After the first week of introduction and getting most of those things out of the way, including the influx of club members the, now, 10th grade year had their first class which replaced a portion of PE class.
Chasm Might was naturally teaching Robin’s class but a funny thing about the classes, the student division was based on each teacher’s knowledge and proficiency on a certain type of combat and training.
Chasm Might, Robin’s master, was proficient in close and middle range fighting as well as internal power usage. His disciples have been from a range of different energy types and it could be seen with the three bravemen he had invited the year prior to be teachers of the elite classes.
In the same spectrum, Esper, the leading American union psychic, took a job to teach primarily psychic powers but he was very skilled in both physical and ranged usage making him the best person to teach as well as learn from the students.
In a sense, he is similar to captain stretch but he had never been ‘condescending’ about his views of powers. Psychic powers have to be many times more cautious compared to physical powers and he had actually put a lot of money into researching psychic technology. The objective was always to suppress psychic powers to control out of control psychic power but the results ended in things such as gravity bracelets and the psychic gemstones.
Admin server was the last of the actual heroes that taught classes directly. Blue Phoenix did take up a job as a PE teacher though but he wasn’t experienced in teaching others to use their own powers so he focused on his strength which was training physical strength.
Classes beyond these, in the elite classes, were run by bravemen such as Grace, daughter of Mephesto, Heatwave, Moonlight and others such as Vincent Death’s top disciples and more. Naturally each class was divided into divisions among these depending on the hero supporting said division.
Each class had a respective category of powers such as necromancers and life force users for each respective class. Robin was naturally with his direct master.
In a very large room with a large number of elevations and paths up like a mountain the students looked confused.
“Welcome to technique development 101. During this next year, you will be training to make and perfect attacks and moves that utilize your powers to a far more creative extent as well as bringing out much more damage. Remember, a person that knows how to properly swing a weapon is bound to win against someone with the same level of skill and only knows how to swing. If you don’t know how to put all your body’s force behind it or make unique moves to trick enemies, you are unlikely to achieve higher levels of strength.” Mr Might said.
“Sir, is it only moves?” One student asked.
“No, many of you have potential for a lot so we plan to train creative usage of power as well. This includes tapping into the more intricate aspects of your abilities. Remember, just getting traits to improve your body is extremely basic, you’ve got to learn how this affects you and how to bring out the most of it. Don’t think that just buying new traits is how you will get stronger from now on. Those who came before it have all been creative and every hero is built not from traits of our power but our smarts. Look at Esper, his power is purely psychic energy control but he elevated his capacity to the level we see today so you’ve got no excuse to not learn to use your own powers correctly.” He said.
“Sir! Are you going to teach how to use internal powers like life force for combat in more efficient ways?” Robin asked.
“Don’t worry, I've naturally looked into it and am aware of its mechanisms and how it works. We’ve mostly ignored it since we were focused on your physical power until now but we will go into internal power usage. One part of the PE classes for your class has been switched especially for training this aspect purely so that you can understand the more unique aspects including teaching about the known energy forms of processed energy and fused energy. Now everyone, I'd like to present to you someone I've worked with but retired about 8 years ago.” He said.
The door opened and walking in was a man that looked in his mid 50s or early 60s and smiled as he walked in.
“Not many of you would recognize him but this man was known as Double. His ability is self copy and he is able to copy himself. Originally he was limited to about 10 clones until his 40s when he met me and helped him understand internal forces and it provided the power he needed to become a braveman. For those that have never heard of him, he also goes by the title ‘The 100 man army’.”
“Ah!” instantly half the class exclaimed.
The man smiled, “I’m happy that I am still remembered. I've come as a teacher and through my clones we will give each of you a private teacher as well as a sparring partner.” he said.
