For the second part, the students were gathered and the heroes floated up so everyone could see.
“Alright everyone!” Chasm Might’s voice boomed over everyone. “We are going to start the last exercise and that is death spars!” he shouted.
The students were confused except the ones who had gone through it.
Finally someone asked what it was.
“In the gamer space there are the save points everyone was made to save at. A few of you already faced it for being stupid but regardless, this save system is connected to a gamer’s system for reviving after death. The side effect of revival is that you get total healing to your peak condition. This means, if you idiots had trained to the limits of your capacity and died, your body would have healed the damage caused by overexerted training and adapted your body. The spar at the end is made to pull out that potential by forcing your body to adapt to destruction and rebuilding. There is a limited number of lives and you kids will learn this feeling because it will become vital for you kids to know how many times you can go out against a certain villain. This number resets every day.” he said.
“Sir… we are going to die!” One of the kids said, pale.
“Yes, you will and you will stand right back up and go back to fighting your chosen opponent until you’ve used all the extra lives you’ve been granted for the day.” Chasm Might said. “Because there are too many students for teachers, we’ve also gotten the elite class students from the original hero academy to fight so you will be fighting in groups of ten in sparring arenas.” he said.
“Huh?! Why are those nobodies getting special treatment like they are better than us!” one student shouted
This caused the area to go silent and Chasm Might frowned, “Those ‘nobodies’, as you all call the elite class, have members among them who are as strong as most of the teachers and might even be stronger than most teachers who aren’t my direct students! On this subject, there are a lot of you idiots who have been going around antagonizing the students with the Hero Disciple classes and other elite class students. You brats had better stop, children who are regarded as hero disciples aren’t rewarded because of the academy’s policies, this is each hero’s personal decision like every student we’ve ever had.” He said, making sure his voice reached every ear.
After that he gave no one time and had the teachers and students divide up the sparring arenas, within their own barrier protected spaces.
Robin entered one excited and Chasm Might and some of the weaker teachers helped organize teams and everyone saved at the arena’s save points.
Robin entered and was actually made to fight 20 students at once.
“Sir! Why are you giving so many enemies to this guy!” one of the more aggressive students asked.
The others looked their way while the teacher looked at him confused, “Why wouldn’t one of the top 10 students be able to handle more difficulty.” the teacher said.
“Top 10? This guy?!” They exclaimed and looked but Robin was frowning.
“I’ll give you guys 2 options, do you want me to go at it quick and painless or do you want a slow drawn out fight.” Robin asked.
“Fuck you!” the guy who had asked shouted and his blood actually came out from his arm into a sword and he was about to rush but the next moment Robin’s hand smashed into his face and his entire body smashed backwards into the ground.
Everyone’s eyes opened wide as they saw Robin larger and blackened from his hardening and serious, “Fast it is.” He said before they heard a big thumping from his body.
In the matter of seconds all 20 of them felt a lethal impact smash their bodies.
They all flew like ragdolls or were smashed into the ground within seconds and none of these new students could follow his movement at all.
Then they heard screams and cries and all the other arenas drew attention as students were smashed, beaten, mauled or decapitated depending on the fighting style by the elite class students.
After a moment, it all went silent as the last student fell over dead.
Then every one of their bodies turned into burning cinders and it all gathered up around the save point right in front of the teacher who watched.
They all gasped and gripped their hearts because the first death was always the most dramatic.
“Get up here!” Robin said and looked at the students, “You guys wanted to be in the elite class, then show the teachers what qualifies.” Robin said.
This caused all of them to feel extremely angry and this time hot blooded one shouted and formed his blade swords and even armor of blood around his body and he came attacking Robin but he wasn’t even enhancing his mind to dodge.
The others rushed in and began to attack.
“A lazy bastard like you doesn’t deserve it!” The blood user shouted.
This pissed off Robin as he dodged all their attacks to let them get at least some attacks in.
He listened and their voices began to overlap and finally when he was in the middle of the arena he stopped and at once everyone slammed into the ground.
“Lazy…” Robin said as none of them could move, it was like gravity had instantly pounded down on them like a hand. “You are idiots. Get up, this is barely 20 times gravity.” Robin said.
