trait system or to level up.
They wanted to see how it worked with monsters and when something actually dies.
Since the monster horde was extremely violent, those fighting just outright killed them.
To explain monster hordes, they are generally massive hordes of animals commanded by, generally, 100 or more actual monsters. That said, the abilities of monsters have to be taken into consideration because among their powers there are abilities which grow stronger by connecting to normal animals and buffing them. It isn’t common but nine times out of ten, a violent monster horde is caused by this kind of ability.
They also tested out how the system worked without and with the pieces so Kevin formed the space around himself before expanding it forward leaving everyone out and said at full size, the size of half a metropolis city, he could barely maintain it for 10 minutes while all the systems were working at 50% of the capacity.
After the gamers entered, it went to full power and the power pieces released world power to run it.
After that it was just a slaughter fest but surprisingly, the rewards for killing monsters and animals were directly deposited into their inventory so only after the horde was culled they gathered up and were shocked to find perfectly prime meat cuts and exp crystals double the size of the ones gained from bounties.
For the true monsters, those who killed them got bounties like with criminals depending on their danger level and they actually obtained things related to their power. There was even one that gained an entire pelt, skeleton and an organ holding toxic substance that was related to the powers it possessed.
The amount of exp crystals was massive but no one wanted to use them so Kevin actually hatched a great idea and asked for all the crystals and got them all after returning leading to talking with robin who called the club now.
“Thanks to Kevin and Server Admin’s testing, we actually got a resource which can help deactivate dangerous abilities and return people to normal humans without their disabilities. What do you guys think about setting up a date to go to the institute of disabilities on the 24th and do this as a massive event to cure people whose powers are extremely damaging.” Robin suggested.
“Really! I’ve heard of this but I wanted to see it for real!” one of the newer members exclaimed excitedly and they all agreed so they headed to the institute and talked with the two heroes about what they had in mind and with their connections and the government, it was planned.
Of course, they had to go to all the institutes to check the price and it had to be enough for 5 levels of exp crystals.
Thankfully these were mostly sick and they had low experience requirements so it meant only 2 or 3 crystals each and soon they got an exact number.
Of course they wouldn’t give up this chance for curing the dangerous psychics either and were more than happy to have two heroes protecting the area for this event.
Soon the people from up to 5 states around Virginia were transported in mass.
At the same time, families came with them to the same base where the gamer experiment happened and the entire place was filled with people and medical equipment on christmas eve.
The gamer space was opened to full capacity in this bunker and the club members were already schooled in how the system worked and alongside the gamers, they helped the doctors with those who needed to actually deactivate their powers to regain normality in their lives.
The effect was amazing, people with warped bodies and things like horns and bone sticking out saw these warping parts withdraw and their bodies completely turn normal.
At the same time they were able to learn exactly how much they needed to remove the defective trait and make it normal and many of them just thought it was better to live a normal life just like powerless.
Those who could purchase for far less than others did feel it would be nice but many of them understood that their powers might still not be strong.
For the psychics, exp crystals were used to level them up and the stats directly used to enhance their bodies and brains.
Chasm Might and his disciples would go around to those who woke up and taught them about the storage area for psychic energy which could help control their psychic powers and stabilize it.
In all, thousands of people were given a gift beyond words for Christmas Eve though this was thousands who were made powerless but none of them thought of that as a disadvantage. Instead of living life in pain on a bed without a future, at least as powerless they could go to school, get an education, get married and much more.
Of course, deactivation wasn’t the only thing, those whose ‘trait cure’ was close to the deactivation cost actually got that along with 5 extra levels to balance their bodies, allowing their new trait to blend and repair their genetic problems.
They only returned home at night but everyone that participated in this was more than happy, especially Robin, who saw this as a great start but he knew it wasn’t a permanent solution. Where would they find so many monster hordes for this, hordes appeared rarely and before this one, it had been almost 7 years since one appeared in the entire world.
Also Kevin would need to be near to get the people to get rewards so it was impossible at this time.