“That’s so cool!” Robin muttered that he could meet a legend. When he came out and became the 100 man army his power had bloomed. Originally his power would cut his strength by the number of clones down to one tenth when he released all clones but when he suddenly bloomed, his power allowed him to reserve at least 60% of his power while splitting 40% of it into 100 clones. It was incredibly useful when fighting large groups as the main body would fight the primary threat while the clones would gang up on the fodder.
After a moment his body began to produce branches and one by one they came out fully clothed just like the man himself and there was eventually one for each of them.
“Alright kids, we are going to get into it, please take a platform for yourselves.” Mr Might said.
Each clone came and walked next to one student and started to talk with them to learn about their powers.
Going to the middle with the Double clone, Robin was talking about his powers including the Titan force.
“Oh, you’ve upgraded the force density. That means another jump in strength.” He said.
“Sort of, honestly the biggest jump is getting psychic energy.” He said.
“Oh? Did that change anything?” He asked.
“Yeah, like when I first got Life essence and mental energy under true control, I understood that life force and mental energy both constituted elastic control, it caused me to get 10 levels. Recently, when I finally got Psychic energy it went up another 10 levels and reached level 71 but then, as I filled my body with psychic energy and saturated it to adapt my body, it actually upgraded the skill to Advanced Elastic Control and the level went down to 25 but the 40% boost went to 50% and I think now the control buff is 1:2 each level.” Robin said.
“Oh, interesting. I never knew even control abilities could evolve.” He said and looked over at another platform and Robin looked and found his twin sister. “That is your sister, yes?” He asked.
“Yes sir.” He said.
“Because of your connection to Chasm Might, I read up on your life. How do you feel about her being recruited?” Double asked.
“Um… it’s still a pretty awkward and fragile relationship but it’s been getting better over the last year after our argument during our internship. During our birthday I gave her a trait from the system as a gift and it’s getting better. She also has advanced elastic control like me.” He said.
“Yes, she just told me. All of the clones are connected, it is why Chasm Might and my original body have not moved. They are monitoring from below.” He said pointing at the two watching from below. “So how would you like to do it?” He asked.
“Well… I've not actually seen the extent that my control capacity has grown because I've been using most of my psychic energy to saturate my body the last weeks after I got it. I'm still adapting actually but the first thing I think is important to see is if I can retain my springs after punching and how fast I can wind them up.” he said.
He nodded, “Good, you can punch me directly, although I am only a fraction of my original power, I am still within the spectrum of Strongman.” He said and started to flex.
Robin nodded and walked across the platform and raised his exposed arm. Everyone was dressed with their suits and those that were part of clubs and had good income had improved this suit. Robin’s was similarly improved to strongman grade material since his strength had skyrocketed to this level.
He breathed in and made his arm wind, both he and double were shocked when suddenly his arm twisted at extremely high speeds and formed a very tight knot of springs within seconds.
“Woah.” He said, blinking in shock and just ran his finger along the spun rings. “That is a full extension in seconds.” He said.
“It seems you’ve gained a lot. Maybe with the training, the system will be updating all of your skills.” He said with a laugh.
Notice
Affirmative, the system can only update skills by witnessing and analyzing subject skills. Recent updates have only been on the biological level and skill levels caused by the improvement of psychic energy. Especially the degree to which kinetic vision and High speed mental processing has improved.
They both received it and smiled at how the system was ever present watching them but it wasn’t a bad thing since it gave a very accurate depiction of skill level, especially since level 2 clearance was achieved and covered all of Richmond as well as its surroundings. Even the amount of time the system was active had improved to over a year of constant activity it was able to remain active.
“Alright, just a normal punch. Let’s work with just base performance right now and after you learn how to use your internal forces we can move on to using them in combat beyond just Titan force.” He said.
Robin nodded and took a low stance and punched.
BANG!
The sound barrier burst right after he punched and Double took it with crossed arms but there was a distinct crack from his right arm which took the impact directly and he was sent flying into the nearest pillar.