“H-how… do you… expect… us… to.” One girl said.
“How?” Robin asked, “I expected you braveman elite class students to have been trained with gravity weights at least this heavy. After all, I've been training with gravity weights for years. Don’t tell me you can’t even handle this little bit, alright let me show you guys just how much weight I use to train.” Robin said and instantly ramped up to 67 times gravity.
The ground was filled with cracks and none of them could breathe, “It’s hard to breathe right? Well that is how much weight I carry to barely trot around the field. Come on, get up, tell me I’m lazy.” Robin said, coldly.
There wasn’t much chance because they were literally crushed to death under that kind of pressure they weren’t trained to support.
When they appeared, they broke out in sweat but Robin didn’t give them a chance and gripped them with gravity and dragged them in.
This time they were fearful and cried out but he smashed them causing everyone else to feel a cold in their stomach. When they appeared, they tried to run but Robin casually appeared and blitzed them again and their last life came in the same fashion and the girls were nearly in tears when he stopped in front of them, “You’re all done, go take a cold bath, it will help you through the stress.” Robin said and walked back into the stage.
“W… what kind of fucked up freak are you!” one student asked.
Robin looked at the person in question, “I’ve learned to fear death because unlike you all that are getting blitzed by me, the person I die to is Mr Might. I don’t even know how many times I’ve died to his fists so you’re getting off easy.” Robin said
The teacher looked and went to console the team and had them go to the showers.
After that new teams went in and every last one of them were crushed by the elite class and teachers before it was their turn. Those that could stomach watching to the end without going to take a breath under cold water watched when the heroes took the stage against the elite students and felt the shockwaves under every last of them was smashed and their unchanging expression as they came back and instantly started to fight until their lives were gone.
If they had actually paid attention when the hero disciples were tested they would have guessed that the students were all like that or mostly but no.
Even the more common members of the Kong clan were abnormal because they were pack fighters and all of them were Ki users and very skilled at using it since they figured out how to project energy blasts skillfully.
When it was all done everyone was made to get a cold shower if they were not used to it and get to class.
Although the sound of feet was noisy, the experienced hero academy students could tell, all the students had dark circles while girls even had red eyes. Very clearly they had cried in the showers.
Robin understood the feeling because the first few dozen times he died he would feel sick every time he ended training while they were clearing out the regions. In fact, the first few days he had gone to vomit his stomach out because he eventually couldn’t handle it. Even Marcus and Silk were the same but eventually grew jaded towards the feeling.
The entire school was basically silent except for the 10th, 11th and 12th years who were already a full year into using death sparring to grow.
They all got strange looks from everyone as they talked while everyone was so quiet.
There was probably never such a silence in any academy like much less the world. All the students tried to calm down and ignore everything with school work.
After school, when everyone went to the club room, some of them finally broke and among that was Judith who hugged Ruth and cried.
“It’s okay, I know it’s scary.”
Her cries eventually made the girls cry while the boys tried their best to not sob.
The older boys helped console them and just let them work it out, especially Shoji who knew exactly what each of them were going through.
Death sparring was necessary, having a fear of death while not fearing death’s presence was vital for the incoming future to have everyone work and fight.
The reaction was generalized and the next day the academy worked on this after PE instead of letting the school day go through bottling it up.
While Robin and Shoji were helping some 9th graders, one of them asked, “H-how do you not cry?!” she asked.
The class heard it through the cries and sniffles and he smiled, “Trust me, it’s not a good feeling even now for us. When the save and load system appeared last year I was helping Mr Might clean crime in New York so I also spent weeks dying in the afternoon before going to bed. I vomited every day for the first two weeks but just like when I accepted to become Chasm Might’s disciple, I knew I had to suck it up because I wouldn’t have him protecting me forever. Death sparring has the biggest effect of growth after working myself to near my limit in training.” he said.
Many of them bit their lips as they tried to suck it up but he smiled and told them to go at their own pace but made sure to get it across to them, “You’ve got to realize, Heroes are soldiers, war potential. That’s why the American union has changed it’s method to categorize hero ranks so that those too weak or mentally incapable would work in the military where things would be easier and the pressure is not as intense but heroics course is focused on training the next generation of heroes. Keep that in mind when you all go outside to train and put on the weights or punch the equipment.” He said.
