The next morning, Mr Might was waiting and getting off the bus he quickly called Robin and walked with him to the stone.

“Robin, I heard that you did something to the stone and were using silver energy, what was that?” he asked.

“World power.” He said.

“World power is green.” He said.

“Ah right…” Robin said and smiled “It is world power but it is compressed.” He said.

“I see… so that is why I was told you didn’t move for nearly 4 hours after class was dismissed. How did you store so much world power?” He asked.

“Ah well… i was trying to store as much world power as i could but i could barely achieve 40% so after i filled like 50% of my storage i began to let out the compressed world power while spinning and then along my entire body, in every acupoint, i made a part stay and spin like in the central one. I think I just got lost in the process half way through and I just went on auto pilot until the last of the world power was finally changed. I filled about 80% of my storage space.” He said.

“Do you know how many times you did that?” He asked..

“Ten times before it turned into a compressed silver energy on the 10th. I said i could hear Mr Atlas’s voice from the stone and he explained how to merge and I used the higher compression of energy which had emptied a third of the stones and compressed the stones but then had to absorb basically all the remaining raw world power while making it the silver energy and continued to feed the stone until it completely finished the transformation and began to produce the silver energy itself.” He said.

Mr Might nodded and when they arrived at the field he didn’t go to the stone but instead into the punching machine and he just gestured.

Robin put down his bag and gave the same punch he gave and jumped back as the number dinged.

“Barely rose anything.” Mr Might said as he saw the brute strength had only slightly increased. “Robin, how well can you control that power and punch with it?” He asked.

“Well… I have been learning and the most I can do is cover my fist. I still have a little bit of that processed energy.” he replied and slowly his fist got covered with a silver cowl of energy.

“Alright but that would damage your body to just use it in your fist. Follow my instructions.” he said and told him how to use it and the energy channeled out through his entire body and starting at the skin, it went down until it filled the bones but Robin was groaning.

“I can do it… but it is so hard to move.” he said while moving slowly.

“Alright, that is fine, just punch the machine.” He said.

Robin nodded slowly and with a slow walk he got near and like being in very slow motion he pulled back and finally, before the power would disperse he just attacked.

BANG! DING DING DING DING DING DING!

Bolts shot out and the ground behind the machine cracked and the machine began to crack all over as the uncontrollable energy produced on Robin’s fist exploded inside.

Mr Might instantly moved and grabbed Robin and they instantly appeared almost 100 meters away before it could explode.

Mr Might looked back quickly before it did and Robin blinked as he found far back just before the machine exploded rocking the entire area.

“Wha!” Robin said, with his fist still extended while the glow faded back into his body.

“As expected of world power, the weight behind it is no joke.” He said and took Robin’s hand and opened it.

“Open and close it.” He said.

Robin did that and showed no damage.

“Interesting. Normally people have to have bodies capable of supporting that amount of force applied on it or their entire body breaks from the impact caused by it’s own strength.” Ye said.

“Impact… then my rubber would nullify it. My Rubber body is immune to normal blunt force.” he said.

“Right, raw blunt force would only send you flying at the best of cases but you would stand right up. There are still ways to use blunt force but generally it is something else affecting your body.” he said however he seemed to notice something. “Your fist is quite warm.” he said

“Oh, yeah I do feel the heat, it's going along most of my arm, back and legs really.” Robin said.

“Heh, so you did take the impact but your body transformed it into heat and your world power is converting it back into energy. I see how it works now. Well kid, you had best get ready because training will only get more intense because you now have an energy source that your body can’t totally consume.” He said.

“How did my body produce it then?” He asked.

“You unintentionally discovered the second phase of my method of cultivation. The spinning force in any of the dantians causes you to compress energy to a certain limit but that isn’t the max because it is just one rotation. Your body can cause many changes to energy and to make it pass through your entire body, stretching the energy and spinning it through thousands of cycles just like how the digital boy makes his life force go through thousands of life forms before pulling it all back. It gets processed and loses mass but gets compressed. This process is natural. However, the first part was impossible for common world power to be compressed.” He said.

“So what did it become?” He asked.