Robin pulled back a moment after making contact and when he looked, the spring was half unwound but it rapidly wound back up with a thought meaning he would not need to worry about his speed but then he looked at the clone smashed into the wall.
“Woah… was my punch that strong?” he muttered.
Down below, the two noticed this naturally, and Mr Might took a step and jumped before flying and landing.
“What happened?” He asked.
“I just punched him normally to test out my upgraded elastic control and… uh…” Robin said and looked at the clone just as the arm went limp.
Mr Might walked over and carefully helped the clone out and he coughed.
When he did that, the original Double walked up to the platform and touched the clone and pulled him back in and remade the clone.
“What happened, I'm quite sure Robin’s strength wasn’t so high that it could force you and even break your arm.” He asked.
“He unconsciously used recoil force.” The clone said.
This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it.
“Huh?” Robin said, confused.
“You are skilled in the spring style so you constantly make your body take the shape of springs like your arm is now. Until now your arm has unwound naturally because you couldn’t maintain it but now after you punched, your mind likely ran at high speed to maintain the spring and that caused a double imposed attack.” the clone said.
“I don’t get it.” Robin said.
“Have you ever played with a spring toy? The kind that you can put at the top of the stairs and drop it down and it will go down to the bottom.” He asked.
“I’ve seen them but never played.” He said.
“Okay, at least that is a start, when you pull one side aren’t the springs long near the ends and contracted near the other side?” he asked.
“Yeah.” Robin asked.
“That is how your punch worked. You shot your fist and it unwound near the fist before the wound bundle shot out to try and contract the arm to keep it wound and that caused a second impact. It wasn’t noticed during your early tests because you still had normal elastic control and your arm still unwound evenly but now that you can restrain it you are pushing two heavy and fast moving masses at your target basically hitting them twice in a moment.” He explained.
Robin was shocked that he had even caught this and looked at Mr Might.
“When his power bloomed, his father’s dormant power unlocked and it was a type of psychic power which drastically slowed down movement in his eyes for a short moment. It is how he even reacted to your punch.” he explained.
“I never got good at using it and can only use it for short moments in 10 second intervals.” Double explained.
BANG!
At that moment they look and shockingly find Ruth’s arm piercing the clone’s body and it breaks down into a mass.
“Oh boy, this year is going to be interesting for these twins.” Double said.
“What happened?” Robin asked.
“She just tried to use springs alongside her clawed hand for a piercing attack. She doesn’t have your skill at restraining the springs and it was quite a chaotic moment.” He said and walked over and touched the mass and absorbed it and remade it and like he did with Robin he began to instruct her on what she did.
“Is she trying to mimic me?” Robin asked.
“I wouldn’t be surprised, your style has a lot of punch to it and she somehow accelerated through what most chi users dream of and has True Qi of my kind at that. That little girl in the club only just achieved true qi as well but your sister had far less time than her and resources from my pills. Makes you wonder which one is actually the one that is supposed to have the chi talent.” He said.
“Did Yuri enhance her body with the dantain flow to improve it or the perfected human system?” he asked.
“She’s been gathering money to get the perfect one. I doubt she would get all of them but I feel like she is thinking of doing something else.” He said.
“Huh?” Robin said.
“You know that people born with one force cannot activate others and maintain them active right?” He said.
“Yeah.” Robin said.
“Right, well my guess is that she wants to use the three storage areas to store excess true qi.” He said.
Robin blinked and thought a moment before his eyes widened. “Does that even work?” He asked.
“Who knows, maybe.” He said with a smile. “She is still in the civilian course and she seems to be someone who wants to help the police force to improve their capacity.” He said.
Robin looked at him and smiled, “Are the others trying that?” he asked.
“In your club?” He asked.
Robin nodded.
“I think there is a small group of about 10 of the civilian course who took it that way. I'll be cautious when they start this so don’t worry.” He said.
Robin looked and nodded and looked at the clone who smiled, “Shall we start again. I'll be using my internal force to strengthen my body so don’t worry if you don’t send me flying. It is quite a burden to constantly make clones.” He said.