Surprisingly, his words rippled through the students a lot more than what teachers or professionals were telling despite teachers also feeling the pain.
It didn’t change how they felt but it earned Robin a bit of respect with some of the students.
The first display of this was a percentage actually using the system more adequately to find their proper benchmark to train at despite seeming to move and work far less than the others. The results would show and there was definitely going to be a lot of shifting between courses after two month's time because after 1 month, the students would have either gathered enough money and crystals or they would not and would have enough to start buying traits.
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As for Robin, and those who’ve trained for over a year, they planned it out and decided that if they were going to do it they would try to achieve condensing their cores before the 1st month and adapt during the 2nd so they were ready once the time came because they would start the deep clean of the american union.
With that in mind, those that could work to progress and Robin made sure to teach the process.
Those with fused powers took the first step and condensed their raw energies into refined energy causing an immediate increase in energy purity and began the process to increase the density.
For those with singular energies they had to start training the transformation technique.
On the last day of the month, Robin and Ruth were in their home training as their life force was shining through their bodies while flashes rippled through their bodies and slowly their extremities maintained a glow.
The more ripples the brighter it got and slowly spread towards the center of their bodies until at last their bodies were both shining and featureless before they released a powerful wave as waves of life essence radiated as an aura.
It spun around them and gathered at the heart while spinning and in the center of that chaos that spinning aura was forcing the energy that transformed their entire bodies to spin and slowly crystal fragments finally condensed and began to click and hit against each other and some of them fused and like that, these little fragments kept sucking up life essence and eventually chunks formed and swallowed the life essence throughout the entire body slowly pulling the glow from their bodies leaving a withered body with little life with only the heart pounding hard.
Almost every drop of their life force was gathered and only a thin leak through the blood vessels kept the rest of the body alive but even that thinned out as the chunks sucked up more power and the final pieces clumped and used the last of the power to merge into a single chunk of crystal.
They shined brightly and released a dense new energy into the body and leaked into the blood and immediately their chest shone a golden glow.
Like a slow wave, it spread from their hearts and soon returned from the extremities and formed a flow.
The rough cores began to spin and produce more and more energy and began to jumpstart the body as new life filled their bodies.
Their withered bodies broke down into energy in waves and reformed healthier and healthier until the last wave when it solidified and the glow slowly vanished until it reached the tips and they both opened their eyes.
A wave of life energy radiated around them but it barely left their skin and soon became invisible.
Congratulations, you’ve achieved the transformation of your Life Essence into Life Source after condensing a Life Core.
You’re Life Essence Mastery skill has increased to level 60 and has evolved into Life Source Mastery Level 20
By achieving a Life Core, you’ve also evolved your bodies vitality by 500 points
They both smiled and got up and like one mind, they looked out of the room and could immediately feel it on each of them.
“Heh, as expected, we both got it at the same time.” He said.
“I won’t be left behind! Are you going to try for the psychic next?” Ruth asked.
Robin chuckled and looked down, “Have you condensed your Qi core?” Robin asked.
“Yep, I tried hard and got it last week and it helped me perfect my body and soul.” She said.
“Right, I remember seeing Mr Might stressed for about two days. I didn’t get it but since you have it…”
“Silk also got it and several other elite class chi users.” She said.
“Ah, so that is why. He must have achieved it but is in the process of adapting now.” Robin said with a smile.
They both headed downstairs but they noticed that something was a bit off and actually went to check the mirror and it was then that they noticed.
“Huh…” Robin said and looked at himself, turning a bit before hardening and shocked them both as his body did not grow taller, it was purely hardened black without swelling. When he was fully hardened he looked no different from what he would harden into.
“Did… did we age?” Robin asked.
Yes and no.
The process to condense a Life Core draws out every last bit of life essence from your cells leaving only the thinnest flow to keep the body alive. When the core is finally condensed and Life Source is returned, the withered body undergoes a natural transformation to restore it to it’s perfect condition but the withering condition caused during the process can be seen as aging which is repaired.
Effectively, you are still 15 years old with a physical appearance of those in their 20s.