It was a great event to do at the end of the year if they worked all year to gather that amount through crime fighting and bounties, sure, but it would never be able to be a permanent solution for the millions affected by disabilities.
For Christmas, the Harrisons, under the parent’s urging, got their five children to go have some fun and in spite of the winter cold, could feel the heat from everyone's passion.
It was impossible to hide the previous day’s event but it was under the name of Chasm Might and Server Admin, especially the gamers who were the primary elements in this story. The news simply said that it was another ability that appeared which connected all gamers into a system and they thought that they could gather the exp crystals for the event.
All information on Kevin was made national secret of course during and after the event so it was only known that the gamers gained the capacity to use personal systems fully and only he could expand a space to do a big event like that.
Many complained that he should do more but they naturally didn’t know the effort that went into what was already capable of happening. The ability to give several thousand people the possibility of a happy new year and life took the effort of hundreds of gamers, two heroes and even more help from the government to gather the number of people. It isn’t a small bit of effort to do what was done and doing this had helped emptied no less than 50 institutes of disabilities and they now had space to accept people that couldn’t be attended to before.
Robin didn’t really mind it much and was filled with a sense of accomplishment that he could achieve what he could and was going to use this even more for the future.
Walking in an extremely rare and peaceful moment for the family, going through the busy streets, Robin felt a dangerous sinking feeling and every hair on his body stood on ends.
The world seemed to slow down and he could see the entire city block but he felt it, a massive danger crashing from above and instantly his mind worked. He never walked around without his arms and legs being at the ready like a loaded gun but what really mobilized in an instant was his Life essence and Titan force.
Like a broken dam it surged through his body and while a large amount gathered on his arm as his entire body hardened.
It was enough to cause overflow and as he turned, his pupils almost seemed to glow as he was already swinging by the time his eyes hit the target and barrelling down was a monster of a man but one he had seen once before.
A massive metal arm while he crashed towards Robin with a sick expression of pleasure.
Robin didn’t wait as he unleashed his punch with his entire body behind it just as Metal arm punched out.
BOOM!
No one saw it coming as the impact released a shockwave so powerful that the windows of the buildings nearest them exploded while the ground under Robin instantly caved but the one to fly back after the clash wasn’t Robin it was the Metal Arm who was sent spinning several meters away and landed on his feet.
“You, I recognize that smelly stench of rubber! You were that bitch with Beat Spring. Surprised to see me.” he said.
The punch instantly caused shock, fear and terror in the populace as men pulled their families to safety while women and children were in fear.
Behind him, his own family were afraid while Robin was staring coldly at the man.
“Ruth, get them out of here.” Robin said.
“I’ll fight with you.”
“No, Beat springs took a while to beat him even as a Braveman, you aren’t a true strength type to fight him head on. Also this guy had lackeys the last time, who is going to protect them.” He said.
“Oh, it seems you have time to worry about others.” Metal arm said grinning as he took out a canister making Robin frown. “Let me show you what fear is brat, funny enough, taking your head is also going to get me a nice bounty, after that planting those explosives of rocket fuel on that stupid rock should make me so rich that i can live in luxury for the rest of my life.” He said as he grinned at Robin before forcefully stabbing himself with the needle end of the canister.
“GO!” He roared to Ruth and she was forced to quickly run with their family and Robin looked back to watch as the man roared in pain as the metal pieces on his body began to change and the metal of the arm came to life and spread through his entire body forming a completely solid living metal man and Robin knew that this wasn’t the limit. It was clearly a stimulus and it had likely pushed the man’s physical strength to brave man standards.
He fully hardened and his body radiated Titan power before he pulled the hood from his armor suit that he had on under his clothing.
“I’ll kill you for ruining my big money plan before!” he roared and rushed at Robin like a bull but this time Robin didn’t pull stops and punched with full spring power met the first punch with the same move he punched the punching bag and released his legs and arms at the same time.
BANG!
