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Chapter 4 - Caitlyn's Ability

The next following weeks Felix did basically the same but he also taught kate on how to fight more effieciently and he was also trying to awaken her ability early.

Though most people are already born with their supernatural powers, to awaken them is a different story. Some conditions are needed to awaken them but the most effective and used way is to have a life-death situation, but that is before the apocalypse because when the apocalypse will happen then the awakening rate will increase from about 0.0001% to 20%.

The jump is huge but if you know how awaken abilities while knowing what for ability you are awakening then the success rate is incredibly high.

And the way for him to awaken Kate's ability is to come in contact with high degree fire. The condition is simple but would you do it though?

The minimum degree of fire needed is 300°C to awaken Kate's power and that is also why he had her learn the Blazing Elemental Core Body technique to increase her resistance to fire, so that it would hurt less when coming in contact with it.

What produces such flames you say? Well, a bunsen burner would work in the college that Kate is learning at.

So, a while later Felix was beside Kate in the sience class where a bunsen burner was on table.

''Do we really need to do this?'' Said Kate with an unwilling expression. No one would like to stick their hands into 300°C fire for 5 minutes long.

''Yes, it is nessecary'' Felix already told Kate about the apocalypse that will happen, although he didn't tell he was from the future, because it wasn't nessecary and it will delay their training instead if Kate will ask countless questions.

It might even be dangerous if she asks what will happen next in the apocalypse, some people can eavesdrop them and report it to their higher-ups if they even have higher-ups so he rather not tell her about it, no matter how low the chances are.

Sometimes remaining ignorant on certain things can be counted as a blessing.

Eventually Felix forced kate to burn her hands by the bunsen burner, at first Kate was scared but after a while she figured it didn't really hurt so much as expected. Although it stings from time to time like hot olive oil that sometimes make contact you while cooking.

After about 5 minutes Kate felt something very warm and comfortable overwhelming her whole body. As if she unlocked something.

Felix smiled knowing that Kate awakened her special ability.

Living Fire's Fiery Flames, is what Kate's power is. Naturally it is also a peak ability in the same catogory but it got one hell of a weakness.

It is very weak in the initial stage of the ability meaning the ability is even weaker than somebody who awakened a skill that only could shoot a fire arrow.

Kate need to absorb flames of others to make her flame stronger or to eat fire attributed creatures or slowly cultivate her flame stronger.

The first option is the fastest way to increase her ability depending which flames she consumes, second option is the most efficient to increase her ability while the third option is the slowest but most stablest.

But only this information was known later after the beginning of the apocalypse where as some organisations tortured people with flame/fire abilities that could grow, some of those people escaped and made the information well known to irritate those organisations, but the people who escaped eventually died by their wounds or were captured again and murdered.

This information was crucial for Kate's ability because what common was for peak abilities is that the users only know how to use it and not how to increase it's power! And if you're really unlucky then it also could be possible that you won't even know what your ability is and what it does!

That is in Felix's case, as only after 150 years did Felix discover he actually had a peak ability. Many would be excited when they found out they all along had a peak ability but not in Felix's case as he knew he would die after some hours, at most he could live a for a day.

Kate was at the moment playing with a green flame that was following her own will

''Hehehe, this is pretty cool'' Kate was totally distracted by her new ability that she forget that she was burning her hands for 5 minutes for this.

Felix estimated that the temperature of Kate's living flame was about 50 degree, basically useless. That is why she needs to absorb as many flames possible in the apocalypse and to eat as many flame attributed creatures.

But what one of the greatest funtion of Kate's ability is that it increases the power of fire related techniques and abilities by a large margin.

For example if she now is about 20% faster than original due the Blazing Elemental Core Body then due her ability she would be now be 40% faster instead of 20%. Pretty much broken, that is why it is a peak ability.

Kate's ability isn't an elemental because it is living thing and thus catogorised in the special section.

In Felix's opinion, his time manipulating skill is even more broken because, he could basically slow time down, there are so many things he could do with it! And the fact it is an energy so he could also toughen his body.

Anyway, Felix told Kate to cultivate diligently but Kate would already do it without Felix's reminder.

After a sparring match that he won again, Felix estimated that Kate will also breakthrough the initial stage of rank one after diligently cultivating her living flame just before the apocalypse will happen. He then probably would reach the intermediate stage of rank one after 1 and a half month, creating an even better headstart.

Felix returned home after saying Kate goodbye and started eating, drinking and having a rest. The day to the apocalypse is slowly approaching.