It felt like the energy from the Fire Breath of the Dracos on Perditus.
'I thought it was weird. I felt the ki they used in the breath, but I also sensed something else. I just thought it was because it is an innate ability which makes it different. Well, it is an innate ability, but they aren't only using ki, they are also using this kind of energy. Just what is it?'
"Alright, I am done, you can have the rest." Broly stood up and looked at the amount he used from the crystal. The crystal was reduced to a size of 3 meters. This was normally more than enough for 12 people, so Alea and Cana went ahead and started absorbing the energy.
"What are you waiting for? You too." He said to Zangya. "I-, you sure? I thought it was only for your girlfriends."
"No, it is for friends. Why else would I have taught you the technique to absorb it? Go absorb it, if you consider us as friends that is."
Zangya looked at him for a second before she quietly went to the crystal and absorbed the energy inside.
While they were occupied with absorbing the energy inside, Broly focused on the energy inside his center. He guided it out to his hands and released it, but nothing happened. It just dispersed in the air. The only thing he could feel through it was the connection to the lifeforce and the ki he naturally generated. They seemed to be interlinked with each other.
The others were already done absorbing the energy.
"Wow it increased my magic power. I can finally use it." Alea said until her body suddenly changed into a blue dress. "Mine as well." Zangya added.
"Magic power? You mean this is magic power?" Broly was shocked. For some reason he couldn't obtain a wisp of magic power, even after training with the techniques in the library for days. Alea, Cana and Zangya were able to grasp it after a day but the energy they could gather were miniscule and weren't good for anything, so they didn't bother training it.
"Did you guys gain an ability?" Broly inquired.
"I did!" Cana shouted out happily and stretched out her hands. Out of her palms emerged aquamarine lightning that shot towards Broly. Broly just took it and the lightning started wrapping itself around Broly.
"Hm? This is." Broly tried to move but realized that he his control of his body was being restrained. It felt like his body was numbed and paralyzed.
His muscles expanded, and his hair rose. His ki poured out until his eyes turned yellow. With a ki shockwave the lightning was being dispersed.
"Impressive! You can even hold me down in my base!"
Cana looked rather smug after he complimented her.
"Broly, I did gain one as well." Alea said and pointed at him with one finger. A red fire beam shot towards him. He felt his movements being influenced. He felt being physically drawn towards it, but he had no intention of dodging anyway. The beam finally hit him but couldn't push him backwards. It burned through his armor. It couldn't leave a mark on his skin, as he was still in his Ikari form.
"What about you?" Broly turned towards Zangya, who just shook her head.
"So, Broly what ability did you learn? Can you automatically generate Magic Power?" Alea asked him.
"Yes, I did", Broly admitted.
"Can we go back, or do you want to have this conversation on this ice block floating in space." Zangya rushed them to go back.
*****
On board Broly went through all techniques that used Magic Power at its basis. He also found a general introduction to magic power.
It said that magic power is a mysterious energy that had almost no limitations, but it was only reasonable to focus mainly on magic if one is born with great talent or an unusual high amount of magic in one's body. Some races are more adapt in using it than others, but generally every deity have magic abilities or can use magic.
It is said to be able to become anything you want. Creating elements, minerals or other more complex things consisting out of multiple elements is entirely possible. One can also use the elements to attack but ki would be the better option as it is more destructive.
Another method to attack with magic power would be mental attacks, it can even go so far that one can control someone who is normally far stronger than oneself.
Broly thought of the instances of magic uses in the series, it was usually only used to create something like clothes or Katchin, which was one of the strongest metals in the universe. But Babidi for example could control Dabura the King of the Demon Realm, a being who was supposedly stronger than Cell. The teleportation of the Kais should be included as well, Broly faintly remembered reading about it in his past life. It would make sense why the Instant Transmission is only possible through Ki senses and Kibito was able to teleport himself wherever he wanted.
But now that he thought about it, in the series were also instances of elemental attacks like the Fire Breath of Hirudegarn, which was a being, brought to life by sorcerers. It wasn't detailed in the series but Broly figured that those elemental attacks had to be a product of magic. He knew that ki in high concentration could produce lightning but fire or water? He hadn't heard about that.
Fortunately for him there were some techniques in the library that explained how to create elemental attacks and the most common technique among magic users was there as well, Magic Materialization. Before he started to immerse himself into the utilization of magic, he set course on the last destination on his list for now. Planet Earth.
He typed in the coordinates of the planet and started the autopilot. It would take them 1 month to cross almost the whole Milky Way to get there.
"So, we are visiting Gine's son?" Cana's voice suddenly sounded out behind him.
"Yeah." Cana squinted her eyes before continuing. "You won't bully him, right?"
"Eh, of course not. Huehuehue" Broly faked a laugh.
"Sigh. Could you finally turn around?" Broly turned his head and saw her standing in lingerie. He quickly scanned the spaceship with his lifeforce vision and saw Alea and Zangya eating, but what he did saw was a change to his vision. If he concentrated on it, he was faintly able to see energy particles that didn't belong to lifeforce, but to ki and magic as well.
It seemed to fill the surroundings. It was weird, but he was able to see how some particles combined with each other and got some ideas on how to combine his magic with his ki attacks, especially his Thunderspear. If he combined it with magic lightning, the strength would rise exponentially, which was confirmed by the general introduction about magic. It said that some ki attack compatible with magic, would result in a rise of strength. Usually one would need to use magic as the foundation and use ki as a support, since ki was mostly a destructive energy and magic would be able to adapt to it to some degree. But it was not impossible to use ki as the foundation, if one had enough skill that is.
As he went through on how to combine his attacks with magic, Cana was being hugged from behind by Alea.
"Is he coming up with new techniques?" "Yeah. He just started, so he probably comes out of his thinking modus after an hour."
"Nice underwear, by the way. Where did you get that?"
"You know the last planet we visited- hua" Cana was surprised that Broly suddenly stood up, as she didn't expect him to be finished so soon.
"I thought you were coming up with techniques."
"Well, I don't know much about Magic yet, so I have to make some research, but first I will devour you! You were just too cute when you said that in the cave."
Cana blushed at the thought about it. Although she was a dirty talker, she rarely said anything romantically.
Broly picked them up and headed towards their bedroom. He let them both down and they turned towards him, before Alea jumped at him and dangled from his neck and spoke out.
"I love you, Broly." She gave him a passionate kiss afterwards. Broly suddenly felt Cana holding his hand and shyly said. "I love you-" Her head was already red as a tomato at this point. Broly took her in his arms, hugged her tightly before giving Cana a deep kiss.
He took them both in his arms and just looked at the two for a moment.
"I love you, Cana, Alea!"
The girl's eyes widened.
"This is the first time you said it!" They both said in unison.
"It was about time, wasn't it?" Broly looked at them affectionately, which caused the girls to tear up before burying their heads in his chest.
Zangya saw the three ran into their bedroom and frustratedly bit her lip.
'I guess I am going to train all night. It is not like I could sleep anyway, right?'
Indeed, it became a long night for the love trio, as they went on without stopping and no consideration of any other person on this ship.