Another shockwave but he didn’t go flying this time and instead instantly went into the next punch and Robin met him as his body pulled back and Robin was forced into a super strength slug fest releasing spring punches at close range at full power with each blow at full strength.
Within the first 20 punches, the metal man grinned because he noticed Robin had begun to heat up. He had done the same when he had taken a single punch and pulling the punch he sent a savage kick towards Robin but Robin walked into that kick taking a step to outside that.
It should be said that the man was a giant 3 and a half meters of size after the injection being basically like a living metal hulk so his leg along was Robin’s size but without caring for collateral damage because he couldn’t care about it, Robin stretched his arm around that leg and pulled with all the augmenting he could and began to spin him just like he did with the Atlas stone and even when he tried to dig his hands into the ground robin raised the angle until finally sending him up into the air and releasing him before shooting himself after him while gripping him by the legs and with one final swing he swing the man over his head and towards the ground.
He came crashing down like a meteor and Robin dropped onto one of the many poles on the buildings while huffing because this entire sequence had drained an astonishing 70% of his Titan force. He also doubted he did anything to him and was right because a loud roar came and a strong wind pressure came from the guy's arm swing which blew the dust away.
His eyes were almost glowing from rage.
“What the hell did he use to make his power rise so much and activate it over his body?!” Robin thought but he knew he wasn’t his match, he wouldn’t be able to match him for a long period of time, it was admirable that he could match him for how long he was going already. “That isn’t important, what is important is how did he get out of jail. Prisons for super strength villains aren’t made of simple material, hell their cuffs are made of tungsten while the internal structure tends to be gravity bracelets with extremely high gravity pressure.” he thought.
Robin looked around but sadly there were a lot of people still around making it a dangerous situation to run away from or it would involve a lot of people.
“Come down here… if you don’t want to see me start a blood bath!” the villain said and Robin narrowed his eyes.
“If that is what you want.” He said and looked up before rushing up to the top and getting clear of the building with both his arms extended and flying extremely high. He let go of one arm and rapidly wrapped it and with the other, his titan force pulled it and he shot like a bullet.
He didn’t restrain any of his Titan force this time and had to use his all to follow his own speed before punching while his fist was nearly glowing and supported his body with his essence as he smashed down on the man’s chest before he could even react.
It was his turn to feel the weight of the world as his massive body was pushed into the ground to the knees while Robin felt a pain he never felt in his arm as the energy force acted on his bones and muscles unlike blunt force would normally act.
What was shocking was that he released the titan force invasively but the metal man’s body began to glow for a moment before the ground shined as the invasive energy went into the ground before Robin followed through with the punch as the ground exploded sending the man down as an area of 10 meters completely collapsed into a 5 meter deep hole while robin was sent flying while his arm felt like it was breaking and he slammed into the side of a building breaking through the windows, ceiling and coming out through the floor.
His breath was shallow while his right arm was trembling, clearly injured and he felt exhausted.
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His Titan force was totally spent so he had to huff and start to channel Life Essence and winced hard as that energy went into his arm and returned with immense heat.
“Are you okay?” one of the people in the office said as they walked towards him.
“Water, get me a lot of it.” He said and got another person to help him unzip the back but they complained that his body was too hot.
Before they could continue, an extremely loud roar came from outside and Robin had to force himself to the window to see the metal body burst out in a rage and looked up at Robin’s path of destruction from the recoil.
“Little maggot!” He roared and grabbed a car before throwing it at the building. Screams filled the building but before the car hit, a figure came and smashed the vehicle away sending it flying towards the street clear of any people.
In its place was a radiating figure covered in heat waves.
Slowly the power of the sun gathered on him and a flame unlike any that someone would see began to form in his hand and seemed to weave itself like a solid object and formed blunt staff.
“Heatwave!” Robin shouted.
“Good job kiddo, you handled that pretty well but you should learn restraint. Wasting all your energy does no good.” He said before looking back with a smile, “But I get why you did it. Leave it to the pros to clean up this mess.” He said.
