That night, when Saksham came back home after cleaning all his wounds and wearing a new set of clothes, his parents noticed it pretty soon. So, Saksham made an excuse saying he was with Ayush when suddenly a car splashed dirty water on him. So, he went to Ayush's home and wore his set of clothes. After hearing this, Savitri and Arjun didn't ask for more and instead discussed the loud explosion sound they heard as well as the weird behavior of the police.
Saksham took a sigh of relief and went back to his room and didn't take a step out of his home since then. He had been thinking again and again about his shortcomings from the battle he had with Vinayak. He found that he had been lacking severely in almost all directions. Now his Assassin's suit had also been destroyed and IOEA saw it too. Although they didn't see his face, they did see the huge explosion when he threw his suit away. Fortunately, they didn't ask anything about it. And he knew that they wouldn't ask in the future too.
But coming back to the main point, Saksham understood that he was strong but not, at the same time. So, as he waited for the week to end, he came up with several ideas to make up for his shortcoming. As the new week started, the first thing Saksham did was ask the system to make another Assassin's Suit. It took 4 EP to make up. After that, Saksham was left with 11 EP. After thinking about it, Saksham took out the phone and called Rhytham, asking him if any of the three had thought of his powers. Rhytham told him that Vipul had thought of the abilities he needed.
Saksham heard this and nodded and told him that he would be there that evening. Later that evening, Saksham found out Vipul wanted the power of ice. When he asked for a reason, Vipul simply said that he liked ice. Saksham was a little speechless but still gave him the power of ice nonetheless. Saksham also thought that the power of Ice suited the cold personality of Vipul. Surprisingly, it took 11 EP awakening the power of Ice in Vipul. After that, Vipul also stood at his place for a while, digesting all the information he suddenly had in his brain, while Saksham sat on the sofa, exhausted. After getting himself together, Saksham asked Rhytham about how his powers. As soon as Rhytham heard this, he jumped like an excited teenager and started telling him about all the experiments he did.
Rhytham did all kinds of experiments to see his limits and understood that he couldn't use his powers all the time. He found that there was some sort of invisible substance in his body that would be consumed whenever he tried to use his powers. And when that substance is exhausted, he would feel extremely tired and won't be able to use his powers. He also found out that he could do many things with his powers. For eg- He could focus the power of vibration on a very, very small area. That would take a lot of his focus but when he did that on a steel plate, he found that the next second, the steel plate exploded into two. Though, the metal plate was not too thick. He wasn't strong enough to explode a thick metal plate with his current powers.
Saksham heard this and nodded. As he thought, the power of vibration really was strong. If Rhytham did this to a person, wouldn't he explode too? Although this is still a dream for him, it was indeed possible in the future. And by that time, Rhytham would be able to do many more things with the power of Vibration. Similarly, the Power of Ice was in no way weak. It was a really powerful element too. If the user was powerful enough, he could even freeze a whole battlefield with his powers.
Saksham imagined a huge battlefield in his head. He saw Rhytham putting both his hands and the ground and suddenly with an earth-shattering explosion, the whole battlefield started to tremble violently. Countless deep cracks and ravines formed very quickly on the battlefield, swallowing each and anyone inside. The earth cracked once again, and then the entire battlefield was completely annihilated. In the next scene, Saksham saw Vipul standing in a front whole army of thousands of people. With a wave of his hands, the original rocky land changed to a land covered with dense ice. The whole army of thousands of people froze without giving them a chance to react.
Just imagining these scenes in his head, Saksham was excited. But soon, he pressed down his excitement because he knew that it was going to take time before a scene like his imagination would take place in reality. After telling Rahul and Shyam to think about their powers too. With that, Saksham left the place and went back to his own home. Locking himself back in his room, Saksham took out a notebook where he had written his ideas.
1) Offensive Skills/items
2) Survivability
3) Escaping Skill/item
These were the 3 things he had written in his notebook. He was lacking all these things. And that's why he was at such a disadvantage when he was fighting against Gargantuar. If he had all of these things, he would have beaten the sh*t out of Vinayak too. Though, it was not too late for getting all these. Vinayak was not dead yet. From how small the world is, Saksham knew that he would definitely meet him one day. Maybe he could beat the sh*t out of Vinayak then.
1 Week Later
Saksham sat on his bed as he prepared himself to use his powers. After he thought about it a lot, he decided to go for survivability first. He had always had the thought of getting some sort of way to recover from all sort of trauma quickly. Imagine in a fight, he exchanged wound for wound with someone, wouldn't he win that easily? He would recover all his wounds while the other person would keep on getting wounded. Even in times when he had to fight back to back, it would come I handy because he basically fights with his physical strength. The quicker he recovered, the longer he would be able to fight.
As he thought till here, Saksham whispered, "Survivability skill/item."
As the words left his mouth, he suddenly saw a window suddenly pop-up in his vision.
"Are you sure you want to use 15 EP?"
As soon as Saksham saw this, his jaws almost fell to the ground. 15 EP?! That was all the EP he had!! But as he calmed down, Saksham remembered that the more EP something took, the better its effects had been till now. But the question now was, if the thing that he wanted was 15 EP, how powerful would it be? The more he thought about it, the excited he got. In the end, Saksham pressed [Yes] in a hurry and waited for his powers to come into effect.
But as soon as he pressed yes, Saksham suddenly fell back on the bed, exhausted. But he was not in a bad mood because of that, instead, he wanted to jump from excitement. This is because just now, some information entered his brain.
[Tree of Life] (Sprout)
[A Tree containing a huge amount of life force. Still in the Spout stage. Wounds and strength would recover much faster than before. Can be grown into a Sapling.]
With this short notification, Saksham felt as if a small sprout had been planted in the middle of his heart. Although he couldn't see it, he felt a very refreshing feeling swept past his body as soon as the sprout was planted. He felt a really warm and fuzzy feeling as if he had returned back to his mother's womb. It felt so comfortable that he fell asleep before he even knew it.