The two looked at each other and they made sure to check everything out before going downstairs and scaring their parents until they could explain.
They both got food and water before they went back upstairs and sat in Robin’s room and opened their connections.
They had already transformed their minds until they couldn’t anymore, the process had a very magical effect of improving intelligence and wisdom. In other words it caused natural evolution of their brains but in the same scope of things it also required an adequate addition of stats to allow the system to help correct biological mistakes in the natural formation.
They had done this until they couldn’t and the effect should be pretty obvious for the previously untrainable stats. Their wisdom has gone up to 1,200 and their intelligence has risen up to 1,800.
True psychics actually grew much more intensely, Shoji’s only unhinged stats are his wisdom and intelligence and after a year of training he had already hit 3,700.
As for the twins, they had trained until there was really no more effect on their minds, of course it still helped to grow but they weren’t born psychics so there was a limit they could grow without the pressure.
The process for this was a lot more tedious but all the preparation and proper training for everything was done long ago and the psychic energy was at its limit in density they could get.
They finally began to try and compress it and this time they had to use their bodies and the pressure from the other two energies to force the psychic energy to a density to make it naturally condense solid form.
When the energy rushed back it came with an impact from the forced compression and their minds grew more chaotic and even their mind’s link disconnected unconsciously and their minds began to break apart while their consciousness remained but their shards of their mind broke down and began to mix into the entire mixture.
This was just as dangerous as making a Life Core because it puts their mind in danger while the Life Core puts their life on the line.
It was all ground and compressed constantly and came back to smash the mind and grind it into the mixture painfully.
This process went on for hours into the night until the final piece of their mind was absorbed and mixed and the next strike from the incoming wave actually caused a reaction which pulled both of their conscious to the center of the torrent but at the same time, their minds sought for the link and they combined causing a nearly magical reaction that sent a shock into the chaos and gave them both an edge causing the entire outer part of the orb to instantly crystalize like a film. It allowed energy through it and out but it had fully isolated and formed an orb.
Both of them released a wave of psychic energy through the link unconsciously and this incoming wave smashed into each core causing layers upon layers to form and in the process, the mental realm began to reform.
Robin took control of the effect and began to rebuild it from the very center instead as did Ruth.
The process continued until the very last and a powerful psychic force surged out and their link was filled with this newfound psychic energy causing the space to evolve.
As soon as they calmed down the three cores shined and a harmony filled them both.
Congratulations, you’ve achieved the transformation of your Psychic Energy into Psionic Force after condensing a Psionic Core.
You’re Psychic energy Mastery skill has increased to level 55 and has evolved into Psionic Force Mastery Level 15
By achieving a Psionic Core, you’ve also evolved your bodies Wisdom by 200 points and intelligence by 500 points
By achieving Psionic Force, your psychic related skills have evolved.
Accelerated Perception Level 54 has become Supernatural Perception Level 10
Enhanced Vision Level 50 has become Supernatural Vision Level 10
Advanced Elastic Control Level 43 has become Supernatural Elastic Control Level 25
Supernatural Elastic Control
Level 25
An innate skill that is extremely uncommon in people with elastic or rubber based traits. 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. With the current quantitative control, the ability to control the body has explosively grown and the user has gained exponential control of his body.
Increases ability of manipulating body by 100%
Supernatural Perception
Level 10
A unique skill which allows the user to perceive everything at a Supernatural rate and analyze information at much faster speeds then normal. With such perception, the user gathers and notices even minute bits of information. They will also seem as if time has slowed.
This skill increases Intelligence by a factor of x5 when active.
IQ is generally calculated by 1 wis to 100 int due to the rapid increase of mental processing.
Supernatural Vision
Level 10
Vision that has gone beyond Enhanced vision. Your vision can see even kilometers away in exquisite detail and is beyond natural levels biologically seen in your race.
When focused you can activate this with or without Supernatural perception as your eyes are capturing everything efficiently but the capacity enhances many fold when used together.
Without Supernatural perception user can see, in detail, any object moving under 5,000 km/h
With Supernatural perception, user can see, in detail, and react to a moving object as fast as 10,000 km/h and more
Robin immediately tried it and he felt the entire world freeze as just his perception was enhanced.