Robin nodded as he jumped down.
“A pro huh? Just random, no good egoistic wannabe hero.” the metal man said.
“I’ve never ‘tried’ to be a hero. However, I hope you understand what you did when your little boss gave you bastards the ‘Bloom’. The government has officially signed the death warrant of all inmates responsible for the death of 157 officers during your little breakout. As such, I don’t need to hold back.” he said.
“Heh, ‘heroes’ killing, that is a good image for a hero.” he said.
“I’ll say it again, I’ve never tried to be a hero. I’ve trained to kill and with my master and my colleagues under his teachings, we learned to kill.” Heatwave said and bended forward a flame burst from his feet and he was instantly behind the guy midswing and the staff connected to his neck letting out a ring like a hammer to a gong but mixed into it was cracking. He hit while aiming down the road and within that small moment when it connected where he slowed down everything sped up once more and the massive several ton body was sent flying like a ball.
Heatwave didn’t even touch the ground as golden flames gathered at his feet and exploded making him disappear with impossible speed. All anyone could hear were explosions for only about 30 seconds before it finally stopped.
Robin opened the window to look and but it was far.
Soon a person with water arrived and Robin didn’t waste time as he expanded his jaw and just dumped everything in like a snake swallowing his meal and jumped down without waiting for any help. He ran down the street looking shocked at the damage from just 30 seconds until he reached a crater and Robin swallowed hard. Beat Springs and Heatwave were the same rank but the power disparity was so huge. It showed the clear difference in strength between braveman.
At the center of the creator, Heatwave stood over the body of the man whose metal body had returned to normal but his limbs were in weird angles and he was clearly not breathing making Robin swallow hard.
He had put the hood back on to hide his face in such a big event but it still caused him fear and Heatwave saw him and smiled before walking over and patting his shoulder.
“Don’t try to compare people who fight to capture to those who fight to kill. Chasm Might and all his disciples including myself were never trained to capture. We consist of a division meant purely to deal with criminals marked for death row and are to execute them as swiftly as we spot them. It is the authority granted to us under the command of the president. Master Might is the head of this division so you don’t need to worry.” He said.
“Yeah… but…” Robin said and looked at the scene of carnage.
“Yeah… There is a reason we do the least amount of crime fighting. Drawing our weapons to kill means going all out. We can’t care for collateral damage, the motto is ‘the faster we finish it the less damage we cause’.” he said “Honestly, you caused a lot of damage yourself.” he said.
“I couldn’t help it, the guy was stronger and I could only punch with everything i have.” he said.
At that moment Heatwave noticed his limp arm and made him take it out. He touched it a bit and sighed, “As expected, you loaded your arm with all your remaining titan force and tore your muscles and damaged your bones with energy burn.” he said.
“Energy burn?” Robin asked.
“It is when you use internal force that your body can’t support. People who develop very strong internal energy under short periods of time without time to adapt, people who compress energy into a refined form and haven’t adapted yet and people who use more energy than their bodies can handle have this problem.” he said. “You’re quite lucky that we possess specialized healers for this.” he said and took out a phone and called Chasm Might and told him about the event.
Robin filled him in on what the criminal had said including about the Atlas stone before going to find his family.
His parents were extremely scared for him but were happy to see him safe and worried about his arm until Heatwave confirmed he was safe.
About five minutes later, other braveman and strongmen arrived for support alongside police and others. Injuries caused by the aftershock of the fight were treated and those that couldn’t went to the hospitals while damage was calculated and repair crews were already working on the easier parts but many of them complained about the hole and had to shut down sanitation and water to the area because pipes had been completely ground to dust and collapsed and would need totally new ones to replace the system.
Robin couldn’t do much about it and was cared for mostly but his biggest worry was the bounty. He was wearing his armor the entire time he was out with Beat Springs except when he had to cool down but even the boss villain at the time didn’t see it. He only knew what he saw which was the bonding process same as Chasm Might.