“World power is called one of the cosmic energies, among them is solar energy, space energy and time energy. Basically they are the power of celestial bodies and the fabric of space and time. We only know this much because some of the few psychic heroes can actually affect space along with the experiments with colliding atoms. Both cases introduced us to the energies of space and time but no one on earth can directly use those two forces. Though some can interact with it. However, there are plenty who can use world power and Solar energy. However, next to no one compresses world power to the limit because their ability doesn’t require quality, they require quantity so they just train their bodies.” Mr Might explained.

“And solar energy?” he asked.

“They go up the chain of energy, sunlight energy, solar energy, plasma energy and so on. The spectrum of each energy gets broader until plasma where it has the energy of surface level solar plasma. After that the information is restricted.” he said.

Robin nodded and channeled the energy, “So world power compressed is?”

“It's unknown territory because no one with world power has had the patience for it and because my technique isn’t public knowledge. Look at your teacher, he was more focused on growing his body which was pressured by the impact given by his own ability so he didn’t compress the energy while you only had the pressure to eventually merge the existing rocks.” Mr Might said.

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Robin kept feeling the energy but he couldn’t really name it because all he had in his mind was world power but then he started to think about the name of the ability.

“Kevin’s system called me a World Core Host meaning the rock at least comparable to a planetary nucleus while my teacher called himself Atlas, the same name of the titan of strength and endurance.” he said and looked at the burning remains of the machine. “How strong was the punch?” he asked.

“I saw it stop at 69,000 before the erupting force that had leaked from your body exploded the machine. I would wager that your punch might have reached at least 75k.” Mr Might said.

“So… I produced nearly 5 times the force of my spring loaded punch with a straight punch.” Robin asked.

“Yep, 75k points is well above the power limit of that machine which is limited to below 50k. Roughly, with just your base strength powered by that energy, you produce roughly 24 thousand kilos of force, already into the strongman strength category for elastic abilities.” he explained.

Robin looked at his own hand in shock, “Then I think I will call this Titan force.” He said.

“Huh? Is there a reason?” he asked.

“Yes, you already saw the reason. Also Atlas is a titan and he is said to hold up the entire world from collapsing. If he was real at one point and used world power then he definitely would have had it as a higher force above just raw power of the world or else he never would have been considered a god among the ancient titans of greek mythology.” he said.

Mr mMight nod and agree with the boy’s hypothesis.

“I’m not going to use this force except for training. Not until I know I can punch with it and not generate heat.” He said.

“Then you will actually be using it a lot so that your body adapts.” He said.

“Yeah but I won’t take it into live combat without a lot of training, there is no way to use such an unreliable power which makes it hard to even move.” he said. “Also, what would happen if I hadn't cloaked my body?” he asked.

“Your hand would have likely gathered all the energy and blown up, maybe a dislocated shoulder.” Mr Might nonchalantly explained, causing Robin to turn pale.

“Strength comes with training so no worries, you will definitely adapt like all people who unlock a stronger ability they had not grown up with. It is just a matter of using it in growing increments and adapting until you can use the full force.” he said.

At that point the principal came out and Mr Might had to apologize and would obtain a new better machine but he had to test Robin because of a change in his power and it unintentionally caused a lot of damage.

***

The four elite classes were gathered by the stand-in teachers but behind Mr Might were three other men and everyone was exclaiming in excitement.

“I’m sure you all know these men but I will introduce them nonetheless. This will also be the class arrangements. I will be the teacher of Class 1, Class 2 will be run by Harvey Johns, better known as Heatwave.” Mr Might said.

The students of the class all cheered.

“Class 3 will be taught by Rain Hodge, also known as Puppeteer.”

This time the 3rd class cheered out.

“Finally Class 4 is led by Amber Fletcher…”

Instantly the male body, except those with good self control, began to cheer intensely and she waved. This was naturally a woman and definitely a popular one because she was extremely beautiful.

“Sit down you horny bastards!” Mr Might shouted while the girls glared at the boys.