Immediately he noticed things, countless things. Very tiny distortions in the digital realm, some areas even lose their ‘skin’ and expose the data under it. Other areas he saw thin branches of energy from the tree that pulsed through the entire digital world.
After a bit, he activated his vision and instantly everything besides himself and Ruth were stripped of their digital skin. His eyes were able to peer beyond the ‘illusion’ the human mind understood from the data input and with that illusion broken he could see behind the veil, the millions of fragments that the digital goddess had gathered up were still, in fact, fragments put to manage one of millions of programming functions while far in the distance, a small fragment hovered behind a spawn. It was clearly the unique soul because its shape was slightly different and affected by the spawn.
The spawn itself was only a digital frame and he could see the true form of the digital cores Techno had designed and implemented.
It looked like an atom but the ones for the infants almost looked like a very thin element. His head moved slowly as he looked and soon found the duo of Hack models and their cores contained three rings around them and looking at each ring caused the image of the creature it had been to appear in his mind.
He blinked a bit and the world’s illusion returned and he shook his head.
When he did, he noticed Ruth was looking just as starstruck and soon did the same and held her head a bit.
Robin had always been the one to naturally develop the mental skills, although she learned the active method to use it, Robin’s brain had developed it naturally. It actually caused a bit more pressure to her brain to use them and, like most psychics, couldn’t use it to the extent Robin could.
When he found this out, he actually quietly tested himself and found that it was actually a very weak mental trait but this trait had mixed into several of the other mental traits he had gotten along the way. In other words, Robin was born with the capacity to use it and it kind of explained why he needed nearly 30 points less of wisdom then Ruth to achieve psychic energy.
“Wow… the world is so… strange.” Ruth said.
“Did you get a spark?” Robin asked.
She smiled and nodded, “I got it when I got the first core.” She said.
“What domain?” Robin asked.
She chuckled and showed her domain title.
Demigod of Tenacity and Rivalry
Given to the one who challenges the fate of Perseverance through all obstacles as her ultimate rival. Born of unfairness and cruelty of fate, perseverance pushed forth, forcing you to constantly show Tenacity birthing the endless rivalry that will last to the end of time between siblings of the same womb. With every obstacle that perseverance broke, tenacity tackled every fear and beat them and stepped on the same platform never to lose.
Robin looked and laughed, “It should have been called stubbornness.” Robin said and she frowned, “You’re the stubborn one!” She said and they both glared before laughing because they both knew that regardless of whether it was Perseverance or Tenacity, they were both stubborn.
Their power had evolved and would take time to adapt. Robin suggested Ruth first break their minds and rebuild it true to form and express the full form and shape of their mental space without the stress. Every Demigod has found they hold many unique aspects within their mind containing knowledge from their divine sparks which eventually gives birth to a unique technique of growth unique to each.
They both also had to properly grind both cores and channel their divine spark into all three so they started with the life core. The rough crystal was broken down and soon the divine spark completely coated it causing the rough edges to melt and circle around until it was a perfect core before the impurities were transformed and processed out. At the end, the divine spark was left inside.
The same happened to the Psionic core and as a result of shifting it and melting it down, the mental space was also wrecked and once the physical core was perfected, they both rebuilt their mental space with care.
When Robin was done, he stopped near the core of his world, sitting there was a giant flame within a metal holder, like the olympic flame would, and around were black monoliths each with every technique he had found but the most impressive was not the large flame in the back or the knowledge but at the very center, a giant tree sat.
The divine spark would release small embers which were constantly floating towards the tree. In fact all the flames in the mental space were divine flames and their little embers would go to the tree but the rate of creation was slow and the tree was purely energy with so many branches that he could not count yet only very few points had become solid.
The base of the tree was a tree trunk and touching it, he could feel his life's memories but it did not branch out because time did not divide after it had passed.
The only point that was different was the point where the time rift closed.
He did not choose to watch the vision of the older him of that moment, reliving that moment might give him immense inspiration and teach him great control but he was not going to do that.
He withdrew and found it was close to morning so he took a shower and got ready for class because he would have one month to adapt to the changes.