He had no name to go by, no face to compare it to, the only possibility was if he had an inside connection.
After his external wounds were dealt with, Heatwave had Robin’s family go home while taking him to a doctor. He was thankfully close by and arrived soon thanks to Chasm Might’s call and looked Robin over.
“Quite the strong one this time. Energy burn, huh. Didn’t think I would ever see one of Might’s disciples make this much of a blunder.” He said. He turned the arm a bit and moved it about and felt it. “I feel like this should be something like world power, did you actually figure out how to process world power?” he asked.
“I call it Titan Force. My straight punch can produce 2600 kilos of force but when it is channeled through my body, it amplifies that by 5 times.” Robin said.
“Oh, I see, a fitting name.” He said, nodding and touching the arm. “Alright lay down and uh… you might want to clamp down on this.” he said taking a leather mouthpiece “I’ll be going with the world power burn since that is the source raw energy.” he said and strapped robin’s other arm, chest, waist, legs and even head. “I would relax as much as possible, it's not going to get any more gentle.” he said and his hands began to channel some kind of power and he touched the shoulder and instantly Robin clenched his jaw and screamed as this energy filled his arm and spread through the body and reacted to the Titan force.
Micro injuries in his body healed soon after and returned to the arm and began to focus making it almost unbearable as his arm started to glow while the swelling started to decrease but that was skin and muscle level and just the swelling. Once the swelling was gone it could focus on the real damage and begin to fix it, which took a painful 2 hours but it wasn’t done yet because the bones were burned as well and this was the most painful, taking 4 harsh hours until the last bone.
Among the skin and muscles, the nerves had been mixed in so it was healed up by the time the bones were healed making sure he felt all the pain.
“Alright kid, you're good as new, avoid overusing your energy next time. Human body has only so much healing potential and processed world power isn’t an easy energy to constantly heal from. Hell, even normal world power isn’t easy so keep your wits about you.” he said and looked at Heatwave.
“Master Might will deal with the payment.” He said.
“Good, make sure to teach him proper control.” he said and finally walked off.
Robin sat up and moved his hand and looked at Heatwave. “Who is that?” Robin asked.
“His name is Dr Shock, or should I say his alias is that. He’s never revealed his real name for the last 40 years so everyone just considers his alias his name at this point. His power is Cellular activation, it causes the body to break down dead cells and forces living strong cells to multiply. It is a pretty painful healing method and is slow but it is the most complete with the least side effects, however the number of times you can do it is limited. Cells have a limited number of divisions and it is basically like saying you are using your own life force to heal.” He explained.
Robin channeled Life essence and clenched his face as he felt a strong burning in his arm and Heatwave knew what he was doing and nodded, “Avoid training until your arm regains full health or you might develop your life force deficiency again.” He said.
“What about that bounty? Is it even safe to be with my family like this?” He asked.
“You’re not the first promising child that has become a target for villains. Every last hero’s disciple has always been labeled a kill target because heroes never train with conventional methods. They can rapidly train people to immense heights within a short time though reaching the height of a true hero’s strength is difficult. Hell, I was a target for the better part of 8 years during my training period until I was able to become an official braveman. I still have my active bounty you know but they fear me enough to not come after me actively.” he said.
“Why did you become a hero that kills?” Robin asked.
“It's not really an option at this point.” he said and the two leave the building and headed to the car. “My powers are almost purely ‘Absorb sunlight’ when I was a child, it had been an extremely simple and basic power. I spent… probably 6 years from the age of 6 when it awakened to 12 just absorbing energy into my body until I couldn’t. Honestly if Master Might hadn’t saved me from an accident he would have never noticed my problem. Thanks to being nearby when things settled I was able to actually talk to him and said that without putting pressure I can't grow. From there I tried a lot and learned that I can gather nodes of sunlight and force it into my body until all that power created a spark in my heart storage which became the source of my power and growth.” he said.