“No problems.” Robin said and Mr Might began to walk around while the students worked hard to show what they had before they began to talk to the clones about what could be a good ‘move’.
After almost two hours they had to go to PE for the second half and there, they had several classes gathering and now the Evers twins were there and next to them were their Hacks.
“Are you finally going to evolve them?” He asked as he walked out in his PE clothing.”
“Yep, we are just waiting for class to start. Our class is classified as summoners so a large part of our strength will come from them.” Tristan said.
“Have they used their stats?” He asked.
“Besides the ones Hack used as a gloop, no. I think his forms will also have different level ranges so it will be interesting to see how it works.” Tristan said.
“I’ve grown real strong so don’t look down on me bub!” the tiny dragon said.
Robin smiled and looked at Olivers.
“What about this one? Does the Ring make him different?” Robin asked.
“Yeah, I call him HaloHack. I bet you will like his adult form. Tristan is being fiel towards digimon but I made my own. I'm aiming for a Holy Dragon Knight from the start while he aims for the same path as Hackmon.” Oliver said.
“That’s interesting, have antivirus digital spawns appeared yet?” Robin asked.
“No, Techno is analyzing the AI’s technology she finally ‘perfected’ for data collection. After that he is going to improve it because a quick look already showed him that there are no virus filters in any of them. That is vital to keep the flow of data safe for the time being.” Tristan said.
“That’s good, at least he isn’t just jumping the gun on this.” Robin said.
They nodded and waited for class to begin and the six classes soon began. Naturally the twins were in a summoner based class and they finally evolved them.
The transformation was actually quite the spectacle. When they did it, the two spawns split off and overcharging the data chip transferred power to them and they kept growing until they both shouted and two massive orbs of life force surged out and in that glowing orb their bodies turned into glowing data as they expanded.
Hacks was the first to start growing and his tail formed a red blade from the drill section. After that his horn changed first before his hind feet changed into very sharp blades and his front claws expanded while his arm changed and shifted and what burst out was a large armored powerful machine.
Next to him Halohacks shot the ring into the air where it expanded and formed a halo which sucked up all the power and levitated the glowing digital spawn who expanded and very similar to his counterpart formed blade like feet and powerful armor but his paws turned into hands and his tail broke off but still formed a blade and as he passed through the holy power infused into his body making his armor golden and he jumped through while the ring gathered at the tail and passed over it again transforming it into a long bladed weapon that he grabbed like a weapon.
They both crashed down after evolving and the twins were grinning at the powerful and menacing creatures in their control.
The others were all shocked and many took a distance. Hacks was 4 meters from his back to the ground and roughly 10 meters from his snout to the end of his tail while Halohacks was 7 meters tall and looked like a dragon knight just as Oliver wanted.
“Wow! This is awesome!” Tristan said, running over.
“I feel awesome!” Hacks said with a laugh and looked at his companion with a challenging glare.
“Alright you both! We don’t have time for this.” Mr Might said, appearing and giving both of them a glare which calmed them down.
“Sir, how do we check their strength?” Oliver asked.
“I’ll check it personally but don’t forget to distribute your stats. I would suggest just an equal distribution.” He said.
The twins nodded and Mr Might looked back and clapped, “Alright, the show is over, get ready for PE. You are still far from reaching your potential, just because we started formal move training doesn’t make physical training any less important! Now get to it!” He roared for everyone and all the classes split up.
Robin looked at the giant digital beasts and then at a far less comfortable person, Zack, in the mix with his first dungeon boss. He wasn’t comfortable because the people around him were many people from elite schools that were recruited, making him self conscious.
Oliver noticed though and called him over to start training with them and Robin headed to the Atlas Stone to start doing his laps.