“Anyways, this is Moonlight as you all know. In my 20 years since I became an official hero, I’ve never made anyone a sidekick, however every so often I would always pick up disciples to teach. These three are among the most learned ones as well as the best teachers however like myself they are also nomadic and have come at my call only. They all train their power like myself. Harvey is called a Solar warrior as he draws power from sunlight, Rain is a ‘Mage’ using the mystical force of Mana to use his power and Moonlight uses moonlight for her powers.” Mr Might said, giving a very light introduction to each teacher.

“As usual, your beauty commands all attention.” Harvey said with a smile towards the beautiful woman with pure white skin that felt like purified moonlight had taken human form without any blemish.

In the middle, Rain just smiled.

“Alright, we are fully introduced. We will begin to talk about the future to come.” Mr Might said, “Once the testing period is complete, all four elite classes along with all normal classes are going to go on a field trip.” he said.

Everyone cheered while the three teachers grinned.

“Don’t cheer.” Rain said with a deep voice.

At this moment the four of them began to radiate an intense pressure over every student and to their eyes, it felt like the light dimmed and in front of them the four of them had grown into towering figures.

“This trip is going to be the worst 2 month's of your lives. We are going to one of the many training zones which contain housing we regularly visit on our travels and every last heroics student will begin power stimulation training.” Rain said.

“Your abilities have grown naturally but by 15 your abilities are basically stabilizing and now you will have to do specialized training. Not a single person is going to be left out and there is no ditching because we will be dragging you there.” Harvey said

“Welcome to hell kids, be ready to be tortured to your limits.” Moonlight said.

At this time, the students were all sweating and they began to question just how bad it could truly be.

The four contained their power and started PE to give them a small taste of what was to come.

For Robin, Mr Might had him test how well he could hold the ball after finally merging it the first time and he could awkwardly hold it but the titan force seems to have completely eliminated the effect it caused upon the earth itself.

With a mental order, Robin could make it light enough that he could raise it over his head or heavy enough that he couldn’t budge it.

“Does this effect persist off contact?” he asked.

Robin looked up and began to imagine the rock floating and the thin silver energy began to appear and it levitated and moved towards Mr Might and quietly landed on his hand and he could easily handle it like it was a simple dodgeball.

“Great, that means I won't have to worry about destroying trucks in the process. When the time comes, I will transport the rock and you will be training with your Titan force alongside your rubber abilities.” he said.

Robin nodded and Mr Might tossed the rock back, “Now make it weigh the limit you can carry it with the most stable and proper running posture.” he said.

Robin smiled weakly and manipulated the energy until he found the limit of his raw strength and began to run but it was incredibly hard because he had to balance as well as run. With one lap, despite having his body filled with titan force without absorbing it like before, he was already dying of exhaustion and his body was producing intense steam.

Robin didn’t last more than that and tossed the rock to the side after doing the lap his body was producing steam because every step caused the rock to crash down with his step on his body and it was like feeling the weight of a planet on his back and surprisingly, the weight didn’t drop on his arms or head, it dropped over his entire body like a pressure.

As a result, his body reached a full 600 degrees in just one lap of running and required a refill and even another pass of the LP oil because he felt like it had been evaporated before he tried another lap but it was amazingly painful running with that rock and understood why the titan Atlas was called the god of endurance and strength. The world definitely weighed much more than this and if the rock was tossed from space, it would be a very dangerous affair if it couldn’t be stopped.

When the PE class was done, Robin was feeling nearly dead from exhaustion but the energy in his body felt clearly richer and his body was barely able to digest part of it yet the burn he felt of his own growth with just that bit of power was already huge.

He was coughing from doing so much and he could only stumble towards the bathroom and was constantly trying to drink the water from the shower in a desperate attempt to get some before he finally reached a large enough sink and drank his fill.

Still, he was utterly spent. Sadly there were tests to come and he had to push himself up.

It was indeed the start of hell not just for the elite but even normal herics because pressure was something required to bring out people’s potentials and pressure can push people to develop their abilities better.

Like that, the week passed and a day before, Mr Might took the atlas stone and left the class to be cared for by the three remaining teachers. Each class had its own bus and like that they started the field trip out of Richmond and towards wilderness, something that was remade after countless destruction that happened during the earlier centuries of human civilization. Areas that were dry and desert like were even made into forests and these places were where they went.