“How did you even grow from that?” Robin asked.
“I’ll say it isn’t easy for sure. I needed to gather, blow up and reform those sparks as they grew into a purer form of energy and then had to get technological help to form something that could safely hold them outside of my body. The reason is because my body can’t grow stronger normally, no matter how much exercise I do I can't actually get stronger. The source of my strength is the energy infused into my body. With 99% of my sparks sealed away, I had to exercise until that energy finally broke down before finally calling back the sparks. They rebuilt it with better energy and constantly transformed my body and it possessed a higher energy capacity each time. As a side effect, my fire became extremely potent to the point that it isn’t actually safe for normal crime fighting.” He said.
“What kind of stages of growth are there?” Robin asked.
“Sunlight which is just heat plus the color spectrum, Solar energy which is the entire light spectrum including radiation. In fact, at the time and even now I regularly help deal with toxic radiation by absorbing it all and converting it into energy. Plasma energy where it becomes liquid plasma like on the sun, then it changes into a totally different cosmic fire which I’ve come to call Solar fire source. Lastly, once I filled every acupoint in my body and condensed it all, it formed my current Solar Fire Crystal.” he explained.
“Is that why you can generate enough fire to produce solid objects?” Robin asked.
“That is a rare ability and no, the growth of the crystal requires extreme compression. Basically gathering power until it implodes. My current limit is 7 times and I’m working for the 8th. I can only continue until something new happens and I adapt to that change and grow it in the direction it points.” He said with a smile. “Each collapse has required me to break my energy body countless times and the result is an overbearing strength not suitable for common heroics. Any attack I make will do a lot of damage to the target and collateral damage. Moonlight is actually not that far off from myself, she just doesn’t show it but she has the same problem.” he said.
“You said it was basic at the start, what kind of changes did it face?” Robin asked.
“When I gained plasma sources I also gained five nodes in my body which controlled electro magnetism, basically I could produce my own magnetic field like a celestial body and require this ability to stabilize and control plasma which is highly volatile and radioactive.” he said.
“Wow, that almost sounds like a defect instead of an ability.” Robin said.
“That is why I have a very large requirement for technology. I need to reduce the quality of fire that I use to prevent excessive problems. Solid energy is one solution I found to contain the radioactive elements.” he said.
Robin nodded and looked at his repaired arm that still felt the burning as he constantly channeled life essence to replace what he had lost. “What do you think my future could hold?” he asked.
Heatwave looked at him for a moment before back at the road. “You’ve mentioned you also had mental energy form because of the wisdom boost. I found that very interesting because a lot of people have reached 20 and even 30 points but barely 10% of them develop any psychic capacity. After that is your life force. Honestly, I’m extremely curious about you. It is already extremely rare for a person to develop one internal energy despite having a power but you’ve developed two natural ones.” He said.
“My sister did the same, though her constitution had to be 30 points higher but she also developed life essence. I thought it was supposed to be rare.” He said.
“How many points did she use at once?” Heatwave asked curiously.
“About 50 points but she already had a drop at 79.” he said.
“How many did you have?” he asked.
“I think it was 89 when i used the system the first week of camp but I needed 100 to fully switch my entire body’s life force.” Robin said.
“Heh, well that doesn’t seem off then.” he said with a chuckle.
“Why?” Robin asked.
“You’re identical twins. The only thing making either of you unique from one another is your gender and how different each of your powers are from one another. That said, you came from the same egg so many things are the same, among them your talents. It would seem both of you already possess some facet of actual talent for internal energy already.” he explained.
Robin looked at him with a questioning expression.
“Think of it like science. Scientists test things and eventually obtain one reaction and produce a new innovation. Then they question themselves, was this coincidence or is this fact. Theory or fact. As such they do the experiment again and get the same result. It is the same for you, it is a curiosity that one of you gets it, it is a fact that both of you can develop it.” he said.
Robin laid back silent but his face was in a slight frown.