On the side, Ruth watched him under the waterfall of Titan force and looked at her Gravity bracelet before running to the equipment store room where she had gotten this and removed the 3G gravity stone and replaced it for a 5G that Robin regularly used and instantly felt the pressure but she had 400 strength. She wasn’t weak by any means and she just needed to get used to it.
She walked out and started running almost as slow as Robin but she was forcing herself within her limits. The system was already analyzing her to build her routine for the next year as it did for everyone.
This went until lunch when everyone was exhausted but Robin and Ruth felt a great deal of change after the morning classes, this was especially true in their skills which were updated extensively. Robins looked like this after going through the full spectrum of his skills.
Skills
Advanced Elastic Control
Level 25
An innate skill that all people with elastic or rubber based traits possess. It represents the ability to control the extended unique rubber or elastic body at will including maintaining the body stretched or pulling the arm back slower or faster.
Increases ability of manipulating body by 50%
Close quarters combat
Level 32
Proficiency in close quarters combat
High speed mental processing
Level 30
A unique skill which allows the user to focus full attention on a subject of desire and analyze information at much faster speeds then normal, doubles Intelligence. When active, IQ is generally calculated by 1 wis to 45 int due to the rapid increase of mental processing.
Kinetic Vision
Level 40
Due to High speed mental processing and high mental development, when focused, in fights, high speed mental processing activates but activates kinetic vision allowing the eyes and brain to follow higher speed.
Spring Style Combat
Level 60
A unique rubber body combat style which forces the four limbs into spring shaped spirals to exert greater force. The higher the level, the better the control over spring power, shape and general control over this style.
Rubber Band Style
Level 35
A rare style of rubber body combat. It requires a body which acts like rubber bands which require force to extend but possesses high power, mobility and creativity
Titan Force Mastery
Level 30
The proficiency to skillfully use, manipulate and control titan force in and outside the body.
Life Essence Mastery
Level 6
The proficiency to skillfully use, manipulate and control Life Essence in and outside the body.
Psychic Energy Mastery
Level 1
The proficiency to skillfully use, manipulate and control Psychic Energy in and outside the body.
As for Ruth, her skills were like this now.
Skills
Advanced Elastic Control
Level 25
An innate skill that all people with elastic or rubber based traits possess. It represents the ability to control the extended unique rubber or elastic body at will including maintaining the body stretched or pulling the arm back slower or faster.
Increases ability of manipulating body by 50%
Close quarters combat
Level 29
Proficiency in close quarters combat
Kinetic Vision
Level 35
Due to High speed mental processing and high mental development, when focused, in fights, high speed mental processing activates but activates kinetic vision allowing the eyes and brain to follow higher speed.
Spring Style Combat
Level 5
A unique rubber body combat style which forces the four limbs into spring shaped spirals to exert greater force. The higher the level, the better the control over spring power, shape and general control over this style.
Rubber Whip Style
Level 50
A style of rubber body combat. It requires a body which has extensive flexibility which can cause extensive whiplash attacks.
True Qi Mastery
Level 1
The proficiency to skillfully use, manipulate and control True Qi in and outside the body.
Life Essence Mastery
Level 6
The proficiency to skillfully use, manipulate and control Life Essence in and outside the body.
Psychic Energy Mastery
Level 1
The proficiency to skillfully use, manipulate and control Psychic Energy in and outside the body.
Kinetic vision had almost doubled in strength and Robin’s high speed mental capacity had grown even stronger as a result as well as starting to use psychic energy to enhance its capacity to process and still only doubled his intelligence giving him a wide safe gap that could allow his intelligence to grow.
For Ruth, she really did start learning Spring style to supplement her lack of explosive close range damage while her Whip style was very developed and trained. Lastly the mastery of the three internal energies became actual skills showing how wide the system was systematically categorizing everything now.
It gave the children a sense of satisfaction to be able to see their skills actually did have a constant growth compared to those who might get stuck in a slump thinking they had stagnated. Like that they started on their next year to start developing their heroics career.