Heatwave smiled when he saw that, he naturally knew the less than favorable family problems he faced.
“I’m curious, what are your thoughts about your twin sister?” He asked.
Robin laid there on the seat looking out into the streets, “I hate the constant comparison between us.” he said. “From the time we had awakened our powers it’s been like that even outside of just our powers. At the start no one mentioned it but later they started to compare work results, physical strength and eventually by middle school basically every aspect of life we had was compared.” he said.
Robin’s fist was clenched and he was near the point of grinding his teeth in anger.
“After she was recruited by Captain Stretch for his academy of privileged rubber abilities so that he could likely study their rubber structure while also training them, I basically just gave up and ignored it all. After all, what would the defective copy do to the perfect one. Most of my middle school years were spent going after a single feeling I felt when Marcus threw cooking oil from the school kitchen on me.” He said.
“Is that how you got the idea for the LP oil?” Heatwave asked, surprised.
“Yeah, it was a strange tingling on my skin and for the rest of the day I noticed that my skin was a bit stretchier so from there I tried all kinds of oils, lotions and skin products, thousands of brands honestly. It was only after Lola was able to open a portal to the demon realm and gain her succubus servant demon that we finally found the LP oil allowing me the capacity to properly train and grow with all my power including my hardening.” Robin said.
“What are your thoughts now?” Heatwave asked.
Robin went silent as he also asked himself, “I think… maybe up until my fight with Ruth during the internship… or maybe after that when I finally resolved my deficiency, I kinda saw that I might not be the only one to suffer. Before our fight she said she suffered from the opposite reaction. Because I worked hard she had to work harder, she was called a genius and put on a pedestal, she was given expectations of glory while being insulted behind her back. I was honestly always insulted to my face and would return them but I can’t see Ruth doing the same.” he said.
“Well… that is a start. The fact that you both can understand your roles in a dangerous situation is also a good show of trust between you despite what you openly show. At the end of the day, you two are still family. Although not all families are united, you both are still twins and both of you have grown up quite well.” He said.
Soon they quietly pulled up to his house and his family was already home when they walked in.
His mother pulled him into a hug out of fear but he showed her his arm was alright and Heatwave had just taken him to a special healer with an actual regeneration power to deal with the less than normal injuries and there would be no lasting damage after his body recovered the last stretch naturally.
He decided to go rest and headed to his room where he laid down and looked at his arm before closing his eyes and pulled his life force and started to cultivate it like he did with Chasm Might’s channel method at full speed. Time ran quickly and dinner came and he joined in before going back and continuing the process which helped his body naturally produce life essence as it slowly refilled his arm’s arteries, skin, muscle and bone.
The bone was the last part and ended at midnight. This did however thin out his life essence quite a bit because what his arm possessed was completely consumed to rebuild his body. It would take time to regain his vitality and it caused him to sigh but he looked outside his window at the giant rock.
It was an incredible source of power but today showed a glaring weakness. It was too big to carry and his capacity to hold it was too small. He had been almost full but in the slugfest that lasted less than 10 seconds, he had drained 70% of his power. He wasn’t Mr Atlas who could constantly get power by holding the rocks.
He clenched his fist as he focused in his head, feeling the mental energy that had formed over the hours that wasn't swept away by the Titan force. He breathed heavily and began to stimulate his rubber control causing the mental energy to move just like Ruth had but in return he also started to try and feel for the difference just like he had separated life essence from his control. Rubber control used all natural energies and it grew better the more stable each of these were. That was why his rubber control got immensely better after getting life essence.
After today, he felt that it was wasted potential to completely ignore this, his body had activated this for a reason and in turn, he was going to train this because he did not know the future and what it brought with it. It was a source of power and it would surely not make him any weaker because bioenergies were things native to the human body, developing these meant developing something natural to a power not even connected to super powers but the biological mortal body.
As such, even if it was incredibly hard, he was going to do his best to get control of this force, even if just enough to be able to store this where it won’t be swept away by his other energies.